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The Lancaster News T FFKTFT? Din/iui?f ? ivcvuiw 10/0 EJNUiRPRISE 1891 VOL. 3. MO. 33. SEMI-WEEKLY. 1ANCASTEB. S. C? Wa^T2B. I908"~ PniCE-FIVE CENTS dp. rn?v What the Legislature Accomplished the Past Week ?The Work Before It. Columbia special in Monday's News and Courier: 'lae House during the last week has done u great deal of work. Perhaps the chief thing it has accompl ished in the way of progress is the disposition of the lien law question, the bill to repeal the law haviug been passed after debale extending over two days. The House has not yet taken up the matter of railroad rate regulation, the special message of Governor Ansel having boon sent in on this subject only on Saturday. Neither has the liquor question been touched on this last week, and since the preliminary skirmish on the Nash / prohibition bill there has been nothing said on the subject. The Charleston low license dispensa ry bill has been killed; there was only one round in this fight and the bill was put to 9leep without any todo whatever. The elections was disposed ol early in the week and since that that time the members have set tied down to business in earnest. This session there is no definite policy ahead; the General Assembly having defined itself on the liquor question last year, is now rather much lost to know what to take up, and the chance, as frequently said before in this correspondence, is an excellent one for constructive legislation that will do the State real benefit. But there is not much evidence of constructive efforts; there is a flood of bills, over on? thousand in this General Assembly's two sessions, but. inauy of them are local measures, many more are wholly impractical and visionary, and only a few are destined to accomplisls any sub stantial results. Using Bombs in Alabama Liquor Fight. Columbus, Ga., Jan. 25 ?Feeling between the members of the law and order league at Girard, Ala., and persona opposed to the prohibition laws {reached its height to-night when dynamite bombs were exploded in front of the residences of C. T. Gifford, president of the league, and two Girard ministers active in the league. No damage was done to persons or property. The explosions followed the arrest of six men, three whites and three negroes, for violating the prohibition laws. The law andjordor league today swore out 11 warrants on [information secured by a defective in the league. Ofllcers of the league express the opinion that the dynamite explosions were made to intimidate them. Friends of t.h? ant;. prohibitionists declare that mi3 chievous young men caused the explosions. Giraril is just across the rivei y Irora Columbus and the hoavj explosions were heard here. Bennettsville's Big FirePractically All the Business Section Burned. _____ i * Columbia special in Caarlotte Observer : A $200,000 fire occurred at Bennettsville, Marlboro coutity, this morning, wiping out the principal business section and many of the best residences. The town is practically without fire protection and it was impossible to check the flames. The fire started in the big Skye Hotel, where there were many narrow escapes from death Col. J. J. Heckart. president of the Bennettsville & Cheraw Railroad, saved his life by jumping from a Window, sustaining a broi~~ The following houses were wjped out: The Twentieth Century Library; Fuller Bros, livery stables; Skye IJotel ; Hamilton's store; Excelsior hardware store; Rodgers Bros, stores; Sol Brown's furniture store; S. J. Pearson's jewelry store; Pyson & Crosland's insurance ollices; Marlboro Motor Car Company's store; Marl boro Drug Company's store : Soencer's nlin)nr>rii ? >!-> 11 . frittiicry} Bennestsville book store ; C. P. Moore's store; the Rouse-Bostick furniture store Burlington's store; law office and residence of Judge J. H. Hudson, ex president of the South Carolina Bar Association; residences of Capt P. L Breeden. E. M. Row, C P. Moore and A. J. Briat.ow; law offices of Towneend <fc Rodders, and Knox Livingston. Negro Assassins Captured or Killed. Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 25.? Three of a gang of negroes who brained a Cincinnati Southern telegraph operator, John Brown, at Annadel, Morgan County, Tenn, and later shot and killed a bridge watchman, David Langley, last Saturday night, have been captured or killed. One, name unknown, was killed Monday by a pons* A second one was captured here yesterday and is being held for safe keeping. The third surrendered today to a farmer living near Wartburg, after he had been shot by a posse pursuing him. He win turned over to Sheriff Langley, of Morgan County, who atarted for Knoxville with him. Excitement is too high in Morgan Co., to keep the men in Wartburg jail. The negro captured today gives his name as Walter Cole. Dynamite Kills Threa. New York, Jauoary ?6.?Three men were killed inatantly and five others seriously injured by the premature explosion from an unknown cause of dynamite ir ( the Bergen Hill section of the Pennsylvania tunnel, at Homes. ted, N. J., today. The dead r 1- ^ * r|??uv.w.i?ou uunupu VJOVH, L.ftC ' II. M?cfcprly. Tillman's Great Speech--His 1 Views on Immigration and 1 the Race Question. 1 t Co'umbia, Jan. 24.?Before 1 several hundred people Senator B. R. Tillman last night deliver- ' ed in the state capitol an address ' on immigration as it affects the 1 race questiou. Lie Bpoke in re- ( sponse to an invitation from the 1 ^eueriii assemoiy. The address lasted not quite two hours and k was closely lollowed by those present. 4 Cn the race problem the sena- 1 lor touched, arguing in the main f for a repeal of the 15th amend ' raent of the con?titution of the ( United States, but h?s main ar- 1 guintnt was that South Carolina ' needs more settiers of the light 1 -ort, the kind authorized in the 1 act creating the department ot agiiculture, cooimecre and im- 1 migration, and the only way t> V get these settlers is by advertising the advantages of South Cur- 1 olina?a plan now being used in 1 the West, where there . re also e many advantages, v !: re the negro is not met in competition. Senator Tillman analyzed the result of his lectures in the North, I told of the disappearance of sectional leeliug and closed with a 1 strong plea for more education * of the whiles, calling attention ' to the growing extent of the education of the negroes, pointing 1 out Hie fact that the constitution 1 of 1895 was only a temporary * remedy and emphasizing the 4 growing danger o! the uee of the educated negro for political pur- ' poses. ' He believes that the most 4 dreadful crisis is ahead of us and ' claimed that he could prove it to 1 su intelligent audience. Some 1 have said there is no race prob- ' lem; that it was solved by the 1 convention of 1S9 5; that the ne- ' groes are uow quiet, why stir it ' op? These very men were op 1 posed to thiJ convention and as '*1 was oue of those who sdvocated the convention 1 have a right } to speak and show that every. ] thing is not quiet." ' It is true the new constitution disqualified many negroes and < that the government iu now con- 1 ducted by white men, but his ' analysis of conditions is that de- ! spite the educational and sufTraga f qualifications, the expedient is i only temporary, not a remedy ' but the best that could ho done i at the time. Therefore lie want- 1 ed to warn tbe people (bat the i term* of the const lu'ion reqnir ing a man to read and write or pay taxes od f300 of property i before be coold vote, might react. The report from every couaiy showed that more negroes were going to school than white child1 ren. There are more of them. The school attendance by the negroes shows that, at our ex 1 ponse. they are now getting the 1 ability to read and write and can ' comply with the reqairemente ot the constitution. He was not |oneu> object to their education,1 ), but how long would it be before enough of them can read and write to equal the white vote j md then balance the power? tie was not objecting to the netro schools ; he wanted to emahasize this, but they are here. ' Nothing has save t the South 'rom the negro being tho balance >f power but the democratic pri nary. He referred to North Carolina and <ltlie capture of hat state by Prifcchard". Such 1 i thing would not happen in ' South Carolina in his day. Coming to a question of r ame- ' ly he wanted to say first that he problem had not yet been \ safely solved but he believed here was only one answer to the ]ne~tion?the white race must je reinforced. We have no race suicide or divorce and wo have she purest, blooded citizenship n America with the most glor 1 ous history. All this should lerve us to get at once more ( vhite men and white women in , South Carolina. In his travels icro s the c ntinent he had notced that other states want more settlers and a great many of ? hese Ptates have far mnr? !irlT7u? ! ages and it could bo easily unlerstood wliv the people are not >r?