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' IfnV jfL* A. i ds3? I Hr | \m ? ;g * * If^ll i il^ll > $?'$ @k va ! my | IS I $.4 ;r ;s jg |g | jl ^JfI fly || | a I mm Hp 4#! $ in ^ ill ii i? il If? I I if ii II i| i \%j if )l ii IS 713 IB B li IS 1 il li> jl If i i I i j| S pr? WXXXSBGEO, S. G, WEDNESDAY, FEBBUABY 25, 1891. NO. 28, TAXING HANK STOCK, j SHALLTHE STATE BANKS BE TAXED ! OUT OF EXISTENCE? , The Construction of the Law Governing the Matter?A Statement froiu the j Comptroller General's Oitice Iie;.;ar<lin5: ! i the Connor Letter. / '/vr ??*r ?*r > C / * Pr.Vir'Uft*4*' 1"" v.., i 4.1. ; Some inierest has been created in j baiJdns: circles in rc-rnrd to the construc-1 - = . tion of the law governing the taxing of j bank stock and the manner of return | Hp^^rfvnich he makes tiie tollowicg state- j merits concerning his letter and the re- j ply received by him from the C'omptrol- j ier General's office: ".My letter has not been answered. I; wrote upon an entirely different matter, i By way of illustration let me show you j about what I wanted to find oat. Suppose 011 the 31st of December any bank shows that it ha* made $12,000. On the 1st of January the bank pays $1,500 m dividends to its stockholders and its ox- i penses have been $0,000 for interest and i running expenses. I wanted to know j whether taxes arc 10 be paid by the bank | on the $12,000 or on the net surplus and ! undivided prolits of the bank on the 1st j of January. I have not been answered on that question. "In one paragraph of the letter Mr. Norton says : 'Suppose the shares of your bank "to be worth on the markets in Charleston siiw per snare, tne par vaiue 1 being $100, your return then would be 150 sbarc-s at $200, or $30,000 and then be says: "It is the duty of the Au- I ditors to ascertain the real money value I of all bank stock and where not correct- j ly returned on the tax books at the real j market value.' "What is to be understood from such statements ? In one place he wants the j real value of stock taken as a basis for returns, and then he says returLs are to be made on the basis of the market value of stock. Two quite different things. Some time a?o our stocX was selling at j $105. Mr. Marshall called on me, and j 1 told* him that the books would not j show the stock to be worth over $145. { Does he want to t3x us on the $20, I which is merely a fictitious value ?' "It shows confidence in a bank, and j is this confidence to be taxed ? Yet, Mr. Norton says then-tarns should be made { for what the shares are worth on the i markets. A bank cannot be responsible j for the market value of its stock. _ J0~ letter, an nave racnw uv .. r mine. The stock of an old bank, when i its stock runs up to $300 or $400, is dif- i ficult to sell for more than its true value, : because tanks seldom pay over 10 or 12 per cent, interest, which means only 3 or 4 percent, to those who buy the stock at $300 or $400 when the par value of the stock is only $100." Yesterday The llegistcr reporter interviewed Mr, 2s or ton ou the subject of Mr. Connor's statements, and Mr. Norton said, that the letter referred to bvMr. Connor, was r*^T* purposes th?fi r- '?r Ge,ncral s le-ter, na - aclcd 111 ^ls clerical capaci?gg^ing it ?W. II. EUcrbe, Comptroller General, per Norton." He then! / added: "As }Ir. Conner says the; Comptroller General did not answer his j letter, we give them to the public." r Charleston. S. C? Feb. 12, 185)1. Hon. W.H.EUerbe.Comp. O'tn. Deak sjik : Wishing 10 comply with the requirements of the law. I write you for information. As I understand, we, the banks, are to return and pay taxes on the capital stock and on the net surplus we have left on January 1st, after we have paid the interest due to the depositors to that date and expenses of business deducted from what we have made ; then the net surplus and capital stock. This is the way I construe. Am I not correct ? Please write me at oncc. See on back of bauk statement 1 enclose, j Yours truly. \v.:u. lonxor. ; Surplus and undivided profits -SI2,146 <J4 j Expenses and interest paid depositors 5.SM 40 5 (1,250 48 January dividend, paid stockholders 8 1,500 00 Surplus, 1st January, 1S1?1 S4.T50 4S Capital " 15,000 00 The above is true. T. M. McTritKOiv-. Cashier. 'The Comptroller General took it j that Mr. Connor sought information and j took pains m replying to him. The Comptroller had the construction o(' the j law by the Attorney General, andsiraply ' gave, as he thought under the law. the j information desired. That is, tlmt the j bank must return to the Auditor all the j shares of said bank, with the names of' the orner# of such shares, assessed at j their 'true value in money.' Ii' Mr. j Connor h ui taken pains to read Actions j 198,109, 200, 201. 202.203, 204 and 20-3 of the General Statutes, he never would hive said that the Comptroller General had not answered his letter. "The law is plain that the banks of! thii ?tate pay taxes on only their shares J assessed at -their true money value, j Their furniture, reai c-sUue utul surplus f are not taxable?the real estate being J. deducted from the amount oi shares at' their true money value.' while ail sur- ! plus or extra moneys, capital and every j species of personal property of value j, owned or in the possession c!" any such i i bank are included in. and help to make. ! 'true value in money.' "For instance. Mr. Connor's bank ha? ! $15,000.00 capital and a surplus o; |' ?4,750.48. This surplus :$ e<p:a! to SI* : per cent ol its capital :ind vrould make ! <> ' 11 ImTik worth I.'ll?. I lus; oiuu vo v* ]5ut we must renumber besides this. ' Mr. Connor's bank has some furniture and possibly real estate ais^. Suppose ! in these items he has *">.000, which we i think rot iii^h. ' ( 'Would not these items, which under, the law nre not taxed, make in round ! nnrv.),o,.c .V, nf t iif Cjltjital ! stock, or make the shares ot that bauk ; ?? at their true value in money be $l(<o. | just what Mr. Connor savs Ins stock has < been quoted atj "It bank Presidents do not know t their own buisne?* sulliciently well to ;; give, under oath. the value oi the shares of these banks, un ier the law Auditors ;' must make the value i'or iliem, and. i ( when they simply answer don't kno-v'j A1' TlAt OT fill 1 Vi UVV Uk lUi U14\4', I ^ v- V i. . V/ii *m\ ' kM\. ? 