Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ty.~' ;v? Bp Kiv Weak? M.l suffered terribly and vn extretnely weak for 12 years. The doctors said my blood was all taming to water. At last I tried Avar's Saraaparilla. and vaa soon feeling all right again." Mrs. 2. V. Flala, Hadlytne, Ct No matter how long you have been ill, nor now poorly you may be today, Ayers Sarsaparilla is the bMt medicine you can take for purifying and enriching the blood Docrt doubt it, put your whole trust in it, throw away everything else. tmilmta. ABMpWa. I itkMrMtWnUMBHMiaiain Tfclnca That W?at Wroac. The Rusty Weapon?In the absent* of the head of the family the heedless young man took down from the wall, whe-e It tad hung undisturbed for yoars, a rusty old musket that had belonged to his grandfather. He pointed It In a playful *?ay at his UttV? sister. 8he escaped In a most remarkable < .manner. i It wasn't loaded. , The Salesman and the Customer"Baro you any of Dr. Rybold's Specific for Grip?" ssked the customer. "No," replied the salesman at the , SUIIX. If C ?tiC VUI VI lU4fti? "Then let me bare something Just as ' food." "W# haven't anything as good." said tht * !*?> ? The Reporter and the Banker?The 1 Bank of Pokerrllle had failed. "Eventually, I presume." said the re- ' porter, who had called on the Presl- , tart for Information, "the depositors will get dollar for dollar." ( "In my opinion," responded the Pre*dent of the hank, "the depositors will i Barer get a biased cent" ? Chlcagt 1 Tribune. 1 t JUwm mt Brmk?a?n. W? wonder what those who opposed the compulsory Introduction of ento tta tic couplings on the Railways of thif country will have to say to the American figures Just published for the last twelve months of 1901. The number ft feen killed has been reduced by thlr* tj-flre per cent, and the number of Injured by fifty-two per cent And this in spite of the greater danger cttending the work of coupling, owing to the fact that the cars are ever getting heavier, and the locomotives more powerful. In the last nine years the redaction In killed and Injured has befan sixty-five per cent and seventyfive per cent respectively. The Amercan companies have abandoned no less than 8,000.000 couplings In order to Inks into universal use the automatic coupling. They have gained In time. In money, and In labor. Will Mr. Kitable bring In another Automatic CoupHag bill? How long Is the snnual hoi- g canst of victims to continue??London Dally News. * > . Am Arab Coronation Onset. The Sultan of Laheg. In the Aden Protectorate, has received an invlta;1on to be present at the coronation. Til Sollaa is preparing a selection or portly native gifts for His Majesty. Among them are a pare white stallion and mar* of the finest Arab strain, Ttfy ancient guns covered with silver, of jkxab manufacture, and various Other antiquities of considerable aril fad archaeological Interest?Pall Mall Qaaette. The gossip doesn't have to own an automobile in order to run down his Migbbon. TOYOISN^ LADIES, |r?? the Treasurer of the Tni| People's Christian Ternperaaee Association, Elisabeth Caine, Food da Lac, Wis. "Dz^a Mas. Pcthla.* : ? I want to laQ 70a and all the young ladies of the oountiy, how grateful 1 am to you for Oil the benefits I have received from ?ainf Lydla E. Plnkbam's Vege:Pablo Compound. 1 suffered for 11 flV I 1 9 mwSMM idst SLiZAlXTX CAJXX. fBl pVBUU iiVlil BU)IJII?WW wwaad it effected my entire mUs until I becamc week And debilitated, and at times felt that I had a hundred aches in as many places. I eoiy used the Compound for s few Weeks, but it wrought a change in me which I felt from the Terr beg inning. X have been very regular since, hare no pains, and find that my entire bod/ is a If it was renewed. I gladly reoom end LrdJa E. Pinkham's VegeSble Compound to everybody. ? as fcaum Canrx, 80 W. Diviaion gL, Fond dn Lac, Wia?fSOOO fwftlt if At stkeh a time the greatest aid to aature is Lydla E. Pfnkham's Vegetable Compound. It prepares the young system for the ooming change, and is the surest reliance for Woman's Ills of every nature. Mrs. Pink ham Invitee all jraaf women who are ill to write her for free advice. Addreea Lynn, Maaa. SSmTS ? ????! ? Rpwiwr I anj^inT I 11 mtih - - --- - PRESIDENT IN THE SOOTH Charleston Received Him With an Enthusiastic Greeting. MRS. ROOSEVELT ALSO HONORED The Pint Ladj Haiti a Brilliant JUwptloa at tb* St. Johns ? At DanquM In the Chief Executive's Honor He Spoke on the Bond* Which Unit* All W rtlnw A fiwurit to MaIoT Jenklnii. Charleston. 