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The Batesburg Advocate. YOL III. BATESBURG, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8,1903. NO 10. REMARKABLE SCENE.' Senator Ben. Til man's Rctact to Senator Redfleld Proctor ON THE FLOOR OF THE ?EN. TF.! I The SpriiiutU-Ul, Mums., It? |iiili]icnii j StrettMOM the Incident lo ilic lMtotdvantage ut'tlie Mew Knglunder. A remarkable episode Is embedded in the Congressional ltecord of January 29. Let us observe the scene it presents. The senator from Vermont, Mr. Proctor, had the Hour, lie is a fair representative of New England. Debating with him was the senator from South Carolina, Mr. Tillman, who happens to be more associated in the public mind with the defense of lynch law than any other senator. Senator Tillman has often justified violent acts toward the negro race. These facts tend to make the encounter between New England and South Carolina on the Hoor of the sen ite impressive, for the subject under discussion was peculiarly an issue of lawlessness and even savagery. The senator from New England bad read to the senate the statement by Capt. Cornelius M. Hrownell. late captain of Co. K. 2t?th volunteer infantry, confessing and justifying his act in torturing to death the insurgent Filipino priest known as Father Augustin. The statement was read in full, and the remarks that followed were made with full knowledge of Capt. Hmwuell's declarations. Hrownell gave a detailed description <>f the torture which is absolutely forbidden by the articles of war under which lite Hit ted States army is governed during hostilities, and which the world regards as a crime against civilization. Some extracts may serve to show the character of Capt. Hrowiull's operations: Knowing that there was on deposit i in the city of Iloiloa large sum of f money awaiting Ins order at the mercantile house of lloskv 11 Co., the banking houses of c.ie Ilong-kong and Shanghai banking corporation, and the Iianquo Kspanol, 1 insisted that lie would be obliged to deliver orders for this money to me. The time given him having expired without result, he was brought into my presence and that of other officers and enlisted men and told that he nuum uiiuuiuiut'u aim me water cure administered until he aceedcd to my request. The water cure was administered for a short time. lie still insisted that it belonged to the pope at Home The cure was continued. Under this physical torture, which was applied three times, the priest linally signed the orders lor the payment of the money which was in the various hanks. Hut Capt. Hrownell was not satisfied. He then demanded that the priest disclose the hiding place of one ljuintin Salas. Now came the final tragedy, which under any possible interpretation of military law was murder: He (the priest) was in a dejected I mood, despondent, thoroughly discouraged. He told me that lie hud better be dead, and wished lie might die. . . . 1 give him until a certain hour to consider whether he would disclose this hiding place or not. At tlie expiration of this time lie declined to disclose Salas' whereabouts. 1 finally ordered that the cure lie ; again administered to him and stepped into an adjoining room. In a very short time ... I was warned by a disturbance in the room where the prisoner was that some-! tiling wasj wrong and upon entering j the room the man was dead. Never, of course, was there a clearer case for a physician in determining the cause of a death. Father Augustin died under torture. Yet, according to Capt. Hrownell's statement, the! post surgeon immediately came in. : looked at the corpse, and decided that the priest had died from "fatty degeneration of the heart, and from complete collapse and mental anguish ; over the exposure of Ills criminal life." : That was the surgeon's little joke, l?nt It was of the sort of humor that may best be described as mockery. Now, the Cnited States senate, having heard all these facts as related by Jlrownell, was then a listener to this remarkably prcverted or remarkably impudent expression of the captain's views on his own case: The water cure was administered by my order several times to different i natives. ... 