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THE BATESBURG ADVOCATE. | ??? ?-? ? . ? VOL. II. BATESBURG, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1902. NO. 9. 1 GREAT SUFFERINGS j Of United States Murines on tho Island of Samar. A LIEUTENANT'S ACCOUNT. How Remnants of tho I-buiiished Party Wore Rescued. Trickery ol' the Nutiven In Time or Need. The eastern mall has brought the j report of Major Waller upon the fa:n- ; ousexpedition c mducb .1 by him aer>ss ' tlie Island of S-.m-ii', resulting in I lie ; lossofa number yf the marines and j hardships an-1 suiTerings 011 the part of the -others beyond anything yet ' known in the "Philippine campaign. : Major Waller's-repor 's tire formal and do not go into the details of the move-1 ments of tlie marines, but tho news of | the aiTtiir is contained in a report from ; Lieut. W. It. Shoemaker, l\ S. N.,| who conducted the relief expedition , that succored tire marines. After dc- 1 tailing the arrival into the Amoriean lines of Capt. Porter and Lieut. Williams, with a portion of the men. tiereport says: "Capt. Porter and Lieut. A. S. Wiliains, in conversation, pave me substantially tlie following account of their wanderings: "On January 1. being hen on half rations with very little food left, MaJ. Waller decided to split tie: party -he , taking 15 of the strongest men and pushing on for Hasey, ami Capt. Por-o tcr following his trail as rapidly ash possible with t he main ho ly. On the 2nd a notice came hack from Waller i with a note, staling that he. Waller.' had given up the idea of getting through and would return, and directing Porter to make directly for the river and build rafts for the entire party. This Porter tried to do but failed to find wood that would lloat. It was raining hard ai this time and the river was about 10 feet j|bove its >. normal level and running with violence. As Major Waller did not appear. Porter sent Capt. Moarss to him to ascer- i tain his plans, then return and report. < Hearss failed to return hut he reached i Waller and went on with him. "On the :ird. I think, Porter rushed ahead to get assistance with eight of the strongest men. leaving Williams 1 to follow with the crippled and lame as far as the boat, seei ;< I on the way 1 up, to be used in an em rgency like , the present. Porter reached t lie boat ] but found she had been damaged and : was unfit for use. So he started <?n a , 25 mile 'hike' for Laming, leaching there with three men on the after p noon of the 11th. Five men had glv- , way. -?im,,,. ?n out, out, nvit,.- , . : jvH] vtr,v?i f?. infantr\. '-n mvomit Urthe lieijjnt of the river was unable to get away until the morning of tin; 14th. Williams dest\ -s the highest praise for his - "< mill light against the ^ current and up the rapids, hauling his boat along by hand a good part of t lie . way. It-was not until the morning of j the 17th that he reached the starving marines in their last stopping place j near tlie river. Their condition at that time was terrible. For days no (. man among them had strength to ear- ! ry a rllle. Nine of them had either gone crazy or had fallen by the trail J half dead from starvation and expos- ' lire. It .had rained steadily for eighteen days. Lieut. A. S. Williams had made every eiTort to gel them along hut had to abandon them. lie could ! only save the men who were able, to j( reacli the boat by the river, the prob- ' able point of arrival of the relief ex- ( pedidion. He got there on the night ' of the 16tli instant, his party having 1 been without food, except roots, the ; pulps of plants, and a very few sweet j 1 potatoes, for fifteen days. To fur-;' ther complicate matters, the native bearers, about do in number, became ' sulky, practically refusing assistance .1 to the white men. They would build 1 shacks as a protection from tin eon-1' tinual downpour for themselves only, ' and knowing the edible roots and 1 plants, were more skilful in obtaining ( food. A time came whop no white man could carry a ritle. and those not 1 lost were in the hands of the natives: under the altered condition, it requir- 1 cd considerable diplomacy on lite part ' of Lieut. Williams to handle thein all. !: Just before reaching the river two | bearers tried to kill Williams, stab- ; bing him about the chest, with a bolo. j He tried to shoot but had not suttiei cut strength to pull the trigger, fhen ' they tried to kill him with his own pistol, but did not know how to work the weapon. Williams w is rescued by I a few of his men who tottered up, ' armed with sticks, and the natives ' took to the hush. No Filipinos were > seen in t he region, there being no food, j! The relief party saw some coming I < from the direction of llermano; suit is probable that the insurgents about 1 there got wind of the desperate condition of the marines and were hurrying up to take advantage of it. belief came just in time. "It took practically all of January 18 to get the sufTercrs, :tl In number. Including two ofllcers I* in stretch- i ers unable to move -across tl river and out through the surf to t tie ves- j1 Bel. The Job was finished at O.;:o p hi.! and at 8 o'clock we Blurt ed for Taeluban dlreet, as an army surfer>n said at Lanang, that an hour saved in transit might mean an arm or a leg to some. We readied Tacl ?ban at :it? a. in., aud the worse cases were at. once transferred to the hospital. The others, including eight or ten natives, not Included In the above total of :tl. was transported to Itasey, meeting Major Waller. I lis party appears from the statements of the ofllcers, to have been reduced to nearly the same < xtremity as the other. They had pruetlcally given up hope when the opportune capture of a small boy. the only native seen, resulted in their getting through to the coast." The shirt worn by Charles 1 to the sealfold