The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1901-1982, March 08, 1905, Image 3

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Roosevelt and F irbank Wit Brillia TREIENDO1S CROWD PRESENT The Grandest Pageant Ever Iitnessed on American Soil-Great crowds Present-The Inaugural Speec es. Washington, D. C., Special. Theo dore Roosevelt was transform from president by chance into Pre dent by choice: from President thro h an as sassin's bullet into Presid? t through the ballots of the people. Under the shadow of t e gray-doom ed capitol. gazing into e placid mar ble features of Greencyugh's statue of the first President, the twenty-sixth President of the United States swore faithfully to execute the laws and to preserve, protect and defend the con stitution. Once before he had taken this sol emn obligation; then, at the death-bed of his martyred predecessor, surround ed by a small company of tear-dimmed friends and counsellors; Saturday, in the presence of a cheering host of fifty thousand people. Then he had ridden many lonely miles over storm-swept mountain roads to reach the tragic scene of his elevation; now he was escorted along the nation's grandest avenue from the White House to the home of Congress between two densely packed lines of his countrymen gath ered from every quarter to cheer him and wish him godspeed in the coming four years. Then he had said, with chocking voice: "It shall be my aim to continue absolutely unbroken the policies of President McKinley for the peace, prosperity and honor of our be I loved country." Sateurday he left it for his fellow-citizens, who had hon ored him with a greater majority than ever before given, to judge whether or .no he had redeemed that pledge. The colonel of the Rough Riders has written of his crowded hour in Cuba. Now he showed his former comrades a crowded hour in Washington. They were waiting for him when he emerged from the White House-30 picked men under Governor Brodie. With the crack squadron'A of the First Cavalry, United States Army, they formed his escort to the capitol. As they swung around the Treasury building into Pennsylvania avenue a division of the G. A. R., with General 0. 0. Howard and staff in the lead, which had been standing at salute, wheeled into the column, while the cavalrymen check ed their pace to accomodate the slow er foot-steps of the aged veterans. A mighty wave of cheers swept along the avenue as the President's carriage came in sight. Throughout the whole route the President, with hat in hand. kept bowing in acknowledgment of the greetings. On his arrival at the capi tol he was conducted to the President's room, in the rear of the Senate cham ber, where he began at once the sign ing of belated bills. At noon he en tered the abode of the Senate to wit ness the installation of Senator Fair banks as Vice President. This cere mcny concluded, he proceeded to the standl on the east front of the capitol to receive the,oath from Chief -Justice Fuller and to deliver his inaugural ad dress. Immediately upon its conclu sion the President was escorted back to the White House, where, after lunching with the officials of the inau gural committee, he took his position on the stand in front to review the fomal inaugural parade. Gens. Kuropatkin and Mistcheneko at Odds. London, By Cable.--The Daily Tele graph's correspondent at Tokio states that the Japanese Colonel Himada was killed at the capture of Seikajo, and that General Klober, commander of the second Manchurian army, was wounded and sent to the hospital at Mukden. The correspondent says that .General Mistchenko has had a disa greement with General Kuropatkin, and is returning to Russia. Greeni and Gaynor Locked Up. Monreral, Speciai.-Chief Detective Carpenter. having in custody Gaynor and Greene, arrived here Saturday night. No attempt was made to deC tain the prisoners in Quebec. Mr. Carpenter at once took Gaynor e.nd G3reene to .Judge L.aFontaine's resi d:ence.. Ju dg'' LaFontaine remannid Gaynor and Greene in the custody'o Chief Carnenter until Monday miorni -ng. and they were loeked upn in the detective's he ,douarters. The prison e'rs apparenttly were deepliy affected by the arret :s Inducted Into Office mt Pageantry The inaugural cost about $G5,000, wihch it is believed has been fully re paid in the sale of grand stand seats and ball tickets. The guaranty fund subscribed by Washington merchants and business men will thus be return ed. Everything but the actual cere moies were in charge of the inaugural committee, composed of Washington residents, and headed by Brigadier General John M. Wilson, U. S. A., re tired, appointed for that purpose by Chairman Cortelyou, of the Republican national committee. The broad plaza whose level surface