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Straps and Jacts. ? No amount of snubbing seems sufficient to stop Senator Beveridge's flow of oratory. He was pounding away the other afternoon when Senator Burton said: "Will the senator allow me to interrupt him?" The Indiana man replied somewhat austerely: "I trust the senator will refrain until I conclude." "I will gladly refrain if there is any hope that the gentleman from Indiana will ever conclude," came the biting retort, and a chuckle rippled around the senate chamber." ? The ordinance department of the army is making preparations for a large increase in the manufacture of rifles and ammunition in order that the state militia, as provided for by a re cent act of congress making it mantuitory that all militia organizations should be equipped with the army service rifle, may be supplied within a reasonable period of time. It Is estimated by Gen. William Crozler, chief of ordnance, that not less than 60Q rifles a day will be turned out ,by the ordnance department as soon as the new buildings are completed at the Rock Island arsenal. The proposed new service rifle, which is an improved Krag-Jorgensen weapon, is now being ? tested by a special board of officers under service conditions. It is believed that the rifle will prove the best small arm of its kind ever devised. ? Secretary Hay, for the United States, and Mr. Bowen for Venezuela, on Tuesday signed a protocol providing for the adjustment of the United States claims against Venezuela by a commission to meet at Caracas. This commission will consist of two members, a Venezuelan and an American, onrkrtJntp<i rpsnectively by Presi 11# UV H|/|/VMa?v?. J, . ^ dents Castro and Roosevelt and in the event of disagreement an umpire to be appointed by the Queen of the Netherlands. It is expected that the minister of foreign affairs will be appointed as Venezuela's representative and that either Mr. Bowen or Mr. Russell, the United States charge, will be named to represent the United States. Baron Gevers, the minister of the Netherlands, called at the srtate department to give notice of the acceptance by Queen Wilhelmina of the task imposed upon her, her consent having been previously sought by the parties to the arbitration. ? The senate spent three and a half hours in executive session Wednesday listening nearly all the time to a continuation of Senator Morgan's address on his resolution requiring an inquiry into the credentials of Thomas Herran, who represented the Colombian government in negotiating the treaty, and "? of the also suggesting uic u<v0. ? _ Colombian government. The resolution was defeated?13 to 39. There were two calls for a quorum during the session, but senators responded readily, showing that while they were not present in the senate chamber, many of them were in the nearby committee rooms. Senator Morgan spoke principally on his resolution, and had the clerk read a long report on it, which he had prepared and had printed as a minority of of the committee on inter-oceanic canals. After the vote was taken on the resolution Senator Cullom moved that the senate adjourn to meet at 11 o'clock Thursday, saying that he would ask that the sessions be continued into the night and until a vote was taken on the treaty. ? Says a Jackson, Miss., dispatch of Wednesday: With the noose around his neck, the trap fixed for springing and all in readiness for the plunge to eternity, Joe Campbell, a condemned murderer, was rescued from the gallows at Yazoo City this afternoon by a reprieve from Governor Longino. Sheriff Wilson had finished all the det thp foot tails. Tne pnysicmuo ??v.. ^ ? _ of the scaffold and a rude pine box was only a few feet away in which the body was to be placed. Just as the noose was adjusted, Campbell turned to the sherlfT and whispered several woris which caused a suspension of the programme. It was a confession, giving the name of his accomplice in the crime for which he was to be hanged, and the sheriff was jbo convinced of the sincerity of the utterance that a communication was sent to Governor Longino urging that a ten-day reprieve be granted. The governor received the message while at dinner table and granted the request for a reprieve Campbell was overcome with joy when the sheriff removed the sombre dielck cap and led him back to the Jail. ? What used to be called a "visitation of Providence," but is now recognized as something very different, has fallen on the town of Ithaca, N. Y., in the shape of a typhoid fever epidemic, says an exchange. With a population of 13,000, Ithaca had last week 340 cases of typhoid fever, or about one case for thirty-eight Inhabitants. This is a higher rate, far higher, than prevails in even unfortunate Philadelphia. There were between 3,000 and 4,000 cases of typhoid in Philadelphia last week, but if there had been proportionately as many as there were in Ithaca, there would have been 34,000. The Boston Journal says: "The cause of this pestilence is the same in either case? carelessly protected and polluted drinking water. Ithaca draws its water supply from a little creek, where, it is said, no measures whatever have been tn nrevent contamination, al UUVj/vvu r though the attention of the city authorities has been called to this peril by sanitarians time and time again." ? Washington special to the News and Courier: These executive sessions of the senate always attract much interest locally, because of the many peculiar practices connected with them. In open session the senate is a