University of South Carolina Libraries
: '?DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAfcl^HJR LIVES IN 'PHY POSSESSION HAPPY, OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." .]??_' . ? :'. VOL. XXVII. BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FMpAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1903. NO. 14. STATE CONVENTION. The Democratic Cmmittee Issued the Call For It on Tuesday Night. CAMPAIGN IN 8ECOND DISTRICT Tho Dates of tho Meetings in tho Several Counties anti 01 tlio l'rlinnricH Have Itcun Fixed. In compliance with the call issued recently the State Democratic execu tive committee met at the office of the secretary of ?tate Tuesday night of last week and made arrangements for the campaign in the Second dis trict and also for the meeting of the State convention. In the absence of any delegate from Sparenburg, Gen. "Wilie Jenes, chairman of the com mittee, read an invitation from that city, but on motion of Mr. T. B; Crews it was" decided to hold the State con vention in Columbia and Spartanburg's generous offer was declined with thanks. There was rmi te a large re presentation, very few counties being without committeemen on the floor. The following delegates were pre sent: Abbeville-A. W. Jones. Aiken-.1. M. I'olatty. Anderson-.1. 1'. Glenn. Bamberg-C. B. Erce. Barnwell-W. C. Smith. Berkeley-B. \V. Haynes. Chark sion -.lohn F. Riley. Cherokee--.lohn Q. Little. Chester-T. .J. Cunningham. Clarendon-W. C. Davis. Colle ton-J. W. Hill. Darlington-A. J. A. Bet ritt. Dorchester-John D. Bi ve ns. Edgelield-L. .1. Williams. Falrlleld-Thus. II. Ketch!n. Florence -D. II. Traxler. Georgetown--.?. W. Doar. Greenville -I. T. Austin. Greenwood-I). II. Magill. Hampton-M. H. Mcsweeney. Kershaw-.lohn C. Richards. Laurens-T. B. Crews. Lee-R. E. Carnes. Lexington- 1 >. .J. Griffith. Marion- .lames Stackhotise. Marlboro-W. D. Evans. Newberry-U. L. Blease. ( Iconee-.1. W. Shelor. Orangeburg-B. II. Moss. Bickens -W. T. Odell. Richland Wilie .Iones. Saluda-E. S. Blease. Spartanburg-L. Y. Bennett. Sumter - Altamont Moses. Union-.1. M. Greer. "Williamsburg A. H. Blackwell. York-.1. C. Wilborn and secretary Ja&^T. Barks. j nv. .bowing offered bv Mr. Magill '"A" convention- of- the- T>em?cfal"c ?.arty of the State of South Carolina is hereby called to meet in thc city of Columbia at 12 o'clock noon on May 18, 1004, for the purpose of electing delegates to the national Democratic convention, and to transact such other business as the convention may see proper. "Tile county chairmen throughout tile State are hereby Instructed lo call together their executive committees and order meeting of the clubs in their respective counties un Saturday, April 23, for the purpose of electing dele gates to the county convention tobe held on Monday, May 2nd, 1904, for the purpose of electing delegates to the Stale convention. Each county is entitled to twice the number of delegates in tins convention as it has members of the legislal ure." The resolution also carried a para graph providing for a primary in the Second congressional district on Tues day, the 10th of April. Butas this is a soecial and not a general primary ..'J-.v-as thought fair to all of the candi date^ l'?r the voting lu lie done on Sat?ralay as that day of the week is mort; satisfactory to the pe? pie in the rural clisVricts. Accordingly a resolu tion was Sadopted to appoint a com mittee of\ one member from each county In trie congress!* nal district to frame resolutions more explicit In their naturi und fixing tho primaries for Saturday.1 Instead ut* Tuesdays. The merni, the sub-committee were: M. B. M Sweeney of Hampton, Dr. W. G. Sui. >r Barnwell, C. 1! Free of Bamberg, .1. M. Bollatty of Aiken, L. .1. Williams of Eigelichl. E. S. Blease of Saluda, and Beaufort was not repre.suted. After some consultation the follow ing amendment to Mr. Magill's resolu tion was prepared and the resolution as amended was adopted by the exec utive committee: ,,( Thc commit tee,; com pi .sed of mem bers representing toe counties in Hie Second congressional district, respect fully recommend that the first primary for thc nomination nf a congressman to till the vacuity ) exist ing in the Second congressional district beheld on Saturday. April 2.'J I. And a second primary, if Hie nxtrfa bc necessary, be held on Saturday, May Tib. That the executive cnn, mit lees ol the various counties com psi ng abe Second con gressional district Itieet at their re spective court houses on thc Tuesdays following the primaries to tabulate the voles of their county. That the committee of the State executive com mittee shall mief on the Fridays following the primaries to tabulate the vote and declare thc results ol said primaries. That thc county chairmen of the counties composing this district ari. hereby instructed to assemble their respective executive committee and make all necessary arrangements for these primaries. The committee further recommends the campaign meet ings be held at the court house, county scats, of the various counties on thc dates hereiu afler named: April 5-Saluda. April 7-Edgelield. April 0- Aiken. April 12 Barnwell. April 1 1 Bamberg. April IO-Hampton. April ii? Beaufort. lt was decided tiiat the primaries should he held on Saturdays, the county executive com mittet s should meet on Tuesdays following, giving ample time for each precinct to bu heard from and the State committee, or its representative, on the Fridays following thc meeting of the county committees. As the Second district is Interested more than the rest, of the State, it was decided to let the special committee tabulate the vote instead of requiring the entire com mittee tu meet, and exGov. Mcswee ney, L. J. Williams (or his substitute), Titos. Martin, J. M. Pulatty, C. B. Free, Dr. W. C. Smith and E. S. Idease, one from each county in the Second district, were appointed with the addition ol 1>. II. Magill, A. W. Jones, 1). J. Ci ?mili and Gen. Jones as chairman. There being n?