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VOL. MY". MANNING S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBE4 IN DARKEST CUBA. Talk with Mr. N. G. Gonzales as to His Experience. WHO HAS JUST RETURNED. First Council in Freed Cuba. Things Seen, the Story of Which Will Make Enter taining Reading. A Hur ried Resume. "You boys who have been running The State so well during my absence," said Mr. N. G. Gonzales. last night, "have made a little mistake in assum ing in our editorial and local welcomes: which I highly appreciate. that. I would at once take up my old work of writing editorials. I simply can't do it. I have lost the hang of the thing and lost the run of the news. I feel shockingly ignorant. Just think of it! Not a campaign sueech have I read, and I am just now trying to discover by hard study of the files of the State some thing about the battles before Santiago. About three weeks after Cervera's squadron was annihilated a Iabana pa per with an ineidental reference to it reached our camp.; and I think it was about the 10th of August that two copies of the Diario de la Marina of Habana of August 1 and 2 told us that Santiago had fallen. I've got to catch up a little with the news before I can fill my old place." "You are going to take advantage of the delay to write about your Cuban experiences also. aren't you?' "Well I may make a start. but as I kept a pretty full diary there won't be much new work in that line. I have nothing of any exciting interest to tell and my notes are largely of personal experiences of no general moment, but so many friends have asked me to print them that I will do so. They will at least throw light on the situa tion in 'Darkest Cuba' and embody facts about the country and its people which the war correspondents have overlooked. I jotted down all the information of all sorts I could obtain and had opportunity to put on paper. It will not tell of great battles and sieges but it will at least show what central Cuba is now and may yet be come." "Your own experiences were not ex citing?" 'No, r.ot at all. I did not go over with the idea of doing more than to put myself in the position I asked the yo'4ng men of South Carolina to take that is, a position in which to be shot at by Spaniards and to-shoot back-and as I was not able to direct the policy of Gen. Gomez I could not provide excit ing situations. My fight turned out to be more against starvation than against Spaniards, I am sorry to say. I was only in one encounter of arms." "Where was that?" "At Moron, the town at the head of the trocha. With 110 men we attacked it on the night of August 12--four hours. as it turned out, after the pro tocol of peace had been signed. There were three regiments of Spaniards. in the town and it was defended by 191 block houses. We tackled eight of these at a distance of ranging from 50 to 150 yards and kept up the fight for an hour losing--one man! But I may as well give an outline of my very hum ble adventures in order to save myself the task of repeating it further by word of mouth. During the last two days so many kind friends have bombarded me with questions that my vdice is weary and I am weary of my voice. "No, never I recovered my horse and I marched 40 miles in three days and got rid of 30 pounds in doing it, and then a fast of 40 days from rations kept mefrom resuming them. Everybody starts by asking me if I got back my horse. A Cuban officer took pity on me and loaned me a broken down one, which by good fortune and good care I was able to restore and make available later. I landed on the southcoast, and departed from thie northcoast. In an air line the distance is about 100 miles but we zizzagged a hundred more. A command of Gomez's army with the two dynamite guns taken over by our expe dition reduced and captured the tows of Jibaro and Arroyo Blanco, but I had not the luck to be with them. We were posted to protect the besiegers of the latter place from interference by the Spaniards on the trocha. I witnessed the trial of Gen. Bermudez for outr'ges committed on pacificos, but did not see him executed: as he was after a second trial. Not having been at Jibaro I did not see Lieut. Johnson of the United. States army, commanding the colored troopers, in his famous defense of a barrel of~ rum against the Cubans. his tearing down of the Cuban flag and his attempt to shoot his non-commissioned officers for refusing to fire on the Cubans --but I know the facts. I have seen our force reduced one-half by starvation and disease, have lived days without food, and weeks on scanty gleanings of