*aking I heir necks to get here. 'It's a good Hate, but a great , nany coldblooded people will ( lee the gulleys and the swamps ( ind may go elsewhere." , However there are things in j his stale we have to offer and ] ,hese advantages can be display- | ?d. He has found people who ( lo not want newcomers. He ] would like io adopt that theory, | Dut conditions are such that set- ] dors aro needed and are necesjary. As to what kind is best, ] ae declared that he had a fellow feeling for the English, German ] ?nd Irish, having that blood in i bis veins. He, however, in going through this state was struck ' with the good s'.ock, the pure alood and the fact that every ciizen was proud of the state. More of this kind are needed. The general assembly a few ears ago passed a bill for a department of immigration. Now what is wanted is homoseekers. rhoee of us who have thousands 1 )f acres of land and are facing abor trouble with the negroes, ealiziog that the negroes are nore independent, know that ? o.metbing must be done. The iitiicultie1* grow day by day aud I what aould be the result of an < influx of 200,000 people who ieet to become South Carolin- , ant? In roaming over the land he was able to bring tho news back that sectional feeling was dead. There were a few old men who still cling io the old ideas. Hut there are many who have come South during the Spanish-American war end bare invested their money here and have visited here and claimed that he had aroused more enthusiasm in Wisconsin than here. It depends upon the pill you take. { I>eWitt'fl I.i.tie Earlv kis*r* be^t piilH known for oonatipation and nick boadacbe. Sold fey Crawford Bros. Death of J. Y. Brice. Rock Hill Record: Mr. J. Y. Brice died at I119 homo 011 Saluda street Wednesday afternoon and was buried this afternoon in Laurelwood Cemetery, after services at the home at 3 o'clock by Rev. Oliver Johnsou, of Lesslie's. Mr. Brice formerly lived at Catawba Junction, and had charge :>f the Southern Railway's pumping station at Springdeil. Recently his heal'h became bad and tie had to retire und moved lo mis city. He was field in high esteem by the trainmen of the Rock Hill and Charleston Division. The reporter ol The Record has often heard them remark that [lie w;is tlio best pumpman on I fie road. Mr. Brice leaves to mourn his Remise a wife and eight childien, -evera1 of whom are residents of this city. Virginian Kills Another's Wife. Roanoke. Va., Jan. 23.?A rim?-8 8[ecial irorn Ohristians">urg, Va , say -: Frank Cathorne this afternoon ihot and instantly hilled Mrs. i\da Jones, ti e young wife of Sidney Jones, in the Jones home \t Cambria, Va. Jealousy was jhe cause of the tragedy. There wt*re no eye-witnesses to the killing. Cathorne went to Christiansburg and begged to be locked up, but declined at fir?t. tn, t?n - ?? i?n yv ii ao crime he had committed. Later he said he had killed Mrs. .Jones because he ioved her and she had married another man. He said he went to her home and tol l her he was going; to kill her, she begged him to go away, hot that he drow his revolver and shot her to death. Church Burned at Clinton. Clinton, January 25.?The L'resbyterian church here was burned today about noon. A revival meeting was in progress, and the fire is supposed to have originated from a defective flue. The lues ia partly covered by insurance. Fire in Monroe. Mouroe special in The Ohservf If i ra rroo 1 .... *...v r, ma uiiciiverea to tlie Houston-Lee Building in th*1 centre of town this morning .at 9 o'clock belore it had gained any headway and was quickly extinguished by the firemen, the only damage resulting being from water, which caused a loss of about $100 to Mr. Van Sikes' st cb of merchandise. The blaze started rum a defective flue. Store Robbed at Olympia Mills. Columbia State, of Mond.iv: ? Magistrate S. I. Rile*'* store, wmcn is on the Blutl roftd in the Olympia mill village, wan robbed some time in the early part of last night of $876, the safe having been entered b^ means of keys which tied been lost since las! fair week. Three m?n are in jail charged with the crime.