1 do not and never have believed it cruel or barbarous in any manner, and whenever it became necessary, hi my judgment, to administer it, the men chosen tor that duty ! were chosen with a view to having ! only intelligent, careful, humane men perform the operation. Senator Kedtleld 1'roc tor when the | reading had ended, stood on his feet j and said: "I propose to make a defense of Capt. Mrownell. In his position lie was fully justified in taking any steps he saw proper for the safety of his command. Father August in mit;hf have been tried by a drumhead courtinartial and shot or hun^r." And tliat was New England speaking in defense of hideous torture, which resulted in murder, as a means of warfare. l'p arose whom? The senator from South Carolina, and he aimed at the New Hollander a thrust that should have cut to his soul: "Tf the senator will permit me, I , have only to say that for the honor of the American republic unci the honor of the American army, 1 would to Cod Father Auguslin had been shot hy older of a drumliead court martial rather than be tortured to death to get the money from him." It may ??e repeated that this was a remarkable scene in the United States senate. A New Etiglanrier justifying both torture and lawlessness in the army; a South Carolinian, who often defends lynch law at home, rebuking with withering irony and crushing f.-rce the New England "conscience.*' Mr. Proctor'shold defense ol Hrownell was an abomination which assails the whole structure of law and order, not to say simple humanity, in his own country; and it seems like an inspiration that of all senators Mr. Tillman should have faced the Vermonter with thai terrilic retort. Sprlugticld (Mass.) Republican. A BIO FES. A Voting Kentucky lutwycr Who Sii-iick It Itich. A young Kentucky lawyer, Captain C. C. Calhoun of Lexington, has recently grown rich from a single fee. Captain Calhoun, as the special at tor ney for the stale of Kent ucky, recently delivered to the slate authorities a eertilied check on the United States treasury for The Louisville correspondent of the Chicago Chronicle says: "lie got the money due to the state for equipping union soldiers during the civil war. A year ago Captain Calhoun, a poor, but bright yoking lawyer, appeared before Coventor lteckham and said that much money was due the state from the government. The governor said: 'All right. Calhoun, I'll appoint you to represent the state and if toi collect you may get a fee of 10 per cent. Young Calhoun was without fun Is. hut he set to work at his ti?k and spent, many months in Wash.ngton looking through musty records of the civil war claims. After weeks of tedi us v ork he secured facts and guides which proved that the government did owe the commonwealth of Kentucky the amount named. He then set to woik to have the claim allowed. The proof was so positive tint he succeeded in having t lie claim included in the general deficiency bill, which was passed by congress and signed by the president last week, and Captain Calhoun's fee, which will be paid to him, amounts to $K12,400. Captain Calhoun has just married and will purchase a big blue grass farm near Lexington. He will continue to practice law, however " Torn Stumps Not UihkI. The postofllee department l)as under preparation a small book, to be issued to patrons of the postotllecs throughout the country, which will contain a great amountof information regarding the business of the postotlice whleh is not generally known. The book will he, in a measure, a hook of instruction as to hitw to transact business with the p tstortice. One of the things to he treated will lie the use of mutilated stamps on letters. It is not generally known to users of postage stamps that a torn or defaced stamp cannot he used. Persons who have torn stamps in their possession have been in the habit of pasting the two pieces together and thus placing it on a letter. Phis is prohibited in the postal regulations, and the person who uses such a stamp runs the risk of not having his or her letter delivered. Sometimes the stamps are so well repaired tiiat the tear escapes detection, hut should the rent in the stamp lie found by tlie postal otlleials it is of no value. The hook will also contain information regarding tlie registry and money order systems. A New lltver HohI. Mr. \Y It. Smith Whaley and other ottiecrs of the Olymphia, (iranhy and Itichland cotton mills and also connected with the Columbia and Gecrgetown steamboat company, have closed a contract with the Stevens Merrill engineering company of Jacksonville, Fla.. for the construction of $4U,00U. steel-hulled freight l>oat to be ready by November 1. The boat will lie used for carrying cotton goods to Georgetown for shipment to northern points and it is estimated that freight rates will lie reduced from II cents per hundred to :iu cents per hundred. The tniat will l?t* ;t