> further business the committee adjourued. As thc campaign in the Second dis trict closes on the ~>t,h of April, the last day for tilling the pledges with the Stale chairman will be at noon of April 4th.-The State. Trusts Destroy Individuality. In un ad dr. ss before the students of the college of the city of New York, W. II. Trucsdale, president of the Delaware, Lackawanna railroad, de scribed tbc great combinations of capital and laboras socialistic, declar ing the tendencies are to shackle, if not dest roy, the American individuali . ty to which the country owes so much. ! After des ribing the development of j the great industries, the greatest df which is the railroad business, lie ex pressed the opinion that the gain is due to the spirit of American free dom, and herald he does not expect the same proportionate mileage to be coislruoted hereafter, as the cost of the terminals will interfere, but the improvements will continue lapidly as ever". Ile said great combinations of capital are impossible elsewhere and it is a question if lt do not stille indi viduality. The labor organizations may be beneficial in someways and have done good in some cases and in jury In others, he declared, and when they stille ambition they do harm. fatal I'jlttlillt! ol'au elopement. A special from Hatcsville, Ark., says: S. M. Hail, a well Known mer chant of Austin, was Shot and killed Wednesday night at eight o'clock by II. C. Hancock. The tragedy is thc sequel to the elopement of. Hall and Miss Messie Hancock, a daughter of H. 0. Hancock, in January lasi. Hall rece?? ly returned to Arkansas and stated that he proposed to live flown tiie past and resume bus'ness at Austin. Hall arrived in EJatcsville Wednesday afternoon. Hancock came up on Hall in front of the cpu rt house at eight o'clock and immediately pulled a revolver and began tiring. Three of the four or live shots took effect in vital parts of the body. Hall fell after the first shot, dying almost instantly. Hancock surrendered to the sherill' and was placed in jail. A London Tragedy. A ghostly crime was today un earthed at Kon'vairise, a su'ouru OT West London, England. The police I found a trunk in a hoarding house. j containing tho bodies of a woman and i child, who disappeared two months ago. and who had been murdered. The liddies were covered with several ?inches of cement. The olllcer sus pected u lodger in the house named Grossman. When they attempted tb arrest him he dashed through the st nets pursued by a large crowd.. Seeing escape impossible, Crossman drew u razor and committed suicide by cutting h's throat. The police now are digging in t he garden of i he house, thinking older bodies are possibly buried t here. A I'1 tl ll ll y ('ase. A dispatch from Tewantin, l'a., says forty years have been knocked j out of the life of Nelwart! Smith, a! fanner, by a single blow. Last week he was felling a large Me?. In fall ing it st ruck ano! her small i ree which fell on Smith, cutting a deep gash in], his forehead. Ile was unconscious for some tithe, and since lie has recovered he has no recoiled ion of his present life. He acts like a hoy again, al though he is over lilly. He plays the games he played w hile a hoy and goes about deiing 1 he same farm work he did asa youngster. He has no ecol led ion ol his life for the lasi forty years, bul otherwise is in good health. 1,1. (?ov. Sloan .Mari ?eil. Mrs. Fannie I'.lake Gillian and Lieutenant Governor John T. Sloan ..ere married Wednesday night at the home of Dr. and M rs. I.. T. I Make, ai Spa rt nubu rg. Bishop W. W. Duncan officiated. The bride wore a hand some gown of lilac chill?n with an uiidei'dress of ta (Vet a anda valuable tliain?lld liara, the gift ol the groom. A largely attended reception was i tendered Colonel and Mis. Sloan by Dr. and Mis Blake, which was the decided social a tia i I' Of the. spring season. The. couple left tonight for California, and upon return, will re side in Columbia. unis HIHI-, ir. Henry Madison Mann, an eleven year-old hov. son of T. C. Mann, a prominent citizen of Abbeville, shot himself through the heart. The lad became exasperated, il is said, he cause of Um release of a pel, bini that he kept in a cage, lt is staled lie enteret] his room and locked tho door, j A moment later the report ol' a pistol ' at I niel ed t he at t cul ion of I he family Mrs. Mann. the. l id's mot her, rushed to the room. Henry opened the door for her, stepped hack ami fell to the lloor dead. fane Growers Convention. A letter has ht en received from D. Oj Purse, president of the interstate cane growers u.'s.iciation by Governor I ley ward asking the appointment or live delegates to the next meeting of the associ?t ion which will beheld in Jacksonvill May I Tho governor has replied stalling that he dues not care to undertake the appoint ul delegates in this way hid should any one desire to go they eau if appointed by communicating with the governor. Oltokcd