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jji VOL LI1L _ WINNSBOKO^ S. C.. ^^PNESDAYrAFRIL 12, 1899~~ " NO. 36. f - j^jtfROM THE FRONT. -The Situation of Affairs in the Philippine Islands. ' *V-A SCENE OF DESOLATION. What a Newspaper Correspondent Saw* While Under a ?, Flag of Truce in the Enemy's Line. L . The army correspondent oi^the New York Journal with General McArthur in a recent letter says: An hourago.I .' returned from a parley with^one of the insurgent commanders, Sinforoso de la "' Cruz, ia front of our blistering trenches ] and I am writing this - dispatch in a j shell-shattered church, where holy im- j Jb ages lie shattered on all sides and a j ^^..military telegraph instrument is click- j ing on th? side altar. ! J- _ It is a scene of appalicg desolation. ' Tired soldiers, covered with the dust of' j 1 the trenches, are stretched out asleep j within the chancel railing on the steps j of the high altar. A yellow spear o* I sunlight comes though a gap in che j roof made by one of Dewey's shells and lights up the fallen, broken figure of Christ, in tawdry crimson and gilt. Close by sits Colonel Funston of the Twentieth Kansas Infantry, dictating a dispatch to General MacArthur, who is ' in Manila. The sound of firing can be heard in ail diiections, and insurgent ' bullets come singing in at the open -v doors, for our firing line is not more than four hundred yards away. We are right in front of Aguinaldo's I mi_ _ x | mam army. iae ueuuuw <uc w wv? > that an American shooting can be ! heard by the Filipinos. There are 8,000 of the enemy before us?at least that is the number given to me by the rebel commander when I talked wish him.san hour ago. | It is a strange situation. From the J outlying parts of Luzon, from the is I lands of Cebu, Panay, Mindano, Min-' L dora and Qther parts oir empire in the J ^ Pacific comes word that the commoD { people of the soil, together with the i principal property owners, deplore the 1 Qfo+Acr on/3 \ . ^2X S22.1DSL LliC U Uitcu Ijiavgo) ?uu , r '. * the American flag as a symbol of the dawn of liberty and justice after centu- ! lies of oppression. It's the Taggalos^ the fierce, the,vain,.j ; strutting Tagalos, that we are fighting, j " Let no one in the~United States imagT j : ine that the 10,000,000 people of tins vast archipelago are resisting the Amx erican arms unitedly. The Tagalos alone, assisted and encouraged by the rieh half breeds of Manila, are waging xcar nnon our arffi V. Agninaldo and his cabinet have sent armed bands of Tagalos intc^iey^iypartr of the island of Luzon and'i^r^^anay. rHindano and several, other-of tbe larg-' ] island?,, to people to Jlghkj "Qbd?;r threats ofin?tant deati^r Mz&l of the prisoners we have taken have told pitiful stories of Aguinaldo's crnel oppression. The island o?*$egfos f.v ;jtIo?g- has defied him, and there the American flag flies, and within a -few days there will be a regiment''of natives in American uniforms to defend itr-%';"; ' L It is not more than an honr sincejX. walked from our trenches with Franlklin Brooks, of the Associated Press, within easy talking distance of the . main insurgent trench beyond the church in which lam writing. We car> ried a flag of truce to protect ourselves:! * from the fire of hundreds of swarthy" Filipinos swarmipg behing the rough earthworks under the tall bamboo trees. We went out across the blistering hot fields to answer to signals from the enemy, many of whom seemed to want to surrender. The insurgents made us valk three-quarters of a inile between the lines, feariDg to come clos- j er to the deadly Kansas rifles glistening over the edgSPof our trenches. Private Winterburn of the- Twentieth WHS VUT7 VI VJUV VJ . AA*w insurgents refused to come half way to meet us and frantically waved us K on toward their crowded trendies. "We held our hands up to show that. we were unarmed and the enemy did likewise. The Filipinos forced us to go three-quarters of the way between the lines to meet them, while both armies eagerly watched the proceedings, the ; Kansas sharpshooters occasionally shooting, warning them against treachery. It turned'out to be merely a parley for a true of a few hours, the insurgents having heard that Aguinaldo had sent some sort of a proposal to General Otis. Colonel Funston joined ? tisi snr? rvrmrmtlv agreed not to attack if ^ the insurgents ceased firing and kept to their trenches. Hn Almost the first question asked by HSKthe Filipino commander revealed the j^Keadly work done by the agitators for ^^J?hilippine independence in WashingJ^Have the American commissioners reaahed Manila yet?'' asked the insnr'? gaaileoionel a bullet-headed tawny litii^Wigalo, in a smart new uniform. f^N?t ye*.," I said. ^v^fl^ey're coming to treat with us,'' diP^ouvhave been deceived," I said, - '"The only commission yoxi can deal with consists of General Otis and his army." * ? *i I* The little colonel looked at me suspiciously out of the tail of his eyes and puckered up his lips. "We have many friends in Washington," he said. "We have heard that the commissioners would come to treat with us." ?V\How many men have you in front of us here?" I asked. "Eight thousand." i _ : "It is useless to continue a struggle acainst overwhelminc force.r I sueaes ted. a We have many thousands of veteran troops on their way from Washington. It means utter defeat for you in a few weeks. Why Dot lay down your arms and come into ou? lines, where you can have food; k protection and peace?" Blew His Brains Out, \ A special from Brunswick. Qa., says: News reached here tonight of the suicide of George W. Fleming, a prominent farmer of Camden county. Fleming blew out his brains in the presence of his wife and five lictle children. He had been drinking for several days and was on the verge of delirium tremens. fHIETY YEABS PENSION