double-decker, having a capacity of 200 bales and draw three fed of water. The name will be Washington A. Clark after the president of the Carolina National hank of this city who has always been prominently identified with Columbia's progress. A Cruel I'raclice. Docking horses, cutting their tails otl?, is an ahominnl habit anions fashionable people in the large cities. The Societies for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals often cause the arrest of poor men dependent upon their daily labor for a living, who are found driving a bruised or sore horse or witli too heavy a load on the wagon, but we have never heard of their causing the arrest of a fashionable man or woman for driving a bobtailed horse, deprived of his best, defense against pestiferous dies. 'I'liey ('an Strike. A dispatch from St. Louis says the injunction issued March :t, by Judge Kliner It. Adams of the United States district court, at the instance of the Wabash Uuilro.nl company otlieials to restrain the Itrolhcrho ids of liuilway Trainmen and firemen from ordering a strike on ttiat system, was dissolved Wednesday in a decision handed down by Judge Adams, a week after the hearing of arguments for and against the removal of the legal obstacle. WARMLY WELCOMED The Charleston People Receive Sen tor Tillman With Open Arms A BATCH OF YOUNG DOCTORS. Tlii' Senator Itellveiw (tie Annual Ai tlroHM at tint ( militating Kxcrclues In a liiirui; nnil 10 rilliunaKtic Audience. Senator Tillman had a bit; t ime I Charleston last week, lie nrrivi there Wednesday having tf.?nc for tl purpose of delivering I tie address ; the e Hnineneetuent exereises of tl South Carolina Medical college Thur day night at the academy of must lie was met at the depot by Dr. K. I Darker, 1 he dean of the faculty Mayoi Smyth and Mr. Henry 1*. Wi liams, cashier of the Carolina Savin* bank, who entertained him at h handsome home on Hist Mattery. Th senator was driven directly to M Williams' home, lie received a nun of callers during llie day and w,i taken for a drive over the city an suburbs by Mayor Smyth Widncsda afternoon. 1 le was asked for a statement on tli issues of the day, especially the a| pointment of the neg o collector of tli port and other matters on which li would be expected to talk, but li turned the newspaper men down con pletely, saying that he would have t he excused from being interviewer lie explained that lie had come I Charleston in resp ?nse to the invita ! tlou of the college, and tli attentio I which was being shown him was a j very much appreciated, but lie pr? I ferred not to make any public state 1 ments at this time. Senator Tilltna ; was t be guest of Mayor Smyth at private dinner Wednesday evening ?i the Charleston hotel. Only a fe i specially invited friends and the men ' hers of city council were present. Senator Tillman was taken in special trolley Thursday to the Chat lesion navy yards, being accotnpanie 1 by the park commissioners and ;i nimi i her of the aldermen and the mayo. He manifested much interest in tli work. He expressed the opinioi | however, that he did not think tha ' tlie contractors were making the pre per progress but l*e added that the | probably knew their business bette I than himself. The senator refuse ! all other invitations for entertain ments Thursday exnlainimr that n j needed rest to have him in lit rood I tion to speak. On Thursday night the annual con meneement exercises of tjie Medic: j College of South Carolina were hek , when the degree of doctor of medicin ; was conferred upon twenty men an two women, doctor of pharmacy o one candidate and diplomas of gradu; tion in pharmacy on twenty-tw young men. The exercises were t , more than the usual interesting chai J acter on account of Senator Tilhna delivering the annual address. The Academy of Music seats 1,00 people, hut the building was inadc (plate to accommodate the crowd an many people were turned away fror the doors. The graduating classc were not only very large this year, hi, were also noted for their excellcr I scholarship. The exercises were or cned with an invocation liy llev. I) .1. A. 11. Schcrcr of St. Andrew Lutheran church. The annual repoi I of the dean, Dr. F. L. Darker, wj then read, after which Maj. Theodor it. Darker of the hoard of trustee; conferred the degrees, presenting tii certificates to the following graduate; firaduates in medicine: Drs. t?. 1 Ackerman, Cottagcville; J. W. Duri Charleston; E. 1'. Carter, Ehrhardl 11. M. Carter, Smoaks; F. C. Clark.C< lumliia City, Ind.; J. 1*. Dul're, M