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. X. ---S NYS. C., WEDNESDAY, AY 918 COXEY IN WASIIINGTUN.. HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK AS ME WISHED. One of Bis Right Hard Men G3t Ills Head Clubbed by the Poilce-SuIrring Scenes et the Capitol-The Polce are WASHINGTON, May 2.-Yesterday was a perfect day with a brightly sin ing sun, which citizen Coxey took as a propitious omen, was thie portion of the army of the commonweal for its demonstration in favor of the Coxey good roads bill. Shortly before 10 o'clock Marshai Browne formed the men in a hollow square, and standing In the centre called for three cheers for peace. The cheets were given and the commonwealers waved their little cot ton flags of peace, with which they had been armed. "Now," cried Browne, "we'll march around the grounds and try it over again," and the band started up a slow step to which eight communes walked in a circle to a point about 100 yards from the former camp. Here Browne formed them in a long line and put the men through a little drill with their peace staves. Then he harangued them counselling peace. Their banners of peace, he said, would be more forcible than all the guns and cannons in the world. The men cheered and Browne waved his hat. "Carry peace," cried Browne, "Shoulder peace," and with their little flags pointed upward at an angle be hind the head the commonwealers started off to show congress what it should do. The bugle sounded, the band played and the Scotch bagpiper brought forth a doleful sound from his instrument. Just then the leader of the commonweal arrived in his pony phaeton. W'. him was Mrs. Coxey, and in her ar:ns she carried little "Le gal Tender Coxey," her babe of a few weeas. Citizen Coxey held the reins. At 10.15 Marshal Browne called out "attention" again, and with "shoulder peace" and "forward marcb, the com menweal army started for Washington, led by Browne and Coxey and a pla toon of mounted police. Metropolitan police surround the capitol and patrol its corridors. Blue coats can be seen everywhere, and visi tors are requested by them to "move on" and not to block the passages and doorways. The main body of the guar dians of the peace were stationed at the east tront, where General Coxey was expected to attempt to speak. B) 11 o'clock, an hour before the common weal army was due at the capitol, thousands of curious men, women anG children, had gathered around the bailding to gain places of vantage to witness the much talked of and long expected appeal to Congress by Ocrey and his followers. The route of the proce!sion was down Fourteent. street read to Mount Pleas ant, thence along Fourteenth stree' proper to Pennsylvania avenue to the peace monument and around the capi tol grounds. Fourteenth' street road was very dusty and the marches were plentifully besprinkled as they march ed along. The commonweal moved at a funeral pace and it was three quarters of an hour in reaching Mount leasant, a su burb of the city. At the head of the dusty soldiers of peace were three mounted policemen. Then came Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, a Populist orator, of Kansas, in an open oarouche, with her husband and her two daughters. And then appeared Miss Mamie Coxey,typI fying "peice" mounted on a white pal frey. She is a blonde girl of 16 She wore a suit of cream colored cloth re lieved by a big red bow at the throat, and wore a little blue liberty cap. She seemed perfectly at home on the pal frey, but appeared somewhat embar rassed and created a good deal of ex citement. She nodded smilingly at the people who saluted her. T wo old soldiers, one a Confederate and the other a Feceral, both members of the commonweal, formed.her guard of honor, marching on foot. Carl Broitne followed on a large white stallion. Theo, seven foot sore musicii', Coxey, Mrs. 'Coxey and little "Legal Tender" Coxey came next in a pheaton. Jesse Coxey followed on a spirited horse, and the ranir and file followedhim. When the army reached the peace monument it found a crowd of 5,000 awaiting it. Tlhe pirocession then wended its way toward the east front of the capitol. - The sensation was soon over; the jm mense crowd on the eastern front of the capitel saw Coxey, bareheaded, pro ceeded to the steps of the east portico and mount to the first platform about five steps. Here were stationed Captain Kelly and other officers of the police force. They met the general before he had time to tumn his face to the gath ered multitude and he was politely in formed that he could make no speech at that place. Coxey said firmly: "I wish to enter a protest." "No, sIr," Iirmly said the captain, 'Myou can take no action herfe of any kind. The police were courteous but very firm, and Coxey then, bareheaded as he was, said: "Well, then, I wish to read the pro gram." "It cannot be read here," said the officer. Coxey showed no inelination to, yield and he was unceremoniously hust led down the steps and out to the middle of the broad plaza in frcnt of the capi tol. He made no physical resistance, but protested all the while~and a crowd gathered arouna him and obstructed the way somewhat; but it was not a bustle of resistance, but seemEd more like curiosity. The police did not use their clubs, no one was struck and the immense crowd was handled in the kindest yet in the firmest and most ef fecttve manner. All who came expect lng some serious trouble, and they were not a few, were disappointed. Coxey was not formally put under arrest, He was simply put off of thle capitol steps; far away off to prevent his reascending. Tile middle of the pa rade was jammed and jostled about by the crowd, some being thrown abouit in every direction. Thle clanging of bells on the cable cars, and the yelling and surging of the mob made the scene hidetous. Mounted pchece dashed int o the crowd, endeavoring to crowd thema back from the sidewalk and restore or der, but for some time to no avail. It became necessary to use toeir cluos as a menace. Some of the Coxey ites were jostled and crowded until tiley reached tne wall of the grounds atd:a t looked as though they were about to. head for the capitol. A rush was made~ by the mass of people upon the see.ue and many ran p-ll meil to thle plaza tramp ling down the shrubrnery and vino-. About the east side of the capitol pandemsnium reigned, and tile moura ed poluce made a charge to clear the -way. Then occurred a s'iene searcely ever seen about the big building. Men, _women and children rushed f.