stretches east from the national capi tol can accommodate an army. For hours Saturday morning Washington poured its 'own population and a vast increment of visitors into 'the front yard of the seat of government. From i the porticos and windows of the capi tol building a good idea of the scope of the multitude could be gathered. Eight acres of humanity spread fan shaped from the focus made by a little covered shelter, open at the sides, where the President was to stand. Over toward the imposing facade of the Con gressional Library it extended, liter ally a "sea of faces." There may have been only 50,000; probably there were nearer 100.000 in sight of the President when he took the oath. - Stands on the central portico, ex tending to the tribune wherein the cer emony occurred, covered an acre. From the central entrance of the capitol to the geats of honor surrounding the pagoda-like tribune was laid a carpet of crimson plush. Long before the cere monies in the Senate, where Vice Pres ident Fairbanks was taking his oath of :. was concluded, most of the reserved seats had been filled by ticket holders. All in all it was the grandest page ant ever witnessed on American soil. The ceremonies were simple but solemn and impressive. The order was Ex cellent, the weather was fine and the . , 1 hth At a sig frm ChiefJustic Fuller th clrko thmame SuemeCourtastep exraisehs hand, dptched oathtoupa pot thas from Cienstiioeo thle, Uthed Stakofte wspreentour step amd frdee silin Whe tile hAd been coludoed, ther crws paTicllen Presien maistdahisohn, and the Prsiet beganp pot'his inauwsa address.nsituton as the finised spaking was re-entere tke aito dee sne hen isaspeard withn coce,there asga was ashedll to the mnvtyrto, and the oreside gns weas benie ospeag sae reetere the el dent. The expiration of the old Congress and the beginning of the new was wit nessed at noon. Senator Fairbanks took the oath as Vice President and made his address as follows: VICE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. t Senators: I enter upon the. discharge of the duties of the position to which I have been called by my countrymen with grateful appreciation of the high honor and with a deep sense of its responsibilities. I have enjoyed the privilege of serving with you here for eight years. During that period we have been engaged in the consideration of i many domestic questions of vast im portance and with foreign problems of unusual and farreaching significance. We submit what we have done to the ! impartial judgment of history. I can never forget the pleasant reia tions which have been formed during my service upon the floor of the Sen ate. I shall cherish them always among the most delightful memories of my life. They' warrant the belief that I shall have in the discharge of the functions which devolv.e upon me under the constitution the generous assistance and kindly; forbearance of both sides of the chamber. We witness the majestic spectacle of a peaceful and orderly beginning of an administration of national affairs under the laws of a free and self-gov erning people. We pray that divine favor may attend it and that peace and progress, justice and honor may abide with our country and our countrymen. Wealthy Former Coat O.perator Dead. Pittsburg. Special.-William Dun shee, a former well known coal oper ator, and one of the wealthiest resi dents of McKeesport, died this even ing at the family residence in that] pace, aged S5 years. Death was due. to pneumonia. During the civil war] Mr. Dunshee operated two large1 steamb)oats on the Mississippi river and wa,s active in the government ser v:ce. Son Accused by Fathcr. New York, Special.-Charles, Upton. the young son of Dr. William H. Up ton, who was drugged and whose safe wa rifled of .$400 on February 5th,] \'as brought back: to this city from New Orleanis and was lockedl up in I poice' 'lemio.uart ers. The charge his a-eiing the! comainama. The ioy. when arrseni' in Newv Orlean.s. wai~ve ex ra:iion ar.d rel urned to New Yr w illingly wiKth the dletec THE INAUGURAL SPEECH President Roosevelt's Remarks Were Brief, Tinely and Appropriate. The inaugural address is as follows: My Fellow-Citizens: No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boast fulness in our own strength, but with gratitude to the Giver of Good who has blessed us with the conditions which have enabled us to achieve so large a neasure of well-being and of happiness. ro us as a people it has been granted to lay the foundations of our national life in a new continent. We are the heirs of the ages, and yet we have had to pay rew of the penalties which in old coun tries are exacted by the dead hand of a bygone civilization. We have not been :bliged to fight for our existence against any alien