l'leasant: F. M. Duram. Hlackstocl W. 10. lOhrich, (ieorgetown; T. 1 Hogg, Thomas F. Johnson, Cliarle: tori; J. C. Lawson, Darlington; M. I >ic.miitan, cnarlesion: M. i?. Mauldii l'lckens: F. .1. Mckinley, Mount lMea ant:.I. (1. McMaster, Winnshoro; A K l'rentiss, Charleston: 1>. L. Sinitl Anderson; T. C. Stone, Greenville; . F. Townsend, Jr., lid is to Island; .s . M. Wyle. Chester. (Graduates In pharmacy: Ralph II Haer, Anthony 1\ Keckman, Franc I!. Hold, David J. Burns and K. . Conner, Charleston: Alex Clyde K lerhe, Conway; J. Leonard llogai Hid^eway; Benjamin Franklin M Lend, Clio; Crocket II. Mc.Murraj Lancaster; George I>. Merritt and > B. Monsen, Charleston: Hughes A j Moorcr, St.Georges; Manning L.Ne son and O. L. Owens, Charlestoi Dan L. Shielder, St.Georges; Andre M. Smith and Lrnest K. Smith. Cha lesion: J. Henry Stonecypher, Wes j minster; J. (!. Wannainaker, J r (frangeburg; II. L. Wecker, Cha lesion, and IF Sumter William j Sumter. Doctor of pharmacy; .1. 1 lerhe ' Burnam,Charleston. The college cup was then present* I to Dr. W.J. Smith hy l'rof. For re: and the medal for pharmacy to Mr. ( 1 M. McMurray hy l'rof. Allard Men ' mincer. The medal for practical woi in pharmacy was presented to Mr I II. Baer. The valedictories wen* pa j tieularly pleasing elTorts, hcing deli ered hy Messrs. Mckinley and Luc: of the medicine and pharmacy classe i respectively. Senator Tillman then delivered tl annual address, speaking on Hie nice cal profession. II i^ address was i ; especially line one and he was givt . interested and close attention lliroug out. lie was well received and w generously applauded. I The tirst six honor men in medicine * aire L>rs. \V. J. Smith. Clark, Ackerman. Khrich, McMillan and Prentiss. The last two are women. The honor a" graduates in pharmacy are Messers. McMurray, Williams and Haer. T1I.LMAN IIANQUKTTED. Senator Tillman was entertained in Charleston Friday uijflit- at one of the most elaborate banquets ever given in Charleston, at wiilcli he received a .1- tremendous ovation. He was most ihierally appla* d d throughout his s'leech, which like all ids utterances, was right to the point. As The News and Courier puts it lie tore t|;u hark ulT. He went back into recent political history and told of the conditions, In which lie considered grave that it fj was necessary to organize a farmt rs' ie movement: o that men who p ild the expenses of I he State should operate it, " and then lie turned to Ids experiences, ie political an 1 otherwise, with tiie peos pie of Charleston, c. Expressing great love and admiration for the town, lie said it was neees sury ior me younger element to pull ^' together to regain the commerce which is now going to other ports. Is He took oil the gloves in speifeing of 's t lie sclfwhorship of i he city and de1C clarcd that if Charleston ever adr vanced it would be through the effort '* of the men with whom he was dining IS Friday night. Touching on the Crum app lintinent he said that it had been y made, that the negro was put into one of the most important Federal " * otllces and that it was best to keep harping 0:1 the matter and wait until ie the next session of tlie Senate, when 1C every power would lie used to have ,e him rejected. A DREADFUL ACCIDENT. I. o | II) \\ Site! Two .Men Are Hilled liy un ti A11tnmnl.U0. ..I / Count Fallot Zlmrowski of New York .. t was killed Wednesav in an automobile 11 n i liill climbing race between Nice and it La Turbie in France. Ills chaffeur, vv j Huron de I'allange, was seriously ini jurcd. The accident occurred during one of lite trials along what is known\ | as the cor niche stretch. .Just at the , moment the vehicle reached an abrupt d I angle the car struck a small rock in L" the pathway, causing a sudden swerve >' which precipitated the two men ie against a wall. Zborowski appears to i. have struck headtLrst, as his skull was t smashed in by the violence of the >- shock. Although the baron was also y ; hurled against the wall he did not f i strike on his head. The body of Count d ( ZborowsWS was brought to the chapel - of his chateau here and his wife was e ! notified. When she arrived at the I chapel an affecting scene took place. ! The trip Wednesday was the tirst t- Zborowski had made over tlie route d and lie was not acquainted with its 1> dangers. His machine was going at |l! a speed of ho kilometres an hour at d the time of the accident. 