Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 13, 1904, Image 1

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THE5 PLACER'S LO?WAND SAVINGS BANK. Pays Interest* on Deposits. Accounts Solicited?' Xi. C. HAYKKj President. ; ICHAS.C.HO'WARD,' ?AUGUSTA, GA.IJ Cashier.' | ? Ms. * fy". ' NO. mi EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1904. THE NATIONAL' BANK . i OF AUGUSTA' L. C. H?YN?, CHAS. C. HOWARD. President. Cashier.' CAPITAL $250,000. Surplus j ?< _w Ai% Undivided Profits, j $125,000 Oar New Vault contains 410 Safty-Lock Boxes, which we ofTcr to our patrons and the public at three to ten dollars per annum. NO. 3. President Roosevelt Presents Case I Fully io Congress, REASONS ARE GIVEN FOR ACTION The President Shows Why the Inde pendence of Panama Was Recog nized-The Alaiter Fully Discussed. Washington,, : Special.-The j Prestf ident sent the following message to Congress at 12:30 Monday, ca" tttl Panama Treaty: To the Senate and House of Represen ,. lat? ves: 1 lay before the Congress for its ln ?ormati?n a statement of my action tion up:;to this time in executing the act en?tled "An act,to provide for the construction of a canal connecting he waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans," approved June 28, 1902. . "By .the' said act .the President was ! authorized to secure for the Unitbd States the property of the Panama Canal Company and the perpetual N control of a. strip-6 miles wide across the Isthmus-Of Panama. Ttwas further provided that "should th President be a unable to pbain for the United States a satisfactory title "?to the-?roperty of the New Panama Canal :Co?npany "and I the control of the necessary territorv of the republic of Colombia* . * with j in a reasonable-time and upon reason able terms, then the President should ! endeavor to provide for a canal by the ! - Nicaragua/route/The language quoted defines I with" exactness and precision what7 was .to. .hg done,-and what as a matter of fact has been -done. The President was authorized to go to tho Nicaragua-route only if within a rea sonable time, he could not obtain "con- j trol of the necessary territory of the ? : Republic of Cciomhia." This control i I has now been obtained; tho provision ! ! of the act has been complied with; it ! J ls no longer possible under existing i < legislation to go to the Nicaragua ! ; . route as an alternative. ., '".s li This act marked'the climax cf the . ] effort on the part of the United Stales ? 1 to secure,: so. . far as. legislation was ! < concerned, an . intero'ce?nic canal ? i across the Isthmus. The effort to se- : 1 curena treaty for this purpose with one ! : of : the Central American republics did : c not stand on the same footing with the 11 'effort to secure aXieaty under any or- l i dinary conditions.- The proper-position' : for the United States to assume in re- fl Terence to this canal, and therefore to j f the?gpvernments of the Isthmus, had ! c beemTclearly set forth by Secretary j 1 Cass in 1S5S. Ih my Annual Message ' I . I have already quoted what Secretary ' Cass'said; but I repeat the quotation here, , because the'principle it states is fundamental:, .. . .. While the rights of sovereignty of ^^^e^^^h^^p^u^y^^^s-^^on^,CC lilttc^ea^^^^ the" occasion and the wants and cir cumstances that -have' arisen.- Sever-j eigct.y has" its duties as well as its ' rights, and hone'of these local govern ments, even if "administered with more regard to the just demands of.-other nations than they have been, would be permitted, in a spirit of Eastern isolation, to close the gates of inter course on the rest highways of thc world, and justify the act by thc pre tension hat those avenues of trade and travel belong to them and that they choose to shut them, or, what is al most equivalent, to encumber them ..- with such unjust relations as would "".prevent their general use." The principle thus enunciated by Secretary Cass .was-;sound then and is soiind now. Thc--.Cn i ted States has . taken the'position that no other Gov-] ernment is to build the canal. In 1SS9": when France proposed to come to the ! aid of the French Panama Company : by guaranteeing, their bonds, the Sen- ; ate of the United States in executive session, with only some three vote3 ; dissenting, passed a resolution as fol- j lows: That the Government of the United States will look with serious concern j and disapproval upon any connection of any European government with the : construction or, control of- any ship | canal across the Isthmus' of Darien or j across Central America, and must re- ? gard any such connectijn or control as ! injurious to the just rights and iner- " ests of the United States and as a menace to their welfare. Under the Hay'Pauncefote treaty it was explicitly provided that ? the United States should control, police and protect the canal which was to be ! built, keeping it open for the vessels of all nations on equal terms. The United States thus assumed the posi tion of guarantor of the canal and-of its peaceful use by all the world. The j guaranty included . as a matter of j course the building of the canal. The j enterprise was recognized' asw re sponding to an international. need ; and it .woulc" be the veriest travesty on right and justice to treat the' gov ernments in possession of the Isthmus as having the right, in the language" of Mr. Cass, "to close the gates of in-1 tercourse on the great highways of the j world, and justify the act by the pr?-? tension thal these avenues of trade I and travel beong to them and that j they choose to shut them." When this Government submitted to j Colombia the Hay-Herran treaty three j things* were, therefore, already settled, j One was that the canal shold be j builk The time for delay, the-time for) permitting the attempt- to be made by private enterprise, the time for permit- j ting any government of anti-social spirit and of imperfect development to har the work had pass ed. The United States had assumed in connection with the canal certain responsibilities not only to its own people, but to the civilized world, which imperatively demanded tat there should no-longer be delay in beginning the work. Second. While it was settled that the canal should be built without un necessary or Improper delay, it was no less clearly shown to be our pur nose-to dear not morely in spirit of Favorable Report Washington, Special-The Senate committee on Military Affairs decided to .General Leonard Wood to be major general; The voie stood 7 to 2, the . &g&B3&& Senators" being . Messrs. .'