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r V; I VOL. LI1I. WINNSBOKO, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 22, 1899. NO. 33. Jfjg? " A? * *rrr> I ^?-.-v-rvi-? nTrtTrrnriTn ^RUININGTHE STATE, j School Supplies Detract too j Much from Educational Fund. -j S0M AST0N1SH1NG FIGURES j >, \ State Superintendent of Educa tion McMahan Makes a State- L ment in Regard to the Situation. When Hon. J. J. McMahan entered the office of state superintendent of education, he began " to investigate rumors that the State was being flooded with maps and charts sold at an extravagant price, and in large quantities. There was one chart in particular which represented the cost of $37.50, equivalent to the ordinary salary of a public school teacher for a month and a iiait. His investigation led him to write the county boards, urging them to check the sale of these charts. As the teachers' associations of Saluda and Kershaw counties have, recently adopted resolutions disapproving of buying these charts in such grat quantities, Mr. 31cMahan was Wednesday approached in ? regard to the matter. In February a communication in The State from Yorkville called attention to the indiscriminate purchase of charts in York county, and that Mr. McMahan in endeavoring to check the sale "./as after Mr. Mayfield." Mr. McMahan at the time denied that he was "after Mr. Mayfield," and stated in a card in The State that he was trying to prevent wr.7v>ViocoQ He has since been i KUtiiCii yuivuwk>v^? ?? making inquiry and compiling figures from the several counties of the State. He said in his statement, that from the, gp. reports of the county-superintendents ^ of education" of the majority of the counties of the State, and from incomplete reports- appearing in the last annual report of the state superintendent of education, it appears that between > $57,000 aii-i$5S,000 of public money has been invested in charts, and like apparaus, chiefiv the mathematical charts ~ ^ -rnu: sold by theJtt. jsvans vo ,?iv/uiv?sv. The chart sells for ?37.50, and consequently cuts off at least a month's teaching in the school in which it is purchased. ^ To indicate ihe extravagance of the principle in some counties, it may be noted that in Sumter county this item is reported as about $4,200: in Florence about $4,000; th? proceeds of the th.ee mill tax in the Inter county being between $10,000 and $11,000. In one district in Florence where there were ^ four schools, the county superintendent reports that the total school fund ap portioned was $3S0.60, and that of this $376 was speat fWcharts, leaving $4. GO to run the schools. In another district 1 * ' ~ o o 1 n c* tiie expenditure js repuittvj. c the appointment. i In Horry county where the three mill tax raises something between _ $4,000 and $5,000, the amount spent for jB& charts according to the item in the state Wm~ superintendent's annual report is oyer ' $4,000, and it is currently reported to nave exceeded $5,000. This is more than was paid for the employment of teachers, and their school would have been ^ closed but for the dispensary suppk A Tko ^rmntipq that hieiuary iuuu. bought, spent usually about $2,000 for these charts, the expenditure ranging from about SI.000 to $3,000. In Fairfield no permission to canvass was granted; likewise in Chester, Superintendent W. D. Knok saying that they had had experience of "..he danger of turning loose agents upon the school trustees." Mr. McMahan learning of the damage being done, exerted himself to stop further purchases. The county board of Abbeville reported that they were in session considering the question when they received his letter of warning and they refused to permit the ??fi-va f?Anr>tv Ander cu . son county has also just been reached ^ by the agents, and permission was refused. In Spartanburg and Greenville the canvass had begun but the expressions of the state superintendent had become known in the county, and the agents had become unable to sell and abandoned the field. In Lanoasterpermission was granted after the warning. Mr. McMafcan stated that he thought the cost of the chart was extravagant, and that he was sustained in this opin? ?' TT _ 1 J ion by a number ol educators, xie uau i had teachers to tell him that the chart ffould do very well in the hands of a capable teacher but not otherwise. He stated further that in some counties the agents had received permission to canvass. Whether ?r not this would render the contracts invalid, he could not say, and the attorney general has not yet expressed an opinion. The charts were sold on contracts to be made payable upon deliver of the goods. These contracts were, as a rule, negotiated and discounted immediately-upon 1 * 1 ? - J tneir DeiDg acceptea. LHe 'was asked if he censured the state board of education for giving the agents permission to canvass the State. He said that he felt diffident in regard to passing judgment upon those who were in a measure his superiors in office, but he thought that the? had actsd unwisely in permitting the agents to come into the State and market the chart at such price. * 'Hindsight is better than oresight," and the state board probably had no idea to what extent the I charts would find sale. He then ex- I rlained the connection of the state ooard with the matter. When a con ^^ern of this kiud desires to come into She State, it must obtain permission the state board: then the agents Beuter no county without permission f>nur:tv board. These grants j Beission are not necessarily recomH)ns nor are they binding on the flgfeistece*. ?State. Kegrc Labor Experiment ration was issued Thursday Rfcotton mill cf Charleston, &*k of which is to be $250,B^ wing are the corporaBfcttgomery. of SpartanHen. of New York; W. Hmtfton; L. G. Potter, Bjfll T. Sinythe. o? Eh& the old CharlesH?9&gone through so H&H&the experiment Hkning it by Xe WORSE THAN ARMENIA. Words Fail to Convey an Idea of tlie Fearful Condition in CubaWilliam Willard Howard, general manager of the Cuban