The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, January 14, 1891, Image 1
COL. KEITHS MAD.
HE MAKES A MOST SAVAGE ATTACK
ON DR. J. W. STOKES.
Says Seaator Irby is no Statesman and
Accuses Dr. Stokes of Treachery and
being Influeaced by Lis Own Per ,
/i T ?> rpi.^ 4:^
6.?iiiy iui!)is
week in
i Order now
id we Lave
have a great
To have a
obligations
I to the Ory
neeessa^r'
to j
Economist, I
)rder. pubIt
will cost
It is worth
10 you more man an me other newspapers
put together. Y ou will learn i
nrmwVlog or^rl ripmanrig nf I
the Order and its great end and aim.
If you do not take it, subscribe at once
for it.
There is great lack of knowledge
among those who ought to be posted.
The following will show the obligation
of each Member of the Alliance to the
Order to those organizations with
whom we have confederated:
St. Louis, Mo., December 6tb, 1S89.
Agreement made tris day by and between
the undersigned committee repre- j
senting the National Farmers' Alliance j
and Industrial Union on the one part, and
the undersigned committee representing
he Knights of Labor on the other part.
Witnesseth: The udersignee committee
representing the Knights of Labor having
read the demands of the National Farmers
Alliance and llndustrial Union which are
embodied In this agreement, hereby endorse ;
the same on behalf of the Kni shits of Labor, i
and for the purpose of giving practical |
effect to the demands heiein set forth, the
legislative committees of both organizations
will act in concert before Congress for the
purpose of securing the enactment of laws
in harmony with the. demands mutually
agreed. And it is further agreed, in order
to carry out these objects, we will support
for office only such men as can be depended
upon to exact these principlese into statute
law uninfluenced by party caucus. National
Economist, Vol. 2, No 4, page 214.
Is it not clear from the above agreement
that any member of Congress who j
is a member "of the Alliance commits i
nprinrv if he ?roes into a caucus of I
either of the great parties ? If he is in
any degree influenced by party caucus
he "is perjured. There is no escape from
it.
On the heels of Mr. Irby's election to
the position of United States Senator
he was interviewed by the correspondent
of The Xews and" Courier, and is
reported as making the following statement:
"I am going to the Senate as a Democrat
- and in full accord with the National Democracy.
I am in full sympathy with the
Ailiance, but whatever" may be obtained
by me for the Alliance must be obtained
Vo+iAnol njirf.v "
Ul^VUgU tuv aY UI'JLUUMA VJ .
How does this statement of .Mr.
Irby'swho is the Alliance lecturer of
Laurens County, compare with his
-obligations as a" member of the Alli_
.< ance ? Is he ignorant of his obligations.
Sr' or is his conscience so seared that he is
insensible of his sworn duty ?
Brother Alliancemen, 'great principles
and demands are the basis of our
noble Order, and we have before Congress
pressing for solution a measure
of financial relief of the greatest magnitude.
The Alliance is non partisan,
but political. It rises high above men
and parties. It is the creature of the
times and the condition of the country.
Financial reform is the imperative demand.
It was that, and not tariff re
form, that caused the recent great
political revolution. The people of the
North and Northwest are sick and tired
growing corn for 12 cents per bushel
and raising beef for 1 cent per pound.
This is only the beginning of the revolution
for the purification of the Government
and financial reform. The
time is near at hand when the Order will
move out and, taking its position, will
draw its blade in defense of its princi
pies and demands, and, striEmg ngnt
and left will spare no foe. "Whoever
falters in the fight is a traitor, and
should meet the traitors' fate.
To permit a scurvy fellow, leprous
with crime and without an element of
statesmanship, to worm himself by political
trickery into high position, is not
only an impediment to the work, but
a crime against the Order. A majority
of the members of the General Assembly
are Alliance men, and they could
have 'elected a clean and able man to
reprerent our Order in the Senate and
push our measures to success. All was
lost by the treason of one man, Senator
Stokes, president of the State Alliance.
How and why?
On "Friday moraine. December 5,1S1K),
the following appeared in the Charleston
"World, the * organ of Tillman and
Irby:
"What I have seen and heard to-day
confirms mem my previously expressed
opinion that State Senator J." W. Stokes,
who is also President of the State Farmers'
Alliance, will cut no figure in the
fight for the "United States Senatorship
next Tuesday; but that on the contrary he
is being carefully groomed for the Governorship
in 1S94, when Tillman is more than
likely, as I have already pointed out in
mliimTis CllfVPPf? t.llfl Tlfm. M. (/.
Butler in the United States Senate."
The Tillmaiiite who inspired this
knew his man. Stokes snapped lip and
swallowed the bait with avidity, as the
sequel shows. On the night of the
next day, Saturday, there was a caucus
of about forty Alliance men, which was
Sresided over by Senator Stokes, presient
of the State Alliance. A ballot
was taken, with Donaldson in the lead,
next Irby, then Keitt. Stokes, as predicted,
in the Charleston World, cut no
figure in the light, ilo got only four
votes. lie was out of the race in an
Alliance coucus.
It was then agreed to hold an Alliance
caucus on Monday night, when all the
Alliance members of the General As-1
sembly would be present and select an I
Alliance candidate. A committee was
appointed to wait on Donaldson, Irby
and Keitt and get them to state in writing
their position on the principles and
demands of the Alliance, to be read before
the caucus. President stokes said j
to the writer that his position was well j
known, but the position of Donaldson !
:md Irby was not; hence the request that J
they be'put in writing. I put mine in i
writing and handed it in. Senator)
Stokes", president of the State Alliance!
and presiding oilicer of the caucus of i
Alliance men on Saturday night, instead ;
of convening the Alliance on Monday j
night, as agreed, Jed olf into a caucus ux;
Xon-Alliance men, Tillmanites: from I
I which caucus Alliance men who did not i
Bl support Tillman were excluded, and into ]
IgW winch who tnose supported Tillman i
would not go.
