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' . If- . J ' ' . TP *" *' 4 * Vj " . . 7 ifio ' V ' ?' * 1 THURLOW S. CARTER, J ^ Family Nexotpapcr : For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interest*. J TERMS: $1.50 A IKAX EDITOB ANL? ILawaqkh. > " ) PATAIU.K IN ADTAHCB. frtilll-WH KlY t-ulliun. LANI'ASTIMY, S. P., FKlIkl] 11Y 16, iM>8 ESTfleUhHtlJ IKS? IV n nmn * nir " fflK. fftiSLISY WANTS HIS PAST DUE RENT, i Fifteen Thousand Dollars the um Claimed by Him for It. DISPENSARY WILL MOVE. 1 {< 'I lie Amount Demanded Not Paid 1 und New Quarters Will Have i to he Obtained Within I Thirty Days. 1 _Li * i The State, 12th inst. j ' As time goes on the situation of j * the agricultural hall ease, with 1 the etTeets which will follow the ( decision of tho I'nited States 1 court, heeoines more and more * interesting to the public. It now 1 seems practically certain that the ' relation of landlord and tenant M which has been established between Mr E 11 Wesley on the one hand, ' 1 and the South Carolinadisj>cnsary on tho other, will be of short du j ration and that ere HO days more j1 shall pass the big gin mill will be ? moved to a section of tho city, 1 more in keeping with its nature than it now occupies. p ? At least such was the conclusion reached yesterday morning, when 1 Mr W II Lyles, attorney for Mrj* Wesley, called on the dispensary officials and informed them that, $15,000 must he "coughed up" m for hack rent, at once, or new quarters must ho selected and * moved into within the next 30 * days. Mr Lyles was acting under 1 advice of his client, who is now ' the possessor of the building. The figure looked a little hig to the dispensary people and thev at once began to look up new quur- 1 ters. The warehouse below the % 1'nion depot is neing negotiate ! ' for and the probability is that it *' will be secured. Those in charge of the dlspen 1 sary are taking tbii gs, to all ap "s pea ranees, very philosophically, x and are talking about the great ' amount of dray ago which will be N saved by the change. At the 1 game time, it is said, that they ' _ i are now willing to pay $175 rent i per month for the building, which ' at tirst was regarded bv them as ( ? 4 too steep. The amount charged for back rent is where the shoe ' pinches most, and the matter of ;i $15,000 will bo referred to the N 1 courts before, it is paid. "Yes, 1 guess wo will have to e move, but we have !>0 dav.s to do 1 it in," is all that the oiHcials I would say about the mailer when rpestioned. Chairman Ibmthit ' will remain in the city until limil ! arrangements are made for the 5 establishment of new headquur- ' tors. Ho will not call an extra ' session of the hoard as it is con- ' sidered unnecessary. Mr Hyles L exjiects the mandate to reach the * city today, and then ho will Ik> placed in actual possession of the ' property. The next step in the ? case will be watched with interest. I A big light over the validity of 1 tho Blue Ridiro acrinf i u tnnlr/wl 1 - n- I - ? | for, and should thin issue t>o carried to the courts, as it most likely will be, a battle royal may t>e ex- ^ pected between the opposing attorneys. el The amount claimed for rent C by Mr Wesley for the five years li is exactly the same as that which a he hid for the piece of property, v fc 1IUT IN CiKKlCNVIIjLK. lawyer Dill .Vill Lead a Pail From the Mountain City to the Klondike This Spring. Special 10 The State. Greenville, Feb. 12.?Tl Klondike fever lias broken 01 ifresh in Greenville and a part A* i 11 start from hero within nonth's time. This is a ccrtai "net. C F Dill, a prominent an .veil known lawyer, is at tli lead of the scheme and lie niear msiness. Since the tirst discoi ?riev of gold in Alaska were ai lounced, Mr Dill has cherished lesire to try his luck and he lie nude his plans so as to leave tin spring. Mr Dill has been in eoi espondencc with Mr Hubert linker, who is now agent at Der rer, Col., for the Copper ltivei l ukon Transportation compan\ Sir Baker receives a yearly salar >f $5,000, but he has seen an leard so much of the riches gaine n the gold regions that lie wi rive uu his ioh im.l iriin \if nsir I i J mrty. The plan is to secure 110 mei inch to put in $400, charter itoamer ami go up the Coppc iver, which is said to l?e a riehc lountry than the Klondike