>r the side walks, falling over and tramnpioa on one another in their attempt to reach a place of safety. Finally thle way was -cleared and out in the street could be seen the Coxeyites presenting a depior ablean onAnmical sight in their rags and tatters, afttr tieir contact with the yealdieg and surging ,opulace. Browne's personality was over. Il e rode his mettlesome charger in forbid den paths and jumped him over the stone copirc to the eastern part of the port. A Mounted ellicer started after him and as he resisted arrest, he re ceived a clabbing. I Us head was cut but it is not thought that he was bidly hart. The incident started rumors af loat asto general lighting but no such thing occured. The plszs ia front of the main portion of the capitol bui ld icg is in appearance at this time just as is usual on a beautiful aay when congress is in session. The episode is cert ainly closed for the day,and the affair of Coxey lasted not over 10 munites. He was taken by the police to the edgo of the crowd without any difficulty and entered his carriage. Catain Kelly said: "Where you do go now, Mr. Coxey ?" "To our new grounds in southeast Washinington," the industrial. leader said. He then gave the army orders to march. The police authorities again showed their courtesy in furnishing him a suitable escort, and the weary disappoInted "wealers" again started on a hot tramp for a resting place. TO BE INVESTIGATED% After some unimportant basiness in the House today, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, rising to a matter of privilege, he said, offered the following resolutions: Whereas, it is well known that the Capitol grouads were, on May 1, over run by a large assemblage of people, including a considerably number of the regular and special police of the dis trict, and Wnereas, lt is publicly stated that the safety of the members of this House has been endangered, thereby making it necessary for the House to rely on the clubs of policemen for their protection. Resolved, That this committee on public buildings and grounds be in structed to inquire into the question as to whether unnecessary force was used whether unoffending citizens were cru elly beaten and whether the dignity of this House has been violated; that the said committee have the power to send for persons and papers, and report the facts in connection with this subject, with their recommendation -as to whether any legislation is necessary in the premises. Outhwaite suggested that the resolu tion presented no question of privilege. In support of his contention that it was a matter of privilege. Johnson said that in sight of the members of the House; within the shadow of the Capitol, citizens were cruelly and un necessarily beaten, and he asked that it be investigated, believing the pro ceeding directly and vitally affected the dignity of the House It was dis graceful that such a thing should oc cur. In . presenting the resolution, Johnson said,he was not moved 0y any sympathy with the purposes or aims of the Coxey army. He ac ed because tne clubbing took place under the pre tense that iL was to detend the mem bers of the House. No one here, he said, w4s scared, but at the doors ot ihe Hduse, where the jurisdiction of Congress is supreme. citizens were cluboed, anLd he thought it ought to be investigaTed. The Speaker askf-d how that, presented a question or privilege. Those people were violating thu law. J hnson responded that he beli-ved it. ro be a quesLion of the very highest privilege. The Speaker suggested that the mat ter should be investigated in the police court or other tiburial established for the purpose, but that the resolution did not present a question of privilege. The mal ter was referred to the House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds for investigation. The Tau1R. WAsIIINGTON, May 2.-While the re pcorts early in the day indicated that there might be some difficulty in agree ing upon a tariff bill, the conferences which were hadA by the leaders on the Democratic side of the Senate during the afternoon seem to have been in thl" interest of harmony and the lack of confidence there was among those who hoped to secure a compromise, disap peart d. The private offico in the room of the cemmittee on appropriations was a busy place all day. more activity be ing exbibited than previously because of the apprehension which existed that all the work toward a compromise might be for naught. Among those who were engaged in the conference were Senators Jones, Brice, 'Gorman and Cockrell, while Senator Hjill was present a portion of the time. It is the position of the Ne w York senior Sena tor that has caused some trouble and there are a number of Senators' who believe even now, that Hill will net vote for the bill with the income tax provision, an d it is almost as certainly understood that the income tax will re main. The Senators who are engi neering the compromise are counting on 43 Democratic -votes arid they be lieve they will be able to control that number beyond any doubt. This indi cates that they hope to pass the bill, even with the opposition of Hill, and it also indicates that the bill has prob ably been maae satisfactory in other respects to- Senators Murphy of New York and Smith of New Jersey. A Republcan Landslide. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 1.-May elections were held through indiana to day. The ornly citie3 not-voting were Indianapolis, Evansville and L-ogan sport. Terre Haute elects the whole Republican ticket by majorities ranging rom 900 to 1 900. T be Republican gain on the -mayoralty is 880. Union City give the Usual Republican majo)rity. At Valparaiso, where the Democrats had a majority of 100 two years ago, the Re publican majoritics range fcom 75 to 300. At Kokomo the Republicans win by larely increased majorities. Brazil, uually close, goes Republhcan. Law rnceburg, usually Demccratic, ekcts te entire Republican ticket, and three out oif ive c:ounciln~en. LaPorts and Micican City, ueually Democratic, both sg' Rel~ublican by increased mejorities, as does Kendailville, Bloomington, Fraukiort and Osborne. Green Castile, Emwood and Irwin, the gas belt cities, show increased Repuolican mej rities New Alt~any, usually 1 000 Democratic, elects e very Republican but one council man. LFt ette goes Republican with a gaiu~ Ol 500. A Peculiar Accident. GIFFOOD, S. C,., Mayv 3 .