Stokes sold out the Alliance for the I
K shadow of being Governor ot the State j
88 four years hence. That is the logical I
conclusion. The result was the Alliance j
jft had no candidate. Alliance men were 1
free to vote for whom they pleased.
||ll Some rightly exercised it.
|B ? Senator Stokes, from his position as
M president of the State Alliance and his
failure to convene the caucus of the Al
' liance nu-n 011 Montiay night. which was !
agreed on, and his leading oil' into a can-1
; eus of Xon-Alliance men, is responsible i
| for the failure on the part of Alliance j
| men to send a representative man to the ;
j United States Senate, who would do j
' honor to the state and our noble Order, j
I The injury resulting to the Order j
I from the treason of this one man can j
not be estimated. True and brave men
cannot tight under the tlag borne by a
traitor. Respectfully,
Ellison >. Kkitt.
iluoree Plantation, December 2'J, lyju.
lliotous Stvik-.ir*.
Pittsduko, Jan. 1.?The strike of
Hungarian iurnace men at Ktlgar Thom;
son's steel works at JJraildock. Pa., resulted
in a serious riot this afternoon,
in which foiv men were seriously hurt |
and a dozen others : .n< joivti and |
ijftuised. iTt.n^arians quit work"aT^
niiurugnt" and the plant was partially |
idle, only about 100 being at work re- pairing
furnaces. :
About 1 o'clock a crowd of wild strik- '
ers armed with clubs, picks, shovels, re- 1
vovers, bars of iron and every other '
conceivable weapon, made an attack on .
the furuce. The men were w!lolly uu- ,
prepared for the assault, but they j
bravely stood their ground, and a i,
bloody riot was the rsult. The howling j i
mob of Hungarians used their weapons I (
freely and the men were knocked down,
clubbed, bruised and unmerciluilr h
" I ,
ucali;u?v
Pittsburg, Jan. '2.?Xo further 1
trouble has occur red at Edgar Thomson's 1
works. The striking Hungarianfurnacemen
have been awed by the presence of '
the Sherilf with'his largo force of deputies, '
ground a repetition of yesterday's bloody (
scenes is not expected.
This afternoon the strikers wore paid ;
oil'and dismissed, j<
The officials o:'E(Lrar Thompson works I;
have decided to keep the blast furnaces |.
burning at all hazards and to continue i <
the force of guards until quietrestored. |
(General Manager Scwab this morniug 1
said it had been determined to protect ;
their workmen and continue operation ;
if possible. Seventeen were arrested at |
Braddock this morning and locked up !
a('ai r\i\ri
1U UCiUUit U1 Ci.VUU LMiU
Conspiracy toMurder.
Macon, Ga., Jan. 7 ? The jury in
the Forsyth conspiracy trial in the [
Federal Court rendered their verdict j i
last evening, after having been out:;
forty-eight hours.
The jury found the defendants, Luther
A. ilall. Charles Clements and
Wright Lancaster, guilty of conspiracy
and murder with recommendation
of life imprisonment, the defendants :
Louis Knight and John W. Lancaster 1
guilty of conspiracy only and the de- 1
teudant James Moore not guilty.
This ends, after a tedious trial of
three weeks, one of the most famous j
cases in Georgia's history. The evi-!
dence produced during the trial was of i
the most startling nature, revealing a |
diabolical conspiracy among the defendants
to get rid of J. C. Foroyth,
the Georgia agent of the Dodge estate
ofXewYork, who lived at Xorman
dale. Dodge County.
Charles Clements and Kich Lowry.
a negro, were hired to murder B. Forsyth
for SGOO. Together the> approached
their victim's house o'n the {
night of the Tth of October last, and i
Long shot Forsyth through an open |
window, while Clements waited at ai
distance. Only .'--CO of the reward was
paid.
Lem Burch, whose house was the J
rfln/Uvrnnc nf thr* vccvc* t.iirnpi!
State's evidence, and it was cruelly on
his testimony that the defendants
were convicted. Lowry escaped and
has never been caught. A government
reward oi 8750 is outstanding for
him, and to-' av Xormaa V\\ Dodge offered
an addi.-^nalreward of SI,000.
Lowry came from IS'orth Carolina
ana is supposed to have gone back
there. lie Is a bright mulatto, nearly
white, with squint'eyes, sandy red hair,
stubby sandy red mustache, weighing
about 175 pounds, height live feet ten
.nches. lie walks with head down and
upually dresees well.
"War on the Harvester Trust.
Faiico. X.D., Jan. 7.?Arrangements
are being made to light the collection of j
nil Tintt-c r>mv 1-ie.lrl liv flio TTorvf-dtP-r
Company in this J>tate. and it is said that!
the amount is about S^,OOO,000. The i
ground of the contest is that the no'es j
were given for binders, with a contract j
that repairs should be furnished free,
and the recently combined American
Harvester Company lias made a rule
that all repairs mast hereafter be paid
for in cash
Another ground lor the contest will
be that the new company is a trust and is
therefore contrary to the laws of the
United States and' the statutes of .North
Dakota. Arrangements are also being
i made to antagonize the business of the j
; new company and to favor the |
i Independent Reaper Company. as
the American Harvester Company
announce prices forty dollars higher
, per machine than has been the rule.
Horror of a lv;u!s:;s Winter.
.Medicine Lodge, Kas., January 4. j
Two brothers. ' timed J Jell, aged 22 and I
9 years, and a sister l'J years old. attended
a meeting here on Wednesday night,
and a blizzard arose as t!:ey started for
j home at 10 o'clock. When two hun1
drcd yards from their home the elder
brother remarked that they could net I
make the distance against the storm and '
would have to go with the wind. They j
| drifted south about :i quarter of a mile
and took refture in a canon, where they
. . i i '
i were soon covered uy snuw.
Thursday morning the elder brother
crawled out ot the snow and attempted
| to get home. lie called out to his sister
that hp; was so still' lie could not travel,
and in a short time was frozen. The
younger brother was also irozen to death
: under the drift. The parents started out
' Thursday morning to lind their chilkrtn.
land in a short time searching parties!