. "Pjrfc:'or. Warren, Foraker, Quarles, - C~ckrell and P.ettus;-tbe nega-"* tiitc ??vr-?s?tt.x-and Blackburn. Senator p^u'?;''was ncr 'present, but author ized "h?rVcLe to .he;, reported. Hawley ^^^.absent.^ justice . but in a spirit of g?nero; with the people through whose 1; we might build it.Tho Kay-Her treaty,-if it erred at all, err?d in. direction of an . over-generosity wards the Colombian government, our anxiety to bo fair we had' gone ? the very verge in yieldmg to ? wi nation's demands W?at the nation helplessly., ?h?ble to j enforce from against . ?uf- will.- The . only critici made upon the administration for ierihs'of the Hay-Herran treaty v.-. for having granted too much to Cole bia,-not for failure'to. grant enou Neither in the Congress nor in I public prasn, at the time'that t treaty, was formulated, were here cc plaints that jt did not in the full and amplest 'manner guarantee to ( lombia everything that she could any -color of .title demand. Norris the fact to bo lost sight that-tho rejected, treaty, while gen o-jsly responding "to the pecuniary < manda cf Colombia, in other respe< merely provided for tho construct! of the canal in conformity with the < pressed requirements, of thc act Congress of June 28, 1902. By that a1 as ' heretofore quoted, the Preside was authorized to acquire from C lombia, for the purposes of the can "perpetual control" of a-cfertain str of land and it was expressly requir? that thc "control" thus to be obtain? shoul "include; "jurisdiction" to mal police and sanitary regulates ..and establish such judicial tribunals j might be agreed upon their enforc ment These were condtions prec dent prescribed by the Congress; ar for their fulfillment suitable stipul tions were embodied in the treaty. Iras been stated, in public prints.- itu dmqmbia objected to. th?se stipul; fions,'on the ground that they invok ed a reliquishmeut of her "sovereigi ly;".but .in the light of what ha taken, place, this ^ljieged ^?objecfeio must'-ibe .considered as 'an aftei thought In reality, the treaty,, ii ?tend of requiring a cession of Colon bia's" sovereignty over he cernai'str i j expressly- acknowledged, confirmee ind. preserved her sovereignty ove ti The treaty/jji' this respect simpl; proceeded on'the lines bn.'which ai .he negotiations Ieadingup to the pres mt situation have been conducted. I: :hose negotiations the exercise by tlv United States, subject to the para -lount rights of the local sovereign )f a substantial control over the cann md thc immediately adjacent ferrite .y, has been treated as a fundament il part nf any aiTa^gemea,ithat migh >e made-It has<fbrm^';?ttvesseatia eati :e for -all our. ;plaisy?snja ,iti tne -'ess?ty is fully-.xecoignize^ 'au n cel o te itreziyi : Th?-- Congress,- -ir iroviding that such..control, should: bc ?ecured, adopted no" new. principle rat only incorporatedv ill it legisla ion, the. importance and propri?t? :f which iwer?Huniversal?y recognized ?n^^^^^^^^^^^^ negotiation tontrot.-w^ ren d ef^^.^un?tainabie-''.ihe^coustrrictipi of a .canally .xay/.??"the.'Isihm.us}a>: PananSajvVn?r^ duript the mbn?h^Twhe^^^ ..o?^O? w as pendit?g^h?^?: .the^o^gr ess,;th? the tarma j^J(i?^.it."'?mtroai^-'VOul( rendcr??a8gplratforisr' "with Colombi? impracticable. It is.. plain ..hat no .na Lion could'- construct ' and guarantee thc neutrality; cf the canal with-a les: degrcrer'of 'contrbl than wa6"strpulatei for in thc l-Iay-Hcrrkrr*-trea"fy. A re fusal to grant such degree of contro was necessarily a refusal to make an: practical treaty at all. Such refusa therefore squarely raised thc questioi whether Colcmbia was entitled to ba the transit of the world's traffii across the Isthmus. That the canal itself was eagerly de m anded by the people of the locality through which it was to pass, and tba the people of this locality-no less ea gerly longed for [ts construction undei American control, are shown by th< unanimity of action in the new Pana ma Republic. Furthermore, Colombia after having rejected , the treaty ir spite of-our- protests 'and warning! when it "^as in her'power to accept it has. since shown the utmost eagernes; to accept the same treaty, if only th< status quo could be restored. One of th< .men'standing highest'in the officia circles of Colombia-;1-oh' November 6 addressed the Apier ~an. minister "a Bogota', saying that if\the Governmen o! the United States would land troop; to preserve Colombian sovereignty ant the transit, the Colombian Governmen would "declare martial law;- and, bj .virtue of vested constitutional author; ty, when public order is disturbed (would) approve by decree the ratlfi cation of the casal treaty, as signed or, if the Government of the Unite; States prefers, (would) tall extra ses sion of the Congress-with new ant friendly members-next May to ap prove the treaty." Having these fact; iu view, there is no shadow ol ques Hon that the^Gbvernment of the Uniter States proposed a'.treaty which was no .mer?ly just, but generous to Colombia which-our people'regarded as erring if at ali. on the.sido of overgenerosity which was hailed with.dPlight by tin people . of the.- .immediate locality through which the canal was td pass who were most concerned as to th; new order of things, and which th? .Colombian authorities now recognize as being so good that they are v/illiu? I tcvpromise its une jncitional. ratifica tion if only we will desert those wh< haare shown .themselves our-friends am rectors to those who have shown them selva* unfriendly the power to und' what they did. I pass by the questioi as to what assurance we >.ave tha they would now .keep their pledge an; .nit again refuse to ratify the ticaty i they had the power; for. of course, will nof..for one moment discuss th? possibility of the United States com mitring an act of such baseness as t< abandon the nev/ Republic of Panama Third. Finally the Congress definite ly settled where the canal was to bi built. It was provided that a treat should be made for building the cana across the Isthmus of Panama; and if after reasonable time .it proved impo? sible to secure such treaty, that .thoi we should go to Nicaragua. The treat; has been made: fer it needs no ?sgu j Hospital Burned. Taunton, Mass., Special.