part of cho legislative branch. But when the silver electric bells in every committee morn and corridor at the north end of the Capitol ring four times, following a motion of some senator for an executive session, the senate ceases to be part of the legislative branch of the government and becomes a part of the executive branch. Spectators are hustled out of the galleries in droves, the doors are barred, that lead to the public chairs, down-stairs the big white double doors swing to and uniformed Capitol policemen and other employees of the senate guard against intrusion by way of the wide marble stairways. The senate preserves with great punctiliousness its forms of secrecy as to the executive session, but accounts of what transpired appear with accuracy in the morning papers of the next day. The accounts have to come from the senators themselves, but it is rare indeed that the correspondents, who have friends among the senators, do not get the substance of everything of public interest that transpires behind the doors. Stenographic.reports are made nt oil the anvinpa in ODen session and printed the following morning verbatim, but official reports are not made of the executive sessions. Jhf Hotkvillc (Enquirer. TORKVUiLE, S. C.: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1903. Recent police investigations in New York have developed information of what seems likely to prove the most startling insurance frauds ever heard of in this country. There appears to have been a conspiracy organized on a large scale, and the plan was to take out policies on the lives of comparatively obscure individuals, have the insured disappear and produce bogus bodies as theirs. There is reason to believe that the same bodies have been made to do service more than once, and also that murders have been committed for no other purpose than to get bodies with which to collect the insurance on policies that had really not become due. Up to this time, the police have no less than twenty-three cases in which policies have been collected by the substitu* tion of bogus bodies, and the informaMrm oirenflv obtained seems to prom lse that the whole conspiracy will eventually be laid bare. All of the large Insurance companies seem to have been victimized. The senate has declined to be diverted from the equestian statue proposal to the scholarship monument to Wade Hampton, and it is about settled that the state will contribute $20,000 after private citizens have raised $10,000. Somehow, we think that the scholarship idea is a good one; but that can be developed later on. It won't hurt to have some scholarships, in addition to the equestrian statue. Taking the proposition as it now stands, we beg to remark that the conditions under which the appropriation is to be made meet our approval. There is no doubt about the fact In our judgment that Wade Hampton is entitled to a monument erected by his state; but unless there are enough people of the kind who are willing to reinforce their sentiments with their dollars to the extent of the sum designated, the building of the monument can very well wait for a more appreciative generation. We believe that the present generation will rise to all requirements; but of that we will be able to tell better after the commissions that are to have charge of the matter get things In such shape as will admit of a proper test. The people will honor themselves more than otherwise If they will make their share of the fund $40,000, so they can have the credit of contributing two-thirds of the fund Instead of only one-third. The general assembly, we believe, has not made any changes In the concealed weapon law this season. If there have been any changes, we have failed to note them In the reports published in the daily papers. And we think this is very well. Of course, the carrying of concealed deadly weapons, is most reprerehenBible, and it cannot be characterized too severely; but as to whether the laws on the subject have ever accomplished any part of the object sought, we are doubtful. We have never noticed much good from any of these laws, further than the occasional confiscation of a weapon from some ?txtq tt'nnM not sucreest the re 1 Uiiia.ii. ?? v ww peal of any of the laws on the subject. They do no harm. Still the object of such legislation being the safeguarding of human life, we desire to say that we have become convinced that our lawmakers are on the wrong track. They are working on a mistaken theory. It Is true that an ounde of prevention is worth a pound of cure; but in this situation we are inclined to the opinion 'that the anti-ooncealed weapons laws should be more sternly backed up In the hanging of people who commit murder. Failure to hang a murderer who ought to be hanged gives encouragement to other would-be murderers, and the hanging of all murderers who ought to be hanged will do more to put a stop to the concealed weapon habit than will all the laws that can be printed in the statute books. The Honea Path Disaster. Anderson special of Tuesday to the News and Courier: The storm that swept this section yesterday afternoon and last night was the most severe in years, and it is a wonder that the loss of life and property was not larger. Monday was very warm for the season and hard rain fell for several hours during the day. In the afternoon at 3.30 a cyclone struck Honea Path, an account of which has been printed, killing Eugene McGee, 18 years old, son of W. J. McGee, proprietor of the Kathryn hotel, also Bertie Austin, 18 years old, and