industrial relief fund of Xew York, passed through Jacksonville "Wednesday evening on his way home from Cuba. He goes north to purchase agricultural implements asd seeds for the use of the industrial relief station which he has just established at Guines, Cuba, Mr. Eoward said: <;The condition of Cuba, so far as-my observations have gone, is really worse than it was at this time last year when I made my. first investigations. In the rural districts little has been done to restore the island to its normal condition. The fields are vacant a ad the farmers idle. The people still remain in the towns and cities, where army rations are issued to them. They cannot return to their abandoned farms because they have nothing to return with. "Our government has done, ana is doing nothing to enable farmers to resume the cultivation of their lands. All that it pretends to do is to distribute rations through local committees of Cubans.. Gov. Gen. Brooke and the officers under hin realize keenly the condition of things,but they cannot give any assistance except food. Ours is not a paternal government. "The coDdition of the widows and orphans of Cuba is heart-rending. There are thousands upon thousands of these poor creatures scattered over the island. They have neither homes to live in, food to eat. nor clothes to cover them. Uae cannot tmnK or uieir iuture without a shudder. I am especially concerned for the poor little orphau girls who form the streets, scantily ckd, asking for a bit of food with which to keep their little bodies and souls together. What will become of these girls? Their future for good 01 evil lies 1 iu the people of the United States. "Among these widows aud orphans I have as lately as last week seen individual cases of destitution and physical emaciation worse than anything thac. I saw in Armen-" during the two years that I gave to Armenian relief work. And to have these wrecks of humanity stand and look up to the Stars and Stripes waving over their city hall gives one a queer sensation. The generous American people surely cannot understand the condition of Cuba, or these poor creatures would be taken care oi. liI do not speak of the sick, the infirm, or of those who hobble about, covered with loathsome sores, resulting from starvation. I cannot speak of them for the English langiage in inadequate to the task. They should have Been cared for in hospitals longmonths ago. Why it has not been done I cannot understand. "The condition of Cuba is a reproach to the American people^ _an<fcaj blot upon civilization. We are goingJ to do something to improve tnat condition and we invite all lovers of humanity in the United States to help us for the good name of the American flag. Our flag fcshould mean something to those homeless, helpless orphans and destitute country people. Money for these orphans or for our industrial relief fund work should be sent to the Continental Trust company, 30 Broad street, New York city marked "For the ! Cuban Industrial Relief Fund." A Desperate Fight. The strongly fortified village of'Cainti, northwest of Pasig. was captured Thursday after a desperate fight, by the Twentieth regular infantry. The troops first encountered the rebel outposts in the dense jungle on the banks or tne ] river. The enemy was dislodged after half an hour s fighting. The Americans advanced iu splendid order under a heavy fire until it was accessary to volley the rebels from the trenches. The latter had a great advantage and dropped a number of our men. The Americans charged across the rice fields, making four advances on the enemy, who numbered a thousand ~ ~ rrltAm All LUU U. JU.VC UUUU1CU Wl II IIV1U i>v>v ?" trenched, and in the face of a cross fire. Our troops, however, carried the town after four hours' fighting and burned the out skirts, the rebels firing from the windows and keeping up a runniag fire in the streets. The Americans then withdrew in order to obtain more ammunition. OUR CASUALTIES. The rebel loss about 100 men and the American loss was Corporal Johnson of company C, and Private McAvoy of compaDy L, killed. In addition the following Americans were wounded: Sergt. Check, company L; Corp. Households, company M; Private Kelly, company C; Private Kinney, company C; Private Tinker, company C; Private iiilley, company U; rnvate | Varley, company G: ?rivate Calcy, | company F: Private Ma lan, company L; Private Griffiths, company L'; Private Lafeyth, company L; Private Mcj Farland, company L. Almost Starved to Death. The train that has been snowbound ! on the Cheyenne and Northern railroad I for the past three weeks was abondoned Wednesday. The passengers were taken in wagons from Altus to Horse Creek station, where they were transj ferred to a train and brought to Cheyenne. A number of relief trains were ! sent to the resue, but they failed to i get through the drifts of snow and ice, which are 10 to 20 feet deep, and ire now blockaded at different points along the road. E. P. Richardson, oneot the ; rescued pa--sangers, said of his experiI ence: "I have been around the world j several times, have been in shipwrecks [ and railroad collisions, but have had [ nothing to equal my trip of 154 miles j on the Cheyenne and Northern. We | suffered intensely from the cold and | poor quality of food, being compelled j to sleep in the coach without anything to lie on but the hard floor and with no j covers. The small stove only heated I one end of the car, so that at times we ! were obliged to stay awake to prevent 1 freezing. Whe^ we left uhe train this j morning our supply of food was comI pletely exhausted and had we been j obliged to remain in the aow abandanI doned train 24 hours longer we would surely have starved to death." Explosion on a Cruiser. j The British f rstclass cruiser Terrible from Malta reports th;it a boiler ex | plosion on board of her Monday killed a stoker, fatally injured another man and badly scalded several others. A NORTHERN VIEW Of the Working of the South Carolina Dispensary. THINKS IT IS