Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 19, 1906, Image 2

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

Straps and <?acts. ? F. B. Davidson and D. C. Foreman will traverse In a small boat the route followed by Lewis and Clark In their return from Oregon. The trip Is to be undertaken as a publicity and adver" tlsement programme. In the Interest of the Jamestown exposition, they having signed a contract therefor. They will make a trip from Portland to Hampton Koaas III a ooai, lUliumug mc ivutv traversed by Lewis and Clark from Portland to Pittsburg. From this point they will go either by way of the lakes to the Hudson river, or by way of Cumberland, Md., to the Potomac river. Where the boat they use is taken overland it will be sent by rail to the points on rivers used by the explorers of a century ago. ? F. F. Sharron. postofflce inspector of Washington, who was in Hagerstown, Md., a few days ago, investigating alleged violations of postal laws, arrested four persons for sending through the mails written matter at fourth-class rates?1 cent per ounce. They pleaded guilty and, under the ruling of the postofflce department, he collected from each the minimum fine of $10. The guilty parties had mailed cigar and tobacco prize tags and labels to a tobacco company at WinstonSalem, N. C., at merchandise rates, and Inclosed in the same package written matter. Inspector Sharron has 100 cases in his district, comprising seven counties in Maryland and eleven in Virginia, under investigation. Discovery of the postal violations was made by the Winston-Salem postmaster. ? An Ottawa dispatch to the Washington Post says: The Jawbone of a sheep tipped with gold is to be pre sented to President Roosevelt. L. C. Dlllman has Just reached Vancouver from Port Wrangel and with him has the lower Jawbone of a mountain sheep. The teeth are tipped with gold deposits from the Alaskan fields. On the molars there are heavy deposits of gold and copper precipitates. The metals are as highly polished as though a skilled dentist had done the Job. The sheep from which the bone was taken was killed in the foothills of Mount Wrangel. and the metal coatl lg sent hundreds of miners prospecting up to the head of Nlzini river, near the great Copper river. Claims were located there, one ledge carrying ore giving 60 per cent copper and $20 gold per ton being found at the top. There Is excitement over the strikes made, and the unique method by which they were located is the first of Its kind. ? More men are killed and maimed In Allegheny county. Pa., In peaceful pursuits In one year than were killed and wounded In many of the great battles of history. Statistics for the past year show that there were killed and Injured in the iron and steel mills and blast furnaces 9.000. In other mills, shops and factories 4.000 were sacrificed. while the-coal mines swell this figure by 400, and the railroads' victims include an additional 4,300, making up a grand total of 17,700 who were slaughtered or injured in one year. In addition to this number, there are thousands of cases that are not reported. According to employers, most of the accidents occur through the carelessness of employes. The frequency of accidents and deaths in the Edgar Thomas mills have caused Chief Factory Inspector Delany to announce that he will Investigate that plant next month. Of all the injuries and deaths in the county last year, only ninety-two cases cama under the notice of the state factory Inspector. ? The Charlbtte Observer has gathered from some source interesting information about Franklin J. Moses, who was governor of South Carolina in reconstruction times and who after the expiration of his term went to Massachusetts, where he has since been buffetted by fortune in various ways. For awhile he conducted a weekly paper in the town of Winthrop and afterward began to vegetate, living from hand to mouth, largely by borrowing from his friends. He took to opium and committed several offences which put him under the ban of the law. He was several times tried and was twice in Jail. His case became notorious. But at last "he took a brace," as the slang has it. and is now a member of the C. F. King business organization in Boston and is doing well; and we are told that notwithstanding his ups and downs and the infirmities of age, he still carries evidences of the "grand manner" of the old South Carolina aristocracy. He has a son, Franklin J. Moses, Jr., who is in the navy. ? Vnnxvlll? Tenn.. Jan. 16; J. R. Peden, a real estate dealer of Greenville, S. C.. Is In jail charged with contempt of court In violating an injunction of the chancery court Issued against him several days ago in a bill filed aganst him by the Brookside mills seeking to restrain him from further attempts in enticing the employes of the mill to Columbia, S. C? and other mills in that state. It was claimed that he represents the Clinton cotton mills. He denies having violated the injunction though adding that he had already shipped a number of families from this city and expects to ship others next Monday. He claims that he has been falsely imprisoned and has retained counsel to bring suit for dam. ages. He has carded this city with posters asking for mill help, offering better wages and better living quarters and cheaper house rents. He claims ihat the white mill people here do not live so well as the South Carolina negroes. The scarcity of mill labor in South Carolina, he says is due to the fact that hundreds of the employes have gone to raising cotto i because of the higher price of that staple. ? Marshall Field, the millionaire Chicago merchant, died at the Holland house in Chicago last Tuesday, of pneumonia, after an illness of eight days, aged 70 years. Marshall Field was without question the greatest and most successful merchant of his generation, and he was one of the world's richest men. his wealth being estimated at anywhere from $1000,000.000 to $200,000 000. He was a native of Conway, Mass.. where he was born in 1835. His father was a farmer and Mr. Field obtained his education in the public schools of Conway. At the age of 17 he became a clerk in a general country store in Pittsfleld, Mass.. where he remained for four years. He went to Chicago in 1856 and began his career there as a clerk in the wholesale dry goods establishment of Cooley. Wadsworth & Company. During the four years that he remained with this house he showed marked commercial ability and in 1860 he was given a partnership. The late Levi Z. Leiter was also connected with the firm and in 1865 the two young men withdrew a id in company with Potter Palmer they organized the firm of Field, Palmer & Leiter, which continued until 1867, when Mr. Palmer withdrew, and the firm became Field, Leiter & Company. This con tinued until 1881, when Mr. Letter retired and the firm became known as Marshall Field & Company, as it is today. The house forged to the front very rapidly, and it is now the largest enterprise of its kind in the world. Its remarkable success is attributed almost entirely to Mr. Field and his methods. He made it a rule never to borrow money and never to issue a note. Mr. Field was twice married, his first wife having died several years ago. Mrs. Field left two children Ethel, now married and residing at Leamington. Eng. and Marshall Field, Jr., who accidentally shot himself at his home in Chicago, November 22, 1905. September 5. 