-The nil carrier i'al..r Ironi here to Seminole, met: w!tu a meuliar acce'dent to his bu..iv Sur iav . W';ile slowly drivingz a Lne p;ubl:c rest-i he net M:. :biKh ridingz cut ''o oc su ot tthe road~ the staiano bcau aman~aac rind as the mai bue5 got uy the eidh L&ho staliion tbe bea &.tai.g the beuv wit:h all th re pi -s vere pinre.e mO th spke oth wk. T e nail c-ur~e atm s capd eiuie'u, ad' i h ana1d~- to et. 's horse detacbe~d fco.m th.e bu -gy whe te staltiou aade a terrible t flirt to rehev bis legs, arnd in dolo" soj mssut up) ibree of su tie- heel fthe rkIIAS E SIL11N I I ON THE PEOPiE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Thi Kn'd ut Sai.1 ttIS 1!1 'ublIbhed by Swne et ith Notharn I'Aprs Abont the Pvepli of th South--Nottihg SBut NEw YoRK, May 5.--Wen the iv erage Northerner 'reads in the papers that Governor Tillman's political strength in South Carolina comes mainly from the farming population, who are Populists, he ihinks of the Populist party in that State as being composed of such honest, slov . hard working, saving, church-going, sidehill 1 farmers as makes up the strength of the-Republican party in the central, Northern and Western part of this State. Tnis is a mistake. The Pal metto State countryman bears about the same resemblance to the farmer of this region as a highwayman does to a peddler. The horny handed son of toil as portrayed in the Sunday school books of a generation back doesn't exist in South Carolina. The man who fills his place there is called a cracker. After you have heard a South Caroli nian say that word ",cracker" with the peculiar intonation Invariably given to it, you will realize that it ii by no means syronymous with honest far mer. A gentleman who has lived in South Carolina for fifteen yaars,during which time he has kept eyes and ears very wide open, told a Sun reporter, a few days ago, some things about the crack ers, the origin, ways, and the signifi cance of tne situation in reference to them. "It ought to be generally known, and I don't think it is,", said he, "that the Populist party in South Carolina does not include, as it does, I am told, in some States, the good country farming element. The fact is we haven't enough of the good farming element to make a showing on. We have a class of people who own what were once farms, but they don't deserve the name of farm ers. They're the crackers. There is something more than ignorance and uncleanliness, and lax morality in the real cracker. There's. deep-seated dev. Uishness, a natural love for liquor, and a g eat aptitude for murder and otner crimes. The cracker hasn't evolved these things out of his own inner con sciousness; he's come by them honestiy -if a cracker ever does come by any thing honestly by heredity. He has a fine lot of ancestors back of him. "These ancestors are of two kinds. You can take your pick;there's mighty little choice between 'em. If you go back some centuries in your history you will find that at one time the Carib bean Sea was so infested with pirates that some of t e countries having an interest in the New World decided to clean them out. They cleaned tu.-m out of the sea and drove them N-orth. The pirates landed and pushed up through the country, Linally settima down to lives of somethmig rather worse than usefulness. 'ner" is t:ie i germ of the cracker, or at leas,. one of the germs. No -v for the ot!ser part. Wben the E ,glish semted in South Carolina they were, in te languag-- o: today, too strong to vwrk. iut the work bad to be done, so they imnportea slaves from Eugland-convicts for va rious crim-s, who were to serve out their terms as slaves on the plantatiow!'. Some died in the process; others served cut, became free, and having ,!othirg T. do, settled. There's your otner eerm. Unite the two, and you have the crck er in his first st age. "How and where he lived for some generations thereafter isn't clear-or why, for that matter. Buzt, he did live, probably by hunting and doing odd jonts and he became known as 'poor white trash.' Even the niggers looked down on the poor whites and up to the time of the war ne was the most despised in dividual in the country, aud the most worthless. The blocd of the pirate and the criminal was still there, unmixed with any better strain, for none but poor white would marry with poor white. But it -was weakened and thinned by laziness and inaction and drink and lack of opportunity. Then came the war, and a change for the poor white. No longer having slaves to work their farms and plantations for them, the Bourbons, as the good fami lies were called, drif ted away from their country places to the towns. They could not soil their hands with spade or plough, and as their only other resort they wvent into business. Mark the re sult. The farms fell into the hands of the poor whites, being first divided up into small portions. "There you have your noor white be coming a land owner. You might sup pose tnat he would develop honesty and thrift and ambition to improve his op portunities to become a decent citizen. He doesn't. The pirate and criminal strain is in him, emasculated by gene rations of contempt and degradation, but still there, and now it begins to show itself. Y our cracker makes his wife and children work the farm while he hunts or fishes at such times as he isn't too lapsy. When he gets money he goes for moonshine whiskey and gets it. Why; the North Carolina moon shiners run their blockade wagons for the crackers. That's wh'ere they sell their moonshine, and tbey run the gov ernment blockade and Tillman's block ade to do it. And when the cracker gets full of whiskey he Isn't 'poor white trash' any more. He goes righ. btack two or three centuries and Decomes that mixture of pirate and English convict, and a murderous, treacherous, foul brute he is. Every cracker car ries his gun and a knile back of him. He uses the gun first but the knife is his favorite. That's the pirate in him. Jackknife slashiers, we call 'em. I've seen two of tema tatter a knife fight, and-aveli, it was worth going miles not to see. "If necessary the cracker will stand up and tight face to farce. Most of 'em are dead shots, for they have lots of practice hunting. But their favorite game is to lie in 9.mbush and snsoot a man down as he passes. W ben a man is found on some lonely road with a bullet through him and his pockets stripped we call it a 'cracker killing.' They're killers all of them, those tel lows, but tney'd rather do their killing from a sate cover. As long as it s only cracker that kills cracker nou~dy cares and notuing is done abhout it. WVhen a cracker kills a decenit mant ne doe it in Isuch a way that he leaves no tricks. He'll wait for ye-ars fov his ch ese.S there isn't muucii chance ior rhe: la.v' to come in ther'-, either. In tw. oft the N :rlortr Soth Caro'lits cojuu e ge about tir-y murde-rs a-' ertoged -r, 'rnd you e~m e. a~ deracker isth murd rer ev'-ry tiute. Yet .