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if J vo~~~~L ILT A 1.AN ,N VO._31MAMG S. C. IV]DNE SDAY, FEIIIR 11) 1811N.8 CONGRESSIONAL MATTER. THE APPORTIONMENT BILL PASSED BY THE SENATE. The Bill the Samne as dopted loy the House-Efloots to Increase the Number Voted Down-Kelly Flaunts the Bloody Shirt Which is Resented by Several Democrats. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-In the "en ate at the close of the morning hour the Senate proceeded to the consideration of the apportionment bill as "-unfinished business," and Edmunds addressed the Senate, calling its attention to the fact that the bill took no cognizance what ever of the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, that in case the right of suffrage be denied or abridged in any State, the representa tion of that State should be diminished accordingly. The Senate then proceeded to vote on the amendments proposed by the mi nority, the first being to increase the representation of Arkansas from 6 to 7. The amendment was rejected -yeas, 32; nays, 33. All the Democratic Senators voted for the amendraent and were re inforced by five Republicans-Senators Davis, McMillan, Paddock. Stewart and Washburn. The next amendment was to increase the representation of Minnesota from 7 to 8-also rejected; yeas 31, nays 32. On this vote Casey voted with the Dem ocrats, of whom two less voted than on the precedina vote. The next amendment was to increase the representaton of Missouri from 15 to16. Rejected; yeas 30, nays 3S. The only Republicans voting aye on this amendment were Davis, Paddock and Washburn. Casey, McMillan and Stew art voLed no. The next amendment was to increase the representation of New York from 34 to 35. Rejected; yeas 30, nays 38. Davis and Paddock being the only Re t publicans voting in the affirmative. Davis then withdrew the amendment, fixing the total number of representa tives at 360. Berry offered an amendment fixing the total number at 359 and giving an additional member to Arkansas. Minne sota and New York, and desired to have it voted on as one amendment. A division of it, however, was In sisted on by Hale. Hale then moved to lay the amend- t ment on the table, and that motion was agreed to-yeas 38 ; nays 29. The only Republicans who voted in the negative e were Davis and Washburn. Vest stated why he could not vote for the bill. It was because alarge amount of the population in Missouri. Minnesota. Arkansas and New York was left en tirely without represenation. Gorman also opposed the bill because, as it has been reported, it showed that an error had been made in the city of n New York, were there was a deficit of 0 some 200,000 in the census returns, as c taken,. axid - because he believes that t ttiStie S nd the States of Arkansas, Minnesota and Missouri should each have an additional representative. He thought that in fairness to all the appor tionment should have been left to be 3 made in the next session. a Jones of ArIansas declared his belief % that for his State the census returns it were very defective, and that if the cl truth were known Arkansas had popu- y lation enough to entitle her to seven fc Representatives. b! Morgan spoke of the necessitiy ctf a h: specific declaration in the bill that tihe rr number of Presidential electors in 1892 tr shall correspond with the number of os Representatives fixed in the bill. The gi country had had enough of trials and la troubles and difficulties in connection hi with Presidential elections to admonish b: Conaress to exercise the most extreme s. care in the matter and to make the law n< perfectly clear and definite. The bill was then passed exactly as it ce came from the House-yeas 37, nays 24; ce a strict party vote. n< There was quite a row in the House b4 to-day. Matters ran very smoothly for awhile, until the murder of Matthews, hi the postmaster at Carrolton, Miss., was tb brought up by Kelly in a speech in which ot lhe certified some formal remarks made ju by Lewis, of Mississippi. He denied Si (as stated by Lewis) that the murder of Mj Matthews was attributable to other than pohitical causes. He had the authority to say that Matthews had been killed be cause lhe was a Republican. The gen- to tieman fro~a Mississippi premised his ty remarks with a quotation to the effect a that nothing but good should be said ofa the dead and had heaped slanders upon h( the dead man which lhe would not have in heaped had the man been living. H~e be (Kelly) denied the statements made by ar the gentleman in reg-.rd to the character in of Matthews. 1y Flo wer said that he had heard the ea gentleman from Kansas make speeches a: pitching into the distinguished aentle man fi-om Arkansas (Breckinidge) fe That gentleman had been returned to 1t0 Congress while the constituents of the gentleman from Kansas had turned him at down. The more of such~speeches the hi gentleman from Kansas made. the better H it would be for the Democratic party. 10 Lewis, in reply, said that while the people of the whole country were enjoy-:f ing the privileaes of constitutional hi liberty, the stentorian and stricken voice of the gentleman from Kansas was TI heard, crying, "Murder ! murder !"s "Call the police !" ejaculated Spinola,. in a voice of Modoc terror, and the con trast between the earnest voice of Lewis and the timorous voice of Spinola was i so apparent that for some moments ar< Lewis was unable to proceed on account w of the laughter. on Lewis, continuing, said that in the 'e self-confidence and swift witness in every killing that had occdrred in Missis sippi and Arkansas the gentleman from i Kansas had sought to create the impres- in sion that the people of these States were we in rebellion against the Constitution and tri laws of the United States. t Kellv-"He has proved it." no LewIs-" I want to say to him that he. do is in rebellhon against the mandate of gr< the people as pronounced at the last qu November election. I want to say that n he is in rebellion against his own con stituents, who have relegated him to the shades of private lhfe. I want to say : that he is in rebellion aganist the people D: of Kansas, who have just spoken and kn whose voice has filled the cathedral of m this