mangoes and parched corn, foraged for at distances of from six to fifteen miles. I have seen the darkest side of war and the darkest side of the character of the Cuban forces, reduced almost to sav agery by privations. "'Two nights after our attack on 31o ron we got news that a relief expedition had E landed on the north .coast and and sought the protection of troops. Our in~' atry marched 40-odd miles in two days, most of it through fearful swamps, and emerged on the beach at El MIamen August 16 where we found the expeditionaries and ate our first square meal since July 11. Gen. Go mcz came in next day, bringing news of the peace. and I was present at a a striking gathering of chiefs, the first in Freed Cuba. The war being over I got an honorable discharge and em barked on a little 23-ton schooner. Sail ~ed three days to the Keys nonih of Cai barien, a Spanish toevn; met G.en. Nu -nez, there arrived with the W anuerer 'expedition, spent a week on that steam er while Gen. Gomez's army concentra ted near Caibarien and met the Spani ards under the new pcace conditions: left on the little schooner with 25 men in tow of the Wanderer. Our boat the the "Deilie" was dropped near 3Miami. We sailed and drifted south along the entire line of Fiorida Keys, rescued a Nassau boat with a party of starving Cubans 20 days out from Nuevitas. towed thenm toward Key West, ran on a reef at night. managed to get off again and finadll g into Key West harbor on the night (f September 1, passing the quarantine blockade and landing in a storm. Some of my effects are in (lu:Lranltin near Key West and others in Tampa Bay-I was lucky enough to escape the quarantine officers in my skin. But don't be worried-I haven't brought infection to 'Columbia.' In marehes of 200 miles I never entered a town: in fact I never saw a house. nor a cow, calf. sheep or goat, and oniy two chickens. Sugar. coffee, tobacco and ruin are staple products of Cuba. In all that time and all that journeying we encountered of these nothing but tobac co and not half a sufficiency of that, 'The country there is a wilderness, wild er than Africa and almost unpeopled. Yet a wilderness of most wonderful natural riches and cnormous capabili ties of wealth. "I want to add that I am deeply grateful to my friends for the welcome they have given me, so far beyond any thing I looked for, and so far beyond my earning. I have done nothing ex traordinary, nothing but the simplest matter of duty. I am glad to be in South Carolina and in Columbia again, not so much because of hardships else where but because I find myself once more aiong the best people on this earth."--Stte. ONE DEAD THREE WO UNDED. How the Colo-ado Politicians Open Their Convention. A pitched battle occurred at Colora do Springs Wednesday morning be tween the two factions of the Colorado silver Republican party. in which one man was killed and three were wound ed. The dead man is Chas. S. Harris of Denver, an employe at Denver of the Gulf railway. The wounded were removed by their friends and their identity has not been definitely estab lished. It is said that a man named Palmer was shot in the cheek, but not seriously injured. Another man had his hand shot nearly off, and another received a flesh wound in the arm. The fight was waged for the possession of the opera house in which the silver Republican State convention is to meet Thursday. An armed guard, represent ing the Teller-Blood wing was in pos session. An armed force, representing the faction deposed by National Chair man Towne, was sent to drive the guard out of the theatre. After a hot scrimmage in which many shots were fired the Tellerites fled in dismay. Harris and the men who were wounded are supposed to have been members of the attackirg force. Chairman Blood, A. M. Stevenson and other leading sil ver Repub!icans openly charge Sheriff Boynton and Internal Revenue Collec tor Frank Howbert of Dcaver with leading the attack. Sheriff Boynton states that he. Mr. Howbert and Chief of Police Gathright did not go to the opera house until the battle began, and then only to take possession of the place. Five men were arrested in the opera house. and one. it is claimed by the police. had a smoking Winchester in his hands. The prisoners are: Wal ter Russell, J. W. Lupton. J. J. Long. A. C. Smith and A. F. Monge, all of Cripple Creek. They are charged with the murder of Harris. A-guard of 20 men, under Boynton and Gathright, hold the-opera house, and the Teller people are refused admittance. HOW A BURGLAR WAS CAUGHT. Stolen Watch Gave Him Away. Live ly Chase in Laurens. An exciting