lias been auctioned olf at 200 guineas at (Jovent Garden, says the London correspondent to *he Now York Tribune. WILLIAM J. BRYAN. lie Was Given Kend-ofT on Floor oi G the House Thursday. William Jennings Bryan arrived In Washington Thursday from New York, en-oute to Iiarrisburg, Pa. The T fusion members of the Nebraska delegation in congress took breakfast with him and later lie visited the eapitol. t' At the eapitol Mr. Bryan appeared in the members' corridor of the house of representatives, and he Immediately was surrounded by a large crowd of representatives who give him a hearty welcome. For sometime he held an InfArmilllafaa rvw?o? ,.r 1? ....X'tiiuti IV?VV, UHMt IU IIIC i/rillUUIill It' I and ({uito a number of Republican | V memiors being presented to Idm. j l'lie informal receptional lasted some t iin-? and during its cont inuance ' speaker Henderson came from l.is priv- : ate otllee and Representative l ittle- n< Held (Maine,) t- inporardy vacated the I it chair t>f the house, ineonunU-teeof the , ci whole, in order to Join in tlie greeting. in When Representative Grosvenor ie tOllio,) shook hands with the Nebraska ? ' man. there was an exchange of good naturcd badinage on presidential can- M didacics. si Representative Swanson (Va.,) raiscd a laugh wh?n referring to the Re- "pi publican controversy on Cuban reel- ei procity, lie said Mr. Groves nor had | C< lieen "infused wit h twenty per cent j ci of Democracy." Mr. Rryan t/nk luncli ' vt at the house winir. id; Later in the day Mr. Rryan paid a ' 1 visit to the senate wing, lie was j vv 1 here entertained in the niarb'c r<i- ni cop; !on room and met most of Cm D Denvieratie and many of the Repul ii- la can senators. IIis eonferonees with tin in were generally brief and they j "c were a rule devoted simply to an <-x- > ai change of social greetings. Mr. 1'ry-1 r< an said that his visit to tliccapitolj \ was without political sign!lieanee. j t?' Mr, Rryan left the city at 1 o'clock , tl this afternoon for Culpepper, Va., i where he made an address tonight..] lie will return to Washington tomorrow. The Post tomorrow will say that the chief matter discussed by Mr. ,l Rryan with the Democratic senators ol was the resolut ion proposing a consti- '!! tutional amendment for election of ' 1 senators by direct vote of the people. ' Mr. Rryan urged Democrat ie senators . Lo use their best endeavors to force an ( 1 early vote on tlie resolution by the committee which now lias it in charge, 111 and that an issue lie made on it. p] ( gIiij; (o tfi?k Imposition. nl Col. it. W. Hunt, division passcn-! ti uer agent of the Southern. Is pushing ! ui the matter of "school week" at lheir;i exposition. While the tirst week in j pi rtpril is iik' sent Ml! WOCK," J'Ot t lie , Q Southern will give the same rates to j schools in bodies of 2f> more at any or ' rli lime, ile has received notification le that tlie sc!i" . . anii > ill named Sc will he here on tin following dat- .o , si Spartanburg graded sclu ola, March St 2(>th. WilUamston l-Ymale e Mar-di <*sf 25th. \11 Cohimhia ! nia." cli ge. March |ai 28th. i ti WolTord college. first week in April, tv Winthrop college. April 2nd. u: Ninety-Six graded sellout, March 27. si I Newberry graded school, April 2nd. r Camden graded school. April 1-8. And the following schools are com- fa ng for "sehoool week:" Leesvile tail- ni egc, Kurniau Cniversity. Orangehurg fo ;raded school. Colon graded school, g< JlilTord seminary of I'nion. Many at tliers will come and Col. Hunt is mix- hi cms to he notitied at once, lie will Si lave the trains run into the exposition hi .'rounds if requested beforcd ban to lo so. of tl The (treat Id lira ry (Jive Andrew Carnegie was t lie chief I> s'Ucst and principal speaker Thursday so veiling at the seventh annual dinner tt >f the New York Library Club. Mr. in Carnegie, on the subject of libraries ai Tor rural communities, said: "1 have ' te ieen mueli gratllied liy the numerous ai ippiie.itions of small communities in ay the West for libraries. And in this fo connection 1 will say that as 1 knew 1 11< would have the pleasure of dining here ar might. ! felt 1 ought,todosomething ay o deserve t hat pleasure. 1 have dealt ay with about forty of these applications cl; otlay and am glad to say that in all. 11< except perhaps two eases, I have seen I Li iiy way to grant them." After the at liimer .Mr. Carnegie was asked for a jar 1st or the libraries lie had endowed sli ju the said he was unable to give it. Uesald. however, that the applicat ion for a library for Albany, N. Y.t was me of them, and he thought the " imount he had given was ?17."?.0i)0. a' at (itiv. AltKtMil l)cnd. Kx-tl?v. .lohn 1*. Altgeld.of Illinois, lied Thursday morning. Mr. Alt gold tvas the prineipal speaker at a pro-| ' liner meeting Wednesday night in the < 'r toilet theatre. .lust at the close of 1 liis speech a sudden dizziness seized}*' him and lie was assisted from the '* 1 dago. The meeting proceeded, the j" ' Audience not realizing what had hap-Is. pened. Mr. Altgeld was taken to the I ^' door of the theatre, where several L vomiting spells seized him. Tliis con- j ^ tinned for nearly an hour and was so!" pronounce.fi lie could not. tie removed ' to the hotel. Physicians were hastily summoned and M r. Altgeld was ear-? \ ried to the hotel across the street, lie ' retained cfinselousness and urged tlie m r i1 newspaper men to keepthe afTair quiet for fear of alarming Ids wife. Short- i ly after midnight he became imconsci- ' v nils. He remained in this condition until death. h< ItoT>hr<! <if Mi* Money. tl Last Wednesday night J. A. Home, p, a farmer living near itamho in the jp section of' ileenwoo I county had 4*oo jj stolen from him. The money was kept In a trunk In iiis house and Imw it was taken out it is not known. It is a ' 01 singular eolneidenee that this man ls >sj, a brother of S. II. Home, who on ;] October l'v laid, had over ifOUt) dol-; jf) lars taken from him whi'e at a circus (1 here In Oreenwoo 1. Itot.h these men <? an- hard workers They save every n penny, denying themselves everything except the bare necessities of n life, and the loss of the accumulation of a lifetime goes very hard. In the |0 case of t he man who lost his money ? |? at the ei reus, by the aid of an at tor-1 n uey, I . Marron Oiler, lie got all of his i p, money hack. The other man will i t; probably never get his. I tl OUR OLI) VETERANS. eneral Orders Issued by Genera! John B. Gordon 0 THE OLD SOUTHERN HEROES ailing Their Attention to the Re' union of the United Confederate Veterans at ltallaa, Toshm, In A|iril. Headquarters United Confederate eterans, New Orleans. La.. March s 102. eneral Orders No. 271. 