hemisphere.s but which has faillen H< unheeded on his deaf ear-.w Kelly said that he was not here to set traduce the character of any man. lie oil was defending the character of the Re- his publicans of the South who had been 11C killed because they were Republicans. Istr He was sorry that Mississippi could not ou turnish a man on this floor with enough pa: of justice in him to save him (Kelly) the 1o8 Hooker said that he was getting : little tired of the broad cast accusation: made against the people of Mississipp before a tribunal which had not tih power to try them. He protested agains the raising of sectional animosity. Cannon attempted to put an end t( the political discussion by callIng atten tion to the absolute necessity of th: speedy passage of the appropriatior bills, but his remarks had little effect the controversy being transferred fronr Mississippi to Tennessee, Williams o! Ohio criticising and Richardson defend= ing the conduct of Senator Harris. After a rather stormy scene betweer the chairman (McComas) and Breckin. ridge of Arkansas pertaining to the question of recognition, the committee rose and reported the bill to the House, No quorum appearing the House with out disposition of the bill adjourned. HACKED TO PIECES. Terrible and Brutal Massacre of Christ ians by Low Chi2ese. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29.-There is i recurrence of the old fanatical hatred of Christians in China, more particularly in ;zechuen, where a massacre of Christ ians occurred, of which we have only just got particulars, though the scene is .nly a short distance from Chungking, xhich is now a treaty port. The converts of the Franciscans and Lazarists are very numerous in Szechuen, tnd we frequently hear of trouble be ween them and the followers of the =opular religions-Confucianism, Bud Ihinm and Taouism-but it is seldom iowadays that the fanaticism of the per ecutors proceeds as far as killing its un rtunate objects, as was the case with he small Christian community of Loongti-hsn, in the TaChu prefecture. In the middle of the night an attack vas L.ade by several thousand of the vorEt dregs of the populace, infuriated )y !anaticism and eged on by the hopes f a rich booty. They raided the houses f fifty or sixty Christian families, set he buildings on fire, and carried oft verything portable. The mission premises were surrounded .nd burned, amidst the howls of infuri ted villains who threw a number of hristians into the burning bulldings, rhere they perished in the most horrible gony, which proceedings were watched ith devilish pleasure by their erstwhile eighbors. The murderers seized upwards of wenty reoe victims in the neighborhood, nd butchered them in cold blood, and iti all the revolting refinements of cru ty which the placid looking Chinese un erstand so well. Most of the bodies of au murdered people were cut or hacked pieces and thrown into the river. During all this time the officials were visible, and the inpression in well in rmed quarters is that they kept out of ae way on purpose. The magistrate at 'a Chu kept himself locked up in hIs ya en, though he knew what N as going n outside, for the European priest in harge of the mission fled to the magis ate's residence for safety. Hard on His Lawyers. NEW YoRK, Jan. 29.-Harris -A. mler was convicted in June of killing (aggie Dramey, in a house on Seventh venue, near Twenty-sixth street, to hich she had fled to escape his brutal y. His conviction was affirmed by the urt of appeals. He was arraigned sterday in the court of general sessions ir resentence to death. Smiler was a gamist as well as a murderer, and both swife and Maggie Drainey, the wo an he had tdgamously married, were oublingr him for support. He set out ie night to kill them both, killed Mag e Drainey and was arrested three hours er as he was en 3ering the house where swife lived. When Smiler was asked SChief Clerk Sparks what he had to y as to why judgment of death should a be pronounced against him, he said : "1 didn't have a lair trial. I was de ved in my counsel. My counsel de ived me all along. My counsel was t fit to defend anybody. I could make ~tter counsel out o'a handful of mud." Judge Fitzgerald told Smiler that he d had a fair and thorough trial and at the jury could have arrived at no her verdict upon the evidence. The dge sentenced Smiler to die at Sing n~ within the week beginning Monday, A Battle to the Death. LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 29.-A battle the death took place in Mercer Coun between a valuable saddle stallion :d a jackass belonging to William omas, a stock raiser. A few days ago mad dog bit Thomas's little boy and rse. The horse went mad and kick g down the door of the jackass' stable gan biting him. The jack retaliated, i for fifteen minutes they fought, us-1 their teeth, heels and forefeet. Final. the jack tore loose the stallion's left rwith his teeth and the horse then bit iece from the jackass' neck. his seemed to make the jack more1 ocious than ever and, grabbing the er part of the horse's neck in his ~th, he tore out the windpipe, but the h-mettled stallion did not give up before falling he kicked the jack's d leg, breaking it just below the hock. ethen fell dead. The jack uttered a g loud bray and went into his stable. Swas covered with blood and so fear ily wounded that his master killed n to putt him out of his misery. ihe boy was treated with a madstone. e stone stuck three times and lhe sws no sign of rabies. It is believed t he will recover. Indians Eaten by Wolves. WiNNu-EG. Jan. 30.- Rev. J. Sette, ssionary among the Indian tribes und Latke Winnipeg and Manitoba, ites that camps of tndians hunting the East side of Lake Winnipeg, not v far from Rlood Vein River near g Head, were visited by a band of lves about one~ hundred in number. ~cy attacked the camps and killed ny Indians and devoured them. One ian cudgeled and killed twenty Iyes, another Indian climbed up a e with his gun and shot down nty. One got on astage~which was very high and the wolves got him vn and devoured him. There is a ~at panic among the Indians in that rter. The Indians say there aret deer. consequer.thy the wolves are d with hunger. Horrible Death. LORENCE, S. C., Janl. 29.