race; and yet our life has called for the vigor and effort with >ut which the manlier and hardier vir tues wither away. Under such condi tions it would be our own fault if we railed; and the success which we have had in the past, the success which we onfidently believe the future will bring, should cause in us no feeling of rain-glory, but rather a deep and bid ing realization of all which life has )ffered us; a full acknowledgement of :he responsibility which is ours; and a gxed determination to show that under t free government a mighty people can :hrive best, alike as regards the things >f the body and the things of the soul. MUST B7 FRIENDLY. Much has been given to us. and much ill rightfully be expected from us. We iave duties to others and duties to our ;elves; and we can shirk neither. We iave become a great nation, forced by he fact of its greatness into relations ,'ith the other nations of the earth; 1 tnd we must behave as beseems a peo- 1 >le with such responsibilities. Toward il other nations, large and small, our Lttitude must be one of cordial and sin yere friendship. We must show not only n our words, but in our deeds that we tre earnestly desirous of securing their cod will by acting toward them in a ;pirit of just and generous recognition )f all their rights. But justice and gen- l rosity' in a nation, as in an Individual, 1 ount most when shown not by the eak, but by the strong. When ever areful to refrain from wrongdoing )thers, we must be no less insistent hat we are not wronged ourselves. We vish peace; but we wish the peace of ustice, the peace of righteousness. We vish it because we think it Is right and iot because we are afraid. No weak na- 1 ion that acts manfully and justly hould ever have cause to fear us, and t io strong power should ever be able o single us out as a subject for inso ent aggression. OUR RELATIONS AMONG OUR SELVES. Our relations with the other powers f the world are important; but still nore important are our relations 3 tmong ourselves. Such growth in r vealthh, in population and in power is this nation has seen during the cen- 2 ury and a quarter of its national life s inevitably accompanied by a like t ;rowth in the problems which are ever N efore every nation that rises to great ess. Power invariably means both re ponsibility and danger. Our forefath *rs faced certain perils which we have I utgrown. We now face other perils 1:i he very existence of which it was in- E ossible that they should foresee. dodern life is both complex and in ense, and the tremendous changes 1i vrought by the extraordinary indus- n rial development of the last half cen ury are felt in every fiber of our social .nd political being. Never before have non tried so vast and formidable an - xperiment as that of administering 1. he affairs of a continent under the orms of a democratic republic. The onditions which have told for our g narvelous material well-being, which t tave developed to a very high degree a ur energy, self-reliance and individuale nitiative, have also brought the care * .nd anxiety inseparable from the ac- t umulation of great wealth in indus- I rial centers. Upon the success of our c xperiment much depends, not only as egards our own welfare, but as re ards the welfare of mankind. If we ~ al, the cause of free self-government i broughout the world will rock to its oundations; and, therefore, our re ponsibility is heavy, to ourselves, to he world as it is today, and to the enerations yet unborn. There is no ;ood reason why we should fear the fu-e ure, but there is every reason why we a hould face it seriously, neither hiding r rom ourselves the gravity of the prob ems before us nor fearing to approach hese problems with the unbending, u n linching purpose to solve them aright. Yet, after all, though the problems .re new, though the tasks set before s differ from the tasks set before our athers who founded and preserved this epublic, the spirit in which these tasks apst be undertaken and these problems aced if our duty is to be well done, re ains essentially unchanged. We know hat self-government is difficult. We :now that no people need such high( raits of character as that people which eks to govern its affairs aright hrough the freely expressed will of the remen who compose it. But we have aith that we shall not prove false to he memories of the men of the mighty tast. They did their work, they left us he splendid heritage we now enjoy. Ve, in our t'urn, have an assured con- I idence that we shall be able to leave his heritage unwasted and enlarged to nr children and our children's ch il Iren. To do so we must show, not nerely in great crises. but in the every lay affairs of life, the qualities of pra ical intelligence, of courage, of hard hod and endurance, and, above all, he power of devotion to a lofty ideal, rhich made gr'eat the men who founded his republic in the days of Washing on, which made great the men who ireserved this republic in the days of ibraham Lincoln. News by Wire and Cable. Mr. Robert L. Campbell was stricke~n vith smallpox in the Westmoreland llub, Richmond. Four persons were injured in the vreck of a limited passenger traiai at lock fish, Va. A movement is on foot to have all angings in Virginia take place in the 1 >enitentiary.. Two Richmond negroes. who are tondemned to be hanged, were bap ized in a bath tub in the jail. Body Identified. Ch=.ref~. Special.