144 V | liable lo a Sine of not exceeding jLuuO.' It might ce added thai while bank; Presidents and Cashiers are to return ' atxf value the sheares of the banJS^'VX; the duty of the Auditor, under Section 1 202. to apportion the taxes assessed against the bauk among the shareholders m proportion to the number of shares held by each one, the bank being held i responsible under Section 204 for the j payment of said taxes."?Register. BUILDING A PLOT. IIott Gibson's Frientl* ire Laying the) Schero? of Ilia X)?feace. CimtOAOO, Feb. 14.?It has bcende- j cided to lav the case of (icor^e A Gib-' son. lhf> alleged dynamiter secretary of the Whisker trust, before the state, j rather than the Federal ^rand jury, as j under the state law it is possible to in-. diet more severe penalties than under I the Federal law. A consultation between President Greenhut, of the Whisky trust; Director Woolner, of Peoria; Director JUcXulty and other officials was held here today. Greenhut announced at the outset that Gibson had resigned pending an investigation. The preliminary plan of defence was outlined during the conference. It was proposed to show that DeWar, who i cnarges mat uidsoii inea to nire mm io j blow up Shufeld's distillery, is a prac-1 tical machinist, atul ceuid have made the infernal machine which he alleges ! Gibson gave him. It was to be admit- j ted that Gibson was in communication j with DeWar for the purpose of obtain-1 ing reliable information as tc the output j of Shufcldt's, and that, m case DeWar failed to send information, Gibson may have written to him on the subject; that DeWar had an opportunity, and four hours' time, in which tamper with Gibson's valise after his arrest before it was put into the vault, and that b e might have substituted the bottle of in llammable stuff found in it later, in j place of a perfectly innocent liquid; that 1 JDe'War had such liquid in his posses-} sion and-displyed it to the government officials several weeks before the exposure; that nosuch bottle as that containing the liquid was in Gibson's valise when he was arrested; in short, that Gibson .may be the victim of a conspiracy oi wnicn me government omciais are the dupes. As to the shares of whiskey trust stock, it is to be shown that they are the properity of Gibson's wife, and that he was merely taking them to be desposited in a safe. gibson gone to europe. Peoria, III.. Feb. 14.?It is the general belief here tonight that George J. Gibson, secretary of the Whiskey Trust, is well on his way to Europe and, aided by plenty of money, will escape. The onlv trust man found who would talk, said Gibson has been gone siuce Thursday night and would not return, adding that the bail bond oi 620.000 was a bagatella and considered very cheap. It was thought best to get away before any further charges were made and the bonds increased by the action of the itate authorities. It wr?s found today that Gibson eight J months y go purchased fifty pounds of! - A l\rmf o mnnfli snm i j)uauiip^ ^vvuu &w .uvuw* , boughtta. quantity of bi-sulphide of car-j bon anil"carbon and phosphorous at a I drugstore.'- ? lie had learned the secret of the compound from a chemist whom he frequently invited to dine with him. ~ At the Xational Hotel meals are sent up to Gibson's room, but it is not known who eats them. Those in a position to Auow say it is not Gibson. Disappoints Both Inactions. Charleston, S. C., Feb. 13.?The appointment ofB, O'Xeill, George W. Williams and Jacob Smalls, all bank' presidents, as commissioners of.registration for Charleston, has stirred up the politicians here and the political pet is once more boiling. Both tactions of the .Democracy ringsters and reformers profess to be satisfies) olJKr.iifrJi it- l-iinw flint ImMi ci/1r?s had sent other names to the governor. The other three commissioners, D. A.J. Sullivan, John 13. Keeves and Henry Schachte, sent in by the county Democratic executive committee and endorsed by the Charleston delegation in the Legislature, has been eudorsed by Senator Irby, chairman of the Democratic state committee and by Congressman Shell, the ^father of the farmers' movement, j and it is said that this was in accordance i with the deal made between the regulars > here and the Tillmanites during the re- i cent campaign. Governor Tillman, how- j ever, refuses to deliver the goods. The reform, or the Tillman faction, had also sent in their names, two of them beinir the nrmes of notorious polical cranks. These were also thrown over by the governor. Xone of the new appointees were consulted, and their appointment was as j i;reat a surprise to them as it was to the I public. It is probable that all three j will consent to snrvc;. as ever?bodv seems satisfied to have it so. The work is to straighten out the en- j tanglement in the registration books, i caused by the confusion in the number ! of polling precincts; these being different for state and municipal elections. They have nothing to do with the appointment of managers of elections. %Tar to the Knife. Albany, X. Y.. Feb. 10.?War is declared. The il:ll braves nave recover- i ed from Uie first shock of the Watterson ! surprise and are rallying for revenge. I It will be many moons before their wounds hare healed aud their camp is ipiiet again. 2so quarter will be shown Watterson. The plan of attack was at first to ;eny that he wroift the letter. It was said: The letter must be either acknowledged j or denied. If a jknow leaded it will pre-] cipitate one of the iiercest lights on | record. It' denied it will furnish the j Hill champions with unlimited ammuni ; ? - : . 11 iion in ttie coming jampaign. ' Governor Hill himself, after sleeping I over it. felt no better. ile is mad clear!' through. He still -rot'esses to believe j that Watterson would not do such a ! tiling, but he has hastened to New York, j just the same, to atari out his scouts for ! the skirmish. Before he went he said j that he should not retract anything he ! had said aoout the letter. >i will ?':ro Mr. Watterson the benefit i * "" 3' * of the doubt." he added, "but if he ac-1 knowledges its authorship I shall still \ call it an impertinent and insulting epis-! lit;." A I'ocullar Acci<leut> PiTT-snria;, Feb. It!.?As an accommodation train on the Pan Handle road i was entering this city this morning a | srmin ivpirrhinc 1 r>0 nonnds rolled down ! the hillside, south of Mouongahela river, j and crashed into a car. .Miss Clara i Fleming, of Washington. Fa., was crush ed to death in her seat, and a young man | sitting beside her had a narrow escape, j The accident caused the wildest excite- j ment 011 the train. At the point where ! it occured it is 300 feet, almost perpen- j dicular, from the hill top to the track. 