-The wo I man's wing of the Taunton insane ?d^pspital caught fire about 11:30 Mon j day night,.and ls now burning fierce i ly. Every effort ls being made to sav< the inmates, and at midnight it look ed 03 if all were out. Several of tht ..wings have already burned. All th? j patients that have 1 been taken fron j the huming building were broughi ? into tho main portion of the institu I tion in good order. j ^ent t0 stow that the intent of the congress was to. insure a canal across I Panama, and that whether the republic j granting the title was called New Granada. Colombia, or Panama mat tered not one whit. As events turned out, the q?estioh cf "reasonable time" did not enter into the matter at all. Although, as the months went by, it became increasingly improbable that the; Colombian Congress would ratify the treaty or take steps which would he .equivalent thereto, yet all chances 1 for" such action on their part did not vanish until the Congress closed at the; end of October; and within three days thereafter the revolution in Pan ama had broken out. Panama became an'independent state, and the control of the territory necessary for building tho canal then became obtainable. The condition under which alone we could have gone^to Nicaragua, thereby be I came impossible of fulfillment. If tho pending treaty with Panama should not be ratified by the Senate this would not alter the fact that we could not go to Nicaragua. The Congress has de cided the ^route, and there is no alter native under existing legislation. When in' August it began to appear probable that the Colombian 'Legisla ture would'not "ratify the treaty it be came incumbent upon me to consider I well what the situation was and to be ready to adrise'^the Cougress as to j what were the various alternatives o.f action open to us. There were several possibilities. One was that, Colombia would at the last moment see the un wisdom of her? position. That there might "be nothing- omitted,- Secretary Hay; through- ?the>.minister. at Bogota, repeatedly waf hed Colombia that grave 'consequences, might" iqjlow from her reiecti?n:of-the.treat'y.i?lthough It was a constantly, diminishing chance, yet the possibility of ratification did not wholly pass away until the close of the session of the Colombian Congress. A secon'd alternative was that by the c-lose of:the session on.-the last day of October, without the ratification of"thc treaty by; Colombia and Without any steps taken by Panama, the American Congress on assembling "earryi in No vember Would be confronted with a siltation in which' tfier?vh?'di been a failure to come to term's-as, to building the canal along the Panama route, and ye j' theres-hadf not been-'- a. lapse of a reasonatrfe- Unie-Mtsing ?th? word rea sonable in any jjroper?;s'en'se such as v.-Quld justify thV?diminstration going to? the Nicarauga route. This situation seemed'on-the whole the most likely, and as; a matter of fact I had made the original, draft of my Message to the Congress with a view to Its ex istence. '. In view of all these facts 1 directed the Navy Deportmerht to issue instruc lions such as would insure our hav ing ships within easy reach of tho Is thmus in th? event of need arising. Orders were given on October 19 to the Boston to proceed to San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua; to the Dixie to prepare to. sail from League Island ; and to the "Atlanta to ~ proceed to Guantanamo. *'On October SO the Nashville was .ordered to proceed to Colon. On'November 2 when, the .Colombian Congress having 'adjourn ed,.^ was evident that the outbreak ^^j^^^^t^?d^whefl??^^asBa^ j re^y'^T??^^^^S^!rig^v^^ mean bloodshed and disorder, the Co lombian -troops having been embarked ?on vessels, the .following instructions ..Vero sent tb. the_commanders of the ?.Boston, Nashville and Dixie: - * * ? - ?. * ? * In the third place, I confidently maintain that the recognition of the Republic of Panama was an act justi fied by the interests of collective civil ization. If ever a government could be said to have received a mandate irorn civilization to effect an object the ac complishment of which was demanded in the interest of mankind, the United States hold- that position with respect to the iutcroceanic canal. Since our purpose to build the canal was-deflnite ly announced, there have come, from all quarters assurances of approval and encouragement, in which oven Colom bia herself at one time participated and to gene:al assurances were added specific acts and declarations. In or der that no obstacle might stand in our way. Great Britain renounced im ! portant rights under the Clayton-Bul j wer treaty, ^nd agreed to its abroga tion, receiving in return nothing but our honorable pledge to build the ca nal and protect it. as.an open highway. It was in view bf this pledge, and of the proposed enactment by the Con gress of the United States of legisla tion to give it immediate effect, that the second Fan-American Congress, at the City of Mexico, on January 22, 1902, adopted the following.resolution: "The republics assembled at the In ternational Conference of Mexico ap plaud the purpose of the United States government. to . construct an Jnteroce anic caji?V'and acknowledge that this ? work will not only be worthy of the j greatness of the American people, but ! also in the highest sense a work of civ ! iliz'ation. and to the greatest degree ? beneficial to the devejppmenfc; of com ? nJercc betwpen the American States I and the other countries of the world." I Among those who signed this resp ! lution on behalf of their respective j governments was General Reyes, .the j delegate of Colombia. Little could it ! have beyi seen that two years later the j Colombian goyernment. astray by ' false allurements of selfish advantage, 1 and forgetful'al ike of its international ? obligations and ,of the duties and re 1 sensibilities of sovereignty, would I thwart the efforts of the United States : to' enter upon and complete a work i which the nations of America, reecho i in'g the sentiments of the nations of i Europe, had pronounced to be not only '.? "worthy ot thc greatness of the Ameii ! can people?