incident happened at Laurens on the public square Wednes day afternoon. The cause of the excite ment was the chase across the square and through several alleys and streets of a negro man named Dick Pasley. Pasley was finally captured about a quarter of a mile from~ the square, and turned over to the proper authorities. Hie now lies languishing behind the bars charged with burglary. Some time ago the residence of Dr. Frank Fuller, at Mountville, in this county, was en tered by a burglar and several articles stolesn, among them a highly prized watch and $95 in silver and paper. The burglarly was so skillfully done that no clue was obtainable by which to trace the burglar. Dr. Fuller had long since given up all hope of ever recovering any of the stolen property or of discover ing the thief. But the ways of the wicked are hard, and generally crimes sooner or later come to the light. Pas ley had broken the watch and brought it to the city to have it worked on. He carried it to MIr. Visanka, a jeweler. 3Mr. Visanska had done some work on the watch while Dr. Fuller had it in his possession, and as soon as it, was presented to him he recognized it and offered to purchase it. But the negro, thinking somnething was up, broke and run, saying lie would be back in a short while to see it. M1r. Visanska pursued him. Others joined in and the negro was finally captured. The negro con fessed, and the watch was recovered. lie implicates another negro, Dan Ful ler, who has been arrested. This negro is a pawnbroker and money lender near MIountville. The case against Fuller, however. is not very strong, as Pasley is thought to be lying on him.--State. SHOT IN~ COLD BLOOD Theodore Godfrey Attacked by a Drunken N'egro. Theodore Godfrey. who belongs to Capt. Anderson's heavy artillery, was ,hot on King Street. Charleston. last Tuesday afternoon by a drunken negro known as ''Cracker Helnry." The as sault was most cowardly and unpro voked. as the soldier was unarmed and the negro shot him merely because he protested against the negro's cursing in the hearing of ladies. The bullet took effect in the abdomen and God frey is in a very critical condition. The negro eluded all his pursuers and es caped. It is fortunate for 'Cracker Henrv" that Charleston is not a lynch ne town, or he might be in a short tie the principal figure at a coroner s inquest where the verdict explained tat the deceased camne to his death fromn expos~ure-to a rope. Since the above was written we learn that the negro has beenl arrested ,and lodged in how the Volunteers FErrod. Senator llanna rie t'o remark that the volunteers are thiemselves t,, blnne for their sad plight. Yes; they should have arranged to have food and medi DEFENDS MCLAURIN. What The Senator Did Say to President McKinley. COL. JONES' VERSION, OF IT. He Objects to the Headlines of The News and Courier, and Thinks Unjust Criticism Has Been Made. Col. Wilie Jones, who was present at the interview between Senator Me Laurin and the Washington corresp'on dent of The News and Courier. Wed nes dav handed the following prepared statement to The State. with the re quest that it be published: So much unjust criticism has been made of Senator McLaurin on account of a dispatch sent the -News and Cou rier" by its Washington correspondent. that I feel impelled in the interest of justice to appear in public print. "I was present when the interview between the Senator and the reporter. saw and heard e-erything that passed. and there is no rooni whatever for the charge that Senator McLaurin said a word unbecoming a Democrat. The report sent by the reporter is very meagre and only purports to give one or two sentences of the conversation that lasted nearly an hour. Even this. however. would not have occasioned any cristicism if it were not for the headlines of that wonderful artist who presides over this department of the News and Courier. Nor do I think the reporter intended to dv the sena tor an injustice, and I am sure le will agree with what I shall say. "Senator MIcLaurin. Col. Thompson and myself had passed a very busy day at the war department and wound up with a call on the President. There is no doubt all of us were feeling -ood, for we had succeeded beyond our fond est hopes saving our beloved State from the indelible disgrace of being the only one in the Unioti that failed to respond to the call to arr. It was a very hot day and at 5 o'clock in the afternoon the senator and myself re tired to my room at the Metropolitan and in true Democratic style had taken off our coats and collars to cool. Mr. Larner called and desired to