I were organized.' Friday morning the j
j body of the young man v.*r.s 'bund, and j
i then the searchers found the irirl. who !
[ was concealed beneath the drift. They !
had been out thirty-six hours. The irirl j
did uot know her brothers were dead, j
She is in a fair way to recovery.
Wallace's l)e::tli Strugs;!*.
Lkavi:nwoi:tti. Kansas. Jan. 7.?A ;
letter from Pine Kidge Agency details j
some hitherto unknown facts concern-!
ing the death of ('apt. Wallace at j
| Wounded Knee. AI'im- the light, the J
letter states, (.'apt. Wallace was found at;
the entrance of an Indian lodge with live ;
dead warriors lying near him. each In-!
clian corpse"1 showing a bullet wound.
Five of tlie chambers in the captain's;
revolver were found empty, and from :
the nosition in which the bodies lay it
! I* presumed that Wallace killed iivo in :
dians before he was overcome.
Terrible Explosion.
! Vienna. Jan. 3.?A terrible explosion :
! of tire damp took place to-day in "The :
Trinity pit, near the l'olish town 01 j
jOstran. Fifteen bodies have been re-j
covered and twenty-four miners arej
missing. Three hundred and fifty other
men in the mine escaped by the open
'shafts.
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HEAR THE OTHER SIDE, j
PRESIDENT STOKES ANSWERS THE
ATTACK Oc COL. KEITT.
A Mild Kebuho to the Severe Diatribe-The
t'iiar^o of HariusrSold the Alliance
for :i Gubernatorial Shadow Positively
Ucaied and Mercilessly Kidlculed.
To the Editor of the Xews and Courier:
I have just read in your issue of
January :) the ill-timed, not to say illtempered
article of Col. Ellison S. Keitt
anent the Senatorial contest in which
he ?vas interested as a candidate, "not
in a common acceptanc/oT'th^S^Wd^
i ms^j? ut>,t"
Your comments t hereon are eminent- ;
y pertinent, entirely fair, size up the
situation fairly well, and doubtless
jive utterance to the undercurrent of
conviction running through the minds
jf ali thinking men at all acquainted
with tin: facts in the case. At thesaine
:ime, as von intimate, some expression
s proper and expected from me; '
though, as you justly remark, no good
an possibly result to the Order or to
the public service by this public parade 1
)f a purely family affair.
1 feel sure, therefore, that vou will
i-jt refuse to a reply the facilities of
pour widely-read journal that have already
been" at-corded the untimely attack.
As a whole the article in question is
unique. Analysis shows it to contain
i modicum of argumentation, consid- ;
drably more of declamation and innuendoes,
and a column of animus. With
its argument I shall deal principally;
with its animus only incidentally, secondarily.
Its declamation I" have
a either time nor patience to discuss,
it is strangely familiar, an oft repeat?d
story. 1
Divested of its declamation and in- !
nutrndo. Cel. Keitt's propositions are I
four, and to the discussion of these '
propositions I shall strive to bring absolute
fairness, but at the same time
entire frankness and rigid logic. If
the application of these tests to asper- i
<ions upon the characters of his brethren?aspersions
as unworthy as unwarranted?results
in apparent harshness
on my part, such harshness must be attributed
to the inexorable conditions
of the case as made up by him, and not 1
to any unfraternal feeling on my part.
The constitution of our Order forbids, 1
as 1 understand it, my indulging before
the public through the press in animadversions
upon a member of the Order. ;
Provision is made within the Order it >plf
for the adjudication of all differ
enees between members. I shall endeavor,
therefore, to conline myself to
his propositions:
1. Col. Keitt holds that an Alliance
man, who is a member of Congress,
commits perjury '*if he is in any degree
influenced by party caucus." In justification
of "his chaige he quotes an
agreement signed by committees of the
National Alliance and of the Knights
of Labor, which agreement, he intimates,
every Alliance is sworn to obey.
In view of his vim ultra manner on
this point, one can scarcely help wondering
whether Col. Keitt has .ever
read the express reservation precedent
to the pledge taken by every apulicant
for initiation and upon whicn the
pledge is conditioned. There are not a
few men in the.Order as true, as honest
and (if it be not treason to say it) as intelligent
and statesmanlike as Col.
Keitt, who think that the agreement
quoted by him, in so far as it relates to
party caucus, "conflicts with the freedom"
of their political views." This
question has never been adjudicated,
and in cases of conflict of opinion, especially
among brethren and equals, a
commendable modesty would suggest
the suppression of intemperate charges.
2. His second proposition, jus well as
the third, is a corollary of the first, and
stand or falls with it. The imputation
of perjury to Senator Irby, therefore,
is not justified ia the premises. Senator
Irby, whose record as an Alliance
* 1 ? L " ---511 r... ff/.w >/-? /J In
man, it seems iu xue, wm suua uu uioparagement
by comparison even with
Col. Kiett't. proposes to work for the
Alliance demands through the Democratic
party. Col. Keitt's political conseienco
is "not, offended by the parly
caucus clause; Irby's is?that is the
v,hole of it. In our judgment the
shameful insinuations and offensive
epithets aimed by indirection against
ins brother Alliance man by Col. Keitt
arc wholly unworthy and inexcusable
upon any conceivable principle either
ol public utility or of Alliance polity.
JJut .Senator Irby is abundantly able
to take care of himself, even if it were
-- ? 11 AU ..X 4 U ~ 4-*
proyauie in;iu me geuci<u puuuv;, tu
whom Col. Keitt has appealed this case
01 distinctly Alliance jurisdiction,
would not make just discrimination
between the merits and the spirit of the
two men.
3. His third proposition follows by
in.plication from the second and falls
to the iriound with it, but the Colonel
must not evade the logic which he has
invoked. 11' Senator irby is guilty of
perjury, as charged by Col. Keitt under
the terms of the agreement quoted,
then is every Alliance member of the
General Assembly involved in the same
condemnation, Col. Keitt being judge,
iurv an-i nrcsecutirisr attorney in the
case?except those v. ho voted for Col.
