Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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

VOL. VI. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1890. NO. 35. ELECTRICA L EXECUTION DOES NOT PROVE ALTOGETHER SUC CESSFUL IN KEMMLER'S CASE. After the First Application of the Current Respiration is Resumxed--A Second Ap plication Necessary to Cause Death-The Horrible Detail. of the Affair. AUBURN, N. Y., August 6.-Between 6 and 7 o'clock this morning, in the basement of the State prison in this city, William Kepmler was killed un der the law by the use of electricity. On March 29th, 189, he murdered his misstress, "Tillie" Ziegler, and his death to-day was a reparation for his crime. As the huge iron bolted barrier was swung back the warden led the way and the party who was to witness the execution decended the iron stairway to the stone floored hall; where the fa tal apparatus and the first subject were waitig, which lay through a low door way in the massive basement wall into a room. dimly lighted as yet by the early sunshine. In a semi-gloom the massive chair of death seemed to loom out of the shadow. A little distance from the entrance, as each guest pass ed it, he might have noted that every strap and band, every buckle to bind the victim. was carefully placed to avoid all possible delay. The electrode for the head hung in its place like a sprinkler disc for a shower bath. Chairs and benches stood about the room in a semi-circle. In the uncertain light of the fateful room they formed a horse shoe, in whose opening stood a heavy chair with its dangling straps and buckles. Down over one window toward the East a heavy shade was drawn, while through the bars in the other window the morn ing air came cool and fresh through Virginia creepers that swept the iron with a soft rustling touch. Suddenly the room was lighted from within. The warden had turned up the low burning flame of one of the blackened gas burn ers, or ancient chandelier. In his final arrangements the warden had placed all the electrical apparatus in an ante-room, the wires being run over the casement to the death cham ber. This ante-room the warden kept carefully shut, save when he or some helper hastily passed in or out. In charg there- were three men whom the warden refused to name. The purpose 4 of the late change of the electrical volt meter and switches to any other room became apparent. Those who should 4 see Kemmier die were never to know who had pushed the switch to send the 1 death bolt to Kemmler's vitals. While the final adjustments were being made. Drs. Shrady and Jenkins entered and I the witnesses were all within the room. 1 In the meantime Kemmler, in his cell I was being prepared for the ending of i his life. He had gone peacefully to 4 sleep early in the night and had slept soundly and was snoring until 5 o'clock J when he was awakened by one of his ] guards. Daniel 31cWaughton. Pastor I Houghton, who has attended Kemmler, I as also Prison Chaplain Yates. were with him. They read to him from the Bible and he prayed with them. He dressed himself without aid in a suit of gray mixed goods. About his neck he buttoned a turn down collar with a checked tie of lawn stuff. He brushed .and combed his hair with great care. . -9_ shoes were well polished, and while - he made himself finally tidy, the war den and a tall stranger, who is a Depu ty Sheriff of Buffalo.entered. ~er held by his side a pair o ppers. The warden explained to I Kemmler that he must have the top of his head shaved. The prisoner demur- I red. He had taken great pains in dressing his hair, and besides, explain ed to the warden that he did not wantC to be disfigured. He wanted the people I to see and know that he was not aman 1 of repulsive appearance as has been I stated. Kemmier's hair is dark brown and wavy with a hyperion curl that fell i on his forehead, and of this he was t proud. In the shadow of death his C vanity asserted itself. His hair, how ever, was cut but the curl was saved, I and as the sequel proved with good re- " sult. The shaven spot was two and a J quarter by one and a quarter inches in I size, and was not shaven but cropped 2 Wie this was proceeding the wit- I nesses examined the chair of death. 11 The bell was rung upon the dynamo, away down in the South wing of the ( p rison, and the incandescent test lamps 1 ithe ante-chamber glowed faintly. I The current was on and a strange pow- C er was coursing the circuit. "The evi dence was there, but how feebly they a burned," thus exclaimed Dr. McDonald C who was the only one who got into the ante-room, and that while ignorant of I the warden's- desire to keep its secret c inviolate. In response to Dr. McDon ald's comment. Electrician Davis re- c marked that there was something t wrong about the machinery down I there, referring to the dynamo end of I the circuit. This remark took place before the electroizing it to Kemmiler, and was undoubtedly as true a few minutes later, when the bolt was ap plied to Kemmnler. The condemned man, after having his hair cut on the top of his head, lis tened to the reading of the death war rant by the ward.en. None of the State witneses were present-only the prison er, the preachers and the warden. The I man was cool, unruffled, almost apa thetic. The last named condition, however, was discredited by the blanch ed hue of the man's face. "Come, Bill," commianded the warden I when all had been dlone in the cell, and the little party of four-the warden, the prisoner and clergymen-passed through the ante-room past the electri cal appliance, and the warden led the way finally into the death chamber. Close behind him trod the man he soon wouldI kill. His hands swung at1 his side easily and when, as though in some embarrassment. he stroked his brown, full beaird and mustache as he confronted the white expeetant faces of the twenty-five men, who, besides the warden. should soon see him die. Warden Durston placed the plain wooden bottomed chair directly in front of the other and different chair and bade Kemmler to sit upon it. Hie obeyed readily. There was no uneasi ness about his movements. He seated himself leisurely. There was no nerv ous tension apparent; indeed, not near lyso much ats among the men about him. He was apparently the most calm person in the room. - The prisoner glanced over his shoul der as he ceased spaig and Warden, Durston came to his side. "Take off your coat, Bill,' said he. Kemumler readily did as he was told. The war den then cut the cuffs off from his shirt so as to adjust th~e electrode to his nak ed wrist. LKemirler was more compos ed than the attendants who were ad justing the apparatus and fastening him to the chair. Once or twice he I told them to take their time and take it easy. H is appearance and manners disproved all statements that the man was insane or in a flabby