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THE LEDGER. THIRLOW S. CARTER, EDITOR AND MANAGER. II8U Bl? WEDNESDAY AND SATITKDAY BUBSOKiPTION >?60PEP YE\R SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1904. A splendid editoral in The Columbia Statu on Georgia's dis. grace ends with this paragraph: There will be apologies for the governor, there will be apologia! for the militia, there may be apologists for the lynchers, but when all is satd there will be wide spread coviction that anotbei stain, deep and more danaabh than any heretofore inflicted, rest! on Geosgia, and that her civil ami military authorities, through in, competent or pusillanimousness have contributed enormously t( the disgrace. That the original Brice Bill wil be one of the most importanl measures before the next legislature there is little reason to doubl 1. IL. * ju iu< uumpaign meeting tbrougt out tho State about the first tbin^ each legislative candidate is abkod is his views on the bill, and it it gratifying to note that a majority of tbem favor tho passage of suoh a bill. ? Fort Mill Times. A Word About Biennial Sessions. The views of the editor of the Abbeville Medium, who is opposed to biennial sessions, are given below, and are not without reason. Every voter should study this question and be prepared to vote intelligently on it. The Medium says: For the people of South Carolina to vote for this change in the constitution would be the climax of folly. There is not a good reason for doing so. Some one says there will be a saving of $50,000 every other year by the ch&uge. Who says a legislative aaseion costs $50,000? It has not coat that sum since the new constitution was adopted, and not bat once or twice since 1876. It is a bald statement of what ia not fact and will not do for sensible men to act upon in this important matter. Georgia tried the cbango but returned to her annual sessions . Under the biennial system the Georgians got Into the habit of frequent extra sessions and even now have had two sessions since last November. The trusts are coming into the State. It does not suit them to have annual sessions and unthinking men are used by thoni to put it out ef the power of- the people to keep a close watch on their operations if tkey happen to k. imj wrong. The dispensary baodles millions of money, is it beet that the ditectors should mike reports hut onoe ivery two years? If there was no annual sessions it would aome abouc that there would be no one to report to annually. It is not necessary for us to multiply reasons. The folly of the measure must be apparent to everybody with a hand on his shoulders. If the amendment prevails by a vote of the people another constitutional convention will have to be ealled in order to get thinws straight. Perhaps a dozen other amendments will be necessary to get out of the confusion into I which eur State will be thrown. ?The Governer has offered a reward of $200., and the City of Columbia 1100. for the murderer of MaudAIIen,an accoantof whose Kyaterious mnrder in Columbia has already been published. WON NEW POSITIONS AT AWFUL SACRIFICE Bloody Battles Raged Around Port Arthur. Russian Grew Profane at Japanese Demand for the Surrender of Portress. Ckefoo, Aug. 18, 8 p. ui.? A L Jil * name oi Dug* proportions raged aronnd Port Arthur Augast 14 i and 15 sad was resumed August 1 17. The Japanese, it is reported ' sacrificed 'JO,000 more men but ) gained important advantage in the . matter of position. Tho above ) news was brought here on junks 3 bavingtbrej Russian concealed in I i tbe baggage of Chinese to oscape ' from the Japanese, left Por*. Ar, thur last night and was blown ra pidly to Chefoo by a gale. The main force of tbe attack was <lir? 1 ected against the left wing and t resulted in tbe capture of Pigeon hay positions and some of the t forts at Liao Tieshan. At palun I Chang the Japanese are said to r have captured two forts of minor I value,mounting eight 4 inch guns ) two siege gUDs and six quick firing guns. i The position that the Japanese occupy on Liao Tieshan peninsular is Dot clear hut numerous Chinese sources aver that the Japanese have been seen in force in that , section. Apparently an attack originating in Louis bay swept through tbe pigeon bay positions into the peninsular, in the doing of which a majority of the expedition were sacrificed.On tho night of the I5th the battle lulled some what when tbe Japanese sent the terms of surrender to Lieut. Gen. The terms provided that the garrison should march out with the honors of war and join Gen. Kuropatkin; that all civilians be brought to a place designated by tbe Japanese admiral; that