-Capt. t ve Morecocx, of thlis place, was i: cked ol of the freight train a few r es below Florence tis morning. 1: was not missed until the next station r *s reached, and having gone back in r rh of him, he was ibund suspended of the bridge over Lynch's creek, shoes having caught on an iron pin. y is supposed not to have known what ck him, as his brain was knocked ia . lHe leaves a .yound wife here and a ents in North Carolina to mouen his r 5. The Knights of Pythias will take r THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT. Activity Among Leaders Caused By Sen ator Ingalls' Defeat. NEW YoRK. Jan. 31.-A short time ago there was news that the action of the third party boomers throughout the country would be governed, in a large measure, by the result of the great struggle over Ingalls in Kansas. If the Farmers' Alliance could not control the politics of a state in which it had a heavy majority oi the voters, it would have no prospect of success in a national movemet; :but if, on the other hand. it should win in its first serious campagm in a northwestern state. the fact would be proof that the time had arrived for the organization of a new party in the United States. Kansas was the pivotal state, and there the signal was to be hoisted. The Alliance had shown itself to be all pow erful in several southern states; but there was an imperative necessity that it should win a triumph in the north. Its succees at Topeka this week is, there fore, an incident of first-class importance to the third party boomers.P Even President McGrath, of the Kan sas Alliance, who was last year opposed to the formation of a new party, has changed his mind. The Alliance man agers in Nebraska and Minnesota are ready to follow the leadership of Kansas, and several of the Alliance leaders in the south are dssirous of co-operating with their northern brethren in a nation al political movement. It is believed that the four states of Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and South Dakota are suffi cient to form a nucleus around which other states will yet rally. The Alliance boomers are to take up the business of preparing for the Nation al Union conference which is to be held in Cincinnati upon a date that has not vet been fixed. The call for this conference, which was- issued in Decem ber last, bore the signatures of Ailiance officials in seventeen northern and I southern states, and all industrial or ganizations were invited to take part in it. The Knights of Labor, will send delegates to it, and half a dozen agricul tural associations, inciuding the Color ed Farmers' Alliance, will be represent ed at it. The greatest of all the trade union bodies in this country, the Ameri can Federation ot Labor, has given no tice that it cannot take any part in the conference or in the formation of a new a political party. The experiment of bringing together I the workers in the cities and the tillers of the fields in order to gain political ends was made in Washington last week at a conference held by the so-called In :dustrial Confederation, but the result of the experiment was not encouraging to those concerned in it. So far as can be learned by the re ports from various states. the platform t and the measures of the Kansas Farm- r eas' Alliance are likely to find favor at t the Cincinnati conference, for Kansas carries the flag. Poisoned at a Boarding School. NEW YoRK, Feb. 1.-Miss Helen I Potts, daughter of George II. Potts, a 1 wealthy railroad and mine owner, who V lives at Asbury Park, and has an office c at 40 Wall street, died suddenly this r morning in the boardinE school of Miss 9 Lydia Day. No 32, W 40th street from morphine poison. d Miss Potts, who was a beautiful and 1 accomplished girl, 20 years old, had g een an inmate of Miss Day's school a for about a year, finishing her educa- t ion. She had been troubled with ner- r; ousness and insomnia for some time, y nd had received a prescription fromg arlyle W. Harris, a medical student, a und a warm personal friend of herself ci nd her family. This prescription el alled for 25 grains of quinine and one ,o ~rain of morphine, to be made into six ci ~apstles, one of which was to De taken ~ightly. n The prescription was put up at McIn ~yre's drug store, 992 6th avenue, Hiar- T~ is kept two capsules, and gave the y thers to Miss Potts, telling her to fol- si ow directions. That day Harris left e >wn for Old Point Comfort, and while u ~here, he received a letter from Miss at Lotts, saying that the medicine had , iven her a severe headache-.t On Thursday last Harris returned to m :e city, and calling on Miss Potts told d er to continue taking the capsules. c ast evening the young lady took an- ir ther capsule, and at 11 o'clock her at >om mates were awakened by her er eavy breathing and they found her al- w ost unconscious. Medical aid was at di nce summoned and the doctors pro ounced the patient suffering from arcotic noisoning. They worked with igor and restored her by 6 o'clock in g e morning, leaving her at that time b' ut of danger. At 4 o'clock they were er gain summoned to find her at the p, oint of death, all their efforts were er navailing and she died at 11 o'clock to is morning. Mb The idea of suicide in the case is out ao rf the question, and there are several tE eories as to the cause of death-.a The prescription may have been put at ip by an unexperienced dIruggist, who w bstitutedl morphine for quinine ; the hole grain of morphine might have th een put into one capsule, or the girl in ay have had the prescription rene wed al Ld died of the cumulative action of a rge number of capsules. The coroner o' ill make a thorough investigation. g Bonto Atoms. CAnRMEL, N. Y.. dJan. 29.-At about j 50 in the morning, an explosion oc- ro rred at the works of the reservoi r li Lm in course of construction near ht ~raft's station, on the New York and ~orthern railroad. A considerable , antity of giant powder was stored in t tool box, and the foreman, Conrad o nnelly, undertook to pry open the lid, Ce ~hich had been frozen (down, with a owbar. Just exactly how it happened ii 0 one knows, but Connelly was liter ly blown to atoms, all that could be nI und not filling a box a foot square. er nnelly leaves a wife and two chil en. The concussion shook buildings to ree miles distant. ___di An Appeal F'romi the Poor. C IhAMBURG, Jan. 31.