regiot The steamer will ho taken fu 'our months and the party w? irohahly return in Scptcmher,ur ess thoy decide to remain d.irin ho winter. The climate in thi >art of Alaska is said by the go> rnment reports to ho much mih ;r than that of the Klondike, tli cmperature seldom going muc ?elow zero. .Mr Pill has seenr<*<| about 2 0 go from here an I Mr Bake vi 11 get six or eight in Colorud* ['lie (! roonville contingent include 1 prominent mereliant, wlio i-? me losing his business out; a sueres> ul | hysician, a county otlicoi OHIO farmers ami two young me vhose father was a Oaliforni brty niner. This gentleman a< iscs his sons to go, and will giv hem the money. Mr Baker is a brother of .) kiKur of Batesviile, and throng lim the party will get the steame hi which they have had an optio or some time. They expect t eavc San Francisco by April 1 ind go direct to the Copper rivei vliere they will begin prospecting I'lie members of the party hav >very contidence in tho success <j he trip apd expect to bring bac dies of gold. Mr IJaker writes that ho know >f two men who look out $12.00 tear tho base of Spirit mountaii seven miners returned on a shi iclongirig to his company and on if theui showed gold worth jjpJO, >00 taken out in 21 days. The* Minors went hack on the Mar filbert taking others with then The departure of this party wil luubtless give <?11u rs ;i desire t jo to Alaska, and the gold fove >roiniscH to become an epidcmi n this part of the country. J n. Ibirned to I>eath. >petial to The State. Newberry, Feb. 14.?The resi lonce of Mr Brooks Keeder e jrarys, this county, was burne sst night. Miss Fannie Keedei n insane sister, aged fifty.tw ras burned to death, her bod teing totally consumed. Estimated loss about $2,000. ShOdmCrv far WfaMft A CRUSHING COTTON CliOJ v The 9,000,noo Halo Mark Passe* ? Hugo Receipts f? t Past Week. J New Orleans, Feb. il.?Sec re ?e tary Hester's New Orleans week it ly cotton cxchango statement, is y sued during business hours today a ' shows that the 9,000,000 in tin t n marketing of this year's crop hai <1 been exceeded by 28,090 bales, ic The increase in the move , int< is sight this week, compared witl r- the seven days ending this dat< i- last year, in round figures, i a 1 1M,000 bales; compared witl is tin' same day's last year before is 111,000 and the same in 1895 % 118,000. S For the eleven d.,ysof February i- the total shows an increase ovei - the same period veal* before las of 4o,ooo and over 1S95 of 108, y 000. d For the 101 days of the seasoi d that have elapsed the aggregate i: 11 ahead of the 101 days of last yeai s 1,090,000;ahead of the same davi j years before last .'3,2(30,000 an< 1, of 1895 by 791,000. a The total movement for the 1 <3-5 >r iluvu fi'nm i * * * .. | .... ^ I AJHUIil <?t"l 1 III (1211.1 r 0,027,032, against 7,337,088 las i I year. 5,701,210 year before last r and 8,230,223 for the same turn II i in 1805. g j BLOODSHED IN BAMREKG! u ?? r- I The Eighth Killing Within 4< 1- i Days?The Wilson Murderers. h Special to The State. Bamberg, Feb. 12.?Charlei ? Si/.zett and his alleged white wo man associate who slew Star! W iison at Olar several weeks ag< "s and who were subsequently arrest ed in Charleston and there eonlin ** ed m jail because of the fears o: ' mob violence should they be n brought to Bumherg, wen :l brought hero from Charleston to 11 f i v* ..M.I ?? I - - I I :i ..... .....a if III J !11 I *' They both waived a preliminun today and refused to talk. Muci ' interr.it is being aroused, and i ' sensational trial is expected. ,r Tonight while tho sheriff wni n at supper a negro knocked at tin ? front door of the jail and whet ' a>ked his business stated that hii *? name was Weslev Washington ? that he was from Olar, had attend e ed a negro frolic, had a difficult} ^ with Tom Hunter, whom heki!ic< * and had como to surrender Washington claims ho ucted ii s self-defense; that Hunter chasoi " him out of the house and was get ' ting the best of him and he wu P forced, in protection of his life ? to kill Hunter. The sheriff locket i* him up. i(' This makes the seventh persoi in jail lodged within tho pas ' tO days charged with murder ' and two are yet fugitives. 