1 COLORED CLERGY ANGRY. Baptist ?n?r'v<??-hodi<t Preachers C hiirj;With Immorality aVi Ignorance. j Columbia. S. C.. Feb. orcd preachers of Columbia and a good" part of Soutli Carolina are in a ferment over certain charges recently made ailed iu^ the intelligence ami morals of the colorder Methodist and Baptist clergy of the South. They might, in onn sense, be said to beat "white heat" and their feelings have found vent in an indignation meeting held at the Cappel-Allen university, this city. The cause ol the commotion i* the i publication of certain letters of Booker j T. Washington president of the Normal school, and the endorsement thereof by i Bishop Daniel A. I'ayne. of Wilberforce, j Ohio, bisho- oi the African Methodist j Episcopal church. who lias at various i times had charges in all parts of the ! South. Washington charges that over 70 per ' cent, of t!iC colored Southern ministers J are totally unfit by reason of their want: of intelligence and morality to be leaders I of the people. This Bishop Payne cn- j dorsed in the following words: "I say ! emphatically in the presence of the Great j Ilead of tho church that not more than j one-third of the ministers, Baptist and j Methodist, in the South are morally and j intellectually qualified. I will stand by { this statement aud can demonstrate its j truth fully by shameful and painlul facts with regard to names, times and places.' r-- 1 u^ u?:?: ~ xl is cuiuiicu lui? io luc wljiuuiui; ui ix move bv the Northern wing of the Afrian church toward disgusting the colored congregations South with thenpastors lu order to create a demand for Xortheru educated ministers, graduates of colleges there, and to destroy the present power and iulluence of leading j lights in the church at the South. The indignation meeting held here is ! to be followed by similar meetings all over the Southern States. II was held pursuant to a call of the lie v. Wm. D. Chapel, presiding elder ot the Manning j district Columbia annual conference, and ; wn<* a rnriT^ntion of thft colored wench ers of Ibis entire district. They gave vent to their indignation at Bishop Payne's charges by adopting a preamble asd resolutions which would lill a column in The News. The opening paragraphs 2ive a good idea of the tone of the resolutions and their red hot char acter. They are is follows: l*\Vher?&s, we believe Bishop Daniel i A. Payne has intentionally and maliciously, with an f.im to injure and defame Southern ministers and their families, assisted in circulating a slanderous letter throughout the public prints to the ell'ect that Southern ministers are immorial and ignorant, too much so to j Sll the pulpit. "Whereas, no man is more guilty of immoral acts than Bishop Payne be-; cause he took our money from us, car-; ried it North and did with the hard earn- j ing of our people educate Northern j preachers and transferred South such! <*fonndrr>l> whocould not ]ivp. "North, be- ! cause of their dirt and immorality and who, in anything about immorality, have taught us. In closing they say: ikWe condemn the article of Bishop Payne and hurl back the charge to him as a base falsehood fnstigaied by the devil, and we believe until he retracts, the entire South should look upon him as a personal enemy of the South, and therefore hold him as we would a poisonous adder." They also remtnd the bishop of au, auc^cu ?WUL in UljtLUUUV lie unw LUC ! South Carolina brethren who, It is j claimed, at the last general conference at Indianapolis, saved him from censure and probably impeachment lor maladminstration. An accompanying incident which gives rise to a split m the church in this Sta'e 13 the alleged attempt ol'Freaiding Elder 5. II. -Jefferson, of .Sumter, to secede from the convention with the A. M. E. church with the whole district. He is charged with having iumselt" made j bishop of the '"First" A. M. 3*2. church j and seeking to carry his people with j him.?Greenville Xews. The Great floods >'orth. Pittsburg, Feb. 18.?At 1 o'clock j this afternoon water in the Alleghany j River reached 32 feet 11 inches and be-j gan slowly to recede. As even the j wildest estimate had placed high water; at twenty-live ieet, great damage indict- j ed in this city is due more to careless-! ness in removing goods than to the high ! water. With nearly every iron mill Hooded j 1 ,.n.l Ire dliu UlUStU UU>? U, I.O.HL VUA4 ?? UOU- j eil away, squares upon squares of streets j flooded to the second story and thous- i ands of cellars tilled, the direct loss by j the llood cannot be less than one million i dollars. The poor living along the river have suffered so greatly that appeals for aid have been issued. To-night the river ha^ fallen several feet and trade and street car lines will open up to-mo;rcw. A special from Wheeling, W. Va,; s?\s: jliuj river mis i'uuuuuuu iu asu ; here all day and at li? o'clock to-night is j still coming up, though an encouraging : report comes from above that the water j is falling. The damage has been veryj great here, but it is impossible to est:-1 mate the amount at present. Certain it j is that much suffering will result, as a j very large area of the city is under water, i The whole ot Wheeling is an island and j is f.ooded, and to-night most of its 4,00U ; inhabitants will sleep on high ground in ! the main part of the city. In South Wheeling hundreds or the j houses of the workingmen employed in mills and factories are under water, and ! in uic uu3iL:u:>5 u'uuc iiKiuy ui uiv ; wholesale houses are flooded. The post- J ollice and custom iiouse is partly surrounded, and the basement lilled with water. 3iuslness is almost entiich- suspended. No trains are arriving or departing.: The depots are under water and the rail-! road yards are blockaded. Engines and cars are slauding in the water over their wheels. The Stamm and Windsor ho-: tels have both water on their lirst floors, i ? i - -i t: - ; .. 1 I aim guesis are ui'iiutu iu .11 uuu uiit; of the '"indows. lieporls from down the river glass; and pottery districts also show heavy I iosses sustained by tiie tloodmg of these industries. Iu spite of the general <ie;>t ruction of property not a single ease of; loss of life can he directly traced to the ; ilood. Terrible KITect Reiiiortc. Chattanoxga. Feb. K?Remorse has caused the T?robablv fatal illness of' City Attorney Warner. who killed his son-in-law. s. M. Fugette. a month ago. Physicians say he will die before morn- j ing. or if he recovers, will be hopelessly insane. Death of Gen. .Shcrinmi. New Yoi:k, Feb. 14.?