1. The general commanding anninces that the twelfth annual meetig and reunion <>f the United Confed ate Veterans will lie held as stated 1 general orders No. 2?i7. current sors. from these hcadouarters in tlu tv of Dallas. Texas, on April 22nd, trd, 2-ltli ami 2">th. 1002. Tuesday, fod nes: I ay, Thursday and Friday re jcelively. Also, by request of its patriotic resident, Mrs. \Y. .1. De'nan, the gen al commanding announces that the on federate Southern Memorial Assoat ion will hold its third annual eon lition in Dallas. Tevas. on the same lies as the 1*. C. V. reunion, ami lose "Mothers of the Confederacy' ill opentleir convention with me. orial servi s in honor of 'elTcsoii avis, in tl Episcopal church in . >.ils, Texas. All Conf derate organizations and nfederatc soldiers and sallois of al ms. grados and departnient. Daugh rs of the Confederacy, and Sons ol derails are cordially invited to ataid this twelfth general reunion ol le 1". C. V.'s. KIIItM INTO CASH'S. 2. Wit h prlile and pleasure lie alsc mounees that 1,410 eainps art ready enrolled in the I". C. V., ganization. with applieation in foi .or lot) more. Kx-C'onfederate solers and sailors everywhere are urged ? form themselves Into local assnciaoils, where this has not already heen me: and all associations, bivouacs, icainpments and other bodies not '.embers of the I". C. V.. association e earnestly requested to send in upications to these headquarters, withit delay, so as to he organized in nio to participate in this great relion, and thus unite with their eoniides in carrying out the laudable and lilanthropie objects of the t'nited an federate Veteran organization. 3. He heart ily approves of the wis>m shown by the veterans in their section Of t lie "tjuoen City of tin nitliwest." the beautiful and progresif city of Dallas, in the Umpire ate of the. nth. the mighty state 1 wa tli youngest of the glorious qo:*>ot>'i ,,{ soul hern states. bu( now le greatest in territory, population id resources, and with a limitless fuire. asa meeting place for this their velfth annual reunion, as it is so silited geographically, that it is aoceshle to a very large number of the . C. V. camps. 1 n addition to this Dallas, and, in ct. the entire state of Texas, is >ted for boundless hospitality, and r the love and devotion which her ilden-hearted sons and beautiful and coniplished daughters have always stowed upon the "Old Heroes of the Vt if?C " ll-hn chuul fnlll* ? ? ? He fore such overwhelming odds. (>nce before in the hospitable city Houston, in and now again in tat state of marvellous growtli andcxitiding greatness, the lovely city of alias; Texas, through her chivalrous ris and glorious women, has invited te remnant of the followers of that iglity southern arinv. to the valor id greatness of which she eontribud so much through her noble sons id peerless women, to meet once rain upon her soil, and nenew old ties rmed in the camp and upon the hatetield, and old friendships made nids danger and hardships, to ''drink rain out of the same canteen," to sit rain around the same camp tires, and isp hands in comradeship once again fore they all cross over to join Ikivis, ?o, Jackson and the host of the rank id tile of that matehless southern my now encamped upon the other ore, ORT KKADY TO CiO. 1. The general commanding, therere, urges the oflicers and members of 1 camps making the preparat ions t< tend this reunion, to commence now, ithout delay, preparing for delegates, ternates and as many members as issihlc to at tend, so as to make it t lie rgest and most, representative relion ever held; as business of tlie eatest gravity affecting tlie welfare the old veterans will he transacted iring this twelfth annual reunion i*'h as the Unievolent care, through ate aid. or otherwise, of disabled, *.stilute and aged veterans and the idows and orphans of our fallen ot hers in arras, which will he one the most important matters for out msiderat ion. In this connection the Tiii'iai <??11111i?iiic 11kiriins vsneriiii ;tiTitJ?>11 to t he increasing age. multiled sorrows and corroding cares of any of the gallant old soldiers, win sk<sl > heir II ves and fortunes for w hat iey considered right during the cnt fid years of Through ie mortuary reports received at these ?ad quarters he is daily and almost nirly reminded that the lengthening iadowsof tline are fast setting ovet ie old heroes-- reaching out already you.l toe allotted spati oT human fe. many of whom had already passed ie aire of manhood when, over forty ars ago. they promptly and nobly re?oned to their country's call. It is ir hounded duty and the chief mis on of I lie I'. C, V. association that icse unfortunate, sick, disabled and digent comrades and brothers am: ielr widows and orphans should ha ve ir at lent ion. care and such help ii ielr old age as their more fortunatr imradcs can procure and give and a* ieir intirmiti ves and misfortunes re lire. This to him will he a labor ol ve, and to the carrying