8. C.?President Roose elt has paid his pledge and compliment to Charleston and that portion of the South which centres in and about this place, and its "Ivory Ci;y" outdid itself in hospitable welcome, that the occasion might be memorable. After a day spent mostly in seeing the sights around Sumter and othei harbor poiuts. the Chief Executive was welcomed officially by Governor McSweener on behalf of the city aud banqueted at the Charleston Hotel, while Mrs. Roosevelt was the ceutre of interest at a brilliant though exclusively feminine function at the St. Johns. Mrs. Roosevelt and the women of her party occupied a dais near the southern end of the room, and there received the guests, who were introduced by Mrs. Andrew Simonds. Jr.. of this city. The reception began at 9 o'clock and lasted until after midnight. Tho innmiPf In hrtnnr of President Roosevelt, at the Charleston Hotel, was a fitting close to a <luy full of incident*. and serv 1 to gather together men prominent in the affair* of the State. The banquet hall was a bower of rosea, pinks and stnllax. and loosely strewn over the tables were thousands of violets. Over 300 guests were present. In a short address Mayor Smyth welcomed President Roosevelt to Charleston. The President's response was listened to with the closest attention. and was interrupted at times by loud and continuous applause. President Roosevelt said be was deeply touched by his greeting. He, referred to the progress of South Caroliana and continued: "And. gentlemen. I was very glad that in arranging for your exposition rou not only took In the Southern States, but that you specially Included the Islands lying south of the United State*, those islands with which the events of the last few years hare made It evident that we are bound in Future to have closer relations, closer relations for our advantage, and our advantage can only be secured by making It for their advantage also. &nd about all (bat I have said applies to the greatest and richest of those slands. the Island with which we have I i>een brought Into the most peculiar nttmacy and relationship, the island of Cuba. And I ask that In our trade ? ?I?K ftlKa na vivo har ft rnuuuua fTllii vuim W V B*'v ?? . narked and substantial advantage, lot merely because It will redound to >ur Interest to do so. but I ask It esH-eially because the events bare so ihaped themselves that It Is our doty is a great and mighty nation to help ?uba. and I hope to see us do our luty." "President's Day" at the exposition iras a gala day for Charleston, [h-esldent Roosevelt was officially j welcomed to the exposition grounds, tnd in a speech, responding to he addresses of welcome. be mtltned Din policy on an iue jiruu- i eras of vital interest to the country it this time. He paid a splendid trlb- I ite to the South and dwelt forcibly j ipon the union of the Blue and the Jray. The day began with a parade through he principal streets of the city. Then ame the ceremonies at the exposition luditorium, the presentation of the word by the President to Major Mlcah feukins. a luncheon at the Woman's mllding. aud the inspection of the Xposit Ion ground* and building*. The parade was the most notable ver seen in Charleston. The proceation moved from the St. Johns Hotel promptly at 10 o'clock. The Preslden:lal party was driven directly to the exposition auditorium, where he reviewed the troops. The President's lalute of twenty-one guns was fired >y the German artillery on the enranee of the President into the expoiltlon grounds. At noon the President proceeded from he reviewing stand into the audito*ium. and at once the formal cerenonics of welcome began. Addresses were made by Captain F. CV. Wageuer. President of the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian r,Amivnnw riAVumAf \If?. ! E*A|fUSII iUll V>U|U|IUIIJ , \iv* vtuvt ?-?v Sweeney of South Carolina. Governor rVyeock of North Carolina and Muyor Smyth of Charleston. The formal speech making over. Major Micah Jenkins stepi>ed forward md received from the President's haud the l>eau(iful souvenir sword. At 2 o'clock tue President and Mrs. Roosevelt and suite were taken to the Woman's building, whi-re a luncheon was served by the Woman's Board. At 5.3U p. m. the Presidential party left for Sunimervllle. a suburb of Charleston. The Presidential train arrived there shortly after <1 o'clock, and the party were drlveu directly to the Pine Forest Inn. 4 * t?*M a ?on?tAfHlil tA Ai UI?Ill a Iiutujuri y an icuuvivu ?w the President at the Inn by Captain Wagener. Ouly the President's party ami a few especially Invited guests, numbering all told, ninety persons, were present. A great crowd of people was in the city and much enthusiasm was shown at the presence of the President. KRlTZiNGER ACQUITTED. Boar Comtnandar Relax Wall Traatad aa a Prisoner of War. London.?A dispatch from General Kitchener drted from Pretoria says Commandant Kritzinger. who was captured by General French at Han over Road. Cape Colony, ou December 17 last, and who haa been tried by court-martial on the charge of having committed four murder* in addition to train wrecking and cruelty to prisoner*. ha* lie?n acquitted, and is being well treated as on ordinary prisoner of war. Labor TVorld. About 2000 Norwegian laborers li.ivt been hired lor railroad work in Canada. Tbe troubles among diamond cutters of Antwerp will be settled without :? strike. Tlie threatened strike of street car men at New Orleans. La., baa been averted. A State Federation of Labor will soon be organized in tbe State of Washington. Members of tbe Iron Holders' Union of America will receive a Ave per cent, increase in waxes. ?