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The Bamberg Herald. | ESTABLISHED 1S91. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL ] >, 1900. 05E DOLLAR PER YEAR. J LORD ROBERTS j VERY CAUTIOUSc P Boers' Activity Keeps Him j tr Busily Guessing. !el |51 ENGLAND IS DISGRUNTLED j I Ci ; k. Proposed March Upon Pretoria Beset \ Z With Many Difficulties-Winter aj Campaign is Probable. j j* j Q< A London special says: Britons are now beginning, though reluctantly, to j ^ realize that Lord Roberts is in for a I, winter campaign, lasting several t months. Thi9 is the end, in a few H words, of the high hopes based upon j j' Lord Roberts's brilliant dash to Kim- y berly and Bloemfontein. Preparations are being made to hold 1 P1 Bloemfontein against surprises. Lord j u Kitchener has. been given an impor- ; tant duty, being responsible for the | w protection of the railway, while Lord yi Roberts is waiting for remounts and | in winter clothiDg for the troops, whose j tt thin cotton khaki uniforms and boots ' P< are worn out. General Brabaut aud j re General Gatacre are both at a stand- j still. Lord Roberts will probably for j w some time confine his operations to | di clearing the Free States behind him of d< raiders and to relieving Mafeking, for which purpose apparently the Eighth th division, now arriving at Cape town, w has been ordered to Kimberley. m What the chances are for an advance V1 to Pretoria may be judged from the fact di that only from 6,000 to 10,000 horses pi are on their way to the cape and from - .i -ni . ? Mi. i.:i ! tV* toe lurtner iaci inai me mtuiary lanor- ; ? ing department only within the last i w three weeks began making woolen i ^ * khaki uniforms. It is said it will take I es at least two months to provide 200,000 Sj uniforms. j Wl EiTPOWEBED TO NEGOTIATE PEACE. Mr. Steyn's address to the Free ^ State raad at Kroonstad is confirmed. m The Fischer-Wolmarans deputation has fall power to negotiate for peace, ga subject to the raad's sanction. J The Bloemfontein correspondent of ?* The Daily Telegraph, telegraphing Sunday, says: kj "Confirmation has been received of the report that the Boers are in laager in considerable force, with guns, at j Donker8poort, eighteen miles south- [ east. j Li "The British scouts report another | body still closer. The Boer patrols have grown very daring, venturing i jn nearer our tents." ! vr{ i an A London special under date of ; gj April 9 says: The amazing activity of < G< the Boers southeast and southwest of Bloemfontein continues, the Boer commands seemingly coming and going throughout a wide region as they j co please, but taking good care not to throw themselves against strong bodies of the British. The retirement of the Irish Rifles from Rouxville to Aliwal leaves Gen- P er-al Brabant without communication with the other British forces. He has . 2,000 or 3,000 colonists holding a fine defensive country, but he is apparently . invested so far as London knows. Lord Roberts'last message bore date of April 7. The absence of news as 0l usual disheartens the people and pro- Pa duces au altogether discouraging ef- . feet. The last unofficial message notes ri< that good spirits at Bloemfontein are ''lD continuing and tells of the arrival of animals and two fresh cavalry regi- ^ ments. Lord Roberts has now 15,000 z,6 mounted men altogether. . # In the Orange Free State the situa- *n CAontw motariol HUH IS UU 11apICA J **nu ovau vj &uo for forming a correct estimate of the situation and the afternoon newspapers not being in the confidence of the managers are criticising the con- ? dnct of affairs as they see them. Thus the St. James Gazette reviewing the rif army-system says: r?! "As a consequence of the foolish, sporting, boyish estimate of the war, General Bnller is anchored indefinite- SOi ly, as he must wait for transports until Lord Roberts is adequately sup* plied." an HOWARDWILL SURRENDER. Alleged Goebel Assassin Says He Awaits a Warrant. Ci A Frankfort special says: The report that it would take 1,000 men to arrest Jim Howard of Clay county, **r who is said to have fired the shot that W8 killed Governor Goebel, is denied by *aI Dr. H. B. Philips, a prominent citizen of Clay county. ?* Dr. Philips arrived in Frankfort Monday morning and announced that ^ he had seen Howard and had a long *? talk with him. Howard, he says, told "a him that whenever a warrant was issued for his arrest he would gladly go with the officer having it, and would not attempt to dodge or resist the law _e in any way. COURT BILL BECOMES LAW. Aj Judicial Machinery Can Now Operate ? Prt* ^n.?l.n>oc??pfi rionro-ia ^ VI 11U1 111 TT kjkvi U Congress has authorized tho holding rg of district court sessions in Rome, Ga. ^. The bill introduced by Judge Maddox, * of the Seventh district, to divide the Northern district, establishing the Northwestern district, was passed by *. the senate Monday unanimously and ^ without debate. The bill passed the . house Friday. It is the first important Georgia bill that has become a law at this session. tu FOR DISLOYALTY. i Ml A Dublin Newspaper Is Seized By Or* j der of the Qovernment. The Dublin, Ireland, police, by order of the government, seized Friday's issue of thd United Irishmen as a print c0 "calculated to produce discontent, fic disaffection