1905, Mr. Field was marT nn/lnn T7*?-| cr tft \f T*Q Pfltfin. $hc \lorkriUr (Enquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.? FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1906. The News and Courier has added to Its complete Associated Press news service, the excellent special service of the New York Sun. This enterprise add very materially to the already superior service of our Charleston contemporary. Mr. C. O. Hearon of Bristol, Tenn., formerly editor of the Bristol Herald has assumed the editorial management of the Spartanburg Herald, vice Mr. H. L. Watson, resigned and Mr. J. C. GarUngton, at one time editor of the Herald has taken a position as editorial writer on the Spartanburg Journal. The Washington dispatches announce that the president has refused to re-appolnt John G. Capers because of charges against him; but there is no mention as to the nature of those charges. Mr. Capers himself says he does not know why he was turned down, as he has received no official notification. In an Interview yesterday, however, he said that he proposed to find out something more about the matter, as there are no four-year terms to character. While on Its face the oil Inspection bill recently introduced In the house appears to be a good thing, oil consumers should be rather slow about giving it their approval The Standard Oil company Is a great concern which has the people by the throat and which is able to do pretty much as It pleases. There is little doubt of that fact. And we do not believe the people of this ronntrv have anv reason for especial ly kind feelings toward the Standard Oil company. But all this gives no justification for the passage of the Inspection bill. This bill as we see it Is merely a scheme to create another office and the people will have to pay the expense. The sponsor of the bill, of course, tells us that the oil people will have to pay; but the people have already learned enough to know better than that. The expense may be charged against the sellers of oil; but they will collect It from consumers. We have been told also that this state is compelled to have an oil Inspection law In self-defense; that all neighboring states have such laws and rejected oil is dumped over in this state, where the people cannot help themselves because they have no oil inspector. As a matter of fact, we have good reason to know that this is more or less buncombe. Oil Inspection amounts to practically nothing anywhere. Inspectors sometimes turn down a tank or two to make a show of earning their salary. This oil is generaly as good as that which has been passed, and it is sent by the oil people to another state where the inspector approves it and makes his own show of vigilance on some other tank that is no better and no worse. The position of oil inspector is just a soft snap, something like the railroad commission, affording the incumbent the opportunity to graft the oil company just as the railroad commission grafts the railroad. Neither oil inspectors or railroad commissioners are of any value to the people. The supreme court has (Jeclined to rule J. S. Farnurn for contempt in withholding certain papers he was or dered to give up to the dispensary investigating committee. The facts In the case are about like this. The committee went Into the dispensary at Charleston and looked over some papers of dispenser Farnum that threw lots of light on the manner in which individuals were running the dispensary machine for their personal benefit. The committee wanted those papers. Farnum consulted counsel and found that the committee was without power to take them without an order of court and he refused to give them up. The committee applied to the court for the order, In the meantime, of course, leaving the papers in the hands of Farnum. In due course of time the court ordered the delivery of the papers forthwith. This due course of time was long enough almost to allow the papers to be come yellow with age. But there was no forthwith business about Mr. Farnum. He said that the papers had been sent off to a friend in Georgia for safe keeping and that friend was away out in Misslssipanv lr I ? ?/ ! rxt t rv? _ i-'i urj uiiu cue i vav.ii vi anj i\iiiu vi mediate communication, hunting. The court, of course, decided to wait. It could not do anything else. Courts don't generally do things in a hurry, unless they want to, and whether they want to, often depends upon circumstances. This is particularly the case in dispensary matters. But anyhow, the court, after getting the papers, or such papers as Mr. Farnum saw prop, er to turn over, announced that it would look them over and give the committee such as seemed to bear on the question at issue. Now it seems that the members of the committee had taken the trouble to make copies of certain papers that seemed to be especially interesting. This was before there had been any opportunity for hocus pocus. The originals of the papers so copied were not among those turned over by the court, and the members of the committee brought the matter to the attention of the court in an affidavit. It looked very much as if Mr. Farnum was in for trouble?that he had been fairly caught and would have to be ruled for contempt. But the outcome was not as expected. Farnum's smooth lawyer came before the court and represented that his client had re garded the papers referred to as purei ly personal and private and that he had destroyed them before the court's original order was issued. Of course, no stress was laid on the fact that the ali leged destruction was because of a fear of the court's order. There was no i evidence as to the falsity of this claim ?there could not be. Nobody but those . most directly interested was in a position to testify. And the court, i why it was not pleased at the matter n-*u r+U on/1 a. Oil. DU111 v>inri auaucu x u^c uuv* Associate Justice Jones said things that seemed to Indicate that they 1 thought the committee had treated them without due consideration, and intimated that the committee was trying to make a catspaw of the court. Members of the committee replied more or less warmly and then Messrs. Jones and Pope kinder half way took back what they had said. If there