-Four thousand re employed workmen of thus city held b meeting Sunday to consider measures i ~oking to an amelioration oi their con tion. It was resolved to send a peti n to the Senate asking that landlords bc prohibited on the next quarter day wi ~om evicting tenants unable to pay their bY nts also asking that loans of 50 marks advanced to destiute workmen from s ie state funds andl that poor children I ' p lublic schools be suppliedl with hot ca eals (dally. The committee formed to lp relieve the distress of the unemi- gry oved distribute over ten thousand free ari eals daily. ___ Picked a Pimple and Died. L ANCA.<rER, Pa., Jan. 29.-Frank .J. err, a prominent farmer, died here l o blood poisoning. Three weeks ago a noticed a small pimp~le on his hand d picked it open. .lIe took cold, blood $ isoning followed and death was the aln ~sult. A wife and twvelve children sur- age lye h17 A GHASTLY SIGHT. THE DEAD BODY OF ALLICE MCLEOD FOUND IN THE CONGAREE. The Detectives Follow Strong Clues Which Result in Finding That a Mur der Had Really Been Committed-The Links of Evidence. CoLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 29.-Alice Mc Leod's dead body has been found! And it shows that a dastardly murder has been committed. It was stripped of its clothing, and with hands and feet bound together she was lowered to a watery grave. with a massive weight of rocks around the middle of her body. Last night Detective J. W. H1olloway asked that Officer Donald Harrison be detailed to go with him to the willows on the bank of the river to grapple for the body of Alice NleLeod. The Chief I gave the permission, and Mr. Holloway had two strong grab-hooks made. Arm ed with them the two men went to the river this morning. Hired a boat, managed by a negro boatman, and they glided out a short distance from the shore right from the spot where the footprints mentioned elsewhere were found. This place is just below the Pearce quarry. They started to grapple in the open space just in front of this place. As the boat swung around Detective I1olloway's grapple struck something and caught. This was in less than five minutes af ter they had commenced fishing for the body. The obstruction in which the grab caught was less than six feet from the shore. The detective pulled hard and a heavy weight moved. They then realized that they had the body, and with a pow erful pull that almost overturned the boat the almost nude body was raised to the surface of the water. Officer Harrison leaned over the edge of the boat and tied a rope around the dead woman's neck. Then the boat was slow ly turned towards the shore and the iody was dragged out of the water mnd laid on the bank. The body was almost nude, no cloth ng appearing on it except a chemise. vhich was slightly torn. The woman's iands were tied together with a stout ?i.ee of rope, and even her feet were rossed and bound together in the same aanner. Around the woman's bod3 oas tied a sack full of large rocks, which made a heavy weight. This bag vas tied with heavy ropes. No sign of her being killed before >eing thrown in the water appeared n her body. There was no stab vounds visible, but, of course a close xamination of the body could not be nade until the Coroner arrived. The voman's throat was, however, much wollen and of a dlark black color, ho wing she had been choked to death, >robably before being thrown in the vater. After laying the body out on he bank the olicers deputized the boat nan to guard it, and hastened up street o inform the Sheriff, Coroner and the ,hief of Police of their ghistly find. A telephonic message at 3 o'clock, owever, had preceded them, and the Zecord man sped away to the scene. n the meantime the news had spread C ke wildfire in the lower section of he city, and men, women and children ;ere all much wrought up by the dis overy. Many at once went to the iver and viewed the body in all its t hastliness. Even while the woman was being t ragged from the river an old negro as found by the detectives who can ive the only absolute testimony gainst the negro in the jhil. H-e says aat lie met Waites Martin on the rail-e :ad track dragging Alice McLeod to ards the river. On arriving at the ' heriff's office the detectives immedi tely notified the Coroner, and he ac >mpanied by the oflicers and many irious persons, left ior the scene at nce. At this hour 4:30 p. in., the ex tement is running high. Waites Martin, ere this, had been re toyed from the station house and con-t ed in the most secure cell in the jail. t here has already been talk of a lynch-t ig, but Sheriff Rowan will see that all ~ ich attempts shall be properly dealt ith. The condition of the body shows at the murder was most diabolical 4 id premeditated and that the woman ti as undoubtedly killed before she was e trown in the water. What makes it be ore heinous is the fact that the mnur- hi ~rer must have spent hours iWith the is ~rpse arranging the plans for dispos- sy g of it. Officers Harrison and Hall se id Detective Iholloway deserve much A edit for their perseverance, even bi hen the Sheriff and Chief of Police j scredited the mi rder theory.-Record cl Cleveland and Hill Meet. a NEW YOR~K, Jan. 31.-At a dinner ~ yen to-night at the Manhattan Clu" Senator ~Wm L. Brown to the Gov- e nors of the club and six others, Ex- c ~esident Grover Cleveland and Gov nor David B. Ilill met each other face face. The centennial banquet, at thie sr etropolitan Opera Ihouse two years o, was the last occasion upon which i ev met. Since then they have been strangers, and many thiingsi written dsaid of the two men only tended to den the breach. v To this conuiition of affair was due e great interest taken ini their meet- r g at thme dinner to-night, although the S rair was a strictly pirivate one. Ex-P'resident Cleveland arrived at 7r :lock andl moved about among the bc tests shaking hands and conversing t a most pleasant manner. At a quar r to 8 o'clock the banqueters, thirty *o in number, entered the library te om, where the table was set. The ta- T a a in the form of an oval. At the ad sat Senatar Brown with Lieuten- t t G;overnor .]ones on his left, and a t tt for Governior 11111. who had niot at at timearri ved, on his right. At the posite end of the table was Fred R1. ndert, president of the club. Ex sident Cleveland occupied a seat on s s right and Ben .J. Wood on his left. c.1 At e o'clock Governor Ilill was an- t unced. As he entered the room mn erv one arose and applauded. The ar >vernior advanced to his seat, bowed ha Senator Brown, and then, looking thi rectly at Cleveland, smiled aind bowed. on velind as pleasantly returred the ac ognition. The Governor then wed to theC other gentlemen and took dir s seat. A Mob Kill Two Negroes. l~iiuMxO lor, Ala., Jan. 31.