son of the late Tom Austin, of Greenville county. Both boys were attending: school, which had Just been dismissed when the storm came up, and with four other boys took refuge in W. J. Shirley's furniture store, which toppled over just as the boys were entering it. The building was a two-story brick structure, containing a double store room, and the building and stock of furniture was a total loss. Besides the killed, Edgar Donald had both legs and one arm broken and was otherwise badly bruised. C. A. Stone, 12 years old, had one leg broken and was badly bruised, but will recover. W. J. Shirley was slightly injured. NO BAIL FOR TILLMAN. Jndare Pope Conld Not See His Way to Grant It. The hearing of the habeas corpus proceedings in the case of J. H. Tillman was completed before Chief Justice Pope in Columbia last Thursday afternoon, and as soon as the lawyers were through the court announced that, bail was refused. The hearing was altogether by affidavit. There was a large number of affidavits from the state in reply to those recently submitted by Tillman, and as was natural, the affidavits were of a very contradictory nature?that is the affidavits of the prosecution contradicted those of the defense. One of most important 01 me aifidavits submitted by the prosecution was that of Mr. Robert Lathan, stenographer and secretary to Mr. Gonzales. It sets forth the last statement of Mr. Gonzales in full. This affidavit is as follows: Personally comes Robert Lathan, who says on oath: That he was stenographer and secretary to the late N. G. Gonzales and occupied such a position at the time of the shooting of said N. G. Gonzales; that on the afternoon of the shooting, and just after the said N. G. Gonzales had been brought into the State newspaper office, on Main street, some fifty yards north of the point of said shooting, N. G. Gonzales told deponent that he, the said N. G. Gonzales, knew the result of such a shot as he had received, and more than once while in said office, suffering from said wound, intimated in plain language that he knew his wound was mortal; that thereafter, and in a couple of hours thereafter when said N. G. Gonzales had been conveyed to the Columbia hospital, to be there operated upon, he repeated said intimation of the result of his wound to deponent; that while in this mind he said the following words or of like import to deponent, to wit: "I started out of the State office walking as usual on the right hand side of the pavement, going towards the state house, and as I got close to the corner, the Intersection of Main and Gervals streets, where I had to turn to the left into Gervais street on my way home, I observed Tillman. Two men were with him, Senator Talblrd, of Beaufort and another man, whose face I did not observe. Talbird was next to Tillman, and this other man was on the Inside. Tillman was on the outside. Knowing that if I kept straight on I would collide with him, because the three men were walking abreast and Tillman was on the outside, I also being on the outside, I cut diagonally to the left, intending to turn down Gervais street, as I could have done without touching the man of the three who was on the inside. As I got (I had just merely glanced at his face) on the turn, not more than two or three feet from the exact corner, Tillman suddenly pulled his pistol,, or perhaps he had it in his hand, possibly up his sleeve (I did not notice), presented it and flred, making some exclamation which I have forgotten. The shock almost threw me off my feet. I swerved around and felt weak. I threw my back up against the corner on the Main street side, so as to support myself, and faced him. He had his pistol pointed at me, and I said to him, 'Fire, you coward; you have already killed me, you know it. Shoot again.' Tillman said something about 'I took your advice,' then looked at my face, dropnnJ V?l<s Honrl hnlHfncr tho niotfll onH UIO AlVkiAV* UUIMIllQ b??V W..?. sauntered out Into the middle of the street." Replying to some question, Mr. Gonzales continued, "I had no idea whatever of meeting him. I had seen him two days before in the lobby of the house. He saw me and was talking to some one, while I was walking around. He-did-not say anything. I did hot say anything. The thing was finished as far as I was concerned." Mr. Gonzales was then asked whether Tillman said anything when he fired on him. He replied that he did say something. Being further questioned, whether he had sent Tillman any message, Mr. Gonzales answered, "Never sent him a word of message by any one." Then the question was asked, "Did you hear him'say you had sent him a message bj^any one?" Mr. Gonzales answered, "Ko, he said something like 'I have taken you at your word,' or something like that. I sent him no message, so help me God." Mr. Gonzales further said, Tillman used the expression 'I have taken you at your word, or something of similar Import, after he fired. On the first day of the present session of the general assembly, or the day thereafter, I was in the lobby of the state house on the side next the hall of the house of respesen tatives. While there I saw Mr. im. g. Gonzales standing Just at the door of the committee room to the left as you enter the hall of the house of representatives. He was talking with a gentleman. While he stood there I saw Mr. Jaiqes H. Tillman standing in the lobby within a few feet of the said N. G. Gonzales. He, the said Tillman, was speaking with some one when I saw him, and he passed into the committee room opposite that one