- . re ;a- t ea a ar , i- ei:rr c..u:Ji fr lif teen yes W's -i;r- cra-ker ki: er-ce.r, aad .uJ -dy eno 1 crcker kiihrur, w-.t< a re-pem &-t tcru ~u us m cc to .il-r ~cm- in town oin a bat - 'te ev'eti' Tvwe-re in ?ront. or ti poeill'e. der and said with a maudlin laugh: ,-H1ow are y'Judge? Are y'reckonin to find us some licker?' "The Judge, who was a very dignifi ed man, drew himself up, shool the cracker's hand from his shoulder and started on, when the other crackei stepped in front of him with an ugli look. 'You can't shaKe us off so easy, said he. 'We're as good as you now an' you can't call it high on us. Yot ain't any too good yourself.' "'You're a drunken ruffian,' ex claimed the Judge, pushing the mar aside. 'Pass on or I'll have you locket up., "'Not by a damn sight,' shouted thi cracker. 'I'll fix you,' and drawing E knife he lunged at the Judge, but miss ed him. "Instantly he was covered by a dozer rev3lvers in the hands of a crowd who were at the postoffice and who had seen the whole thing. They wouid bave tarred and feathered those crack, ers but for ,the Judge.begging them off Ten months later the Judge had oc asion to drive to a neighboring town His buggy and horse came back with. out him. We found him dead in the road at the edge of the woods. A harge of buckshot had struck him 1t the back of the head. We couldn'l ind those two crackers to lynch them, That was a cracker killing, and it' nly one of many. "Those are the men that make ul the strength of the Tillmanite party They're the Populist. Tillman makes them constables and gives them guns and they're just longing for murder They are the liquor spies that come to search our homes and to shoot us dowr if we object. Can you wonderthat tb people of Darlington fired on these off spring of criminal convicts and pirates these scum of the conntry, these worth less, treacherous, murderous crackers I As long as Tillman uses them as dog. to set on the people in south CarolinE io long he will find the people ready tC resort to armed resistance."-N ew York Sun. South Carolina Commission. CoLUMBIA, S. C., May 2.-For somo ime there has been considerable t4ll sbout the appointment of a South Car >lina commission of veterans to acl with other commissions from othel Southern States in selecting and marking the locations of the troops o1 he several States and marking therm properly on the battlefields of Chicka 2iauga and Chattanooga, which are tc De transferred into national parks un, ler an act of Congress. Governor Till man nas been spending considerabl( ime selecting a commission to do th ork properly. Yesterday he suceed d in getting in all the names and ap pointing the following commission: H. L. Farley, Kersbaws staff; Capt L. C. Applebv, of the 24th South Caro tina, St. Georges; Gen. C. I. Walker Nlanigault's Brigide, Charleston, C. K H,-nderson, 10th South CarolinaAiken J. D McLucas, 8t South Caroltoa,Ma rou; Lieut. Perry Moses, Culpeper', Battery, Sumter: L. P. Harling. 19tt South Carolina, Longmire's; E. J. Gog rns, 7-h South Carolina, Ninety-six . z. 0 ens, 3rd S->uth C-rolina. Pow rs In accordance with the act of thi ast Legislature this commission wil vo to the battlt-tields and mark off th( pla;.es occupied by South Carolma: roops. The follo winr has been received froa the Chicamauga and Chattanooga Mil tary Park coinmission of the War De par ment: fo Vembers of the State oCommission Gentlemen: The members of thii 3>m mission expect to spend the monti t May, or such portion of it as ma' be necessary, upon Chicamauga anc hattanooga battlefields, to. meet suct State commisions or individual mem bers thereof as can reset these fields. Will you please confer with th4 chairman of your commission with vie w of fixing a time for a reset as ear Ly in that month, as convenient and in for m this commission of the date deci :ed upon ? It is important that the location o: positions of the organization fron your State should be finally decid ec apen at an early day. Very respectfully, J. S. .EULLERLTON, Chairman of Commission. The new State Commission will noi go until oflicially notified to do so b3 the national commission. snicae or a rrisoner. COLUMBIA, S. C, May 2.-The quiei town of Prosperity, located on the linm :f the Colu nbia, Newberry and Lau rens, and Richmond and Danville road! about forty miles from Columbia, wal yeserday thrown into a considerabl4 state of excitement, so a gentlemar who arrived in the city last night says by the suicide of a negro prisoner it the station house, by hanging. Thi fello w was named Dan Sheppard. H4 was a powerful built mulatto. Ot Monday evening he was arrested fo, assault and .battery and attemptec criminal assault upon the person of hi! step-daughter, Mary Bouknight, mulatto girl about 20 years of age. Thi city authorities placed him in thesta tio~n house for the night. He told Towi Marshal White when he locked him ul that he "reckoned they would hang hin this tinas." lie meant by this that hi teared serious consequences. Once be fore he had been arrested on the sam' charge, but his wife being the only witness against him he was discharget from custody. The negro seemed ti uave been throughly resolved upoi self-destruction. He proceeded after hi was locked up to make himself rope out of the crocus sack coverinj on the bed, tying it t ecurely arount his neck. He then tied the other enc to the grating of the window, whici was no higher than himself. Tnen hi knelt down and choked to death de Ioerately. When the town marsha went to the station house yesterday morning to carry him his breakfast he found the fellow in a stooping attitudi his head hanging over on his breast cold and death. The coloner held an in quest and a verdict of death by stran gulation was rendered. The negroes o the town seem to be glad the negro' carreer is ended, for he was considere< a desperate fellow. Med Miners. Inox MonINTAIN, Minn., May 2.