With a Hone, Mrs K ibert Waithour, or Walthour ville, Liberty county, Ca., died at thc : Tclfalr hospital Wednesday, under peculiar circumstances. A few days ago while eating turkey for dinner a bone lodged in her throat . Shi- could not get it out and died as a result or i its lodging in her throat, SHERMAN'd LIBEL. He Char ed Hampton With P urning Columbia to Injure Him. GEN. HAMPTON'S INDEGR AT ION, Hoped Novrr in Meet Sherman os Hu Could Not Trust tu Keep His Hands Off tho Milici ous Slanderer. In a resent issue of The Saturday Evening Tost, former Senator George G. Vest, of Missouri, writes of Gen. Wa le Hampton with whom he served in the Senate, and was on terms of In timate friendship. One of thc most interesting portions of Senator Vest's article is that dealing with the burn ing of Columbia, which Gen. Sherman falsely, maliciously charged against Gen. Hampton. Senator N'est brings out no new facts In relation to the matter, hut presents the whole case very concisely and clearly, as follows: lt is not my purpose to revive any hitter memories of the civil war. I huid it borne the lirst duty of every citizen to promote as far as ho can the era of good feeling which now exists lo a large degree between thos9 who were once engaged in armed con ll let. I should not now allude to the con troversy between Gen. Sherman and Senator Hampton hi regard to the burning of Columbia, but for the fact that 1 have lately seen the statement made in a widely circulated publica tion that Hampton was responsible for that terrible event. 1 deem it my thit.y to lay before the public, without comment, the unquestionable state ments ol' Gen. Sherman himself and his oiilcr rs as to the responsibility for the destruction by lire of thirteen hundred houses inhabited by non combatants and not used for any mili tary purpose. in liie omciai report, made in t'ne sprint,' of 1805, of his march through the Carolinas, Cen. Sherman made the statement that the burning of Columbia was caused bj Gen. Hamp ton, who commanded the rear guard of thc Confederate forces, ordering the cotton, which he had caused to lie piled up In the streets of the city, tobe tired, and that, although Sher man's soldiers labored earnestly to extinguish these tires, the wind rose and caused the burning cotton tobe blown upon the roofs of the adjacent houses until the lire became unman ageable. "And without hesitation, I ? charge Cen. Wade Hampton with ! having burned his own city of (J dum bia: not with malicious intent, as the manifestation of a silly lloman stoic ism, but from folly and want of sense in tilling it with lint cot-ion and tin der." .0.0 lulyJJ. i?ii?, Gen. .Hampton re plied to this charge, and stated that Bil far from ordering the cotton to be tired In the streets of Columbia, he Had, on talcing command of tho rear guard the night before, is-uied au or der that no cotton should be fired within the city, and that when he eval uated Columbia on the next morn ing there was not a bale of cotton on in the streets nor anywhere else. In a letter published in theprocecd Ings of Congress in April, 1800, Gen. Sherman says: "The citizens of Columbia set lire to thousands of bales of cotton rolled out into thc streets, and which were burning before we entered Columbia. 1 myself was in the city as early as !? o'clock, anti 1 saw these tires.'" in a deposition of Cen. Sherman, taken before a United Slates cnn mis sioner at Washington city in 1ST-J, in tlie case, ol browne vs. United Stiles, he swore that, a brigade of the Fif teenth army corps, commanded by lirig. Cen. Stone, of Iowa, were the ' lir.sl Federal troops to reach C lumbia lind that this brigade formed the pro vost guard which was distributed throughout the city. Ile also reit erated his charge that the city was burned by the Haming cotton which Hampton had fired before he left, and which was carried by the high wind t ' Hie adjacent bouses. 10 January, 1 ST.'t, llrig. Gen. Stone, who commanded, the Federal troops that tirst occupied Columbia, made thc following statement in The Chicago Tribune: ''The entire brigade was dist ri bu ted through the city. Up to this time no lires occurred in any part of the city save those of public buildings and quartermasters' stores, tired by the enemy thc day before ve entered, I think, but which lires had nett ex tended an I did not extend to any oilier part of the city. Tho streets insume places contained bales of cot ton, which had been cut open, and these caught lire twice or three limes during thc day, but these tires had been promptly put out by some of the firemen, aided by a detail of soldiers under charge of an ollicer." Ile Initiier says: "Col. 1). .1. Pal mer, commanding my regiment, the Sevent y-li I t h Iowa, and to whom I lal intrusted the charge of the most dangerous part of the city, confirmed my opinion that l here was a plot lo burn the city by telling me several lins had started in his district: that be bad succeeded in putting them out so far, but could not much longer, and I bat. in bis opinion, the next one would lin-I lie city. Thc wind after .unset, bad increased in violence, and ailinn ii o'clock was blowing almost a hurricane from Col. Palmer's district right toward thc heart of the city. All at once Hf teen or twenty Hames from as many different places along the river shot up, anti in ten minutes thc late of Columbia was settled. " Tuc next morning it was discovered thc guard bad been too small; and al