and disloyalty." The im- ed mediate cause of the seizure was the publication of an article entitle! t?] "The Famino Queen." C0] EAGAN IS PRESIDENT >1 Central of Georgia Railway. Hansom Heads the Board of Directors. At Savannah, Ga., Monday, Vice resident John M. Egan, of the Ceual cf Georgia Railway Company, was ;ected president of that system to lcceed the late President Hugh M. omer. Major J. F. Hanson, of Macon, was lected chairmau of the board of di;ctors, in which positiou he will ave charge of the system's financial lairs. The meeting of the board of directors : which these elections were heid was ?rhaps the most important one since le reorganization of the system, yet ane of the northern directors were resent. The directors of the road who were resent were: J. M. Eagan, A. R. awtou, George J. Mills and Abraham etsburg, of Savannah; Evan P. . owell, of Atlanta; S. R. Jaques and F. Hanson, of Macon; G. Gundy ;>rdan, of Columbus, and Uriah R. arrold, of Americus. Mr. Eagan was unanimously elected resident of the Central, following liieh Major Hanson was chosen chairan of the board of directors. Ihe v-laws under which Major Hanson as chosen to fill this position proxies that he shall preside at all meetigs of the board, shall have charge of te finances of the company and shall ?rform such other duties as may be quired of him from time to time. Major Hanson's duties will be somehat similar to those of Mr. Comer iriug the year or two prior to his ?ath. No vice-president was chosen, and lere will be none. President Egan ill have charge of the active manageent of the property as he had as ce-president in addition to the new ities which will devolve upon him as esident. The salaries of the president and of e chairman of the board of directors ere not fixed at this meeting. Major anson was made chairman of the :ecufive board, succeeding Samuel J3 . 1 1 4 T> T pencer, ana ^oxouei .a.. j.?. ajuwiuii bs placed on the executive board to icceed tbe late H. M. Comer. Thie 1 >ard will meet in a few days and ?x e salaries of the president and chairan of the board. It is thought President Eagan's lary will be tho same as that received r President Comer prior to Mr. ?an's coming- to the road, which was 2,000 a year. It is also said to ba iely that Major Hanson's salary will i something like ?8.000 annually. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. st of New Industries Established I During the Past Week. The more important of the new dustries reported during the past ?ek ended April 7 include adding id printing machine works in Yirnia; a basket and box factory in sorgia; a bucket and tub factory in irginia; a candy factory and a can- ' ng factory in Georgia; car shops in , ;xas; coal mines in West Virginia; tton mills in Georgia, the Caroliuas ( id Tennessee?the latter a $500,000 i vestment; cotton seed oil mills in Al- j iama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi id South Carolina; electric light | ants in Tennessee and Texas; an ?ctric light and power cempany in issi6sippi; a fencing manufactory ( Texas; fertilizer factories in j aorgia and Virginia; flouring mills | Georgia, Kentucky and Tennese; a furniture factory in'North Carina; gas works and a hardware com,ny in Texas; a heading, hoop and ive factory in Tennessee; ice factors in Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee d Texas; iron works in Arkansas d South Carolina; knitting mills in j ississippi and South Carolina; lum- ] r mills in Georgia, Louisiana, South i?nltno on/1 Toroe1 c ma^VnnA \rnrlrs * Texas; a mantel and office fittings ;tory in North Carolina; marble tarries in Alabama; novelty works in filth Carolina; a paper mill and a per box factory in Virginia; a.phosiate plant in Florida; planing mills Louisiana and South Carolina; quar>s for building rock in Florida; a railad equipment company in Arkansas; ingle mills in Louisiana and South .rolina; a shoe factory in Georgia; a ap factory in Alabama; a sugar mill d a $1,000,000 sugar refinery in orida; telephone systems in Georgia d Virginia; zinc mines in Arkansas. (Tradesman, Chattanooga, Tenn.) BRYAN IN CALIFORNIA. tizens of Los Angeles Accord Ne- < braskan a Cordial Welcome. W. J. Bryan, who arrived in Los igeles, Cal., Sunday from Fresno, ts loudly cheered at the depot by a 1 ge crowd of people. Mr. Bryan \ ts escorted to a hotel by a committee ] prominent Democrats, and after a t ort rest held a public reception in \ e hotel parlors. Many people called t pay their respects and to shake [ Dds. Sunday night he was the guest c ex-Senator White. Mr. Bryan left } Dnday morning for Santa Anna, where ? spoke in the afternoon. Then he I tut to San Diego, where he spoke t mday evening. t GOES OVER THE LIMIT. - * + * n*n r* , jrtcuuurai Appropriation dim v^ar- i ries More Than Four riillions. The agricultural appropriation bill ported to the house Saturday carries < ,116,400, being $390,778 more than ^ e law for the current year. An ad- 1 tional allowance of $-10,000 for seed 1 stribution is granted upon the peti- 1 >n of 225 members of the house, ( 0,000 is appropriated for iron warn- g towers for the weather burean in ( ace of the present wooden struc- 1 res. RS. DEWEY AN EPISCOPALIAN. port That Admiral's "Best" Half Had Quit Catholic Church. A report was in circulation in Wash- ] gtou Sunday that Mrs. Dewey had [ ft the Catholic church and had be- t me an Episcopalian, but no veri- t ation of the rumor could be obtain- \ . Eev. Mackin, who married the miral and his wife, and who is rec- 8 : of her ohurch, refused to talk con- I ruing the report. 