state of de-1 jection. It took sevenf minutes to complete all arrangements. Tihe warden then turn ed and nodded his head to some one] who stood in the secret room at the: fatal switch. There was a quick, con- < vulsive start of the bound figure in the 1 chair and a little squeaking sound of iI the straining of the straps. After that convulsive start that marked the stroke of lightning upon Kemmler there was no movement of the muscle nor the twitch of a nerve. At the ex piration of seventeen seconds the cur rent was cut off. While the physicians were examining Kemmlerin one min ute and forty seconds after the current had stopped, Kemmler's chest began to beave. startling and horrifying the spectators. The doctors declared, howevej. that the man was beyond consciousness and some thought the action which startled all and sent the warden away with a white face to order the current renew ed was only a reflex muscular action. Not so: one physician, who declared he would stake his name that he could bring Kemmler back to conscious life with brandy hyperdermically adminis tered. Meantime G. G. Bain, a Wash ington newspaper man, had fainted and lay upon a bench where he was being fanned. With a renewal of the current the figure in the chair again strained its straps, and the lungs again filled up. The warden and his electrical helper were anxious beyoud measure, and in two and one-quarter minutes after the current had been reapplied the switch was opened and shut rapidly twice. Each time the body in the chair was lifted by the shock. The shoulders were lifted to a level of the tops of the ears and the features were contracted. Then a smoke was observed curling from Kemmler's back. The body was still and the current was again turned off. "He is unquestionably dead," said Dr. McDonald, "and he would never have moved after the spasm of the first hock had the current been maintain d twenty seconds, and in less time with % stronger current." CONVICTED OF BIGAMY. Rev. Walter Dale's Notorious and Roman tic Career. ATLANTA, Ga., August 6.-Rev. Wal ;er R. Dale, formerly pastor of the Sixth Baptist Church of Atlanta, was to-day onvicted of bigamy at Dallas, Ga., where le has been on trial for several days. Dale's story is one of romance. The testi nony, as adduced upon this trial, found in in North Carolina at a little place alled Concord. There, it stated, he was aised, and there married a lady by the lame of Horton by whom he had four :hildren. At that time he was known Ls J. 0. H. Nutall. He was a jeweler by rade, one of those roving fellows who go bout from place to place. His second marriage was at Dallas, N. 3., one of the places he vitited, and there ie staid at the house of a man named lawlings. A daughter of Rawlings fell n love with Nutall and they disappear d together. Nutall leaving behind his vife and four children. He isnextheard rom in Conyers, .Ga., where, with the 'awlings girl, !he turns up under the ame of Fontaine. The relations of the ,irl find him there and succeed in in lucing her to return to her home, leav ng her child with its father. Fontaine, as he is now known, is next teard of at Rockmart, where he appear d in company with a young woman rhom he said was his niece. Ife became nvolved in a scandal there and disap eared. About the same time there ap eared in Dallas, Ga., a jeweler named Valter R. Dale. Another scandal in vhich a woman's name figured develop d and then came his conversion to the saptist Church and after a while his ad aission to the ministry. He married in Dallas a girl who is his >resent wife. After living there some ime they came to Atlanta, and here ev. Mr. Dale was given a little church lut in the surburbs of the city. He la >ored along faithfully, so far as is known, Lutil he was recognized by 'an old friend, rom North Carolina, as J. 0. H. Nutall.j le denies the charge bitterly, and has ought the case through along trial, but he jury found him guilty of bigamy as Dae tlls a remarkable story about is life. He says his first recollection as of being a street arab in New York. le drifted about until he came into the .ands of a gambler named Big Ned cSweee. With McSweeney he coy red a goo part of the country, and was nown duringthis time as McSweeney's id or Bull 'M offord. He denies ever having lived in North ~arolinn, but acknowledgs having been a different parts of that State, and aving been in different parts of Georgia ring his career. He claims that he has been converted nd has been laboring faithfully for the hrch. His lawers will appeal the case, which .as already become remarkable in the 1 riminal annals of Georgia.1 If Dale is not Nutall, then his is onet f the most remarkable cases of mis-1 iken identity ever known, for he has een positively identified by dozens of en.-Augusta Chronicle.1 Absent Democrats to Blame. ST. Lot-Is, Mo., August 6.-Congress-| an Mansur while in this city en route or Washington, after a stay of three -eeks in the State, repeated a conver ation he had with Major McKinley, of )hio, on the train the night Mills, Mc inley and he left Washington togeth r to come home. "Mills and McKinley are paired dur ng thier absence from the House," he aid, "and we all traveled together as ar as Ohio. During the evening the ubject of the passage of the Lodget lection bill came up. -You gentlemen on't know,' McKinley said, 'how near ou came to defeating the Federal lection bill in the Hlouse.' I said to im that I wished we had known and3 ad been able to kill the infamous neasure'. "'You came near doing it,' went on ir. McKinley, 'at the time when Lehl ach, of New Jersey, introduced his .mendment to the bill making it apply o every part of the country and strik- 1 ng out that portion of it making it ifective only in districts where 250 -oters petitioned for its adoption. If 4ehlbach's amendment had passed we ould have abandoned the bill right here. The amendment, if you will re nember, was defeated by only three otes, and five or six Democrats were bsent. IHad they been in their seats he force bill would have never pass d the House." "I believe McKinley told the truth rhen he stated that the bill would have een abandoned if it had been made to ipply to the whole country, North and south alike, and as he says, absent Democrats are responsi ble for the pas age of the villainous measure." 'Twas a Fatal Ride. AsnN, ILLS., Aug. t6.-A fatal acci ent occurred yesterday six miles north. vest of here. A farmer named Castle nd his wife and daughters were return ng home in a wagon drawn by mules. ust as they reached home, a dog ran nto the road and the mules ran away, >verturning the wagon on its occupants. I 'l'he daughters were killed, the wife fa ally injured, and the man so badly njured that he will be crippled for life. Mn. George I. Cunningham, of Char-1 eston, the present Republican United tates Marshal, is seriously thinking >f entering the Gubernatorial race, as he Republican candidate. Let him en er- That is about -all hecan do. A SENSATIONAL LETTER. A BASELESS CHARGE AGAINST THE SOUTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE. A Fair Sample of the Yarns and S tirff that is Being Sent Out About the C-tmpaign in South Carolina by Northern News paper Corresponents. COLU1BA, S. C., Aug 7.