(Jen. Sherman died at 1 50 p. m. Gen. Henry W. Sio-: cum has been selected to take charge of the funeral arrangements. The burial, will take place at St. Louis. This state meut comes from General \ lele. i VICTIMS OF BUNCO MEN.!] j! THE STORY AS IT IS TOLD IN THE! FOUNTAIN CITY. I One of the Victims Enlttfk'ift.for Atlanta f J I to Catch the Fakirs If he Can audlt"f?'; Hoped He Wili Succeed. The liascal i <IS Cuuj^llta At*(?usta, IV'b. 13?Mr. J. K. Easter- J ling, of Williston, S. C., who, with Messrs! Kennedy and Weathers bee, of the same j town, was swindled out of live thousand j dollars by being persuaded to buy a bar j of gilded copper for pure gold from a j j fakir, is in town to-night on his way to | Atlanta, where lie goes in hopes of identifying a man named Mace, who was!, oirootifl A tlonto TV?JO mArninrr I cording to the description furnished of | tlie party who was an accomplice in the I gold bug game. The man in Atlanta was arrested in a j Richmond and Danville train by Chief : Connelly, and if he is tlie right man the : oflicers will get live hundred dollars re- ' ward for the arrest. Tne Chronicle this morning gives the : following details of the manner in which ; the swindle was worked: j A few days, possibly a week ago, a , mysterious personage, giving his name j as" Bill Parker, or more formerlly speak- ( ing, Mr. William l'arker, made himself , ln./tn-n +? Mr AV TT Vinnariir Mr 1? A ' "N eathersbee and .Mr. J. It. Easterling, of Williston, S. C. lie spoke in a mysterious way of a big thing which he had if he only had the money to work it. He got these gentlemen interested, and disclosed to them 1 that he had somewhere in the mining i regions of the West a most valuable 1 gold mine. It had been discovered by < the Indians or some half-bred hunters, i and there was millions in it. Indeed, ] he had along with lum a mythical Indian, , who never showed up, but was supposed ' to be hovering around somewhere in the bushes on the outskirts of the town and uvuiictuie lur uuiisiuictuuu wnu .mi. j. inker when necessary. The best evidence, however, that there j was g-old in the mine was to produce the gold itself, and this Mr. Parker did in a I secret interview. And what a glittering i prize it was! A solid bar two feet long i and as big as a bar of railroad iron. But < if these clever gentlemen had attended the recent Shakespearean Symposium ixi Augusta they would have learned that "All is not gold that glitters." Put they knew that anyhow, and even sug- | gested as much to Mr. Bill Parker. lie ; was not surprised nor embarrassed by ( this implied distrust, but courted inves- i + <1 rrirvOof 1?r\ 1 T>_ ! UL?<lLlVil. JLClXVill^ ((. .jiilliLo liV UViV.U Hi I to the heavy yellow bar, and smiled j confidently on the shining dust which I1 came from the hole. "Take this gold i dust now and send it to any jeweller or : chemist and ascertain to your own sat- ] isfaction whether or not it is the purer stuff." 1 This was fair enough, and the precious dust was either sent to Cnarleston J or summitted to a Williston expert, the ! reporter's informant was not certain ; which. J Jut the test was entirely satis- \ factory, and the answer cam* back that it was 22-carat gold. Mr. Bill Parker ] was vindicated, and now nothing re- j' mained but to weigh the bar and make j' the calculation. The weight wa:; not 1 known to the gentleman who gave the reporter the stbrv, but the bar was worth ( 80 000 or 87,000. .'fust exactly why they were given such a bargain is not made clear, but for ' 85,000 each Mr. Parker and his imagi- < nary Indian partner were willing to turn : over the glittering bar of gold to Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Weathersbee, the two [ gentleman with whom he was trading. k The prize was too glittering: the prolit too certain and easy to let slip. All | that was necessary would be to "send it j to the Government mint to be coined and a clean prolit of one or two thousand brand new gold dollars would be ; realized. Who would not have bought ; it? ^ J .Mr. \Y. ii. Kennedy. wno is a man ji 1 means, drew a draft on his factor n i Charleston for 65,000, and Mr. Dan Iler;- 1 derson, of Aiken, took it and gave him < a check on the Bank of Aiken for the ? money. Armed with the $5,000 in cold \ cash, Mr. Kennedy sought Mr. Bill Par- \ ker and the trade was consummated, j They got the precious bullion and Mr. ; Parker got the cash. Having gotton the . money Mr. Parker had no further business in Williston or Aiken, or even in ( Carolina, and his mythical Indian chief ( voTii^lipr) frnm the Palmetto Stntp i - The owners of the gold bar either grew suspicious or else wanted to reas- f sure themselves of their splendid prize, c for they had another analysis made, and ; they were horrified to find that the sec- 1 ond analysis showed that their prize was j not gold at all. It is understood that Mr. Schweigert's \ analysis of it showed it to be a very fair grade of copper, but even after the re- porter had gotten the storyjMr. Schweig- , ert persistently refused to have anything ' to say except that it was a p'rivate j matter which he'was not at liberty to 1 talk about. Well, thsre is little more to tell. The interviews with Chief Hood were, of course, for the purpose of capturing ( Mr. Bill Parker, and it is understood 1 that Mr. .1. R. Kasterling was busy yes- ' terday sending of[ telegrams in "every t direction, with a description of Parker, < and an oiler of $300 for his arrest. j caugiit in ATLXXTA. t Augusta, Cla., Feb. 14.?Bill Parker, { the Bunco man who defrauded Messrs ?. J. 1{. Kasterling and It. A. "\Veathersbee; < of Williston. S. C., out of $5,000 by sell* f ing them a bar of gilded copper for pure [ gold has been arrested. lie is the man; who was arrested in Atlanta yesterday, j The news comes direct from Attack from Messrs Kasterling and ir bee. who went to Atlanta last nighrTTEsee!r if th.ev could identifv the man. who^yas j i arrested on the Richmond and Danville J f train. They wired Chief Hood, of the h Augusta police force, early this mom-la ing: "We have got 1 >111 Parker." Parker. jc when arrested in Atlanta yesterday was j ( searched, and he only had 650 "and a [ t Smith v\; Wesson pistol "on him. lie was (irst arrested on the Air Line train by the j conductor, and when the train readied'! the suburbs of Atlanta he made an at- ; tempt to j ump oil'. It is not known here j ( if Afr.sc-TT I'ocic.T-1 inrr orirt Wtiatliorcshpp. ! i had jot their 65,000 back yet, and what! < they propose to do with the bunco man.! [ A reward of 6"jOO was offered by the in- j ( nocent gentlemen of AVilliston, who al- j lowed the fakir to play the old gold bug j' game off on them, for the arrest of the , right man. i "It is now a question, who is entitled ! < to the reward, the conductor who made {j the arrest on the train, or the Atlanta; ( police who arrested the man upon the j arrival of the train in Atlanta? Messrs K. A. Weathersbee and J. 11.1 Eastesling, of Williston. s. C.. arrived toi 1 night from Atlanta withSergt. Ogbum,! 