FRAUD. iiiree Women as Widows of a Man Who Never Married. The recent conviction in the criminal ' -rrr 1 i_._ _ ? TM1 1 court at vv asmngion oi Xiiieu <;vucs, colored, upon two indictments charging her with fraudulently obtaining peosion money from the government, ends one of the most remarkable cases ever developed in the pension bureau. The evidence showed that the fraud had extended over a period of thirty years. William Butler, a colored soldier, whose war record is the basis for the long-continued system of frauds, was a member of company E, First United States colored infantry. He came : from Prince George county, Maryland, oT?1ictAr? in t.hft pnrlv Dart of the i year 1864. In his first engagement in the battle of Wilson's Landing, he was shot in the head and died five days < later at Fort Monroe. He was a young : man and unmarried. In his company ; was Charles Marshall, since dead, and who, after he came out of the army, married Carrie Jones, a sister of the j convicted woman. He became what is j known as a "runner" for a firm of pen- < sion agents and while thus engaged j conceived the plan of having his moth- j er-in-law, Malvina Jones, apply for a j pension as the widow of William But- , ler. Under the name of Mary Butler < a pension of $8 a month was granted in , 1869. This amount she continued to , draw without difficulty until her death < in 1873. Her eldest daughter, Carrie j Jones Marshall, then represented her- i self as the mythical "Mary Butler' and < ' ? .i ? ? continued 10 araw uie peusiuu xur iviuteen years. Upon her death in 1887 her sister, Ellen Jones, the convicted woman, took up the pension as a sort of heirloom and began to draw a pension as the widow of William Butler, as her mother and sister had done before her. This she continued to do for ] about twelve years, notwithstanding < -1 f x-L ^ 11? .* * ?? toe iact teat sue is uuw uui> wvic wau 40 years of age, and her alleged hus- i band, William Butler, died thirty-five ] years ago. Not only did the woman j operate successfully in this respect, but < she was able without much difficulty j several years ago to have the amount < increased from $8 to $12 per month. The case is almost without a parallel in ] the history of a pension bureau. For a ; term, of thirty years three different < women have'each, as' the widow of a < man who never had a wife, drawn his < pension, and two of the women were 1 wrViAn m O T> i 51U&11. YT XJ.VU VJUW Ui?u UAV<*. I A Gold Statute- ' Utah has it in mind to eclipse Mon- , tana in the matter of building statues , of precious metal. It will be remem bered that Montana sent to the World's . 'Fair at Chisago a great silver statue of ; Ada Rehan, worth thousands of dollars, and which statue has proved to be a 1 very excellent advertisement for the , - < *' > i <- >_- V A. mines irom wdicd it came, x^uw uie ^Utab-miners are talking about making , *a larger statue, of pure gold; taken , hills of. their state. They -i have chosen Maude Adams, who was j born in Salt Lake City, as the model j for the statue. It will require $346, 000 worth of gold bullion to make the ; figure, and-it? is said the amount, will be , mnmont't nnMno Thp I . Ck V OliOil/iV aw ? ^XiVUJVU v uvvavv* ? mw j statue will; be. exhibited at' the Paris , Exposition of nextyear.A Virginia Tragedy. The dead bodies of "Weston B. Tar- ^ ner and his wife, a well-to-do couple, each about 60 years old, who made their home at Falls Church, Ya., were discovered there Wednesday. Turner , evidently had shot his wife wb'le she j was asleep and then put another bullet through his own head. A paper of March 23, giving an account of a suicide in Washington that day, and other evidence indicated that the tragedy occurred the night of the 23d. The couple frequently visited "Washington and it was cot until their absence became prolonged that the house, was broken into and the dead bodies found. Turner had been in ill'health' and quite melancholy all winter.*- The tragedy evidently was an inspiration of the moment. Turner left an estate worth , nK/wt &>o nno ? ] A Queer Decision. A decision was rendered by Judge ] Peabody in the city police court of St. ] Louis Wednesday that under certain 1 conditions a husband has the right to 1 beat his wife. The case was one Bern arn Kretzer charged with bcatine his 1 0 ? ? , wife because she would not agree with him in the management of their chil- ] dren. Judge Peabody said in passing judgment: "In this case the wife was J more guilty than the husband for try- 1 ing to contradict and thwart her hus- ' band's will in the presence of :he children and setting them a bad example 1 which he had a right .to rebuke. There ' are times when a wife irritates her husband to such an extent that he cannot 1 control himself and uses his hand and ] fist. As long as no serious harm is 1 done I don't believe in punishment." ' i A Progressive Youth. A vouth in Sunsan, Corea, recently I cut his hair to displease his parents. 