The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 04, 1891, Image 1

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Voi~~~ viI MA N NING,6 S. C.. WVEDNESDAY, MIARCH 4 81 O 1 FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE. ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN M!N ERS KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION. Springhill. Nova Ncotia. Thrown into Sl4urning-Several of the Bodii Fear fully 31utilated-Fift-thre Widow.. and 157 Children L.ft VUirovided tor. SP RINGHILL. M1_Is. N. S., 2eb.l. --An exploionl ocIurred in the mI:es of this place ) esterdav. At midlniht one tv-four bodies have been recovered. and the total numbcr vf dead is thouaht to be 117. A largely at tended public meet in was lielI last evean-n and arranaZc ments for 2 pubici iuneral on Tuesday were completed.- Chief Inspector Gill in arrived yesterday mornimg, accompa nied by Madden and went down into the mine. ir. Gilpin says so far as the evi dence shows the explosien occurred im either No. 7or 6 balances,'and that the force of the explosion in these balances is very great. Most of the timbers were knocked ou:. allowing the roof to fall, breaking boxes and mutilating men and horses. Tow small tires were smoulder ing in the debris, but wert. cxtinguished at once without any difficulty by the searching party. The explosion, Mr. Gilpin says, did very little damage to property in No. 7 slope, bavig extended but a short dis tance beN cnd the tunnel, and all the deaths in that slope were from suffoca tion by fire (lamp. Manager Swift was atfthe bottom of No. 1 slope about fifteen mnutes before the explosion occurred, and intimated to one of the roadsmen that he was going into the place were the explosion occurred. He has not been seen since; probably his body will be recovered when some of the debrIs is cleared up. A boy named Boaton heard the ex plosion and rushed off to the place where he knew his brother was at work and succeeded in carrying him out unin jured. His heroism is one of the chief topics of conversation. There - were plenty of volunteers to search for all the bodies. Men who came to the pit as spectators divested thernselves of their coats and unhesitatingly went to the rescue of their fellow workmen. Many ghastly scenes were to be seen, both on the surface and underground. Several of the bodies were so fearfully mutilated that they were placed in bags and brought up to the surface. The explosion is more disastrous to life than any other in the history of coal mining on this continent, It is a singu lar coincidence that the loss of life equals that of both the Ford pit and Drummond colliery explosions. The number of lives lost at the Ford pit was fifty-three, and Drummond sixty-four. The list of dead reaches 119, of whom fifty-four were married, forty single and twenty-five boys. - Ninety-seven bodies have been taken out; 161 children were orphaned. A good deal of distress prevails. No explanation of the acci dent can be given. The mine is being put in order no resume operations Wed nesday. The damage to the property is comparatively small. The following .appeal has been issued : "To the Tublic: A mining disaster. attended with fatal results unparalleled in the history of the Canadian mines. has fallen on the town and people of Springhill, N. S. The loss of lie is probably as great as the combined ap palling losses at the Drummond and Ford pit explosions. About 119 lives were lost: fifty-four widows have been left behind and 161 children made fatherless. '"The widows and fatherless will need abundant assistance, and that promptly from a public shocked and horrified by this terrible calamity. Seventy thousand dollars will be required to meet the demands and to alleviate the sufferings of the bereaved and distressed during the most pressing period of their dire misfortune. The residents of Springill in meeting assembled have appointed a committee, consisting of the Mayor, Town Council and all residence ciergy, to solicit and acknowledae subscription to the Springhill relief iund, and they ::onfidently and earnestli.ask for an im mediate rcsponse from persons of all denominations, societies, trades, gumlds and nationahities. Willam Hali, Mayor, A. McLeod, Secretary." Horrors oftThe Mines. HAZELTON, Pa., Feb. 23.-Five of the miners entombed in slope No. 1 at Jeanesville were taken out alive to-night after being eighteen days shut in the bowels of the' earth, These with the thirteen bodies already found make eighteen me~n, the exact number given in these dispatches on the day of the accident. How they survived is a miracle. Nothing like it has been knowni or heard of in the anthracite coal iields of Pennsylv annia. All are H~ungarians. The men were all found together barely alive, and all but one too weak to be moyed. None ot them could ialk ex cept John Tomashusky and he could only say "John much sick." Phys c as were brought into the mine and the fouer men were cared for where they la . Th fifth man was wrapped in blankets-and carried out. It is doubtful if th'e lv as of the four can be saved, and a P regt went mntp the mine to administer 51i1r1 tual consolation. No story can as yet be obtained from Tomnaskusky. Frightened to Deata. CLINTON, Mo.. Feb.19t.-N rs. M. Trol linger of Leesville died yesterday from fright. She was sitting in a wagon watching her son cut down a tree. The tree fell towards the waon and the boy called to his mother to get out of the way. She seemed unable to move. The tree crashed down just behind the wagon without touching Mrs. Troliim ger, bt she fell over dead. P'hvsielans examined the body and say they f ound no sign of the woman havmng b. en hit. They assign the cause to pralysis of the heart._____ __ .The Coosaw Opened to All. CoIXtIm1A, Feb. 18.-TLP phospL ate commission met to-day anrd urred that the Coosaw river be openred to h general rights of mmning. In~ r-zont.rt this territory has been minedl ex't-osive ly by the Ccosaw company, which ob taned control of the river under lease from another company n~ host charter expired in 1691. Sulscquently the Coosaw company obtained legishri tive action rt cognlizing lihem dirctly and the ambiguous nording of the act may be the basis for the comnpan.ly ! claim a more extended lease. T hi board also passed a rerolution ordermnt the royalty to be increased a1.ove SJ per ton, beginning six months 1ro:r dt. Killed with a Club. SAVANNAh, Feb. ?0.