* 'but also in the highest I sense "a work of civilization." ? In conclusion let me repeat that the j question .actually before this govern 1 ment is not that of the recognition of ! Panama as an independent republic, j That is already an accomplished fact ! The question, and the only question, ! is whether or not we. shall build an : [slin)ian canal. i 1 T transmit herewith copits of the ! latest notes from the minister of the ! Republic of Panama to this govern j ment .and of certnin notes which have j passed between the special envoy o! : the Republic of Colombia and this gov i eminent THEODORE ROOSEVELT. White House. Jan. 4. 1904. Sej'..?k1i in Chicago. Chicago. Special.-Friends of State Senator Mann, of Florida, who wras j in Chicago at thc time of the Iroquois ! Theatre fire, have become alarmed I and have searched the hospitals with j out securing a trace of him. They will visit the morgues. Inquiries alsc are reported to have come from New York and from Tallahassee. Mr. Mann is the father-in-law.:gf Governor Jen nings, of Florida. A Russia steamship company will es tablish a linc between Odessa and New York. - ' ; . KILLED AND INJURED Many Suffer In Another Terrible Ralbad Wreck . CONDUCTOR AND ENGINEER ERR A Frightful Mistake That Resulted la the Loss of Many Lives and Pro duced fluch Suffering, Topeka, Kan., Special; - Seventeen persons were killed and thirty-CAven Siu?d jn a head-on collision between the Rock Island, California & Mexico express and a freight at Willard Wed nesday morning. Most of the tnjuced' are in hospitals in Topeka. The doc tors announce that all will recover,' with the exception of Mrs. M. A. Hill of Greensburg, Kan. ' The dead are: Mrs. J. H. Hill, Greens burg, Kan.; Mrs. w. S. Martin, St. Jo sedhi Mo.; Mrs. Mary Harvaille, Chilli cothe, Mo.; Ben Haryallle, son of Mrs ' Harvaille aged 13; T?t Harvaille, daughter of Mr?. Harvaille, aged 3 Mrp Susan Reed, a sister of Mrs. Hax vafle; James Griffin, Claremont, Mo ? E. iE. Mayer, Buffalo, N. Y.; Raymond A. Martin, Chillicothe, Mo.; W. S. Mar ??n\rStTu J?seP?- Mo-; B- R. Rankins, De.Kalb, Mo.; William J. Wells, Jack sonville, 111.; Mrs. Mary Kaiser, Rus sian; Gale Fuller, aged 7, Brockton. Iowa; Grace Reed, Chillecothe, ? Mo.; Lenora Reed, Chillicothe, Mo.; uniden tified hoy, aged eight years. ?t is thought that carelessness of the trainmen caused the wreck. Instruct. TT7?n? meet a sP*ci!il freight train at Willard, the engineer and conductor of the ill-fated passenger, noting that a freight train stood in tho siding at Willard, rushed through, thinking that th? cars that they had seen were the on?s which they had been instructed to paps. Upon seeing at Willard a freight train upon the siding,-Enigneer Ben jamin threw open the throttle, and un der the impetus of full steam the pas senger leaped into.-, darkness and crashed along at a rate which the pas-, scngors declare to have been 65 miles an. h.our. k formal inquest was held at the wick today by Coroner Dooly, of Wa bnnsce county. The investigation will be: continued- tomorrow. H. G. Parsons, a reporter of the To peka State Journal, who was on the wrecked Rock Island train, arrived in I'jpeka at eight o'clock this morning, if.er driving overland, from the scene il i he collision. Parsans escaped with'' ??ight injuries, while two persons on :he seat in front of him were lulled. Parsons tells the following story of the ?vrack: "It was in the third car of the pas :enger train, the first coach having' )eeu preceded by a smoker and a bag. rage car. that the greatest loss of life lectured. The smoker, which was oe- , :ur?-3d- by only- two. or three men, was ;verturned and pushed through the j gfJlfi^JtwWjiich was crowded with in this car was wh'?n the sudden set- | ting of the air brakes shut off the lights, leaving all in darkness. A mo ment later a mass of splintered wood and iron was crowded down upon them. None were thrown out of their seats by the glow. Most of those in the forward end of the car were killed instantly. Thirty in the rear end of tho coach, however, succeeded in es caping from that end of tho car which was still unobstructed. No ono in the front half of the car escaped. They were crushed down between the seats cf the smoker. When rescue was tin nily possible only three living persons were taken out by the rescuers, who were compelled to chop holes in the side and through the floor, and top of thc coach to .each them. "The three rescued from this por tion were a man, a small girl, middle aged woman, who were begging to be taken out. One man, hurt internally, was removed through the rear tioor within five minutes after the collision, but died almost as soon as the res cuers could iay him down. A woman died two hours later while trying to tell a physician her name. A dozen men had worked on the place where she seemed to be before she was ex tricated. "Bonnie Martin, a girl ll years old, was pinned down between the two cars, the .heavy stove resting on one foot.' Her cries attracted the res cuers and men, many'or them bleeding from wounds about the face and arms, worked heroically to get her out. It took some time to release her. When ?he was taken out she addressed the doctor who was bending over her as "napa." The physician did not have the heart to tell her that she was an orphan, her father and mother having Leen killed. Mr. Martin was killed instantly and Mrs. Martin died ten minutes after being taken out of the wreck. The child was suffering with a broken ankle, where the - heavy stove fell on her, and severe scalp con