A GOOD LAW. The Unquestioned Success Attained Under the Law. Should Commend it to the Study of Temperance People. The March number of the Zion's Herald, published at Boston, contains the following report of an investigation into the operation of the dispensary law: We arrived at Columbia; the capital of South Carolina, about 5 p. m. Learning that the legislature was in session in the evening, we looked in on both houses and listened for a considerble time to the proceedings. While the dispensary law was up for consideration, we observed chat it was true? as we had been previously informed? that both senators and representatives were very careful to profess that thej believed in it and were supporters of *it. This fact indicates the measure ef approval of the act which is now general throughout the state; but more of this later. The Negro of the South has been so thoroughly eliminated from politics and office-holding that there is but one colored man in the house aa.d Done in the senate. As there are cities in the State, notably Charleston, where, if we remember correctly, there are more Negroes than white people, it will sapti that the nrocess of elimination is very successful. The personnel of both houses was very creditable, and the speeches heard were able and pertinent. The speaker of the house and the president of the senate were arrayed in richly-colored robes?a ?ustom we have not seen in any other commonwealth. The State house is a cheerless and unattractive building, looking more like a railroad station than anything else. Columbia has a population of twenty five thousand people, but the city as a whole is disappointing. There are spacious streets, but they are UDpaved, and the sidewalks, if there be any worthy the name, even on the main business streets, are perilous. Southern cities are very poorly lighted in the evening. It is difficult to understand how the people, with so fine a location and a city so well laid out, can be so -- JwViif.li. a; a i Liu mere in. LU xiu^iv>v*uv-vk- ??7 ? ? slight expense, would add so much to its beauty and convenience. But we are here to study the dispen sary law, and so devote our time to it, mainly. The next morning, with an apologetic Is supposed ts go into the dispensary except to buy liquor and it cannot be purchased elsewhere), we asked to be directed'to a dispensary. It was a few doors from our hotel;> We recognized-,it because the word "Dispensary" was painted across the front window; and this is all the sign or indication that is allowed. It is a little after 9 o'clock in the morning, and when we enter we find no other person there except a man behind the counter, and here we are at last, in a dispensary! What sort of a place is it? Certainly not an inviting place in whioh to linger. There is not a picture on the naked wall, nor is there any chance to sit down, not even nn is fVirAA-lecced stool. There are no Vfc* " CO? B refresh meats of any kind to attract the driuker, such as are advertised by the saloons of our cities. And, as if to prevent any social relation or conversation between buyer and seller, the manager is shut in behind his high, 1 OTTOT7 fr^m oil uroau uuuulcidj ? ?t i+j ~? close contact with his visitors. Nothing is to be seen in this store, which is perhaps thirty feet deep and twenty feet wide, in addition to what has been mentioned, except bottles on the plain shelves on either side of the counters. We commence our inquiries, which are respectfully answered. The dispensary is open from sunrise to sunset, never evouings. Any adulc can purchase liquor, if he is known not to be a drunkard or a man whose wife has requested the manager not to sell liquor to him. No minor can purchase liquor in a dispensary. The dispensary is not open Sundajs, holidays or evenings. Every particle of liquor bought in the State must be purchased at the dispensary under these and more exacting and inviolable conditions. Every bottle of liquor is sealed, and the seal must be I u.fV,a dianAnsarv. and in Ui vatu VUUOIUV vuv ~ ^ , no instance can it be losted or drank on the premises. There are four dispensaries in this city of 25,000. We are not arguing this case, but reporting it. "We are anxious, however, that our readers should catch the full significance of what it means to thus strangle the liquor trade and crowd it into such confinement. How would it seem in good old New England if there were no saloons and no enticements to drink, no treating, and no opI portunities for going into a place to purchase liquors and drinking it there'! How would it seem if no boy or?to our shame be it said?girl could go into any place in our cities and purchase wiae and other intoxicants? flow would it seem if there were n? selling of liquor among us in the evening or night, when carnivals of hell are earned on in our very sight? With us the laboring man is enticed into the saloon in the evening, and wastes there his substance and himself in riotous living, only to go to his home, late, drunken, robbed and ugly. Nothing of this kind can take place in South Carolina. The manager of the dispensary is put under $3,000 bonds, and his bond is good for two years after he resigns or is removed from his office; and if he violates a single one of the many conditions under wmVh he acts, his bondsmen are liable. In the half hour that we remained in that dispensary four people came in to buy liquor?three negroes and one white man, one of the negroes being a woman. A record was made of each sale. The purchasers each bought a half pint of whiskey, put it into their pockets or in some way concealed it, and quickly slid out of the place as if doing something they tfid not want seen. To show the operation of this law: There was a regiment of solders there a few weeks before, when it was known that th^y would remain a day in Columbia, the dispensaries were ordered closed. ^ / fi J I j the soldiers could not obtain drink, j J they were peaceable and inoffensive, j j The next day they were in a neighbor- i