Is nothing farcical about the action of the court In the matter it is at least funny, and it all seems to come out of the shrewdness of that terrible investigating committee In having had the foresight to make copies of certain papers while it had the opportunity. The rule against Farnum has been dismissed; but there Is reason to hope and believe that the committee will come again. TILLMAN ARRAIGNS ROOSEVELT South Carolina Senator Again Stirs Things In Washington. The features of last Wednesday's proceedings in the United States senate was a terrible lambasting that Senator Tillman administered to President Roosevelt, and the effect the senator's speech had on his colleagues. The speech had been duly advertised beforehand, and the senate gal leries were run Because everyuuuj understood that there would be something doing; that the South Carolina senator was loaded with hot stuff and that ne was determined to make Rome howl, If It lay In his power to do so. The subject of the senator's speech was President Roosevelt, and the subject matter dealt with the recent ejectment of Mrs. Minor Morris from the White House, the alleged lnperiallstic manner In which a treaty with Santo Domingo had been put into effect before It was ratified by the senate, the president's action in writing a letter of commendation to Bob Fltzslmmons, the prize fighter, and also in putting on boxing gloves and engaging In Jiu Jitsu exercises. A Mrs. Minor Morris went to the White House recently In the interest of a discharged employe. She was told that she could not see the president, and she made some declaration to the effect, that she would remain until she did see him. She was forcefully removed by White House employes and during the struggle her clothing Is said to have been torn almost from her body. Senator Tillman charged the president with having built up a press censorship, and perfected an arrangement whereby he was giving out "news pills" to accomplish any given desired effect. He also charged that when the president struck a newspaper man he was unable to control, he managed In some way to show his 111 will. While Senator Tillman was going into details as to the Mrs. Minor Morris Incident, describing the woman as being rudely torn from a seat in which she was quietly sitting and being dragged to a carriage and hauled away, Senator Hale of Maine, arose to protest. He stated that Senator Tillman was making defamatory charees that he could not aubstantiaie with the facts, and accused the South Carolina senator with being moved by personal animosity. Senator Tillman denied that he was influenced by persona! feelings and stated that he could prove what he said by at least four as reliable and responsible wlinesses as either Senator Hale or himself. He proposed that If Senator Hale would offer a resolution providing for the appointment of an investigattngcommltte^, he would produce the proof. Senator Hale declined, and Senator Tillman himself offered the resolution; but it was not adopted. Several senators took the position that the senate had no more right to undertake an investigation of the president's manner of conducting his household affairs than the president had to investigate the household affairs of the senators. Senator Daniel of Virginia took the floor and entered a most earnest plea with Se lator Tillman not to present his resolution. He evidently regarded the matter as of very great moment and scarcely raised his voice above a conversational tone. He referred to his feelings of attachment for Mr. Tillman, and said: "This is a very delicate matter and I hope the senator will refrain entirely from presenting such a resolution as he has indicated. It is to be presumed," he went on "that the president will do what is right In his own house the house of the first citizen of the country, and I regard such a resolution as an invasion of the comity of government." Not only did he reprobate the presentation. but he expressed regret that any allusion had been made to the Morris affair and hoped that nothing more would be heard about it on the floor of the senate. "This is not a tribunal which ought to take jurisdiction in such a matter," he added, and after expressing his own attitude of respect for the female sex repeated his request to Mr. Tillman to let the matter drop. Mr. Tillman declined to accede to the request, declaring that his resentment of the mistreatment of a lady was such that he could not reconcile silence and Inaction with his idea of propriety. Referring again to the testimony of witnesses his eyes filled with tears and his voice was almost choked with emotion when he quoted one of the newspaper men who had been present as saying that "he had since upbraided himself with tears in his eyes, even at the risk of personal injury. that he did not rush to the rescue of Mrs. Morris." "And what are you going to do about it?" he asked in a voice now attuned to a high key. "Let these imperialistic practices continue? Nothing! Then, indeed, will the senate sink into contempt, into a contempt that will be deserved, the contempt of every good man and woman in the country. I cannot be a party to such a course, but I will take the consequences. I will offer the resolution and the senate can do as it pleases with it." When Senator Tillman concluded it was expected that Senator Spooner or Senator Lodge would reply; but neither arose and Senator Hale moved an executive session. The galleries were cleared and the doors were closed within a few moments. In spite of the protests of his Democratic colleagues, Senator Tillman on yesterday insisted on the introduction of his resolution, and Senator Daniel moved to lay it on the table. In presenting his resolution, Senator Tillman said that the question at issue involves two vital pronositions. The first related to the protection of the president from dangerous characters and second, the protection cf the rights of people. He declared, that to absolutely protect the president would be to make him a prisoner. He proceeded to say in the case of the removal of the president, he could be replaced and "probably with a better man. But," he added, "When the liberties of the people are destroyed, nothing is left but despotism." The Tillman resolution was laid on the table?yeas. 54: nays, 8. The negative votes were: Plackburn, Frazier, McCreary, McLaurin. Money. Stone, Tillman and Latimer. The affair has been on the table in Washington since yesterday, and Senator Tillman has a great deal of sympathy in the position he has taken. ? Anderson will again have the largest policeman in the world, says a dispatch. \V. P. King, popularly known as "Little Willie," was elected a member of the police force at the meeting of the city council last Tuesday. Mr. King tips the scales at 420 pounds. He served on the force several years ago and attracted a great deal of attention all over the country on account of his size. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. A. Tate, C. C. C. Pis.?Gives notice that he will sell on salesday foi February, certain real estate Involved in the suit of Mary B. Gaston vs A. T. Latham. T. W. Wood & Son, Richmond, Va.? Call your attention to the advantages of sowing Inoculated alfalfa. II Is one of the best of all hay crops See fourth page. Virginia - Carolina Chemical Co.? Tells you to make your crops blggei and better by using Vlrglnia-Caro una leriiiiztra. occ m jjo.bc. Royal Baking Powder Co.?Says tha: hot breads are made light and sweei with Royal baking powder. Set fourth page. C. H. Sandlfer?Wants Information af to whereabouts of his son, Charllt Sandlfer, who left his home Jan. 9th Write or wire Information. Sarah Ballard, Executrix?Gives notice to the debtors and creditors ol the estate of Thos. Balard, deceased Foushee Cash Store?Begins a remnant sale today of madras, pique percales, flannelettes, etc., at onlj 8 cents a yard. First National Bank?Tells you how It protects the deposits of Its customers. ' York Supply Co.?Wants your business and tells you why. It also invites your attention to the merits of Chlcora and Navassa fertilizers York Drug Store?Again calls youi attention to the merits of Its halt tonic. It Is recommended for all hair and scalp diseases. Dobson Bros.' Cash Store?Says foi you to keep clean by using its soar at 5 cents a cake. Also enumerates a list of articles at low prices. Thomson Co.?Tells you not to forget corsets, and say they are the founl dation. Also tells you about the good qualities of hosiery that it carries in stock. Loan and Savings Bank?Asks If thert Is a hole In your pocket through which your earnings leak. It tells you how to stop the leak. -T. O. Wrav. The Leader?Invites you to a special sale of embroidery. Insertions and Arrow brand collars next Monday and Tuesday. Senator Briee haa introduced a bill to prohibit municipalities from granting exclusive franchises without the consent of a majority of the voters. Senator Brice haa introduced a bill providing for the appointment of a commission to locate a new building for the accommodation of epileptic and inebriate patients in the state hospital for the Insane. Senator Brice has Introduced a bill appropriating the sum of $25,000 and providing for the appointment of a commission to look after the matter ol procuring a statue of John C. Calhoun and placing the same In statuary hall Washington. The bill was Introduced by request. Dr. J. H. Saye a few days ago Introduced a bill to re-enact the law prohibiting the sale of game in this state, The law was in operation for Ave years and, became Inoperative by limitation last February. This law was very bt neflclal In its effect, all kinds of game Increasing under Its operation. The law will very probably be re-enacted. Shortly after Wallace Jackson shol George Robinson and ran %.way last Wednesday night, the officers sent for ex-Sheriff Logan's bloodhound with a view to pursuing Jackson; but It was eho an m a nld atnrv -Tn/?kson's tracks were still fresh; but the dogs were unable to strike his trail. Sheriff Logan spent a good deal of time on the training of this dog, and the dog is no doubt up to the average standard. These facts are mentioned for the especial benefit of Representative Beamguard, in his opposition to that foolish bill requiring counties to maintain kennels of bloodhounds. 4 - J<>\ ROBERT E. LEE. ^1 Today is the birthday of General Robert E. Lee, and Superintendent Allen of the Yorkville Graded school has suggested that The Enquire? can make no more fitting observance that to republish the famous tribute that Senator Benjamin H. Hill ol Georgia, once paid to the great southern leader. This tribute was delivered in the Georgia State Ckpitol In 1874 and of all the splendid things that have been said of Lee, It easily ranks first; "When the enactments and measures of the Confederate government shall be critically examined, they will be found to have sprung into existence with a wisdom, a vigor, an aptitude for the crisis and a strict conformity to all the principles oi free institutions, which must challenge the admiration of publicist: and statesmen of all time, "No people, ancient or modern, car look with more pride to the verdict which history will be compelled tc render upon the merits and characters of our two chief leaders?the one in the military and the other in the civil service. Most other leaders are great because of fortunate results and heroes because of success. Davis and Lee because of qualities in themselves. are great in the face of fortune, and heroes in spite of defeat "When the future historian shall come to survey the character of Lee, he will find it rising like a huge mountain above the undulating plain of humanity, and he must lift his eyes high toward heaven to catch its summit. He possessed every virtue of other great commanders without their vices. He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach: a christian without hypocracy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napolean, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward. He was obedient to authority as a servant, and royal in authority as a true king. He was gentle as a woman in life; modest and pure as a virgin in thought; watchful as a Roman vestal in duty; submissive tc law as Socrates, and grand In battle as Achilles!" WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The town council has decided to put in a special phone system for fire alarm I purposes. It will Include only foui phones, connecting the water works ' the fire alarm the chief of the fire department and the council chamber. It | has been suggested that this may developed later on Into a complete muni, cipal system. [ ?The birthday of Gen. Robert E. Let was observed In the Graded school this morning with appropriate exercises the leading feature of the same being an address by Rev. Dr. J. L. Stokes on the life and character of that great Christian soldier. Quite a number ol patrons of the school attended the exercises. and everybody enjoyed them particularly the talk of Dr. Stokes which was delivered at the special request of the Winnie Davis chapter ol the IT. D. C. ? There was a good sized audience at the opera house last night to heai Miss Laura Josephine Bridgman, the reader, and it was well entertained Miss Bridgman is an artist of exceptional talent, and her programme is ol a high order. Duet piano music by Mrs. W. H. Fowler and Miss Pansy Traywick was also an important feature of the entertainment. The audience showed its pleasure by frequent applause. The Ladles' Aid society ol Trinity church, under whose auspices the entertainment was given, netted a neat profit