tusions. She was put to sleep by a, hy podermic injection to relieve the pain. ' "Some cf the bodies found in the wreckage were so badly crushed as to be unrecognizable. Through a hole chopped in one side of the car the body of a gray-haired, heavy-set man and a woman with long, yellow hair, were visible. Fires were built along the track at short intervals and by the light of these the rescuers, in their eagerness to remove the victims. .' hopped openings in the wrecked coaches until exhausted and then they handed their axes to others. The en tire sides of the car had been chopped away .when the work was completed. Occasionally the rescuers would de sist upon an alarm being raised by -.va tchers, who declared that the chop Ding away of the coach was letting the smoker down upon the victims. Sc terrille was the force of the collison that the smoker left the truck in its backward rush, leaving the trucks still ipon the track. Not a wheel in the entire passenger train seemed to be oit the track. The freight train fared differently. Thc four cars immediately behind the engine were crushed into kindling. Dead and dying cattle littered the ri.<iit of way. while many which had .: < liped from the cars unlnqured ran about, adding tb the confusion. "On the passenger train, in the sleeper, was a young physician, whe walked with a crutch as thc result ol spinal -trouble. He was thrown down and slightly injured, but was thc firs: niau to emerge from the sleeper an.' immediately began aiding the injured He had a portion of the chair car ?nr the berths in the sleeper cleared, au; to them the victims were carried. Tin physician was without Instrumnts o: medicine, and the only thing he coull do was to bind up wounds with band ages which he made by tearing ii] sleeper sheets and pillow cases, am giving the patients whiskey to deadei the pain. RUTH. CLEVELAND DEAD Oldest Daughter of Ex-President Fell By Diptheria. Princeton, N? J., Special;-Ruth, the ?idest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland, died in this city Thursday very unexpectedly, the immediato cause of -death being a weakening of the heart action during a mild attack of diphtheria. Dr. Wyckoff, the at tending physician, said that Miss' .Cleveland had. been ill with a mild form of diphtheria for four days, and that the heart affection was not an ticipated. ,,.*.; The^.Cleveran'd'household is grief stricken over thc death of the oldest daughter and many messages 6? con dolence are being received.. The private school which .-Ruth attended has been closed for the rest of the week out of respect -, President John N. Ninley, of the Col- j lege Of;the City of New York, Mr. Cleveland's personal. friend, has come here to make all arrangements for the funeral;. In response to many inquiries, for mer President Cleveland gave o'uf the following statement: "A?teiva fewvdays' illness, which be gan -with, an' attack of tonsilitis and develdpecl' yesterday ' "suddenly into diphtheria, "our oldest daughter, Ruth, died today, suddenly." RuthKCleveland was born on October 3,189l?in her father's residence, at 681 .Madison. avenue, New York, after Mr. Cjevelagd had served'his first term as President She was named- after Mr.- : .Cleveland's grandmother, and as "Baby ? Rt?tb"_was a great favorite in Wash- : ingtpn ^society during her father's sec- . ond tet?n lu the White House. Mr. and \ Mrs] Cleveland .have four remaining 1 children". . . 1 ._-.??*--? . - Ittis^now understood that it was, thc ! child's^ illness that prevented Mr. ( Cleveland's'attendance at the dinner " tc MayTor McClellan, in New York, on .' January 1, ' The'Vfuncral services will.be held at ( the'C?evelaid home, conducted by Rev. < Maitland Bartlett Mr. Cleveland, with J President Kinley, of the College of the j City of Tiew York, Dean Andrew West. ( and a few intimate friends will accost- i pany the body to Princeton cemetery, ' where' interment will take place. It is said the other children show no signs ( of diphtheria. \ Right to Tax Bank. /Washington, Special-The United t States^:Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice McKenna. yesterday re-- * verstj?^l'>""~rc ~la-^c- L ? 1 "-u--g.-rvn L BO^irtfts Citizens' Eonk of Louisiana vs. Col. Parker, tax collector of^ the first district %f the city oi New Or leans. The proceedings involved the right of the city to tax thc bank, but the bank claimed exemption under its charter granted in 1S33. The State court held that legislation subsequent to the charter had the effect of revok ing it, biit Justice McKenna's decision held otherwise. The Chief Justice and Justices Harlan and Brewer dissented. After Perry Heath. Salt Lake City, Special.-Thc De sert News says the government in spectors, including James H. Bennett, of Cheyenne, have been in the city for two weeks in an endeavor to sub poena? former First Assistant Post master General Perry S. Heath, but have not yet succeeded in serving the papers. It is said that the papers have been placed in the hands of the United States marshal. Mr. Heathy presence, it is stated, ls required in the East in connection with some phases of the postofflce investigation. To Abolish Of ?ic?. Washington. Special.-Secretary Hitchcock, of the Interior Department, has' recommended to the* President that tlie^office ;?f- railroad, commission; er, held' by_ the Me General James Longstreet,- be. abolished. It seems probable now - that the recommenda tion will be adopted and that no suc cessor to Geqeral Longstreet -will be appointed. For two years thc Inter ior Department has made no estimate for the salary of railroad commission er, the necessary appropriation' fer General Longstreet's salary of $3,000 being made by Congress on its own initiative. The duties - of the office practically have been absorbed by the Inter-State Commerce Commission. Paid Big Prie?. New York, Special-Daniel J. Sully; who gained fame in the recent bull campaign in cotton, closed arrange ments today with Edward Morrison for the purchase of his seat on the New York stock exchange and thc seat was posted for transfer on the ex change. It was said that Sully paid something in the neighborhood of $GS,000 for the seat. The committee on admissions will act on the case within a week or two. Big Suit. Washington, Special.