-Tife body of the voman found dead last Friday in Lake ~lichigan, at the foot of Fifty'-ninth ;treet, was i'ienti5ed as that of Mrs. va Bemont, whose home is said to a been i Milwaukee. The clew. to e woman's identity w.as furnished by rohn McCarthy, of Chicago. who as erted that he had known Mrs. Behl non for some time, and positively (dntifid the body as that of the Miu aukee woman. Mysry still suir -ound the dcath of the woman, but be polce are of the opinlion that they LIFE SKETCH OF PRESIDENT Sketch of the Life of the Man Inaug rated Saturday. The Congressional Directory. Theodore Roosevelt, President, w: born in New York city on October 2 1858; entered Harvard College in 18 and graduated in 1880; took up ti study of law, but in 1881 was elect( :o the New York Legislature, and w, .wice re-elected; in his second ter in the Legislature was the candida )f his party for speaker, the majoril >f assembly, however, being Dem 2ratic; during his third term servE 3s chairman of the committee on :ies and of the special committ( which investigated the abuses in ti ;overnment of New York city; was lelegate to the State' convention 1884 to choose delegates to the Repu ican national convention, and was s ected as one of the four delegates arge from New York to the .nation; onvention; later in the same year 1 went to North Dakota and spent mo: >f his time there for several years c t ranch, engaged in raising cattl( n 1886 was tlze Republican nomin( 'or mayor of New York city; was a >ointed a member of the United Stat( ivil service commission in May, 188 >y President Harrison; resigned th >osition in 1895 in order to accept tr )residency of the police commission < ew York city, under Mayor Strong n April, 1897, was appointed by Pres lent McKinley as Assistant Secretai >f the Navy. Upon the outbreak c he war with Spain in 1898, resignE his post and became lieutenant cc >nel of the First United States Volu .eer Cavalry, was promoted to th olonelcy of the regiment; was in th ights at Las Guasimas and San Juan was mustered out with his regimei tt Montauk, Long,Island, in Septen >er, 1898; was nominated shortly a erwards as the Republican candidat or Governor of New York, and elec d in November, 1898; was unan nously nominated for Vice-Presider >f the United States by the Republica Lational convention of 1900, and elec d; succeeded to the Presidency upo he death of President McKinley, Se] ember 14, 1901. Vice-President Fairbanks. 'he Congressional Directory. Charles Warren Fairbanks, of It ianapolis, was born on a farm nea nionville Center, Union county, Ohic lay 11, 1852; was educated in the comi on schools of the neighborhood an t the Ohio Wesley University, Deln -are, Ohio, graduating from that insti ution in 1872 in the classical course 'as admitted to the bar by the Suprem ourt of Ohio in 1874; removed to In ianapolis in the same year, where h as since practiced his profession ever held public office prior to hi lection to the Senate; was elected rustee of the Ohio Wesley Utniversit 1 1885; was unanimpusly chosen as th ominee of the Republican caucus fc nited States Senator in the Indian ,egislature in January, 1893, and sut equently received his entire party vot i the Legislature, but was defeated b; avid Turpie, Democrat; was a dele ate at large to the Republican na onal convention at St. Louis in 189( nd was temporary chairman of th :mvention; was a delegate-at-large ti -ie Republican national convention a 'hiladelphia in 1900, and as chairma: f the committee on resolutions re orted the platform; was appointed; iember of the United States and Brit ih joint high commission which me 1 Quebec in 1898, for the adjustmen f Canadian questions, and was chair ian of the United States high comn iissioners; was elected to the Unitel tates Senate January 20, 1897, to suc aed Daniel W. Voorhees, Democrat nd took his seat March 4, 1897; wva -elected in 1903. PERSONAL GOSSIP. Emma Eames has become a vegeta Pr'esident Roosevelt is five feet eigh nd threc-quarter inches tail. John D. Rockefeller 'has develope( nI('I ntuia1ism for attomlobilinlg. The Czar's regular Christmas