-The follow ing letter copied from the Philadelphia Press, written from this city by one of its staff, will give your readers an idea of the yarns and stuff that is being sent from South Carolina to Nothern newspapers. The writer says: Nothing ever known in the history of American politics since the war has exceeded in bitterness and partisan hated the contest for supremacy now going on within the Democratic party in South Carolina. Scarcely a public meeting of the rival organizations has been held that was not attended with violence or bloodshed. Blackguard epi thets and villainons charges have been hurled from every stump. Public men have been threatened with assassina tion and their followers branded as thieves and worse. Descendents of the old families whose pride of ancestry is their most precious heritage, have been held up to merciless ridicule, termed an oligarchy and an aristocratic ring of political corruptionits by Tillman and his followers In the Farmers' Alliance. On the other hand, the latter factions are denounced by the Bourbons as an archists and social revolutionists, as il literate followers of a political Judas Is cariot, a mob composed of the element that twenty years ago were known as the Ku Klux and Night Riders of re construction days; all this, remember, among people whose political principles are a part of their religion, and who never forget or forgive an insult to either. The breadth and depth of the breach can thus be appreciated. If Ben. R. Tillman is nominated for Gov ernor, as from indications he surely will be, the breach in the dominant par ty will be lasting for a generation, for the old Burbons, whose pride has been laughed to scorn, whose honor and in tegrity have been impugned, will never forgive the insult. THE COLORED VOTE SLIGHTED. Through all this turmoil the negro has held aloof; to-day the despised race stands like a black tide whose flood gates wait to be opened by the hands of hated and political jealousy: Tillman is as crafty as a fox. He has declared his orposition to the colored vote, and has challenged the straight-out old Bour bons to appeal to their one-time slaves if they dare. At the same time th Alliance, appreciating the value of the colored votes in fighting their battle for recognition and supremacy, have been busy organizing colored Alliances that will support the Alliance candi date, no matter how much he may dis claim against them. The Bourbons have been all along re sponsible for the oppression of the col ored vote in South Carolina. It was their action that nullified the Haskell resolutions of 1876, according a repre sentation to the colored race, and yet if they expect to defeat Tillman and his party, they must do it with the vote of the colored man, no matter what gall and wormwood it may be to them in making the appeal. OPPOSED TO THE LODGE BILL. It is this condition of affairs that has led the intelligent Republicans of South arolina to deprecate the passage of the Federal elections bill and to counsel a postponement of action upon it. The passage of the Lodge bill at this time, ;hey say, would tend to solidify the white Democrats now in open war, and ;he possibility of an honest vote, now so bright in prospective, would be re noved. Dr. Joseph A. Lattimore is one of the wealthiest planters and cotton manu Eacturers In Greenville county. He is i Republican and a native of the State. speaking of the Alliance movement he said: All my sympathetics are with the Earmers' Alliance. I am not a mem yer of it and cannot be, for I am a man ifacturer, and they are debarred from admission. We have never had a Re yublican form of government in this state, and the triumph of Tillman will live us at least a semblance of it. The l'armers' Alliance is making war not igainst the Democratic party but upon in oligarchy that has ruled all classes dlike with despotic hand. The white :itizens of this State are just awakening ;o the fact, and that Is what makes the illiance and its candidates so pop ilar with the middle classes. The alli mece is a great educational force. The >eople are beginning to think and act 'or themselves; they want a clean, pop ilar government. The alliance has wrought a great change in public sen iment. There is greater toleration ow for political sentiment than there as been since the war. The people are discovering how they have been ed like sheep by a set of men whose dms were entirely personal gain and nd aggrandizement. "I know Mr. Tillmnan intimately. le is a good man who has been naligned because he is endeavoring to )ust an oligarchy. I shall vote and vork for the alliance, for its success neans honest government, and progress nd prosperity for the State of South 3arolina." S0URIBONS SEEKING COLORED VOTES. Regarding Tiliman in the light that he B~ourbon Democracy do, namely, hat of a political and social revolu ionist, the latter's Implied threat in laring them to appeal to the negro, Is Lting more as a spur than a check ipon such a movement. Feelers have dready been put out by Bourbon eaders to intelligent colored men with Sview to enlisting them on the side of heir former masters, but the answers ave been unsatisfactory and evasive. L'he colored man trusted the Bourbon >nce too often in 1876, and there must1 ye a definite understanding now. If he negro is to fight the battle of his >ld master he must have the assurance >f protection hereafter in his rights as Scitizen. This is the view of educated leaders >f the colored race, with wnom the P~ress correspondent has talked. There s no longing on their part for supre nacy, as was the case prior to 'i; there s a desire for recognition at the ballot >ox, not as negroes, but as American ~itizens, and the colored men of South .arolina who think for their race see ~he achievement of this result only brough a division of the negro vote. l'he Farmers' Alliance, since its en Grance into politics, has started the entering wedge by organiz.ing the segro, and when the Bourbons also appeals for the black man's vote the :esult will be accomplished. With the lominant white minority divided and :ompelling each other to recognize the sitizenship of the negro who holds the >alance of power, the race question will be settled, at least so far as South carolina is concerned. By their own mction the whites will thereby e-stablish s precedent, will demonstrate what an onest election in which all the votes tre polled and counted can accomplish., with the result that the