0 MANY REDCOATS j ARE CAPTUREDj Boers Get Five Companies of Robert's Troops. WAS A GREAT SETBACK Queen Hears the Sad Story ana Con* sternaiion Is Created In England. Dispatch From Roberts. A London special says: Lord Roberts reports that five companies of i t 1 L 3 1 xsritisn iroops nave oeen capmreu u> the Boers near BethaDy, The following is the text of his dispatch to the war office announcing the capture of five companies of his own troops: "Bloemfontein, Thursday, April 5. ?Another unfortunate occurreuce has occurred, resulting, I fear in the capture of a party of infantry consisting of three companies of the Boyal Irish Fusiliers and two companies of the Ninth regiment of mounted infantry near Reddersburg, a little eastward of Bethany railway station, within a few miles of this place. They were surrounded by a stronger force of the enemy with four or five guns. "The detachment held out from noon April 3d, until April 4th at 9 a. m., and then, apparently, surrendered, for*it is reported thatihe firing ceased at that time. Immediately after I heard the news, during the afternoon of April 3d, I ordered Gatacre to proceed to Reddersburg from Springfontein, his present headquarters, with all possible speed, and I dispatched the Cameron Highlanders hence to Bethany. He arrived at Reddersburg at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning without opposition, but could get no news of the missing detachment. There can be no doubt the whole party has been made prisoners." queen hears news. Lord Robert's dispatch describing the disaster at Reddersburg was printed in the Dublin evening papers and created general consternation. It brought the populace with a quick turn from the rejoicing over the queen's visit to the great issues of the war, and cast a sudden gloom over the gayety of the party at the castle. A prominent member of the cabinet, now in Dublin, when interviewed by the correspondent of the Associated Press did not attempt to conceal his muruuuuuuu, uui iu miuiuiiiD uuo evil effect of such reverses upon the prestige of the empire abroad. He attributes it and others like it of recent occurrence to a lack of horses and to the inability of the remounts ?ent forward to endure the climate. He appeared to have no hope of immediate advance in force. In the cabinet minister's statement there was jio criticism of Lord Roberts, who appears to be trusted implicitly, but intense irritation and :hagrin are felt that so many "unfortunate circumstances" should retard the march to Pretoria. JUDOE BROWN EXPLAINS. Indites a Card Relative to Release of Greene and Gaynors. United States District Judge Brown it New York reviewed in an interview Friday the grounds of his decision in efusing a bench warrant for the removal to Georgia of B. D. Greene, J. i F., E. H. and W. T. Gaynor, indicted n Savannah in connection with the < irands carried oi^t, by former Captain barter. Judge Brown said, among )ther thiugs: "The reported surprise and anger 1 )n account of my decision have, in my nind, nothing more back of them :han a passionate feeling down south hat they would like to take these men Dy the neck and hustle them off to < rial down there. There is a feeling 1 :hat they are swindlers and should be : wrought to trial there at once, where j ;he witnesses against them are." SOUTHERN GETS AIR-LINE. Ownership (^Effected Through a Bond ' Deal In Boston. The Southern Railway is now virtuilly the owner of the Air-Line road j ;hrough a deal consumated in Boston 1 Friday whereby it secured control of ;he entire issue of the first mortgage ( Donds amounting to $2,000,000. A ;elegram was received in Louisville . 'rom a member of the bondholders' ! jommittee saying that an offer bad ^ )een made by representatives of the southern for the bonds. The lacal ^ sondholders who control a majority of ^ ;he issue, held a quick consultation ( ind it was decided to accept the offer. SHIPPING STRUCTURAL IRON. Carnegie Company Doing Their Part 1 In Rebuilding of Auditorium. The Carnegie company, who re- , jeived from the Gillette-Herzog Manu 'acturing Company of Minneapolis, ;ke contract for structural iron to be ised in the construction of the conrention hall at Kansas City, have j commenced shipment o* the material, is far as the Carnegie company i3 i ;oncerned, the building can be com* 1 dieted on time. LANDRUfl FOR PRESIDENT. j Vtianta Preacher Named For Head of Baptist Home riission Board. Rev. W. W. Laudrum, pastor of the , Tirst Baptist church of Atlanta, Ga., ( las been chosen by the home mission ( >oard of the Southern Baptist convenion as chairman to succeed Rev. lenry McDonald, who resigned. Dr. Landrnm's name will be preented to the annual convention of the / Baptists when the convention meets ] n May 11th in Hot Springs, Ark. < "SLEUTHS" IN COURT. Serious Charges Hade By Lawyers Against Two Atlanta Detectives. David S. Looney aud William A. Bradley, two private detectives of Atlanta, were declared Monday night by i Judge J. H. Lumpkin to be in contempt