know what we had accomplished and all about our mission. We proceeded to tell him and from the account of our trip to the White House the conversation drifted on to the war and the war policy of the President. Senator McLaurin spoke frankly and intelligently on this sub ject and agreed to give Mr. Larner an interview. He made some notes and handing them to Mr. Larner told him to write the interview out on the lines we were talkina. He said in substance w1 .t he dispatch states, but in a differ ent connection entirely, and with no such intention as some of his critics have sought to make appear. I cannot undertake to recall all that was said, but this is the substance: That the President had displayed great wisdom in the conductof the war. He earnest ly sought to avoid war. but when it was forced on him, eminent success had followed, which, with his nonsectional policy, made him the most popular President since the days of Andrew Jackson. That it was a great mistake for Democratic leaders to antagonize the war policy of the President, because the real issue between the parties was the money question, and when you emphasized the war issue you obscured the money question and destroyed all hope of success. He said that if the war issue were the only question and the election were to come right now. MceKinley would be renominated and elected by acclamation. "This is about the substance of what occurred, and there was nothing un democratic or wrong in anything that I saw or heard. If the correspondent had given all that was said the most fastidious democratic palate in the country would not have rejected it. I am chirman of the Democratic party of South Carolina and certainly if I had heard one of our senators say something not in consonance with our principles. I would have noted it. "Wilie Jones COTTON GROWERS TO MEET. The State Convention to be Held at Columbia on September 20. The convention of the State cotton growers will be held at Columbia on September 20, and President Wilborn is expecting a full attendance Each county will scud as many delegates as she is entitled to representati ;es in the house. President Wilborn Wednesday re ceived advices from the Southern Pas sner association that the Atlantic Coast Line, Florida, Central and Pe ninsular. Plant system and the South ern railwvay have granted reduced re duced return rates from all points in the State, and also from Augusta. G a. The following rates are offered: Abbeville. $5.05: Anderson. 855 Augusta, $4.05; Blacksburg . (5o5 Camden Junction, $1.75; Carlishe. $2.75: Charleston. $5.8S5; Chester, .>3: Darington. $4.05: De nmark. 2.75; Fairfa. $3.85:Greenville.o b65 Gren ville. $5.65; Greenwood, 84.5 New berry. $2.25; Prosperity, 82.0: Rock Hill, $4.05: Spartanbur, $4.; V um ter. $2.25. Tickets, limited to con tinuous passage in each direction, to be sold September 19 and 20I with final limit September 22. In a Benighted State In the regular biennial \Vermont eee tion Wednesday the Republicans elect ed their entire State ticket. headed by Edward C. Smith. of St. Albany. it is probable that the Republicans hav e elected their entire list of 30 senator-. Twenty-five Democratic representatives~ are reported elected in the 1 15 town thus far heard from. Tlhio:uas W. Moloney, of IRutland. the Demcnocratiie candidate for governor. hias polle about the same vote as the D~emoerati candidate did four years an, which thec Republican vote for governar h a a terially decreased. Supposed to Have Been Lost. The Anierican schooner .J lhn 1l. latt Capt. Ives. from New Yo:L. bound for Bruniswick, is suiepo.d to htve beetn lost in the recent norm. h is reported that parts of a vessel oin which the name was painted camie A MILITARY SENTATION. Lieut. Col. Tillman Ordered Out of Camp Lee. C(l. J. 11. Tillnan. of the First Rteiinent. Llow into town Thursday af terlnoon and his many friends and ad mirers were -lad to welcome him. But before lie left for Jacksonville he crca ted the bigest military sensation of the war. so far as these parts are con eerned. It will be recalled that Col. Tillman has been very active in the ef tort to have his reiiment mustered out, and lie was returning from Washington where he had been to see about that mai~tter. During the eveningz he visited Camp Lee and had a pleasant social chat with Col. Jones. Mlajor Eaves and other olicers. Col. Jones had to come up town and he left Major Eaves in command of the camp. Soon after Col. -Jones' departure. Colonel Tillman sta ted that lie wished to visit the Dar lington Guards. Manning Guards and other comoanies with which he was