old order of ~hings will pass away for the time, if iot forever. wILL THE COLORED VOTE D)IVIDE? Will the negro vote divide? ? This is the paramount question, and iere is the reply made to the Pres correspondent's question by a colored man, whose name, for obvious reasons is omitted. He is a college graduate and holds a high position in the esteemn of his people and the native whites He said: "The black vote will be divided, I be lieve, but whether it will be this year or two years hence, I cannot say; possibly not till 1892. I regard Tillnman's elec tion as a foregone conclusion, no matter whether he fights it out on his present line, or comprises with the straightout Democracy. I do not consider a compromise possible. The straightouts have been insulted and maligned by people of their own party and color to an extent never equaled by the wildest fanatic of the North. Senator Hamp ton was jeered when he made a speech recently, and considering his promi nence and his service to his party in the past, the insult can never be con doned or forgotten by his friends. This was only one of a series of similar indignities inflicted by the Tillmanites on the old line Democrats. "The alliance has been steadily and quietly organizing colored alliances all through the State. It is a secret, oath bound organization, and if there is one thing more than another that a negro respects it is an obligation of this kind, and especially where he expects per sonal and financial henefit as the al liance promises. But there are tens of thousands of colored voters not in the Farmers' Alliance. Their claims to the ballot have been disregarded for years past and their vote suppressed. MERELY A CHOICE OF EVILS. Between the Tillman party and the Bourbons, the colored man has only a choice of evils; if he votes either ticket, for they are both Democratic. In the Bourbon party he sees arrayed all the weal.' and intelligence of the white raca. His old master, or his father's former master, perhaps, belongs to it. When the latter comes to him and asks for his aid and assistance, promising, as he doubtless will, protection at the ballot box in the future, this part of the negro vote will go to the straight out Democracy. If there was a Re publican ticket in the field he would vote it, but there is not, and so he votes for the Bourbons. The split in the negro vote is therefore a determined thing, and the vote will be counted fairly because the warring factions compel it. It would be to the lasting benefit of my race if its vote could be divided for years to come, and it will remain with the wh tea to say whether it will or not." STRUGGLE FOR DELEGATES. What is known as the preliminary State convention will be held on Au gust 13, At the outset of this remark able campaign the Farmers' Alliance appealed to the Democratic State Com mittee to call for a State primary to make a State ticket. The Tillmanites feared that they would be cheated in a State convention. The State com mittee declined to do so. In the mean time the alliance went on capturing county delegation after county delega tion, until they. saw that they could control the State Convention by two thirds. The State Committee, composed of Bourbons, discovered the same fact about the same time and decided for their own safety to call a State primary. The alliance is as vigorously opposed to this now as it was formerly in favor 6f It, and the preliminary- State Con vention will settle it, or rather the Tillmanites will settle it, for they are going to run the convention on August 13 if it has to be done at the muzzle of a Winchester rifle. The Talking Ceases. WALTERBOIO, S. C., Aug. 5.-The state campaign petered out here to-day in the midst of a drenching rain, a gen eral collapse of platforms and a lot of promiscuous fisticuffs. The meeting was very uneventful otherwise. The speakers were: Gens. Earle and Bratton, straightout candi dates for governor, and Messrs. Till man, Pope and Mayfield. The audi ence numbered about 1,000 persons, and the speaking took place in the open air from a platform which twice collapsed, and finally went to pieces. It rained continuously, and every one was drenched to the skin. Capt. Tillman was compelled to suspend his remarks during the heaviest part of the shower. He had hardly started when the stand went down, carrying him and the others with it. Then he mounted the little piece that was left standing and [nished his speech. Gen. Earle stood upon a chair to de liver his speech. During the progress of the meeting there were several skir mishes on the outskirts. Sidney Beach bad his head broken by town marshal Herndon. Beach, who is a straightout, s painfully, but not seriously, injured. A. half dozen other scrimmages occur red, but with no serious result. It was altogether a very disagreeable affair, and everybody seems to be glad :hat it is over.-Augusta Chronicle. Anl a Newspaper Yarn. AUGUsTA, Ga., August 6.-The Chron cle of yesterday published the follow ng: Rev. Henry D). Ilowren passed hirough Augusta yesterday on his way o preach. lIe appeared to be in good 1ealth and temper. He stated that the eports recently published in Atlanta hat he had been unable to till his en ~agements there on account of his iier rous system being shattered by the use >f chloral had caused him much mortiti aition. As a matter of fact, he had never ised chloral or opiates in his life, and ~ven while a drinking man, years ago, ie says he never resorted to any drugs. Jpon his araival in Atlanta ten days ago ie found himself in the grip of a severe nalarial attack, which prevented his de ivering three lectures on Sunday which ie had traveled all the way from Charles ,on to make, lie was attended by a phy ician and moved to the house of friends n Decatur, where he rapidly recupera ed. lie is now evidently well and trong again. Mr. Hiowren dlenies that ie has been under treatment of a spec alist for chloral habit. lie is to lecture oon in Georgia and is prepared to keep dl his engageiments. A Wronged Husband Justified. CHARLEsTON, S. C., Aug. 5.