of court and were sentenced to twenty days in Fulton county jail. A few minutes after announcing this | decision Judge Lumpkin granted a ' supersedeas and placed the two men under ?1,000 bonds, making the provision that the bill of exceptions is to | be tiled within twenty days. The case will be taken to the supreme court for final decision, and if the judgment of Judge Lumpkin is affirmed the two detectives will at once begin serving their sentences. All of this was the outcome of an attempt to corrupt two members of the s Atlanta bar?Lowry Arnold, of the firm of Arnold & Arnold, and B. J. Jordan?which is said to have been 1 made a few days ago. < The charges were in substance that t a juror named T. J. Penn, had ap- { proached the detectives and offered to "sell out" if they (the detectives) J could arrange the matter with the at- < torneys interested in the will case. The lawyers alleged that they were ap- I proached on the subject in an indirect 1 way, and forthwith reported the mat- * ter to Judge Lumpkin. Judge Lumpkin, in announcing his * decision, refrained from dealing with * the evidence heard dnring the day, for c the reason that he did not desire to say anything that might prejudioe the 1 minds of the members of the grand J jury in the event that body decides to ( investigate the evidence. The attor- J neys on both sides repeatedly made 1 reference to a probable action by the ? grand jury, and there were other circumstances connected with the hear- [ iug which gave the imprewion that it 1 is the present intention to have an in- y vestigation into the criminal aspect of c (MV v ] COMBINE PROBABLE ? Between Mammoth Steel Interests i of Carnegie Company and 1 the Cramps. ^ The New York "World says: Negotiations are in progress for a combination of the gigantic new Carnegie com- j panv and the Cramp ship building j concern. If tke conference now going on in Atlantic City results in a satis- * i # T factory arrangement the coalition be- ^ tween these two great interests will l soon be announced. 1 Charles M. Schwab and Henry C. c Frick have been respectively at the 1 Brighton and Traymore hotels in At- e lantic City for several days. t William and Samnel Cramp, of the t William Cramp & Sons Ship and En- t gine Building company of Philadel- fi phia, are at the Traymore. These fomr p representative men have had frequent a meetings. They have not progressed i beyond the point of denying that their talks have anything to do with a steel p and ship building trust. e It is well known to New York steel e men that ever since the Carnegie- a Frick difficulties have been settled, ii the newly formed company has been e looking for an offensive and defensive e alliance with some great ship building v concern. The new Carnegie company * with its $160,000,0000 capital, aF 1 ready stands at the head of the steel- 1 triflkinrr int?rfista nf this eonntrv. E Among the most profitable branches c of activity in steel manufactnring is s making armor plate for warships. The s Carnegie mills lead all others in the f industry. If the Carnegie company F should obtain control of, or a strong alliance with, the greatest ship-build- n ing concern in - the United States, it a would be able to undertake contracts o of unprecedented magnitude. tl With power to issue bonds to the n extent of SI 60,000,000, the new Car- a uegie company can easily acquire a d big interest in the Cramp company if c the negotiators come to terms. The c Cramps' capital is $5,000,000 stock and t $1,500,000 bonds. The profits of the ji concern last year were $707,800. p The heads of the great ship-building n house are not far from seventy years p of age. New York steel men say that vi the Cramps are not averse to an ar- S rangement which will permit them to w give up the arduous labor of managing c< their gigantic shipyard. tl VOTING TO STRIKE. telegraphers of the Southern Railway A System Have Grievances. Differences existing between the :elegraphers and station agents on the r) Southern Railway aud the officials of ;he road have reached a critical stage. A strike on the part of the disaffect- ^ id men that would involve between g< 1,100 and 1,200 telegraphers and c, igeuts seems imminent, unless the grievances they complain of are setlecl. A vote is now being taken by the ^ :elegraphers and agents on the road ^ ;o decide whether a strike shall be ordered or not, ^ Non-Union rien Attacked. t] Nineteen non-union men were re- * ported to have been assaulted by un- ^ ion pickets in Chicago Saturday. Two v d{ the men were injured seriously, one P i gray-haired man, whose age may not ri withstand the shock. Buried In Potter's Field. The bodies of the five men who were parroted at Ponce, P. R, Saturday V were buried in the potter's field. Subsequently the execution platform was broken up by a crowd of relic hunters, who carried away the fragments as , mementoes. jj Texas Gets New Mill. t* An additional evidence of the devel- G opment of the south is the organiza- d tion of the Corsicana Cotton Factory *1 company, of Corsicana, Texas. The n" company has been organized with a H capital stock of $100,000. 