though a square mile of the heart ot Un-e.ity had beor? eaten out, and thc men's appetite for revenge satiated, yei it was then considered that a di vision ol' troops was necessary for pro vost, duty." In his Memoirs (page 288), G?.:i. Sherman says: "Having utterly ruined Columbia, the right wing began its match north west, to Winnsboroon thc twentieth." What Cen Sherman thought In re gard to tho rules of civilized warfare is best explained by himself. Gen. 11 al leek having written to Sherman at Savannah that he hoped when he cap tured Charleston the city would be rc duced to ashes and salt sown upon the ruins, Gen. Sherman in his Memoirs (page 22(1), says he answered llalleck as follows: "This war differs from European wars in this particular: We arc not only fighting hostile armies, but a hos tile people, and must make old and young, rieli and poor, feel the hard band of war, as well as their organised armies. * * * * "I will bear in mind your hint as to Charleston, and do not think lt will be necessary. When 1 move, the Fif teenth corps will be on the right of thc right wing, and their position will bring them into Charleston lirst; and if you have watched the history of the corps, you will nave remarked that they generally do their work pretty well. Tl e truth is, the whole army is burning with insatiable desire to wreak venge?t ce noon South Caro lina. 1 almost irei:.hie at her fate, but feel that she di serves all that seems in store for her.*' Ile also stated io his deposition in the case of Browne vs. United Slates, to which reference has already been made, that he and his army, both of ficers and men, thought that South Carolina should he extirpated, which meant utter destruction beyond thc hope of resurrection; and he also stat ed In the same deposition that if he had thought it necessary he would have destroyed Columbia as he would a prairie-dog village. In his Memoirs (page 2S7), Gen. Sherman says that the lire that de stroyed Columbia was accidental, and on thc same page he says: _ "In my official report of this coull i gration l distinctly charged it to Gen. Wade Hampton, and confess 1 did so pointedly, to shake the faith of his people in him, fur bc was, in my opin I ion, a braggart, and professed td he the special champion of South Caro lina." in the last conversation level had witli him on the subject, Gen. Hampton said that the charge ol Sherman made against him as to thc burning of Columbia was the most ?lagrant injustice that could possibly be perpetrated by any man wht claimed to bea soldier and gentleman, "During the whole war,*' In con tin ned, "I never committed an act ir violation of the niles of civilized war fare and never permitted my soldiers lodoso, l was second in commane when the cavalry raid was made int? Pennsylvania in 1 H?;2, and Col. Mc (fiore, the well known editor of Tnt Philadelphia Times, has testilied ir his memoirs how scrupulously I causee the rights of private citizens and non combatants to be respected by 1113 men when we captured Chambers burg. Of course, we took such neces sariis belonging to private citizens a: we were compelled to have, but ii every instance the owners were givei vouchers upon which they coule collect thc value of the property si takeu from the United States go n .raeirt. ,T..neyer permitted my so', to enter an orchard or to' draw wato from a private well or cistern wlthou first obtaining the permission of th owner. No outrage or violence wa committed by them in any instance and yet when I rel urned home af te the war 1 found my residence burned which was two ?niles from Columbia and also M ill wool, the home of ni, grandfather aiul father, around wh!ei clustered the most sacred memories 0 my life. 1 had lust in the war all m estate and had seen my brother an youngest son shot down upon th battlefield; hut Cen. Sherman was no satislied with this, and has attempte to place upon me the terrible stigm of having burned the bouses of m friends and neighbors in Columbia, J more cruel and false, accusation wa never made, and though 1 shall nc make myself ridiculous by seeking an personal satisfaction, I hope that w may never meet, fm- 1 distrust m own self-control if face to face with man who has wronged nie. so foully." Society Polygamy. Some ugly features of mr nation) hie anti what to do about them w; the subject of a lenten sermon Sui day night by t he Itev. Ur. McKIra < the Epiphany church at Washingtoi I). C. Dr. Mc Kim made a di rec forcible attack on thc "Almost coi scieiicei?SS extravagance and passk for display" that has spread dowi ward among the pei pie. He drew vivid picture of thc "Progress!' polygamy" of society divorces, as cor pand with the pdygamy of thc Mo muns, anti made a caustic reference the "graft top to bottom of society and "even Hut dark and porlenfio shadow of thc betrayal ot publ trust lying across the legislstive lia! of the nation." A Peculiar Accident. Lieutenant Carton E. Gardiner, S. A., on furlough from his cumpa in Arizona and a passenger oh thee; hound Southern Pacific train, going visit his mother in Massachusel met with a peculiar accident Thu day ns the train was nearing the ( pol in Flafoiiia, Texas. Ile was se; ed in a chair car ami was asleep, awoke as I he brakeman called tait t name of I he st al ion. lumped from I window and fell under the cars, bc legs cul oil. Immediate at tent Was given him and he is resting w< Gardiner said when he heard I brakeman announce (he station