near the door of which Mr. Gonzales was standing. Said James H. Tillman was obliged to have seen N. G. Gonzales, as there was nothing interposing between them. In announcing his decision, Justice Pope said: "There are always two sides to a homicide," he said, "and even with the many that have taken place in this state in late years, there is in most of them some provocation? that is, there is a defendant's side to it. It seems from the testimony that the defendant has been the object of newspaper attacks for eleven years perhaps without a parallel in this state. The liberty of the press does not permit the license of the press. Dr. Franklin said the liberty of the press would often be followed by the liberty of the cudgel. In this case no cudgel, though, was used, but a deadly weapon. One could hardly believe that a man could bear the long continued ordeal of the abuse that the defendant underwent without having malice in his heart. The rule was long ago adopted in this court not to give the reasoning leading to our conclusions in bail applications. The law is that the taking of human life with malice premeditated constitutes murder. Painful as it is, under my oath of office, so recently fresh on my lips, I must do my duty and decline the application." The order of refusing bail allows the prisoner to make application before another judge if he sees proper to do so. Wattbrson on the Monroe Doctrine.?Col. Henry Watterson, speaking recently at a dinner given him by the Binghamton, N. Y., Press club, said: "Fifty years from today Germany will bear the same relative position to the United States that Holland does now. Fifty years from now unless the United States places restraining hands under John Bull's arms, God knows what will become of him. "The Monroe doctrine, or Republicanism, is no longer on trial; it is monarchy that is in danger. The president of the United States today has tenfold more power than the King of England and the Emperor of Germany. "It accordingly may be well for us to sit down and see what the Monroe doctrine is. We have said that no European power shall acquire territory on this continent. "If we are going to protect every little mongrel nation in order to uphold the Monroe doctrine, why let's pay Germany her debts and tell her to get out. Hut if we start on this course, we will need an enlarged navy and army. If I owned this government, I would take the Isthmus of Panama and blow out the canal and let the two oceans flow together. Then I would say to England: 'Take all of South Amenlca that you want.' And to Germany: 'Take all of Central America that you want.' I would greatly prefer to have England and Germany own those countries than the mongrel governments that are there now.'" PEACE OR WAR? Grave Complication* In the Balkan Situation. The London correspondent or tne i New Tork Sun gives the following summary of the Balkan situation as gathered from diplomats who are thor- 1 oughly acquainted with the facts: 1 It was Russia's desire to impose radi- 1 leal reforms In the government of Macedonia upon the sultan. A partial understanding concerning joint action was reached between Russia and Austria-Hungary, extending also to certain eventualities In case Turkey resisted their demands. This understanding was entirely verbal, and recently difficulties have arisen regarding it. a. .... .... These difficulties were* so serious that they necessitated the substantial modification of the original programme. The sultan's acceptance of the proposed reforms was more than doubtful; in fact it was necessary to arrange a future policy based upon the assumption that the porte would refuse the demands of the powers and resist their enforcement. It was in this that Russia and Austria-Hungary failed to reach a full agreement. Another unexpected difficulty arose with the king of Roumanla whom the late czar once described as his only friend in Europe. He refused to consent to the passage of Russian troops through his country in certain eventualities, and intimated his intention to oppose their progress to the extent of his ability If the programme was attempted. . This induced Russia to change her military plans so as to provide for attack from the south in case she decided upon intervention. These combined complications have lead to the preparation of a list of reforms of so mild a character that they cannot be expected to check the insurrectionary plans in Macedonia even if they are accepted by the sultan. The attitude of the latter is described as being extremely recalcitrant. It is doubtful if he will recognize interference of any nature. It is represented to be his belief that a crisis in his European possessions has now arrived, and that he feels himself better able to undertake the inevitable struggle now than at any future time. The Turk has no money, but has plenty of good fighting material. He Is able to feed his troops, and does not need to pay them. He Is amply able to suppress any Insurrection In Macedonia and even to control Bulgaria if the great powers do not Interfere. It remains to be seen how the failure to effect a full agreement with AustriaHungary and the hostile attitude of Roumanla will affect Russia's plans. The natural inference* Is that It will have a deterrent Influence, but after all It is by no means Impossible that the Turk will force a crisis. Meanwhile the situation engrosses the attention of European diplomacy. At no time since 1878 has the Issue of peace or war hung so evenly in the balance. MORE ABOUT THE CRUM