11 Karon de Fallange. who acted as i- Count Ziborowski's chaffeur, died '?? Wednesday night of tlie injuries he re>f I ?i?i ...?? - n ivni \> i! 1*11 iic was inrnwn imm inc r* car. The witnesses of the start of 11 the race say that Zborowski showed considerable nervousness while await'0 ! Inn his turn. Imprudently, he wore j - 1 white kid gloves, which prevented d him from having a linn grasp of tlie n j break. At the signal to go, he start's ed at half speed, which was soon iTilt creased to full speed. The accident 't occurred at the first turning of the >- road. The shock was teiritie and r- Zborowski was shot from his car and s struck the wall beside the road with "t j his head about six feet from tlie i-s ground, lie fell to the ground dead c ins arms outstretched. Baron de t I'allange was thrown t? the left. 10 j At the same instant that Count : Zborowski and Baron de Pallenge met ' their death, another accident occurred ' at another point on the road. The 1 chain of Baton (lastcux's automobile J- broke and the car was overturned C ; against the rocks. The baron and bis i: cliatTcur were thrown out. but both " escaped with severe bruises. s- 1 > ! l we of* 1 i?J unci inn*. j. | 1>. F. Bradly, president of tlie Iowa s-! college, submits to an Iowa paper two k. questions, as follows: 1. If a Judge may enjoin union labor from ordering I. a strike, why may lie not upon appli^ cation enjoin capitalists against reduction of wages, or oilier acts alleged to [t j be oppressive to labor? 2 If it is good is law for Fuitcd States courts to inter I. vene in behalf of interstate railroads II- why is it not good law for the same courts to redress grievan *es of employL-. es engaged in interstate commerce? , The Sioux City Journal in reply to 1. these questions says that "the obvious answer in both queries is that an in1 j junction in one ease would hi* just as i; I logical as in the ot her." And yet we w do not recall an instance where a fedr eral Judge has applied the writ of in j. | junction in this way to corporations. ? ' The Militia. f. Adjutant and Inspector-General j Frost Wednesday issued instructions 1 to the captains of all the military rl companies to have their uniforms and I supplies ready for the inspection of ,('1 the army olllcer who is expected here s' shortly, lie also instructed them to recruit the companies uo to tlieir full ^ ; strength. 05 men, which is thought | hy the adjutant generals of many iv' | states to lie too large. y_ I A Big strike. as j Ten thousand hituminous coal s. miners in Indiana are 011 strike Wednesday hut the operators and the ie miners' leaders believe a settlement li- will be reached before many hours 1111 through the intluence of John ;n Mitchell, who will confer with the h- operators. The operators contend as that the miners should accept last year's contract. * A BIO ST BIKE. Seventeen Thousand Cotton Mi Hands Quit Work. WANT5P * TEN ?E2, CSS7 iEIii ______ Wllicll WllH I t?'l*llM(*(l 1111(1 til Strike Followed. Tin; Cotton Industry of Lowell is I'arallzed. A hi^ cotton mill strike is on a , Lowell. Mass. A dispatch from llui j city to the Augusta Herald says Wet i in iMiaj iiioi iiiiik, mr i/iio ursi lime ) many, many yours, on working days the bells of the mills have failed t ring out their morning; call. Street which are usually marked by tlie rus and bustle of thousands of people Inn rying to their work, are almost dt sorted and a stillness pervades th mill district. Of the seven mill which have shut down four had prae tieally no help with which to operat their plants Wednesday if their bell j had pealed foi the call of labor. Seven cotton mills closed by strik j of 17,000 operatives, who demand {ten percent increase in wages. Kou of the mills are in good condition 11 | naneially. while the others are not These mills arc in a combine with tli others outside to keep down the wage.' I The operatives are proffered generou j aid from the other mills in oilier citie i and the A tuerican Federation cj Labor. The progressive citizen would h glad if the mills would no south an never reopen here. They are th curse of the city. The tion-residen owners keep out the other Industrie by controlling the sites and lite man uiticvnl water power. The prospcc is for a loon struggle. Tlte stat j hoard of atbilration lias tried in vaii j to etreet a settlement and will mak another eifort to compromise on tiv ! per cent increase if possible. ' In preference to linhtinn Llie textil j unions the agents of seven i?in cottoi mills ordered an entire suspension o , work for an indefinite period. Thes l anents have olllcially announced tha j a canvass of tlie help showed