1 The latter wer? so enraged and grieved J at this conduct that they ''looked upon < him as dead," and, calling in their rel atives and friends, went through the j ceremony for the dead, sacrifice t beiD _ j offered and wailing indulged in. The i incorrigible youth was a stoic spectator < through it all, sitting quietly by him- 1 self, and when tired he made his way 1 to the dispensary of Dr. Drew from 1 whom the account is drawn, and re- 1 ported the progress of the services. For a month no notice was taken of the boy i by his parents other than "giving him ! his food. He has taken to wearing i foreign clothing. '< A Priest Removed. Monsigneur Santander, bishop of Havana, at ihe suggestion of G overnor . General Brooke, has removed a priest ? n/ . i m U?bezas parish, province or .uatanzas. The "request is the first intervention by th$ military administration in : ecclesiastical affairs. Major General . Wilson, military governor of the department of Matanzas, wrote to head- < quarters that the priest in question was i a ' "drunken, worthless," dirty old scoun- i drel," that he had pastured his horse in the cemetery and let the consecrated < enclosure go to weeds, and that if the bishop did not remove him he (General < Wilson would elect him on his owa re- : spoasibility. MORRO CASTLE, , a c The Dungeons of the Famous For- j tress Explored. j s HORRIBLE ASSOCIATIONS, |< I? ; i Notes of a Recent Visit by the j Rev. Dr. Henry M. Field c to the Spanish Bas- i tile. | J In comiDg to Havana the one thing I r which I wished to see above all others I t was the Morro Castle, which has been j Pr\r ^nhiriAs the citadel of Soanish | j power. I had only to express my wish to see the interior of Morro Castle, j when a friend soon brought me a pass, c not only for myself, but for any of my t friends whom I should wish to take i with me. ^ That was enough. The next morn- v ing I was with a friend at the landing, t from which a boat took us to tbe other v side. As'we climbed tip the "hill the landscape stretchid out farther and e farther. Instead of a narrow neck of r land, or a rock in the sea, just large ^ snough to be a base for the fortress it- ? 3elf, was an upland plateau si-retching >ufc far and wide as if to give the great- v sr effect to the white tents that were ^ seen in the distance. On thia breezy a hill top was a plain broad enough to be j the camping-ground of a hundred thou- f sand men. As oux pass did not come from the P* "L * AA?tf?TT A C nc uroveruur, uic ui^t scuu. y v?? to the tent of commanding officer half i mile away, where we found him sit- f ting under the canvas quite alone. He received us not only graciously. He had but to glance at our pass to give it his approval, and to tell our escort to show us everything in both castles, the Morro and the Cabanas, the latter of which was: by far the larger and the 0 more full of thrilliug, though horrible f issociations. While giving us this g jomplete unrestrained liberty, he felt ^ it due to us and to himself to warn us )f the danger we should run. c The old fortress had been for months d reeking with pestilence, and in spite of t ill attempts to make it clean, only a short time before three sturdy men, who were employed in the work, were struck e iown with yellow fever and hurried in- P to the grave. If we ventured where they had fallen, we must do it at our ' Dwn risk. We thanked him for his o thoughtful kindness, and then proceed- e ?d to do the very thing which he had d earned ns not to do. w How could we help it? It was as if I we were standing on the Bridge of Sighs fi in Venice, with permission to descend d into the dungeons below. And then h there was a fascination in the danger it- P 3elf. We began cautiously, taking our i first view from the outside. I am not a soldier, but I have seen first and last a * i T fi t ij 3 l; good aeai 01 tne wona, auu uu iurwcao bas impressed me so much except Gi- f braltar. The Cabanas alone covers d many acres of ground, and the fortificadons are in the style of those in Eu- ? cope, as for example in the Low Coun- 1< tries and along the Rhine. They are * girdled with high and massive walls, h surrounded by a deep moat ana an outer p wall beyond, the two together being c sufficient to repel any attack that could h have been made before these later a times of dynamite and other explosives p thac seem sufficient to tear the very G sarth itself asunder. ^ But the walls standing alone, cannot, S would not, move us more that the bro- w ken walls standing on the Campania h iround Rome. It was the tragedies li wrought within that were to stir our a blood. Following the guide over the A bridge that crossed the moat, we came c iown into the interior. Here we were " 3n lower ground and could look up to d the walls above us, and then turn to the C inclosure wiihin. Here we soon came h in close touch with recent events, ana a i< strange hcrror came creeping over us. v What was the matter? Oh, nothing! nothing! I was only standing by a little tree, and had put my arm about it lovingly, as if I were embracing one of .t] my own loved maples on the Berkshire 71 bills. To be sure, the bark was a little tl rough, and there were many marks, as T if the woodpeckers had been pecking at S1 the bark. There must have been a flock a to peck so many holes, bo a stranger ?( prould reason till the horrible thought C] :omes over him that these deep inden- <} tations had been made by more terrible e] iestroyers than the birds of the air. u rhat little tree had been pierced by a 0; liniidred bullets from Spanish rifles, 0: md at every discharge fell some native a Df this island, who hal loved it, not sj wisolv. hnt too well. To iudee from m the shots, many a brave heart ceased n to beat on that spot. 1< But the exercise of Spanish skill in h anng at the tree was a small affair com- tl pared with the larger massacres that ti took place within these walls. I did ci not attempt to count the prisons vault- a] 2d with stone into which the rebels oJ svere forced by hundreds. Here was a re spand array of captives upon which gi their brave captors could vent their w f C\? r>iA A * 111C O TO T?1 f.- fll LO&C. vu CVCiJ oiug r? mi ted with shots, at every sound of which gi some poor creature had an end put to la his suffering, till ev^n the murderers, y< if thev still retained a touch of human c< ity, must have been sick with the sight Df*blood. But if they grew tired of their work, there were outsiders who were never tired of massacre. Many of d> the rich Spaniards in the city of Hava- p; aa were eager to witness a tragedy that n< was more to them than a hundred bull p fights. They had been accustomed to ir shout with delight when a bull gored a ai horse, that rushed bleeding around the h arena, and now they would find a still E greater excitement in the shedding of d: human blood! It was the spirit of old ai Rome when captives were thrown to the ti ? 