CASE. Looks Like the Senate Is to be Compelled to Vote on Confirmation. Today's developments in the Crum case, says the Washington correspondent of the News and Courier, indicate that party lines will be drawn on me president's request for a roll-call on the adverse report of the commerce committee on the nomination. Senator Frye, chairman of the committee, called upon the president and suggested that in view of the fact that the appointment of Crum is unquestionably distasteful to the business interests of Charleston and the general sentiment prevailing in the committee, it might be advisable to withdraw the objectionable nomination. Thef president positively declined to withdraw the nomination, stating that he thought It but fair to insist upon a roll-call. The president's desire for a roll-call will hardly be granted, because the opposition will not allow a vote to be taken. Senator Clay will probably report the nomination to the senate sometime next week, but there is a firm determination on the part of the opposition to take advantage of the rule and prevent a vote. This course is deemed advisable, in view of the fact that those Republicans who doubt the wisdom of forcing a colored collector upon a community of white business men cannot justify themselves?from a political standpoint ?in voting to "turn down" the administration. Under the circumstances, if a vote should be taken tomorrow, Crum would probably be confirmed by an almost strict party vote. Senator Perkins, of California, and Jones, of Nevada, find Justification in their opposition to Crum on the ground that they have a race problem of their own?the Chinese question?to deal with on the Pacific uuaoi* This means that the president will be called upon to carry out his threat that unless a roll-call is had he will reapponit Crum immediately after congress adjourns. Some of the Democrats contend that it will be "good politics to put it up to the president." The colored supporters of Crum have presented to individual Republican senators a lengthy petition urging confirmation, claiming that a principle is involved, in which the entire colored race is interested. The petition also recites the history of the disfranchisement movement in the south and gives a list of colored Federal appointments made by Harrison and McKinley and Roosevelt, to show that Roosevelt has been less gracious to the Negro than his predecessors. How the Trusts Rule Congress.? There has been a marked development this winter in the character of lobbying before congress. Heretofore, a great many big interests have sent their men to Washington to look after interests.!! These men are often politely called at-|i lorneys, but In reality are men trained n the ways of promoting legislation )r preventing legislation, as the desires >f the big corporations might be. Some master mind has now organized these vast industries and corporations Into a community of interests, and the railroads, mines, ship interests and the like are represented by one bureau, where books are kept and where the wires are touched from time to time, as may be necessary, to bring to Wat>h Ington the particular men who can work along a desired line. Thus a railroad president, for example, may have particular influence with the delegation from some western state. He comes to Washington on a hurry summons to help a steamship combine, perhaps to defeat a bill that hinders its interests or it may be that the president of a steamship line comes to help out a big railroad that wants to defeat particular legislation or to pull b. bill through a bad legislative situation. The big trusts are in the arrangement and all hands are working together. Hertofore, the small lobbyist thrived. He could make big money by representing different corporations, provided he had influence and possessed aptitude for the work. Furthermore the system of keeping books on the statesmen who have to receive help occasionally from the big railroads and other corporations is efficacious. A record is kept, for instance, of the tickets issued to carry workers to Bill Smith's congressional convention in Squedunk county. In days gone by Bill Smith was apt to forget these favors after election time. Now he will find the figures about those favors staring him in the face in Washington when the big corporations want a favor from him.?Washington correspondent of the News and Courier. ESTABLISHMENT OF DISPENSARIES Voter* May Elect to Sell Whisky; But Have No Power to Stop Debauchery. Mr. Bass's bill to amend Sec. 563, of the criminal code of 1902, so as to further regulate the location and establishment of dispensaries, was given its second reading in .the house last Wednesday without objection. This bill, as ordered to its third reading, provides: Sec. 563. .There may be one or more county dispensers appointed for each county, the place of business of each of whom shall be designated by the county board, but the state board of directors must give consent before more than fine rilohenser ran be aDDOlnted in any county; and when the county board designates a location for a dispensary, twenty days' public notice of which shall be given, it shall be competent for a majority of the voters of the township in which such dispensary is to be located to prevent its location in such township by signing a petition or petitions, addressed to the county board, requesting that no dispensary be established in tnat township, and if the location of a dispensary in such township be so prevented then a location for a