-Robert Bin ton Rodney, paymaster, with rank of lieutenant commander ou the retired list of the navy, brought suit fur $".U. 000 damages against Capt Samuel C. Lemlcy, judge advocate general of the navy, for alleged long-continued pe cuniary and naval grade losses and indignities. The complainant allege that Captain Lemiey has accepta: practical supremacy in the Navy. D'.' partaient and is depriving thc corn plairianf. of legal rights im:!<-r his com; mission. News i;; Nn?i'S. lt was reporte ! in New York that John D. Rockfeller ?nd his allies bad wreslcd the control of i he Steel Cor poration from J. P. Morgan and Iiis friends. On account of the great sorrow caus ed by the loss of lifo in the big theatre fire in Chicago, thc usual amount of noise at tho beginning of the new year was dispersed with. ?GEN. GOROON DEAD Confed?rale Hero of Many Battles is Now at Rest -?-. HE mm ON SATURDAY NIGHT Much of His Lifs Since the Surren der Has Been Spent Trying to Heal the Old Breach. U " Atlanta, Ga., - Special-Lieutenant General John B. Gordon died at his winter home neat Miami, Fla.; at 10:05 o'clock Saturday night. His -fatal ill ness, which overtook him last Wednes day, was congestion of the stomach and liver, following an acute attack of in digestion, to which he was subjected. General Gordon was'born in Upson county, Georgia, July 6, 1832, of Soctch ancestry, which had a prominent part in the Revolutionary war. Young Gordon graduated from the Georgia State University in 1852 and a few months later was admitted* to the practice pf law. Early in 1861 he en listed in the volunteer Confederate ser vice and waa elected captain of his company. He" rose rapidly by promo ton to lieutenant colonel of the Sixth Alabama Infantry in December, 1861. He participated in the struggle on the peninsula, and took part in the battle Et Malvern Hill, and was commission er brigadier general, November, 1862 He was in command at Chancellors ville and in the Pennsylvania cam paign. In an official report to General D. H. Hill, General Gordon was char* ncterized as "the Chevalier Bayard of the Confederacy." When hostilities were ended, he -aljed his men about him and advised the?m to beor the trial of defeat, to go borne in peare. obey the laws and re build the wasted country. He has taken i prominent part in the councils of his Laity since 1S66. H- was a defeated candidate for Governor of Georgia in LSG** and in LS73 and 1879 was elected JJ the United States Senate, resign ng that position in 1380, he particip?t id actively in building the Georgia Pa cific Railroad. In 1S86 and 1S8 he was beefed Governor of Georgia and in 1890 intered again into the United States senate for the full term. Since his re crement from political activity he hes levoted much of his time in lecturing n-esenting the North as well as the south in his lecture upon "The Last 3ays of the Confederacy."' Since the organization of the United Confederate veterans he has held the losition of its chief commander, and ils frequet re-election to that pesi ion have testified to the warmth of iffection in which he has.beon held in ;h'e South. General Gordon had been uncon ?cious nearly all dny. The beginnin? >f the end occurred this afternoon, se foyfrujomnl'rartrmg entri? ?nr] w I ? and uraemic poison was Very decided, j His death was quite. He fell peaceful ly to sleep and oil was over. ( General Gordon became ill Wednes day afternon with acute indigestion. He' had suffered from tho same trouble in Mississippi many months ago. At ll o'clock Thursday morning consultation of physicians was held and it was found"that he was seriously and crit ically ill. His son, Major Hugh Gor den, who resides at Blscapne, was w'th him. A telegram waa sent to ?is daugh ter. Mrs; Burton Smith, of Atlanta, calling her to his bedside. She was with him when he died.Gen eral Gordon grew steadily worse un til today when he was micoscious most of the time. General and Mrs. Gordon had been in Florida- this winter only three weeks before his death. His health had been unusually good prior to his fatal at tack. He- had bought a winter home at Biscayne three years ago. and had since been spending a portion of his winters there. General Gordon's body will be ship ped to his home at Kirkwood, near Atlanta, tomorrow night, leaving there at 8 o'clock. It will reach Atlanta Mon da1' afternoon. The remains of Gen. Gordon will be laiu in State in Atlanta and will be viewed by his numerous friends and admirers. Assembly Aieeting. San Juan, Porto Rico, By Cable. The.last session of the second bien-, nial Legislature of Porto Rico will be^ opened . .Monday. Governor. Hunt's message will be read on Tuesday and if is anxiously awaited as it is expect ed to indicate President Roosevelt's J policy in the Island. The better class has assured the*House of Representa tives that-it will support the measure of a loan of 55,000,000 to the farmers. The Americans in the council are op posing the measure on the ground of economy and the House threatens retaliation by killing all the American measures. Including the general ap propriations. '. - A training school for philanthropic and social work will open January 12, in Chicago, under the auspices of the University Extension Division of tho University of Chicago, with Prof. Gra ham Taylor as dlirector. The lecture course will Include personal, institu tional and public work for dependents; preoccupying, preventive, public and agency method. There will be discus sions "on legislation, improved dwel lings and open spaces, public schcol extension, co-operative and benefit agencies, the city's social utilities, so cial settlements and ethical and re ligious resources. Dynamite Explosion. Huntington, AV. Va., Special.-A dy namite explosion occurred near Cass ville, in Wayne county. Saturday, while a number of employes on the Norfolk & Western extension were at luncheon. Six men were killed and fourteen were injured. The dead are: Themas G. Frazier, Frederick Mar cum. Howard Biaggi. Frank Regor. The ?ames of thu injured have uot yoi been learned. Far Eastern Situation, l iMidon. By Cable.