^ ... KING LEOPOLD MOBBED Socialists Give Him a Hostile Greeting at Brussels. 6arroand HI* Motor Car Demanding C#1 rtrwl > >?!?-Sp??Ufa DUturbrr* Exptllcd From the Conntry. Brussels. Belgium.?Tbe growing So cialist agitation received a strong iajpe I us by the action of the Goveruiucu' ia expelling from Belgium four Spanish Republican Deputies who came to visit the country. They addressed a Social 1st meeting and then received notici from the police to leave Belgium a> onee. Their departure from the railway station happened to coincide with ?he arrival of Kins Leopold from France Hi* Majesty was entering his motot i car when a number of Socialists, ac companying the expelled Spaniards pushed towards him. shouting: "Lou? live universal suffrage!" "Long live the Itepublicr' The police cleared the course of the motor car. which speeded off. A sec Hon of the crowd cheered the King. His Majesty's return from Biarritz is connected with the agitation for universal suffrage, which the Liberals. Uudicals and Socialists are insistently demaudlng. The Goreruuieut strongly - i-I -? 1. _ resists ana toe worKiag classes are tiecoming dangerously uugry. The Ministers are resolved to refune the demand for a change in the electoral law untler street pressure, and are preparing to maintain their position by force. General Conxcbant d'Alkmade. Minister of War. has ordered a number of the reserves to Join the colors. These Include the militia aud fourteen line regiments of the years lH!ts and 1S!K>. besides the carabinier aud grenadier reztinent*. All divisions of the gen darmerle have also been ordered to hold themselves In readiness to march wherever they may be wanted. A noisy parade of Socialists in Brussels culminated in a riot in one of the suburbs. A mob attacked some convents and houses of Clerical Deputies. nntaahlm* trinHntfC Tliov nlun OUIOOUIU^ IUC ? ?MV?V *? o. extinguished the street lamps. The police were resisted and several revolvers were fired by the crowd. The police then fired their revolvers, but were outnumbered and forced to take refuge In a cafe. The crowd pursued them and wrecked the cafe. Afterward they smashed the windows of all the shops that were open. It is reported that many persons were wounded in the fighting. There has been rioting at Lies* and j Ghent and the reports from those places represent the trouble an being serious. Many persons were injured and numerous arrests were mndv. The miners and ironworkers are keenly interested in the agitation. SON CONFESSES IN COURT. Idmlti u Emb?nliB?Bt For Which Hit Father Wm Btint Amipiwl. Omaha. Neb.?'The arraignment of Charles Kaufman in court on the charge of embezzlement developed a Jramatlc incident. Kaufman wax arrested on a charge by the agent of an insurance company, accusing him with failing to turn over fciOlM) collected by tiim. Wheu he was called upon to plead to the indictment hi* son rone irom his seal 1U me auuicuce utiu uiu. "Yoar Honor, I want to plead guilty to that charge. Please have the complaint made out againat me. I am the jullty one." "You can't do It so abruptly." replied (be Judge. "It will save a whole lot of worry." 'oung Kaufman insisted. "I am guilty, ind I don't propose to have all th? burden loaded on the old man'M shoulders." The elder man Is r.n old resident of :be city, formerly a member of the City i Council, and a prominent business man. \fter the admission of his son. the >ld man ant stupefied. The prosecution against him will be dropped. LOST S2.000.000 SINCE 1832. S. V. Lneu Inherited Fortune From HU Father aad la Now Bankrupt. Chicago.?Heury V. Lucas was one of the 1(M bankrupts for whom the Uni* tcil States District Court wiped out MO.000 in debts. The schedule tiled by the petitioner contained no assets, aud showed that in 1SS2 Mr. Lucas fell heir to $2.000.<)i)0 as his portion of a I olue-milllon-dollar estate left by his father. Twenty years ago Judge Lucas, the petitioner's father, was reckoned Ihe wealthiest man west of the Alle{banies. He was a money kins iu St. Louis, where a street is named Id his honor. Mr. Lucas's fortune slipped rapidly from his possession, and he :ame to Chicago to work for a living. CHINESE REVOLT AGAINST TAX. Villages ta Southern Mongolia Fortified to Beaut Troop*. Tlen-Tsin. China. ? Three t'.iousntid Chinese troDiw and a uumber <>,' Kruno judh have been dUpaicheU to Soutii>rn Mongolia, where the people un> in revolt against the severe iudeuuity axation. Several villages have been strongly fortified. and their inhabitants are Ue* er mined to fight. They say they are assured of the r.sdistance of .'JO.'WO