-At Car nl Ili, Walker county, a mob of qu ite men surrounded a cabin occupiedl as mine negroes and lired lifty shots. no illiam Denman and John William i, were gilled, and seven others onuded, two fatally. The mob es ped unhurt. The supposed caus- L is the work of the mine strikers, C( lose places had b een taken by the ne wl Des. More trouble is feared and as and ammunition sent for. d(l _________be Hot springs Cooled Ofr. ab AJAnT. .Fcbruary 2.-A tornado kil ssd over Ihot springs about umideiah~t ho t night. Cone store was comletely ser eked, with a loss of stock c f about liv 500. Tf be Baptist chiurchl was flooded, k i several residences were slightly dam- ced d. Much alarmn was caused, but no wi IT LOO M uLv. Serious Diiculty of the Aiiiauce Store at Spartanburg. SPARTANBUo;, Feb. 3.-Unless all signs fail we will soon have the biggest sensation Spartanburg has witnessed for some years. In a former letter I gave some of the rumors which were atloat concernin; the trouble the "Alliance Store" was in. Developments have "fol lowed fast and followed faster" in the last two days, and it is now settled be yond peradventure that the concern has smashed to flinders. During Sunday everything was of course quiet, but there was an undercurrent of expectant ex citement which steadily increased all day Monday. Everyb->dy knew that there were near S10.000 in claims held for varions merchants by several law firms in this city. The legal fraternity was on the qui rice during the w iole day, and one or more of them were at the Ailiance store all the time. Nicholls & Moore, Carlisle & Ilydrick, Bomar & Simpson and Johnson & Thomas all held claims and were exceedingly desirious of conferring with Mr. McZiminerman, the Alliance agent. The houses that these gentlemen represent are scatter ed fro-i Baltimore to Atlanta, in which latter city one house is involved to the exeat of 7.000. Late yesterday even ing Johnson & Thonmason and Nicholls & Moore issued an injunction against the house and attempted.to take posses sion. Sheriff .Nicholls and his deputies went down to the Alliance store with that object, but failed to make an en trance, the house being closed, and they not considering their papers warranted them in breaking in. Mr. McZimmer man was ia the place all the while and would extinguish the lights whenever they applied for admission. Finally the Sheriff stationed a guard about the house who were to watch them until a late hour at night. This they did, but after they left the place, notwithstanding the fact that it was a horrible night, McZimmer man moved a large quantity of goods to the Air Line depot, where they were iiscovered this moruing. It is now un :lerstood that he had sold out to a firm in Charlotte. The goods were attached 'his morning and papers were served ipon McZimmerman whilst he was yet in bed, by the Sheriff, and now every .ody is expecting some startlir.g devel >pements every hour. The executive committee of the AUi mee held a meeting here yesterday and inally determined that they did not iold themselves liable for McZimmer nan's debts. They said that he had no ttithority from them to conduct the )usiness as he had been conducting it, Lud that consequently his creditors nust look to him for payment. The :reditors claim of course that the Alli tnce is liable, but in view of the doubt >n the subject a pretty lively seuflle for that is in sight is in progress. Your correspondent saw yesterday a ,entlemari who had been in charge of he branch store which McZimmerman ias been running at Clifton. He said te could not imagine how it was possi le for so many debts to have been con racted, for he knew personally that he goods were bought on thirty and ixty days' time and sold for cash, con equently there should always have een plenty of funds to liquidate all laims. The same man said that the tore at Clifton had a stock of $4,000. 'his morning it was learned that Mc immerman sold it Saturday for $4,000 a cash. The fishy appearance of this ransaction is creating much comment, s is likewise the fact that it is known 1 bhat as far back as last Fridav he was elling out large qr.antities of the Clifton tock at a price -far below cost. The npression prevails that the develop ients from now on will have a decid diy crooked tendency. Some persons, who claim to know rhat they are talking about, say that iere will be $30,C00 to be paid by the1 siliance or somebody else. Others put from $10,000 to S153,000.I SPARtTANBUJRG, Feb. 3.-This after oon counsel for MlcZimmermnan ap ealed for time on the injunction,i hichf was to have been heard this af ~rnoon, and the case was postponedt 11 Thursday afternoon. To-morrow iey will apply to set aside the attach-t Lent on the goods.-Greenville News. IRev. Sam Jones has a FIaht. PA LEsTINE, Tex., Feb. 3.