over and above expenses. ? George Robinson, colored, was ser. <3 iously, if not mortally shot by Wallace i Jackson, also colored, last Wednesday t > night between 8 and 9 o'clock. The f ' shooting occurred at Jackson's home g ' in the southwestern part of town and from such information as has been \ - obtainable, it appears it was because r ' of a woman. The story is that Jack- e 1 son had taken possession of Robin- c son's wife, and had her at his home, r - Robinson made arrangements to move i to Rock Hill and went to Jackson's 1 home to persuade the woman to go I 11 with him. He called for the woman 1 at the door but she would not come y ! out. Then he went Inside. Jackson t , Immediately pounced on him and t s knocked him down. Robinson, after i Jackson had beaten him more or less 1 . severely got up and started to run, t J whereupon Jackson drew a revolver 1 and fired five shots. Robinson fell t and subsequent examination showed 1 r that he had been hit twice. One bul- i let struck him In the back of the head t and glanced off. The other penetrated i his lungs and went entirely through t his body. Immediately after the c " shooting Jackson ran away, and when the officers of the law appeared on the < scene shortly afterward they were un able to get any information as to his < ' whereabouts. A blood hound belong- 1 . lng to ex-Sheriff Logan was procured; i > but It was unable to strike a trail. \ ' The doctors are unable to say definite- ? . lv what will be the result of Robin- 1 L " . son's wounds but they think his cons dltion Is very serious, the danger coming more particularly from pneumo, nla, which Is liable to set In at any t moment. Jackson has been about ' Yorkvllle for a good many years, act( lng as handy man around stores, run. nlng small stores himself and selling i whisky. He Is said to have shot two negroes at dllTerent times before this. The common opinion Is that he has [ not go-'e very far away; but Is still hiding somewhere In the community. CALENDAR ONE. I Calendar one of the court of comt mon pleas stands very much as It did , before the convening of the recent j regular term of the court. No definite I statement can now be made of all the cases that are likely to go to the Juries I at the approaching special term; but I the probability Is that railroad cases L for the most part, will hav^ the right , of way. An effort will be made to de( termlne this matter before the convening of the court. In the meantime CalJ endar one stands as folows: 14. Samuel Blggers vs. Catawba Dnumr nnmnonv 19. J. R. Key vs. Western Union Telegraph company. 21. Southern Railway company vs. ' City of Rock Hill. 1 24. Henley Chapman vs. S. A. L. i Railway. ' 25. R. T. Allison, adm'r., vs. S. A. L. , Railway. 26. C. B. White vs. Tavora Cotton > Mills. 27. J. J. Hull, adm'r., vs. S. A. L. - Railway. 28. C. S. Coleman vs. S. A. L. Rall way. 31. M. S. Whlte8ides vs. Wm. E. , Holmes. 32. Neely vs. Catawba Power company. 1 33. R. A. McCorkle vs. Sallie A. Allison. j 34. Isaiah Gadsden vs. Catawba Power company. 37. Jas. M. Cherry vs. Smith-Few: ell company. i 38. John A. Steele vs. Southern I Railway?Carolina division. 39. D. C. Boyd vs. Catawba Power company. 40. Sam'l S. Smith vs. Catawba , Power company. 41. D. M. Johnston vs. Catawba Power company. 42. W. W. Auten vs. Catawba Power company. , 43. J. R. Wallace vs. Catawba Power company. 45. R. A. Bratton vs. Catawba Pow1 er company. t 46. T. G. Sims vs. Southern Railway company. - 47. John F. Williams vs. Southern ) Railway?Carolina division, j 48. Josie K. Goins vs. Southern Railway?Carolina division. 49. James Johnson vs. Southern I Railway?Carolina division. , 50. Pinckney Good vs. Western t Union Telegraph company. 51. S. V. Cash vs. J. E. Lowry et al. 1 52. Allen Parker vs. C. and N.-W. Railway company. 53. J. J. Keller & Co. vs. Southern t Railway company. p 54. Chas. D. Nelson vs. Columbia . Electric, etc. company et al. , 55. E. B. Mendenhall vs. C. & N.t W. Ry. company et al. f 56. New Home Sewing Machine . company vs Southern Railway com, pany. 57. R. P. Carnes, adm'r., vs. South, em Railway company et al. t 58. Woods M. Steele vs. Sam'l , Friedheim et al. 59. Woods M. Steele vs. Annie Lyle , Roddey et al. [ 60. Carolina Manfg. company vs. [ Addie Harris et al. J 61. Halcott McAteer vs. Southern , Railway company. 62. Estelle McAteer vs. Southern . Railway company. 63. Eunice McAteer vs. Southern j Railway company. 64. Willie McAteer vs. Southern [ Railway company. [ ABOUT PEOPLE. 1 Dr. I. A. Bigger is now located in ; Rock Hill. ; Mr. S. Bufort Matthews is 111 at his home near Smyrna, with pneumonia. L Mrs. M. M. Tatum of Hardeevllle, is In Yorkvllle on a visit to Miss Emma Kennedy. 1 Mr. T. A. Matthews of Old Point, spent several days last week with the i family of Mr. J. J. Matthews In the 1 Ramah neighborhood. 1 Dr. W. A. Pressley came over from * . Rock Hill yesterday to meet Mrs. i Pressley . who was returning from a 1 visit to friends and relatives In North | Carolina via the C. & N.-W. . Senator J. S. Brlce and Dr. J. H. Saye came up from Columbia this morning, the general assembly having adjourned over until next Mon; day on account of Gen. Lee's blrthi day. Mr. James A. Jackson, who ordi. narily makes his home with his son, Mr. W. L. Jackson of Yorkvllle, Is : critically 111 at the home of his son, Mr. R. C. Jackson of Tlrzah, with par- . . alysls. He went to Tlrzah a few weeks ? ago and the paralysis came on shortly 1 ; afterward. Mr. Jackson Is 73 years of * ) age and his physicians have decided ( , that there Is practically no hope for j ; is recovery. t i The following army order Just Is- 1 : sued from Washington will be of Inter- j f est to the friends of the officer referred to. a former Yorkvllle man. "First 1 , Lieut. James B. Allison. 7th Infantry, { , will report to the examining board at > Fort Harrison, Montana, for examlna- 1 ' tlon for promotion, and upon completion thereof will return to his proper f station or the place of receipt by him of this order." As understood here. r > this means that Lieutenant Allison will , probably soon be a captain. Mr. Paul Neely Moore has resigned ' his place with the Loan and Savings ' bank to accept a position with the Hln ton Lumber company at Lumberton, Miss. Mr. Moore has been In the bank for about a year and his services have : not only been very acceptable to the ' management of that Institution, but i also to Its customers. His many . friends In Yorkvllle and the country surrounding will sincerely regret his letermlnatlon to seek other fields; but t Is safe to say that he will take with ilm only the best of good wishes for F, uture success. Mr. Moore expects to ;o to Mississippi about February 1. O Mr. F. H. Dover of Grover, N. C., vas In Yorkvllle Wednesday on busi- le less. He came through the country