presen >ihe Kaiser is caviare in porceiali Gov~ernor Folk, of af aso'iri. has foil rothers. all of whom have attained t< lre or less iroIn iUce. Thei Itatlian MIieister of Public Ini ruio n made( lse of (i7.9f00 visitin; ar1s C.ur;tg Is twVo muonths in <,itice. Amirew c :1r'neii has offered th' niversiiy of Virginia :a gift of $30i} 00 IfOn condi i that the uni~verSIt: ill raise an e(UU:l mount. !R. I. K'na pp. t he inventor of thw' side 1: plow. died at IIalf Afoon. (al., rc enly. Hie wva- a na tiv-e of Newx York~ The' Ge rn Empl:cr has~ given ti I arvard !iver'ity the Germnan exi iit fromt the St:. L,ouis Exposition' chich relre-enits the stelal ethies o is~ country. G;eorge II. Sisco. a Sendy Hook pilot etired by the commissionlers on1 ac aunt of old agze. decXlaIred that at se'; nty-nine he is a better man than Ii cas at foriy. 3mue. Mfeliha's maid2fn name was Nel te MIitchell. 1Her father, David MIitch: 1. now seventy-six years of age,i ated as one of the wealthiest men I1 lbe Australian Commionwealth. M1rs. Isabella P.eecher Hooker. thi nly surviving child of Dr. Lymna ~eeeher, a sister of Henry War< teche'r Stowe. recently celebrated lie ighty-third birthday in IIartford.Conr M1anuel Enriq.uez. one of the oldes ioneers of Cali fornia and the last sm -ivor of G;eneral Fremon)tt's battaiio: n the 3Mexican War. has recently (lie< .t Los Angeles. iIe was boru in Pert Belmont is a Sportsman. August Belmont has always been a 'nthusir.st about all kinds of spor lie low ownls a stable of racehors< andl a kennel of dogs, keeps sever; huters and ov:ns and races a yae r:ring the esonl. He used to : CANNOT ABOLISH DISPENSARY U Board Has No Power to Close a Place After it Has Begun Operations. The Columbia correspondent of the charlotte Observer writes his paper is follows: to Just before the meetingofteeg slature, when there was an apparent s ly strong sentiment throughout the state in favor of radical changes in he dispensary law, and when it was hought likely the Legislature would d make important changes and grant 2oncessions in these changes to the e prohibitionists and anti-dispensary Deople, the State board of directors, a >y a vote of two to one, decided to grant prohibition to the little town of n Elleree, in Orangeburg. which had by b- petition been urging the board to re nove its dispensary since last sum mer, and passed a resolution closing Lt the dispensary there the first of Jan i uary. Chairman Hub Evans. who e voted against allowing the community ;t prohibition, had the matter taken up to the Supreme Court on the petition of Dispenser Weeks, against whom there was complaint as to the manner e in which he had been conducting the p Elleree dispensary. The people of El leree frankly acknowledged that there was no fault to find with Dispenser Weeks; the, nerel: wanted prohibi is tion. which their count:' board had re te fused to grant. The Legislature had come and gone without making any change in the dispensary law, and the Supreme Court permanently enjoined i- the State board from carrying into ef y feet its resolution closing the Elleree A dispensary on the ground that both the spirit and the substance of the d dispensary law forbids the State board 1- closing any dispensary onte opened, - and thus full:- sustains Chairman Ev e ans, who contended that the State board had no 4urisdiction in such a e matter and that dispensaries may be closed only under the Brice act, which t requires the entire county to act in an election, the counties voting out its dispensaries levying half a mill to en force prohibition and forfeiting its e share in the dispensary school fund, t- which act the Legislature iust ad a journed- resolutely refused to amend. A movement has started in Oconee it to vote out the dispensaries. and it n is not unlikely that this county will fol t- low the example of Cherokee. which n voted out its dispensaries under the Brice act. The church people are be hind the movement in Oconee and they are moving with energy and great enthusiasm and zeal. Carolinians Much Gratified. _ The people of South Carolina are very much elated to know that cne of the great battleships now being built >, will be given the name of the proud - State which for years led in the coun d cils of the nation and may yet be one of the influential States of the union as she is rapidly becoming even now. - "I thank you for your telegram. It was a great pleasure to be able to name e one of the battleships 'South Carolina.' "Theodore Roosevelt."' Later in the day the governor re e ceived notice from Washinghton that ;the other battleship to be built would sbe named "The Michigan." He then sent the following telegram to Gov. aWarner of that State: V "Accept my congratulations on e'The e Michigan.' Permit