Keilt. 2s ow, since not even his supporters
voted for him on the last several
ballots, ail are perjurers by reason of
their failure, to vote for Col. Keitt.
This conclusion is unavoidable, because
lh? agreement quoted reads: "We'will
sKi>jtoj-{ for ojjh:a only such men ta can
be depended upon to enact these'principles
into statute law uninlluenced by
party caucus." This, Col. Keitt says,
every member of the Alliance is saoVe
to obey. Very well?Col. Keitt was the
only candidate member of the Alliance
v. iio eunsiueieu iniib ncruum iiurn ;?aiiy
caucus inihience was not in "conflict
with his political views." But on the
1'ew ballots ;;1! the Alliance members
of the Goner;;! Assembly failed to i'
vote lor Cel. Keitt, and under his cod*
strr.ction they all st-iid perjuredly
reason uf that failure. This is a grave
charge preferred against venerable
Senators MHiill and liedfearn, against
honest I)r. Strait. Joseph L. Keitt, and
all the other Alliance members of the
Senate ami House. On behalf of these
men. whr.se honesty and intelligence,
and may 1 add their statesmanship, is
cerlainiy equal to Col. Keitt's, L repudiate
utierly the imputation. He may be,
:>ni! ! .1 brilliant. irun and
;i lovai lut-mbpr of the Order; but that
r.ll the i :y;;i:y. honesty or even statesmanship
m tho Order resides in him
\vi!i be grudgingly admitted by a large
majority.
1. As to myself. Cel. Keitt says "all
was Just by the treason of one man,
Senator Stokes." It would be ihteresting
to know what the "a IF was that
(. oi. ivt'iit says was iosi. ne presume j
i'.e v.-rote from the standpoint of an Al-!
iianf-e man, and how the Alliance
could lose anything1 in the election of
Co). irby, an lionered and trusted oflicit
of the Order, pledged to its de- j
i"?nds and a tireless woiker for its
ciui^e. as United States Senator, passes
lisy ^prehension. In the absence of
an itfuiizfed account of loss we are
driven to inference or else the method
? i mi?m?
of exclusion. It could not be the loss of {
Hampton he deplored, because Ilamp-!
ton was a caucus man as a matter or
course. It could Dot be Donaldson
whose loss he deplores, for his (Donaldson's)
political views did not admit of
freedom from caucus influence. (History,
by the way, furnishes no instances
of nobler bearing during the light and
defeat than that of Donaldson and
Hampto .)
Then ..'here and what is the loss?
Col. Keitt was the only candidate (in
an uncommon sense) who was not
elected.
The Colonel seems a good deal exasperated
because I called in, as he
says, the Alliance caucus, and he proceeds
to state what transpired in the
iormer Alliance caucus, ne must t-x-1
case me from discussing publicly what I.
transpired
an Alliance
assuming that
are correct, let us seerS^I
sion3 follow. He says thai^^^^HH
ance had a majority in theGenenffis^P
sembly and could have elected its man. '
lie says, further, that the attendance J
upon the Alliance caucus was about
forty. It required eighty-one to elect '
a Senator on joint ballot. He cannot 1
certify that even all those forty mem- i
bers present, as he says, at the Alii- 1
ance caucus were unpledged or agreed ;
with him as to the party caucus clause;
and yet he asserts without qualifiea- <
tion that the Alliance could have elect- ?
ed its man independent of the Reform J
members, who were in full sympathy
with the Alliance, had stood shoulder
to shoulder with us, and had in many 1
instances come to the Legislature on 1
Alliance issues, but who were ineligible 1
to membership. For my part, even if J
it had been possible to elect a Senator i
within ourselves, which I deny under 1
existing circumstances, with Alliance i
demands absolutely secure in the hands 1
of Irby, Donalson or Keitt?the only |
men who were to come before that ,
general caucus as Reformers?I was (
opposed to excluding from participa
cion men just as true to our pnuupies ,
aud honest, though they were ineligible
to membership. " (
Col. Keitt lays much store by the J
fact that some Alliance men could not 1
sain access to the Reform caucus, but <
he fails to state that thost Alliance i
men could not go into a caucus of Re- 1
formers became they were pleaded to '
Hampton.
But I did not act wholly upon my \
own judgement in calling the Alliance \
causus. All the Alliance mem candi- ,
rlates were consulted either in person j
or through their representatives, and I (
thought I had their concurrence in do- !
ingso. The only objection I heard was
oft-or T haH the o-enpral
.aiOCU JL UCIU liVVlUVU WiiW
Reform caucus of our intention to :
meet with them. Col Keitt says I "sold 1
out the Alliance for the shadow of be- ]
ing Governor of the State four years
hence." I deny the charge in toto and '
cite him to his proofs. I take it that i
my denial is worth fully as much as his
assertion that he was at no time a can- j
ilidate in a common acceptance of that j
word, and so some proof will be neces- ]
sary on his part. And what does he
submit in the nature of proof? A \
quotation from the World's Columbia ;
? ? ? ? "" WA/1 flf
LIUlCb, 1U Wiliuii 10 wao dtatcu iiiuucutally
that I was beiDg "carefully groomed
lor the Governorship in 1894," only
this and nothing more. These are the
terms of the trade he says.
The chikllikc simplicity of this conception
is possible only in a mind ac- (
customed to uncommon attitudes, i
Certainly one of us common minds ,
would not be content with a shadow. !
That sort of trading, I presume, is a
peculiarity of uncommon minds. Here (
is his argument, lie says the "World
published that shadow ; afterward I ;
led off into a general Reform caucus, :
therefore the shadow was the cause of :
my leading off?post hoc propter hoc. 1
This is '-logical conclusion" with a ven
geance. 11 is ine logic ul siuuiuiauru
puerility. ' i
Iso rational mind will accept this as
proof. He says there was a trade.