j ing state where license prevailed, and } ! they drank to beastly excess, looted the 1 } town, got into brutal fights, and one or i more were killed. That is the best j j commentary we heard on the effect of j ! South Carolina law. | From this local dispensary we went | to the State dispensary?a large, two story brick building in this city, where the whole liquor business of the State is done. Here all the liquors furnished the dispensaries throughout the State are stored, chemically examined, bot1 1 1 1 1 TT 1 ~,,rv,W ! ' tied ana seaieu. neru u. jaitc uumuw i of men and women are kept bus}*. The visitor is cordially welcomed and his questions are answered, and there is no attempt to conceal any feature or part of the business. We confess that there was nothing especially attractive or inspiring about this place?in beholding ; hundreds of barrels of liquors curing I and taking on age, and seeing men and women filling thousands of bottles aud sealing andfpacking them for sale. But if it must be sold?aud it will be?is it not better for the State to take it in hand, see that it is pure, and regulate the sale, as South Carolina does? TTe ?aula /if imnTwiwflpr. dvna j i uiv OU.V vr* v ^ 7 _v _ mite, poisons and other things which prove harmful to the people. Liquor selling, indiscriminate or under license which usually means no restraint, or the violated prohibitory law which breeds the low dive, does a thousand times more harm than these regulated articles that the states everywhere control. Is there not more sentiment than sense iu much of our thinking and acting concerning the liquor business iu New England? One thing is certain: The dispensary law, which was first passed in 1892, has justified itself to the best people of the State, and, as we said at first, it has their support; and_ men are very careful. whatever their criticisms may be upon some special feature of the law, I to highly commend it as a whole. Several leading men in the State whom we questioned, acknowledged, in substance, that at first they did not - support it, but had become convinced, against their prejudice and opposition, that it is tbe best law in the world for the regulation of the liquor traffic and the drink habit. Three facts are claimed for it that should be more fully stated: 1. Only pure liquors are provided. All liquors are chemically assajed by an expert, and nothing is allowed to be sold unless it is pure. 2. There is no" aDneal to the selfish ness or avarice of those who are employed in the business. The greed of gain, the desire to receive the largest returns for money and time and strength put into the business, is the - loadstone which draws many a saloon-keeper among us to the business, and which tempts him, when once engaged in it, __tQ- 'inolro?"ini ?and to toaob minors and women to drink. But all this is entirely taken away by the dispensary law. Everybody employed in the business receives a salary,^?ftich is in no case based upon the amount of liquors sold. It makes no ^difference in any way to the manager^? a dispensary whether he sells a half pint per day or several gallons. 3. The significant fact which has already been suggested, that with no open saloon and no enticements, no evening and no night sales, and no sale to minon, the great business of drundkard-making, which is so largely the accursed feature of our saloons, is eliminated. The importance of this fact need only to be mentioned in order to be appreciated. Here, it seems to us, is the best feature of the law. If only we had this here in New England, what unspeakable horror and anguish we should be spared! The dispensary law seems to have conquered foes, which have been legion. Men who love drink, and others who want to get rich carrying on the business, have fought it with wicked desperation. Men who did not and do ,, not like Senator Tillman, who made and pressed this law through and saw that it was executed, arc now forced to confess, and do confess, that the law is an unparalleled success. Judges of the United States courts have stretched their, views of the Lw and been prejudged in the examination of facts in j order to break down the execution of the same; but all this opposition is conquered. The United States supreme 1 court has finally given a decision to the effect that the police regulation of liquor business which South Carolina exercises in executing its liquor business is allow able in that or any state. Here is the decision. "The police power includes all measures for the protection of the life, the health, the pioperty and the welfare of the inhabitants, and for the promotion of good order and the public morals. It covers the suppression of nuisances, whether injurious to public health, like unwholesome trades, or to the public morals, like gambling houses and tottery tickets. The police power extends to things not only intrinsically dangerous to the public health, such as infected rags or diseased meat, but to things which, when used in a lawful manner, are subjects of property and of commerce, and yet may be used so as to fce injurious or dangerous to the life, the health or the morals of the people. Gunpowder, for instance, is a subject of commercc, and of lawful use, yet. because of its explosive and dangerous fliot- tJio ctntp mav UUclii HC3, an auuiiv luav ??w regakte its keeping and sale. And there is 110 article, the right of the state to control or to prohibit the sale or manufacture of which within its limits is better established than intoxicating liquors." In order to answer the many questions which may have arisen in the minds of our readers, we give in their ?* i-l-x* iTnnnae nf rf?r>?t5tinn. U1 H Ci C V Cii Cl U Ifliu UtJV V? * VJ>/an?