1: ? this rate is maintained Bamberj <r will have a record breaking crim lclinal court to begin business with Cutting Teeth at Sixty-five. Mrs E B Jamison, of Cornwell who has heen suffering for noun i- time v.ith something like nenralgu it in her jaw, came to the denta d office of I)r J B Uigham yesterday, and he found a tooth just cutting, o which he thought caused th< y trouble. It was extracted. Mn Jamison is about 65 years old.? Chester Lantern. ? Spaniards in cub a ready TO SURRENDER. it * Radical Wing of Autonomists 4Propose to Stop the War on Any Terms. . Habana, via Key West, Ela.,| Feb. 12.?The radical wing of the ^ Autonomist party, formed of ! Senors Eliso Gilwrga, Arturo s ^ ' Amblnrd, Leopol do Sola, Carlos } Font, Minguel Genor, Eduardo ^; Dol/. and others, assembled in secret meeting today to discuss the ' situation, which is considered very ( serious owin?* to the continuance of the insurrection, despite the | fact that autonomy has been grant- j ed to Cuba. Scnor Antonio Go? I vin, colonial secretary of the in tefior, did not take part of the j deliberations, but sent his assent to the resolutions adopted. The following propositions will 11 be formally tendered to the in s I surgents: r .First. The volunteers will be | s dissolved and a Cuban militia I formed Second. The insurgent colonels [ and generals will be recognized, a j Third. Cuba w ill bo called upon t to pay orly $100,000,000 out of , I the $600,000,000 indebtedness of' .. 1 1 j i u\aii um Fourth. Cuba will pay $2,000,I 000 a year. sj Fifth. Cuba will make her own % I I treaties without interference by | )1 the Madrid government, i fttxih. Spanish products will luive 10 per cent, margin of protection over similar products from other countries. s I Seventh. No exiles or deporta lions will be made, even in war } time to Spain. Africa or to penal sett lenients whatever. Wghth. Sentences for rebellion ^ shall be abolished. Ninth. Martial law eanont lie ordered by the captain general without the assent of both the house and senate if those bodie an* in session, ??r without the as( sent of a majority of the cabinet i if they are not in session. Tenth. The archbishopof Santiago do Culia shall always lie a naS ^ live Cuiian. Eleventh. The aetual insurgent 1 l party shall have three seats in the hrst calnnet. Twelfth. An armistice of 15 ( days shall lie granted for the dis, eussion of the terms of peace. These terms are accepted liy the ( ant inomist party in full with the j nccention of Senors (lalvez, .Montero, Zayos and Delonte. The annexation sentiments is growing stronger among the Span j i.-h residents and if it were not for , the stric4 censorship exercised this ^ sentiment would lie manifested j through the newspapers. Severn. merchants and planters native Spaniards and members of the I PnlKArt'ilf n'<? ?*? *? "" I 1 |IUI I) 1111( > 11 IH'IIJJX interviewed declared the situation in Cuba is terrible and if the war I continues another year the inland would disappear from among the , j producing countries of the world. One of them said: 'Only the firm hand of the United States can save us from the | abyss into which this most fertile island is sunk. Spain has t>een ' unable to subdue the insurgents, ' in spite of Wesley's campaign to * reconquor the island. All Span-1 * iards ask with pain what had be- i come of the army of 200,000 men.) Next summer 3S,000 soldiers wil , go to the hospitals and 25,000 will return to Spain as useless ami inside of six months we will have only 70,000 men in the island. Autonomy has not brought, neither will it bring peace to Cuba.' Hung for Murder of Policeman Wolf. S| >eeial to The State. Orangeburg, Feb. 11.?John Butler alias John Washington, colored, about 22 years old, for merly residing at Mill Point, in Aiken county, was hung here today. Sheriff Dukes and his deputies had every necessary detail so admirably arranged that not the slightest hitch occurred. About one hour before the execution a few persons, including reporters, were permitted to see the doomed man. Butler said but little to any one. He, or course, acknowledged the shooting, but claimed that he acted in self defense. He said he had had no ill feeling against Mr Wolfe, and hoped the family of the murdered policeman wo Id remember him ? Butler?as one who while having slain their friend, had repented, had made his peace with (loci, and would when hung reach Heaven, lie thanked particula.ly his spiri tual adviser, Rev W L Johnson, colored, who had constantly min istored unto him, and who, up to a few m?nutcs before the cxccu tion, had prayed with an advised him lie asked in very solemn tones the strange question: 4'Why am 1 here?" to which there was no response. At about 1 *2:'10 pin., as Butler was taken from the cell handculled and guarded by deputies, ho ascended with steady tread the scaffold, and it was not until the black cap shut out forever from his vision all things earthly, that he showd iiny sign- of weakening. Then he asked to be supported. 