1 of the Atlanta police force, who had in] " charge Bill Parker. He was identified; 1 as the right man on lirst sight, but lie/ i stoutly denied his identity until he got} < on the train this afternoon. After leav-j J ] ing Atlanta he made a clean sweep toj i i Mr. Easterling. lie admitted having)! s perpetrated the fake game with the aid} 1 of four confederates, and expressed his < regret at having connected himself with 1 the imposition. He says at Aiken, be- ; fore the money was paid him hehesita-! :ed whether "to carry the fake out or lot, and tossed heads and tails to see which he should do. and the eagle bird fell, which decided that he should carry )ut his fake game. He told Mr. Mastering that if he was allowed to telegraph lis confederates he would have the i noney brought back by one of his pals. I mat. opportunity has not been given I'X&er yet. lie was committed to jail here to-mgrfTUTfu will remain there until Monday, or later, unt'A^ifr^../>sjburu is paid his .$500 reward. Then lie wiL be carried to Barnwell, where he will be prosecuted. The Wil'iston gentlemen feel greatly relieved, fliey are satisfied that they will get their money back. Parker is a man about six feet heavy built with curly hair, full sandy beard, and wears a new slouch hat. lie looks' like a simple farmer, unsuspecting in appearance, but he is a consummate villian, sharp as a briar, and an old hand at the game?Xews and Courier. Riot and Bloodshed. Newark, N. J., Feb. 15.?Riot and bloodshed occurred at Clark's thread mills at Kearney at G o'clock this evening. When the new .spinners quit work they were carried over the river from the Newark side in a launch, and when they landed on the Kearney side they were met by a throng of 2,000 persons. Superintendent Walmslev led the liue, guarded on each side by special ofticers. When the spinners got outside the gate, a boy Dn the dock threw a stone over the fence :ind the special otlicers attempted to ( ttesK AM* r\r\ fKn ( Mi \ Ck f I1!! m Kll 11 oi the Kearney police ordered the specials back. Immediately after a wonan iu the crowd threw a stone, smashing the mill oflice window. Thereupon the specials rushed out on the crowd, shooting in the air. The crowd surged back, but llung a shower of stones which crashed through the mill windows. The nen inside of the mill played a line of tioso on the crowd. The descending stream of water made the angry crowd nore angry and window smashing went on. Several girls wero crushed in the stampede and one girl was clubbed. A three-year-old boy was shot through the foot by a spectator who shot downward, [ntensc excitement prevails. It is j thought there is a likelihood of a worse riot to-morrow night and the probabilities are that the militia will be called DUt. The Governor's Staff. Columbia, S. C., Feb. 14.?The following order was issued yesterday by the Adjutant and Inspector General announcing the military staff of the governor: ?j-\ JK.U L i 1 \ it 1JF.IW U Jl .u r..\ i , Adjutant Genekal's Office, Columbia. 8. C., Feb. 13th, 1891. 'Jeneral Order No. 1. The following general staff officers ind aides-de-camp to his Excellency the Governor have been duly appointed *nd commissioned, and will be respcc:ed and obeyed accordingly, viz.: Quartermaster General, W. D. Starling, Columbia, S. C.; Commissary Genami V A Tincly] jsiimmcrtnii s. C Engineer in Chief, Geo. K. Ladsbaw, Spartanburg, S. C.; Surgeon General \V. C. McCreight, Cheraw, S. C.; Paymaster General, W. A. Xeal, Anderson, i.C.; Judge Advocate General, Jobs aary Evans, Aiken, S. C.; Chief of Oriinance, John L. MeLaurin, B?nnettsville, 6. C. All with the rank of Colonel. Also the following aides-de-camp with rank of Lieutenant Colonel, viz.: D. Gaillard D wight, Wir.nsboro, S. J.; Cbarles J. Purcell, Newberry, S. C.; J. D. 21. Shaw, Laurens, S. C.; F. M. Mixon, Blackville, S. C.; Andrew IJates ifo f-acV?iTr.TP Q (y T \f l*prrv ?T ctiauiJ, ?.> \?/M } Chester, S. C.; C. S. Bissell, Charleston, ?. C.; F. C. Duncan, Union, S. C. ]>y order of the Commander in Chief. II. L. Farley, Adjutant and Inspector General. Another Dissiater at Johnstown. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 16.?A spccal from Johnstown says: At S o'clock his evening all the lower part of the :ity is covered and the water is rising apidlv owing to the steady rams. On -he youth side and iu Cambria hundreds )i' houses are Hooded and the people are retting away in boats, as all the bridges )ut oue have been swept away. Late ast night it is reported that Shady Creek )00m. carrvinL' -i.OOC.OC^ feet of logs, is n clanger of bursting and the people are lying to higher ground. There is no .ommumcation whatever between the liferent parts of the town. Reports rom points between Johnstown and Pittsburg indicate very high water with several bridges and houses washed away is far down as Janett. There will be 10 sleep in Johnstown to-night as all the ower town houses are deserted and the leople are huddled in dwellings on high rround. The snow is melting rapidly, lut at midnight the river is stationary. Reports from Eastern Ohio and West Virginia indicate a sudden rise in the tranches, with many bridges destroyed md houses flooded, though no lives have )een lost thus far. A Comprotiilrte on tho Silver BUI. Washington. Feb. 10.?'There is an \r> noi- oH'Arf mnTrinrr An nnrf* nf Q lumber of the members of the House to lecure a compromise ou the silver quesion. based primarily ou larger purchases )f silver. It is sought to have this compromise measure adopted by the majori,y of the Coinage Committee at its meetng to-morrow as a substitute for the Senate unlimited free coinage bill. L'hose who are urging the compromise ire carefully canvassing their strength | before they lina.lly determine to bring it J brward in the shape of a bill, and un- j ess assured of a ^ood following will ibandon il. It is understood that t.he neasure will not be passed unless an mderstandin^ can be readied with the ree coinage Republicans in the House hat they will not bnnirup the free co;uige amendment, but some of the uuiimil!