me to say that 'The r Michigan' and 'The South Carolina' are In fine company for a glorious a career." - Congressman J. E. Ellerbe, expressed e his personal gratification at the action of President Roosevelt and he ventured the prediction that at the end of his -career President Roosevelt will be more - popular in the south than any other president has been in 40 years. Gov. Heyward received the follow ing telegram from Gov. Fred M. War ner of Lansing, Mich.: "Thanks for t congratulations. The South Carolina a and Michigan will honor the navy and . our country." Poll Tax Delinquents. tThe supply bill for 1905 contains the following provision as to paying tpoll tax: - "Any person who shall fail to pay - such poll tax shall be deemed guilty I of a misdemeanor and on conviction - thereof before a magistrate shall be punished by a fine of not less than s$10 or by imprisonment at hard labor upon the public works of the county for not more than 20 days; provided, that the county shall not pay the cost or fees of any constable or sheriff for the execution of any wvarrant or other process issued in' any case by virtue of the provisions of this section, un less the defendants in such cases shall be arrested and convicted. For services herein rendered by those magistrates and constables who re tceive salaries, they shal receive, in I addition to such salaries as they are now entitled to have by law, the said .costs and sfees; provided, that said costs and fees be collected cut of and paid by defendants." Charters and Commissions. The Secretary of State has commis sionedl the Kennedy B3uilding Supply Comp1any of Sumpter with $20.000 cap ital. Dr. A. J. China, D. D. Moise and other" are the petitioners. A chiarter was issued the Whitmire Manufacturing Company of Newberry cou'nty. having $10,000 capital and( en gaged in manufacturing handkerebhirfs. A commission for the Cobb company -was filed from this county, but the place of .business in Tryon, N. C., and the capital is $3,000. Mr. Robert H. Harleston has been commissioned chairman of election - oard of Charleston county to succeed - Mr. H. W. Conner. Jr., resigned. SA charter was issued to the Lake City Mercantile Company, of Lake City - Iand Charleston, with a capital of $2. - 500. WV. A. Ward is president end Streasurer and Hyman Pearlstine is 1 secretary and vice-president. A commission was issued the SGeorgetown Fruit Company, with $3. 1000 capital. C. C. Scurrey and L C. 1 Registrer are among the petitioners. r A charter was issued the Palace -Poultry Company, of Charleston, with t $3,000 capital. J. T. Snelson is presi - denft andl treasurer and B. H. Rutledge I s secr'etary. The following commissions were is sued by the Secretary of State Sat urday: The Palm Beach Company, of n Charleston. a real estate concern, with t.acapital of $1"0000; the Security. Loan & Investment Company. of New I eiry wxith a capital of $10,000; the G re~gory-Hood Live Stock Company. of it Lancaster. with a capital stock of $20, 0.1; the Lipseomnb-Arthu:r Comipany. of N Niety-ix, dry:. goods, capital $10.000. \ A(ommttoe of the New York Rapid Transit Co: 'mion: recommended new subway and other facilities to SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION A Splendid Program Has Been Pre Pared For the Occasion. The 2Sth annual meeting of the South Carolina Sunday school convention will be held in the First Presbyterian church at Florence March 28th to 30th inclusive. It is expected that there will be a large attendance. The la:t meeting was held in Columbia and did a great deal of good. The officers of the association are: President, F. H. Hyatt. Columbia; vice president. Rev. W. E. Wilkins, Columbia; secretary, L. L. Barre, Greenville; treasurer, ]Rev. W. I. Her bert, Columbia; superintendent pri mary department. Mrs. M. A. Carlisle, Newberry; superintendent home de partment. T. B. Anderson, Charleston, statistical secretary, J. Adger Smyth, Jr.. Pelzer. The members of the executive com mittee are: William E. Pelham, chair man, Newberry; P'rof. E. L. Hughes, Greenville; Rev. J. W. Shell, Spartan burg; Dr. E. C. Jones, Newberry; Rev. T. H. Law, D. D., Spartanburg; Hon. J. E. Ellerbe, Sellers; Rev. G. A. Wright, Newberry; T. T., Hyde, Charleston; S. B. Ezell, Spartanburg; Dr. George B. Cromer, Newberry; Rei. H. P. Witsell, Columbia; Rev. W. L. Seabrook, Newberry; D. H. Greene, Georgetown; H. E. Ravenel, Esq., Spar tanburg; Rev. W. B. Duncan, Lau rens. The Programme. Following is the programme of the exercises: FIRST SESSION. Tuesday, March 28, 1905. 8 p. m.-Devotional and song service conducted by Rev. Melton Clark. 8:30 p. m.-Address by the president, F. H. Hyatt. 9 p. m.-"Sunday School in Japan," Rev. James A. B. Scherer, Ph. D., LL..D. 9:45 p. m.