-Al work has been ..topped in the easter! portion of the M-saba Range and mol rule prevails in this city. r'he sheriff tterly uuable to cope with the iawles: atd re-ckl ss miners, nlas called on Gov ernor Nelsmn 'or troops Au arme eng of 300 foreign workers who strucl ~serdary at Oiver, Ouio, Iron Kid an Franklin mines, rea~hed here rtoda.1 ed mrrene~d through the streets 0: Irnu Mountain, terrorizing the citizens 'hey forc-d the miners in the Nioun ainj Iron and Rabhnone mines to stor wrk :-t:d j un th-m, and also toppec vork i2 Wn-te & McDevitt's saw miil The riotars dere tntt work in all it] d :rs must c'-ase. Fifty deout: eriffs have. been sworn la A conflhc S farred an.d tue townl is in an uproarI should Pas... WAStINijToN, May 2.-Senat~o .va. : 'n lcav U rrinced a ll providiDn f: me reveal of the 10 per ceut. tax i1 e-:e bnk~s pure and simpie, omnio a h c :wld torna that are~ fouw'l i som TO BE FULLY SETTLED. The Dispensary Law agaia iterore ti: Supreme Court. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 3.--The most importaut development in the liquor situation since the filinz of the decision of the State Supreme Court, occurred yesterday, and by Monday ovening it is likely that the uncertainty as to what the Supreme Court meant by it? decision whether it is free liquor or prohibit'on will be removed, and everybody will, till Justice Gary gces on the Supreme bench know exact.7 where they are at. There is no case which has been brcuzht before the court recently in which all take so deep an interest as that which starLed on its career yesterday. Many seem morally certain that it will result in the court declarIng that its recent decision meant absolute prohibition. Equally as many are just as certain that the court will decide that it meant absolute ly free liquor, and then there are others wdo consider that the couri will say that it meant the old license laws would govern the situation. This latter class does not consist of many, however. L'ke.the original cases, which result ed in the knocking out of the dispen sary law, the case referred to above came up from the Pee Dee section. Yesteiday morning Mr. P. A. Wilcox arrived in the city from Florence. He bad nothing to say to anybody, and did what he had to do so quietly that it was 2:30 o'clock-when he had com pleted his important work-before any one knew what he had come here for. He was armed with papers which meant business. There was no session of the Supreme Court jesterday, and he went before the Chief Justice at chambers. Mr. Wilcox first made application for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of J Ellis Brunson. The fLet was set forth that Brunson was arrested by the chief of poliez of Florence subsequent to the passage by the city council of its liquor licenseordinance, for the violation of that ordinance. Brunson, it seems, was fined, and is still in the cu'stody of the ch'ef, and Governor Tilman cannot ordej-that officer to discharge him. Tne .hief Jus tice, without hesitatian, granted the fol lowing order in this case: COUNTY OF FLORENCE, Third Ju 'icial District, Ex parte J. Ellis Brunson.-Petition for Writ of Ha beas Corpus. To. G. n. Tarbeville, Chiet of the Police of Florence, S. C.: It having been brought before me by the petition of J. Els Barnson that as chief of police of the city of Florence, S. C., you unlawfully declare his per ?rn in custody, and the said J. E!lis Brunson having petitioned for a writ of baeas corpus to b-Ing said petitioner before the Suoreme Court to u qirt into the cause of his deten'ion by you as atoresaid. You are hereby ordered and rrq'Iired to bring the body of the prisone-r b-dore ;he Supreme Court, at Colurub a, S. C., at 11 o'clock on mandav, Lfe 7.h day o1 I iay A. D.. 1894 that th cause of his commitment beina! known and seen Euchi further proceedings mao bt had thereou a are agreeab-e to la9 aid jus tee. HENRY MCI VER. Cbet Ju,.:ce. Then Mr. Wilcox. to bs d<.uolv eure. came up with a petition for an ii jancticn against the town conucil or Florence asking that this body show caose wb. they are charging and c'llecting a lquor license. and asking that the v b, re srained from dtaing so) henceforth. Tni, petition was presented on behalf of two citizens of Florence. The rule to show cause was issued by the Ch'ef Justice as follows, and thus the whole thing is brought rquarely befers the court: J. L. Barringer and The dore K'aker, Petitioners, vs. The City Council of Flornee, Respondents. SUpon the reading the petition of J. L. Barringer and Theodore Kuker herein, it is. Q:dered that the respondents herein do show cause before the Suprems Court of South Carolina, at Columbia, at 11 o'clock a. in., on Monday, the 7th day of May A. D., 1891, why an injunction should not be issued by said court, re straining resp~ndents, said city council of Florence, from~ issuing licenses to sell intoxicating l'qnocs in the said city of Florence, prayed far in petition, and for such other and further relief as the eaid court may deem just. It is further IOrdered that a copy of the within Or der be served on the respondent herein. HIENRY MCIVER. Chief Justice'. These two cases .will permit-:ot all doubtful points being brought Equarely before the ocurt, and admit of the se coring of a square-cut definition of the meaning of the recent decisio2. It is un dertood thatahe arguments will consist in a great measure of quotations from the recent decision. It is also understood -that Mr. C. S. Nettles, who maae the winning fight against the dispensary law will appear on behalf of the town coun cii cf Flosence. It was further ascer taned that the constitutionality of the new dispensary law w!1 be brought up. and the court will be asked to make its decisign on the original law appiy there to.-State. WililTake a Hard. LEXINGTON Kr., M*.y 2.