disaffected persons. Ambition of Cerll Rhodci. According to William J. Stead Creil Rhodes'* ambition was to found :i se rret order to bring about the unity of be Anglo-Saxon race and universal 'ederatiou and peace. Hcarclty of Pig Iron. In the iron and steel trade the scar* Mty of pig iron and of xteel is ?till a imminent feature, and moderate im lortationx of the bitter continue 10 he nade. although there is not a great leal to be bad abroad at prices <>n a .larity with the domestic market. Klluard la Wltroiiatu. A terrible April blizzard prevails 'urlously over Central Wis-oiisil. sn->w foil and a high wind blew all day and a was extremely cold. It wa? tu.? ivorst storm of the winter. President'* Inaalter Frre. Through the lenijy of I'resiiliOt Ltoosevelt, John \V. Starke was sawd rotn prosecution at Richmond. Va.. en lie charge of sending an obscene letter :o the Presideut relating to the euteraiument of Booker Washington at the White Hose. l'uited Stales iMstrlct wiume* ?vii?iii ?uiu iu;ii ueiiiicr nitPresident nor the State HepantueUt lesired to prosecute. Starke was dismissed. Knul* Make* Warlike Move. New guns for nineteen batteries bnr? oeen dispatched from Ruiuln to tbe Fat East witbin tbe last few day?. . Ut _ ii i imMtfyti ,'Mii yrfft I [ NEGRO HELD OFF IIITO | ??__?-? I Houses Burned to Get at a Desperado of Deadly Aim. | MANY KILLED AND WOUNDED , Baaolt of Alabama Sheriff"? Attempr to Arrort An OotUw-Dynmmlt* Uu< I Without Effect?Negro Finally Bornw j Oat of Hli Place of Btfngt aad Shot- j Body Thrown Into Baralns Bo tiding Tuscumbla, Ala.?Three men wen | I killed, three mortallv wounded, and I four seriously wounded as the result of Sheriff Gassaway attempting tc arrest Will Reynolds. a desperate negro. The dead are: Hugh Jones, shot1 through the head; Bob Wallac* and I Will Reynold*. Sheriff Charles Gassa- J way. Will Gassaway and P. A. Protu were fatally wounded, all being shot through the abdomen. Jim Finney, Robert Patterson. Jesse Davis' aid a man named Payne were seriously wounded. AU of the casualties, except the death of Reynolds himself, are the result of the deadly tire of Reynold! ?1*1. - in ^1IK.a IVIniikAi.^1. The Willi U KTVOIIU1C If luwucoici* Am negro was In bis turn riddled and thrown into a fire. Sheriff Gassaway went to a negro settlement "Knardtown." to arrest Will Reynolds, for obtaining goods under false pretenses. The officer was met by the negro who opened fife with his rifle, wounding the 8herlff and immediately firing upon the deputy. Will Gassaway,who was some 300 yards away, mortally wounding him. As soon as possible every man In town who could procure a gun was in the neighborhood, but owing to the lo* cation no one dared to venture out in the open space. Dynamite was procured and the house in which the negro was barricaded was fired upon, but to no effect At 1 o'clock Captain Simpson, of the Wheeler Rifles, arrived with twelve guns and 1000 cartridges. which were distributed among twelve { picked men. This company was stationed around the bouse and riddled it but the negro had taken refuge in the cellar and returned the fire, killing Jones and wounding Finney. Coal oil was then procured, and after four hours of bard j work the houses adjoining that In j which the negro was located were ' fired. About 8 o'clock the house in which the negro was located was fired by the I Wheeler Rifles, who had arrived on j the scene. The negro took refuge in | a shed and opened Are. killing Wallace and wounding Davis, but the people ' and some militiamen riddled the negro. and the crowd, numbering 1000, i grabbed tbe body and threw it into the burning building. Wallace, who was killed, was closing ; In on tbe negro, wbo sbot him through j the body. His body fell in tbe burning 1 debris, but was recovered. Davis, ! Wallace aud Falkner were tbe men : who fired the building. Three houses were burned in the ef? ' fort to reach the negro. 8everal horses ! were killed in the battle. Tbe excitement was intense, but there Is no fear of an uprising among tbe negroes. Fully 2000 persons from Florence and Sheffield were here, and erery surgeon In the two towns was pressed Into service. RUSSIA TO LEAVE MANCHURIA. A Treaty With Chlaa Makas Evacnatioa ' Imperative. Pekin, China.?Tbe signing of the ! Russo-Cblnese Mancburian convention ; only awaits tbe receipt of information as to whether objection to it will be raised by other powers. Since the treaty has been modified as a result of the pressure exerted by the United States, Great Britain and Japan, it 1? not believed any difficulty will be en* countered. The evacuation of Manchuria by | Russia is to be carried out iu three successive periods of six months from | the signing-of the convention. This : clause is unconditional. Russia agrees if Tlen-Tsin is restored ' to tbe Chinese within six months to I vacate Nlu-C'hwang. China agrees that ! i no portion of tbe Nin-Chwang Shan- j Hal-Kwan