1 1 [ions m tne coliseum, ana numan me o was thought nothing if it could serve to ti make a Roman holiday. g: So these Cuban prisoners were kept is for a great battue. "Do you see that line,'' said our guide, "along the wall-?" That was the dead line, where the condemned were ranged in a row of a hur- e: ired or more, with their backs against tJ the wall, to be shot down in cold blood; ii while the pride and fashion of Havan& 0 crowded every point of vantage on th^ 0 walls that overlooked the spot, ana si cheered with wild enthusiasm as they, a saw the heaps of dead that were_ thual r; piled up in the arena before them:" ^ a / / This seems the last limit of iorrors. 3ut noj-there may be conditions that ,re worse than death. We have read >f the "Black Hole" of Calcutta. There fere many black holes in the Cabanas ortress, into which not a gleam of sunihine ever came. Who could endure ;uch horrors without a fearful temptaion^to.curse God^anddie: ..But .when I :ome to such a spot it had for me a itrange fascination, as if I were look"* 1 ^? ? -* ? x ~ Tn anifn nf Dg^inio tne moui/ii uj. lien, iu OHlvv he warning of the general lest I might )e struck down with yellow fever, I :ould Lot refrain from thrusting my lead into places where the ceiling was lot high enough forme to stand, and vhere to move at all I should have to :reep and crawl, to move my hands as veil as my feet! Better a [thousand imes to be sleeping in a quiet grave hanthustobe buried alive! This is the ast extreme of human suffering when leath itself will not die. . o . _ 'A. great ioriress nas muumciauic >assages underground, More than once iur guide asked us to stoop very low; o get on my knees, to look through the ODg passages, one of which connect? he Cabanas with- the Morro Castle, to rhich the garrison might retreat in case he first fortress fell, to find escape by ray of the sea. In this Morn) Castle there is at presnt no garrison, and it was an immense e. ef to the tention of the last three lours to emerge from underground assages and look out upon the broac3 ea, which knows no servitude to man; rhi^h preaches freedom in the very ashing of her waves, and to look up ,nd see the Star-spangled Banner .vavng over us, with a promise of freedom or Cuba as boundless as the se2. WHY SHE KILLED HIM. In Trial for Murdering the President's Brother-in-law A thrilling story of ruin and retribuion wa; unfolded recently in the courts f Canton, Ohio. It told of a woman's railty, a man's villainy and the ven eance ol one lovea ana taen easi on rith mocking scorn. The man in the ase was the brother-in-law of Presient McKinley, and his tragic death on he night of October 6, 1898, sent a hrill of surprise and horror through very American household. Very few eople were aware that the gentle misress of the White House had a brother rho, to speak as charitably as possible f the dead, was a libertine whose tragic nd no decent person could deplore. He ied by the hand of the woman he had rronged and deceived?one of many, kittle AllieShoffer, of Canton, 0., the TT~V? /\m /IAAQo V frvri TTAnOl^ >l>3t gill nuuux UWVlgb UMAWVU *twwv?} ied of a broken heart when she found lira false to her. A leading Canton ihysician shot him for attempting to Qvade the peace of his home! The iberiine spent a vacation on a country arm, and after he had left, the pretty ittle daughter of the farmer, a child of ourteen, crept out in tbe night and rowned herself in a pond. Then Saxon came into the life of the woman by rhom he met his death. He was a fine Doking man, big and blond, hearty, realthy and full of life. She was a annv wife and mother, sharing com arative poverty with her husband, a arpentcr. The man of wealth was her mdlord. His attractive personality ni his money gained for bim first lace ia the affections of Mrs. Semple reorge. Then be^an the tragic part of he story. Mrs. George gave up all for axton. Saxton promised to marry her 'hen she se?ured a Dakota divorce. He ad made that promise very often in his fetime, but he died a bachelor. Sick t heart and half mad over her troubles Irs. George came to^Saxton one day to laim his promise for the last time. Go to the devil," said Saxton. Two ays later Saxton was shot to death in ianton. No one can be found who eard the shots fired. Mrs. George had )ld her seduce/ he should die for his illainy. The Country's Marvelous GrowthThe censuus of 1900 will show that ->a TTnito^ Sfotoo a nrmnlat.irm <vf IAV V U1WUU. VM KVU UMTW V* Jk/V|/W?.v.?V? V ? , 7,500,000 people, if the estimates of ie treasury department are correct, 'he statistician of the department isles a monthly statement of the estimated population of the country, and, scording to his figures, there is an inrease of about 140,000 every thirty ays. and a gain of over 1,500,000 evry year. The official population figres in 1890 were 62,831,000, and those f 1880 were 50,000,000. The number t people m tne united otates nas Deea tore than doubling every thirty years !nce the foundation of the government, ad the figures for 1900 promise to be tore than twice what they were in 370. Ihis was a great nation in the ! itter year, but it has grown more in le past three decades than in the enre century prior to 1870. The in:ease in the past ten years amounts to Imest as much as the entire population f the country in 1840. Few people ialize how rapidly the United States is rowing. Many young men of today ? ' ' ?1- AAA AAA 1 ? j ill De auve wnen zvv,vvv, uvv peupie lall be living in the domains of this reat republic. That immense popu-ttion will be attained in the next fifty sars if the present rate of growth is )ntinued. Terrible, If