-T wo negroes entered a store kept by a man nmet Jordan at Frazier's crcssing on the Fad~ Tennessee, Virgimia arid Georgia Itail road to-day, bent. on robbery. As dor dan resisted they kilied him with a club The murderers were captured and en confessed. lie also admius beig iru plicated in a series of robberies at iDruns wic a few nights ago. FA AL COLLISION UF TRAINS. s ix i ; *d awd sev-ral lejured-The wreck Take% Fire. -N W Y o R, C. Feb. 2Q.-There was a at 7 o'clock this morning be uw t t raIns ii the Fourth ayenae t L Eight-y-sixth street. What is known as a "shop," consisting of empty eLus; ii bea; drawn to the Mott Hav cu vd uX en. fbr sonie reason as yet uax'lanei. It came to a stoo in the ztuane-! at Eighty-tifth street. Train No. 10, he New Ifaveu lozal. which left tile Grand Central Depot at 7 o'clock this inornin in charge of Engineer Fowler, Fireman Goodale and Conduc tor Ge:rg-e Hutchinson, ran Into the rear of the standlng -shop train." (eneral Manager Toucey, of the Hud son River and New York Central Road, said he had. licard that three men were killed and a number injured. lie said 1 hat after the collision a New York Cen tral engine running light [this is without cars attached] ran into the rear of the New Haven train. Flames broke out a few moments after the seconnd collision, but they were soon gotton under control, and the work of rescue began at 10:30 o'clock. Five dead and seven injured have been removed. The injured were taken to the Presbyterian Hosjital. None of the passengers are known to be Iamong the killed or injured. They are all believed to be employees of the road. The passengers in the New Haven train were badly shaken up, but beyond some light cuts and bruises none of them are badly hurt. The Dassengers were taken from the train buck to the Grand Cc tral Depot in the EstemLz train that was just passing at the time in the East tun nel. The total number of lives lost is six. Five were taken out dead and one has since died-all railroad employees. Several employees were injured, but the exact number is not yet knOwD, as a number of them were carried home as soon as taken out of the wreck. The fire department soon extinguished the flames, but both tracks of the tunnel were blocked with the wreckage. The rear car of the "shoP" train was crushed like an eg shell from the hind end to the middle, and here is where the deaths occurred. Nobody on the New Haven passenger train was injured, even by the engine which ran into its rear. The latter was derailed and burst both cylin der heads. The Centre of Population. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The Sup erintendent of the Census has prepared a bulletin giving the centre of population of the United States together with the movement of the centre during each decade since 1790. The exact latitude of the centre of the present census year is given as 39 degrees 11 minutes and 56 seconds, longitude 85 degrees 32 min utes and 53 seconds. at a point in South een Indiana a little West of South of Greensb-urz, the County seat of Decatur County, and twenty miles East of Co lambus. The bulletin says: "The centre of population has clung closely to the parallel of 39 degrees of latitude. The most Northern point reached vas at the start in 1790 ; the most Southern point was in 1830-the preceding decade hav ing witnessed a rapid development of population in the Southwest-Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana havmng been admitted as States and Florida annexed and organized as a Ter ritorv. The extreme variation in lati tude has been less than 19 minutes, while a hundred years of record have ac complished a movement of longitude of nearly 95.10 degrees. The sudden ac celeration of movement between 1850 and1860O was due to the transfer of a considerable body of population from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast-twelve in dividuals in San Francisco exerting as much pressure at the pivotal point, viz., the crossing of the 83d meridian and 39th parallel. as forty individuals at Boston. Ingalls Successor. WASuIxGTON, Feb. 18.-The sub ject of the selection of a successor to Senator Inaalls, who retires from the Senate March 4, as President Pro Tem pore is being privately discussed among Republican Senat'ors. It will be necessary to arrange this matter before March 4 in order to guard against a vacancy in the presiding offi cers chair after that date, so a caucus of the Republican Senators will be held probably next week to elect Senator In galls' successor. ~It does not appear that much effort is making on the part of the Senators to secure th.e pliace, and btut three names have been put forward prominently, which are those of Senators Platt, Hoar and Frye. Eighteen Engines destroyed KANsas CITY Mo., Feb. 19.-At 10:30 last niight a careless wiper in tihe round hiouse ~of the Cypress yards of the Mssouri Patcitic ltailway, in Kansas City, Kansas set tire to a bnnch of oily waste. The fire spread rapidly, and despite the efforts ot the fire department consmedci thec house. The~re was eigh teen enuines in the house and they were aso trm)ed. Among them were the enginen usedl in tie regular passenger service, and the oiliails were obliged to teleraph to Sedalia for seven engines to tke out this morning's trains. The to tl loss is estimated at $175,000. The Cy pres' rounid hot.use became historic as aplaice :-f 'e.e (during the Southwestern strkeu of l 3. A Detagel in Arizorna. Yu'mt .\rizonia, Feb. 23.-Loss of life is reriorted from Gila Valley, but no par tinhars have been eceived. Tile South 'rn P'actie track is washed out for wenty- four miles East of Ytuma and is iv fee't under water. One hundred adobe houses have been washed down and thiree hundred people are homeless. \luch distress prevails for the want of food, clothin~g and shelter. The school hoses an'd churches, convent, restau raits and all the stores but one are looed. Th~e Yuma Times oflice is completely wrecked. Running Downx A Bark. N; w ToIx, F-eb 18S.-Thc North iemen Lloyd ate-amcr Ilavel, while on her way doivn the bay this af'.ernoon, collded with the Italian bark Mascotta, inond fromn San Domingo city. The lm ak ahnost inuinediately otf Buoy Dc", near ayliidge, and three of hei *cw were drowned. T1he steamer pro eeeded on her was to Bremen. Six LIves Lost. Niw Yog, Feb. 21.-A fivestor3 dobe 't house, abetter sort of ten .ement house, at 12'J and 131 Sands street rookivn, burned to night and six of the imates were burned to death. Thirty t wo faimilies occupied the house. abot two hundred people in all, and but fo: he aid of the firemen many more lives woul have been lost. FUN IN THE HOUSE. A LIVELY TILT BETWEEN FUNS!ON AND BUTTERWORTH. McMillin G1 es Four Reasons Why the Rules of the )Louse Were Changed -The Inmigration Bill 'acd-DiscredItable Scenes in the House. SWAsliINGTON, Feb.2->.