-The fury of inquest on the body of W. H1. Ahrens, who was shot by T. D. Green t Ten Mile lill on Sunday last. ren :lered a verdict of jnstifiable homicide. In tlie hearing some sensational evi lence was brought out which had not get appearded in print. Mrs. Green. in her testimony on Sunday swore that she was not in the roomn in which Xhrens wvas shot. J. C. D-awdray, the pump tender at the H-ill, testified at the inquest that after the shooting he went with Green arid Mrs. Green to the house where the dead man lay. Bloth request ed him to go in the room. Mrs. Green told witness that she had been nervous about burglars and had not gone to her bed at all that night, but had sat in a rocking chair beside the double couch on which Ahrenis was lying when Green shot him. It was also proved that there were two pillows on the couch and that Ahrens was in his night ulothes when shot. There is a little surprise expressed here at the verdict. TH E Republicans of the House are dis ;usted by the increasing niu:nber of ab ~entecs. Cannon threatens to introduce Sresolution revoking all leave-Ls of ab ON HIGH GROJND. The Abbeville lliance Stands Upon its Merits. At the quarterly meeting of the Ab beville County Alliance that body as surlned high ground in rescinding the exis;ting boyCott against certain news papers, and in making unmistakable declarations encouraging the brethren to subscribe for as many newspapers of their own choice, as their means would allow. They recognize the value of newspapers as an educator, and believe that in knowledge there is power. This action last Frfday will commend the Alliance to the favorable opinion of the people of Abbeville county, and will do much to bring about harmony and good feeling among all the people. The Alliance may sometimes swing a little out of plumb, but she will fi nally do the right, and by giving "equal rights to all, and special privileges to none," will rise to the highest positions among the best organizations of the country. They have done themselves and the county honor by passing the resolu tions unanimously, while they propose to stand or fall on the merits of their order, fearing noboby, asking no favors of anybody, and yielding perfect free dorr of thought, speech and action to everybody. Standing on this high ground, Alli ancemen in every part of the State may well follow the independent, wise and sagacious course of the Abbeville Alli anee in proclaiming for education, newspapers, free speech, and untram meled action for its members, as will be seen in the following resolution, which we re-publish for the reason that some are not aware of the recent action: Whereas, the Alliance of Abbeville county, relying upon the rectitude of its intentions and conscious of the strength of its cause can afford to be generous and fair to those outide of the order. however ignorant they may be of our benevolent motives and noble purposes; And whereas, the diffusion of knowl edge is promotive of strength and hap piness, while furnishing the surest safeguard of a people's rights; And whereas, it is important that every family which is represented in this order should enjoy the moral, re ligious, practical and intellectual ad vantages of schools and newspapers, therefore be it Resolved, That it is the sense of this Alliance that its members should sup port the schools and subscribe for as many newspapers, of their own choice, as their means will allow.-Abbeville Press and Banner. IT WILL COME. The South to Lead in Manufacturing Pa per and Fibres. The Manufacturers' Record has spec ial information from authoritive sour ces which points to the early establish ment in the South of paper manufactur ing on a large scale, and the develop ment of great fibre interests. The American Fibre Association of New York, with a capital of S50,000,000, has been organized to take up eveything new and utilize everything old that might be available in the fibre line. The company is perfecting plans which in scope and importance are in keeping with its enormous capitalization. The Judge Publishing Co.'s fibre business, on which it has been working for sev eral years, has been absorbed by the Fibre Association. The latter is also largely interested in the production of fibre from "cat tails," ramie and cot ton stalk, and has recently taken up the matter of flax. It is mnanufacturin g at Fernandina a plaster fibre from the: palmetto, which is to be used as a sub stitute for hair. P'aper manufacturing, however, is the particular business upon which the efforts of the company will be concen trated for the time being, and this will be done in such a way that a revolu tion in the paper trade is predicted by those in a position to judge. The As sociation has closed a contract, run ning several years, with the Cotton Oil Trust to utilize its 300,000 tons per an num of cotton-seed hulls, from which, it is claimed, a paper can be manufac tured by the Association's patent pro cess vastly superior in quality to that in use for book and news print, and at a cost hitherto unheard of. The best part of it all is that the Association will build its mills in the South, and the South will enjoy the benefits of cheaper and better paper for Its own consumption, besides acquiring the new population and wealth which will come with the paper industry. This great enterprise, which is back ed by some of the leading financiers of the country, will prove a source of enormous wealth to the South. In ad dition to utilizing 300,000 tons of cot ton-seed hulls annually for paper man ufacture, this company will develop all branches of the fibre business. A Grasshopper War in Algeria. Immense swarms of grasshoppers have invaded parts of the country of Al geria and are spoiling lots of things. Two thousand soldiers, aided by 12,000 Arabs, have been employed to flght the pest. The roadways present the a ppear ance of a battlefield, and extraordinary effort are being made to rid the sur rounding country of the insect enemy. This is not the first time that this plague has devasted Algeria. In 1845 the har vests of almost the entire country were destroyed by grasshoppers. From 1747 to 1749 these insects desolated Algeria, extending their ravages to parts of Eu rope. Millions on millions of the dead bodies of these insects are covering at present the great roadway leading from Mascara to Mostaganim, and filling the spring and rivers. The task of killing these ma';ses of grasshoppers is no small one. Imagine a district of one hundred miles in circumference, which not long ago was covered with wheat, tobacco and fig and olive trees, but now is so densely covered with grasshoppers that not a single green branch or leaf can be seen. For three years a distinguished Parisian naturalist, M. Kunkei, has been study ing how to exterminate these creatures. The best plan seems to be that of stamp ing the moving, quivering heaps wvith the bare feet. Shovels anid other sharp instruments are used, but it has been noticed that the elastic layers of grass hoppers tend to rebound after pressure and only the layers on top are crushed. Large fires have also been lighted, but the dense smoke arising from the flames is only partly effective in preventing the descent of these all-devouring swarms. Almos't Killed by Hail. WINDox, M inn.. August 6.