True. Dr. Chas. V. Harris, of the medical spartment of the United States army, assed through Fort Worth, Tex., Wedesday eu route to "Washington on im ortant business with tne war aepartlent. He comes from the Philippines ad says the reports of the excellent ealth of the American troops is false, [e states chat many of the soldiers are isheartened at their physical condition ad deliberately place themselves as trgets for the enemy's guns. The pinion of Dr. Harris is that if the ] oops remain in the Philippines any reat length of time sickness and death i sure to follow. "Whiskey's Work. In a recent lecture delivered at Livrpool. Dr. William Carter pointed out aat the deaths directly attributed to temperance in 1396 were 91 per 1,00.000 among male and 52 per 1,000,00 among females: that the rate is contaatly increasing and that the deaths re increasing among women far more ipidly and in a far greater ratio^than mong men. ' A GREAT VICTORY, j i The Trusts Gets a Black Eye in j Chicago. i REBUKED BY I Ht PtUKLt. I Carter Harrison, Democrat, De-j feats an Independent Democrat and a Republican by'a Large Majority. Chicago has just held the most sensational election in the municipal his^ _ _ j.? rr"_ - 1*14.4. wry OA tnis Ctfuxjiry. AU? uiitciucaa and corruption which marked it have no parellel. It will be remembered as long as offices are filled by popular vote. It was unique?reeking with rottenness and billingsgate. The election was held on Tuesday and Garter Harrison was reelected mayor of the city plurality of 40,QUO. Altgeld's entire vote was but little more than that. He was running as an independent Democrat. But Harrison, ihe regular Democratic nominee, found a TnnrA fnrmidahfe nnnnnAnf, in Zina R. Carter, the Republican nominee. Career was the acknowledged choice of Charges T. .Yerkes, a multi-millionaire who has been charged with every crime in the decalogue, but a man of such prominence that his personality becomes an issue in every question that comos up in . Chicago. Harrison's friends say that Yerkes was really supporting both Carter and Altgeld and that his sole purpose was, not to elect either, but to defeat Harrison. Yerkes is the principal owner of the nu ?l i* i :11 v^mcago Btreeiuaj sysieui, wu;uu win | soon need to secure a renewal of its franchises. He is playing to get them for nothing and Carter Harrison made his campaign on a platform of compensation to the oil# for the franchises, with ultimately the municipal ownership of the street railroads and ail other public utilities; The bitterness of the campaign cannot be imagined. Harri son was accused of having levied tribute on thousands of protected criminals. He is said to have raised nearly half a million dollars. The numbei dldens of vice said to be thus protected by che mayor is appalling. According to the figures given out by his opponents, there are no less than 1,850 disorderly houses. There are 1,000 stale b?er joints. There are 150 opium joints.' There are more than 700 policy shop?. There are in the neighborhood of fifty panel and badger joints. There are more than 300 wideopen gambling houses. There are alleged to be 1,00$ criminals plying their vocation of theftand violence, all under protection.. -Houses and stores are robbed. "Uitjzens are knocked down and robbed afcnight, and even in broad daylight. are murdered, sneak thieves and pickpockets reap a harvest. In the city hair itself officials knock down and half kill men. Pickpockets ply their trade there as openly as they do in the public streets:-" The mayor's heelers are charged with 1 * - . . ?x- -1 < J _ iLi I navmg commuted ioux muraers m eigui days. They are said to have brought into the city 7,000 bums and thugs who were registered and voted. Oa Easter Sunday the campaign waged furiously and meetings were held all over the ; city, with free beer flowing like water. Harrison made nine speeches, address- ; ing 15,000 people in the aggregate. The other candidates were no less ac WiTt. , The Inter-0?ean, owned by Yerkes, i openly charged Hinkey Dink, a Harri- ; son heeler, with inciting thugs and : thieves to riot. His spcech was report- j ed literally, a part of which is as follows, Hinkey Dink referring to the Republi- < can workers: "Dey is justbluffin'. and you fellers < don't need to get a scarc trun into you : by such gazabos. Jts' go to de polls on Aorr and vntA vnn nl Afl.se. If i any of dose Republican gays stick in i any gab paste 'em one. and if you are ] arrested I'll go on your bonds and get 1 you out of trouble. Smash de first gazabo who sticks his mug in your busi- 1 ness." (Cheers.) < The candidates themselves indulged ; in some choice epithets. In one of his < speeches Harrison said Altgeld, in ; claiming to favor municipal ownership, i "deliberately lies." j All these things were during the i campaign. "What the scenes must have < been on election day can be better ima- ] gined than described. The overwhelm- i ing victory of Harrison, though opposed ] by two candidates and the limitless i wealth of Yerkes was an evidence of 1 great strength or of magnificent management. It marked'an epoch in elec- i tions. ; It was a heavy blow-to Yerkes and < the corporations.?Augusta Herald. ; Death of a Leper. Hannah Garey. aged 22 yoars, the older of the two Garey sisters who have i been afflicted with leprosy for the last 17 years, died at their home three miles from Junction City Wednesday evening after two week's of intense suffering. About two months ago the Garey sis- < ters were examined by a prominent- : specialist on that class of diseases,-who diagnosed their disease as gunuine lep- ; rosy. The family live on an isolated , farm in Perry county, which is shunned by all the natives. Nobody Claims It. There is a neat but orphaned little ; fortune in the Montana state treasury. Nobody claims it; nobody knows to whom it rightfully belongs. The mo? ey?