-In the [Iouse this morning McKinley, from the Com mittee on Rules, reported a resclution providing that to-morrow the House shall meet at 10 o'clock and shall im mediately proceed to the consideration of the shipping bill, the general debate to close at 6 o'clock. Friday the House 'shall meet at 10 o'clock and proceed to tne consideration of the bill by para graphs, the previous question to be considered as ordered at 5 o'etiock. Blount protested against this method of doing business, but said that as a member the Committee on Rules he had agreed to the resolution with the view of getting as much debate as possible. It was the best the minority m& -bers could make out of the situa tion. McMillin took the same position. He then inveighed against the code of rules, and asserted that the prophecy te had made in the beginning of Con gress had been verified. He had said that the rules had been adopted for four reasons: To pass an election bill which subjected the ballot box to the bayonet. That had been d'one. To pass a tariff bill that should rob the people. That had been done. To pass a direct tax hill. That had been done. To pass a bill placing further taxes upon the depressed and burdened interior for the benefit of the shipping interests. That was about to be done. Mills protested against the resolu tion, which he said was in a line with the policy of the majority. Let the gentlemen on the other side go on with their measures. Let them pass Acts of Congress by proclamation instead of legislation. Let them make their special orders, and let the Democrats avail themselves of every moment of discussion to expose to the American people the wrongs which had been per petrated on them. Cannon said that the House could ill spare two days, but he had yielded to the general desire that the shipping bill should be considered and he had acquiesced in the resolution. le gave notice, however, that if the order was made he would ask the I-louse to sit to-night and to-morrow night for the consideration of appropriation bills. What the gentlemen from Texas and Tennessee had said about the rules was chestnuty, and chestnuts had worms in them. Roger.-"The people took some worms out of your chestnuts last fall." Cannon-"Tlnat is the 999th time you have said that." Richardson of Tennessee-" Why not take the days for the appropriation bills and let the steal go on at r ight." Cannon-"Oh! that is so cheap." McKinley denied that the practice of making special orders had originated in this Congress. It had been practiced in every Congress since the forty-sixth, but in former Congresses it had been done in violation of the rule, and now it was done against the direct authority of the rules, The majority were responsible for public legislation, and it should be permitted to put its purposes into public law to be tried only before the great tribunal of the American people. [Republican applause.} "You have been tried;" "you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting," were some of the remarks that came in a chorus from the Demo cratic side. McKinley-"I do not believe that there is a gentleman who has studied the causes that led to the verdict in November who can conscientiously de clare that it was based on the work of this Congress." "What was it?" queried the Demo crats. McIinley-"The majority on this floor having only a few days more (de risive laughter on the D~emocratic side) -and all of us leave here with our seats well filled-we propose to go on and complete the work of the Fifty first Congress, no matter whbat obstruc tion may be put in our way by the gen tlemen on that side of the chamber." [Republican applause.] The resolution was then adopted yea's 130, nays 114. The House then went into committee of the whole on the agricultural appro priation bill. In the course of the general debate a controversy arose bet ween Funston of Kansas, in charge of the bill, and Butterworth. The latter having made a remark which irritated Funston, he made an attack upon Butterworb, in which he alluded to the ollice which Butterworth holds in the World's Fair Commission, and said that if that gen teman, whose name was ssociated with the anti-option bill, had taken as much time to for warding that measure as he had to drawing his salary as Sec retary of the World's Fair, the mecas ure wvould now have been passed-a measure which would bring great re lief to the agriculturists. The mem bers on both sides surrounded the two gentlemen and thoroughly enjoyed the Icontroversy. Funstorn was emphatic andl vocifer ois in his utterances, but the merri ment was so great that his words could not be heard. Ie declined to yield to Butterworth, which led flogers to warn him that he must either get out of the ring or let the gentleman from Ohio get over the ropes, while Spmnolas contri bution was "Break tway." Butterworth in his reply paid his re spects to Funston, charging him, as Chairman of the Cornmittee on Agri cutlre, with neglecting the interests of farmers. The gentleman was active ly concerned about the anti-option bill. A half-million farmers had askedl the gentleman over and ever again. as chairman of the committee, to get u p and move the consideration of the bill. [lad he done it ? [Cries of "No!"i Not at all. lIe had not moved in that di rect ion, but had stood trembling like an aspen leaf uncler the frown of the %peaker. [General laughter and loud applause on the Democratic sideC.] lie (B~utterworth) had at least the courage of his convictions. [A pmlaus'.} latch of Mhiesouri, after deploring the condition of the farmers of the country, made a speech in favor of free coinage andl reduction of 'taxation, in which he also touched upontheoption bill, and criti is the majority, and especially the Chairman of the Committee on Ag rIculture, for not acting upon the ques tion. The measure (had the chairman Icalled it up) could have been passed without one hour's debate. The rules of the House had been made in the in terest of the Rlepublican part; and to prevent the consideration of great na tional measures. The gentleman from Ohio had said that there were but a iew more hours of this Congress. Thank God for it. [Democratic applause.] I. pinola-'-Iay it on, brot her. [Laugh i atch-" We wvill all join in the dox ology next Wednesday."-[Laughter.} Then bill ws then considered by para araphs, but without ehsposing of the nlcasure the committee rose. (;ibon: of Maryland announced feel ingv the d-at.h of .inaA1)r Wilson, eu io-rizinig his life aitd cliaracter. The ilmnibration bill was then taken up, the pending question being on )ate's sb.i it ute. wich was rejected p.,s .