-At the Japan ese legation it was said that the far Eastern situai ion remained unchang ed. No news had been received by rho legation and it was believed somo ?aya mierht elapse before any devel opments occurred, ar> Japan was stil considering her reply and that ac news had boon received at tho lega tion concerning the reported dispatch of troops to Corea, TdE DISTILLER WON State Dispensary Board Decide? An Important Case. Columbia State. The Antioch Baptist church has lost out in its vigorous three months' fight before the State board of dispensary directors against the Jenkins distillery But the bone of contention is to be* removed a quarter of a mlle f?rther from the church, in order to put it out side of the two-mile limit. Much feel ing an ri bitterness have li^en engen dered by the contest and lt is Ukf that the chu: ch will renew its fight against the distiller, in the Cherokee C?lw,hy brlneing specific charges of violation of law against him. | The following resolution adopted by the board explain the position the board ha? taken ia the premises: Resolved, first, That it is the judg ment of this board that the petitioners vs. the Jenkins distillery in Cherokee county have failed to prove that the Jenkins distiller}- ia a nuisance to the community, in that they have failed to allege and prove any specific viola tions- of the dispensary law, conse quently we cannot revoke the permit upon the ground of nuisance. Second. That after investigating the hooks of the revenue office we find that Jenkins has no retail liquor dealer's license, but that the entry to that effect as testified to bv Mr. Culley was a clerical error, hence that charge does not constitute a prima facie case against him. Third, It waa made to appear and is not denied that the distillery is within two miles of a church in contravention of the. law, and it is ordered: That unless the said Jenkins removes his distillery beyond the two mile limit from a church or school house as is provided by law, and within the con fines of Cherokee township in the county of Cherokee, bv the first day of February, 1904, his permit to distill alcoholic liquors shall stand revoked. Another Murder, Greenville, Special.-Tuesday night a murder was coraimtted in the neigh borhood of Belleview, in the upper section of the county, the victim being Paul Brown, a negro, and the murderer is not positively known. Brown waa sitting before the fire when he was shot by a man outside the. house, who fired through the window. The load of shot went through the chair and into thc back of Brown, thence through the body to the Hat bone of the breast and the load falling from there into the abdomen. The negro was killed in stantly and fell forward Into the fire, his arra being burned before he was taken out. The wife and children of Andrew McKenzie occupied the house, and they were picking cotton from the bolls when the fatal shot was fired. Mc Kenzie left home last spring because he was jealous of Paul Brown, who tcok his place in the house soon alter, wards and has remained i;here ever since. McKenzie's wife pulled the dead negro from the fire, and with her chil dren left the house, alarming the neighborhood and calling for their as sistance. Her husband has not been seen in the neighborhood since he left "' * > *i '"irrnirj^p nt . co oner's jury rendered a verdict thar the party who killed Brown was un known. The barn and stables of Su pervisor J. S. Speegle, two miles from 'the city, were destroyed by fire last night, together with a horse, cow, bug gy and a quantity of provender belong ing to'E. M. Gillespie. The building is valued at $250. and including the con tents the loss Is estimated at $500. A Prosperous Company. Abbeville, Special-The Abbeville Greenwood Mutual Insurance Asocla tion held its annual meeting Tues day in Greenwood. This association was organized ll y^ars ago with S50, 000 of property Insured. The report of the secretary and treasurer showed that the outsanding insurance had reached at the present date the sum of $925,000. This company has never had the courts to pass upon any of its assessments or losses and the cost cf insurance has never been over $1? per $1.000 for anyone year. Every township in Abbeville and Greenwood counties has a director who acts as the agent of the association, and it is expected that by their efforts the total amount of insurance will this year ex ceed $1.000,000. J. Fraser Lyon, Esq., was re-elected president of the asso ciation and J. R. Blake was re-elected secretary and treasurer. Farmer Burned Out Spartanburg, Special-Andrew Phil ips, a farmer and merchant of Lau rens, was robbed Thursday night and his store burned. He found his large pocketbook, in which he had placed S10-7, empty In the road. The thief took one of his mules., and this was . found at a neighbor's. Citizens and flarines Fight. Norfolk, Va., Special.-As the result of a fight between citizens and maries at Portsmouth Ferry dock Lawrence Cuddy and Joseph Flynn are in a hos pital fatally cut, and Robert Dadden, Benjamin Marks, ' Frank Benedick and Joe Donohue, marines, are held by the police pending the result of the men's injuries. More serious trouble was averted "by a large de tachment of police charging the ferry house and fighting their way through the combatants to stop a squad of ma rines on incoming ferrboat from land ing. By Wire and Cable. The sweetest little bulldog in th( United States belongs to H. F. Stapel of Rou'.: Port, Md., and will be exhib ited at the St. Louis World's Fair. Mr Stapel is editor of the Rock Port Mail Several months ago he conceived tin idea of having his bees reproduce bil office building in honey. He accord . ugly placed in the hive an exact imi tatton o? the Stapel block, and in ? few months the bees completely cover ed every part of it with honey an incl thick. i London. By Cable.