railway be allowed to fall ' Into the hands of other powers afteV Russia restores tbe road to China, and to reimburse Russia for work on the railway. Anbwador Clayton Exonerated. The authoritative statement was made at Washington that United States ! Amlmssador Clayton has explained I ; fully and to the satisfaction of Presi- , deut Roosevelt and Secretary Hay all 1 , the charges that have been made 1 i against him in regard to cases pending before the Mexican courts, and also j concerning his own personal conduct. Mr. Clayton will return to his post at ; the City of Mexico. _____ j Jamaica Tax Plan Abandoned. The Government of Jamaica has ' I abandoned Its new taxation plan just j j In time to avert a serious crisis. A I ! section of the community bad refused j j to pay the increased rates when the ! abandonment of the scheme was an- i nounced. Starvation at Gap* Nome. Nome is suffering from extreme cold and the natives near Cape Nome are starving. Value of Mualeal Instrument*. The census of musical instrument , mnmifiirtiiri'rM of 1)00 nhotr u tbiisbcd I product valuation of $44,514.4ttf. Captain Cogklaa Pardoned. President Roosevelt has granted a pardon to Captain J. B. Coghlau. U. S. N.. for an offense for which he was i suspended a number of years ago. This ' advances Captain Coghian to the head of the list of his grade and Insures his promotion to the rank of Rear-Admiral. Vermont's Chief Jnstle*. Judge John W. Howell, of Randolph. ! Vt., was appointed to the vacant Chief , Justiceship of the Supreme Court. : caused l>y the recent Ueaia or uniei I Justice Tuft. Minor Mention. An Ohio missionary will take a large ; mechanical outtit to Africa. Colorado will expend $OU.OOO on a , State display at the St. Louis Expoj iltiou. j The loss on cattle in Oklahoma from | winter storms will not exceed three | per cent. Ecuador will send its Minister to France to represent it at King Ed* ward's corouacion. The St. Louis Board of Equaliza.ion has resolved to tax property of all kinds on its true cash value. J USED A DUAL PERSONALITY Edward W. Kappel, Who Was Also " ? * *?/ . t i_ J fcawara W. Mng, Arresieu. Bad a Wife and Children at BnlTaJo a* Wall as a Home at Niagara FaiU? Charged With Fraud. | I I Buffalo, N. Y.?The uolice arres'e<l I Edwanl W. Kappel. Superintended 0/ ! Agents for the Equitable Life Assur I ance Society of New York, residing ic | Buffalo, and Edward W. King, Secre tary-Treasurei of the Nash Improve neat Company of Niagara Falls auc' Suspension Bridge, New York. But only one arrest was made, foi one man has played both roles. At Kappel, he was a prominent Buffaloa j lan. a Free Mason, member of tin j Acacia Club. Knight Templai. nnd ar Insurance man of such ability that lit | drew $1000 per mouth. He resided is I a comfortable home with a wife ant* ' two children. As King at Niagara Falls he main 1 A>Ua.I ?' * ?1A> aC lit th/ IMiutni uu nuuviaic m. ui uium.o >u .m. Gluck Building, where the Nash I in j provement Company is located. II< was ostensibly married to Miss Eiois* Green, and supposedly resided ot Niagara avenue, at Suspension Bridge N. Y. Kappel was arrested for grand lar [ cony. He !s charged with fraudnlentlj securing $3?J00 from George H. Greec j under the name of Nash. He has been | leading this double life. It Is charged j since September. 1900. Affidavits have 1 been made to show that he. as Kappel Inveigled various men into Investing [ money with the Nash Improvement Company and then, as King, juggled with the finances of the Nash Improvement Company. It appears that this dual personality i has also been used in other cities. Id Rochester. Olean and Batavia, N. Y.. I the prisoner lias been known an King I and addre**ed as such. In Detroit, Cleveland and other cities he has been | called Kappel. his right name. The warrant for his arrest was sworn out before Judge Horn, of Niagara Falls, by Georjre H. Green, charging him with obtaining a thirty! flve-bundred-dollar mortgage through false representations. This mortgage King is said to have sold for $3000 to a Lockport woman. It covers a Niagara County farm. In default ofjtfOOO bail Kappel was committed to jail to await the action of the Grand Jury. Failure to discover proof of Kappel's marriage to wife No. 2 will prevent a charge of bigamy. Wlfp No. 2. in Niacara 'Falls. sav? she will enter no charge against him. Wife No. 1 says she will not sue for divorce. ST. LOUIS BRIBERY. Icathlas PrMMtatloo by Grand Jnry? Four Iadlctmtnu Returned. St. Louis, Mo.?Most sensational charges are made by the Grand J1117. which has hoen investigating bribery and official corruption in the Municipal Assembly, In Its final report to Judge O'Neill Ryan, in the Criminal Court The following indictments were also returned: Bribery. Robert N. Snyder; attempted bribery. Edward Butler, John H. Beckor rwirinrr I !