This necessitates a purchaser as well as
a seller. Let him name the other party ,
to the trade, or else stand before the
public to which he has appealed, rather
than to the Order he is sworn to obey, |
as having spoken against a brother
without a cause. 1
lie should know I was not in the city !
when the World report was written,
and had not been for a week. Let him
call up the man to whom or from whom '
came any proposition concerning my- i
self and* the Governorship. Let him ;
call witnesses within or without the ;
State. lie has the World behind him.
He has had a good deal to say about
loyalty to the Order; about crime
agaiust the Order by the election of
Irby, an honored member of the Order,
to the Senate. In my humble judge
merit, loyalty to the Order means lovalty
to its" cardinal principles?brotherly
love, charity; crime against the Order
is inseparable from disregard of these
principles. That quality of a man, as
well as of an Allianceman, is highest
which takes a brother by the hand and
says to him, "Go, sin no more." Between
this quality and that which
thanks God "I am not as other men,"
there is the whole diameter of existence.
J. Win. Stokes,
President S. C. State Farmers' Alliance.
Orangeburg, January 5, 1891.
A Short Honeymoon.
Denver, Jau 8.?Tbe honeymoon 011
Banker Dow's son and Millie Price, the
a "tress, who were married here Friday
night, came near ending a double murder
last night. Dow's father refused to
have anything to do with him or aid
him liunncially. He was to have left
iioro thm ninrnino with the com nan v.
and several creditors, hearing of this,
had the young man arrested Saturday
uii a cuarge obtainuin^ goods under
false pretences.
Last night the couple retired to their
room at the Windsor II )tel about 10
o'clock. Two hours later the door was
tffrown open and Mrs. Dow rushed
clown the hall clad in Iter night robe,
screaming murder at the toj. of her
voice. Several of the guests hurried
into the hall Justin time lo see the husband
emerge from his room and lircd a
shot from his revolver at his fleeing wife.
Seeing that he had failed to hit her. he
re-catered his room and attempted to |
blow his brains out. but the bullet ilew |
wide of its mark, and he was over-:
powered before he could make a second '
attempt. 2s*o one knows the trouble,
but it was probably over money matters, j
This couple have beaten tiie record."
* ?* n r* , ml ? . I
inejr mec lor nrsu ume on xourauay
inornin? of last week, were married
Friday evening and practically divorced
on Sunday evening.
The Alliance Triumphant.
Lincoln, Xeb., Jan. 7.?The legislature
organized to-day, the Farmers' Alliance
having a clear majority and elect- j
ing temporary officers without trouble, j
C. II. Fiertie, secretary of the state cen- j
tral committee of the'independent par-!
ty. was elected the secretary pro tem of ,
thp Sfnntp hv a maioritv of onp P?. M. !
Elder was elected tempoary Speaker of |
the House aDd Eric Johnson secretary.
The temporary Speaker is without experiance
and a turbulent^ession is conlidently
expected.
^GHASTLY RELIGIOUS RITESI'eoi>Ie
who Sleep in ColHns, Wear Chains
and Undertake to "Work 21Iracle?.
San* Fkaxcisco, Jan. 5.?There are
five women and one man living at Xo.
1C2 Amherst Street who sleep every
night in their respective coflins. A certain
Dr. Jacques, a widower and graduate
of the Victoria School of Medicine,
has founded a community at the number
aoove mentioned, and, in order to
verify the reports as to the extraordinary
character of the house in question, a
visit was paid to the establishment.
Dr. Jacqucs has the appearanc?_Qi_l
or latere?
ipon is head. "I made a bareM
.he bonDieu,"be?:an the. zealoui^H
;the vear the smallpox raged inTS^
.real." says the Toronto Lmpire. "I
risited no less than 1,200 cases, and in
ftnvn f^nrl rrr^r.tlv favftrr?rl thp mission T
:iave in hand, viz., the adoration of the
Holy Face.'"
Among the patients was a family from
>t. Jerome named Aubin. and the father
md mother, with Jive daughters, the
eldest twenty-four years and the youmr;st
thirteen, now live under the doctor's j
roof. The parents live like ordinary I
uortuls, but the live children lead a life I
dmost as severe as the terribly austere |
regime of a Carmelite nun. The house j
n question is not of modern construction
by any means, and when the visitor I
,vas shown into the courtyard in the rear I
.he eider Aubin was engaged washing
.lit; UUUCIUL 5 ? tU^ULl, ilLLU UI3 i^UUU ? 11V?
>vas similarly occupied with" the wjnlows.
As this worthy couple do not belong
.0 the community proper, and consequently
do not sleep in coflins, they were
eft at their work and the uext floor was
reached,, The five little sisters, as the j
loctor calls them, were found robed in J
red material, with a white hcad-dres3 j
'ailing ;do\vn over their shoulders,
rhese girls have no education whatever,
i-et their medical protcctor says they
ire very learned in things pertaining to
Lhe celestial sphere. They retire at 8:30
. _ /I ^4-1 1 ~"WU ~ *K *11
XllM cUiOC rib ULIU itltUUU^U Uil iUi
the house, the greater, part of the day is
spent iu adoration and prayer.
By the side ofa. nicely decorated alter
stands a post about six feet iu height,
md upon the latter hangs an ox chain
Len feet long, the use of which was explained
as follows by the good doctor:
When Montreal is siven over to 'carnivals,
to balls and parties, and when the
devil finds it easy to tempt frail men and
women kind, it is at these seasons that
the five sisters devote themselves most j
intently to penitence and prayer. This
heavy chain is hung around each sister's
aeck for an hour at a time, while they
kneel in nraver for their sisters of the
world whom destiny has thrown in
temptation's way.
The doctor now draws aside a curtain,
and IT large deep coSftrr -painted black
and covered with grav cotton, meets the
astonished gaze of the reporter. The
:loth being removed, the pillow is found
to be made of soft wood, and not a single
article of clothing is visible. The
tire sisters sleep upstairs, the second
floor being divided into a half dozen
small, checrless rooms or cells. The
turniturc m each oitliese sleeping apartments
cousists of a black coffin, a table
and a tin wash basin, tire same absence
ot clothing being quite as marked as on
the lloor below.