-?? ?7 the leading features of the law; ( The law establishes a state board, which has entire control of the liquor traffic, said board having power to draw on the stato treasury for all sums required in carrying on the business, and all moneys received from sales arc turn ed into the state treasury. ;, j All officials are salaried ien, and have no interest in the sales. They ; must also be kno^n as temperate men. A petition signed by a majority of'the voters of any town or towDship is required to get a local dispensary. It . must be plainly fitted up, open during the day time, closed on Sundays, holi- : days and election days. No liquor can ; --be drunk on the premises. Nothing sola less than one-half pint of stron: liquors, each package to be sealed an< a certificate of purity attached. In eacl case the buyer must make out an ap plication, giving name, etc. Not les than a bottle of beer is sold. No liquor is sold to minors, intoxi cated persons, known drunkards, or t< one whose family has entered a protes against selling to him. All the profits from the sale of li quors?about $480,000 per year?goe to the several counties of the state fo public school purposes, ana is expcna ed without discrimination. There are 90 dispensaries in the state whereas, under license, there were rnori than a thousand legal places for thi sale of liquor. Public sentiment heartily support; the execution of the law, and the sum mary effort to abolish the low dive called in South Carolina the "blind ti ger." The unquestioned success attained uu derthelaw should commend it to thi study of temperance people of al shades of opinion. A request address ed to Hon. S. W. Vance, state coinmis siouer. South Carolina dispensary, Co lumbia. S. C., for a copy of the lav and other data necessary to understate its operation, will secure favorable anc prompt reply. LUETGERT THE.SECOND. Becker Confeses He Cut His Wife U] ana Burned the Pieces. A dispatcn trorn tnicagosays Augus: A. Becker, the sausage maker who ha: been under arrest for weeks on ih< charge of murdering his wife, made j full confession Wednesday. He said tha he cut his wife to pieces and bunrnec the remains in a stove. Becker, wher first arrested, admitted killing his wife but declared he pushed her )2Handolpl street viaduct into the lake and thai she was drowned. The police hav< never placed any reliance in the drown ing idea aod have kept up the work 01 the theory that Becker had killed th< woman in his house and made way wit! the body. The finding of a portion o: a human lung three days ago in Beck or < barn rmf. strength in their theon W? - c o? * and late Wedneday they induced Becke: to confess. In his confession, Beckei said he had killed his wife by striking her on the head with a hatchet in the kitchen of his home. He then cut th< body tp pieces and boiled it in a larg< kettle Becker says he took what re mained and burned it in a red hoi stove. The bones which were noi burnned he buried on the prairie neai his home. January 27 was the dat< Becker says he committed the-murder He asserted the crime was notr premedi tated, but that he quarreled with his wife on the afternoon of that day, and in the heat of passion, he struck her or a - ?3 _:A ii.. tne neau wnu me uaigugL. j.u.m of' lung and a portion of calico whict -rrrrcioTind :ir-dcr-.thc barn, and wbk;!: the police believed to be strong evidence against Becker, be says, could, not be any part of tbe body of bis wife, as he is certain tbat he destroyed every particle of flesh, and he maintains the dress which .s^e wore was entirely burned. 'The ptiliee-'will look for the woman's bones tomotrow. They refuse to tell at present the location of the spot where Becker says they are buried. Eaten by Cannibals. The Sun's Tacoma advices say thai Yokohama papers just arrived contain details of the murder of M. G. Blanchard, formerly of Cincinnati,, by bloodthirsty Manchoorian Chinese. Several years ago Blanchard joined a Britisl ship at Xew York, but deserted hei last year at Callao. Then he drifted up the coast and finally sailed from Tacoma to Yokohama. From there he got to Yladivostock, and then proceeded to the interior. He was captured by one of the bands of Manchoorians that rave through north China and taken to the mountains. There was three feet of snow on the ground. The unfortunate American was tied hand and foot and after being stripped was laid on the snow by a fire so that his head and shoulders were nearly roated, while the rest of his body was feezing. Id the morning he was flayed with bamboc canes until he was dead, and he was then eaten by the cannibals. A Georgia Lynching. Twenty "men, armed and masked, rode into Palmetto, Ga., on Thursdaj mnrninz and nut to death four Negroes, fatally woundsd one, and broke the arm of a seventh man. Two others whc were of the crowd upon which the bullets were showered miraculously escaped. These unfortunates were under guard of three men awaiting the hour of 9 o'clock, when they were tc have a hearing before a justice of the peace on the charge of arson. Win. Cotton, the leader of the nine men, confessed some time ago that a conspiracy has been entered into which resulted in two incendiary fires in February, and on this evidence the D;en were, to have been tried. G-ov. Chandler, of Georgia, denounces the lynching and has offered a big reward for the arrest of the lynch ers. Japan May Adopt Christianity. There may be do foundation for the report that the mikado has already de cided to make Christianity the established religion of his empire, giving it the place which Buddhism occupied under the Sho^unate, and whioh the traditional Shintoism now. nominally, holds. There is no doubt, however, that the expediency of placing Japan among the Christian powers has been for some time the subject of earnest discussion in the native press, and that it has been seriously considered by em: * ?vi: iLieui. puuiiv; mcu. A Tornado Strides a Town. A fierce tornado passed over the town of Avendale, Ala., and twenty resi dences, three churches and two machine shops were destroyed. Many persons were injured, one perhaps fatally. The Southern railroad was compelled to abandon all its trains west of Birmingham and the Louisville & .Nashville trains are ten hours late. The cyclone was attended by heavy rain and lightning. It seems a miracle that luore fatalities did not occur. An Awful Mistake.' A specif! from Orange. Tex., says: Mrs. Henry (irubbs, on her way to sit ap with a sick person, was mistaken for a footpad by Will Fourch and shot and killed. He surrendered and was brought to Houston for safekeepiag. 