that up I ward of so percent, were non-union and were opposed to a strike. Thi | sentiment changed Saturday, an j when a second canvass was taken t | the loom tixers, spinners, carders 1 nappcrs. weavers and beamers it wa | seen that the textile council was abl I to fulfill its threat and strike in th j mills. Without delay notices of a shut (down, to take effect at once, wer posted on gates, and as piece band | completed their work they were toll to leave. When speed went down a noon Saturday fully 17,000 operative I had been forced into idleness. Th length of the shutdown is problemati eal, but is likely to last many weeks (as the unions Iriv.i l....m n nancial support from the United Tex tile Workers of America, the Nations Mule Spinners' Association, tli American Federation of Labor, am j from the local trades and laltor coui oil, < omposed of 45 unions. A Kent W. S. South worth, of th Massachusetts mills, secretary of th Manufacturers' Association, says tha if the mill people think that the shut I down will be for a fortnight they ar ! greatly mistaken. It will last, h says, until the agents are positive! ; told that all the operatives want t work, and when this time comes th agents will consider t lie matter < | resumption. President Conroy, c the Textile Council, who stands ;i the strike leader, says: "The action of the mill agents sin plities matters. They have simpl | anticipated us. If they had not dt dared a shut down we would hav tied them up, any way, and the know it. This makes it easier for i to handle the men. 1 can't say wha j will happen. There may be truubl >et." The shut-down will affect pritnaril the lt5,ooo and more operatives. In month many hundreds of operatic* i in small industries supplying materi; to the big mills will join the army i the unemployed, and the longer tl enforced idleness the greater the pa alvsis of industry here. The area covered by the Massac In setts, I toot t, Merriinac, Tremont, Su folk and Lawrence mills is about <>i mile in length by three-elghths of mile in breadth, bordering on the Me rimae river. The Appleton an Hamilton mills are nearer the ge< graphical center and are embraced i an area about half a mile square. Tl 1 product of these mills ranges from tl : coarsest of gray cotton to the finest < ! dress goods, going through all gradi of print cloths, sheeting, shirtiiij I sateens, nainsooks,dimities, blanket . toweling, table linen and silk-wai A.r. mi. i t ? --- h'khin. nit; weesiy payroll is *i;fs j uou. A Tangled Twine. In the court of common pleas ; Charleston Monday week Judge Wat issued an order requiring a negro la% ; yer named Tw ine to show cause wl ; lie should not be debarred from pra lice in the courts for un profession conduct. The attention of the eou i was called to Twine s methods in ll recent presentment of the grand jur It was charged that Twine had c deavored to get a number of ncgroi who were aceuseii of stealing terrap i to swear that the overseer of the te rapin farm had stolen the turtle Twine will have to show cause at tl opening of the next term or the cou and if he cannot satisfactorily defei himself there w ill he one colored la> i yer less at the Charleston bar. A SHOT THE TEACHER A Striking <)l>|cct L(ttson on Curry- ^ Ing t'oncvnled Weapons. A few weeks ago a teacher hi a ^ I school it) Spartanburg County shot * J and killed 11): of his pupils, and on j last Thursday a pupil in a school at ie Lawdcsviile in Anderson County shot ' and dangerously' wounded tl)e primti| pal of tlie school. A dispatch lrt.m 1 Anderson to The States gives the | particulars of the unfold un;He affair. The teacher, Mr. .1. F. Hamper, who ; Is the principal of the school a' Lawdesville, was shot twice by a' t A ' pupil named James Latimer, it sccnis 1- that the teacher had notice thai soiiio th ,, | of tlie large l?oys were going to absent i th ; themselves from school Wednesday on j fcf s | account of it !?eing All Fool's day and sei 10 ; warned them not lo do so. lit] ?s I The boys stayed away from school tu I] , as they had threatened and Thursday ov aiicnioou me lencnur Kept thorn in ; l>y alter school to punish them. lie be- j F? Kan on James .Latimer, a boy of 17 tit I? years, and Latimer produced a rod of wa iron from his clothing and began to set " resist. This was taken away from ? him, when he pulled a Smith \ Wes- of lS son pistol and c?pened lire on the exi toucher. of I' The lirst sh it hit a button on Mr. M; ,l Harper's coat and the bullet and but- toi r ton both penetrated the flesh. Tnen wi a