-Enrollment of members, Appointment of nominating commit tee. Adjournment. SECOND SESSION. Wednesday, March 29, 1905. 10 a. m.-Devotional, Rev. John G. Beckwith. 10:15 a. m.-Report of committee. on nominations. 10:30 a. m.-Report of the executive committee, William E. Pelham, chair man. 10:45 a. m.-"Teaching Through the Eye," Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner. 11:30.-"The Parent and the Child in the Sunday School," Rev. C. Q. Burts. 12 m.-Open conference. 12:30 p. m.-Adjournment. THIRD SESSION. Wednesday, March 29, 1905. 3 p. m.-Devotional, Rev. W. B. Oliver. 3:15 p. m.-"Pointers," Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner. 4 p. m.-Report of officers: (a), treas urer, Rev. W. I. Herbert; (b) superin tendent primary department, Mrs. M. A. Carlisle; (c) superintendent home department, T. B. Anderson; (d) sta tistical secretary, J. Adger Smyth, Jr. 5 p. m.-Adjournment. FOURTH SESSION. Wednesday, March 29, 1905. 8 p. m.-Devotional, Rev. Walter I. Herbert. 8:30 p. m.-"A Mcdel Sunday School," Rev. Win. G. Neville, D. D., LL. D. 9:30 p. nn-Adjournmenlt. FIFTH SESSION. Thursday, March 30, 1905. 10 a. m.-Devotional, Rev. W. E. Wil kins. 10:15 a. m.-"The Pastor and the Child," Rev. W. P. Witsell. 10:45 a. m.-"Reviews," Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner. 11:30 a. m.-"Our Needs," Rev. W. I. Herbert. 12 m.-Open conference and ques tions. 12:30 p. mn.-Adjournment. SIXTH SESSION. Thursday, March ~30, 1905. 3 p. m.-Devotional, Rev. T. H. Law, D. D. 3:15 p.. m.-"Glimpses from the Field," Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner. 4 p. m.-"International Sunday School Work in South Carolina and its Importance," Rev. J. W. Shell. 4:30 p. m.-Electionl and appointment of delegates to the 11th international convention, Toronto, June 23-27. 5 p. m.-Adjournmnent. SEVENTH SESSION. Thursday, March 30, 1905. 8 p. m.-Devotional, Rev. J. P. Knox. 8:30 p. m.-"Christ and Childhood," Rev. 0. Y. Bonner, D. D. 9:30-Adjournment. Palmetto Items. It is thought that Alice Fuller, the white woman who was burned so badly last week; will die. The woman was discovered about five miles from Co lumbia, in a strip of woods enveloped in flames and as quickly as possible a farmer who happened to be passing rendered assistance. She was taken to the alms hou-se and given medical at tention, but little hope is given for her recovery. Mr. Robert G. Strothers, a conductor on the Southern Railway, met with a tragic death in Columbia in the Bland ing street freight yards. Mr. Strothers was conductor on an extra freight. just coupling up to leave, when the acci dent occurred. and the affair happenet Iso quickly that there was no possible chance of giving him assistance. and it is now believed that he was instantly killed. J. T. Smith, Jr., a prominent young man of Williston and very popular, was foully murdered from ambush Friday night while riding horseback through a small section of wood near his home. His watch is missing and it is thought robbery was the mnotive. Oe charge caught him full in the face, both glancing upward. The Mascot Real Estate Company is the name of a new busi::aess enter prise, which promises a great deal to ward the development of Spartanburg The following gentlemen compose th( company: Mayor A. B. Calvert, Mr. J. P. Stevens and Mr. William A. Law of Philadelphia. The object of th( company is the buying and selling and improving of real estate. Alread: they have invcsted about $12,000 irs town lots. Charged With Bigamy. Anderson. Special.-Deputy Sheriff Scott has brought back from Gaffney a white man by the name of Porter, who is wanted here on a charge of Ibigamy. Porter married a young wo man at ore of the cotton mills here some time ago, but left her when it was discovered that he had other wives. Hie is a shiftless chara:-ter, and it is alleged that he has been maarried several times, going from one miii to another. He will be given a STOR11Y CONDITIONS Worse Troubles Confront Russians At Bome LABORING PEOPLE STILL RESTLESS Labor Delegates Representing the Whole Industrial Popoulation of St. Petersburg lssue Peremptory De mads Which the Government Is Almost Certain Not to Grant. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-Black clouds are again lowering over the in dustrial situation of Russia. The strike at Moscow has been resumed on a large scale, anarchy reigns in the Caucasus, and at St. Petersburg the measures which the government ad vanced to quiet discontent and restore - good relations between masters and men appear to have failed, with the probability of causing the storm to break anew. The labor delegates representing the whole of the industrinl population of St. Petersburg, and who were elect ed to choose fifty members of the Schidioski reconciliation commission met again Thursday and reaffirmed the resolutions adopted the previous day, which threatened, in case the demands are not granted, not only to refuse to elect labor representatives to the commission, but to order a re sumption of the general strike. These demands are for the release of imprisoned workmen and freedoi from arrest, unhampered speech, fnR publicity of meetings of the commis sion, and the abolition of the censor ship. A practical ultimatum was deliver ed, calling for an answer today, and there is little expectation that the government will grant the conditiont deman'ded. The strike already has assumed large proportions here, about 50,000 men being out. Among those who struck yesterday are the employ es of the St. Petersburg shops of the Warsaw Railway. The strike has not yet extended to the trainmen; but'the leaders may decide to order them out in order to paralyze one of the most important railroadr in Russia. New Burden on Railway. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-In a long dispatch from General Kuroiatkin which was received here, the com mander-in-chief of the army in Man 'churia gives details of various at tacks by the Japanese during the last few days, and a dispatch from Mukden, received at/midnight, indicates a con tinuation of the artillery duel; but neither report throws any light upon the rumored intention of General Ku ropatkin to withdraw northward, which has been the gossip of St. Pe tersburg for the past two days. A private dispatch received last night concludes with this significant sea tence: "Within,- two weeks you mgy expect great events." The Siberian Railway, which Is be ing worked to its full capacity by purely military trafmc, is about to have a further burden Imposed upon it-namely, that Of feeding the resi dent non-combatant populatIon. The stocks of provisions in Siberia were * not as large as usual at the .beginning~ of the winter and are now run The government has beenlorei . that provisions must be Impotdby the railroad or that the towns will be face to face with famine within a . fortnight. This will necessitate some lielay in the forwarding of military r upplies, which are sorely needed at the present moment" No Tobacco Trust investigation. Washington, Special.-No action will be taken by the House at this session on the Kehoe resolution for an Investi gation of the "tobacco trust." Repre sentative Smith, of Kentucky, who was delegated by the judiciary committee to consult the Attorney General on the subject, has found it impossible to ar range a satisfoctory interview, and ex pressed the opinion that with the steel trust and Standard Oil investigation, the Depart ment of Commprce and La bor will be running to its full capacity during the summer. To Print Boil Weevil Literature. Washington, Specal.-The President sent to Congress api elaboration of an agricultural bulletini published a year ago, and containing the observations for 1904, relating to the boll weevil. It was sent to Congress in order to hava.it printed for general distribution in Tex as, Louisiana and other cotton-groiwing States. Exiled Negro Sues the City. Lynchburg, Va., Special.-Suit was instituted in the clerk's office of the Federal Circuit Court here by Rev. Richard Jones, colored, against the city of Roanoke for $30,000, and another against Mayor Cutchin and City Ser geant J. A. Manu'i, who are sued as individuals and not as officials, for $20, 000. Jones is the colored Baptist prea cher who was charged with preaching an inflammatory sermon in Roanoke shortly after the terrible assault a year ago on Mrs. Shields by a negro, and who was afterwards forced to flee from a mob, and has, since been residing in Pennsylvania. Suit to Oust Standard Oil Co. Topeka, Kan., Special.-It developed that suit has been brought by Attorney General Coleman for the appointment of a receiver and to oust the Standard Oil Company from Kansas. It was at first erroneously stated that the action was simply against the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, operating auxiliary or the Standard in the West. The sherit has served a summons on the Standard~ Oil Company's agent at Kansas City, Kansas. Report Transmitted. Washington. Special.-The President has sent to Congress a report on sugar cane experiments for 1903-1904, con ducted by the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture. The in vestigations were made chiefly in the State of Georgia. The report contains the result of experiments with fertili zers. character of the soil best adapted to the growth of cane, technical de sc-ri ptions of operations of syrup facto rics, directions for sampling and pre serving juices for an analysis, and kindred topics.