*wir<r? .T Ivphlirch. The report declares that the people of St. Louis have hut a vague conception of the extent to which corruption and venality have for the past ten years existed among the sworn officers and public servants. It finds the true condition of affairs almost too appall* lng for belief. A tribute Is paid to Joseph W. Folk, he Circuit Attorney, under whose leadership the investigation is being made. A St. Lonla Boodler Flee a. 8t. Louis. Mo.?Charles Kratz. former Councilman. Indicted for bribery, has fled from the city. He Is supposed to be in Mexico en route to Switzerland. When Murrell fled rather than so to trial the bonds of the other indicted boodlers wer* increased, that of Kratz belns: raised from $5000 to 520.000. When the case was called Kratz failed to appear, and his attorneys professed to have no knowledge of his whereabout*. A reward of $8000 was offered for his arrest. PATRICK SENTENCED TO DEATH. Blf Bride Make* the Journey to Sing Sing Prlaoo on the Same Train. New York City.?Albert T. Patrick, ronvicted of murdering William Marsh Rice. Is in Sins Slug under sentence of d?ath. Recorder CJoff in pronouncing sentence was very brief. He condemned Patrick to die. according to the law of the State, some time in the week beginning May Patrick, who all through the trial has displayed great coolness, listened to his sentence of death with perfect composure. When Patrick was takcu to the Grand Central Station- for his trip to Sins Sing, he was met by his bride of the Tombs, formerly Mrs. Francis, his landlady. They kissed, bur were not allowed to ride together on the train. On arriving at Ossiuing lie affectionately kissed bis wife goodbye, after which he was hurried away to the prison and was soon a prisoner amoug the others eoudemncd to death. There was something over 1.500.000 words taken down by the stenographers during the trial, and all this testimony Is to be reviewed in the higher courts. If they find reason for grantIn.. - >.?m t.l.l T).? t .(<?! ...Ill I... >.? 111^ it UI'W 111.11 I illlll A III III" 111 If III hack to the Tombs. In nnv event lie? has a Ions time to wait for death in the electric chair or freedom. New Treaty With China. United States Minister Coucer will negotiate h new commercial treaty between the United States and China. Mnlatmta Sent to Prison. Enrico Malatesta. the Italian anarchist. was sentenced hy a eouri of Justice, at Rome, to tive mouths' iui pnsoimieu; [in <-umuiuai'.v mi iu'ciiuiu of certaiu article* applauding tlio murder of President Me Kin ley which were written for and published in nn anarchist newspaper. Fanner Manlsrtr and Sulrl?l??. Eugene Richard?, a farmer at Ror land. Mich., while insane, xhoi am! , killed his wife and 'hen killed a it: ' jelf. Sportln; Brevlliri. The trout fishing season on I.oni Islaud wax legally o|?eiicd. There will i?e no spring regatta on mi* lassaiv tun jrui. A national exhibition of mules ami donkeys i> to 1n> held in Merlin. Tim ?lat?? of the Auuapolis-Harvard rlub crew rare tliis year lias been tixe<, at May -4 Mauley Thurston, a eaJ.-her of the New York baseball team, has ouly three tinkers ou his right hand. Arrangements have beeu completed for the manufacture in America of u , Kromineui French true of autooiobUu. IM EVENTS Of TIOEEK WAHRIWOTIIBf ITEMS. Suit n?:?!nst the Northern Securities Company was brought bj the State of Washington before the United Stntef Supretun Court. 1 Both Houses adopted the conference report ou the War Revenue Repeal bill, and that meut>ure was sent to the President for Denature. Secretary Hay sent a letter to the In vestigatlng committee relating his dealings with Captain Christmas. Th.? House passed the Chinese Exclusion bill, and the bill to extend Natioaa' bauk charters twenty year*. President Roosevelt Dominated Wll dr?d L. Montague for Postmaster at San Francisco. General A. W. Greely. Chief Signal Officer, reported to Secretary Root In favor of Ge-many's proposal for the international regulation of wireless telegraphy systems. The place of Commissioner-General of Immigration, to succeed T. V. Powderly. was offered to and accepted by Prank P. Sargent. Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. The Senate Military Committee decided to recommend the rejection of the nomination of Captain William Crozler to be Brigadier-General. OCK ADOPTED ISLANDS. Judge Villamor. accompanied by tht Assistant Attorney-General, w*at to Tayabas. P. I., where he will hold a special Court to try over 300 cases of treason and sedition. Cases of cholera at Manila caused prisoners to be place In a detention camp. The Cuban Supreme Court fixed the bail of Kstes G. IUthbone at $100,000 ea3b. The court ruled that, until sentenced Rathbonc was entitled to bail uuder the postal code. DOMESTIC. John L. McAtee, Associate Judge oi the Eighth Circuit Court, iu Oklahoma, resigned. Charges had been preferred against him. After killing bis wife by shooting. < Harry Preston, of Toledo. Ohio, shot and killed himself. John Bates