second shot, was tired which struck th; a rib inflicting a flesh wound, it was kei e thought that Harper was rnortallyhurt un ' but the physicians say that his wounds del ls are not serious. Latimer fled. Young St; -1j Latimer is a son Mr. J. T. Latimer, a prominent merchant of Lawdesvillt ert and nephew of Senator Latimer. Four Mi 1 or tive hoys of about the same age spi were implicated in the affair. cot G t BOUND TO A RASCAL. "J. r? ss i . Tlic SiiiI IMiglii ul'a Young tail} in ^ arl Xew York. till " bu c The escapades of Nelson Foster tin e alias "Capt." A. N. Freeland of Sum- hq .. tor created quite a sensation a few 's 1 tio ii months ago when it was reported that f he had married and subsequently had fe( 0 deserted a wealthy New York young agi 1 woman. The sequel to that affair ap- of pears in the following in the New York St; '' Sun of Tuesday: thi * "Supreme Court Justice MacLean to 'J, refused Thursday to annul the mar- vai riage of Miss Kliza Herriman Wlckes. rei a niece of Augustus Van Wyck and in s ex-Mayor Van Wyck, to 'Capt.' A. ke e N. Freeland, otherwise known as Nel- shl e son Foster. on "Mrs. Freeland met the man on a agi " transatlantic liner and afterwards at e\| e her home. She was impressed by his liq * appearance of wealth and respectabili- tin (1 ty and Ids own representations con- tin 1 corning his antecedents. They were i to s married in (irace church a few months | ^ alter meeting. Mayor Van Wyek fev was at the we lding. Rumors concern- va " inK Freeland's past reached Mrs. Free- tin land's brother, and on investigation bu lie found them all well founded. An th< interview followed and Freeland disap- tin ^ pea red. It developed that he had ne, l' been a railway roadmastcr for years, cla was a widower with children and had tal i become a chevalier dlindustrie in oil e ! default of better employment. sic l' : "Justice Mac Lean says that he can- bu I j not tind grounds on the evidence ad- en ' duced which would warrant an annul- pa e ! ment. Freeiand's actions, *he says, e 1 may have been those of a scamp and a y j hypocrite, but do not come within ? | the provisions of the law under which na 0 marriagas may be annulled, l'crmis- sl> sion is granted to renew tlic suit on ^ additional evidence." Co us at t^uick JiiNticc. ye l" Cable dispatches told not long ago lo< >' how the Ameer of Afghanistan by a st< stroke of his pen cut down the harems av -t' of his subjects t<? four wives each. He fo >' h;us lieen administering some very sp ls | swift justice, too. Not long ago a na II : meat-seller in Kabul abused another na : man and taunted him altout his re- sh ! ligion. The otTender was brought be- It '-v j fore the ameer who straightway sen- uli a teneed him to be blown from the sti 's mouth of a cannon, which was done as pc l' soon as a nearby cannon could be load- th 'led. The same day four well-known Mi ,e robbers were brought before him. He ly r* had them put into iron cages and ac hung up in four prominent thorough- pi< tares a-, a warning and at l ist account ha r* t hev -or what is left of them -were wl Ie still there. a Kccnrtl <>l' liirttis and l>catliM. The Stale says the governor has v': "* , received a persanul letter from ex- 1" " Governor Merriam, director of the 11 census, in which it is urged that j South Carolina should aid the nation- 1,1 ' al government in the endeavor to keep s e >rrect and complete records of births k'- and deaths The mortality statistics of the government are shamefully in- ,v| accurate and the census department in compliance with a recent act of congress has written t lie governors of the States to aid in the otTurt to get , the data kept properly. The State 'J ts hoard of health has been working on I j v. this line for some time and the local j ,y hoards of health are said to have aet - . \ c. ed in a very reprehensible manner. 'J1 al The collection of these st itisiics may ' ' rl he of great value in the years to come. ^ ^ ItiotoiiM Striker.-:. Pl n- A strike among the factory workers s at Cohuar, Germany, Wednesday took in a serious aspect. The strikers formed pi r- a procession and marched through the pi s. streets. Soon a riot was rampant and st ie before the demonstrators could be tl rt quieted the police were forced to at id charge with swords and revolvers. v- Many of the strikers were wounded and ra three lalxir leaders were arrested. ai A SERIOUS M ATTER 9 The Dispensary Regarding Seizures of Contraband Liquor. [.11X3 OF REYE2UE OFFICERfcr ircr Half of the Cunt!seated Props ?rty is Tukcn hy tho IteprflM-ntutives of the Federal Govortmeni. The Columbia State says dispensary ioials are wondering what will be e result of Llie contention between > State of South Carolina and the leral government in regard to the 7.1 re of packages of contraband uor. If the matter Is allowed to 11 on as !t is now, the State will lo.