dreamed his captain commaiidei charge and it was Ibis which eau t he accident . Horrors of thc Deep. The British steamer Cubul, wli arrived Thursday al New York ii Peru and Chili, reports that on !. mary 12th, In thc Straits of Magell she fell in with a Chillian sen! schooner in distress. The sehnt was a very small craft, with a cro\ sixteen men. They had been out months und were star Ving. They caught I?U seals, and the only visions obtainable were shellfish witter. Their boat had been stov ?md rendered useless In bad weat Capt. Berry supplied them withabi ant provisions. Still PlKhtlllK. A dispatch from Manila says C DeWitt, with a detachment of Htabulary and Lieut. Pitney, wit detachment of scouts have just countered Macarlo Sakay, the so lcd president of the Filipino repn Sakay with 15 of his followers 1 killed and the remainder of the l wits captured. There were no cai tics on thc present Americans. lUILROAD MILEAGE Built Last Year ia this State and the j ?* United ?tates. - OU$ STATE ?HOWS UP LAMELY. T!u> liaiiroiulH Now IIuvo Nenrly ?hirtv Million Dollars Worth . .of Property in South Cnrolinu. It .would seem that nearly thc entire surface of the United States ls by this timea net work of railroads, but thc statistics show that there was more.] mibage in new roads lust year than at any* other time since 1887, when the construction was more than twice as much as last year. South Carolina shows but a small percentage of the construction, the to tal being but 27.(18 miles. However, if toe Toads projected are built in 1904 this*-State \vlll show up better in next year's statistical reports. The roads constructed last year were: B?nnettsville and Cheraw-Bollocks to Bennettsvllle, 14 miles. Carolina Wes tern-Extension to Smithville, 1.75 miles. Charlotte, Monroe and Columbia - Ha?lberg Junction to Jefferson, ll miles. * Edgmoor and Marietta-Extension to Lapdo, .93 miles. 'TJio Railway A ge gi ves the following l's', of roads projected (not incl iding thes projected line to Saluda court lioift?, 14 miles): Aicolu-Extension to Motts, 0 miles. I). W. Alderman, vice president. Alcolu. Carolina and Western- Smithville to Tillman, Ki miks: under construe tiling H. li. Horton, auditor, Hamp ton.' " Charlotte, Monroe and Columbia Jefferson, S. C., to Monroe, N. C., 2f> miicHt Vvm. Moucure, president and general manager, Haleigh, N. C. Chcstertield and Lancaster-Ruby to Lynchs Uiver, 17 miles: surveyed. A. Ri Page, general manager, Cheraw. Kreuch Broad and Southern-Tox aw?y, N. C., to a connection with the Southern railway in Oconee county, S. ',, 50 miles. John S. Vernor, Co lon bia. Lampton and Branchville-Maul din,on t\ St. George, 18 miks. W. O. Alauldin, general superintendent, Ha. ipton.. McfUut Pleasant and 'Georgetown - Mutant Pleasant to McClellansville, 05 mlh'J..'. W. G. Miller, president, Suin mesf?fie. ?i'ount Pleasant Southern-S nith poi to_?Pibsonville, projected. 1 ?.e Dee Uiver -Mais Bluff to Ban kin Mills, 30 mile W. L. Bankin, aiufr. I^ar -Lumber. Co.-Green-i vii ti' to Davenport, 23 miles; to be ' 1" IL over the old roadbed of the Caro line, Knoxville and Western, It. E. .Johnson, president, Greenville. Spartanburg and Union-Spartan burg to Union, 30 miles: incorporated. Tennessee, Georgia and Smith Car olina -Anderson. S. C., to Charleston, Tenn., 200 mile. W. B. I-'rink, presi dent, Blue Bidge, Ga. Inion ?md Glenn Springs -Buffalo to Murphys Shores, l miles. George M. Wright, general manager. I nion. The South Can dina end ol the Ten nessee, Georgia and South Carolina will be considerably Uss than 200 miles in length, as recorded by The Age. The Spartanburg and I nion line is supposed to be a projected elec tric line. Oklahoma stands lirst of all the States and territories with r>."i:: miles, and Louisiana is second with 4f>?l miles to her credit. There are eight States and territories showing over 200 miles each, as follows: < iklahoma, 653 miles: Louisiana, 450 miles: Texas, .'!.">7 miles: Indian Territory, 319 miles: Arkansas, 2(?:t mile: Penn sylvania, 245 miles: Missouri, 243 miles, and Iowa, 210 miles. The following table shows track laid by years since 188(1: Year. Miles 1887 .12,083: ? 1888. 7,10? 1881). 5,230 ? 1800. 5,070 185)1.. 4,281 \ 1892 . 4fl02 1893. 2,030: 1894. 1,049 I 1805./. 1,803 j 18ihi. 1,848 1897. 1,880 1898. 3,083 1899. 4,588 11)00. 4,437 j 1901 . 5,222 1002. 5,048 1003. 5,78(1 In Cunnada 839.22 miles of new road were built his: year on 27 lines, and incomplete returns from Mexico show 311.43 miles o? track laid on 12 lints. The Railway Age gives Hie follow ing as thc summary In each of several Statt s last year: No. States. lines. Miles. Alabama. 1"> 121.83 Alaska. I 10.00 j Arizona. 7 ll 7..".2 i Arkansas. 15 203.59 California. 12 159.49 Colorado. ,; 43.02 Florida. 9 110.77 Georgia. 12 I i7..r.o I di? ho. 2 10.00 illinois. 14 183.79 Indi ma. 10 02.35 Indian Territory.... 14 319.121 Iowa. 5 240.05 Kansas.. 10. (ii Ken! ocky. 12 80.48 Louisiana. .. 2t) 45(1.20 Main. 2 18.00 Michigan. 21 loi.os Minnesota. 14 108.19 Mississippi. IO 130.40 Missouri. ll 242.07 Montana. 2 71.00 Nevada. 1 10 00 New .le?"ey.-v- 2 2.12 New Mexico. 0 192.77 New York. 0 45.10 North Carolina. 0 112 00 Nor.!: Dakota. 5 120.7(< Ohio. 10 132.0!) Oklahoma. 13 053 32 Oregon. 7 31.00 Pennsylvania. 32 245.18 South Carolina. 1 27.ns Tennessee. 0 102.18 Texas. 20 350.08 Utah. 5 120.52 Vermont. 1 5.00 Virginia. y 45.17 Washington. 12 110.13 West Ylrlgina. 24 105.80 Wisconsin. 