the Russian warships in the harbor, numbering seven, namely, the battleships Retvizan, Sevast&pol, Pobieda, Peresviet, Poltava, the armored cruiser Bayan and the protected cruiser Pulada and 12 or more torpedo boat destroyers and four gunboats be surrendered to the Japanese. Lieut. Gen. Steos. set is alleged to have received the terms with a burst of wonderful profanity, his habitual tacitnrnity deserting him. He strode the floor until he became calmer and remarked that if the Japanese proposition was a joke it was in bad taste. Williams and Finley at Rock Hill. Rock Hill Record. Messrs. D. *5. Finlev and T. \ Williams spoke to a small, bat enthusiastic crowd at Friedheim's Hall Tuesday evening. The meet* ing has been scheduled for the morning, but on acceant of there being no orowd in the forenoon they repaired to Tirzah aod re turned to Rock 11 ill la time to speak in the erening. Mr. Williams severely criticised Mr. Finley's record ia congress aod attempted to show that the results accomplished bv him fail , to measure up to what should be , done by a representative in tha ( national bouse. He thinks that a ] more aggressive man ie >? ? 1 Washington, one who will plunge , in and assert bis districts' right , nnt oniy in the way of securing ( appropriations, but also is making laws. Ho charged that the K ick Hill public building is not the work of an indi'idaal measure of 1 Mr.Finley,but devised by several i of this state's congressmen. Mr. Finley denied most of Mr. William's allegations and insioua tions in toto. He admitted the I existence of the Omnibus Hill,but clairuepno sum! I share in being responaiblo f'?r tbat measure. He disclaimed ny inclination or wish to attack Mr. William's record. Indeed, he conceded to him (several years years of creditable service in the state legislature, hut he was disposed to doubt Mr. William's ability to accomplish more for the district than has been done by the preseBt representative. Happenings in The State. At Chronicled by the Alert CerreepondtnU of the Columbia State. ALLKN IIBTMINGTON SLAIN BT A NEGRO. Vi anrvnl t u An* 1 fi All ? ? ** "H1 *iwu Porter Hethington, the 18-year? old iob of M.J. Hethington of the Tugoodoo neighborhood, waskilled at5.30 this morning. The slayer is Sam BrowD, colored, who escaped. The whole country is being scoured by armed posses and his capture is hourly expected. Young Hethington was remonstrating with Brown about some work, when Brown shot. The bullet pierced Hethington's skull over tho left eye; death followed in an hour. Bloodhounds from Charleston arrived at noen and ...e now on the slayer's trail. Excitement is intense. KILLBD IN COLLISION. Seneca, Aug. 18.?There was a head on collision between the southbound local freight and a work tiain on the Southern at Keowee siding, five miles north of Seneca at 11.30, e. m. today, and Clsiboroe A Ansel, who was fireman on the local, was fatally hurt, amputation of both legs being necessary. He was In the act of shnvnlinv __ ? in coal when the collision occured and was caught between the tend- ! r and engine. He was released with much difficulty and carried to his home in Greenville, where he died at 6.34 this afternoon. He was about 20 years eld, only son of Hon. M. F. Ansel, and a popular young man socially. Mr. Ansel had ambitions to become a locomotive engineer and today's trip was his first regular 1 run in the full capacity of fireman. ' Engineer Hanks was badly scalded. Several others were more or less bruised and injured by jamping off but none was killed or seriously hurt. Heyward's Good lteasons. Special to Greenville News. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 15.? ] Governor Hey ward does not be- , here in pardoning a man on con. dition that he be made to leave the State and a petition must always have stronger reasons ' than this. Today a petition was ( presented for the pardon of Chas. M. Jaggers, who was convicted of assault with intent to kill in Ches* J ter county in 1901, and sentenced l to four years in the penitentiary. * A. numerously signed petition was ( presented giving good reasons and this was backed by the Solioitor ^ recommending the pardon together with tie statement that Jaegers was willing to leave the State. < The governor issued the nardon < ill right, but stated that it was not on the condition that he leave Ike State, for if a man was tit te hm ntrHnna^ " aauu UUH?I T CU II IQITO fit no reason why this oondttion hould be attacked. The Russian Port Arthur fleet baa been so severely injured that it ia now of but small censequence bo far as the Japs are concerned. 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