0 ncKinley Signs Hague Treaty. The president has just ratified Th? Hague corfvention, providing for uni- p versal arbitration of international dis- 0 putes and lor the regulation of the use o rf warlike instmments. . ? BECKHAM WINS BEFORE COURT Only One of the Judges In Favor of Taylor. i SIX WERE AGAINST HIM j i i 5ov. Taylor Makes a Statement Scoring : His AHeged "Persecutors" and Says , He Will Abide Supreme Court. j s ( Friday the conrt of appeals of the 1 itats of Kentncky rendered a decision in the consolidated case involving the i governorship, sustaining the decision 1 )f Circuit Judge Field, and declaring hat the action of the legislature de- ( daring William Goebel to be governor 1 ind J. C. W. Beckham lieutenant govsrnor was final. It is held that the courts have no 1 >ower to review this action of the leg- ( slature; that the governor exceeded lis authority in adjourning the legis- ' ature to meet in London, Ky., and hat the journals of the two houses of ' he general assembly, being regular, 1 :annot be impeached. The division of the conrt was 6 to J I in favor of the Democrats, four 1 Democrats and two Kepublicans con- ' mrring in the majority opinion. Judge Durelle, Republican, dissented. The 1 najority opinion was written by Hobion. ' Judges Guffy and Burnam, Republi- < aus, wrote shorter concurring opin- < ons agreeing with the majority on all rital points, but denouncing the action 1 >f the legislature in unseating Gover- 1 jor Taylor and Lieutenant Governor 1 Marshall. < After a consultation Friday after- i loon between ex-Governor Bradley md other Republican leaders, the anlouncement was made that application svould be made at once to the United < States supreme court on a writ of er- \ or. ] PERSECUTION, SATS TAYLOR. Governor Taylor gave out the fol- ' owing statement at Frankfort Friday j light: l "For weeks I have been made the arget of villification by certain unm.inninla/1 tiarsrcr\onara in Tvflntimkv ?uur.6u uvn-t-j/v.- -- J' ( Che vilest insinuations have been ^ node and the most outrageous falseloods have been told. .When I was ailed to attend the funeral of a be- ( oved brother, it was seized upon as 1 in attempt on my part to fly from jus- 1 ice. Again, when called to my home 1 >y reason of the death of a dear sister, ( he fountains of abuse were opened 1 md a flood of falsehoods and slander c >cared forth upon me, the charge ^ igain being made that I was attempt ng to fly from the state. 1 "On my return to Frankfort those >apers hastened to publish the state- * dent that I was met at the train and * scorted to my home by a squad of | oldiers* with a Gatling gun. There 1 s not a word of truth in this state- r [lent, but nevertheless it was publishd and caused me harm. Not content rith this infamous, ghoulish work, irhich with the unblushing audacity c las followed me to the grave of my Jj >rother and sister, even the privacy of E ay family has been invaded, and be- *] ause my wife drew from the bank ? ome money with which to pay the a ervants, an attempt was made to im- c >ress the people that she, too, was g ireparing to fly. v "Once and for all, I desire to say t either directly nor indirectly had I g ny connection with the assassination t< f Senator Goebel. I am a citizen of ? bis state, amenable to its laws. I am c ot a criminal, neither shall I ever be fugitive from justice. Whenever inicted. if such an outrage should be ommitted, I sliall appear for trial, C onscientious of my innocence and of ? he nltimate triumph of right and * nstice. The whole purpose of this if rosecution has been, and is, to drive b le from my post of duty, and to n unish me for holding the office to i hich I have fairly been elected, q uch surrender I have not made, nor o ill I make it, unless the highest C ourts of this land should adjudicate t< lat I do so." u WILL HAVE SPONSORS. P l Puzzling Question Is Settled to Satisfaction of Confederate Veterans. Whether sponsors should attend the ^ sunion of the Confederate veterans ? t Louisville next month, a question " lat has been puzzling the officers of c ae United Confederate Veterans for 8 ame time and has been generally disnssed by the rank and file of the vet- . rans' organization, has been settled, " nd the usual number of sponsors and laids of honor will be appointed by ^ ie general division department and rigade headquarters. An official order sent out by Gen. J. ? [.Gordon, oommanding, has reqnested " ae appointment of the young ladies 8j ho will aot as sponsors and maids of y onor, and the committees in Louis- " ille who have charge of the reunion reparations are making the usual ar- ^ angements for the entertainment of le young women. ii TAYLOR WAS READY. 8 S1 Witness Says Governor Drew His Pistol When Goebel Was Shot. State Senator George Alexander was & ne of the witnesses before the grand a lry at Frankfort,. Ivy., Friday morn- 3 ig. He was in the executive ofiico E liking to Governor Taylor at the time jj rovernor Goebel was assassinated. He j etailed what he saw there aud said j lat Governor Taylor, who was very | j. inch excited, drew a pistol, fearing j t rat a mob would attack the executive J t ffice. 