10 80.73 Wyomirig. 1 3.00 Total in 43 States and Territories. 401 5,785.98 Thc report of thc comptroller gen eral shows that last year the railroads returned for taxation 3,005 miles of track in this State, and that thc total value of all railroad property in the State was $2!?,4ti7.710.-The State. A SENSATIONAL INCISENT. Tho Gonfedcr ?to Fing Gives Way to .'t)l<I C?lorj" nt Clemson. An occurrence at Clemson College of unusual and sensational interest is thus described by an eyewitness: There has just been erected at the college a (lag-pole, eighty-six feet high. Recently one of the boys took up a collection and had a dag, four teen by twenty-one feet , of thc "Stars and Uar" made, and the afternoon of March 12 at (1:30, while the college hand played "Dixie" and amid the cheers, of (he uncovered live hundred Clemson boys, the Hag of the Confeder acy was raised. It was lowered after dark and the companies marched to the pole from reveille this morning, and again Hie Hag was raised amid the cheers of the Clemson corps. it stayed until !)'clock, when the commandant, who is a Northerner, ordered it taken down. The boys liad it; (?own ami hid before his orders could be obeyed. Immediately after release from quarters at the morning inspection, however, all of the boys went to the Hag pole and were raising the Hag for the third time. The com mandant came out of his ofllce, caught bold Of the rope and ordered it, lower ed. Rut in spite of bis protestations and his placing one boy under arrest, the Hag was raised. The Hag Hunted proudly till after church, when.the commandant made tl speech in which he said among other things: "Roys, 1 don't blame you for honoring the Hag your fathers and grandfathers fought for. Three cheers for the Hag of the Southern Confeder acy." (Three cheers were given with ii vim in which Hie minister, the fac ulty and the ladies joined heartily. Continuing he said: "Rut the South proved that there was only one Hag in 1898. Roys, there's no use talking, we have the greatest Hag on the face of the earth to day. And now I want the band to play Dixie while we lower the Stars and Rais, and t hen to play Hie Star Spangled Rainier while we raise the Stars and Stripes." So wliile the band playedJ'Dlxie" uni wiule the bu>s bt?bu with Ho overed heads sending forth cheer upon cheer, the Hag of our fathers was lowered and the Hag of our forefathers iud our Hag was raised. Three rous ing cheers were given for "Old (Rory" ind then three for the commandant. WILL D0DOE IT. rtie Kepublioans Afraid lo Vote on IllC Murillo*! .Jm-ulion SuWi A dispatch from Washington says the Republican leaders In the Senate ure taking no chances oi having to wind up the S moot investigation and vote on the Mormon apostle's right to Ins seat at this session of Congress, l'liey made up their minds it would not be good policy, politically, to set tle thc case prior to the presidential election, but evidence against the Mor mon hierachy, which includes Smoot, piled up with a rapidity that astonish ed and disconcerted the Republicans. Only relatively unimportant details were left for investigation and it was lound that new witnesses would have to be called to testily as to these. To allow time to get these witness es from Utah the hearings before the congressional /oinmitte on privileges and elections were adjourned for len [lays or two weeks, the Republicans counting on being able to wind up in thc session of Congress by April 15, and certainly by May 1. Rut the Democrats have shown a disposition to resisl the early adjournment pro emio by insisting on a prolonged do bale on the postotllcc appropriation bill. This opened a prospect that the Smoot hearing would be completed '. lore the session of Congress could be brought to a close. A hast ly ad journment, with the case ready for settlement would lie a practical admis sion of Hie Republicans thal they were running from il. So the Republicans adopted tactics ca'culatcd to offset the Democratic move to prolong tiic session. They f died to send out the summons for the lt) or .".o additional witnesses required in the Smoot case. The Democrats have just discovered this and are angry about lt. They are anxious lo keep partisanship out of Smoot case as long as possible, but they now lee! disposed to raise a row in the Se?ale ov< r what they regard as the inexcusable delay of the Republicans. Tb (io Hack lu 1?.wa. JesseIlulfman, a soldier now sta tioned at. I'ort Fremont, S. C., will betaken back lo Centreville, Iowa, in ;t day or so, to stand trial on the charge of forgery. The story of flu IT man's crime was told by W. R. Davis, an olheer id' that town, who called on the governor Wednesday morning for requisition papers and the warrant. HulTman was a rather bad character, although cf good family, and it was alter he joined the army that it was discovered that he had forged a note of Hie National Rank of Centreville. The amount secured by HulTman was only $27.50, but the bank is walling to spend $200 to get him back. Cor respondente was hud with the war department, and it was found that his release could bc secured in order that bc might be tried. Governor Cummings wrote to Governor IToy ward in the matter, and as soon as proper papers could ho obtained Mr. Davis came on for his prisoner. Word was wired the captain of ll ullman's company at Kort Fremont and the man was placed under arrest to bc carried back to Iowa. LEFT WIFE AT HOTEL And Then Wont Out and Blew Out His Brains. D. Paul Hughes, secretary of tbo Dupuesne Mining Company, director of the Pittsburg State Bank, promi nent in Pennsylvania financial mat ters and well known io New York, blew out bis brain.