> n ixs 2o..1. The bill was Then passed. The Iouse then. us a mark of respect to the memory o! the dh-ceased, ad jourued to mt at 8 o'clock this even ing. An Excitin scerte. Sr. LoUIs, Feb. 23.--- special from Little tlock. A rk., says that a tremend ous uproar occurred in the lower branch of the Legislature to-day during the dis cussion of the resolution ordering the arrest of ex-Treasurer Woodruff. White of Nevada offered a resolution on the subject "requesting the Governor to cause the apprehension, not only of Woodruff, but all other persons con nected with him in the use of the State fund::." Otey of Lee County, chairman of the Judiciary committee made a strong ar gument in favor of the adoption of the resolution, in which he referred to the position taken by certain members in delaying measures intended to vindicate the laws of the State. lon. Daniel A Jones of Pulaski, took offense at Oteys statement, saying they were aimed at him, but he exclaimed, pointing at Otey: "If the gentle man from Lee will make the statement direct that in this matter, or any other, my actions have been controlled by im proper motives I would not hesitate to say to him as Douglass said to Angus, "Lord Angus thou hast lied." Otev-"And I would say to the man who would make a charge of that kind against me that he is a coward." "Then I say to you, sir, that you are a liar," yelled Jones. "And you are a coward," exclaimed Otey. Several members sprang to their feet and in their attempt to gain the floor, the greatest confusion prevailed for several minutes which the Speaker had great difficulty in suppressing. Another breeze was occasioned later on in the debate when Wimberly, amu tual friend, attempted to snooth the matter over by saying Otey had apolo gized. The latter sprung to his feet and vehemently denied that he had apolo gized. Jones had not placed him in a position where an apology could be expectedand lie wanted the House to understand:that he had made no apol ogy. Murdered For Money. CHERAw, Feb. 20.-News reached here last night of a most horrible mur der committed near Society lill last Monday. A Mr. Goodson, a prominent citizen of that community, owed a Mr. Griggs, who lived only a few miles dis tant. 500. Mr. Goodson counted the money in the presence of a negro named Green, who had been in his employ for several years, and Mr. Goodson's daugh ter started to carry the money to Mr. Griggs. Before going far Miss Good son was overtaken by the same negro Green. who cut her throat, took the five hundred dollars and threw her dead body in Black Creek, a stream dividing Dar lington and Chestertield counties. When Miss Goodson failed to return home at the groper time search was instituted, and yesterday her body was found in Black Creek. Suspicion was at once placed upon the negro Green. le was captured in Florence and brought here iast night. Green acknowledged killing iss Goodson and surrendered S460 of the money when captured. le is now in Chesterfield jail. Polk Against Cleveland. W AsrNGOo, D). C., Feb. 19.-Col. L L. Polk, president of the National Farmers' Alliance, who has just re turned from a trip through the south and southwest, was asked his opinion as to Cleveland's chances in 1892. He considered that Cleveland's coinage letter, whether so intended or not, came as a timely ally to monopolists in their herculean efforts to defeat the silver bill. Cleveland may, through corrulpt manipulation of money and political intrigue, be forced upon his party, but, on that point the alliance people are little concerned, for, if he be the nominee of any party, he will utterly fail in securing the votes of the "industrial" organizations of the coun try. No man will get ther votes for president of the United States unless he is in accord with them on the meas ures they seek to promote. To use a populair phrase, Mr. Cleveland has suc ceeded in placing himself on the top shelf of back numbers. Fleods In the Far West. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26.-News was receivedl this afthrnoon by the South ern Paciice manager that Yuma, Ari zoina, is cert auily doomed. At 2 o'clock the railroad og erator warned the oflice here that he could stay at his key only half an hour longer, as the water was rising so rapidly that it would soon swee p a say the ollice. At that time the water in the Colorado was up to thirty four feet two inches. live feet higher than the 1100(d mark of 1861, and the highest ever known here. The Colora do and Gdla are both raging torrents, bringings down portions of houses, trees and dead animals. The water has reach ed the sills of the five hundred-foot rail road bridge across the Colorado River, and it is exp~ected1 tihe bridge will go doYn. Ile Should b~e Lyhched. !fIcllmoNi>, Va.. Feb. 26.-A horrible crime was commlfitted here last night. As Ilessie Pulling, a little white girl, eleven years of age, was passing along al unfrequented street about 6;:30 o'clock she wa accosted by a big negro man. who placed his hand over her mouth, and after dragging her into an old flow r garden near by, choked her until par. tial insensibility and committed an out rage on her. Shte was horribly mutilat ed, and lies in a precarious condition. When the crime became known indig nation became intense, and if the villain is caught he will be lynched. The mayox has offered a reward of $200) for his ap nreensionl. The Ilcorrors, of WVar. hUEnxos Avium>. Feb. 26.-Later ad vices from Chilte state that after the bomb ardmient of Iquique the insurgents entered the city and attacked the storeb and residences on six of the plrincipa] suares, wrecking them completely. A~ great nlumrber of women and childrer were sheltered in these building, bi their cries of distress were unheeded anc the insurgents, who seemed to be wilc with the spirit of destruction, continued their work of lire and blood undindered t is known that 200 pers5ons perished mostiv- women and children, in the ruins Th'le custom house and all the principa: houses wvere plundered. After the sur render of the city it was occupied by strong insuirgenit force. A Nice Plum for Chamiberlain. (Cl H'RLV'sTox. Fecb. 26.-The oflicia: oder appointing Chamberlain receives of the C harleston, Cincinnati and Chi cago Roamd wats tiled in the Unitef Stite.Court to-day. Under this orde1 Chad mberlain has control of the road ir thi sState, North Carolina and Vir gina. BLACKBURN ON CLEVELAND. He thinks Cleveland's Letter Againt Free Silver HIas Ruined ilis Chiances. LOUIsv ILLE, Ky., Feb. 23.