-The prechers of Lexington have united in Ithe fight against Col. Breckenbridge's Irenomination. Today the Nilnisterial Union of this city adopted the following whicn ci~ly defines their attitude: "The Minister:l Union cf LIexngton, K y, deems it a duty of conscience in the fear of God to bear ti~e feoloving public testimony agaimst the renomination or reelection of our present Representative in the Congress of the United States. a the witness stand in the court room he bas coniessed that fr yearu ne has indulged in a course of adulhery and hly Ipocrisy and in the li:.;bt of such a~ con fession, we regard his canvass for re nomination and reelection, first, as an open cefiance of all personal chastity, Idomestic purity and rel'gious :ntearity; second, as an appeal to voters to) ignore personal morality when cenoosing pohu cal candidater; third, as a caorupt atnd corrupting misrepresentatiou ot the so cial or der of our co-nmumt y; tburt ias a debaching eximpie oft youi; 11 t. aS in every way a 1erli to tzu.h anid eousnes." S ad Fe ..f a child. JACKsoNFILE:, F a., M 5~ -A spo ci to tre timwUinion trun M disoa Fa., says: a ilme d rugn:er <.f \ir. Bond was seut to the barir today o ge-t same eggs She thrust rier hd i i:h nest in tne hay arnd somerame~ Krick ir. She thouenit it was rn- nea. 5-v" ins her fland -vas seriick, tun si- gO I he eggs atnd retureto 10 hos ". trld ner mo2 her the h-ti n I po k d-r. The mother .examd ad found'h Schdnad beeni tut-.en tv a .igdaod moccasin. The child .i-o in t.,i "ours in a s.fui agony . [tie suake wa: iied Its1 rangs orasured one su'r ote quarte:i nhe.. in lenth. SITY NEW COMPANIES. THEY ARE N VW IN THE STATE SERVICE. b Th6eAdlhtat Adj utant General Farnhaies P List of New Military OrganizatiOnl T e: R iadiy i,r Daty-Appheotiine from Al most as M36MY Nore. e 01 CorimiA, S. C., May 4.-Yesterday A the military department of the State w government proceeded to issue commis- e V sions to the officers of the new com- c panies received into the State militia i by Governor Tillman. During the day I aixty-one companies were commis- d Bioned. Below will be found a list of s these new compalies, with the name of c the captain of each and the date which they were commissioned: ri Gary Watts Guards. Laurens; com missioned April 3; captain, W. L. Cun- a ningham. Swift Creek Light Infantry, Darling d ton county; commissioned April 23; d captain, R. Lee Bass. Newberry Reform. Rifles, Newberry d ountv; commissioned April 24; cap tain, F. C. Gruddick. North Rifles, North's; ccmmissioned April 16; captain, G. W. Donnelly. t Beavei Dam Rifles. Smithvill e, Sum ter county; commis3ioned April28; cap taio, E. P. zsheod. I Hazlewood Rifles,- Chester county. t commissioned May 3; captain, J. , r Hardin. Enoree Rifles, Whitmire's, Newberry 9 county; commissioned April14; captain, 0 J. T. Duncan. Branchville Guards, Branchville; 6 commissioned April 30; captain, B. E. Izar. v Saluaa Volunteers, Butler, S. C; com missioned April 28; captain, J. P. Cole man. Tiliman Guards, - -; commis- 9 sioned April 27; captain, J. G. Fields. Watts Light Infantry. Brewerton, Laurens county; commissioned April v 18; captan, N. Bi. Wood. Williamsburg Reform Guards, Lake City; commissioned April 21; captain, d J. H. Blackwell. hampton H,:zzars, Ridgeland: com missioned April 25; captain. H. H. Por ter. 1 Lake Swamp Rifles. Timmonsville; commisioned April 18; captain, J. B. t Morris. c Calhoun Light Infantry, St. Mat- s thews; commissioned April26: captain, i M. 0 Dantzler. 0 Gary Evans Volunteers, bpringdeld; o commissioned April 19; captain, James & H Fanning. St. Stephens Guards, St. Stephens; d commissioned April 17; captain, S. W. t Rssell e Prosperity Rides. Prosperity; com- v n.ssoned April 28; captain, D. H. a Witherspoon. Thickety State Guards. Starr Farm; i commissioned April 30; captain, J. M. a Grt-er. Firfield Ride Guards Winnsboro; t ommissioued April 23, captain, J. M. n Jordan. a Lancisford Rifls, Landsford, Chester 1 coutsty; commissioned April 25; cap tam, W. B. Cox. . Greeley ville Volunteers. Greeleyville, a W iam-burg county; commissioned April 23; captain, J. J. B. Montgomery. t Stogeo's Bridge Rides,Stokds's Bridee c commssioned April 2; captain, A. E. t Woodham. C SL. G-orge Ridfes, St. George; com- i missioned April 14; captain, J. T.Mi- - nus. Eenezcr Rifles. Ebenezer; commis- i sioned April 13; captain, E. B. Green. Townsend R lies, Santuc; commis- I sioned April 28. captain, C. P. Sims. Ridgeway Rifles, Ridge way; commis soned April 21; captain, W. J. John-t Wadesworth Riules, Cross Hill; corn missioned April 20; captain, WV. S. Pits. Governor's Volunteers, Blackville; commissioned April 11; captain, H. C. ] B~ches. Boiling Springs Light lnf antry, Boll- I ing Springs; commissioned April 21; i captain, P. MI. Wall. Carlisle Ridles, Carlisle, Union coun- C ty; commissioned A pril 26: captain, W. I F.Bates. Jacksonville Volunteers. Clinton; commissioned AprIl 4; captain, T. J. Duckett. High Hill Rides, Darlington county, commissioned April 17; captain, F. E. Stokes. Starr Fort Guards, Ninety-Six; com missioned April 23; captain, A. S. Os borne. C Richand Mounted Rifles, Eastover commissioned April 23; capitain, J. R. Liberty Guards, Fair Forest, Spar tan ourg county; commissioned April 23; captaIn, W. WV. Faller. Latimer Guards, Hoages; commis sioned April 24; captain, D. H. McGill. Bellevue Ride Club, Widesman, Ab beville county; commissioned Apr11 26 captain, John A. Moran. Wellford, Spartanburg county (comn pany not named); commissioned April 27 captain, J. C. High. I Tilman Volunteers, Orangeburg; commissioned April 4; captain, N. N. Hayden. Picens Guards, P'ickens, C. H; com missioned April 30; captain, J. J. Lew Graniteville Rifles, Graniteville; comn missioned April 30; captain, B. W. Hunter. McCormick Rifles. Pettigree, Abbe yle county; commiseioned April 23; captain, J. Bs. Hollo way. Richland Rifles, Columbia; captain. George R. Koester. Bates burg Light Infantry, Batesburg; commissioned April 10; captain, A. B. Watsn. Blue Ridge R-les, Walballa; com mssioned April 14; captain J. R. Earle. Green brier Ridles, R ,ckton. S. C. Herkele-y Light Infantry.,Peak's S.C. Pe Ridge~ Rifles, Kelton; commis siined April 12; captain. H. C. Little. B. R. T. Guards, Laimar; commis sikned-; captain, R. F. Willford. Rocky Creek Ridles, COnester; captain., J. C. Dye. Evin Guards, Ly ra, Florence county; comnissioed April 20; captain, T. L. Hp-ll R-a, Kinard. Nevb erry o~t ; eoimmiesione.d A pril 30; captain W P Davis Bevolnlt Ridle. G-intt Township, I Gr.eevil1e: commisioned-; cap aio, L. Y McWnite. . ML1Iu" vile La 't Infantry; commis imd April 2L N > odicers named. I'mariLsi R dew', Pomaria; comLLis i'n,-u xpri' 16; c torain, W. T. Ht1.rton.t Hi,:.ury Grove Riders, Hickory Grove-;t ozissi Qed Aptil 4; captain, J. D-. W ie-siIae. H ilon Rtl-s, Lexington county;com misima~- April 16; captaiu, P. 13. Lt T ium-mn infs, 1Baar1, Sumter couu y;em.issioned April 17, C-ptaio, R. . Sackouse Mitsn Rtinl, commissioned--; aptin, J H Saaw.] Richand Guards. Richland county; I FREE SILVER IS COMING ateroational Actiou INaces &ry tor It-ha b 1 t ition of the White Met il. LoNDoN, May 2.