was arrested at Chicago for the murder of E. R. Hunter, a prominent stock man. who was killed In his office at the Stock Yards. April 12, 1805. Liquor may be delivered C. O. D. io Kansas without violating the prohibition law, under a Supreme Court decision. Crossed wires set Are to the hospital for the insane at Fergus Falls. Minn., placing hundreds of lives in danger, though none were lost. 1 A life imprisonment sentence was meted out to Daniel Kairo, at Duluth. Minn., for cutting David Myllmaki to death with a knife. Ignace Paderewskl asked Governor Odell. at Albany. X. Y? to pardon Anton Werner, a countryman, now serving a life sentence for murder. Reports from the new Thunder Mountain gold Held, in Idaho, declared the mines remarkably rich, some of the ore yieldiug $150 a pound. Alabama was suffering from a coke famine, because of flooded mines. A combination of gas and electric companies at Rochester. N. Y.. was announced. At the celebration in Boston. Mass.. of the eightieth birthday of Edward Everett Hale he received a trust fund of $28,000 presented by admiring . friends. The Iowa Senate passed a bill licensing osteopathic physicians. T. Estrada Paiina spoke to the New York Chamber of Commerce on reciprocity with Cuba. Professor F. W. Colgrove. who cut his throat on a storm-bound train in the Northwest. was mentally affcctcd. i He is a specialist on Insanity, and lec- j tured on suicide In connection with in- | j sanity. Judge Grice. of Birmingham. Ala.. | shot a mau who attacked him in a dispensary of which the judge was in i charge. Descendants of Absalom Case claim ! $80,000,000 worth of property in the I heart of Cleveland. Ohio. W. J. Furnish, a banker of Pendle- j ton. was nominated on the first ballot j for Governor of Oregou by the lie- j publican State Convention. At New York City Policeman John I J. O'Brien *hot and killed his wife be- i cause she roused him from a stupor of I intoxication and urged him to returu I to duty. H. B. Endicott. of Boston. Mass.. bought $1,500,000 worth of leather, the largest deal of the kind ever made in the United States. The Virginia Constitutional Conven- , tlon adopted the proposed suffrage plan and adjourned to May 22. FOREIGN. By the arrest iu Paris of the print'I- 1 pals u his baud of international sw ind- ' lers wan brokeu up. Prince and Princess Henry and the ( rand Duke of Hesse were held up t?y a policeman near Darmstadt for bicy- I cllns ou a footpath, and will have to i pay a tine. i Revolutionist.) la Haiti captured the : tcwu of Jacuiel and released the pris- 1 oners there. In the tight ius two ineu ' were killed and several wounded. Caspar Krugor. eldest sou of Pr.-siilent Ivrugcr of the Transvaal Republic. , and twenty-four other memlHTM of the \ Kruger family were among those , burghers who swore a lies lance to Kins | Edward. I The Triple Alliance promised fr.-sn [ proof soon of its pacltlc tendency. Statistics fcr March showed marked decreases in British exports and im- 1 ports as compared with last year. Ice I'oes .it Newfoundland were div- ! ins seals inshore so that good catch, s could be uiade. A third attempt was made i i Mosrow ' to kill tlu* Prefect cf rolice. Uea;?ral Tre|M)JT. Cecil Rhodes'* funeral at Cape Town i ail led out the greatest demonstration < of public grief ever kuowu iu South i Africa. While M. Hanotaux was leaving a congress. which he had been addressiug at Orau. Algeria, he was struck In toe face by a wornau. tlu* incident giv- ( Lg rise tj uuc!i remark. Canadian officials declared a report , r?bou: the removal of Russian boundary stoucs by a iuetnlH>r o? a Canadian surveylLg party t j l>e a "fake from tLv.? North." T!ie British Second Prag>>ous sent to surprise a Boer camp barely cs caput re. Tw? victories of Conservatives in tUe Department of Boyaca. Colombia, were reported, ami officials regarded til': rebclllou as practically coded. 1 \ NEUTRALITY IN BOER WAR Government Will Not Interfere With* Shipments to South Africa. \ Atun?j O?atnU Kaoi'i Opinio* Inank 1 lair All*|td 8riU?h Camp Vmmr ? ? ' OrlMU'Shrald Verify ChargM. Washington, D. C.?It is not at all / probable that the United States Government will interfere with the shipment of American mules and variooa war supplies from this country to tUe > Britisn Army m south Arrica. Attorney-General Knox bad rendered i an opinion to Secretary Hay regarding the allegations made by the Governor of Louisiana that England was maintaining a military post at Port Cbalmette, a few miles soutb of New Orleans. According to tbe Governor's complaint. Port Cbaluiette bad been rapidly converted from a peaceful freight depot for a Southern railroad to a camp wbicb existed purely as a shipping point for forwarding to King Edward's army munitions of war, to bo used against the P-oers. The Attorney-General says be does not think this Government ought to take any action without "mature coo sideratioD by tbe President and bis