---In a re cent letter to Colonel Nobles at 'adii eah, Ky., Senator Blackburn says: "In the light of the publication of Cleve land's recent letter antagonizing his party on the silver question, I do not believe there is a Dernocratic member of the Spnate who would favor his nomination for the Presidency, or who believes that it would be pcssible to elect him in 1892 if nominated No or ganization is effected or attempted here, hostile to him, but there is now out one opinion as to his lack of abili ty. I have no personal objection to Cleveland in the world, but I am not and never will be in favor of the nomi nation of any man who Is not in ac cord with our party upon the great is sue upon which it is to be endorsed or rejected. I do not believe that any man can be elected President in 1892 who is opposed to free silver coinage. The people have been tritled with long enough on this subject. The truth is that for twenty-five years past Ne.; York has never furnished a Democratic leader who has not been in thorough accord with Wall street and at ya riance with the masses of the people. This was as true of Tilden as it is true of Cleveland. I have longed to see the day when the Democrats might elect a President of this country without pay ing the tribute that New York always levied. I think that the time is at hand. I have no favorite candidate, but only insist that he shall be a fair and honest representative of Demo cratic sentiment. In my judgment in the light of the discussion existing among :,he New Y.rk Democrats it would be 'lnwise to select any New York man. However we cannot tell what two months may produce. I am a party man, as you know, and my party candidate will be my candidate, but I both believe and trust that no nomination will be made in '92 of a man who upon vital issues antagonizes the Lentiment of the overwhelming majority of the party. What I am and I always have been-a pronounced sil ver man-as you wedl know, and upon that issue I never expect to change my views. Very truly yours, J. S. C. BLACKBURN. Women Who Want to Vote. WAsHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The twenty third annual convention of the -Nation al American Woman's Suffrage Asso ciation was begun this morning at Al breunh's Opera House. The stage set tmg had not been changed since the ad journment of the Woman's Council last night, except that at the back of the stage hung three large flags of red, white and blue. Instead, however, of the regulation number of stars in the blue field, there was only one in gold, representing Wyoming, the irst of the States to allow suffrage to wo-men. The same large audience that has character ized the meetings of the Woman's Coun cil during the first four days of the week was present this morning. Susan B. Anthony read the address of the President, Elizabeth Cadey Stan ton, who is now in England. The an nouncement by Miss Anthony that Mrs. Stanton would in June next, return to live her remaining years fir AmErfia was received with enthusiastic applause. The subject of her address was "The degradation of disfranchisement." The addess was an actual statement of the political status of women to-day and a strong argument in favor of universal suffrage. The whole number of States and Ter ritories represented at the Convention is thirty, and the number of offlicers and delegates present is 122. Mrs. Ha-rison gave the delegates to the Woment Council a reception at the White House this evening, and to-night at Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago the oflicers of the Woman's Council and the New England Woman's Press Associa tion were given a reception by the Wo man's Press Association of Washington. . A Brute Butchered. WASH INGTON, Pa., Feb. 26.-M. R. West, the negro murderer of the Church family, paid the penalty of his crime on the scafl'old this afternoon. Early this mopiing West made a desperate attempt at skide. He pulled the cover of his cot over him and jabbed a steel suike about six inches long into his throat. Physicians wers called, and the weapon removed; but for a tiue it was feared he had succeeded in cheating the gallows. He remamned unconscious until 1.10 this afternoon, and was led to the scaffold at 2.30 in an almost dying condition. The Sirst attemp at execution proved a failnre, as tile rope broke. The second drop occurred at 2.39, and at 2.48 West wvas dead. The crime for which West was hung is one of the most brutal ever per petrated in this state. On May 13 last he killed John Church, aged 81: his wife, Elizabeth, aged 79, and their son, age 45, breaking their necks with a heavy hickory club. The Tag Tax Collector. COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 22.-Since the law went into effect in December requir ing that the money for tag tax on fertil izers shall be paid directly into the State treasury, $37.272,74 has been re ceived by State Treasurer Bates. The entire tag tax collections for the ilscal year, from November 1, 1889) to Oc':ober 31, 150, as shown by the report of Com missioner Butler, wvas $412,169,85. So that it is seen that the collections for the tag tax since they have been paid directly to the State Treasurer are only 84,897.11 less than the amonnt collected for the whole past fiscal year. It will Ibe interesting to note at the close of the present fiscal year how much increased revenue from this single source will come in as the result of the vigilant ef fort now adopted for the detection and punishment of the parties who have been seeking to evade the payment of the tax.-Register. A Colorado Episode. SALInA, COL., Feb. 22.-Last nigh P'at Sullivan, a conductor, saw Oliver Reilly, a workman 'arryinig away a big chunk of coal. 'This was against the company's orders. and Sullivan ordered the man to drop the coal, which Reilly refused to do. Words were exchanged, when Reilly drew a rev':.lver and shot Sullivan In the side, inilicting a wound that caused his death soon after. Thie murderer was at once arrested, and owing to threats of lynching, a hundred deputies were stationed to protect the jail. About 10 o'clock a mob of about 200 made a rush for the jail, but were beaten off, and two of the number shot and killed. An hour later another at tack was made. One of the guards was killed and the others overpowered. T he murderer was taken out andl hanged to a coal chute, and his body riddled with bullets. A Father Kiled by His son. Ricuhown, Va., Feb. 20.