-The international imetallist conference was formally pened in the Mansion House today. he opening address was delivered by :-Lord Mayor Sir David Evans. A Lrge number of delegates were pres at, including some of the best known E the British and foreign financiers. ,moDg them were Sir William Houlds orth, M. P.; W. L. Litterdale, ex-gov nor of the Bank of Engl and; Sir Da Id Barbour, exsecretary to the India >uncil; Henry Chaplin. M. P.; Samuel [ontague. M. P.; Brooks Adams of ostou, Mass.; M. Vanderberg, presi ent of the Bank of the Netherlands, msterdam; G. M. Baissevain of Am erdam,; Alphonse Allard of Brnssels; eorge De Lavel1eye of Brussells; Hen Cernushi of Paris, president of the rench Bimetallic League; David Mur ay, president of the chamber of com ierce of Adelaide, South Australia, nd president of the South Australian imetallic League; Hugh M. Matheson lderman and Sheriff Dimsdale, a Lou on banker, Thomas Salt. late presi ent of the Bankers' Institute; Sir ialcomb Fraser, agent general in Lon on for Western Australia, and A. J. 1alfour, exChief Secretary for Ireland. Letters were read from Archbishop Valsh of Dublin, the president or the tank of France and others, regretting 2eir inabilisy to be present. A paper was read by Prof. Shield icholson, on the fall in the general vel prices in relation to the apprecia Lon of gcld and the divergeuce in the ?lative value of gold and silver, and a eneral discussion of the subject fol )wed. 'he conference was presided ver by Lord Mayor Tyler. Cablegrams were read from Senators herman, Voorhees, Aldrich, Murphy, rice, Platt, Davis, Carey and Cullom, rishing success to the conference and ) the cause of bimetallism in Eogland. A. J. Balfour, in course of the dis ussion, said he did not believe that overnment regulation of coinage, if : were done in the direction of making more stable and a fairer measure or alue, could be justifiably opposed. !he nations of the world were now, he aid, standing face to face with a great anger, which could only be averted y the rehabilitation of silver to it pro er commercial function. In order to o this international action was abso itely necessary. Balfour said there were three ques [ons with which bimetallists had to pe. They were these: Was a double %andard possible? Was it just? Was ; expedient? Scientists and acono ists answer these questions with an verwhelm'ng "yes." He would not ay. whether* the closing of the Indian dlts was a -ise step, but he did not oubt that it was the most striking at ampt that a civilized govern m nr had ver made to solve a monetary difficul that was directly due to monomer 111m. Balfour said he saw sigcs of achange i Eoglish opinion. The leading com iercial men had abandomed their form r hotility to bimetallism and come to e conclusion that the only way to ieet the grave danger was to restore Ilver to its former place as a circulat ag m-dium. Mr. Balfour also said it was a mere eam to suppose that each State was ble to regulate it own currency inde endently. It was absurd to talk of aking an isolated view of the British arrency when the action of the United iates, which had not been taken in oncert with or from any friendly feel ag towards Great Britain, had forced pon India and England the adoption f the astounding system which now revailed in India. England's present olaton was selfish and stupid. He peke persionally and for no party, he aid Leonard Hi. Courtney,M.P.,read a taper on "The practicability of main aining a ratio between gold and silver nder an international bimetallic agree nent," and a discussion of the paper ollowed. Letters i-1 support of bimet lism were received from Gen. Francis L. Walker, Archbishop Walsh and Prof i. B. Andrews of Brown University. L letter was read from Mr. H. WV. Can ton, president of the Chase National sank of New York, in which the writ r said that the solution of the problem f bimetallism rests with Great Britain )r. Arendt, the eminent German linan ier, expressed views siinilar to those ontained in Cannon's letter. Sweeping the senate. WAsmNGTONi, May 1.-For the third ime in a short space of five weeks the enate met today only to hear the an ouncement of another gap made in t ranks by death. A fortnight ago to-' .ay funeral ceremonies were held in he Senate chamber over the remains t Senator Vance of North Carolina. hree weeks before the like sad cere soial had taken place over the re ains of Senator Colquitt of Georgia. knd today the announcement was ade of the death of Senator Stock ridge of &ichigan, who died yester Lay in Chicago. The other two Sena ors had died in Washington. The eeting of the Senate today had been lostponed from 11 a. m. to noon, so as o give Senators an opportunity of aying their last tribute of respect to he memory of Mrs. Morgan, wife of he Alabama Senator, whose funeral ook place this morning; and in the ihaplain's opening prayer they were eminded of the death of their associ te from Michigan, whose desk and hair, in the outer row of Republican eats, were covered with blaca cloth. L unusually large number of Senators rere present at the opening prayer. The formal reading of yesterday's jour al was dispensed with and then Senta or McMillan, the colleague of the de eased Senator, made the announce nent of Stockbridge's death. Tne isual resolutions were then offered by dMillan and were agreed to. They xpressed the great sorrow of the S-n te at the announcement of Mr. Stock >ridge's death and provide for a comn tttee of seven Senators to attend the uneral at Kalamaz'o, Mlicb. Senators ScMillan, Frye, Washburn. Cullom, 'ones of Arkansas, Gibson and Bian hard were appointed such committee .nd then, at 12.10, tne S anate ad juarn d until tomorrow at 11 a. mn. Explosion. BALTIMORE. Md., May 5.-A special The Sun from Rdle;gh, N. C., say: 'WO large boller~s at Robertson and G:od tin's lumber mIlla, at Williamst.on, * x loded today. There were iifteen per on-i in the building, andi all were iC aced. Isaac Bright was dead when tken out, and xour otbers a:ed : everal of those i'jared were wa rho had taken breakfast to their hus nds, wbo were employed th& re. C> oiler was tiown thirty yards trrom La ed. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Dr..wned1. JACKSONILLE, Fl-'. 'I 3- ~- U-sday gh G orge Ga a d. 'Jrs Cl r vood w-nr boat ridiog 0' the St Johi"s. ~i1s morIning their bodies w-reron .t thefOt of Laura street. 'the c;ofnis a'1 been botrrluly mutilated t5 crabs. t is supposed that the capsizmri2 t tuat causd thle tragedy. Mre. she- - rood did not live with her nasbanid., RIO IJNG RABBLE. 