1 c a Plate Mirror Company Formed. jj The American Plate Mirror Com- ti any was chartered at Harrisburg, Pa., c n Saturday with a capital of $50,000, 00. This company is composed of rell-ksown plato giaas mca. I SOUTH CAROLINA 2 } STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ ? rjr\>fxic\jfNirofNifNi9 Ch:irIe<to? Gftn "Free" I.iquor. A Charleston dispatch says. Free cocktails are.being served at the custom house these days, where ?1,000 worth of fine Cabinet rye whisky was clumped the other day, while state constables were trying to break in the doors. As already told in the newspapers, the custom house blind tiger bas been under investigation for more than a week. The constables were making things so hot for the officials the other day that thirty-nine barrels of liquor could not be removed, and in order to throw aside suspicion the liquor liad to be poured into the sewers. There was so much dumped at once that the pipes could not carry it off, ind as a result, a great part of the stufi was forced through other pipes and finally drifted into the cistern from which the drinking water was drawn, j "At first the cistern water had only i faint trace of liquor. Later on, how2vcr, every cooler in the building was 'spiked.' The officials refused to driuk. Ike water was tested and the liquor was in evidence so strongly that the negroes from the water front got in Proves and begged for a taste. "The water from the custom house cistern is used at the Clyde Steamship Company's office and the clerks mixed cocktails ad lib. The only ingredients needed were sugar and ice and a dash if bitters. It was really surprising ; liow strong the drinks were, and for a time the fact that free drinks were on tap created a decided sensation about he custom house. It was a novel experience, Older officials at the building who did not go in for free drinks put in a complaint about the condition of the cistern. A f f L a lima fLn /lAnelnVilnfl v iuo urng iuo tvnoittwito viu?m*v\? :he liquor was dumped into the sewers :he charge was uenied at the custom aouse, although the water from the jistern has been dished out as undeliable proof. ** Under tne New Law. The state board of directors of the lispensary held their first meeting mder the new law at Columbia the past week. There being a question as :o the term of office of the incubent of 3onnty boards of control, the board lias decided that they are not affected by the fact that the new law provide! i different* method of selecting them, ind that new boards have been selectid by the legislative delegates in each jouutv. The old boards will hold till :heir terms expire. Several months ago the old board of ;ontrol decided that beer privileges vould be abolished after June next, illowing the people engaged in the msiness some time to prepare for losing up. The directors now anlouuce that the terms of the privilege >f ail such dispeusers will end June 2th, and it will then be for the pres>nt board to decide whether beer dispensaries are to continue or not. The* board has begun purchasing iquor under the new regulations? >y sample and in the absence of lets ers or drummers from the firms makug the offers. So far about 1,400 barels of corn have been ordered, +** Parker Get* Life Sentence. Another white Soutl? Carolina merhant goes to the penitentiary for life, langing only being avoided by the aerciful recommendation of the jury. .be trial 01 J&. n. rarner ior ine murler of Wade Hampton Bourn began t Chester Wednesday and was conluded last Saturday. A verdict of ;uilty with recommendation to mercy ras rendered after six hours' deliberaions. Bourn was a young man of ood standing, who had recently enered into business at Cash's, Chesterleld county, where the killing ocnrred. *% Property to IJo Improved. The working committee of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Society, cousisting of Colonels Holloray and Vance and Mr. W. D. Evans, 3 making plans for expending in buildngs and other improvements the loney received from the Seaboard jr-Line for right-of-way through a uarter of a mile of the society's land n the edge of the city. The city of iolumbia gave the society permission 0 sell, provided the proceeds were ised in improvements. Many subtantial and needed additions and imrovemeuts will be made. ?% Convicts Badly Cared For. In the Abbeville correspondence of le Greenville News there is an exression that is of interest at this time, 1 view of the effort to make certain banges at the state penitentiary. The tatement reads: "The Hon. William D. ?<Iann, pen;eutiary director, is at home from an ispecting tour of the penitentiary and [1 the camps. He says everything snnected with the institution is in rst rate shape, except as to the care f the convicts in their quarters at the enitentiary, and their treatment there i that particular has been nothing hort of inhuman. There is absolutej no way of heating the buildings, and i summer there is next to no ventilaon for the poor unfortunates. Cap! [aun says the present board will cerliuly remedy this trouble at once and ee that the convicts do not suffer durig winter or summer. He expresses lirprise that there is not more conumption." From Colombia to Clieraw. The Seaboard Air Line has been reeiving freight regularly since it formlly opened for business in Columbia. 