out of whirl will devote his best efforts, and it ie prosecuting of w hich sacred work appeals to all the members of the . C. V. association who are able, foi ielr earnest, prayerful, patriotic help. " ' ' I DUTY TO OLD COM HADES. We must take care of our old comrades; aiul in doing this he feels con. tident that appeals for employment for the old Confederate veterans, who are so rapidly passing away, and substanthil aid fortheseold sick, wounded indigent and unfo.tunatc soldiers will rut t>e made in vain to any state, municipal governmentor citizens of any southern state nor to the rising gen. eration. themselves the worthy descendants of heroes, who arc al'kc participants in that heritage of git ry so proudly emblazoned unon the I istory of each state by the unparalle ed valor and endurance of these aged, wounded and disabled old warriors, as . It would be ingratitude without parallel and degradation without precedent, that any of these should turn their; backs upon tlie old heroes and their; ever-glorious records in their old age! ami dire distress. .1. Other usinessof the greatest importance will also demand careful consideration such as tlie care of the graves of our known and unknown dead buried at Gettysburg, Fort Warren. Camps Morton, Chase. Douglas, Oakwook Cemetery at Chicago, I lock Island, Johnson's Island, Cairo and at i ail other points; we must care for the graves of "Our Dead," and see that they are annually decorated, the headstones preserved and protected, and complete lists of the names of our1 | dead heroes with the location of their | last rest ing place furnished to their j ' feioi.rlc 1 I,.., 0,n ..... , I ...V ...... ...... .V...S... ....w..^.. .... .... - ; tlium of our camps, thus rescuing their! I names from oblivion and handing , I iit'in down in history: the l>est method .; < r securing impirtnil history and to enlist each state in the compilation I and preservation of tlie history of her I citizen soldiery; the consideration of means to complete the monument to p t lie memory of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, and to aid in building monuments to all of the. other great leaders, soldiers aud sailors of the south: , to make such changes in the constitu-1 i lion ami bylaws as experience may suggest, and other matters of general , interest. KL.KCT DELKOATKH. I ?t. Each camp now admitted into the t'nitod Confederate Veteran or- j ganizatlon, and those admitted before the reunion, are urged to at once elect accredited delegates and alternates to : attend as only accredited delegates c;m participate In the business part of tinsession. The representation of delegates at the reunion will be ;is fixed in Section 1. article "> of the const itution: one delegate for every 25 active mem- ' I bcrs, in good standing, and one addi- | I tional for a fraction of ten member?.: j provided, every camp in good standing shall he entitled to at least two dele ; gates. Each camp will elect the same , number of alternates as delegates who will att- nd in case of any failure on the par f the delegates. At n of t-a tnnsiscallfM^Oi , set ion 5 "Camps represent 'Hon unless < shall have been paid ti nn jutant general on or l>efore the tiTst day of I April next preceding the annual meet inn." S. A program to ho observed at the! reunion and all the details will he furnished to the camps and to all vote- ' runs, and also full information, by up- , plying to Col. ('. ('. Slaughter, presi- j . dent executive committee confederate reunion, or Gen. C. 1-. Martin, seeretary, Dallas, Texas. !>. The general commanding respect fully requests the press, both daily ' and weekly, of the whole country, to aid the patriotic and benevolent objects of the United Confederate Vclcrans by publication of these orders with editorial notices of the organi/.ation. 10. The general commanding respectfully requests and trusts that . railroad officials will also aid the old veterans by giving the very lowest rate* of transportation so as to enable | them to attend. 11. Officers of the general staff are directed to assist department. division , and brigade commanders and others in organizing their respective states, and generally to aid in t he. complete federation of all the survivors in ope grand organization under t he constitution of tlic United Confederate Vetera IIS. My order of J. M. GORDON, General Commanding. GKO. MOOIIMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of StaiT. The Cabinet Mu/./.letl. President Roosevelt has introduced I , a now style in administration circles I bv putting muzzles on the members I of his cabinet. This is a step further , than any other president lias gone, j and it is understood that it was' .(brought about by the publication of', . j tin* story tlint three members of the1 . I cabinet sided with the anti-Cuban re-i clprocity Kepuhlieaiis ??f the Hogse,! and were, <J course, arrayed air; inst ' i Mr. Uoosevclt and the llepuhlican I I bosses i)f the House, who instead of ? carrying nut his plans, are on their I knees begging the ant is to agree to . some compromise that will lessen the humiliation of themselves and Mr. Koosevelt. After the publication of that story it's I lie truth that hurts Mr. Koosevclt Jumped all over the '! cabinet and forbid the members giving i i! any information whatever about, mat j ters discussed at the cabinet meetings, | saying that be would instruct his sec- i ; retary to give out whatever he wished | to have published. Think of a scene like that, with no cabinet resignations. It is surprising that some should think and say that sturdy ' l American self-respect is less general | i than it used t*?lie? lints >1 iitt Go. The following notice has been pla- < > carded in the entrance ball of Wuu burg University: "Honorable ladles! who attend public lectures are in- j I fromed that before entering the lec-1 I ure room they must take otT their! tiats. In case of non-compliance with this notice, they must expect to have their bats taken away by force." This < is slgiu d by t lit- janitor. An t'lihcnlthy Job. i The jolt of Sullan Is not a very dei si ruble one. ()f the thirty-eight Sul-: r tans who have ruled the Ottoman! Empire si nee the conquest of Constan- j tinoplc by the Turks, thirty-four have . died violent deaths. ENDS HER LIFE. A Young Lady in Columbia Commits I I Suicide SHE SWALLOWED LAUDANUM. Story ol" Another Kail t'aao of Htjll Destruction. The Cause Serins to Have Reen Despondency. 