-Cashier Snmith and Vice I'resident Collhns of the Cottonwood County bank of Win dom barely escaped with their own and wives' lives in a hail storm at Spirit Lake yesterday. They had driven from here in the morning and were within tea rods of Crandall's Lodge when the storm struck them. The team was driven by the hail into a wire fence while the people were pelted with hail stones until they were black and blue under their clothing and had great gashes in their heads. Tbe gentlemen were the most seriously hurt, and the aid of surgeons was necessary to stitch nun the ahe ON THE USTINGS. THE CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST IN THE FIFTH DISTRICT. i Congressman Hlemphiln in Consultation With Retpresentatives of the Farmers' Alliance--He Makes a Speech at Rock Hill Which has a Good Effect. RocK ILL. S. C., August G.-Xot withstanding the great and paramount interest of the Agricultural and Me chanical Society proceedings for the people of Rock Hill, they are to a very great extent concerned in the outcome of Congressman Hemphill's conference with the representatives of the Alli ance in this Congressional district, and he has been treated with marked indi cations of loyalty and honor since his arrival in town. Last night he was serenaded at the Carolina Hotel, the band being accompanied by a very large gathering of the citizens. Calls were made for the Congressman, who re sponded with a brief social speech. It was understood that he was to be examined by the Congressional confer ence this 'afternoon at 5 o'clock. It was rather later, however, when the delegates met at the old fire engine hall. J. R. McGill, president of the Kershaw Alliance, presided, with Mr. R. H. Glenn as secretary. No reporter was admitted. The proceedings were intended to be kept secret and the con ferences, certainly precluded anything like a verbatim report of the proceed ings. All that is known. and all that is worth knowing, is that Mr. Hemp hill was asked the questions proposed by the National Alliance. Mr. Hemphill agreed to all of the propositions, except a part of the proposition on the sub treasury matter. Thereupon the ses sion adjourned to meet again to-mor row morning, when the discussion will be resumed. Mr. Hemphill has been asked to sup port the sub-treasury bill or to report a substitute in the morning. All of the delegates, it is said, are disposed to be liberal in their demand on this point of difference, except the delegation from Lancaster, who, It is thought, have in view an opponent for the present in cumbent. This delegation cannot, bowever, control the conference, and it is belived that Mr. Hemphill will not meet with any opposition except in the ounty of Lancaster, should it deter mine to oppose all the other counties in the district. To-night at 9 o'clock Mr. Hemphill addressed a very large crowd at Rod ly's Hall. Among the audience were many of the Alliance delegates. The peaker was also complimented by the ntrance during his speech of quite a number of the ladies of Rock Hill. The incident was applauded by the au lience. He was handsomely introduc d by Senator Wilson, of York County, who paid Mr. Hemphill some deserved 3ompliments, all of which were so gen ainely applauded that it is quite safe to say that it was a Hemphill meeting. Mr. Hemphill spoke almost entirely )n national issues. He first took up the Lodge bill, which he explained in ill its details. He denounced it in vig )rous terms, illustrating the opposition Af the people of this State to it. In another branch of his remarks he encouraged the audience by the hope Af a defeat of the bill in the Senate, and the almost certain change of the majority in the House of Representa ives at the next session. He dwelt with great force on the ne .essities of tariff reform, and called the attention of his audience to Blaine's ehange of policy. Blaine being a man. e said, superior in some respects to any in either political party. He also spoke on the exactions of the Federal taxes, the burdens imposed on the far mers and all other classes by the pro tective tariff. He explained his vote against the issue of silver certificates. touching on his relation to the farm ng element, he said: "I is the duty of the Representative in Congress to lift, so for as he can, the burden of taxes from the agricultural 3asses. "The occupation of the people of outh Carolina must be forever that of farmers. The class of the farmer pro luces the purest manhood, the highest type of citizenship, and those sterling itizens from which the cities and great institutions are continually fed. [ say that the farmers have not had a air chance in this country.jApplause.] [ say that whether organized or unor ganized it is the duty of the man who expects their suffrages to see that the burdens are lifted from their shoulders and to give them a fair chance in the race of life, and if I never do anything else I trust I will always have the eourage and honesty to proclaim here and everywhere that this people have not been S irly and honestly treated at the hands of the Government." [Great Applause.] Mr. Hemphill's speech to-night is re arded as one of great force and effect. [t is even said that it will have great weight with the committee of the Con gressional conference, which will re assemble to-morrow morning, and which has appointedl a committee' to give certain parts of its proceedings to the press.-N'ews and Courier. The Farmer as a Target. In the last number of The New Englander Professor W. II. Brewer, who holds the Norton professorship of griculture at Yale university, has an irticle deploring the growing tendency to regard the American farmers as a legraded and ignorant class. To prove that this tendency exists Professor Brewer cites, among other evidences, the increasing volleys of humor shot by :he "funny men" of the newspapers at the farmers, and in the general derisive areatment that the farmer is receiving rom the writers in our journalism, ll this, in Professor Rirewer's opinion, s chiefly the outcome of the foreign idea >f the farmer. Profess&r Brewer points >ut the old view of the farmers in Europe as a degraded class, and the rigin of the words "churl," "vilflein" md"peasantry" in feudal or later times. [mmigration of foreigners to our east mri cities, and the ideas they have in lused into public opiniion through the ewspapers, have, in his belief, created luite a wrong impression of the real ~ondition of the American farmer-of he social position that he rightfully aolds and of his solid traits of charac :er. The point raised by Professor Brewer is an interesting one, and is ex anded skillfully in his article. But lie robably mnch overestimates-at least we should say so as a matter of observa ion-the influence which the imported vriter or imported ideas exert in form ng the popular conception of the ~merican farmers as a class. CoL. M. B. McSweeny, editor of the Rampton Guardian, has been put mn 1omination by two Democratic Clubs >f his county for the legislature. IIe would make a good member, and we vould be pleased to see him elected if be consents to run. SECRETARY Blaine has given the EIc Kinley tariff bill a black eye and Re ~ublican politicians who have seen President Harrison during the past few' lays represent him as being in a great state of mind over Secretary Blaine's THE COT Ti. N TIE OUTRAGE. Senator Mutler Opposes the ERYort tc T'eble the Tax. WVAsUING';TON, August 8.