'be freight that is being received is nixed and considerable fertilizers ave been received for distribution beween Columbia aud Clieraw. The railroad commissioners have een invited to go over the line beweeu Columbia aud Cheraw to accept he liue for passenger business. The ommissioners waut to make a quiet ud careful inspection of the road, t is not expected, uor desired, that here be any "blow-out" on this ocasion. *% Back Pay For Volunteer*. ^ J against the government have been published. The latest is the list of fortunate soldiers belonging to Com- ' pauy A, 2d regiment (Darlington Guards). The amounts for each are i a the Carolina National Bank in Columbia and upon proper receipt will be paid out. *** ( Mjty Benefit Florence Trucker*. ' The truck farmers around Charleston will be interested in this bit of information, which shows that the Southern Express Company is disposed to do the light thing: i EXECUTION WAS LEGAL. Garroting of Murderer* In Porto Rico Interests Officials. Beyond the mere announcement that five criminals were to be executed at 1 Ponce Saturday for murder and outrage, General Davis, the governor of - ? - 5 l.t:.n 1A Jforto Kico, maae no repfCBeuiamuu iu the war department on this subject. The officials are concerned about the situation, mainly because of the method chosen for the execution of these criminals?the garrote. But it is explained that neither for the enforcement of the death penalty, 1 nor for the repulsive method of execution are the military authorities responsible. These are the results of < the continuance in the. island of the Spanish legal methods, according to i the officiate there. Some of the Wash- : ington officials heartily wish that it were otherwise in this particular case. There is, however, a marked indisposition to take any official action that : will tend to incite the latent jealousy i of the islanders over any encroachment by the national government i upon their cherished customs and i laws, hence the hesitancy to act in the 1 present instance by commutting the i sentence of the criminals. i Have historical NAfiES. Various Batteries on Southern Coast I Designated By War Department. The war department has given his-' j torical names to the batteries forming 1 the new sea coast defenses. Those at southern points are: Port Royal, S. C., on St. Helena, Fort Deinont. Savannah harbor, Georgia, at Fort { Screven, Battery Habersham; at same , t/-\rf T?offoT-xr Pmmlw AUi I) JLTHVI-VIJ ?t. w ? Key West, at Fort Taylor, Battery DeLeon; at same fort, Battery Osceola; | same fort, Battery Seminole. Tampa bay, Florida, Egmont key, , Fort Dade; on Mullet key, Fort DeSoto. , Pensacola bay at fort Pickens, Battery Worth; same fort, Battery Cullom. Mobile bay, at Fort Morgan, Battery Dearborn; at same fort,Battery Bower. , PANACEA FOR TROUBLES. | I Suicide Among Soldiers Away From dome Seems to Be Epidemic. According to advices received by the ( New York World, from May 1, 1899, i to April 1, 1900, there have been 83 j suicides in the armies of the United ; i States, nearly every one due to in- j sanity. I During the same period nearly one thousand soldiers have been shipped , from their various posts in Hawaii, Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines j to the military insane asylum ia Wash- ] ington. Of these about 90 per cent have i come from the Philippines. I Since December 1 last there have been 29 suicides there, all due to in- J sanity. ' NO BOER RESOLUTION ' Is Allowed to Run the Gantlet In the 1 House of Representatives. 1 In the house Saturday Mr. Richard- ( son, of Tennessee, asked unanimous consent for the consideration of the j following resolution: j ' Resolved, That this house views *'* "? * A L it. wiin aeep interest mo uoiuiu ouu6e>u of the republics of South Africa to maintain their independence and hereby tender them our most profound sympathy in their unequal but gallant struggle." "That resolution should go to the committee on foreign affairs," observed Mr. Payne, of New York, the floor leader of the majority. "Did I understand the gentleman to object?" asked Mr. Bichardson. "I did," replied Mr. Payne. BOERS BREAK FOR LIBERTY. Fourteen Hake Successful 'Escape From Simonstown Jail. A determined attempt to escape was made Saturday by the Boer prisoners at Simonstown and 14 of them succeedin getting away. In the confusion one of the prisoners was killed and another was wounded. One man was recaptured, but about 14 are missing. Otis Will Soon Be With Us. General Otis has been formally relieved of the command of the United States forces in the Philippines and of the Eighth army corps, and is scheduled to return te the United States this month. MOUSE WILL AGREE. a Senate Amendments to Porto Rican Tariff Bill Will Stand. The Republicans of the house in a q well attended caucus Thursday night n decided to take the shortest possible t route to a termination of the Porto tl Kican tariff problem by concurring in h all the senate amendments and sending tJ the bill directly to the president. There was a feeble protest from Mr. Cooper of Wisconsin, chairman of the insular committee, and Mr. Moody of 8 Massachusetts, who favored standing a out against some of the features of the P civil government scheme attached to lV the bill by the senate. s< They objected especially to the senate provision making all the members of the upper council of the Porto Kican legislature appointees of the l. president and clothing them with the power to grant franchices, bat the sen* f timent of tbe caucus was overwhelmingly against them. * 5 