$30,000?was turned over to the legislative investigating committee by Senator Whitesides, who stated that it had been given to him by the campaign monoaoT nf rInir? Sl-nhps Senator (Hark V as a bribe to vote for Clark. Senator Clark promptly denied the ownership of it. It was turned over to the state treasurer and remains in his hands awaiting an owner. Ugly .Behavior. The Fourth Xew Jersey soldiers, j mustered oat in (jreenville, en route north Thursday kept up a regular fusillade of indiscriminate shooting while passing Laurens, S. C., one bullet crashing into the dining room of a prominent citizen while the family were at dinner. ( . No other damage is reported. KILLED HIMSELF AND FAMILY. The Awful Deed of a Prominent Young GeorgianI Walter 11. Jackson, one of the most j prominent young men of Albany, Ga., killed his wife and three-months-old j child and th^n shot himself deaden his j home laere Wednesday night. Ihe remains of the family were buried Thursday at Oak View cemetery. The funeral was directed by the St. Paul's Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Jackson was a member. The shocking tragedy startled the people of Albany and all day a great crowd of curious people remained about the house. Jackson is supposed to have murdered his family and then slain himself in a fit of desperation by the loss of his position with the Carter and Wolfolk Warehouse and commission company. He was until last Monday week enioloyed by that firm as cashier and bookkeeper. The crime oould not have been more shocking had it oc curred in any family in Albany. Jackson and his wife were among the most popular young people of Albany and everybody thought their home life serene and happy. The coroner of this county empan nelled a jury and after investigating concluded that while temporarily insane Jackson shot his child, wife and himself. Jactcson resided on Pine street. Thursday morniDg at 6 o'clock a servant went to the family room and found the dead bodies. The baby was held in its mother's arms and the lifeless forms of husband and wife were stretched cn the bed side by side. Mrs. Jackson was shot through the left temple, the baby through the chest arid Jackson through the right temple. There was every indication thai all died instantly. The crime is supposed to have been committed about daylight, but no one was found who heard the pistol shots. Jackson'3 pistol was i' J L- i.: :.1 . mi_ _ _ _ i _ _.i iuuiiu uy uis siue. xne ooiy otner occupant of the house except the Jacksons wa3 Mrs. Ed. Richardson, Jackson's grandmother, who did not hear the shots. Jackson's employers decline to make a statement of the cause of the severance of the young man's connection with the firm, but declared that Jackson was not short in his accounts as reported and that he had the good will of the firm. Mrs. Jackson, was the eldest daughter of Wm. Godwin, of Albany, and she was the idol of her family circle and the special favorite of a large circle of friends. * UO 3I0EE SCANDALS. The Directors of the Penitentiary Takes Steps to Prevent Them. The penitentiar/ directors held their regular monthly meeting Wednesday. Col. W. A. Xeal, ex-superintendent, was present to confer with the board oil matters or Dusiness. Principally routine business was transacted, but' resolutions introduced by Mr. :Tatum of Orangeburg, and adopted by the. I board, tend to show that the board will risk no chances of runniBg up against a barbed wire investigating committee. The resolutions restrict the liberties j; 'i*. oi cue superiQi-eaueai xq uaauei*i transactions. Following is the paper adopted by the board: flesolved, That the rules and regulations be, and they are hereby, amended as follows: 1. That the superintendent shall as a part of his duties furnish monthly to the board of directors, prior to the regular meeting of the board, an itemized statement of all financial and such ; other transactions as the ^toard may ; require, said statement to be accompanied by a voucher for each item involv- ; insr the exDenditure of monev. 2. That the board as. a whole or by a : committee of its members shall check up said staiement item by item and j shall pass no item for which a voucher i is lacking. . 3. The superintendent is forbidden ; to discount any paper due the peniteatiary, or to endorse of ially any lia<- < bility except as specifically authorized ; beforehand by the board. i 4. The board shall designate the bank or banks with which the business i ;>f the penitentiary shall be transacted, ! ma the- said bank or banks shall in i consideration of such designation, fur- ' niaVi tn tlip hnarrl mnntVilc nr at <snr?h time as the board may indicate ail item- 1 ized statement of all transactions with the superintendent showing particularly deposits d^-ived from discounts, if any have been authorized by the board. And the said bank or banks shall be notified by the secretary of the board of the rule relative to discounts and endorsements < by the superintendent. ^ i 5. Each contractor shall furnish to the board at each monthly meeting and at such other times as the board may designate, an itemized statement of ; . l 1 . J C . lutnorizea expenses incurred ior tne benefit of the institution, and shall settle his account monthly in cash. 6. The commissary business shall be confined to the actual and legitimate needs of the institution. A Costly Nap. A party of railroad surveyors, who are surveying a route for a railroad from Aiken to Columbia, have been making their headquarter at Mr. G. W. , Reeder's in Lexington county. Saturday of last week, they sent their wagon, with tents and other things on to Mr. Noah Shumpert's by a Negro to put up a camp. The Negro stopped in an old broom sedge field, unloaded, built a fire and then dropped off ' to