9 A STKEST JflGrHT. i 3 . In "Which Several Ken Are Killet 2 j. and Woimdsd I A shooting occurred at Hot Springs o j Ark.. Thursday evening, which resulte< t in the death of five men and the wound ing of one other. The killed were: Thomas Toier, chief of police, s J. E. Hart, city detectivc. r Tbos. F. Gcslee. police sergeaut. - j John Williams, son of Sheri5 Wil j liatns. . ' Louis Henkel. driver of a brewer] s wagon. j Ed Spears was shot in the occk anc may die. s The shooting grew out of the mayor - alty campaign under way here. Sherif , Williams was a warm supporter of th< - | regular Democratic nomiuee, wi?U< j Toler, Hart and Goslee were support - j ing au opposition candidate. 3 fciiiriy iu me auernoon snots were es. 1 changed between Sheriff Williams anc - his son John on the one side and Ser geant Goslee on the other, but no one - was injured. After this both parties >r determined to have it out. Toler Han i and Goslec were walking south on Cen 1 tral avenue at about half past 5 o'clock when the}' met Sheriff Williams and hi< two sons. John and Coffey, and Ec Spears. No one can tell who fired th( first shot, but in a moment there was 2 i o .mi i ;.i. a(\ r.r 3 general iusn:aae, in wiucu -?v ui o\ shots were exchanged. When it was over. Tolcr, Hart, Goslee and Henkel. . a n?mcombatant; were dead, and Johc Williams was mortally wounded. He died au hour iater. Louis Henkel' at' tempted to separate the combatants t when the fight opened. lie was shol ^ in the head and died instantly. The mayor, immediately after the shooting, appointed Judge L. D. Beld ?n..? ^ ILIg UiJICI Ul *T MX v t sworn in al once and all saloons were 5 ordered closcd. There is little factiona] * feeling outside of thos* engaged in the shooting. Order was easily restored ^ and the city is now quiet. The sherifi " and his son Coffey are under arrest and P no further trouble is anticipated. Sheriff Williams was no: pressenl . when the battle occurred, but soon apr peared, audon learning of the death oi r his son became frantic with rage. About 20 minutes after the main bat ; tie another affray occurred nearby ic which four or five shots were fired. Ie [ this fusillade Detective Jim Hart wenl ' down with the whole top of his skul] ' blown off. All of the dead men leave ^ large'families. " DEATH TRAP TO MANY. A Large Number of People Burnt t( J 'I Death in a Hoteli Flame3 which originated from th( L iffifeiag of a lace. curtain hurst fron > j&c^'sccd^d floor of the Windsor-hole at Fort? -seventh street and Fifth avenue, Nev York, shortly after 3 o'clock Friday a.^rnoon, and in a few minutes they had leaped up to the roof and enveloped the entire Fifth avenue.^and Forty-seventh street fronts^f the hotel. Ten minutes later the. flames were roaring through the interior of' the hotel, and all means of escape by way of stairways and elevators were cut off and fT-?XTTOC tVifi TcilriAct. meDt within and without the building. ' Hundreds of guestr and employees were ( in the hotel when the fire broko out, and for many of them escape with safe| ty was impossible. Probably fifteen lives were lost within 1 a half hour, and 30 or 40 other persons ' were injured in jumping from windows and in rushing through the flames in 1 the corridors and on the stairways. ! Many who were injured died later at ; nearby residences or at hospitals, and others who made wild leaps to the stone * sidewalks were so badly injured that 1 they are still hovering between life and 1 death. It may be 24 hours or more be! fore the complete list of fatalities be/irtmoe! l-nnirn orirl if mnc Hfl lnnir^T \j\JLUMO IVUV1TU, u.k+\? vv | than that before it can be ascertained 1 definitely how many charred bodies are ! in the mass of fallen masonry that 1 marks the spot where the hotel stood, i i TheTimrod Memorial. It is hoped that tLa plan of- issuing a memorial edition of Timrod's poems will meet with great success. He was one of the south's greatest goets. . His war lyrics have stirred southern hearts with a fervor unequalled since "Chevy ! Chase." His unpretentious monument 1 in Columbia?hardly larger than an ear ' of corn?is a mockery. Timrod should ' have a monument worthv of his name ' and fame. It should be a pleasure and 1 a privilege for all South Carolinians, 1 and, indeed, for all southerners in 1 whatever state they may make their ' home, to contribute to this memorial fund. Uur neighbors across tne river, especially the newspaper brethren, are doing all in their power to make the monument a great success, and we hope 1 that their wishes may be gratified. ? Augusta Herald. Army Enlistments. The following additional recruiting stations have been established for the purpose of endisting men to ?11 the : regular army up the maximum of 65,000 allowed, by the new army law: ?1I 1..^ U n . Trtn n . J wULl, O. -x > i.ig, i vuu. ^ Memphis, Tenn ; Norfolk, Va.; Savannah. Ga. Ia addition to these stations the war department will have officers at every place ^here volunteers are mastered out. An order has been issued i by the war dep-irtuieat increasing the age limit for enlistment from thirty to ; thirty-live years. The youngest age at which a man can be enlisted is IS years. The results so far for the enlistment of troops is very encouraging. A Poor Outlook. A colored editor who was a delegate to the last Republican national convention from one of the southern states announces that ho has finally succeeded in securing a supply of garden seeds to distribute to his friends. At the present time the indications are that the southern delegate business nest year will not even pay garden-seed dividends.?Washington Post. Built His Own Gallows. ' - - - . . ? i KGbert Lewis was hanged, at Atlanta