In reply to a question, Dr. Jacques
stated the girls would rather die any
time than leave the community, and he
rattled oft" the most wonderful miracles
that had been operated following a brief
sojourn in his community.
A brother from Oka had left his own
estaoiisnmenturoKenaown wun disease,
and after a sojourn of forty-eight hours
at Xo. 1G2 Amherest Street had returned
to his monastic home in Otland weighing
sixty pounds more than when he
left and being fjnite unreconizable by
his religious confcrers. "In fact," concluded
the doctor, "far more miracles
are performed at Stc. Anne de Leaupre,
and everything has been done but bringing
the dead to life again."
Tho Late Captain Wallace.
Yokkville, S. C., Jan. (>.?The remains
of Captain Geo. D. Wallace, who
was killed in the late light with the Indians
in South Dakota, arrived here 011 a
special train last evening at S o'clock in
charge of Col. Ji. M. Wallace. The body
was met at the depot by a detachment
of the Jenkins Ritles, who acted as a
millitary guard over the remains at the'
Presbyterian Church during the night.
The funeral services were held in the
Prpshvtfrinn Church this rnornin<? :it 11
o'clock, the R.G. Patrick of the Baptist
Church and J. C. Galloway of the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Church
officiating, after which" interment took
place iiftlie cemetery with military
honors by the Jenkins Rilles. During
the furnal services business was entirely
suspended.?Columbia Register.
MI^plAced Confidence.
CoxcoivD, X. IL. January ?>.?The Supreme
Court, Chief Justice Doe deliverivior
tVir> 7iint 1 r]a<-:.r\&r] +n./?:iv tr> r?i<i_
miss the case against Clerk .Jewett on
the ground >j[ want of jurisdiction.
This decision leaves the matter of making
up the roll of members *f the House
in Clerk .Jewett's hands, and the admission
of "if entitled members will result
in the election of Tuttle (Republican}
for Governor and a Republican United
States Senator. J
Mysterious Assassination in Lonisiana.
Xew Orleans, Jan. 2.?A TimesDemocrat
Amite City, La., special says:
C.C. Ilonye, a prominent citizen oi our
town, was assassinated to-night at 7
o'clock on the corner of Railroad avenue
and Mulberry street, the most conspicuous
place in" town, yet where the killing
v?s done was a dark place. lie
was shot si:; times and instantly killed.
The murderer escaped.
Fire of the Crevf Liroivned.
Mobile, Jan. 2?The British
hark Topsy, (Japt. Knight, from Kingstoil
to Grand Cayman, went ashore on
Cayman beach ])ec. 18. and is a total
loss. The captain, two mates, one seaman
and the cabin boy were lost; seven
of the crew were rescued. News was
brought here to-dav bv the schoontr
Union, Capt. Foster.
Tko Minnesota Farmers' Alliance.
St. Paul, Minn.. Jan. 2.?At yesteray's
session of the Farmers' Alliance
resolution to endorse tlie Ocala platrm
was heavily defeated, and the subct
of sub-Treasuries ignored in tiie
egular resolutions, while the Conger
lard bill was endorsed. Early in the
session i:ie new cousimmuu v. no uifeated,
but a little before midnight,
after a warm session, that action was
reconsidered, and the new constitution,
which is a codification of the sugsestion
of i'resident Donnelly, was adopted.
BOnoMl
MHBSMi
nBHHKV
(Thc n
FallV
spect^B
Board cH
lina Tei*
superint?
11 bers, vifli
former bookkeep^^^
that lie thought that the apparent shoriT
age of Sl,80u was due to some error.
The following resolution was thereupon
passed by the board:
1 ^solved. That the Doard of Directors 1
shall employ an expert to investigate
the books and accounts of the penitentiary
and report at our next meeting,
and that Mr. Pateman be allowed to be
represented during the investigation, by
proxy or in person, if he desires.
The matter of the purchase of the DeSaussure
farm was then taken up. This
farm was contracted for by the old board
under the authority of the Act of 1888
authorizing the expenditure of 840,000
of the Penitentiary funds for the purchase
of a state farm, not subject to
overflow. The agreement to purchase |
was made bv the old board with the !
n A r- * n i
representatives ui ^jl. ur. uia^n., ui
Xew York, whose property it was, and
although there had been for quite a long
time a disagreement among' the members
of the old board as to the advisability
of the purchase of this particular
tract, yet when the majority decided in
favor of the purchase, it was generally
understood that the rest had acquiesced.
The question as to the liability of the
swamp lands to overllow was discussed,
Mr. Sanders expressing the opinion that
if the dam was put in good order, these
lands would be free from all overflow.
i lr\i-r>r-T<r\r- Tillman tlirmcrht. that, t.hft
board should inspect the farm before
going any further with the transaction.
The old board Laa paid earnest money
and there was a question as to the
legality of their action in the matter.
The Attorney General would have to
decide that, but at any rate whether this
board carried out the contract of purchase
or not it ought first to inspect the
farm.
With this view of the matter all of
the members of the board agreed.
The Governor then stated that in the
opinion of the Attorney General the
title to this property was good and the
board would not have that question to
consider, but they were to decide as to
whether the oia uoaru naa iranscenaea
its authority in purchasing lands said to
be subject to overflow. If they had the
Fight make sucL^purchasethen that
clause about overflow might as well have
been left out of the Act.
Assistant Attorney General Townsend
here stated that by the Act of 1887
there must be a unanimous vote for it
before any purchase could be made.
Colonel ^Nelson replied that the old
board had inspected the farm and decided
to purchase, their vote on it being
unanimous.
Governor Tillman here remarked that
if the old board had overstepped its
authority, Colonel Xelson, by the contract
he'got out of them, had put the
.State in a shape to be sued. The Act
of 1887, continued the Governor, provided
that no nurchase should exceed
$12,000; that sum was increased by subsequent
legislation, but still unanimity
on the part' of the board was a necessary
condition precedent to the purchase of
any farm.