sleep. The . fire caught the grass and burned up the tents, bedding and everything in eluding books and papers containing the notes of the work from Aiken. Loss about $600. Killed by a Demented Mail. John Campbell, colored, and Arthur Cunningham, white, 11 years old, shot and killed at Nashville, TaJB Wednesday night by G-. D. Atnip the police believe to be deoM Campbell is a driver and was? wagon when accosted by AtnH accused him of stealing wood fl tempted to arrest him. Campb^f^^H tested, and Atnip opened fire. M Cunningham, a boy at play in^| lot, was killed as was the Negl nip was arrested. ' Cayenne pepper is highjiB ed for driving away ants?fl sprinkled around thci^C A MILLION AND A HALF. The Southern Methodists Have Undertaken a Gigantic Yentnre. The great Methodist denomination, both in this country and in Europe, proposes to signalize the opeoiag of the Twentieth century by raising an j xi T_ - rr 1 v immense mans-onermg. to oe appropriated principally to educational purposes. The amount called for is nearly $30,000,000. This is a large sum to be sure, but let it be remembered that the totai membership of universal Methodism according to the latest statis tics counts up 7,100.601. Multiply this by four and you have the approximate of Methodist adherents at 28.402,404. Or divide the amount called for ' into as many parts as there are estimated members, and it will be seen" 1 that it will require a fraction less than $5 to each member to make up the amount. There are almost as many Methodist adherents as dollars asked for this ^reat Methodistic financial venture. So, it will be seen that it will not be'impracticable for this whole amount to be raised within the two years during which it is proposed to operate the plan. What is required is system and a will to work on the part of the managers of this fund and to give on the part of the great Methodist body. "A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull o 1 f-ncratYi cxr ' ?c o Ti nm**]rr rroxr r\f rvnf- ' UiWQVWUVij M> livuiw; Tf Uij Ui yuw ting what these Methodist people pro-_ ' pose to do and are actually doing. The great body of Methodists of the J south (Methodist Episoopai church, T south.) have started out to raise as j their share of this great denominational . offering a million and a half dollars. c This will not be considered excessive * when it is remembered that there are * about as many Methodists in actual 1 membership to do this as there are dollars to b'o raised. According to the last count (the reports for the current t year not being all in)'there were 1,466,757 southern Methodists. Now there are in the South Carolina ^ conference, which embraces the terri- , tory of the State of South Car^iThi^re- * ported at the last conferenjrffsession m : December, 1898, a mepikership of 74,- 1 223. It is proposecKthat these raise a during the coming two years $100,000. : Ten per cent, of this is to go to the * Yanderbilt university and most of the , rest to be devoted to denominational r n nto kl v YWki^nTv^ e>r?lln<ro onfl I ^ wUUVU>biUU UVVMVi J II VJJ.VAU. v V 11 w V v UU Columbia Female college 1-eSoutn. Car- c olina. The raising of this iukd.is now ? being prepared for by a commit^ of f gentlemen, Mr. T. C. Duncan of Uni?^ j Rev. H. B. Browne of OrangeburS? and Rev. James W. Kilgo of Charles- ^ ton. c They are making appointments for . educational meetings all over the State to be addressed by leading educators , and preachers of the denomination. They are also arranging. for a thorough $ canvass of the different pastoral charges ^ with a view of getting a maximum 1 subscription of $l-apiece from every * member of the church. This is a worthy ' movement 'aTjtepcamwe's to be a great . eyent in the history of "this great Metrio- J dist- denomination. This paper Trill b be giad to chronicle the progress of * this movement and in due time to an- 1 nounce its final success. - t ANOTHER FISE HORROR. t A New York Millionaire's Family Burned to Death in Their House. ^ c Thirteen people were burned to death c tn \ rtn? V Ai?lr XT MI #> TT W> rtrri i n r* kr? ia x vitv x'liuaj uiuiuiug uj u'v burning of Millionaire Andrew's house, ] and one in the Adams house which was t set afire by sparks from the Andrew's t house. Besides these, Kate Downey v and Marie Koth. Mrs St. John's maids, t rn'?_ _ l . J! t_ . i? j are missing. me Doaies may oe louna in the ruins of the Andrews house. ? The fire began early Friday morning T in the mansion of Wallace C. Audrews, ^ the millionaire president of the New York steam heating company, on east j, Sixty-Seventh street. The flames a spread so rapidly that the family was 3ut off in the upper stories. When iwakei 1 fiom s'e^p they were unable to reach the street. The entire farniiv of Andrews, also the family of his son-in-law, Gamaliel e 3t. John, perished. Mr. Sc. John'went to Wilmington Thursday and escaped. a The dead are: Wallace 0. Andrews and r wife, Mrs. Georgie St. John and daugh- ^ ter, Orsen Wallace and Frederick, chil- f dren of St. John. The servants. Nellie Rolden. Mary Flanagan. Eva Paterson, Kate Downing, Masie Ross, Annie Neary and Jenoie Barns, the laundress, died at the hospital. The bodies of Mrs. St. John and her a children have been identified. Six ? others have been found and two are believed to be those ofJVIr. and Mrs. Wal- ^ lace and the rest of the servants. Alice ( trri j .1 r x i 1 \v nice, tne coos, is in me nospitai, in a critical condition from the shock. ^ The flames skipped two blocks catching the residence of Al. Adams, a * sportsman, on Sixty-ninth street. A ? number of the inmates jumped from tiie windows. Mrs. Adams was injured ! in the back and is suffering from the shock. Xeliie Quian, a servant, jump- 0 ed from the fourth floor to the exten- I sion and was severely braised. Mrs. ? Mary Langran, the