at noon Tuesday for the murder of Charles Haynes, on the gallows built by Lewis i two years ago when employed as a workman. Charles Haynes was the foreman of a building here aud discharged Lewis. The latter met Haynes in December last and shot him to death. UU-tl J5LJSrJA&Ai. * 1 What to Do With the Philippines is the Question, | What io do with the Philippines is a i | question which presses upon us with in I creasing force and increasing uncertainI ty as time passes. It is taken for i granted that we shall finally subdue the J natives who are making a desperate ! struggle for independence, though - > opinions differ as to whether that re! suit will be accomplished in one or five r ; years. But sooner or -later we shall : have' the Philippines fully on our hands i j and the disposition of them will be ; forced upon us as a practical question. - ! Professor Clay MaeCauley, of Tokio, E j Japan, visited the Philippines in Janu! ary to study the problem for himself. I The conclusions he reached have been | stated on his return to Tokio with a I frankness and a freedom from partizan j asperity which oommend them to re: spectful consideration. He went to Manila strongly predisposed in favor of annexation; he came away convinced that annexation would be a most unforx i.. A L | luuawi tiuug uutu iui v;uuuuj auu i the Filipi-nos. A majority cf the Am: j ericans in Manila, he says, are opposed 3 to annexation in any form. Professor I MacCauley does not discuss constitu; tional objections, but 'considers^ the i ijuestion as a practical problem. ) The annexation of the islands by i force he thinks would entail frequent , and almost incessant revolts, requiring i us to spend far mere money to hold ^ them than they could possibly be worth to us. To buy the Filipino insurgents ; off would secure a comprorising gain : of doubtful value. Another possibility is the transfer of the islands to the Ph.ils ippine republic, the United States re tainiog Manila Bay and the forts. ! This plan, however, would expose i the Philippines to the greed of the 1 world's powers and "would be neither > honorable nor wise" in the opinion of [ Professor MacCauley. The third sot lution and the one he favors is to recog[ nize the autonomy of the Philippines under an American protectorate. ; This would insure the independence xt L i; - | oi iue repuuuu m me autuiuiatruLiuu ui : its internal affairs, our government taking charge of the supreme judiciary and the foreign relations of the republic, i Professor MacCauley believes tHat i only in this way can be secured peace ; and prosperity both for the United States [ and the Philippines. ! He says: "As for the subjugation of the islands, it is folly to talk of a war of conquest for the reason that the climate, so good physicians tell me, would place 60 soldiers out of a hundred hors^c combat in 60 days." The ) intolerablfcJl&t season begins the latter part of Marctt and lasts until August. "Moreover," adds Professor MacCauley "the Filipinos would have hundreds of ; miles of-country to fight over, and their | tactics'^ould be a ^ueriUa warfare. r ' Every bamboo thicket and jungle would ' be a shelter for their rifles and the loss J of life and expense of such a war would 5 be terrible. Professor MacOauley has ; , put the,-difficulties..; of -the Philippine situation in a very impressive manner, bat he has probably not exaggerated them in the least. A BILL AGAINST TILLMAN. The Heal Investigation Shows Him a Debtor to the Penitentiary. The penitentiary investigation committee Monday of last week devoted oractically its whole time to an inquiry * ? i _r l relative to tne Dries wmcu came iutu the possession of the penitentiary. Under a concurrent resolution thirty , convicts were allowed the asylum to make brick for the new building. The asylum made a contract with the penitentiary to secure a certain number of brick in iieu of the convicts. Th* penitentiary then made a contract with T. J. Lipscomb by which the asylum was - to get its brick and then the remainder : were to be divided between Lipscomb and the penitentiary. Lipscomb sup, plied half the wood, machinery, clay 1 and burners and the penitentiary the 1 labor. In one of the settlements the penitentiary is charged with 1.200 ; brick sent to Senator B. R. Tillman at Trenton, F. C. These brick were shipped July o;d 1895 and have never yet bean paid for. Lipscomb certified that ^eal told him to charge the brick against the penitentiary share after having sent Tillman :t bill and having received no reply. Xeal testified that Tillman owed the penitentiary for the brick and they would no doubt be paid for by him. He said that the Tillman account should appear as an asset of the penitentiary, and the only reason he could assign was the fault of the book- : keeper, and the bookkeeper swore that Col. Xeal told him to leave Senator Tillman's account open until he saw him and not to transfer it to the penitentiary account. The bill was for $72. The committee took recess until May 22. P.nttnn a Rv-Prndnct. It is estimated, says the Savannah Morning News, that during the past year over 4,000,000 tons of cotton seeds were crushed, and that from them products valued at more thau $120,000,000 were marketed. Only a few years ago the seed of the cotton plant was practically a waste product, aad often a source of annoyance, it not of acutal expense, to the planter The growth of the cotton oil iudustr> has been hardly short of marvelous La*t year there were shipped nearly i 40,000,000 gallons of the oil to Earepe a large iucrease over ail previous years, aud it is confidently expected that the exports of oil for the present year will 1 be very much greater. And while the 1 | field for the oil is being extended new uses for it are being constantly found. ' I The market, therefore, is far from be ing fully developed. In view of these ' facts, it is not l^yond the range of possibilities that in the course of time? 1 and it may not be such a long time, | either?the lint of the