Reference was then had to the min-1
utes of the old board to see what the i
; final vote in regard to this purchase had.
! been, but it was not recorded. Colonel J
Xelson, however, reiterated his state- j
ment that the purchase had been finally
agreed upon by all, to which the Governor
replied that the majority had car- J
nrmif\ :inr! flip rmnnrit'.v ramp
in on the home stretch.
Col. Nelson?'The whole hoard ac- j
cepted the purchase; that makes it
unanimous in law."
Mr. Sanders?"And the House com-1
mittee conlirmed our action."
Gov. Tillman?"They had no author- j
ity to do so; they could simply express
an opinion."
The question was then raised as to
what funds could be used for the payment
of the farm, and Col. Xelson said
| that the old board had told Mr. Smith
(Mr. J31ack's partner) that he woidd
i?""i Kiirr ti-m fiv?tv? tlif> non ifpntiflrv
| iillY ^ t \J VUJ Wltvu a a v?i* viiv
I in order to enable them to raise the
funds to pay with.
Governor Tillman wanted t\? know
how many bales of cotton were on hand.
Col. Talbert?"About 500."
Gov. Tillman?"That's a small crop
for a large force of convicts to gather.
They ought to be good pickers: one of
them with a whip behind him ought to
I pick two pounds !'or one picked by a
| hand at uO cents day."
The books ami safe were then exi
amined to see what amount of cash was
j 011 hand, and it was found that there
I was S U!t)1.5s in bank and 4'J cents in
the safe.
Colonel Xelson said that before leaving
he would express the hope that the
board would get the matter in shape
very soon, as 3Ir. .smith had taken
nearly all of the hands away already,
under the impression that the sale had
been confirmed and would be put to
great expense and inconvenience if the
! matter remained unsettled.
! Governor Tillman said that the board
ivrmld hnvp three rmestions to deeide:
11st. The elevation of the land. 2d.
j The interest of the parties. 3d. Whethj
er or not the purchase was with the
j unanimous consent of the old board,
j lie then asked Colonel Nelson to ex!
plain the contract with the board?the
j "hidebound contract." as the Governor
termed it. Colonel Nelson replied
1 that it \va? as'tijjht as could be made,
j It was a regular written agreement, de!
scribing the property and the price, and
| stipulated that the board would buy as
soon as the titles were made good..
Colonel Nelson '
. balance in one or two
i Governor Tillman -;i!.^ or est?''J
j < ,'olonel X elson?" Yes. ?3r ce^fi
The Governor then remarked
j State needed a good. farm. 'Jl^n
: made some inquiries nbou^fl
j blc force of convicts. andiS
: bert said that there \ver^|
I itentiary, and of tiiesejB
, sick and decrepit.
I the Aughtry 1'ariiM
1 had applied forJ^H
I needed for the
On motion^?
: decided to^B
I train thjtf
officers anc^erson^WHIBBH
side were admitted. All of the mem-"*1
bers were on hand promptly although
they found great difficuity in pushing
their way through the crowds that
filled the" corridor and besieged the
capitol at all points.
The Alliance had taken possession of
the house at 5 a. m. They placed the
speaker in one cnair ana put a coraon
of assistant sergeants-at-arms around
him. When Lieutenant Governor McKiejohn
appeared he was not allowed to
take his seat but stood in front of the
Speaker's desk ready to call the joint
session to order.
At 9 o'clock the Speaker issued an
order for the arrest of Lieutenant Gov- :
ernor McKiejohn on the charge of misconduct
in office and a breach of the
peace. The Lieutenant Governor detied
the officer and was not taken into
custody. Both sides had a force of sergeants-at-arms
within call, and any at- :
tempt on either side to proceed with a
canvass of the vote would have precipi- <
ated a row. To avoid this a committee
from each party was sent with ,
a statement o* the case to the Supreme
Court.
Governor Thayer ordered out a company
of the National Guards and at 11
o'clock they stacked arrm? in the corridors
of the capitol. Crowds'are arriving
on every train to attend the inauguration
of Governor-elect Boyd and
considerable impatience is shown over
the delay in counting the vote.
At 12:15 p. m. the Supreme Court issued
a writ of mandamus ordering the
Speaker of the House to canvass the
returns.
The Sheriff of Lancaster County, .
with his deputies and the bailiff of the
Supreme Court, burst in the doors of
the House and fought their way
through the crowd of Alliancemeu
guarding the entrance. The writ was
served on the Speaker.
A motion to take a recess until 3 1
o'clock was declared carried by the
Lieutenant Governor and the Demo
crats and Republicans filed out of the
hall. The Speaker of the House de- 1
clared that no recess had been taken
and-all the Alliance members present
remained in and others were called in
for an attempt to proceed to the busi- '
nessof the joint session.
THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.
James E. Boyd, Democrat. ot" Omaha
was elected last November by 1,145 plu- ;
rality over James K. Rowers, Alliance 1
candidate, the Republican mac being
third in the race. Prohibition was defeated,
and its adherents put the Alii- :
ancemen up to contesting Boyd's elec- :
tion. It was stated that Boyd was not
eligible to office, from the fact that his
father only too* out his second papers
last November, after the election.
T?Atr/1 moc VvArn I Sir a Kic f o f K or in Tr/1_
uvj u. ?rao uvjin iin.G iiio xauugi, IU xigland,
and was about fifteen years old
when the family settled in Ohio.
The present Governor of Nebraska,
John M. Thayer, at first was disposed
to yield his seat to Mr. Boyd, but now
he has siezed upon Boyd's questioned
citizenship as a pretext to hold over,
lie has given it out that he will hold on
to the chair, the seal, and the office of
Governor till the cows come home.
This has aroused the County Tyrone
grit of Mr. Boyd. He says he will be
inaugurated if he has to throw Mr.
Thayer out of the window. The Democrats
say Mr. Boyd will be seated. A
duplicate State seal has been made in
Omaha for use in case the present Secretarvof
State refuses t. deliver up
the one now in the State Ilotse.
More Bloodshed.