st md found the roads In a horrible con- C lltion; but naturally felt very much dl elleved when he reached Yorkvllle. w Speaking to the reporter, he said, "I m lave Just been making a kind of rem- w nlscent comparison with the situation pi is presented now and fifty years ago, si ivnen i maae my nrsi visit 10 wio it )lace. My most vivid recollection of ol ny first trip to Yorkvllle concerns the c< nud. The streets were so muddy that te t was almost Impossible to get across hem. I did not see It; but I remem- si >er hearing of teams being mired up pi 10 badly that they had to be prized out. :t was not much of a town then?not ^ learly so many houses as now; but I S( ell you what you are growing quite bi apidly. Every time I come I can see vhere you have filled up lots of J iracks." f( ? te AMONG THE MOONSHINERS. r< u Frequent reference has been made tl >f late to the moonshine district of y< fork and Cherokee counties, and the eporter a few days ago had a talk vlth a highly respectable and lnflu- r< sntial citizen of the neighborhood, who s not only thoroughly conversant with ^ :he situation; but who would be very ^ jlad to see an improvement of condilons that have existed In this section a ilmost time out of mind. c| "This section," the gentleman re- cl - .... . .. .. a i. u; nancea, "lies in uie nonnwesiem pan )f York, the northeastern part of Cher>kee and extends beyond the North is Carolina line. It Includes King's t) Vtountaln battleground, and the nature )f the country is such that It has nev- 0: ;r teen looked upon with much favor u lor agricultural purposes. It is rough, u sroken and rocky. ^ "There are some prosperous well-to- vv lo farmers living on the border of the tl lection described, and there are also a ? 'ew in the heart of it; but generally tt :he inhabitants are people without nuch ambition to amount to anything, ^ vho do not like the idea of harl t< vork, who have always been engaged a n whisky making and who will con- tl c inue to follow that pursuit until there C( s a well organized and determined ef- rr 'ort to enforce the laws. o: "Some few years ago there were a ^ lozen or more stills in this locality 5, ind moonshine whisky was alwaytf p nore or less plentiful at a very low a jrlce; but things have gotten somevhat better of late. There Is still at lome whisky making going on?a l> rreat deal more than suits the law- ^ ibiding citizens of the neighborhood; y >ut not nearly so much as there once w vas. a "I saw in the paper recently where e :he constables had cut up a still up a n this section. This was somewhat tl )f a surprise to me, as I had reason 'tj o believe that there was no longer a t< eal still to be found in that whole u lection. The latter day moonshiner a loes not need more than $2 worth of :opper for his outfit, and he cap get n ilong pretty well without any. If. he las a sheet of copper, he^tacks it >ver the bottom of a box or barrel b 'ramework, arranges his furnace so a is not to burn the wood, uses an old ^ ard can or any other tin bucket for s, i cap, a piece of black pipe for a worm p ind goes down to business. It for- ? nerly required several days to make 0 i run of whisky; but by the use of b feast and other new wrinkles, they :an get whisky from the meal within A :wenty-four hours. The distillers ^ lever stay long in one place and it s difficult to catch them. v "And they are pretty systematic B ibout their operations too. I learned r< lot long ago, that they have begun t< Lddlng to their outfit a man or boy {( o watch for officers. They pay him |r 'rom 75 cents to $1 a day and place b llm at some point where he can give j in alarm of the approach of suspi- t, :ious strangers. The stills can be noved in a short time, and even If it t is captured the moonshiners are lot hurt much so they themselves are t( lot taken into custody. ? "But this idea about there being g my danger in those fellows is all a 0 nistake. They are not trained to Ight; but to run and they know how ^ o do it If the authorities really want c o break up this mess and make this 0 vhole section more respectable, all ^ .UCJC HttVC IU uu io piauc a. eww\* v*?<w? y n the neighborhood, and let him stay u i while. I am not looking for the Job it all, as you very well know, being c >usy with other things; but If the au- b horltles can't find anybody else to put b i stop to this business, you may give h hem my name and tell them that If hey will Just give me a reasonable t] imount of assistance, I will soon put p m end to the whole business." g tl Jhild Smothered. a The Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Peemster, who live near Jones's mill, n ibout two and a half miles south of ? forkvllle, was found dead In bed yeserday morning. The parents suppose ^ hat the child, which was In bed with t( hem, was accidentally smothered. p h d THE CALHOUN STATUE. a n rhere Will Be Difficulty In Finding a A Place For It. t Referring to the fact that mem- oi >ers of the King's Mountain chapter P 0. A. R. are writing to South Caro- E lna representatives with reference v o the placing of a statue of John C. L Calhoun In the Statuary Hall, W. W. ti Price writes his South Carolina pa- w jers as follows: p It is the purpose of these ladles to Is lave placed In the "hall of fame," or u itatuary hall, as it is generally tnown, either a bronze or marble Igure of Mr. Calhoun. It Is their R jurpuae tiisu iu nave tuc icgisiaiuic hi )f the state appropriate a sufficient g mm to pay the cost of making the igure, and if that is done then the " epresentatives here will be asked to ?' to to work and find a place for it " n the hall. al Each state is entitled to two stat- j' les of its great men; South Carolina Jc it present is the only state which las none, and these ladles who have e' vrltten the members of the delega- 01 Ion concerning the matter want to ? enow if those from South Carolina ? an go in. provided a place is made P or them. 's There Is only one woman in the lall at present?Francis E. Wlllard T ?and when her statue was placed here about a year ago, there was cl lot room for her without moving Washington, and he now shows up T 'rom behind the great temperance 01 ecturer. There was a great howl w nade when this figure of Washington ?' vent into the corner where it is 88 arely ever seen, and there were nany who thought that the Wlllard tatue should not have been placed t0 n the hall until proper accommoda- ions were made for it. to It is not known where the South st Carolina statue will be placed if the fa >lan is carried out, as every available gi nch of room is now occupied. al TILLMAN FEELS CONFIDENT. ther of Dispensary Says Local SelfGovernment Will Be Abolished. olumbla Record: Washington, Jan. 16.?It has been arned here that Senator Tillman had >vcral Important conferences when In olumbla with the supporters of the Ispensary in the legislature and that hen he left them It was with a ilghty good understanding that a bill ill be agreed upon by the dispensary eople and pushed at the present seson. The bill will seek to remedy depots of the existing law, the especial bject being to place the leading offlirs of the institution beyond the (mptatlons of corruption. Your correspondent Is In position to ate that the main features of the roposed bill will be these: 1. The purchase of rye, corn and aurbon under yearly contract, bids to e advertised for and opened during the issions of the legislature, the state to uy everything from the lowest bidder. 