(1 silver meu have already stated that hey will i>ot enter into any such a^rcenent. Outrage Upon Outrrgc. Sr. J'ETKUKBt'c. IVb. l'*?.?Iiabbi Marcus and a Jewish physician named Jhassanovitch, living in (Jrodno. have jeen arrested and exiled lor sending tne ; government, in behalf of the Jewish j . ommunity, a petition demanding re-1 lress for "an outrage committed by a Itussian doctor who branded the word J thief" in three different languages up- i )n the forehead of a Jewish boy, who ,vas accused of having stolen a" small 'puintity of fruit. The petition sets j Forth that the case would excite the in-1 "iV 1 1 ,3 ugnation 01 me civiu/.eu ?wiu. A Democratic Allianceuian. Pierre, I)., Feb. 15.?It came to ight tonight that an understanding has rirtuallv been reached between the Democrats ancl independents, whereby j :hev expect t j unite and elect State i senator Jwie as .mage -monay s success-1 )r in the United States Senate not later j probably than Wednesday. Tripp has! released" the Democratic caucus, and; some of his strongest workers voted j for Kyle to-day. "Kyle, though an In- j .lependent. is understood to be in accord with the Democratic party, on the tariff md other national issues." CAN THIS BE TRUE ! THE HORRORS OF A RUSSIAN MINE! TOLD BY A SUFFERER. I , lne Slurtli:ijj Story 01 ;iu .'liifstu jejumi; Stealing Sailor?Three Years in a Kushiaa Mise->C'h?ine(l to a Maniac and Dissecting Him with a Shovel. ! Feb. 10.?Capt Joseph W. j Moms, of th'e-schooner ivHele-j na," o: Boston. Las just nfurned to his I native land after an experience wiui^is.-1 J sian justice and Siberian mines which justlties all that Stepniak and Kennon j tell oi' the horrors of a convict's life in Siberia. The fact that the captain was poaching invalidates any claim he might have against the Russian government. The "Helena" had on board a lull cargo of seal skins when she was overhauled by a llusslan man-ol-war.. nnd after a living race, in which seven of iUe eFetfrvwho were Japs, were killed, captured and taken to Vladivostock. Here they were tried, and the four Americans -.vere convicted ana started on tiie roa<i for ZS'icolaski. 150 miles to the northward. Captain Morris' experience Is best told in his own words. He says: "We all walked, guard included. We slept under cover only two nights of the march, which took us twenty-three days. "When we reached Nicolaski we learned that we were scnlenced to work in the mines three years. "Our rations were a pound of dry I bread a day. The ?uard wouiu snoot, | game for themselves. On this march we were not cruelly treated. "Our names were called, one by oue, and each of us received from the interpreter a paper, stating that each must dig and send up from the mine five carloads of coal a day. ''If the stated amount of coal did not come up, no rations would be sent down, so that if auy of us were sick we would have to starve to death. "I was the first to go down, and I did not again see the light of day for two years and ten months. I was left in a pit 200 feet Ions: and about 20 wide. "The darkness was so intense that I was never able to see but a few feet in front of me. "After I. had been down a little while I saw a light at the other end of the pit. I at once went toward it, and there beheld one of the most woful sights I ever saw in my life. "It was a man six feet tall and built in proportion. He was covered with coal dust from head to foot, his clothes were in tatters, and he looked like a liend. The light that I had seen came from the miner's lantern on his head. ' Qn seeing me he let forth a sayage yell, and came toward me rapidly, talking in Russian, to which I could only reply with a shake of the head. He then went back to his picking in disgust. "Later an officer came down, bringing with him two belts and a chain with riveting instruments. "The belts were of thick leather, padded on the inside so that they would not cut into us when put on. The officer riviled two bands of iron to the outside of these belts, and then put one on each of us connecting us with an iron chain n;.Thf foot innor 7Tn fnthis time the Pole. : for that, I learned, was the nationality of my fellow prisoner, had worked in the pit alone. "Why \,e were chained together I did not know, and don't know now, unless it was to increase the punishment or to prevent escape, though ihe latter was ibsolutely impassible in a pit so many feet beneath tac surface of the earth, with a single outlet up the shaft, at the mouth of which was stationed a guard day aud night. The Pole was really insane, and for a day or two ray condition was mignty uncomfortable. lie ate my rations of rice soup and threatened to kill me when I expostulated. "At last hunger drove me to desperation aud the Pole and I had a terrible fight. "He was much stronger than I, but he had no skill, and I got the best of him and gave him a sound drubbing. After that we got along all right. "At the end of three months, I awoke one morniug and found my companion dead. I was in a dilemma. I was chained to a dead man. and with live carloads of ---1 J ? ? "1 ? ?"* ^ C0H1 IU SCllU UjJ, Ui. uu lauvuo. "While I was turning it over in my mind a thought struck me. By this time 1 was nearly starved. I thought if I could wheel the corpse from the vein of coal to the shaft, take it off there and damp my coal into the car, and work hard enough to do two men's work I would get the rations sent down for both of us, and this I did for four days, sending both lanterns up every night. At the end of this time I couldn't stand it any longer, and I decided to do my own work only, "Thereafter, as I expected, rations came down for only one. At this time I tLimtc uiat r several uays my reasou partially leit|me, fori can remember beating the cropse with my shovel. "I don't know why I should have dene so, but I suppose I was driven frantic bv seeing myself helplessly chained to a "At the end of fifteen days, having had to lift and carry the fellow around all the time, 1 began to feel weak from labor and sick Irom the stench of the putrefying body. "What to do T didn't know. But at last a led rial thought came to me that makes me shudder to this day. and there was no way but to