dispensary in such township shall not be again designated within one year thereafter. The county board may, in its discretion, locate a dispensary elsewhere than in an incorporated town in the counties of Beaufort and Horry and no others. Except such as are authorized by special act of the general assembly: Provided, however, that any county, town or city wherein the sale of alcoholic liquors was prohibited by law prior to July 1, 1903, may secure the establishment of a dispensary within its borders in the following manner:" Upon petition signed by one-fourth of the qualified voters of such county, town or city wishing a dispensary therein being filed with the county supervisor or town or city council, respectively, they shall order an election, suDmitung me questum ui dispensary or no dispensary to the qualified voters of such county, town or city, which election shall be conducted as other special elections; and if a majority of the ballots cast be found and be declared to be for a dispensary, then a dispensary may be established in said county, town or city; and if a majority of the ballots be not found and deciared to be for a dispensary, then no other election upon the question of dispensary or no dispensary shall be had or held in such county, town or city within one year thereafter: Provided, that dispensaries may be established in the counties of Williamsburg, Pickens and Marion and at Seneca and other towns now' incorporated in Oconee county without such election on compliance with the other requirements of this chapter: Provided, that nothing in this chapter contained shall be so construed as to prohibit persons resident in counties which shall elect to have no dispensary irom procuring1 liquors from dispensaries In other* counties, or county dispensers from shipping same to their place of residence under proper labels or certificates. MERE-MENTION. The steamer Olive was wrecked in the gale off Elizabeth, N. C., last Monday evening and eighteen people were lost....George B. Cortelyou was sworn In last Wednesday as secretary of commerce The natural gas supply of the town of Springfield, O., has played out, and the people who depended upon this for warmth are almost' frozen The British courts have awarded to Spain a verdict for 53,375,000 against the Clyde Shipbuilding company for failure to deliver certain torpedo boats according to contract before the outbreak of the late Spanish war Venezuela has promulgated a decree increasing all import duties 30 per cent, for the purpose of paying the claims of Germany, Great Britain and Italy. Alfred A. Howlet, a wealthy banker and contractor, of Syracuse, N. Y., celebrated his eighty-second birthday last Tuesday by entertaining 100 widows at a party French newspapers are suggesting that the United States should join the Franco-Russian alliance Ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster, has been appointed to rep-, resent the United States in the Alaska boundary settlement A dispatch from Palma, Canary Islands, reports the arrival there of a French ship from Pensacola, Fla., with two cases of bubonic plague aboard Justice Shiras, of the United States supreme court, has presented his resignation to take effect February 24 The Venezuelan court of claims has rendered a decision in favor of the heirs of Henry Rudolff, an American citizen, for $700,000 President Roosevelt has deqlar- I ed that unless the senate ratifies the Panama canal and Cuban reciprocity treaties he will call an extra session, Spot cotton reached 10 cents a pound in New York last Thursday, the highest price since January, 1901. ? Reporting to the state department from St. Petersburg on the cotton yield in Central Asia during 1902, Consul General Holloway says that the figures just published by the Russian statistical bureau for 1902 show a decrease of 13 per cent, from the year previous, especially in cotton from American seed. A decrease of 32 per cent, in the cultivated district also is reported. According to the report, it is expected that the total yield of cotton in Central Asia will aggregate about 176,948,800 pounds; that grown from American seed is estimated at 97,502,400 pounds, against 140,836,800 pounds in 1901. LOCAL AKETiVXFfcS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. M. C. Willis, Mayor?Publishes an ordinance amending the ordinance relating to consumers of town water, rates, conditions, etc. R. M. Wyatt, Smyrna, S. C.?Tells the people that he is ready td take care of all their wants in the way of buggy and wagon repairing, and on Saturdays will be able to attend to the shoeing of work animals. Southern Railway?Calls your attention to the superb passenger and dining service that is to be had by people who travel over their lines. L. M. Grist's Sons?Have revised and corrected the rural delivery directory and can furnish copies of the same, on card board, at 25 cents each. Jas. M. Starr & Co., Druggists?Tell you that flinch is the acme of parlor games and that they have plenty to supply you. They are wholesale agents for Anti-Ferment. R. D. Alexander?Suggests that if your wagon has been broken down by the heavy winter hauling, that he is in a position to put it In repair at a reasonable cost. Jas. M. Starr & Co.?Ask if you have bought your fertilizer, and if not they want to see you before you buy. They sell the well-known Navassa brands. L. M. Grist's Sons?Want you to read between the lines in regard to the placing of orders for commercial or other kinds of printing. J. Q. Wray?Tells you about his large