cotton plant ' ! will become the by-product and the i seed the chief staple. Four Hundred Drowned ] ; The search steamer which has just < I returned to Brisbane from Cooktown on : j Endeavor river, Queenstand colony, re- i ports that three schooners and eighty '< luggers were lost and that four hundred 1 ! colored persons and eleven whites were j drowned during the recent hurricane 1 that swept the northeast coast of 1 I Queensland. ? MUKE FHillIlJSHj^ r Wheaton's Column Sweeping Everything Before Them. ENEMY SUFFER SEVERELY. V> Rebel Avenue of Communication .. m Now Closed, American Cor don Now Stretching Over a Mile. A dispatch from Manila Wednesday says at seven o'clock, hearing the insurgents' bugles sounding, Scott's battery dropped three Shrapnel shell into the woods on the left of the Pasig church. No reply was made, and at 7:45 o'clock the Twenty-second regular infantry advanced until they encountered a number of volleys. This fire was returned with interest. The line then wheeled toward Pateros, in the following order: The Oregon volunteers, the Twentieth regulars, the' Washington volunteers, a cavalry detachment, the Twenty:second regulars and reserve artillery. Troops followed the roads; while the gunboats Ceste and Laguna de Bay assisted in sup- . : ' > pressing the fire, on- the left flank. Three rebel canoes were captured on the river. THE ENEMY ROUTED. Brig. Gen. Wheaton's column advanced beyond Pasir to the shore of La- ' " ** i-v:? guna ae -Day, sweeping everymmg u?fore them. The enemy made a running fight and suffered severe loss. The rebel's avenue of communication north , ^ and south is now'closed, the American cordon stretching over a mile from- the river to the lake. The rebels are in force at Pateros and Taguig. Two of yesterday's wounded, Private Stewart. erf Company B, Twentieth infantry, ana Private Munson, of Company K, Twenty-second regiment, are dead. . T THE EXEilY IK FORCE. s ' * r* i rm. Late 1 uesaay ijrenerai vy aeawu u column encountered the enemy in such force between Pateros and Tagolg, as to necessitate a change in the original plans. The cavalry attacked the rebel stronghold in the jungle, driving the ^ V^jjB enemy into Pateros. ' The Americans had one man killed and three wounded. I Scott's battery shelled the city and I woods effectively. Later the enemy crossed the riv6r from Pasig. Two^ companies of the Second Oregon in-^ H fantry cleared the' right bank after afl sharp engagement and- then retired. withB * * iL three wounded, .'.a tne meauume Washington volunteers closed in dri^fl ing small bodies of the rebeis bafl upon Pateros. One man was kilfl Daring the night the enemybnmed^B towrfof Pasig. ' I - ?V VrtCAT G-j&Nr OTiS Adjutaik^eneral, Washington. fl Until yesterday fiel^^>rations heH since capturing Caloocalrbf minor na^H cure consisting of-driving back small bands of insurgents, with considerable loss to latter. Yesterday" General Wheaton, with the Twentieth, 2nd in- /' , fantry. the Oregon and Washington troops, section 'Sixth artillery and squadron Fourth cavalry, attacked the regular force of enemy and drove them ? back and took line of Pasig river, which he now holds. Two improvised gunboats in Lake have been captured, con- v siderable property. Insurgents lose heavy; our, one killed and wounded slight, "aggregating thirty-five, mostly slightly wounded. Insurgents made no determined stand. _ ? Otis. A TOWN BURNED. Wiieaton's divisional brigade contin ues the work of clearing out the rebels around Pasig. The Washington vobm teers have captured and burned Pateros, meeting with a sharp fire from the enemy while crossing the river. Tuerday's fighting was like that of the past week, the insurgents occasionally making a * stand but eventually fie'eing. Their loss is supposed to have been small, as the Americans were unable to see the . enejny in the thickets- The progress of the Americans' advance is slow. A GSAXD VICTORY. . Gen. Lloyd Wheaton, commanding the United States flying column, attacked and defeated a force of 2,000 Filippinos at Pasig Wsdnesday afternoon, inflicting a heavy loss upon them. The American loss was slight The Americans captured 330 Filipinos. Many bodies of rebels killed in the engagement are noatxng uown me nvw. About 350 Filipinos surrendered at the town of Taguig to the Washington regiment and 175 Filipinos were captured at Pasig by the Twentieth regiment. j'.W Our troops found 106 dead Filipinos and 100 new graves near Pasig. The prisoners were unarmed, and, therefore, it is presumed they executed their threat of throwing their arms into the river. Gen. Otia says this is the greatest victory since February 5. The Americans will now pass toward Aguinaldo's headquarters. Some Hard Facts. Oar troops at Manila liavc taken two or three suburban. to*rns after hard lighting but with, little loss. It is 4 ;asy to take subnrban towns from guer- : j dlla foes. It is even easy to take dis- ? cam towns Dy marcmng strong oouies ? >f our excellent soldiers to them. Bat chat it is not successful occupation. Mm Please to remember that the Spaniards 'fl aeld every town in Cuba for three years, out lost 10CKU00 men and several hunired million dollars in holding them? :o what good? ?| Penitentiary Appointments. Capt. Griffith, the new Superintenient of the State Penitentiary has announced the following appointments: Physician, Dr. L. K. Sturkie, of Orinjseburg. Mr. W. D. Black, of Barnwell county. is to "02 captain of the guards. ; Sergeant W. W. Adams is to be reRev. J. C. Abney. of Columbia, has L>een appointed chaplain. The Second Eegiment^ From orders issued by the war department it appears likely that the Se- qj jond Regiment will be mustered out at Savannah. The regiment with other Southern troops has been ordered: to:hat city and it is expected that they ? - !! 1. - e L. rtui reacu uiere wiium a lew wrec*.o> m Lbe government intends to get all the- M roluntcers back from Cuba by May 1, at ivliich time quarantine regulations usu.- ~ illy are in force. j .' '