carry it ou',. took my shovel and cut the corpse through at the waist, removing the belt, thus, by the only possible way, freeing myself from the body. "I placed the portions of the corpse on the car and sent them up on the next j load of coal. "Ou the next car down were hammer j 1 1 1 T_: ^1. T I UIIU CUJll CIllSL'i, WHICH 1 IKIW UU 1UUU ?uo I for the purpose of taking oil' my bauds j and chain. "This I did, and sent them up with j the next load of coal. This was all the! recognition they gave to my sending up i the dead body. I learned when I came j out that a pardon had come for the Pole . only a few weeks after his death. "Now. I was alone, and I kept on at: my live carloads daily, until one day, j after I had sent up my second car, a j paper came down tellincr me to put my I lninn nn tlio nr-vf Innd. This meant that! '"" r i I had been in the mine a year, ana now | I was to send up only three loads a day. j "I had myselfbeen keeping account of j the time by placing a lump of coal for j each day in a certain place. ".My count made it 353 days, which, j considering mv situation, 1 think was j prettT good. k*I now sank into a despondent mood,; 1 T L 1 i LIUU 1 lUUIiU Ll illC IIIICC uuo ci v.10.J I were worse than live, I had so much more lime to think." "I would sit'on my bed of coal and ponder over my hardships until I thought I should go mad. If I had had any means of committing suicide I should certanly have taken it. It did not occur to me to get on the car myself on one of the up trips. If I had done so, I would certainly have been shot by the guard at the entrance to the mine. "Time went on, endless as it seemed, and nothing occurred to break the mo~ i.l J3 ,1 J uuluuv uuui one uay au omcer ueceuued with a large sheet of paper. "He could not talk English, but merely motioned for me to get into the car. This I refused to do, because I was more scared to go up than to stay were I was. "He then returned up the shaft and "snnn came clown again with an interpreter, win. told me that my term of 1mprisonment'md expired." The other Americans of the crew were: F. C. Crocker. ofSearmrt. Me., scconc mate; Buck Folger, of mate, and J. C. GoldeM keeper. Crocker vdm same time, but no^B ibas_been received^ rgeToir-G--^r--^B SUMARY Two Desperadoes Who Had TerrorizPIH County Lynched. Gainesville, Fla., Feb. 18.?Mike Jveny, a wnue man, ana 10m cnampion, a negro, from Arrendova, were lynched in this city last night at 10.30 by a crowd of outraged and masked citizens, who went to the jail where Kelly and Champion were confined, and, having overpowered the armed ^uard of five white men stationed there, forced the jailer to give up his keys. Having received the keys, the vigilants opened Kelly's cell and called him out. lie came forward quickly, but he knew his fate was sealed. . The vigilants next secured the negro, Champion, who set up terrible yelling immediately. The two men were then escorted from the jail to a big oak opposite Judge Ashby's residence. Here a few minutes' respite was given tlipm. Kftllv remaining auiet while the surroundings were made hideous by the terrific yells of the negro. A rope was quickly thrown orer a limb, and at a given signal, up went the bodies of Kelly and his black pal. The crowd then left for their respect lve homes, anu people tms morning came in crowds to view the lifeless remains, which huug there until past 10 o'clock to-day. It is not known who the lyachers were, but public opinion sides with them, and it is doubtful it any steps will be taken to investigate. THE STORY OF THE CRIME. Gainesville has been in a state of excitement since Sunday night, owing to the fact that a gang of desperadoes were operating in that vicinity, tiring guns, robbing and burning houses, and terrorizing people. Sunday night citizens living near the 1 J 4.1,** ^-4. square were awastueu uy wc Lcpviv ot' a gun, and, while trying to locate it, another report followed. Citizens ran out of their houses on the porches, and among them Judge Bell, the postmaster. While standing there he heard several shots in quick succession and saw Hashes about Phillip Miller's corner, next door to the postoffice. Thinking that some one was attempting to blow open the safe in the postofiice, he hastily dressed and went out, but before he did three more discharges were heard. These proved to have been fired at Dr. Phillips, who, after the first two ' shorts, went out on his piazza to see what it was. Hearing sereral men coming toward ' the house, he stepped from behind a ( pillar of the piazza to inquire what the trouble was, when he saw three or more , men in front of the house. Before he , could speak a gun was fired directly at ' him, then another, and just as the per- ] sons passed a 38-calibre rifle was fired , as he was recreating. j A policeman on the square says the , first two shorts were fired at him by un known men, who ordered him to get out of the way, which he did without nring a shot. Investigation shows the pillars of Dr. Phillips' house splintered and riddled ' with Xo. 8 shot. The second charge was fired directly into the open doorway, ! shattering soveral articles upon a what not iu the hall and leaving hundreds of ' holes in the paper on the wall. ''The di rection of the shot shows deliberate aim at the doctor, who felt bis face scorched i by the lirst two shots. Monday a store-keeper named T. B. ' McPherson, who owned a store two miles from Gainesville, was shot by K?l- ; ly and his gang. The affair created ; great excitement, and searching parties ; were organized. , Kelly was captured at Iiochelle yester- . day morning. He jwas suffering from a gunshot wound in^ the back, received in J a fracas with officers the day before. 