-Senator Butler made a vigorous fight in the Senate this afternoon against the pro posed increase in the duty on cotton ties recommende1d in the pending tariff bill. He was well fortified with facts derived from personal experience in the cotton-growing country, and it was re freshing to note the ease with which he upset the theories of Senators Ed munds, Hicock and Aldrich. In opening senator Butler called up on Senator Aldrich to explain to the.' Senate and the country why an increase of 35 per cent. to 103 per cent. was pro posed, and vho had suggested it. After considerable backing and filling Sena tor Butler forced him to admit that there had been no requests for an in crease over the present duty, and the advance was gratuitous on the part of the Republican members of the com mittee. This admission appeared to trouble the Republicans, and Senators Edmunds and Hiscock rushed to the rescue of their comrade, and attempted to show that the high rate of protec tion was necessary to encourage home manufacturers to engage in the produc tion of cotton ties. Senator Butler asked them if cotton ties are manufactured in this country, and they promptly replied in the nega- I time. adding that they are all imported Senater Butler, with a confident smilel1 on his face, drew from his desk a pack age of papers, and read statistics to t show that there was a decrease of sever al millions of pounds of cotton ties dur ing the last fiscal year as compared with the importations daring the year previous. Hle said that would indicate t that cotton ties are manufactured in this country. Senator Aldrich remark ed that the mere fact of a reduction in the quantity imported did not prove e that cotton ties are mannfactured in t this country. Senator Butler still had more am- c munition in his locker. So he produced a letter recently received from Messrs. J. B. E. Sloan & Son, cotton factors in b Charleston, in which it was stated that 0 cotton ties imported from England cost f $1.26M per bundle, while American manufacturers are underselling Eng- f land at $1.25 per bundle. Then Senator Butler proceeded to show that, not- b withstanding the American manufac- 1 turers are underselling Englishmen, so sl far as this article is concerned, it was i proposed to make this enormous in- 7 crease in the duty. He denounced it d as robbing, and an attempt to discrimi- h nate against one section of the country v in favor of another. His remarks were h lelivered in his admirable style and d with great force, completely using up i is adv -. saries, who were not familiar a with the subject of cotton ties.-News h: mnd Courier. THE COLORED ALLIANCE.. s ti rrying to Revive the G. 0. F. Through the State Alliance. AIKEN, S. C., August 5.-This has >een a big day in Aiken with the ti :olored people, and the majority of the h housekeepers have had to do their own 0 work, on account of their help being e with the Charleston negroes. At noon a an excursion came in from Charleston, t4 bringing the State Colored Farmers' si Alliance, under the auspices of the t] Powell. Monstral and Blake Hill Sub- .m Alliance. . a After the usual fuss at the depot, a h brass band headed the procession and si they went to the Temperance Hall, n where the speaking was held. It was m intended that it should be purely an c Alliance meeting, although one or two a of them erred and got into politics. ii State Leeturer Thomas Powell acted b as master of ceremonies. Rev. W. RI. Ellis opened the meeting with prayer. p W. J. Grant. nresident of the Colored n Farmers' Alliance, made a very good c; speech, setting forth the good of the Al- a: liance. Sam McKinley, who opposed fi ongressman Dibble at the last elec- t: ion, would drift away into politics.oc- b asionally from the Alliance question. p Among other things he said: "The s: egro was set back prior to this. We o re on the up grade now and do not o mean to take a back seat. We are go- t ing to live and die here. Tillman will work out the white man's salvation c and wve will work out our own." ii From the tenor of his speech, he was an admirer of Captain Tillman. E. J, ti Dickerson, of Aiken's colore~~LAlmygrs. p spoke and t::id tha thasi"Tillman will o: not be able to do what he promises, n and in two years there will be room a: or them." Dickerson has also been an aspirant for Congressional honors. a: S. E. Smith, who opposed Hon. G. D. f< illman for Congress a few years ago, si and at present mail agent on the South n arolina Railway, was the bitterest c; speaker of them all, and told them h hat serious things confronted them tl right around their own doors. John n ary Evans, a Representative from ri this County, andl Earnest Gary, he v said, were both of them entirely unfit d for their places. He harped on the a subject of keeping colored people out p :f white cars, and said that if any white man would insult his wife in a white n ar he would kill him on the spot. t His speech was altogether out of d place and nearly the whole audience a disapproved of it. State Superin- s tendent Daniel T. Middleton made a r favorable sp~eech for the alliance. The 'j follo wing also spoke: Frank Nix, Jr.. f J. W. Lyons of Georgia.and C.F. Cave. The meeting was not held as a politi al one, although many think they are c feeling around. The meeting broke up t while a brother was making a strong a appeal for seventy-two cents to finishi paying the hall rent.-Columbia Reg ister. _________ __ Galvanized Tinimanites. C The Abbeville Medium says: D~uring I the war when a Yankee came over to ur side and took the oath of allegiance e was knoiwn as a "galvanized" Yankee. I Some of t hem were formed into bat. talions but they were never trusted suilicienlly to be promoted to high positions or placed in the front ranks in time of trouble. Neither will a galvan izedi Tillmanite do for the front in this risis. Commenting on the above the Rock IilllHerald says: "Every fellow who has ver been defcated for an oflice and still hngers after the 11eshpots is swinging on to the Tillmnan wagon. They can' t all be elected; some will be defeated, anld then there will be weeping and wailing nd gntashing of teeth. We hope the simon-pure TJillmanites-the men who J are not seeking ollice-will throw al H the 'galvanized' recruits overboard. f they will do this the country wi ll apatud Tfillw:mism for its good sense, s t will teach the professional Palr suekers that thy - are -not yet4 sharp~ eloughi to 'bamnboozie' the farmers." Tm-: color line has beeni drawn at the 1 White Ilouse in a way that cannot fail s to be offensive to the proscribed race.