2. No bid will be received from any rm that has not put up with the easurer of the state a certified check >r a large sum as an evidence of good lith. The firm receiving the bid to be squired to put up with the state treasrer 5 per cent of the gross sales of te state dispensary for the previous ear. This will be guarantee of falthil and honest performance of con act. 3. The state to get the whisky dl?ct from the bonded warehouses of le government, before there has been ilxing or blending and when the prouct Is as pure as the government can uar&ntee it. 4. The state to do Its own blending nd mixing, thereby guaranteeing an bsolutely pure article, there being no tiance for doctoring, unless the offllals of the st&te do so themselves, hich would be made punishable by a eavy sentence. 5. Every bid, and Senator Tillman i understood to regard this as about le most Important feature, to be subiltted In triplicate, one bid going to le governor, another to the speaker f the house and a third to the treasrer, these officials to hold the bids ntll the day of their opening, when II are to be presented at once. In le opinion of Senator Tillman thia ould absolutely prevent collusion and ie altering: of bids, as the law would rovide that all bids received should ?maln sealed until opened at a ceriln time and in a certain office. Senator Tillman believes that the nly way collusion would be possible ould be for the dispensary officials > connive with the bidders to deliver poorer grade of proof whisk;', but lis could be avoided because the speIflcatlons would call for goods of a srtain proof, direct from the governlent bonded warehouses, and the proof t whisky is easily ascertained. Still another Important feature will e changing the personnel of the state oard of control so as to give the peole of the state confidence In the mangement. This Is understood to be ow under consideration. "In my opinion the people of the tate are overwhelmingly for the disensary," said Senator Tillman, "even 1 the counties where It has been oted out. The system is all right, but ie people are tired of the bad odor and rant to see a change In the law. The dvocates of the dispensary will, In ly opinion amend the law at the presnt session so as to prevent corruption nd insure the sale of pure whisky. If ie enemies of the law prevent the legilature doing anything In that dlrecon they will have to be accountable > the people. We will see to that, but niess the legislature attempts to do Dmething, there is grave danger of the eath of the law. I am sure; though, nat the friends of the dispensary will lake every effort at this session of the sgislature to purify conditions and to grain establish the system In the conflence of the people. If they fail It will e because the enemies of the law unite gainst them. "No, there Is no danger of the law elng knocked out at this session, as I se it. The legislature knows the peole prefer the law to anything else nd will knife it. Then when we go efore the people this summer and put ut candidates for senator and memera of the house we will line up things 3 as to show the hands of everybody, here will be much difference then, and lis vote that has been remaining at ome will show up for the dispensary. Senator Tillman expressed the opin>n that if counties that have recently oted out the dispensary under the irice law should elect senators and jpresentatives this summer committed > the dispensary those elected on the ispensary platform would have a perict right to put the dispensary back l the counties that are now enjoying lind tigers in large doses. Senator Tillman believes the Brlce lw will be repealed when the legislate meets next January. 80UTH CAROLINA NEW8. ? Lancaster special of January 18 3 Columbia State: Dr. E. S. Mclow, who has been in Jail since the hooting of Mr. Hazel Wltherspoon n the 6th instant, was granted bail tils afternoon in the sum of $500 by iaglstrate Chskey, physicians having ertified that Mr. Wltherspoon is out f danger. Attorney Trantham of amden, is Dr. McDow's counsel. Mr. Wltherspoon, who is now able to be p, went over to Chester last evenig and had the bullet in his body loated by means of the X-ray. 7 he all was found next to the third rib, ut was not removed, as it is doing no arm. ? The president yesterday sent to he senate the nomination of Ernest Cochran of Anderson to be United tates attorney for South Carolina, hereby displacing John O. Capers, gainst whom charges were filed beore the department of justice. The latter will create a sensation in outh Carolina. The charges were lvestigated by Attorney General [oody, who decided It would be betsr not to recommend Caper's reapointment. The attorney general ad his attention called to the conuct of some cases in South Carolina nd come to the conclusion that their lanagement was open to criticism. Ir. Cochran was not a candidate for Fnited States attorney. He was at ne timet assisant attorney under Caere, but resigned some time ago. [is appointment to succeed Capers rill make him likely a candidate for Tnited States judge of the new dlsrlct. It has not been decided who ill succeed Capers as patronage disenser in South Carolina. Cochran i not inclined to want to attend to hat work. ? During last Tuesday the celebrated :aysor-Manning bill in a remodeled lape was introduced in the senate by enator Raysor. This bill provides >r the appointment of three members f the board of dispensary directors by le governor, at a salary of $1,500 per tinum. The governor can remove lese directors, who must give bond >r $10,000 and must meet once a week i Columbia. The commissioner is ected by the legislature. Advertlselent is made not only In the South arollna newspapers but in those of ouisville, Cincinnati, Baltimore and ittsburg, and a feature of the bill that all liquors are to be obtained om government bonded warehouses, hese bids are to be opened by the )mmissioner in the presence of three tizens appointed by the governor and Dt eligible to serve more than once, he whisky must be pure and this lust be certified by statement. If hlsky is offered through the agency ' any one connected with the dlspeniry this person forfeits one month's ilary for