-A spec ial from Fredericksburg states that Michael McCracken was shot and in stantly killed thIs evening by his son Thomas. The father was nailing a sign on his store when the quarrel took place. Ihis son procured a shiotgzun and dis charged both barrels, the loads taking effect in his father's right side. Thomas was aesteand laerd- in jil. 110W DID IT GET TIERE? THE REPORTED D1SCOVZ&iY OF A KING'S TOMB OUT WEST. To iYhat People Did He nelong and When Did They Live--A Very Imuport ant Di-covery i( it. Proves True. CRITTENDEN. ARiz.. Feb. 23. While reinoviu-g earth for the fbundatuon of the new hotel to be erected bv lar mon & 'Jrouks thcre was discovered what seems to be the tomb of a kinz, though of what people it would doubt less puzzle an an tiquarian to say. The workmen had penetrated at some eiht feet below the surface of the ground what they took to be stone of a soft. iriable nature, which was evidently ma sonry of a very superior workmanship when they reached the tomb itsclf. This was composed of large sauare blocks of stone, which was ident.ified as red or rose granite, and cemented to gether with such skill as to at first cause the whole, measure 12 by 15 feet, to ap pear as a solid mass. The opening of this, while very diflicult, as the use of powder was probitited by Mr. Henrick sen, who, as a learned archmeologist, was placed in charge of the exhumation by the authorities, was accomplished by night, when the interest and curiosity of the party was so great that the work was continued by lamplight till dawn. The tomb, when opened, was found to contain a gigantic image of a man ly ing at full length and made of clay mixed with a sort of preparation which gives a bright blue color and a slight elasticity, the whole appearing to have been subjected to great heat. The im age represents the naked figure, except for a very tight girdle abont the waist, a pair of close-fitting sandals and a crown on the head shaped very much like a bishop's mitre, but topped with the head of a hawk or eagle. The features are roughly moulded, ot an imperious cast, and of a man in mid dle age, with a prominent nose and a very wide mouth, but with cheek bones so low as to preclude all idea that the original could have been an Indian. The hands, which are as small as a wo man's, and bear on the backs the head of the bird, as on the crown, are crossed on the breast and hold an image about three inches long of a squatting figure, probably that of a god. The feet are also crossed, the right presenting the peculiarity of possessing a sixth toe, which the sandal is cut to bring into prominence, as if the owner had prided himself on it. The hair of the image is dressed in thick curls on both sides ot the head. reaching to the shoulders, and brought down to the brows over the fore head. Careful examination of this clay fig ure revealed that it was merely the elab orate coffin of the real body and could be opened from the back. This was done with care so as not to disturb the remains within, but a few handfuls of dust, dark brown and almost impalpable powder, is -al that was left of the body. The crown, however, together with the gi1rdle, the image of the god, and a large battle axe with a blade of sharp glass or obsidian, and a handle of petrified wood were found in the coflin. The crown is of thick red gold, carved with minute but will executed drawings, representing battle scenes. triumphal marches and other pictures, the meaning of which is somewhat misty, but in all th8 principal figure is that of a man with six toes on his right foot. The workmanship of the whole crown is very ine, and the bird's head on top is a mas terpiece worthy of Cellinm. It holds in its mouth magnificent Chalchuites or green diamond, valued by the Aztecs. which shows some attempt at lapidifica ton. The girdle found is composed of plates of gold arranged like scales and very thin, so as to give with every movement of the wearer's bodly. On each of these plates, which is in shape a half eclipse, is engraved a figure or hierogylphics, conveying, however, no hint of their meaning in their form. The image of what is presumably a god is made of clay combined with the preparalion spoken of before, and also burnt till thoroughly hardened. It represents a male being seated on a pedestal in a squatting posture, its eyes squinting and grinning in hideous mirth, while both hands are over the ears as if to shut o ut sound. A peculiar thing about this image is that its hair is representedI as hanging down its back in one long plat like a Chinaman's. The figure is hollow, but contained only a half dozen small black pebbles slightly polished and a some what larger stone of a dull gray hue. The coffin and these relics are now on cx: ibition at the court house and are to be donated to the State museum of history and archteolgy at Tucson. No clue of any value as to what race the re mains are to be ascribed can be found, but it is probable that it was one ante dating the A ztlan and even the mound builders, and superior to both in the kowledge of masonry, sculpture and the working of metal. Buried on His Wedding Day. YORtKvILLE, S. C., Feb. 19.-The fune ral of MIr. F. H appertield, a wealthy cit izen and ex-Mayor of this city, took place at the hour to-day which had been ixed for his marriage to one of the most charming belles of York County. 3Mr. Hlapperlield, who was a grocer and roprietor of the marble works, lost his tife last August by death. lie soon found consolation in the sympathy of Miss Russell, which developed into an engagement of marrilage, and to-day was set by the bride-elet for the ceremony. A week ago the aged groom took to bed with sick-ness from which death en sued, and to-day 31iss lBussell wa.s chief mourner insteaed of bride. Terrible Mine Explosion. SrlniG IIIL L, C'outy Aline, Feb. 21. -An explosion took place in the West side of East St. Lope this atternoon. Already five dead bodies have been taken out. Th le rescuing party is now working hard for the purpose of restor ing the ventilation in the mine, It is feared that a great nimny miners have been killed, but thus far it has been im possible to reach more than the bodies of live. It is thought that fully thirty men and boys are still in the mine Among th~e missing is MIanager Swift who has not been seen since the explo sion. The loss of life caused by the explo sion is appalling. It is now feared thai seventy men anid boys are dead T wenty-nine dead bodies have been re covered. ___ Horrible, if True. M1auisEILLEs, Feb. 25.-The captair of a steamship which arrived here fron MIadagascar reports that as a result of revolt upon the part of the natives, th4 governor of Nossibee, an island an Frencn colony off the northwest coas of M1adagascar, has caused the execu tion of over a hundred rebels, who, witi hse wives anr1 childiren were killed. DEFEATED BY WOMEN. In:alls Now Know Were to Lay Ihe lane. W A S 1 IN GTON, Feb. 24.