as sociated when the troops were mobil ized here. Ie did visit these companies. and show ed thei the petition gotten rp by the First Regiment asking to be dis inised. Ile explained to theni the situation and it is said a number of the i'wn were pleased with what the First legiment had done. Colonel Tillman hai a large crowd about him, when M1ajor Eaves approached and asked him to withdraw from the camp as his presence under the circumstances was (ietrimnental to good discipline. Col onel Tiilman positively refused to leave ad claimed that he was the superior ot'ieer of the major. Tillman took a seat in an officer's tent, while Major Eaves issued orders which called out the guard. but this was superseded by the long roll being sounded. and in a few minutes the reg iment was assembled in the company streets under arms. They were kept there for twenty minutes when they were ordered to return to their tents. While all this was going on Colonel Tillman left the camp and came to the city. Colonel Jones expressed the follow ing view about the matter: IFrom the information which I have received from several of the officers and men of the regiment who witnessed the occurrence. I would say that Major Eaves was justified in the course he took in reference to Lieutenant Colonel Tillman. I left the camp just at dark and turned it over to Major Eaves, who was the ranking officer present." Major Eaves authorizes the state ment that Lieutenant Colonel Tillman insulted the commanding officer of the camp (Eaves) and defied his authority and consequently he was requested to leave thme camp. Many of the soldiers seen on the streets this morning un qualifiedly condemned the action of Colonel Tillman. but they admit that a few do want to go out. On the part of civilians the condemnation is even more severe. They consider it not only a breach of etiquette, but an unwar ranted assumption of authority. The opinion was expressed that he would end up before a courtmartial.-Colum bia Record. WUAT TILLMAN SAYS. When Colonel Tillman was asked for a statement in reference to the Columbia affair he said: "I do not think it proper that I should sty anything. In fact it was unnecessa ry and uncalled for that other officers should have rushed to the newspapers to publish their grievances if any they had. [ stopped in Columbia to see Gov. El lerbe aud in the afternoon I drove out to Camp Lee with the governor's secre tary to pay my respects to the officers of the camp. After I had done so, I asked to visit the three companies that were formerly under my command: the Darlington Guards, MIanning Guards and Edisto Rifles. The reception I was given by them was indeed gratify ing. The boys senmed to want to go homne and I may possibly have made some remarks unintentionally that of fended certain~ officers. I regret the whole occurence. All of the officers I regarded as my friends and I hope I may still look upon them as such. I think MIaj. Eaves and my self both acted too hastily. "There is no man in South Carolina for whom I entertain a higher regard than Col. Jones, and had he been pres ent I do not think any trouble would ever have occurred. 3Maj. Eaves did order me out of the camp. and being his superior officer I refused to go until I saw fit. I told the men as I have told them here. that if they petitioned to go home they would be sent home. If tais be a crime then I am a criminal. It is very imp~roper for military affairs to be discussed in the public print, and I regret that I have been forced to say anything at all." A CoURT.3ARtTIAL PaonABLE. it is positively asserted that a eourt martisl will result front Lieut. Col. Tilman's visit to camp. 3Maj. Eaves was seen Thursday regardiug the aflair. and he made the anniunoement that he would prefer charges against Lieut. Col. Tillman. If a courtmartial is held. Lieut. Col. Tillman could not be mustered out until thte finding of the court was sent to thme war department. This action would necessarily delay the work of mustering out the men. A Singular Accident. One of the most singular of railway accidents was that near Genoa. by which a dozen lives were recently lost. The Ghori tunnel, in whicht it occurred, is ver loNg. and so foul that the windows are shut. ieaving~ the passengers to keep alive on what air is already in thle car. But the engineers have no such support. and the accident was caused by the fact that the drivers and firemen on thme three enines needed to haul the train up thme heavy grade of the tunne'l were asphyxiated. Tfhe tramin conse quently slipped back and plunged in to a passenger tr'ain at