'I <rere lias been another sad case of siiiriHe in Columbia. The State says Wednesday morning about 7:to a. tn. \J is1; IS illio l^irhmn n vnnn.T l?irl . i\f itboii^ Ji years of ago, died of liiu laliurvWiisonl r.g by her own hand. The fair.I with whom sbo boarded on M;; <Jln street say that she was fully resof'cd U? end her life, having often exp- '. wed that intention during her residence with them. Ildr brother, F. M. Parham, who is eniplj yed by the Sout hern railway, persuaded lier to leave her home in t'nioji and come to the city about eight months ago. She secured a place! in Monckton's dry goods store and ^nred the room of her sister, who boavi.cd with Mr. 1). (j. W. Jamison at loJt Marion street. After a little wtill# she gave tip her sltiial Ion and h> rail to solicit subscriptions for a . >K being engaged in litis OTUpa;* 11 at the time of her death. For the 'a-' week or t wo she lias acted rather st iarjgely and about ten days ago she t MikJ morphine, but fortunately the ipi iBtily was not suttlcient to do more thawo stupefy iter. 'fP'sday morning Mrs. Jamison noticeJtliat site appeared agitated and wa Vied her more closely on that accc iol'. Miss Parham. made several r.ipbjj trips to Main street and t lie last i returned the house was empt Incept for tlieciKik. When Mrs. Jamison returned she noticed in her patiTy a glass with some laudanum ini'T S' immediately went to Miss PariVnin, who was lying i:i bed, and a> ?-|i h'T if she had taken the opiat. Tin- cri11 denied it and no more was tb kill' < f the matter. \i mt ?; o'clock Miss Parham got ! aJid '.ok supper with the family aw if dr 11k a cup of strong coffee, v. Iiifch it is supposed deadened for a! time tie i Vet of the laudanum. Just before going to bed she went mi I ni tie hack porch where Wednesday m ruing two empty laudanum bi.tti-'s were found. It was learned We hies lay that she had purchased tlies.' two bottles, each from a ditTer>iit druggist, on one of her trips to Main street on Tuesday morning. bet ween J and J o'clock Wednesday moniing her sister, who s'eeps with was ..wakene!! by Her feurfui ^Kms and 1 ?r. (iuerry was hastily ^^aiois'ii. All that could be done ir t lie unfortunate girl proved of no ava.ll, and she died about 7 o'clock. 'I he coroner held the inquest at the residence at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning. ti.rs.,Coward and l-'ishhurnc, who assisted fls. tiuerrv. testified that I loath was duo to'ofwnm poisoning-I Mr. and Mrs. Jamison wefe'TrisoJjenrd. j their test itnony coinciding wit h t ftcL story as already told. Tltc jury rendered a vcrdiot in accordance with the facts. The motive for the deed is hard to Ascertain. Those who knew the youn>? woman claim that suicide had been her monomania since early childhood. Once when very young she saw a woman shoot herself and the idea of death being made easy by self-destruction seems t > have seized upon her mind. Not long ago, when a prominent young physician was found dead in his armchair. Miss l'arhani bitterly deplored the fact that the accident had not happened to herself instead of to another. Another tlmory is that she dreaded death from consumption a disease which has fat tally attacked many of her family. The body will he taken to I'nion Friday morning by the brother and sister. It is Xint ti Wife. I*pun the complaint of his alleged eighth wife, formerly Mrs. Mary A. Parker of Piattshurg, Mo.. Christian b. Nelson, alias Capt. A. N. Freeland, alias John Anderson, alias Nelson Porter. was arrested at a hotel at San \ntonia. Texas. Friday, while in company wit h a woman, claimed to he his ninth wife a Mrs. A. E. Milhurn, whom lie married at Fort Se >tt Kas., two weeks ago. Nelson admits that he is wanted in several States and it is charged that lie lias undivorcod wives in Los Angeles. Cal., Portland, Ore., Plattsblirg. Mo., Fort Scott. Kas., Salt Lake City, i'tah, St. Paul,! Minn., and at other points. He is about in years old. rather good look-' ing, well dressed and speaks withal slight accent. The State says this, much riehlv married charmer annears! I<> lie the same concerning whose marriage to a lady connected with Sumter people so much was published a few months ago. ller Weight In Silver. A Herman paper reports a singular freak of paternal Ulierality in the matter of a wedding dowry. On the betrothal of his daughter Herr Ibiehatsneek had announced that he would give her, as a marriage portion, her weight iu silver currency. Accordingly, on her wedding day, the bride was formally weighed in the draw ing room, iu the presence of the assembled guests, before proceeding to church. The bride turned the scales at 140 pounds, a sack was at once tilled with silver crowns to the same weight. The exact number ot' crowns was 13,.100, alKiur *2,Sou. Tliey <#oi Married. A. I>. Itaiuwater and Miss Melisa Toney were united in marriage at Kairhurg, (la., Thursday, the Itcv. T. J Dodd performing the ceremony. It. was a Gretna Green affair, and hut few knew that the young couple were ( contemplating such astcpt. The bride4 is a sister of Hditor Toney of the Campbell News, and the groom Is employed in the Newsofllee. I loth of' them being compositors in the