-The general subiect o' temperance occupied the at tention of the Woman's National Coun cI today. Mrs. J. Eiieu Foster. presi 0ent 0; the Non-Partisan National Woman's Chrisuian Temperanca Uuion, and Mrs. Mar3 T. Lathropl.representing as a delegate the National Woman's Christiai Tem.)erance Union, were the principal speakers. Mrs. Mary E. Leabe, of Kansas, also spoke. In be-ioinr, she addressed her seif to "Madame President, friends and fellow-citizens." She said she used the term with pardonable pride, when she remembered that the Alliance leazue has aiven to women of her suntlower. hum anity-loving, temperance-loving State of Kansas the right of political suffrage. She spoke of the condition of ifairs in Kansas, and referred to Ingalls as the "man that we women of Kansas had the greit pleasure of defeating." The subject assigned to Mrs. Lease was "Women in the Farmers' Alliance." She said. however, that the subject could not be intelligently discussed nor fully understood until the necessity for the formation of the Farmers' Alliance is first shown. Cotinuing she said: "It must be evident to every intelligent man and woman today that there is something radically wrong in the affairs of this nation. It must be evident to every thinking man and woman that we have reached a crisis in the affairs of the na tion which is of more importance, more fraught with mighty consequence for the weal or woe of the American people than was even that crisis that engaged the attention of the people in the dark and bleeding days of civil strife. My friends, the iash of the slave driver's whip is no longer heard in this country, but the lash of necessity is driving thousands to unrequited toil. The con scienceless capitalist is robbing manhood of its prime, mothers of their motherhood and sorrowful children of sunshine and of joy. We have a land where the boun teous hand of nature has given wound erful heritage to each and every one, and yet in this land of plenty and unlimited resources the cry of humanity is going up from every corner of the nation, the piaint of motherhood, the moans of starving children. Capital buys and sells today the very heart beats of humanity. For one hun dred years the speculators, landrobbers, pirates and gamblers of this nation have knocked unceasingly at the door of Con gress and Congress has in every instance acceded to their demands. They have gotten money out of the treasury amounting to tens of millions of dollars. They were permitted to tap the veins of trade and commerce and withdreaw from the body politic the circulating medium which is the life-blood af the nation, and our lawmakers term these acts constitu tional.'' In conclusion the speaker said: "The Farmers' Alliance numbers half a million, who are loyal white-rib boners, the majority of them, and I say it with thnnks to Almight* God. that our Allianee representatiaves arethe only men in the councils of the nation today, who have not been elected on the liquor platform." The Oftendina Fertilizer Companies. COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 21.-The following are the names of the com panies without the State who have been coarged with violatg the law of this State in relation to tagging fertilizers : The Atlantic and Virginia Fertilizer Company of Virginia; G. Ober & Sons, Baltimore, Md.; Durham Fertilizer Company of Richmond, Va. The vigorous prosecution of all those who are violatmng the laws in this respect is: having a wholesome effect, as is shown by the fact that $1,500 for tags has been received since the recent arrests were made. A gentleman from Fairfield, who is largely engaged in planting, stated in conversation a day or two ago that lhe had never seen any tags on any fertil izers purchased by him, except on one lot, and tuien the circumstance of their being there was so unusual that the negroes thought that it must have been an inferior lot. From this it may be fairly inferred that in many instances in the ~past the tags have been taken oft before reaching the consignee and return ed to the shippers for reuse. All of this goes to show that the course now pur sued by the authorities is a wise one. Register. _________ A Fatal Newspaper War. COLUMBUs, 0., Feb 23.--W. J. Elliott, editor of the Sunday Capital. and his brother, P. J. Elliott, met F. W. Levering, editor of the Sunday World, and A. C. Osborne, one of his reporters, on Higzh street, shortly after noon to day, and a fusilade of shooting began Osborne was killed, P. J. Elliott hit in the head and arm, and W. J. Elliot t injured. A by-stander named Hughes and a newsboy named Sucly were killed. Trouble arose from articles appearmng n the papers named. and the shooting was done in the midst of a crowd gath cred to see thle Washington birthday parade. His Lire Valued at $44,500. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 20,-In the case of R. E. Sanders against the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad, on trial in the Circuit Court at Jasper, in Walker County, the jury to day save a verdict for the plaintiff 01 844.5300. It was the largest verdict for damages ever given in the State. San ders was killed in a collision last Octo ber on the: outskirts of Birmingham, when a large number of others were killed and woundled. Hie lived in Walk er County. - Hinl Can't Carry New York. SAN ANTONIo, Texas. Feb. 19.-Ex Mayor W. 11. Grace of New York, who 'is 'on a visit here, said to-day: "The political issue is the tariff, and Grover Cleveland, who was and is the greatest leader of the Democracy, and wh o had the courage to make that issue, is the man to lead his party to victory under its banner, and the only one. Giov. ilill cannot carry New York, and not only can Cleveland carry New York, but all of the States necessary to secure to the country a Democratic Pre sident.' D eath Claimed the Bride DCUUQUE1lA.,Feb.20.-dohnSchnei der, liv.ing at Dycksville, Wis., at tempted to ford a small stream on his w ay to town Tuesday. The sleigh was oerturned, and Schneider's daughter, who was going to town to purchase her bridal trosseau, was drowned. Schneider held the reins tight, and the horses pulled him ashore. A Whole Family Urowned. KANsas CITY, Mo.. Feb.23-Frederick W arner, a fisherman. lived with his wife and five children on the bank of the river. T he flood undermined his house Saturday night and it fell into the river. The whole family was drowned. TlE LuGil r TO VOTE. THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THREE STATES TO BE INVESTIGATED. The Laws of Mamachusetts, Mississippi and Idaho Declared to be in Violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. WAsmIxoro, Feb. 2(.