->e er 50 per cent, of the liquor seized the cons'a hies. In the month of bruary, out of the seizures made hv u constables, $?100 worth of liquor us aflerwurds taken by the repreilalives or the federal government. Mr. II. 11. Crum, the commissioner the State dispensary, Wednesday l>laiucd the situation to a reporter The State. Up to the time when ij. Jenkins became collector of cusns, Mr. Crum iiad h: d an agreement Hi t lie federal officials to the effect it tile State was to be allowed to i'P all liquor seiz (1 by the constables less the liquors so seized were evititly sold in violation of the United ites revenue laws. Hut under a recent ruling the govlment's gauger at the dispensary, . A. S. Trumbo, is ordered to in?ct every package shipped in by the istahles and to seize all such as have l the names of well known and repible dealers as the parties from mm the stuff had been obtained. . Crum thinks this has been a very >itrary position for the federal auarities to take?for it throws the rden of proof on the State, when ? State is not interested in forsterC violators of the revenue laws, bub endeavoring to break up the operates of law breakers. During the month of January the ?; leral government, through its ents. relieved the State dispensary *.joo worth of contraband, for the ite could not, under the rulling of s department, prove its own right the packages. In February the luc of stuff turned over to the renue otlleers was even more than the month preceding. If this is pt up it will become a great hardIp on the dispensary system, for not ly does the dispensary lose the pack- v us, but is not reimbursed for the press charges paid on the seized uorg from the point of seizure to b State dispensary; and furthermore i State is hut hlr ng constabulary work for the government. The constabulary has for the past v years paid its expenses out of the lue of the contraband turned into big vats at the State dispensary, t the proportion of stuff taken by _ federal otlicers is 50 per cent, of a whole amount seized. Theattory general's ottice is urging Crum's iitn for the return of the liquors ken from the State by the revenue iclals. The dispensary commis>ner does not censure Maj. Jenkins, t says the latter is doing right to forec the urders of the treasury dertraent. Ate Any Old Thing. At Kalamazoo, Mich., six pounds of ils, screws, lead, iron, cartridge ells and other foreign substances 're taken from the stomach of Fred rrow, a Michigan asylum patient, post mortem examination. For ars Cerrow had walked about swalwing metal, lumps of coal, small ines and brick dust with great idity. The stomach contained the Mowing articles: One twenty penny ike, 4 inches long; 22 ten penny ils: T'J eight penny nails; 23 shingle ils. iso lient nails of various assorted :es, 2:? pieces of wire, 1 iron washer, inches in diameter; 4 suspender isps; IT assorted buttons; 120 small >ncs: 12 pieces of tin, 8 screws, upr halves of 3 twenty penny spikes, ree 32 caliber cartridges and 28 pins, my of the larger nails were partialdestroyed by the acids of tiie stomh. One large 4 inch nail, which 'reed tiie stomach, is believed to ve caused an abscess on his liver, lieli resulted in death. A Great t'hungo. In speaking of Senator Tillman's >n io < nariesion The 1'ost or that Ly says: "A year ago we were lookg for Roosevelt and making ready to * him honor, and all the time uttering curses upon Tillman for his imannerliness which threatened to leat us of our high guest. Now we e openly and loudly damning Rooselt and are cooking tine dinners for illman. So wags tlie world." Six Men Killed. A territlc explosion of gas occurred te Tuesday at the coal mine of L. P, urslial at Sandova Co. 111., resulting the death of six men and the terrie injury of live others. The dead e Prank Deroe, Joseph Trioshco, >hn Giacino, Jo.Bianco, Lafayette my, William Newhouse. One of ic wouned, Henry Wheeler, is not ex cted to recover. Too True. The Columbia State says: "The resident, the preident's wife, the resident's daughter, the president's m all of them must l>e followed by ic newspaper men and their every it reported to an anxious country. That a delightful inconsistent democtcy of royalty-lovers we Americans