1 Later in the day Kelly was brought to : Gainesville, andjailed along with (j&am- ! pion, another of the gang. The news of Kelly's arrival brought out the entire city, and threats of lynching were freelyexpressed, but wiser heads controlled ' the crowd at first. Late yesterday atternoon. when it was announced that McKherson had died from wounds given by Kelly and ' his gang, excitement and indigatlon broke : out afresh, and culminated in the lynch- '' ing of the two, as above stated. : A Level Headed View. I Columbia, 5. C., Feb. 14.?Governor < Tillman last night expressed himself . in the following strong and unmistak- : able language in reference to the Cleveland'letter: ' Mr. Cleveland's letter does and ought to take him out of , the held as the Democratic candidate , fnr Precirient \Tr>7-P h-ATm TPStlltS to the .South and West from the financial policy of the government than from 1 all other causes combined, and until we 1 have a larger circulating medium, based on a bi-metalicstandard, the pro- ' during classes of the country will lind < themselves between the upper and ' nether millstones. The Alliance can- i not and will not in my judgment sup- | nnrt Mr. Cleveland or anv other man as i long as his financial policy is in sympathy with Wall street and in the interest of Western capitalists and monopolies." Sullivan On Hla Mettle. Richmond, Va., Feb. la?John L? .Sullivan ended a dramatic play in thi city last night. While breakfastingatU the hotel this morning he became rejtm less and began swearing at a negroj^B nomoH \fillor "\fillpr tnlH JRDSCTI . ^rrrrrcrr?turn J-bhp^H lie must not swear in the lacj^jH room. Sullivan then mad^H Miller. The negro had his hand and hurled itj^M Sullivan dodged the^^ his feet. Miller was about to tb^fl suddenly conrij^ the better pa^Da ried exiy?g2 ".JACK THE RIPPER." ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERER. The Murdered VFoman Said to Belong to That Unfortunate Class Against Which the Fiend Has Sworn Ve? seance?The Story of the Terrible Deed. London, Feb. 13.?Farther particulars m regard to the woman, who was - . found dead ia the Whitechapel district this morning, and who is supposed to have been murdered by the fiend known as "Jack the Ripper," show that she is about 25 years of ase and quite good iOO.ti.iuy iui a, wuiuau ui nei uuuss. quo was found lying on her back with her head nearly severed from her body. Inhere was also a severe wound on the HB?jfctafc^^caused, it Is thought. hours and partiallyu8HB|^B^^@|^H^^^^ auu sutuiemeu in their residences in and about that packed neighborhood to their work on the numerous lines of railroads or in the many stables scattered about that section of the city. At all times of the night there are people awake in the houses and pedestrains passing about and through "Swallows Garden", but nobody seems to have heard any crying ol an alarming nature during the eariv hours this morning when tfie crime was committed. The murdered woman, judging from her appearance, belonged to the abandoned class offemales and was fairly well dressed, though her hair was untidy. "CTah n/vf 100nnr/ir? The police theory is that the woman zs*^y? murdered while in a standing position; that the crime was probably the work of "Jack the Ripper," and that the murderer was frightened away by the approach of some pedes train before he had time to mutilate the body in the manner already described in previous crimes attributed to "Jack the Ripper." On the other hand, it is known that the residents of Whitechapel in particular, and of London in general, are prone to give credit to "Jack the Ripper" for any mnrdof np aft.pmnt. r\t murder in White chapel where a woman is concerned. The body, after the usual formalities were taken, with the object of establishing the woman's identity and of finding a clue to the murderer, had been gone through with in the usual manner, was . taken to the Whitechapel mortuary. The blood was still warm when the body was found. When the blood stains had been cleared away the police placed a rough cross of woodwork over the spot in "Swallows' Garden" where the unfortunate woman was found, in order to mark the spot where the crime was perpetrated. Large crowds of people, naturally, gathered around "Swallows' Garden" this morning. In spite of the strong efforts of scores of detectives and of uniformed and plain-clothes people of the division, there seems to be, as in so many other and similar cases, nc definite clue to the' murderer. No arrests have been made. A railroad employee, it is true, says lie saw the murdered woman talking to a man, apparently a foreign seaman, just previous to the time the * lurder is supposed to have been committed. and^in the police are now engaged In searcEmg all vessels lying in the Thames, on the many docks and about the port of London. The policeman who found the murdered woman must have reached the 3pot while the murderer was only a few yards away. The victim's lips were still twitching nervously and her eyes still rolling when the officer bent over tier, and a moment later he sounded tiis_ whistle in call for assistance, which must have placed every policeman in the neighborhood oa the alert. caught at last. London, Feb. 16?The latest discovery made by the Metropolitan Police in connection with the "Whitecbapel murder of Friday morning last, by which the woman known as "Carrotty Nell" lost her life, bids fair to connect the man Sadler, now in custody, with this 'Jack the Kipper" crime. The Metropolitan Police now have in their possession a sharp and dangerous looking knife, stained with blood and showing traces of having recently been washed. Ihe blood stains were examined microscopically by Dr. Phillips, police surgeon, attached to the Leman Street Police Station. Dr. Phillips has no doubt that the stains are those of human blood. This formidable knife has been traced to the ownership of Sadler, who, as alreadv stated, was a fireman on board a steamer which recently arrived from Turkey. The police have no doubt that Sadler was the murderer of "Carrotty Nell." ? The Little Steamer Lost , Xew York, Feb. 19.?The officers of the Norton Naval construction and ship building company have given up all uupc uicvu a^aiu ov^giu^ Capt. Francis L. Norton, who sailed for Havre, France, in a fifty-eight foot miniature steamship eighty-five days ago, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Xorton, his niece, Miss Anna Rickaby, aod a crew of seven men. consisting of Chief Engineer James Mentis, Assistant Engineer Arthur McLean, Sailing Master C. F. Causen, Seamen .John Anderson and Oscar Mileyar. Stewart Joseph Marcial and Cabin t>? -1 rru - i_>oy jo nil ivuueris. me muc a lculucl sailed from New London Nov. 24, provisioned for thirty-five days. A stop rt-as to have been made at Azores for x>al, but vessels from that port have not reported the sighting of the miniature ircssei. An erroneous report of her laving been sighted oil Gibraltar gained currency some days ago. A tourist at roulon had heard at Algiers that Norton's boat had been sighted oft Gibraltar, and repeated it. but there was no foundation for the statement. Good for Kansas. Topeka, Kan., Feb. l^^i^Iouse to-(J ay without an a bill remorinet^MlBHSHHnflMta^^ MM v^M