-At a series meetings held here in November last s te Rev. Sam Jones, of Carterville, Ga., ccited much comment and enthusiam, >th for the large number of conversions e effected for various religious denom-.5 ations and for the vigorous manner in a hich he assailed sinners in general and, veral individuals in particular.. mong the latter who were sharply re iked by the Evangelist was Mayor J. I Ward, to whose oilicial and private aracter he alluded to in the severest a id most pointed terms. T~he mayor ~ as absent from the city at the time and e announcement that the well-known v, 'angelist would be here again to deliver tl s lecture, "Get there," caused much ex tement and there was a rush for seats. n nes arrived on Receiver Bonner's n ecial car at 8 last night and the lect- r; e was delivered before a large audience t the Opera Ilouise. At the station this morning, just be re the evangeist took the trin for the ast,Mayor Ward was seen approaching. a tering a few words the mayor then P ;;orously attacked JTones with a cane. ie cane changed hands and the mayor ::eived several blows. Before the by muders could part the angry combat .ts heav'y bruises were inflicted and 0 th bled profusely. In a few minutesa e train pulled out of the station with mn Jones on board. C Mayor Ward was subsequently arrest- E and placed under bonds for aggrava- g .1 assault and for carrying a pistol. I ie mayor avows his right to carry t ~apons and declears he had no inten n of carrying his resentment furthert an caning .Jones. The Alliance llank. CoLMmuA. JIan. 2.-The trustee 3I >ckholers of the State Allhance Fx- ~ aug~e have been in session almost con nously today since 10 o'clock this of >rning~ until after idnight, tryingr to 'auire for a State alliance bank. The si ok has been organized, hioweer, lbut :b members absolutely retused1 to giv'e be e word for publication, keeping their tion a stricet secre'.. pl l'he stockholders elected the following U eetors andl adjourned: JT. A. Shiih, i .HI. Timmerman. JT. F. Tindall, J. V.1 I >kes, J. T. and D. P. Duncan.s The board of directors held a subse-- 12 ent meeting, b~ut did not elect otlicers, far as can be ascertained. They will t say' when they will meet again. e Dead Drunk on the Track. E ASHiEVILLE, February 2.-Daniel e andl Andrew Caldwell. 01' Madion Iis unty, while under the iniluence o fli iskey, lay down on the track yester y mornmng and was run over by a ivy freight train which left Marshall >ut 5 o'clock. Lee was instan tly 1el led, his body being cut in two anda crible mangled. Caldwell wais so C ieusly injured that he can hardlyv e. One leg was cut oll' below the ti cc. and the other was badly crush- et A jug ot liquor, which they had cr :h themi was not injured. Both men th re marem anal loev rnmilic n MARTIN CONFESSES. THE MURDER:R BREAKS DOWN ANI TELLS ALL ABOUT HIS CRIME. The Horriblie Story itelated to the Sherli -Kissed His Victim Good-bye Aftei Choking Her to death and Threw tho Body In the River. CoLUMBIA. S. C., Feb 2.-Waite Martin has confessed that he kille( Alice McLeod. Yesterday mornine Sherifl' Rowan went into MNartin's cage %vhere he was chained down to the floor and sat down upon a box near him. II( asked him whether he had an accomlnict or not and what connection anybody elsE had with the murder. Ife told Martin h did not wish him to implicate himself, bul he wanted him to tell the truth as therc was already enough evidence againsi him to hang him. The question was such that it could not be answered witl ease and the negro after mature delibera tion decided that it was best to make voluntary confession. After awhile he said: "I will tell you the truth." and stat. ed that lie would relate the whole mat ter. The Sheriff told him if he did not tell the truth he would stop him. Mar tin said "all right" and he told his story cubstantially as follows : Ile said that on Fiday evening, some time before dark, %e was standing on Schultz's corner, one square from the shanty car, waiting for Alice to come and go up street with him, when a man whom he had never seen before came up to him and asked if that woman over by the car was not the woman who had staid at Lena Hammonds' durin Fair week. Martin told him "yes," and the fellow said, "Well she owes me some money whicn I must have." Martin told him that was none of his business, and the man went away. Martin says he then went to the car and asked Alice to go home. She re fused and he pushed her out into the darkness. She arain refused and he caught her by the throat and choked her. Ile turned her loose and she still refus ed; lie then pulled her on, and when they were near the oil mill feice he caught her by the throat and choked her again. When he turned her loose he noticed she did not rise, and then it tlashed across his mind that he had mur dered her. Martin says after that discouerv lie was so scared that he did not know what he was doing, but if he had it to do over again he would come straight to the jail and surrender himself. The Sheriff asked him. "Well. what next?" Martin continued his story, and said bie then put the (lead body on his back md carried it as far as he could down the railroad track towards the quarry. rhe body was so heavy that he had to put it down and rest twice. Where the path leads from the railroad to the quarry ie again laid the body down. here lie conceived the idea of stripplng it. le sal s he did not %now why he did it. At any rate ie lay the body down and stripped it of ts clothing just as it was found. le lhrew the clothes in a bundle to one ide and left them. He then took the >ody on his back and carried it to the iver bank and laid it down. He then -ame back to the quarry and secured he stone. le said lie did not get it rom his yard. Ile then came up the rack to the compress platform, where ie got a sack and then went back. Pick ng up the rock on the way lhe went back .o the body. Ie said the sack he is said o0 have gotten from the closet in his iouse was taken on Friday morning and ie had brought potatoes in it. Those vere the potatoes that Alice was sell After going back to the body, he took lie bag and prepared to conceal it. Ie fixed it just as it was found, and hen he says lie drew it to a point in the iver just above where it was found. I~e avs he kissed the dead woman's cheeks nad threw her into the water. In doing o lie slid her down gently into the rater. When the prisner told of kissing the orps he broke completely down and lep like a child. His subsequent 2ovements lie seemed unable to des ribe, but says that when he went home e (lid not go in the window, but went in ic door. Hie positively asserted that e had never seen Washington until he mw him on the car, arid that lie had othing whatever to do with the murder. 