the first offense and his of:e for the second. No case goods are i be bought under this bill. ? Darlington special of January 17 > New and Courier: It Is underood here that by consent of the imlly of the late Robert Keith Darin. his grave will be opened Friday sout noon. It will be remembered that following his death the rumor spread that he had not committed suicide, but that he was still alive. These rumors received no credence from persons in Darlington Informed of the circumstances, but they became so prevalent that one of the companies ip which he was Insured, the Fidelity Mutual, refused to pay the polity upon his life without additional proof of his death. Its attorney moved before Judge R. C, Watts some weeks ago for a mandamus, compelling the coroner of Darlington to open the grave and make an investigation. Judge Watts refused to ^rant the ordeK Now It Iko avumlnotlAn la tfl if uuuri .iiuuu kite kAuiiiututivu ... .w be made under the direction of the coroner by the consent of all parties concerned. The policy held in the Equitable Life Assurance Society was paid long ago. It is believed that the only objection held by anyone to this examination was the natural feeling of delicacy and repugnance to notoriety on the part of the dead man's family. FACTI0N8 IN RU88IA. Different Ideas For Which the People of the Disturbed Ideas Stand. The following explanation of terma that have become familiar in cables from Russia will be interesting: Proletariat?Instead of calling themselves worlcihen, the Russian laborers reler to themselves as the proletariat. Black Hundred are the loyalists among the workmen. They want reforms. but at the same time they have not lost their inborn respect for the czar and religion. They regard as enemies -all those who attack the czar and religion. Intellectuals.?A general term applied to the Russian people apart irom the proletariat and reactionaries. They are educated Russians who are trying to liberalize the govrnment and are split up into innumerable parties who have great difficulty in working together. Constitutionalists are a small body who are opposed to violent means for securing freedom for Russia. They want all reforms to come from the duma, the new Rustan parliament. Christian ' Democrats are followers of Tolostoy, who oppose all resistance to the bureaucracy and who want the establishment of a co-operative community through the abolition of private ownership of land. Bund.?The Jewish revolutionary organization, which is working for the establishment of full local government for Poland. It is the best organized revolutionary force in Russia and its work in Warsaw has completely terrorized the local authorities there. Zemstovoists are the members of the various municipal governments of Russia who were the first to begin a -ystematlc agitation this year for the granting of a constitution. MERE-MENTION. President Roosevelt has declined an invitation to visit the state of Tennessee, on the ground that he has already visited every state in the Union Former President Cleveland is quite ill in New York. He had started with Mrs. Cleveland 10 go to- Ohio to attend the funeral of his brother, who died a few days ago.. ....The two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin was celebrated throughout many of the large cities of the country last Wednesday Mrs. Cassle L. Chad wick, recently sent to the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary, has Men put to work, working button holes In shirts A report is current that Governor Vardaman of Mississippi, recently gave a negro convict who was blacking his shoes a severe thrashing on account of impudence.... Several striking cigar makers were forcibly deported .from Key West _ a,u | few days ago on account of tronble they were making Eighteen miners are believed to have been killed as the result of an explosion at Detroit, W. Va., yesterday. ? That southern senators may be depended upor. to watch closely all rate legislation with the purpose of Insisting that the states shall not be deprived of their powers to provide for separate accommodations for negroes was demonstrated at last Tuesday's meeting of the senate committee on interstate commerce. In analyzing certain language in the Dolllver bill which had been under discussion, Senator Tillman put his associates of the oommittee upon notice that the southern senators would fight to the end any bill under which it would be possible intpmfafn commerce commls slon or any other Federal body to interfere with the Jim crow car*. The power to make regulations for the control of travel, he contended, must rest solely with the states. He defended the Jim crow cars on the theory that they work with fairness to the colored people for whose accommodations the railroads are required to furnish not only separate accommodations, but equally as good accommodations as is furnished the white people. These laws, he said, work no hardship, no humiliation upon the colored people and are not resented by those most affected by them. While northern negroes have a good deal to say about Jim crowlsm, the colored people of the south are satisfied with the existing laws. The Moroccan Oonfhrbnc?.?The delegates to the Moroccan conference at Algeclras, Spain, held a private session lasting two hours yesterday, resulting practically in an agreement on the main lines of a plan for a repression of contraband entering Morocco. It was feared this question of contraband might lead to Franco-German tension, as to who would carry out the repressive measures proposed, but this situation happily appears to have been averted. The discussion proved most conciliatory. The Moroccan delegates said they could not permit the repression or the hunting for arms without first referring the matter to the sultan. The delegates were In accord upon the need of all the powers passing laws penalizing the Introduction of contraband. They also tended towards a plan under which Morocco would adopt rigid repressive measures In co-operation with the powers. This followed a proposition submitted by Spain which was designed to reconcile the differences between France and Germany. i Says It Was GrbAsed.?j. H. Connell, a member of the executive committee and financial secretary of the Southern Cotton association, in an interview given out at Dallas, Texas, yesterday, said that the recent conven. tion of the association at New Orleans, was "altogether irregular and im proper." "The call," he continued, 'was so couched that only those persons believing In the 15 cent minimum for cotton could well attend, and the whole affair was fixed and greased for the passage of the resolution to that j end. "The choosing of officers, though most of them are re-elections, was not regularly conducted. The 15 cent move is a very unfortunate one at this time."