( Albert HIawkins, the negro coachman I ho has driven every president since I the war has been dismissed. not for in- t cmpetenev or neglect of duty, but simplly becai:.se Mrs. Harrison preferred a white coachnmani. Albert has a large s :onstiuency, and its iniluence will t enceforth be irreconcilable against the t THE TUhRE.R TRIAL A REVIEW OF SPARTANBURG'S SENSA TIONAL SERIAL STORY. The Prisoner's Yetrayal of His Wife's Sis ter and Subsequent TiKlling of Her Brother-The Attempt to Lynch Tarner -The Counsel and the Jury. SPARTANB G. S. C.. Aug. 7.-The Turner case has come on, and the trial is actually begun. As reported it was called up yesterday, but some of the witnesses being absent, after wasting nearly all the morning in seeking. to and out, by free use of telegrams.and other means, whether they could be brought here at this term, and after issuing bench warrants for certain ab ,entees, the case was postponed until ,his morning at 9. o'clock. Sufficient ;round for a continuance existed, had :he prisoner desired it, but his counsel ;tated that he was anxious to be tried xithout delay. It will be remembered ;hat Judge Wallace refused bail in this :ase, and Turner has awaited his trial n iail. Few cases have or could excite more nterest than that now in progress. leorge S. Turier, the prisoner at the )ar, is the proprietor of a small cotton actory at Valley Falls, in this county, ix miles from Sprantanburg. About lree years ago he killed a German la )orer named Metzkia, at his store near he factory. The killing produced im nense excitement, but after two trials [urner was acquitted. Between that ime and the killing of Ed. F. Fin ,er, his brother-in-law, on March 7th ast, many things transpired which ight not be the business of the pub ic if the tragedy had not brought them o light. Miss Carrie Finger, the pre ossessing younger sister of Turner's vife, who had just arrived at woman .ood, was discovered to be in an inter sting condition, and a suit was rought by her distressed mother gainst Turner for 825,000 damages for riminally ruining her. Miss Finger 3 a mother. The family difficulties did not end ere. It appears that in the settlement f the estate of the murdered. man's ither. the elder Finger, Turner had iven to some of the Fingers his notes :r large sums of money relative to the urchase of the cotton factory, which elonged to the Finger heirs. These otes are alleged to be unpaid, and iits were begun on some of them. It said also that on ore occasion when urner approached the Finger resi ence for the purpose of seeing the girl e had ruined, one of the brothers le elled a shotgun at him and compelled im to leave the premises in short or er. These matters have come to pub c notice in connection with the ho icide of March 7, and other details ive come out in bold relief not fit for ublication, which all go to make up a ory almost too revolting for credibili The particular incident on which the resenb trial hangs took place on March 1890. Ed. Finger on that afternoon was re irning home from Spartanburg, where e had come with his wagon and driver. n going out of town behad been join I by several men who also had team, ad a train of four wagons proeled gether. The road led past T-urneed ;ore. Shortly before reaching the stor: iey had come up with an abandoned 'oman who lived on Turner's place, ad Finger had some angry words with er. She is supposed to have gone by a iort path down to Turner's store im ediately after. leaving Finger, and ,hat she told Turner may have some ynnection with the homicide. She Is [so supposed to have been used as an istrument in certain of their affairs eore. When the train of wagons got to a int in the public road opposite Tur er's store they stopped, and Turner ime out to the road with his pistol, ad, after some words, three shotstwere red and Finger went a few steps down ie hill and fell, dying before he could e carried to his home. He also had a istol and is said to have fired two 1ots, one of which went off in his cercoat pocket. But in anticipation E the testimony we will not enter into ie details of the encounter. Seldom has the killing of one p~rivate .tizen by another raised such a cry of idignation. The funeral of Ed. Fingrw _ id )Ihave- heerdem~aed by about eople, and if the wishes of very maany E the people had been executed, Tur er would have filled a grave almost 3 soon. There was bitter talk of lynching, ad a crowd came into town one day yr the purpose. It was on this occa on that Mayor Honneman made a ational reputation by capturing the mnnon that the lynching party had auled into Jail street and trained on 1e jail. Sheriff Nichols, one of the lost determined of men, with a posse sady to obey his orders, and armed rith repeating rifles, was in the jail, eclaring that he was ready for the lob, and that they could not kill his risoner until they had first killed him. The lynchers knew that an attack leant dIeath for not a few of them, and heir purpose was, for the time, aban oned. But excitement ran so high, nd there was such danger, that the beriff might have to kill some of his eighbors, tQ defend his prisoner, that 'urner was removed to Columbia jail or safe keeping and was only brought ack here in time for his trial. Immense crowds attend every phase f the case. The court house is so full hat the bailiffs have to stand in the isles with their maces toallow breath ag space for the bar. -- - There are about eighty witnesses, the ,tate having some forty. The anxiety n the part of the crowd to hear the' >roceedings is so great that they climb a the seats at the back of the court oom and give an amphitheatric ap learance to the apartment, viewed from he rail. T urner is represented by an array of ounsel. Messrs. Bomar & Simpson, vho were his leading counsel in the letzkia case, are also retained in this. heir associates are Messrs. Duncan & anders and Nichols & Moore. Assist ng Solicitor Shumpert are Messrs. tanyarne Wilson and D~avid Johnson, r., who have been retained by the amily of the dead man. Judge Samuel lelton is an interested spectator in the rial. Melton & Barrett are the counsel for he Fingers in :he seduction suit. The ury was obtained withcut much delay. n consequence of the absence of wit .esses nothing practically was done in he case for about an hour and a half his morning. No return had been made on one of the bench warrants and be court only dragged. Then the organization of the jury egan, a numuer being put upon their oir dire, and t he following finally con tituted the nanel of twelve : William .Canron, T. .J. Bell, M. M. Moore, D. '. P',fey, W. F. Foster, Ri. M. Otps, Len-y Drever, J. M4. Ezell, D. A. Brew on, A. B. Finch, C. P. Barry, Williamn tvant. On motion of the defendant's coun el, the witnesses were excluded from he court room and taken in charge by he sheriff to prevent their knowing lat tesimon y other give.