'LEVELAND TERRORIZED BY A FOR EIGN-TONGUED MOB. FActorles Barmbarded and Gatted-Police Do Oood Service-A Reiment Under Armf-To Realt the M.b With Dyna mite. CLEVELAND, Om1o, May 2.-After ;he riotous demonstrations of May day ;he police department awoke to the ne ,essity of prompt action, and It was de ermined to disperse any gathering that hreatened trouble. This attitude on be part of the police seemed to anger he men, and they were in a very ugly nood this morning. There was a gath ,ring in the public square, as there has >een daily for the past two weeks, and hen a start was made out Ontario treet; presumably to Interfere with . squad of forty street cleaners. Thir y-five officers were sent after the men n patrol wagons, and they charged the - nob and sca'tered it. Several heads were bToken in the melee. A crowd of several thousand men :hen invaded the manufacturing dis :rict in the "Plats." The workmen were driven from the Standard Paint Works, and then an attack with rocks md clubs was made on the Variety [ron Works. The building was badly ised up, but the employees escaped. Then the.Upson Nut and Bolt Works were attacked. A loaded train of coal .ars was on the track near by. The irowd mounted upon the coal and )ombarded the Upson Works. For a :ime it looked as if these buildings would be demolished. At this point :he crowd began to become frenzied, mnd the noise made struck terror rhrough the entire flats. Most of the :ro wd carried clubs, and as a body the nen bad an ugly appearance. On scranton avenue, near the Cleveland, Janton Southern tracks, the crowd ;utted a scrap-iron warehouse, some >f them becoming possessors of dan ;erous weapons thereby. The police, who had charged the mob )n Ontario street, went to the Upson ,Tut Works, and no sooner had they :aken possession of the works than an ingry mob numbering thousands sur rounded it and howled for revenge. All the police of the eighth preceinct were :alled out when it was learned that ,he rioters had penned thirty-five po Lice in the Upson works. Learning ,hat a reinforcement of officers were :oming, the crowd turned its attention ro Fauthaber's furniture factory, on Scranton avenue, and broke all the windows. They were about to loot the place when the extra police arrived and chased them dowen the street. The police headed by Capt. English and Capt. Burns, chased the crowd down to Abbey street bridge, and the crowd took possession of the bridge and be gan throwing stones and bricks at the police. The police,wirh drawn revolv rs backed up by the patrol wagons, :hargedi, whereupon the mob fled in all iirections. Thte DoJice pursuad, and :ook in charge all they could get hold Af. There are few Eoglish speaking peo ple In the mob. It was a rabble com posed almost entirely of foreigners. Tnere were fully four thousand of them when the crowd was at its great est strength. It dwindled rapidly, however, wnen the police got to work. Mayor Blee issued a proclamation dur ing the afteruoon calling upon all citi zens to refrain from assembling to gether for purposes of riot and disor der, and stating that all the powers vested in the city governmeut will be used to enforce the law and maintain order. The mayor also held a consul tation with the officers of the Filth Re'giment, and as a result six compa nies of that regiment, together with the Cleveland Grays and the City Guards, were ordered to assemble In their armories, subject to calls for ser vice by the mayor. During the afternoon another mob visited the works of the United Salt Company and drove the men from their work. The rioters then proceeded iLo the Cleveland Rolling Mills, where they had a conflict with the police. There was about ten minutes of fierce clubbing, and then the crowd gave way andt scattered in every direction. Seven of the ioters, all with broken heads, were arrested. The Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling railway contractors, at work In Brook lyn Village, have placed charges of dynamite in the hills surrounding their wvorks and connected them with elec tric batteries. Dynamite Dombs have also been prepared for the defence of their workmen. Fearing trouble during the evening, a sqadc of 150 police was stationed in the publhc square to prevent any gath ering there. The people of the city are filled with fear tonight that the mob will resort to the torch or dynamite and attempt to destroy factories and private residences. The South. WASmsoGToN, May 5.-There is one fact that stands out with grat dis tinctness in these days of industria unrest and disorder. There is no dls content in the South. Labor strikes are common in New Jersey, the coal miners of Pennsylvania are out, the WVest is full of discontented men organ izing themselves into armies, and the whole country above Mason and Dlx on's line is disturbed by the troubles of men who complain of hard times and the lack of occupation. Below that lmne there is peace if there is not plenty. The people of the South have not es caped the effects of the general trade deoression. That section 1.5 as poor, if not poorer, than those in which Social ism and anarchy is rampant, but the people are conservative, patIent and :aw a bididg. Tne Southern States are setting the rest o f the country a glo rious exam ple.-News. Fotone'd. CoLUstBIA, S. C.. May 1.-A special to T tie Renter from Butler. S.:C., says: Seven negroes, an entire family, were po:soned near Richardsonvalle, Edgefield counlty. Tuesday. They were taken violei 1; ill immediately after breakfast, which was f..llo wed by almost incessant vomittiYa. Tue does and cats that ate o: the vomit d'e almost ins cntly. The *exors say there is no hope of saving sov cf it neous poisoned. N. clue as to te du!-Lr ares nas beeu made. The po:;sred amly was visited yester ,c. a y ev rngcoes of the neighbor J).-mCCrts~ Jubilant. (orcMIS. u, Mlay 1.-The Third 0-c u nresnonal District, in the n,'*tai eiecuan neld to adtv, has gone Da.wrwie~ b. about the usual maj :rnts, 3,000 vot's, electing Paul J. Sorg, (over E. G. Raihbone (:&puiblican,) Sorg home', MIdlrrown, a roo gly R-publi cso, give hi:m 4u8 plurality, while R aul~on, ex Goveruor Campb-1l's nori;-, carried by the Republicatis at the l4st n: c~pal election, gave bimi 1,183 tdirality, ad Da.roa. carried by Mc Kwlomy ny 56 votes 1:st tall, went De su.croic t day by 1911. The Democrats cere ar- j bdlant over the apparent turn in poliis in their favor.