1 lo said a few words of thanks, reiterated his linn belief that he had been forgiven bv hi> Maker, and announced that he had nothing more to say. Then the spring was touched bv a deputy, and the body of John Butler, with neck broken, swung between the earth and sky. The hands of the clock pointed to 1 *2:4d |> in. A tew minutes afterward Di TO l>oyle pronounced tlie inun dead. l)ep!oraldc Loss of Life. Pittsburg, I'll. Feb. 10. ? Ele ven people dead, ^7 missing nnd Is injured, and a property loss of $l..r>iM),000 with about ?1 .Ouopioo insurance, is the awful record of the big tire of last night. Mrs Mary McFadden. with her family of eight children, arc sup posed to he under the falling wall. They lived in a house on Mulhcrry alley, which was crushed. Nothing has been seen of them since the explosion last night nnd it is believed all are dead. Old Time Gold Bugs. L. Q. ('. Lamar, wore he living would not be considered a democrat. He was a gold bug. Benjamin H Hill, were he living, would not be considered a democrat. He was a gold bug. And neither would Benton, Jefferson or Jackson tie regarded democrats were they in the flesh, for they were all good bugs.?Greenville News. Ciium on +* t Quwm, | We Undersell All Others In Groceries. LIST 1?: >r : I i IS pnumls irramilutf<) for 1 <MI j 20 pounds light. orowu Sugar 1 00 Wc have the cheapest line of Chewing and Smoking Tohacco ! in town. Also we carry a nice line i of Notions, such as handkerchiefs. Ladies1 and dents' Hose, etc., et( It . . ClioiT.y Ac I tro, I ' ' A MISTRIAL ORDKRKI). Jurv Could Not Agree in Stephenson Case ? Hail in s.'i.ooo (1ranted. Special to The State. Camden, Feh 11.?The jury in the case of the State vs. .1 Huilc Stephenson, indicted for rape, re maincd in the jury 'onto all night without heing aide to agree upon a verdict, and when court convened this morning Judge Townsend (ordered a mistrial in the case. Tlw, ? ? :n _*>- ? . \>mi inn r>e irieu Ji?r:nn is fit this term. The judge granted 1 hail to the defendant, fixing the j amount at $3,000. This being the last criminal case, the court of general sessions adjourned, and .the court of common pleas con'voned. j KILLED HIS CUSTOMER. A Storekeeper in Lexington County Used a Gun Saturday Night. Special to The State. Lexington Depot, Feh Id ?At 10 iFclock last, night seven miles above here, .John Famines, white, shot Sid Davis m the jaw, and the same shot struck Lewi-. Davis in the head. Sid was slightly wounded and j.ewis was killed. . Sid and Lewis are negroes. At the impicst this evening a veidiet of felonious homicide was ' found. Kaminer has not been ! apprehended. The sheriff is hunting him. The shooting occurred in Ka miner's store in the country. 11 Gigantic Strike Seems Imminent. lloston, Feb. 13.?At a meetin,r todav in this city of -L*? repreI * "... sentatives of textile unions in New England it was unanimously voted to recommend that all unions call out the operatives in every cotton mill in New England. It no v remains for the various t\*ii It tnul uninnc t.? ttiLrr* noi ?a?^ } the recommendation, hut what this i action will ho is a matter of con jocturc. If all should actpiiosco and vote tost like, 147,000 operattivoswould undoubtedly cease work land the manufaoturo of cotton goods throughout New Knglund i would he at a standstill. If, on the other hand, onlv a few unions should vote to strike, the refusal of the others wmild still Keep a largo portion of the mills in operation. Short Service Well Pensioned. Frank Mark, of St I^ouis, it the only pensioner in Missouri 1 who it awarded $100 a month, yet he was in the aimy only six 1 teen days and did not tight a battle. He loRt l>oth arms in cannoa practice.