3Martin told his tale in a straightfor ard manner. Some still hold the 1eory that the woman was kille d in bed. Sheritf~ Rowan yesterday afternoon made a hunt for the clothes, hut could ot find them, and lie thinks some igno tnt field hand has found them and taken iem away Martin says lie knowvs lie must (die, ad says he wants to have his trial over id sentence passed on him as sooni as ssible.--Record. The Ghost of the War. Fort SIITr, Ark., Feb. 6.-Bishop ohn P. Newman (the great war Meieth list) of the 31. E. Church has just osed the session of the one hundredth inual Arkansas Conference in this ty. In an interview to-day lie ex ressed the following sentiments in re- 1 ird to the force bilh: "I saw poor Windom a month ago. was in his oflice in Washington. I hIl himu that he could think of force -omn now until the end of time andC LOat tfley would accomplish nothing.C ublic conscience is the energy of law. 'e must secure an intellectual and oral elevation to the masses through I these Southern States. Then thei rue b~ills would b~e unniecessary. 'I am opposedl to invoking the ghostt the wvar. There are some of our old nited States Senators who are alwayst tting at banquet with the spirits of I spartedh heroes around them-it is the, mn(uet of the dead. "Everybody knows thdt I am a R~e iblican, having been Chaplain of the nited States Senate under the admin- ~ tration of Grant and IHaves, and that ~ am loyal to the last degree. At the me time my future as a Republican ~ before me, though her party manag s ait as if the future of the party C as behind them. Religion andl edlu .tion are the great remedies for these t >litical evils. Our national legisla- 1. an is carried on as if we were two d ople, whien it ought to be as if we f ere one. If a force bill is needed, it t needed as much in the North as it is 1I the South." t S. Demaocrats Vitros T.LoUIs, Feb. 5.-Special dispat- t os from Oklahoma City say :"Later e id oflicial returns of Wednesday'sf )lnty elections show that the D~emo ats and Alliance tickets have been etorious. Guthrie and Logan Coun as elect a straight Democratic tick- I ,Payse County half and half Demo- Is stic and Alliance. King fisher and 1. ree Counties ot the South are solidly t - THE APPORTIONMENT. The i'.istice Done to New York and Other States. BinOOLYN, .Feb. 1.-The Brooklyn Eagle has compiled the following table on the new apportionment, which is of r special interest. That paper says: While the apportionment bill is gen erally regarded as a compromise, there can be no doubt that it does injustice to several States, including New York. Under its provisions the total mem bership of the House of Representa tives after March 4, 1891, will be 35G, an incz ease of twenty-four over the pres ent number. No State losses a repre sentative. One member each is gAined by thirteen States, two each by four States, and three by one State. This table illustrates the gain by States: Present New States. number. number. Gain. Alabama..............s Arkansas ....... .....5 California............. ... Colorado..................1 2 Georgia .......... ...11 1 Illinois.........20 22 2 Kansas................ .. . Massachusetts.......... 12 'Michigan......... . 12 1 Minnesota . .2 Missouri .......14 15 1 Nebraska .........: New Jerey..........7.. Oregon ...... ...............1 2 1 Pennsylvania...........28 : 2 Texas..................11 1 Washington ...............1 2 1 Wisconsin ....... ..9 10 1 Of the twenty-four new members, fourteen go to the west. Nebraska's quota of three is doubled. Minnesota and Illinois gain two each. One each is added to Calitforiiia, Colorado,"Michi gan, Oregon, Washington and Wiscon sin. The South profits by the increase but nut so much as the wvest. If Mis souri be counted a southern State, that section gains a total of six seats. Four of these go to Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia andi Missouri, and the remain ig two to Texas. In the middle States, Pennsylvania gains two and New Jer sey one. Massachusetts, with an. addi tion of one, is ithe only New Englandf State 'hat shows a change. These changes will exert an impor tant, though nvt a decisive, bearing on the electoral vote. Under the existingt apportionment that vote is 401. Under I the new bill there will be 444 membersc in the electoral colle-.,, requiring 223 1 to elect. The gain in vectors by StatesI is as follows:c Present -New a Alb ma......... . 0 1 1 i States, number, number. Gain.I Arkansas............ . 1 California.......... 1t Colorado .. .......... - 4 1 b Connecticut .......... i Delawvare .......... :; 3 Florida............... 4 4 - Georgia..........12 13 1 Illinois ..........2 .. 2 24 2 D Indiana ..........15 15 - Iowa ............13 13 - Idaho................3 - Kansasi.................9 10 1 Kentucky t y........-u ne13 13m Lor~siana ......... .... 8 h Maine got.hete............bra; s Maryland ....... .. M1assachusetts ......14 15 1 Mlichigan ..........13 14 1 r Minnesota the.... d Mississippi g t wo e 9 eac Missouri l counte at 17 t1 Montana a total 3 - Nebraska ... 3 e. Nevada . o to - Newrgampshie d 4 4 -rm i New Jersey - 10 1 f New York ... ... 1 363 - h North Carolina ssahustts 11 11 - c Sorth Dakota ows a.chan. 3 Ohio ..............23 23 t( OregoYn.................41 P ensehan ges wilexr 2nipr tan ho ugh not. a eliebern n Soth elecoalot. 4 Une-heitn apportioeettat. vte12 412 Une I Texas..fo ..lo 13s:2 c Alabmnt.........4.10 Airkansa............. W estlif rnia.......... Wconsin..............3 Cosn tnecict......... 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West paVrlfrgini..........Gr amut nu $W77cprnsin............s forc wib e Wash ncac i ntot..............:si- 1 t5 cTSodeas ................f0ve boy th Ive alrady1nte thei should vo ta te Stegs and desreitoiente the co888, the aspuoonaso ld Twhaed25 elctfs orse os are fro teots countrb lican mortoe saG. thttos h As toenoter othe Columbiear shudregis-e yh very robaly iited Fot threforlte lt prpmore appleints thata prges has m bedemde ibuligThreoter Pridnt~ Strode, wh is receivn headbe oth frollgi the pba rit manfo he posteda for evorting tagais done aoeti1 -ierythin Caenti.PoSrd has juttenr-e-i< thiosixd yearks moe heing shd ari .rttn hot nt shp,:jrcieth aa THE PENSION GRAB. NEARLY $400,000,0CO APPROPRIATED FOR PENSIONS. Ingalls Explains His Position on the Force Dill and Closure Rule-He Op poses Both Measures Because They Were revolutionary and Unconstitu tional. WAsIIN(T0N, Feb. 5.