advisers." Tbe decision goes on farther to declare that the sale by a neutral nation of articles contraband of war to a belligerent nation Is upheld by < ' international authority. "In the case before us," be concludes, "there Is no statement of facts by you upon which o give an official opinion as to the law, and I do not understand that one has been requested. "A. number of allegations and some testimony have been sent me, and they are sufficient to challenge attention. But the first thing to be done is to ascertain whether the allegations are true. "I bare endeavored, aa well aa I could in advance, to indicate the law to be applied to them, and shall only 1 add that among the points by which , to be guided ars the rystematic character of tbe tmns-c ions, their greater or less extebsiveness, their persistence in time, or tbe reverse, their govern uicuiai ciuiiavici, vr mtr auvruu; ui u? tbcir object* ami results, and principally, of coarse, their relation. If any. wltb tbe prosecution of the military operations In South Africa." mt TUw mt Um Iaqahj. The Hague. Holland.?Boer circle* attribute tbe Inquiry as to tIs alleged British camp at New Orleans to representations made by Dr. De Bruyn. one of tbe Boer delegates recently In tbe United States. ELOISE FURBUSH OEAO. luii WW Kilted H?r Md Oar MolkM sad Sitter. Convicted la Hour Md Hal/. Philadelphia. ? Elolse. tbe sevenyear-old daughter of Ella J. Jar den. otberirl8e known as Mrs. Ella J. Furbush, wbo was shot by William BL Lane, a colored butler, died in a hospital from the effect* of her injury. Lane shot and killed tbe mother and ten-year-old sister of the little glrL ' Lane was convicted of murder in tbe flrst degree after a trial lasting less than one and a half hours. Lane bad previously pleaded guilty. Because of Lane's plea of guilty no ? Jury was drawn and only three witnesses were called for the purpose of determining the degree of murder. Judge Blddle sentenced the murderer to death. Tbe date of bis execution will be fixed by Governor Stone. PLUNGED INTO THE RAPIDS. A Buffalo Olrl Commit* Sale Id* From * Bride* at 2(lai*r> Fall*. Niagara Falls, N. T.?Delia Tansey. of Buffalo, went over the American falls, and was carried away to her death. It was tbe most sensational cataract suicide in muny years. Tbe woman Jumped over the railing of Goat Island bridge about ten feet from shore. William Connors, of Liverpool, England, wbo was on the bridge at tbe time, ran down tbe sbore and waded luto the river. A rake was passed to him. which be succeeded in fastening in her clothes. Mis* Tansey begged to be saved. He tried to draw tbe woman toward the shore, hut her clothing tore, and she ! was carried over the brink of the fall*. jffl BANK ROBBERS CET $16,000. ? State Buk at Rankin, ?b? Looted by 89 Five M?n IVho 1'h4 Xitro-Gljrcerln* . EB Beatrice, Neb.?The State Bank at M Buskin, Neb., was robbed of 916,000 In cash. Tbe robbers, supposed to be h| tive in number, gained entrance to the |?i 1)3nk by prying up a window and then open lug tbe front doors of the building. p| Nltro-glycerine was used to blow tbe safe and tbe explo^iou blew both door* SM uff their hinges and uiade access to the money box easy. The robbers took all the currency and paper money in tbe BS bank. The noise of the explosion aroused the inhabitant* in time to see three g9 at the robbers making off to tbe westward. H Cuba Drop* the Jary BjnMm. nfl The Jury system which has been IBB in force in Cuba since 11)00 has be.*n Abolished. The police courts ami all the audiencias throughout tbe island H| isked that it be discontinued as under jg tUe system it wa? utmcuit to oinaiu Louvlctlons. (W Boy of Foort??n Hinfi Hlra*elf. 'fl Harry Mease. fourteen year* ol?J, son 1B| ;f J. F. Mease! of Warren. Ohio, banged H liimself. The body was found by bis 9$ mother suspended by u strap from a 9 beam la the barn. The cause is a mystery. Hfl Death at m Football Match. BB During the International football M match between England and Scotland, it Glasgow, tbe immense crowd pres nt broke dowu the barriers acd dur- EBB Ins the territlc crush at least rr.\nty- w jue were killed, and fully 250 were in- H lured. Fully 8U.JU0 persons witnessed the game. KMJVri UBfV U*fl o,ww M?H. JiW.m Careful estimates Rive* the total PtS <:retiRth of the scattered Boer comiiaudoc* at between SOU*) and 'JOOO . uen. Ha 1'ersonal Mention. ifl Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria, ggB the celebrated oculist. has Just i>er Formed his -HAJOth operation for cata- gflgg ract. hBB U?-ury White, first Secretary of the l:n!tcd Stated Kmbassy iu London, has HB l>ceu practically selected to succetd (Seorge Von L. Meyer as United States aflfl Ambassador to Italy. BHB Abner McKinley. brother of the mnr- HB tyred President. h:m become interested nBfl lu a promising Florida colored boy. whom he will educate as an object Bffl lessou of the possibilities of the raco. H