-Mr. Caswell, of Wisconsin, submitted to the House to-day the report of the majority of the House committee on the judiciary on the resolution of Mr. Houke, of Tennessee, instructing the committee to inquire into and report to the House if any of the States are violating the second section of the fourteenth amend ment to the Constitution. The resolution, the report says, re quires the committee to inquire and report to the House whether any of the States, by their constitutions or legis lative enactments, have denied to or abridged the right of any citizen to vote, so as to bring them within this clause of the Constitution. The committee have not deemed it necessary, tie report says, as a prelim inary step to the adoption of the reso lution by the House, to make an ex tended inquiry into the constitutions or legislative enactment of all the States bearing upon the subject, but deem it sufficient to refer to two in stances, leaving further investigation to be pursued, should the resolution be adopt-d. In their judgment, they say, the con stitutions of the States of Massachu setts and Mississippi are clearly with in the provisions of this section of the Constitution. The report, after referring to the constitutions of Massachusetts and Mississippi, says that the fourteenth amendment is broad and comprehen sive in its terms whenever the right to vote of any male citizen of any State over twenty-one years of age, and not abridged by crime is denied. The attention of the committee, the report says, has been called to the legis lative enactments in several States, but no special attention has been given them, as the majority believe that the instances cited are sufficient to show that the resolution should pass and 'a thorough investigation of its subject be had. A minority report, signed by.Messrs. Oats, Culbertson, Henderson, Wilson and Stewart, protesting against the passage of the resolution, says the com mittee in their report assume that some of the male citizens of Mississip pi and Massachusetts who are over twenty-one years of age, and not dis franchised for crime, are by the constia tutions of those States denied the right to vote. This may be true, but we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the constitution of Mississippi has not gone into operation, and that there is no law by which the commit tee can legally ascertain the number of voters disfranchised. There has never been any legislation by Congress pro viding means by which there may be ascertained, for other causes thangar tTiafion-in feWeliofi. 6Cotlier crihe, the number disfranchised in any State. Presumptions are worthless in such a grave matter. Legal proof must be had to a reasonable certainty, and until such legislation is enacted it is utterly futile to adopt a resolution such as re ported, because it cannot be complied with. Mr. Rodgers, besides signing the mi nority report, also submits a report giving additional reasons why the res olution should not pass. Mr. Rodgers, in opening his report, says that pre cisely what the learned and expe rienced author of the resolution de sired the committee to inquire into was evidently, at the time it was de feated, in a state of impenetrable nu. bulosity in his own mind, and the reso ltion itself has the inherent and un mistakable evidence of being the pre mato're offspring ot a chronic attack of political strabismus, doubtless great ly aggravated by the humiliating dis appointments in the results of last No vember's elections and the haunting gad fly of memories of election cases in the present Congress. Mr. Rodgers revie ws the constitutions of Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ver ment, Connecticut. Kansas and Idaho, and says that of all the States, the one whose constitution is the most flagrant ly offensive to the second amendment to the 14th amendment is our sweet little sister, Idaho, who was brought into Statehood by this Congress under a cloud of dlisloyalty to the constitu tion, after long labor and successful performance of the Casarean operation by the Speaker, now known as "count ing a constitutional quorum," and now stands most prominent and deserving of the consideration of the majority of the committee. There are quite a number of other States, says Mr. Rodgers, whose con stitutional laws restrict suffrage for other causes than "participation in re bellion or other crimes, and according to the language of the resolution, . therefore, violate this action of the constitution," and, according to the re port of the majority, and clearly with in the proyisions of this section. In conclusion. Mr. Rodgers says that in view of the fact that only four of the committee voted for the favorable report of the resolution, the chairman not voting and not being counted, as the rules of the House permit, and the point of no quorum not being made, he recommended that the resolution be iaid on the table. Meets His Match. NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-A special to the Herald from Athens, Ga., says: An express messenger who arrived here last night says that John L. Sullivan was knocked out by a train hand named Townsend, on the Georgia Railroad regular passenger train Tuesday. Sulli van andi his company were on their way to Macon, Ga., from Columbia, S. C. Sullivan' was in bad humor, and when Townsend came through the car in which he sat, he began to abuse him. Townsend stood it awhile, and then jumped on the big feiicw. He blacked sullivan's eve and choked him before he was pulled oil. Townsend weighs only 135 pounds. but is very game. Sullivan, after the~ whipping, tried to bluff his opponent out of the car, but Townsend sfaid in the car, and Sulli van soon after calmed down. The Phosphate Royalty. CHIARLESToN, Feb. 20.-Attorney Genernl Pope passed through the city on his way to Beaufort this afternoon. While here he was urged to indicate an approx! nation to the amount which the P'hosphate Commission intended to raise the royalty on rock, but replied that he could cive no Imformation on that head. The phosphate marker here is all unsettled by the action of the Commission. Miners says that the no tilication that the royalty wvill be raised over the $1 per ton rate is no notice at all, as the lg'ures are not indicated, and that the state of things will put an ae ndi alcontracts for rock abroad.