and handsome line of gentlemen's fine white and colored shirts. He has shirts from 25 cents to $1 each, and is prepared to please all wearers of shirts. T. W. Speck?Invites you to call on him for fine china or crockery. He says his stock is complete and that he is sure his prices are lower than you ca"n secure elsewhere. C. P. Lowrance & Co.?Talk about the trnnA mmUHpn of Mother's eelatlne. which they sell at Ave cents a package. They have the higher priced gelatines too, If you prefer. Riddle & Carroll?Ask you to try R. & C. No. 1 roasted coffee, which Is imBprted and roasted especially for line trade. They also still have the Mocha and Java in tin cans. It's staple. W. O. Rawls?Is ready to take your orders for all kinds of tin work, including roofing, guttering and repairing. He also has steam and water fittings. Yorkvllle Buggy Co.?Says It strikes them that this Is good weather for lap robes, and says it has a fine supply of Chase robes on hand at the ^right^ prices. . / TOWNSHIP ASSESSORS. Clerk of Court Wylie has received notice from the secretary of state of the appointment of the following named gentlemen as township assessors for the various townships in York county: Fort Mill?C. P. Blankenship, D. G. Kimbrell, R. F. Grier. Catawba?W. J. Poag, John T. Spencer, W. S. Leslie. Ebenezer?R. G. Garrison, A. A. Barron, Wm. Carothers. Bethel?I. B. Faris, D. J. Brown, J. W Jackson. King's Mountain?W. T. McKnlght, W. D. Moore, J. M. Thomasson. Bethesda?J. F. Ashe, B. F. Merrltt, C. S. Gordon. Broad River?Dr. T. S. R. Ward, J. Ed Leech, R. T. Castles. Bullock's Creek?John L.- Rainey, W. Banks Good, John T. Burris. York?Jas. L. Moss, R. R. McCorkle, M. L. Carroll. / ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. Thomas Bloodworth Is confined Kononao A# 41 In ACQ IU lIIEf 1 Will UtV,OUOt VTA. 1IK.VWW. Misses Rose Lindsay and Bessie Williams are visiting friends at Davidson, N. C. ?-Mr. Boyce Whisonant, of Wilkinsvllle, has been visiting his sister, Mrs. J. P. White. f Miss Ella Cody, left on last Wednesday morning on a visit to friends at Concord, N. C. Dr. Chas. F. Dunlap arrived In Yorkville Tuesday afternoon, from Houston, Texas, arriving after the burial of his father, Mr. T. C. Dunlap. '^Mrs. Rhoda L. Ferguson, returned to Yorkville last week after a visit of several weeks to her daughter, Mrs. Frank Smith in Charleston. Rev. Oliver Johnson, pastor of Neely's Creek church, will preach to the Associate Reformed congregation in Spartanburg tomorrow. ^ ^ ?fMX. ?. U. JUI1M&UU, Ullllt 1 evcuujr mw Messrs. J. M. Heath & Co., has succeeded the late T. C. Dunlap as bookkeeper for the Loan and Savings bank. VMlss Mittle Thomas, of Charleston, a student at Winthrop college, came over yesterday on a visit to Mr. W. B. Williams's family on East Liberty street. Dr. R. Armfield, of Mocksville, N. C., came over to Yorkville last Monday to assist in the treatment of Master Eugene Elliott. He returned home on Thursday morning. Mr. L. B. Fourshee, of Jonesboro, N. C., was in Yorkville this week looking over the field with a view to establishing a millinery store here. He was very well pleased with what he saw and will locate within the next few weeks. Mr. J. K. Niles, brother of Mrs. S. C. Ashe, of Yorkville, died on last Sunday and was buried at Camden on Monday. His brother, Mr. Joseph Niles, had been buried a few days previously. The two young men lost their lives in a railroad accident at Tipton, Ga. They were in the employ of the South Georgia and Coast road. The statement that they were in the employ of the G. C. & N. road, and that the accident occurred at Whitmire was incorrect. WITHIN THE TOWN. Mr. J. C. Comer received from the governor yesterday his commission as magistrate for York township, and is now exercising the duties of the position. The work done by Mr. J. P. White, of the street committee, in the way of removing- the mud jfrom the surrace or Congress street, meets with general approval. ? There was an exciting chase on the streets last Wednesday afternoon after a dog, which on account of its snapping at everything which came in its way was supposed to be mad. The dog got away. ? Rev. W. G. Neville, assisted by Rev. James Russell, evangelist of Bethel presbytery, is conducting daily services at the York Cotton Mills chapel, at 4.30 and 7.45 p. m. There will be services there on Sunday evening at 7.45 o'clock by Mr. Neville. ? The proposed change of schedule on the Southern, under which the east bound train will pass Yorkville at about 7 a. m. and the westbound train at 3.30 or thereabouts, will likely prove satisfactory to the people of Yorkville. Although the present schedule has the advantage of numerous trains, people who have tried It have found slow work coming and going. .? It is probable that the first standard gauge train of the Carolina and North-Western railroad to make its appearance in Yorkville will be seen here today. It is expected in connection with the work of putting down standard gauge switches, and complet- ( ing other preliminaries preparatory to putting the track in first-class condition. ? The Charlotte Observer has been in strong demand this week on account of the sensational Bishop trial. Because of the slow railroad connections probably, certainly not because it does not deserve more, there are but a few subscribers to the Daily Observer In Yorkville, and it is safe to say that for the past week, each paper has had half a dotfen or more readers. A live newsboy could have done a good business selling Observers during