-Advices to th< Lloyds from Port Stanley, Falklam Islands, state that the captain an? crew of the American ship Clarenc S. Bernent, which sailed from Phil? delphia August 16th, and Newpor News September 22d last, bound t San Francisco, have arrived ther and report, that their vessel wa burned at sea. There were no fatal <ies. She was a three masted iro ship of 1,727 tons net built at Phlh deiphia in 1844, and carried a crew c about 25 men. The vessel hailed froi San Francisco. ninor Eventa of the Week In a j Brief Form. j Palmetto Pointers. Alex McClellan, a fannar living about three miles from D1U<*, across the Pee Dee, committed suijaae Wed nesday morning by swallowing about two ounces of carbolic acid. It ap pears that he made an attempt at sui cide very early in the morning but aid not succeed. An effort was made by telephone to procure a physician from Dillon when it was discovered that he was trying to take the poison, but- eluding the vigilance of his at tendants he finally succeeded in swal lowing enough to procure instant death. He was about 35 years of age, clever and industrious, but addicted to occasional sprees, and it was while on one that he took his own life. He leaves a widow and several children. A valuable cow belonging to J. A. Covil, of Chick Springs, was found dead in her stall Sunday morning. The heifer was found at the stall door in a helpless condition. At -three o'clock it died-as the. result of wounds on its body. Au examination showed that the animal's right shoulder had been beaten almost into a Jelly and the ?eft shoulder was also badly bruised, and two sever blows had been given on the back. The club with which the animal was beaten was found near the stable, covered with hair and blood. On Saturday while Wesley Bolliu. a young white man eighteen years of age, and a colored boy named Estell Froneberger, aged ten years, were out hunting near Smyrna, in the western portion of York county, the negro bov was accidentally shot in the back of the head by young Bollin, and died from the effects of the wound. The jury rendered a verdict exonerating ' young Bollin from blame in the pre mises. The barn and stable on Supervisor ' ' Speegle's place, located about two miles from Greenville near the Farm ers' Oil Mill, were completely destroy ed by fire Tuesday- night, ' together With a horse, cow, buggy and a quantity of feed stuff belonging to E. M. Gillespie. The building was valued at S250. Including the contents the total loss is estimated at $500. The season for deer shooting in the State ended with Dec. St. On account of the shortened season for the past few years, deer have increased in number in Georgetown county and the sport has been proportionally better throughout the hunting season. The hunters experienced better sport this last year than for many years previ ously. Messr*s. Smi.th. Lee & Frost,-attorn eys, of Charleston, have filed a suit for $4,000 against the Blue Ridge Railroad Ccmpany with the clerk of the court ' of Anderson county. Miss .Jane W. Ad ger, of Charleston, is the plaintiff. ' SEft&jjBS .for fife value of a trunk .ypjIejouT ?Tin? ? Wednesday morning Mr. Coke Catoe, of Kershaw, acidentally shot his bro t/ ii\ Mr. Oscar Catoe, in the arin and hf^n, injuring him seriously. Dr. W. C. Twitty attended the wounded young young man and he was getting along very well at last accounts. The State board of directors Tues dav granted a hotel privilege to High land Park Hotel, of Aiken. Three dis tillers will be hauled up before the heard for alleged violation of law. These arc J. H. Beard, of Greenville; R. C. Gantt, of Pickens, and J. F. Jen kins, of Cherokee. The. Secretary of State Tuesday granted a commission to a large Charleston enterprise. The Lebby Shoe Comnany will be capitalized at $00.000. and will doa wholesale business: The corporators are: R. C. Lebby, I'On I* Rhett and W. A. Holman. A commission has been issued to the Aycock-Little Mercantile concern of T'nlen county, capitalized at $10.000. A cemmsission was also issued to thc Citizens' Insurance Company, of Sum ter, capitalized at $1,000, with the priv- 1 ilege of increasing it to $5,000. Snow fell to the depth of two inches in some parts of the low country Wed- ; nesday for the first time in two win te rs. The governor Wednesday offered a reward cf $100 for the apprehension ot James Walker, a negro, who is wanted in Blackville for the murder of Min nie Williams, a negro woman, sevtval months ago. Dr Johnsone Stoney his cak-ulaiai. by application of the dynamic theory of gases, that any water vapor mirc duced into the atmosphere of Mys. would tscape into space, the gravita tion being there insufficient to retain it. Monument to Dr. McGuire Richmond, Special.-A bronze sta tue of the late Dr. Hunter McGuire, who was General Jackson's medical director, and one of the most cele brated surgeons in the South, was un veiled in the capitol square here last week. The veil'was drawn by his lit tle grandson. There was a parade and the Howizers fired a salute. A largo crowd was in attendance. Judge Geo. L. Christian, grand commander of rhe Confederate Veterans cf thc State, presented the statue to Virginia, and Governor Montague received it. The oration was delivered by Major Holmes Conrad, of Winchester. Va., who served with Dr. McGuire on Gen eral Jackson's staff. Telegraphic Briefs. The memory of the poet Shelley was recently honored ot Viareggio, Italy, where his body was washed ashore and burned in the presence of Byron and Leigh. Hunt. Gabriel D'Animzio. thc gifted Italian novelist, delivered an ad dress. New Years day was fittingly ob served at the White House by Presi dent and Mrs. Roosevelt who gave an elegant reception. Count Max Le Coeppey de la Forest, secretary of the board of health and r director of the water system of Paris. France, Is now reviewing the Pike's Peak region and gathering statistics regarding climate and the famous water supply of Colorado Springs. Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee, who is now in St. Louis attending the meet ing of the American Association for thc Advancement of Science, has offer ered her services to the Japanese gov ernment to organize a corps of nurses for service in the ?-tpe?ted war with Russia.