otllce of the News and being constantly associated in their work an attachment followed. \ AWFUL TAX ON BAD ROADS. Wliy It Is Cheaper to Have <>ood IIoiuIn than Biul Ones. The following article, showing the awful tax imposed on farmers by bad roads, was written by I'rof. W. F. Massey of the A. and M. College, for the good roads edition of the Charlotte News and Observer: It would seem that 110 argument would be necessary to convince any one of the great l>enetit to be secured to the whole community, and especially to the farmers from the construe- ! tion of good roads. And yet there is 1 no class of the community that inure I quickly opposes any special tax for the ; making of such roads than the farm-, ers. The fact is that the farmers of , the whole country are paving more I tax for keeping the roads had than would be required to make the best macadam roads every where. The taxes that are worked out in mending the roads and generally making thein worse, are but a small part of the tax. The great tax that the bad roads impose on the farmer are the wrecking of wagons, the weaving out of teams before their time, the awful waste of time in hauling half or fourth of a load when a full load could be hauled more easily on a good road. Add to this the loss of value on the farm liecause of the often impassable state of the roads. A farm on a good smooth road may not l>e worth a cent more for the production of crops than the one on a had road. Hut the one on the good road will bring several dollars more per acre Is sold, and is really worth more by reason of the less tax on it as shown above. Wagons break down, teams are worn out, time and temper are lost and the money value of these is hard to estimate. We once drove from Haleigh to Durham across Cabtrec east of Morrisvillc. For miles the road was a broad trench i of red clay, and the road menders had just been along as usual throwing, more red mud in the middle of the i road until It tinally got so heavy that ! our team pulled the doubletree in two, and we had to cut a sapling to mend it. t )n botli sides of this red mud trench the tieULs were macadamized with broken rocks ready for a road, and in some places the small rock were piled up along the roadside. And yet the road menders threw clay in ( the middle of the road while there ( were rock enough t<? till the whole road two feet deep and to have made , it good for a life tifhe. The mending was a tax simply thrown away, for it , made the road worse and Increased! the taxes the users were paying in wagons and team and time. There Is another matter connected | with good roads, and this is the getting free mail delivery, one of the greatest obstacles to tiie development of the free mail delivery Is the condition of most of our countrj* roads during a larger part of the year. The free delivery <>f the mail daily would put the farmer in touch with the worlds would enable him to have his j ( daily paper and to mail letters more frequently. Hut lie lives on such a miserable trail called a road that the mill n i"intwil \ w? nsitjilvllchnrl ginim nrv one would undertake it for the small pay allowed for sueh routes. Then, plenty of busincjft^wwt- * in all our totfttS?wfiiV NvToTHi like to have homes in the country to which they could drive in the evening, but t he roads in most places are so bad that they stay in town and the lands remain unsold and unimproved as the town merchant would improve his home. Farmers from off the improved roads of Raleigh township come into Raleigh with a quarter or half a cord of wood on a wagon, when on the hard roads they could easily haul a cord, and 1 have often wondered if the time of these men is worth anything to t hem. In the city we see the draymen trotting alioul with four bales of cotton on a one horse wagon, and the horse pulls them easily. Then we see the farmer coming in with a single bale on a one horse wagon or two bales on a two horse wagon. It takes the time of one man to haul a bale where the city drayman hauls four, and the farmer could haul four if the roads were good. All this tax of wear and tear of team and waste of time has to be paid for out of the cotton, and though he may not seem to feel it at the time, in the long run ilie farmers pay a heavier tax for having bad roads than it would cost 4dm to have them made good. l>owu in Mississippi the other day a farmer hauled forty bales of cotton on one wagon, The load weighed lt>,H18 pounds and was pulled by eight yoke of oxen. < >n the roads of Meeklenburg a pair of horses hauls ton bales wmill I ? * ?l l\ I * 'II I ill iut' llllllll K I il.N the oxen in Mississippi. Around Ualcigh the farmers oiT the hard roads would take forty days to haul that forty bales of rot ton with one horse or power equal to forty horses ou the big Mississippi wagon. The ability to get a big load to market when the price is good would often pay the farmer's taxes for good roads for years while he is hauling la is little one bale to tonu on a falling market. There is no one tiling for which the farmers of the country pay a heavier tax than for bad roads, and yet they are the last people to realize It. They are in the ruts badly In most of their farming, and we will never have the development we should have in farming itself until we have good roads to the farms and get business men to make homes In the country and carry with them their business habits to make the farms more productive, tlood farming and profitable farming depend on good roads iuorc than any other feature, for If we cannot get our crops to market economically there is a great deal of the protit of farming taken off In tax of roads. Burglar Shot arid Killed. One burglar was shot and killed and i another wounded by policemen at i lVeksklll. N. Y., early Wednesday.' The men had broken Into the hard-1 ware store