Washington, Jan. 8.?Gen. Schofield.
has received a telegram from Gen.
Miles detailing the circumstances of
the killing of Lieutenant Casey by the
Indians as follows:
"Reports from General Brooke state
that Lieutenant Casey, of the Twentysecond
Infantry, was killed to-day.
There has b?en tisrhtins: and skirmish
ing on that part of the line for ? :veral
days. Lieutenant Casey was out with
his scouts watching the hostile camp
and with one Cheyenne met two Indians,
an Oirallalla and a Brule. The
Oarallalla warned Lieutenant Casey
that the Brules were bad and would
shoot. As Lieutenant Casey turned to
go away the Brule fired, striking him
in the back of his head and killing him
instantly.
"Lieutenant Casey was one of the
most brilliant and beloved officers of
the service. There is a report of heavy
firing in or near the hostile camp that
may be between two elements of the
Indian camp."
Lieutenant Casey was a brother of
luvmao y vuiv^i v-j. wuv
Engineers of the Army, and was aboul,
40 } ears of age. He had been in command
of the troop of Cheyenne scouts
for about a year and was working
earnestly in the interest of the Indians
themselves.
Col. Forsyth Suspended.
Washington. Jan. 7.?A report
reached here today, through an unotlici*
'1 i- ' 1 t-? *1. 1 1
ai source, mat v^oi. xorsym i u.u ucuu
relieved of his command of troops at
Pine Ridge. This report was confirmed
at the war department today. The
officials, however, show a decided disinchuation
to talk about the matter.
Neither Secretary Proctor nor Gen
ISchotield is willing to say very much on
the subject, although both practically
II admit that Gen. Miles did not act enBgl^ipon
his own responsibility.
j&jfc^^^cmadmithaviijg or
side or
selves opposed eacElimFTJ^^P^CT
300 Indians. Sooa-the hills began to
swarm with 1,800 to 2,000 warriors and
in twenty minutes more a tragedy would
have gone to the world when the
untiring Xinth rode in, as they rode before
at the time of the Meeker
massacre, attacking furiously the rear
of the savages, scattering them in every
direction. Before the enemy could rally
from their contusion the boys in blue '
withdrew slowly and sullenly to Pine
Ridge. The enemy are stealing horses
and cattle in every direction. While the
blizzard made the old men, women and
children suffer, it will have little or no
effect on the bucks and warriors. It is
believed Little wound was me neaa tnac
planned and directed the battle, as it
showed more generalship than had been
displayed since Red Cloud's figatimg
days.
Old Red Cloud sent in a letter last
night claiming that he was a prisoner and
begging the soldiers to come and
save him. This is corroborated by the
friendlies who say that when the stampede
took place Monday old Red's wifi
began to throw their things into a wagon
and with true wifely spirit said she was
for war and would go out on the bloody
path even if her liege lord remained and
fought on the other side.
Aspecial to the Inter Ocean from Pine
Ridge Agency S. D., says: All commuication
with the rail road is cut off
except to officers over the military wire.
There has been no mail service since
Sunday and no one except Indians to
- * - ^ ?i?- J
carry.leiegrams w mu rau ruau. crcuwal
Miles sent out a telegram warning
settlers along the rail road.
Much has been said about the treachery
of Indian scouts. There are cases
enough to make every one tear them
when away from the Agency, but they
are not disturbed as a rule. Captain
Taylor denies emphatically that any of
his men turned against the soldiers,
bnt says they fought bravely with him,
and many soldiers confirm his words.
Capt. Jacob Jackson, of the Seventh
Cavalry, had a narrow escape, however,
from some who wore the police uniform
and the soldiers' scout fur overcoats and
capes. The Captain had a squs^ of " ?-?^
twenty men chasing the fugitives a mil?
or more from Wounded Knee when half
a dozen of the traitors, or hostiles dis
guisedin ponce ana scouts' ciormng, roae
up with a pleasant greeting, turned, cantered
off fifty .yards, wheeled and without
warning, opened fire. At the same
instant fully fifty more Indians appeared
over the crest of the hill, and started for
the little band who retreated for the
creek, firing as they went."Captain
13urton, who escerted the
wagon train of the Seventh Cavalry,
says Charles Havwood was in advance
of the train which arrived witliiu a mile
ana a nan 01 irine ruage wneu uirce xudians
rode up dressed as governmen^^^^^^
scouts. They spoke to poor HavrcflE
in full sight of the troops guarding tH
train ahd then shot him down in colofl
blood. The troops took prompt and in?
stant revenge.
Yesterday the friendlies, who are W
camped on White Clay Creek, s*uth vj
of the agency, reached the abandoned H
tepees ot Little Wound's, Two Strike^*
and Red Cloud's B
their wagons, load?
streamed from the ajfl 59
What are Th^H
Greenville.
News some time
count of the mafl
Smith and Hubefl S|
They were marri^B
tnose wno add U.^
that the groom's?
drew Jackson 'jfl
fused to marry hfl
changed. A pet-H
the Legislature
change Mr. Tyn^M
One house of the hM
change, and contidenr^^B
would do so the young lady sal
to the marr'age and believed
had become Mrs. Hubert Munfifl
ton. It is now said that the bifl
ing Mr. Tymms' name failecM
through both houses and that fl
ture reigns m the Tvmms-CarltjS
The Persecution ContinuffiP
London, Jan. 8.?Advices fi
Petersburg state that whole vfl
Jews are being depopulated orfl|
tence that they are within thffl
den distance of the frontier jB R
some instances where villagesfl
really within fifty versts. aI
father has been lined becauseS 9
did not appear for conscription
having died when an infan
v<wr? hofnrp tfR whifth H
compelled to abandon are bfl
tained by large speculators fM
soug. Mb
A Xecro K.votlusi^B
Augusta, Ga., Jan. S.-1*
week passes in which from
live hundred negroes from SoH
iina and Xorth Carolina do V
through Augusta on their wa^fl
Georgia. Alabama or Ark^affl
night twenty-live can^g
Knoxville train on