*; 32 thc shore of Nabone Lake, near the Norfork & Western Depot, Norfork, Va., Wed nesday, Hughes registered at the At lanta Hotel ten days ago with a wo man supposed to be wife, and gave the name or D. P. Hayes. Some of his mail came in that name. - The woman says she knows very little of Hughes. At the inquest Wed nesday afternoon she said she knew nothing that could have caused him to take ids life. She was unmoved, and slated that Hughes might have another wife living somewhere. Without a tremor or any indication of nervousness, she entered the jury room, led by Coroner Right, passed thiough the crowd ano out to the Morgue. She spent a moment before the body and returned to the jury. There was no trace of emotiou upon her countenance. She took the oath and replied to the questions of the Coroner In tones as clear and distinct as though uttered by one who never had su M ered a pang of sorrow. She stated that she met her hus band in Baltimore about two weeks ano; hut she is from the southern part of New Jersey, but was visiting in Baltimore. She said she knew noth ing of the man save that he gave his name as Hughes; that he came from Pittsburg, and that he had a mother there. Hughes bad been drinking for the past week or more, and Colonel David son, of the Atlantic Hotel, said he frequently warned the unfortunate man that he must keep sober around the hotel or remain hi his room. Hughes always had plenty of money. He received numerous letters every day, and cashed money. Papers showing that Hughes was a Mason and a Phythian were found in his effects at the hotel. The statement found on the body was produced at thc inquest: "My budy I give to the first medi cal institute that may care for it for i the purpose of dissection. I do this I in the interest of science. I am going on a bing exploring expedition, and may be help Peary lind the North Pole." A COLD WIK TER. November, December, .January and February Were Below the Normal. The Columbia Record iays accord ing to Section Director J. W. Bauer the winter owed us 200 deg ress,, it be ing that many below the usual mark TOT-tTTe/wffiioT"^ after 7 o'clock Sunday the sun crossed the equator aud put an {official end to winter, according to the astronomers. In common parlance winter did not end until midnight last night. At all events, the winter has been the cold est that has ever been cxperienceel by Columbia since the establishment of the weather bureau here. The winter has been remarkable, 1 not, so much for exceptionally low ! temperatures on only a iow scattered days, but for continuous cold, broken only by warm spells now and then, of only a few days' duration. The months of November, December, January and February have all been below the nor mal. There have been several low temper atures recorded, and in November all records for weather in that particiliar month were broken. February was marked by .a light snowfall, and in both January and February there i Wore different days in which sleet fell ! and ides hung from the trees and houses. Op to March the deficiency was 249 degrees, but this month was a little better and about 41? of these have been knocked oil. The normal for the months of December, January and February complieel from the records of the bureau since its establishment in i 1881) arc as follows: j December.48 j January.46 i February..48 As a matter of fact the actual mean temperature was: 1 >eccmber.42 January..*... 42 February......44 This shows how each month fell be ; hind and the intense, continued cold i which this section of the country has : had. I '.polemic of Suicides. Three professors e>f the ohio Uni versity have committed suicide in less than a year. They are Profs. E. A. Fggers, F. C. Clark andi'. W. Mesloh. ! The epidemic of suicides began 011 ?April 8, 1003, when Kniest August : Hggers, bead Of the department of German, shot himself through the j head, when confined to his room by acute rheumatism. On Sept. 19, 1903, ! Prof. Frederick Converse Clark, at ? the head of the department of ccono 1 mies and socology, walked into a pas ture on the campus and sent two bul lets Into his brain. On Tuesday, March 16, 1904, Prof. Charles Walter Mesloh. assistant professor of Ger manic languages, died at home on the campus from some drug taken with suicidal intent, having just a week before attempted to kill himself. Trot. Fggers killed himself because he could not endure the pain of rheu matism. Prof. Clark shot himself be cause bc had lost all of lils own and his parents' money in wildcat specula tion, and Prof. Mesloh ended his life as the result eif a nervous state, brought on through worry because he had not been promoted to the chair held by Prof. Fggers. We Hope Not. The Aiken Journal and Review an nounces that the ladies of that town are so pleased with the appearance of the northern equestrienne as she dash es about astride that the custom will be adopted by the natives. As the Columbia State says such is familiari ty. Three years ago the ladies of Aiken were quite shocked when the first northerner to ride there with stirrups on both sides of her man's saddle appeared in public. KILLED THEM ALL. A Wife's Love of Dancing Makes Her Husband Commit TERRIBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE Af or tal IT Wounded, tho Wife Fights Tor Her. Child, but tho Fren zied Husband Kills Child ' and II i nisei I". Maddened by Jealousy and stung by bitter words of reproach," Christian Kirschoffer, a Williamsburg, N. Y., hotel keeper, shot and mortally wounded his young wife, slew bis . four-year-old son and took his own life Wednesday. The tragedy was the end of a martial history of five years, beginning witta Klscboffer's elopement with the woman he killed Wednesday aud who was then bis wife's niece. After the death of his wife he married toe niece. Residents in the neighb orhood of Kent avenue and South First street were startled by a succession or pistol * shots in the second story of Kirechofi* er's Hotel, at No. 905 Kent avenue, about 10:30 a. m. Wednesday. The shrieks of "Murder!" "Police!" ina woman's voice, brought Policeman Fallon, of the Sixtieth Precinct; George Ehnenn, a citizen, and Fire man George Mulligan, who rushed up stairs, burst In the door of the apart ment in time to see the murderer fire a shot inth his own head. The policeman grappled with the . man, who, although wounded to death, still struggled savagely to fire upon the intruders. As the revolver was wrenched from the maniac's hand, he fell to the floor and expired. The room resembled a shambles. On the door, near the c<<>- leading * Into the rear room, lay the murderer's little son, gasping in the throes of death. Swooning, at the window, v?h?ct the wounded mother h*1 d *"s!s?d in her frantic efforts to escape her doom, hung the body of Mrs. Kirsch offer, with blood streaming from a wound under the chin. The police ollicer picked up the . child and hastened with him into the street in search of medical aid. But the little fellow expired before an am bulance from the Eastern District1 Hospital arrived. His father's bullet had pierced his brain. . Meanwhile Ehnenn and Mulligan carried the wounded woman ?down- * stairs, and into a neighboring*store. She did not regain consciousness, but murmered the name of her little boy.v, When partly revived by Ambulance Surgeon Shanks she prayed them to save her baby. The erl me was undoubtedly premed itated and carefully planned. Kirsch offer. was Insanely jealous of his wife. Stae had youth and rosy cheeks, and vYaH-b<<tt>Yeoty-&*-. 71 ^nld.-XC-o-v-.-(Hi_x. . forty. He objected to lier gayety, and protested against ber attend ance at dances. She went over to Elizabethport on Monday night to at tend a masquerade. The husband ob jected, but the young wife had pre pared a costume, and she went, de spite protests, to the home of her cousin, Michael Mart/, with whose family she attended the ball. Mrs. Kirschoffer did not return home until nine o'clock Tuesday moaning. Thc liusbuu? tut, u ncr wieta furious anger. A bitter quarrel followed dur ing which dishes were thrown by both. Having exhausted Jttaelr passion, Husband and wife went about their several duties in connection with their restaurant, the ma6 going upstairs, donning his best clothes and Hun hurrying to the butcher shop wheie he bought a lot of meat. He nexu bought a pistol, which he loaded. From the gun shop Kirschoffer went Into the saloon kept hy his life long friend, Frederick Bert/., at-tbe corner of Wythe avenue and South j. First street. Here he drank deeply, announcing that it was the last glass of liquor he would ever swallow In this world. Arrived at his home the man called his wife and child into the sleeplug rooms of the family on the second door, locked the door and deliberately murdered them.. He threw the wo man upon the bed in the front room and tired the weapon into her throat, the ball passing through the chin and into the bones of the head. The wo man appears to have struggled wildly for her child's life, for she broke away, and running to the window farthest from the bed, threw up the lower sash and shrieked for help. Aid came too late tor as the woman ran the husband put a bullet in the boy's head. Old Men Must. Go. Following tho orders issued by tta Atlantlc Coast Line railway establishs ing a pension system for the employee of the road who have seen a certain number of years of s3rvice, the general manger has followed this up with another that will affect a number of men on the system win will not re ceive pensions. The recent order ls that all men over the age of seventy must go. The road has come to the conclusion that the necessary work cannot be gotten out of men who have reached that age and on April 1st they will step down and out for young er men. The recent order in regard co pensions provided for a pension of one per cent for each year of service for the salary received provided the employes had seen a service of ten years. The new order provides that if the age of seventy has been reached the employe must go anyhow, pension or not. Killed ny ibis. In the city of New York three peo ple were killed by illuminating gas in a tive-story tenement in east Elev enth street Wednesday and many oc cupants of neighboring Hats were more or less overcome. The dead arc: Otto Crossman, 35 years ?dd, a host ler; Jennie Crossman, 32 years, bis wife, and Rosie Longfeldcr, 33 years old, a seamstress, boarding with thc Crossinans. Two gas Jets were found turned on full head. According to thc neighboni Grossman several times threatened to turn on the gas and end bis lifo and that of his wife. Tues day night, lt ls said, there was a mer rymaking at the Crossman Hat and considerable wino was drunk,