of Durham brothers, and seen by two policemen. The burglars { tired two shots at the policemen, one of whom returned the tire. The dead man Is Clarence Outhhousc, 31 years old, of Peekskill. His companion, who is under arrest, refuses to give his j name. MTJRDERED FOR MONEY. The Kxplniintlon of the disappear- . A , unco of Fifty Men. John Welsh, a white man, who has been implicated by allegation by Mattie Dennett, the negress leader of the gang of robbers and murderers which has been operating at Beaumont, Kb Texas, was carried toBaumont Thursday, having been arrested at Houston on the strength of the woman's confession. Welsh denies complicity in the murders, lie was an iron mo'.1der employed in the foundry where Benjamin Pearson, one of the inur- 111a dered men, woiked. I n Jiflj^the Ren- riv nett woman talked freely to a repot- of ter. She confessed everything ex- cei cept direct murder, and went fully sot into the details followed by the gang, ex "Th" business has been ftoing on '>ai for six months," said she. "The men ^ would go out to the saloons and street ... corners and find men that had money. . They would bring them to my house ^ and I and the other woman would . give them tieer with knock-out drops L' , in it. Then tiie men would either beat them up there or rob them or take them out inta the hobo yard. I don't * know how many men I have druci/ed too many to remember, and all of them r were robbed. "I don't know what ^ them folks that I've told the sheriff (j ? about will do to me. 1 know I am safe in jail now, hut if ever I get out Qa they will kill me, if any of 'em .are alive and are out of the penitentiary * then." * The Nechcs river where five bodies of supposed victims of the gang wore ^ found, skirts the town of Beaumont. ' It is about 1.10 feet wide and 30 feet s^n deep. In some places swamps run . hack. A body thrown into the swamps !! stands small chance of being found. It it is true that tifty persons have ^ disappeared from Beaumont, this may he tlie solution of the mystery of the . missing bodies. The case in some of its features reealls tlie -Bender family "wa murders in Labette county, Kans., . thirty years ago. ^(n opi itidiiiK to Their Itnln. ^j] A Washington dispatch says the say Democrats are rejoicing over the seri- tlie aus threats of disruption in tlie ranks It i of their Republican friends. It looks say very much as if the Democracy will -t stand a chance of winning the house anc in tho elections tills year. The trouble It v seems to l>e that if the party is divided Col Into sections which cannot agree as to wh< whose benefit the government is to lie of t run for. In congress there Is a split wei between the sugar interests on Cuban woi reciprocity which has lined up the the parly in two bitterly opposing fac- age lions and caused a merry riot in the Jai party caucus. In New York ttiere is the i strong feeling against the president aw; for his independence of Wall street. < whose magnates have heen set. at Tin naught. There is a chance Of Demo- acr; cratic success in tlie Ktnplre sta}^. 'six l'latt and (>'Dell are trying to_ patch pus up the breach, ln'all of t:n> western p<?s states there is great f Ting against par tlie administration f .r its pro-British is t sympathies and Urtperialistic tendon- Wa cles,.atui the^erman and Irish vote the there is very large. The trust inter- wit ests are mad, the tariff reformers are eig mad. the "America for Americans" in Th tli north and west tire made, there gut are local tights and disturbances every- the where, and it looks jus if the Republi- abl c;m party is about to ride to ruin. A ing big tight will he made by the party rot t ) i i c ciimmAi* B ? ' ..no .<wiii4jii i iu imiu i 11c iHiUMe, anil aIl( big contributions arc to l>o called for. Kired I nto n Car. Strike sympathizers at Norfolk, Va.l Stt threw bricks and then tired a pisto riv shot into a street car at the line of Sal the city limits at 10 o'clock Thursday titi night and l'rivatc Bailey of Co. M. the Km porta. Va., was wounded in the jur right thumb. The same shot caused to. a large piece otglass to strike Sergeant by C.arr. Co. 1. Franklin, Ya., and cut tin Iris face severely, causing the services Ws of a physician to be called in. At the liei same time the shot was tired, several for bricks were trown into the ear and as Private Ihirgess, Co. I. was struck on Th the knee anil painfully injured. The riv car was stopped and the soldiers jus chased several persons who were run- in. ning away. Five shots were tired and saf two men in the crowd stopped. They Tli were .1. F. Until and .lolin Olive. The wa men were searclicd but no weapons wli were found. They were taken to the th< ear barns and kept under guard all tui night. They will he brought to Nor- dri folk in the morning for a hearing. er;i Ciml Miner* Strike. f'1 | ] About 400 coal miners struck at j..j Norton. Va., coal mines of the Virginia, Coal. Iron and coak company, Friday. They demand recognition of r the union. A posse of deputy mar- (j(1. shalls brought to Bristol William Webber and John lladdow, organizers of the miners union. They claim to Ih; from IVnnsylvania and it is stated j,^v that they came to this section to or- sjM guni/.c the miners. They were arrested on the charge of receivers of | no tlie Virginia Coal, Iron and Coke company. The men will he taken tlll to Lynchburg. They decline to -j-j, A special from Bristol, Tcnn., fur says: Since t lie at/est of these men it is believed that trouble with the miners will he avoided. General quiet r prevails, but the mines are still being (Ja guarded. A part of the mines are Ha closed for t lie present while others are pre running light. thi I'altl lor IIin Children. A dispatch from El. Paso. Texas. j u says M. L. Hiddlc, the father who lost t (), three children in the recent wreck on 'p(] the Southern Paeilic, left for Ked- t)l( lands, (Jul., in company with his wife for and only one child, aged live years, after accepting a check for ten thousand dollars from the railroad company < as payment in full for his damages. hai eri Sit Sawn In a l*to. wp A dispatch from Aberdecm, Miss., Gr says the Will Lanier case continues cei to develop interesting incidents.Thurs- ly day night at ? o'clock, while officers tits John Harmon and Joe Pope were on isli guard, a little girl brought the in condemned man a pie from ids a 1 mother, which when opened by the dr; guards developed six little steel saws. E\ WHO ISvlTV Partly Decomposed Corpse Found in the Edisto River. 