housekeeper, died at the hospital and four others were injured. * a True Bills Found. t In the United States circuit court ^ at' Charleston Friday Judge W. H. c Brawley, presiding, a true bill was ^ found by the grand jury against 13 of the men accused qf lynching Fraser B. Baker._at Lake City. S. C., Feb. 22, 1898. The men on trial now are: :*lartin Ward, W. A. Webster, izra McKnigbt, Henry Stokes. Henry Godwin,- s Moultrie Epps, Charles D. Jayner, c Oscar Kelly, Marion Clark, Alonso i Kodgers, Edwin M. Kougers, Joseph 1 P. Xewham and Early P. Lee, * HH^iants and farmers of Lake ( ^taa^^inity. The last two men j iMjMed State's evi- t ^kkeplace begin- i ^iiiey General 1 J -ft A NEW DEAL. | Douthit Defeats Vane *or Dispen sary commissioner. MILES ELECTED CHAIRMAN. Inspector Hill Gets Left, While all ?the Other Employees Pass - Through Safely. A New ' SlinprintenHfln* There was something of a shake up in iispeDsary affairs "Wednesday morning when the elections for various positions were held. Mr. Miles was elected jhairman and Mr. J. B. Douthit commissioner, while in minor positions jther changes were made. When the board met and the elec- : ;ioD3 were about to be entered upon jhairman Haselden created some surprise by declining to stand for re-election and in doing so made a brief fare yell address, so to speak. He said that le had served as chairman to the best )f his ability tor^the past year and- if wrongs had been done and had not been jorrected it was not frcmany lack of :5ort. The board is composed of fire nembers and he believed it would be jest for the interests of the dispensary X) have rotation in the chairmanship. < ; The election for chairman, as were ill the others, was taken by a viva voce > rote. Mr. Miles being the only candilate received all of the votes, except ^ lis own, which he cast for Mr. Hasel- ^ len. Mr. Miles thanked the board for he honor, and requested Mr. Haselden o continue to act as. chairman until the lext meejbing. . Uapt. H. (J. Webb was unanimously sleeted to his present position as clerk o the board and chief bookkeeper. But the election in which most inter!st was taken was that for commissionsr. There were two. candidates, Col. 8. / iV. Yance, the incumbent, and Mr. J. 3. Douthit. The result was the election of Mr. Douthit, the following votug for him, Messrs. Williams, Miles ,nd Boykin. Colonel Yance received he vote of Messrs. Haselden and Ro?nson. Both candidates were very conident up to the time the election was leld. Colonel Yance, the.retiring . iommissioner, has been an efficient offi:er and is popular in Columbia. His uccessor will naturally drop into the larness in his new position, as he his >een for several vears an p.ffimAnt. mam >er of the board and is consequently fcoroughiy familiar withr?H the details if-the business. -/ Mr. D. A. G: Ogzts was nnanimons- ? y re-elected clerk to the commissioner. InspectoiJSUil was defeated by Mr. j. W. Boyliji, of Camden. He revived a unanimous, vote, Mr. Hill ^ Living withdrawn his name that morn- "; ng. Mr. Boykin ii~ar brother of the nember of the boarfcx. Inspector J iloody was re-elected witjkn*T ogwaion as were Messrs. Charles andfiftfrey bookfceepersjW.-SiiSaras,? tabnlary elerk;John G\ Black, ship^"*" ing clerk; G-. B. Pettigrew watchr nan. W. H. Bryant was elected snperin endent vice Dixon who resigned some - ime ago. The board then proceeded with regu- . * ^ ar routine work. The board in suspending Dispenser ?roy, whose accounts show discrepan- ? ies of over $400. Mr. Troy says lie an explain it all. The apparent shortage.of Dispenser jamar, of Aiken, is $500, but Inspecor Moody investigated and found,that > he negro porter formerly emoloved - ? ? A -? ras guilty of stealing tha stock. Acion against Lamar was discontinued. Mr. U. X. Gunter put in a claim of ;15 for legal services in prosecuting iolators of the law. The claim was en- - > : iorsed on the back. " "Governor Ellerbe has refused to alow this claim. We think it just and -,sk the board to consider it, * W. B. Evans, Private Secretary. W. W. Harris, ? m t ?i <jiem. * The matter was sent back to the gov- . V; mors office. Messrs. Boykin and Robinson .were J81I ppomted to dense some plan, whereby :.r& eputable druggists might obtain alcoiol without having to send to Columbia or it. A Big Farmer. > ^ David Rankin, of Tarkio, Atchinson ounty, Missouri, who owns and man- ?? ,ges 23,000 acres of land in Atchinoq county, scattered over an area of _? - ^ ^ orty miles, is described in the Indian polis News as an all-round farmer who arms all the year round. To* work his arms, which average from 600 to 3,000 ,cres, requires 140 employes, 700 torses, mor^than 100 wagons and many lows, harrowS>cttItivators, etc. Half if his land goes uMer the plowyeaij y. About 2,000 aerca^are sown to cheat and the rest is planteS-in corn. - | nner laaa is laia dovn m clover, tun'thy and bluegrall pastures. Eyeiy . -ear Mr. Raukin buys and fattens from , ' . 1,000 to 10,000 head of cattle. He \ ;eeps 12,000 head of hogs at all times, ,nd sells' about $80,000 worth yearly. le began to bay his land in 1876. In .ddition to his daties as ajarmer he ifi v;;. he president of the First National Bank, of the Electric Light and. Power :ompany of the Water company and of i brick and tile company. He has been iberal in his support of the church and ducation. Burned to Death, A A .Mr. boiitnand nis wire, recent xrivals from the north, were burned to eath in their house Wednesday night ifl tear Harper's station, -10 miles- from ^nsacola, Fla. Their, bodies were 41 ound Thursday. Sheriff Mitchell, bounty Judge Holley and the cordner's ary'fiom Milton, in Santa Rosecouny. left immediately for the scene to oake an investigation. Nothing i? :nown here of the full name or former . r tome of Mr. Smith.- , tat A Floral Corset. bly last week '