Tillman Asks For Mining Schools. Senator Tillman, from the oomznit- . tee on mines and mining, reported s J bill providing for schools of mining inj * A RAGING FLOOD 1 IN TEXAS TOWN J Great Dam of the Colorado River Swept Away, || THIRTY PEOPLE DROWN? | Beary Damage to Property Aloag the ! Big Direr la Otter Sectta?M* Jf asters Caasei ty Rams. | Saturday nignt me cuy 01 aaiwa. rxm Texas, was in darkness with a raging river one mile wide and swollen fac^ beyond its natural banks, roaring and surging all through the lower portion .v of the town, having spread destruction ^ and death in its wake. In addition to the vast loss of prop- " erty interests, it is calculated thai | tween thirty and forty lives have been sacrificed, and the repot te coming Iggfl from the tributary country do not '% tend to improve matters. The flood was not unlike the disag^H trous Johnstown flood some years aga,. in that a raging river, already swollen 7 far beyond its capacity, bore too heavily upon an immense dam spannU^E^l the river at Austin, breaking the aamc^||[ and letting loose a reservoir of w?ier| thirty miles long, half a mile wide anf^H sixty feet deep, to aid in carrying ?||^ struction down the valleys of the Coi-? orado river. . The great dam in the Colorado tirta^ gave way at noon to the enoraous:^jg pressure of water and debris and a roar and crash swept the vaUeysbj^j low the citv. wrecking the immmSuB Light and power plant and dxtrwn&tj||| eight workmen.* Three daja before it began raining^ very hard at Austin, the storm ezienq^H ing north along the watersheds of tfeajfl Colorado river. The precipitation tfsjjjSi tinned until Saturday morning and ae|| a finale the downfall averaged six~}| inches within an hour. All this vast j|| quantity of water along the waterafeM^B of the Colorado river rapidly swelled^! the current until at 8 o'clock the rifflraS whioh had been rising steadily, wat VMM raging torrent The crisis came shortly after o'clock when suddenly, with a report like the roar of the ocean, a great | wedge, twenty-five feet high, 600 feet wide and about eight feet thick, rolled j out of the center section of the dam, ? i down the face of the sixty-foot depth's into the river below. This left a yawning gap in the middle of the dam, which through l&fga debris and water fiercely poured. Whilj^H the flood, already raging, waathreata^M j ing everything in its path, this suddessji breaking of the dam but served to add-' .; , to the catastrophe. The released wa-~ ter poured into the power house. rstfjjo J ing eight employes at work, drowadnfl all of them instantly. I It is estimated that more than iflj ^ houses have been destroyed and a|l loss to property will be great, in?|| ' pendent of the light and power plana costing $1,500,000. The breaking^ ^ the dam engulfed the old water eoa?|T m pany's plant below the city and it now lying fifteen feet under srates|l while the city is in darkneaeaxid Reports from points below Aajffifjl are to the effect that the fiood has been' most disastrous, and the breaking bfcl lv . ,? i : . [lie uam JUoa wwiuucu mmmj 1 11 ' yju of dollars' worth of loss to property^! According to reports received it is ba?|| ieved that at least thirty lives were LATHB ADVICES. # ] Sunday fully 30,000 people ga&e&ij jred at the dam and power hou? 4irw " seitness the ruins of the plant wfefn||| :oet the city one and three-quarter . nillions of dollars a few years agoi. The waters of the Colorado river vm still plunging and foaming around the vreck, eating away the big pile granite which once formed the dam j is though it was nothing more thexni Beports from the neighboring eouh^jj ; ry were to the effect that everything^ ; ;ras under water. In Williamson a jounty, north of Austin, railroad jridges and trackage have been hdo^ yaste and all trains stopped rtnain^|j The country tributary to the Colo^H ado river all the way down its oonrse | .. 8 being inundated, and while it is b*sfj ieved that the worst is over, the lota is estimated so far will exceed some $3,000,000, counting Austin as Fortunately the list of drowned iui| imited to those reported in the Assorted Press dispatch of Saturday, _sj|| ' t seems the only drownings reporteo^in Fere at Austin when the dam broke >nd caught the victims unawares. Reports from several sections of entral and sonth Texas are to the eject that a large acreage is under wraflM er and much damage has been 'attend- ' '^11 nt upon property and live stock. ' M Warning to normpns. The southern Mormon mission head- 4 iiarters, which are located in Chstta- jj ooga, has received a communicatiott ; rom Charleston, S. C., to the elftet?|jj bat the mayor of that place has pro^^H ibit-ed Mormon elders from workingj^M .leie, ? - - Fruit Not Injured. .r^H The fruit growers cf middle Georia are rejoicing over the prospect of \J large yield this season. The crop W '^1 ractically safe now, though it is pos- ;;^Jj bio that a late frost may injure it to : :me extent. To Courtmartia! Funstou. An interesting topic of conversttiat^ 1 army circles in Manila is the invee^ [gation of Brigadier General Pua-| ton's execution of two Filipinos andjl ie possibility of a courtmartial ulting therefrom. Sectarian Schools Knocked Out. ^ After some discussion the sesa?|f ; Eonday, rejected the sectarian schtoi^ ;