the past week. -r-The ladies in charge of the drama, "Under the Southern Cross," x> be presented under the auspicies of the Winnie Davis Chapter U. D. C.f desire that the entertainment shall be as complete as possible. It is because of this desire that there has been so much de- si lay. Some time back, yesterday evening was fixed upon as the date of presentation; but last week it was found that it would not be practicable to give the entertainment at that time because of the inability to procure certain needed articles of costumes. From all that is now known, the drama will be presented next 'Friday night; but this is not to be taken as official. Something may turn up in the meantime to prevent, and there will have to.be another postponement. But the drama Is coming in due time and the local public will have ample notice. FACTS AND FANCIES. Aar The rural free delivery carriers have been having an unusually rough time of it during the past week or two on account of the horrible condition of the roads. Most of them have been making their trips regularly; but nearly all of them have had to take it horseback. But few people besides the postmen undertook to travel the roads on Tuesday or Wednesday. On Tuesday morning the soft mud began to freeze, and as the carriers returned to yorkville, the wheels of their buggies became so heavy that their * horses could hardly pull them. Wednesday was a much better day for riding than' i'or driving, and it was the same on Thursday, although some went in their wagons and buggies. tsr "Rich" pine as the up-country people call It, and "fat" pine according to the low-country folk, and firstclass "kindling" according to everybody who knows a good thing when they see it, Is the unique commodity for which Mr. R. L. Wilson, a thrifty young firmer who lives out on R. P. D. No. .1, finds a good market in Yorkville. Mr. Wilson, of course, is not the only dealer In this commodity; but so far as this writer has information, he is the only one who is to be considered as being regularly in the business. He has been bringing pine to Yorkville for some ten or twelve years, and has among his customers Treasurer Neely, Clerk Wylle, Mr. J. P. Wallace, and a dozen or more other people who continue true to their raising and refuse to be beguiled into the kerosene habit of making their fires. Mr. Wilson splits his pine into faggots of convenient sise and does it up into bundles of about two and one-rhalf to three- feet roy^d, tied with a white oak split or wire. He brings a dozen or more bundles each time he'comes to Yorkville and generally finds but little trouble in selling them out to regular customers at 26 cents each. Since the inauguration of the free delivery system, his onstomers are able to reach him conveniently with a postal card, and sometimes he has a load or a part of load, sold before he leaves home. Speaking of his peculiar business on Thursday,"he said that rich pine, such as he likes to furnish, is getting somewhat scarce in his neighborhood; but inasmuch as the number of those who. hold to the good old fash- ' ioned way of making fires is probably growing less instead of greater, it Is probable that there will still be some pine stumps left after all of Mr. Wilson's customers are gone. THE WORK OF DR. NESOM. The following from the Columbia State's report of the house proceedings of Tuesday is of more than ordinary local Interest, because there has all along been considerable doubt as to whether the disease that Dr. Nesom diagnosed as glanders some eighteen months ago, was really glanders. A great many people reason that If glanders is necessarily fatal and this disease was glanders, there Is no reason why the state should pay for stock condemned on account of the disease. But at the same time If the disease was other than glanders, and Dr. Nesom, as the representative of the state, made mistakes that resulted In heavy losses to citizens, then the state should make good those losses. According to the showing made by Mr. Massey, such of his stock as was quarantined with what was pronounced to be an absolntpiv fatal disease, trot well. This proved Dr. Nesom's mistake. It follows then that if Dr. Nesom made a mistake in the case of Mr. Massey's stock he was also mistaken in the case of the stock of Messrs. Gordon and Love, and they should also be reimbursed for the blunder. But here is the way the house seems to have viewel the subject: The house passed the claims of Henry Massey and.E. D. Burton, of Tirzah, for stock killed by the order of Dr. G. E. Nesom, of Clemson college, the veterinary surgeon who is the state's officer to take charge of contagious diseases among stock. It was declared by Mr. Beamguard that all of the stock had been killed except two mules and these, after being quarantined, had gotten well. The veterinarian whom Dr. Nesom afterwards sent to inspect these two declared that they had not had glanders. Mr. Beamguard declared that to allow the state's agent to condemn property this way amounted to confiscation. These gentlemen had lost their crops as well as their stock and barns. Mr. Wingo, chairman or ine cumumtee on claims, resisted the claims in a very warm speech. To establish this precedent would be disastrous to the state's treasury, it would let down the * floodgates. He believed, on the show- * ing made by Dr. Nesom, that the stock had had glanders and it was right to destroy the Infected animals. He also objected to the price. Dr. Lancaster declared that this appeared to be a case where the doctors