-In the Senate this morning, Ingalls, rising to a per sonal statement, said that he had been absent from the Senate during the past two weeks, in which interval action had been taken on the closure rule and on the election bill. His attitude on both of these questions had been the subject of comment, of course, and of animadversion. On the day of his departure, after consultation with Allison, on whom he had been accustomed to lean in every hour of need, he had left with Casey (who had charge of the pairs of the ab sentees) a note saying : "I should vote against the proposed change of rules. and should vote for the motion to pro ceed to the consideration of any other than the election bill, and am paired ac cordingly with Senator Allison, who is at liberty to vote to make a quorum. He had been opposed, he said, unal terably opposed, to the adoption of closure for many reasons, srfficient and satisfactory to himself. There were those prasent who know that many months ago, while occupying the chatr in the absence of the Vice-President, he resisted many rrgent impertunitiesand many strenuous solicitations to co-opei r:.te in that direction by methods by Thich he then believed and now be - ieved were revolutionary and'subver ive of the fundamental princiDles of lonstitutional government. He had, lot since any occasion to change or nodify his convicti-ins. He was now ard always had been in avor of a just and impartial election aw, directed alike against force-and . raud, non-partisan and applicable-,r qually to all parts of the nation. The * neasure under consideration, however - - lid not in many of its details receive-5 he sanction of his judgement. It ap >eared to him to be cumbrous, comp ated and obscure in many of its >rovisions an:i difficult of application. t subordinated the judiciary to politi 2 al control and opened the treasury to n indefinite expenditure without the equisite supervision, and in violation a his judgment, of the spirit if not the tter of the provisions of the Constitu ion that declared that no money shall e drawn out of the treasury except in onsequence of appropriations made by 1w. In order to guard against the enact 2ent of such a measure into law in his bsence and without the amendments ,hich he regarded as essential to pre ent dangers not less distinct than ,ose which it was intended to obviate, e had reserved the right to vote (in is absence) with those Republicans rho favored the consideration of other nportant measures, unless those mod ications were made. He had no ar angement, agreement, or understand ag express or implied, direct ect, remote or contingent, to ha ote counted against the passage of the lection bil, and in that statement he ras convinced that he would be:con rmed and corroborated by the Senator -om Iowa. He was as ready now as e had always been to proceed with its ansideration and (with modifications 'hich he had always believed essential) support it to the end. Allison deemed it due to himself to ty that, on every occasion when he ad the opportunity, he had Stated dis netly that he had no pair with galls on votes respecting the election dll. The pension appropriation bilk was iken up. It appropriates for pension r the year, $133,173,085; for fees and cpenses of examining surgeons, $1L )0,000; for salaries of eighteen pension rents.8$72,000, and for clerk hire $300, ). The latter item is increased by an nendment of the committee on appro riations to-400,000. Another amend-' ent re-ported from the committee rikes out the proviso limiting to $2 Sthe compensation of pension attor sy, and inserts in lieu of it a proviso ailting such compensation to 85. - The latter amendment gave rise to a try long discussion. In the course of te discussion, McPherson inquired of llison whether the amount appropri ed in the bill would be sufficient for .e year. Allison believed that it would be, g- admitted that there might be a de ~iency oZ five, six, eight or ten millions >llars. On the other band there might a surplus; but he thought it more tely that the :e would be a deficiency. McPhe'son asked how many applica >ns had been made under the last Act last year. Allison gave the number up to Jann y 10 as 529,000, of which only eight or ne thous md had been yet allowed. Quay moved to add to the provision to fees the proviso that it shall not ply to any case now pending where ere is an existing lawful contract; d Cockrell moved to add to Quay's 1endment the wot is: In writing on in the departe ent. C'ockrell's amendment was disagreed and Quay's was agreed to. ockrell offered an amendment pro ling that hereafter no pension shall allowed or paid to any officer, non mmissioned officer, or private in the. rny, navy or marine corps, either on Live or retired list. Agreed to with t division. AlJl thbe committee amendments hay i been agreed to, the bill was passed, nvart not oifering the amendment which he had given notice-to in t the free coinage bill as a part of Spension appropriation bill. l'he Senate then on motion of Blair yk up the Ihouse bill to provide for adjustment of the accounts of Ia rers, wo kmnen and mechanics arising der the eight hour law. ilair explained the circumstances ieh for ned the b~asis of the bill and d it had been estimated that it would inire $1,200,000 to pay these claims, his own opinion was that it would - tuire a larger amount. )awes gave notice of an amendment the way of a substitute, requiring payment for overtime notwith nding any agreement to the con ry. The bill was then laid aside and a inber of others taken from the cal lar and passed, among them the Sen bill to establish a marine board for advauceme'lt of the interests of merchant marine. After a short cutive session the Senate adjourned. Went Home Drunk. )SroN, Jan. 28.-John F. Kelley >t his father, Michael Kelley, aged 70 rs. indlicting a probably fatal wound. is alleged that Kelley came home in icatedl at about 11 o'clock,~ and en edI a room on the 11rst floor in which s a woman at the point of death. lley quarreled with poople in the m,. creating a disturbance and in a te wenit up to his owna fatther remonstrt