30ME THINK IT 18 WARREN 1 ivelopm and Weapons Indicate I That it In the Bold Kxpretn Robhcr But Proof is W Vet Lacking. i The fully-dressed body of a white 1 in was found Friday in the Edisto I er below Hranchville, one-quarter a mile from where the safe was reltly left by robbers. On his peri were found a number of addressed ^ pressed envelopes and two money A Ks with money in them. Two piss were buckled U> the body and a rtridgc l>elt with cartridges it it. rtow Warren's friends who have ^ n the body say they think it is his. |')w? I \l 1.* /loe/'fi It? Knt /.# ? ,? v ?> '\ij nvov uucvi in uuau VII il U1QII medium size. 5 feet 8 inches tall, B ly dressed and well dressed. The ole hotly is slightly decomposed, face not being recognizable. The n had a fuli'set ofgood teeth except it one of the upper front teeth is d tilled. tie had a full lieard. Of ; express envelopes, one was ad- to sssed to J. Warren Stratton, Athens. J one to I). M. Degolia,. Augusta, ' ^ .; one to Booth & Batman, Athens, and there was some kind of i ikagc addressed to C. D. Dukes, # 1 .mall's. 8. C. There wcrp two plsr I s. one a Smith & Wesson, five-Inch J pre), the other a .'18-callbro Colt's, 1 -Inch .barrel. He had a oheap |fl sonia watch. There were two money rs found in liis pockets and each ttalned soinp money. This money i not described. B The Inxly was found by Cornelius t at Minus' landing, Colleton counThere is a difference of opinion to the exact point where the body s found, whether it was below or ?vo the spot where the safe was nped into the river, but the best nlon is that it was one-quarter of a A e below. Those who know Warren V that from the articles found upon A \ body the Indications are all that B s Bartow Warren. The teeth, they B , indicate that it was Warren. t.very close inspection of the body A I papers lias not yet been made, as I ras pulled from the river on the Hj leton side and left on the bat k. ere it will have to wait the arrival ^^B :he coroner of thatc ninty. Th :re J^B| e no evidences of deatfKrrt m B inds of any kind. The date. i postmarks of the letters and could l>e deciphered was 27, the night of the sou ti<gmpnnTrTh?taki^HHH^BB| express safe. Jne eye and bait of t be face is c body Lad on blue coat and ! nark check pants, and a number shoe. (>n account of the docomitipn of t lie ixxiy it could not be itivcly identified, but from what ties say it is almost certain that it he body of Bartow Warren. If not irren it is almost certain that it is body of one of the men. connected h the express robbery near Fiftylit on the night of January 27th. c inquest has not l>een held and a ird will be loft with the body until i coroner arrives. The most reasone theory advanced is that in cross; river after dumping the safe, the ibcr. weighted by the heavy pistols 1 cartridges was drowned. IT WAS WAllKKX. \ dispatch from Branchville to The ite says the lx?dy found in the Edisto er Friday morning was taken out 'urday morning and positively, idened as the body of Bartow Warren, >ugh the verdiot'brf the coroner's y was that the man vyas unknown lliem and that he came to his death accidental drowning. Every one it has seen this tjrxly and knew irren during.life, positively identi1 it as being liis lx>dy. The pistols 1 md on the body were also identified Warren's property. lore was a camp tixed just across the > er from wh jfe the body was found it large enough for one man to sleep gffjM This was in sight of where the fijfl e was tied ou the.night of Jan. 27th. Hj ie supposition now is that Warren |H s at this cam01 watching the safe len the officers found it, and seeing were pretty close ano fearing capre, tried to swim the river and was JH iwned in the attempt.' It wak genilly liiouglit that Warren was at j head o ' lx>th of the express robries which occurred near Fiftyk'ht. A UhaMly Find. l'he Greenwood Journal says the id body of an unknown negro boy, parently nlxiut sixteen years of age s found Wednesday morning under i platform of t lie C. & W. C. depot. ident.lv lie had crept under this liter to sleep and died, either from ; cold or some disease, there being marks of violence anywhere on his rson. No one recognized the fea-es of the unfortunate creature, tc hoy had been dead, undoubtedly, several ULPVC Smokele** Coal, i'he Somerset Smokeless Coal and ke Company has been organized at .rrlsburg, l'a. The new company >P'?ses t<? supply a quality of coal it. when handled hv competent tire* n, will be almost free from smoke. ie company has 125 acres of eoal id near Merlin, l'a., and about 300 is of coal a day are now being mind, ic coal is found at 50 feet beneath ? Surface and is said to be of a difent quality from the ordinary coal. A Unite Hanged. >liver (Ircer. a negro boy, was aged at Anderson Friday for a minal assault committed upon a lite lady near Melton last I>ecember. eer was cool and appeared uncon ned as to bis fate, and talked freeto all visitors. He acknowledged i guilt and that he deserved his pununcut. The execution took place the Jail yard at 11.19 und there was urge crowd of both white and black, awn there by a morbid curiosity, crythlwg passed olf quietly.