the bottom of the ineiine. Gets Heavier. The correspondeznt of the Times in (Xandia says: ''It is estimated that no fewer t han St)I Christ ianis hiave beeni nassacred and the townm has becen pilI laged lby liashi IHazouks and the Turk ish soldiers. Xll reports agree as to the disgcraceful behavior of the Turk ish troops. who were seen firing on Col. Reid. The mob ran through the streets A CLASH IN CRETE. German, British and Italian Con sulates Destroyed. MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS. British Warship Throws Shells Into the Town. British Troops Forced to Slay Many Mussulmans. Condia oc the Island of Crete was in a state of anarchy last werk. A collis ion between the 'Mussulmans, who were demonstrating against European con trol, and the British authorities, who have been installing Christians as rev enue officials. culminated in bloody fighting between Mussulans and the British troops. Riots occurred in va rious parts of the city and many were killed. When the outbreak was fiercest a warship, stationed in the harbor, be gan firing shells with the result that a portion of the city was burnt. The trouble began with the attempt of the British military authorities to install Christian officials. They had appointed a council of international control to administer the revenues, and a detachment of soldiers was stationed outside the office as a precaution. A crowd of unarmed Mussulmans. who had been demonstrating against the Christians, attempted to force an en trance into the office. The British sol diers fired and wounded several. The Mussulmans ran for their arms and. returning attacked the soldiers. Other Mussulmans spread rapidly through the Christian quarter. shouting into win dows and setting many houses and shops on fire. Sir A. Bilotti. the British consul at Canca, who went to Candia on board the British battleship Camperdown, cables to the foreign office saying that the rioting at Candia was oaused in the followine manner: A British soldier on guard at the tax ofie was sudinly stabbed in the back and he dropped his riefe. which explo ded, killing a lussulnmn. The firing then became general. and a party of 20 British blue jackets froni the British torpedo gunboat Hazard was aliosit annihilated before the sailors could reach their ship. In addition, a dc tachment of 45 British soldiers were driven from their quarters near the tel egraph station and many of them were wounded. The total casualties, so far as known, are 20 killed and 50 wound ed. The fate of the Christians in other towns is uncertain, but only those who succeeded in obtaining refuge in the court houses have been saved. The British vice consul, 31r. Calo cherino, was burned to death in his house. It is reported in Athens that the bombardment was renewed at Candia Wednesday and that the port has been seriously damaged. The foreign war ships have landed sailors to reinforce the British garrison, and pumps have been landed to assist in quenching the flames. According to telegrams from Candia. it is estimated that 22 British were killed and 45 wounded. Several Christian families have sought refuge on the warships. 3Many corpses are ly ing in the street of Candia. In one case a whole family was killed. The Italian consulate is also reported burn ed. The London correspondent of the Times at Candia. telegraphing Wednes day, fully confirms the earlier reports of most serious events there. He says: "The worst is feared as to the fate of a majority of the Christians. It is re ported that only 250 have, been saved out of over 1,000. The situation was extremely difficult. The Turkish troops refused to aid the British, who, being exceedingly few in the town, were soon overpowered. The 40 wounded were attended to by the warships. The 3Mo hammedans are pillaging Candia. El hem Pasba, the governor declares that the mob is uncontrollable but the geni *ral opinion is against him. Reinforce ments are expected from Canea. and the Christian insurgents are massing around the cordon. As this dispatch goes, reinforcements are arriving in the Italian flagship Francesco 31orosini." The Times' correspondent, telegraph ing later, says: "Refugees are now coming on board the Camperdown, many of them wounded. They tell a tale of great massacre." A TERRIBLE BATTLE. Nearly Eleven Thousand Killed and Sixteen Thousand Wounded. The British war office has received a dispatch from Geu. Sir Herbert Kitch ener, the commander of the Anglo Egyptian forces dated from Onmdurman on MIonday last, saying that over 500) Arabs, mounted on camels, were dis patched after the fugitive Khalifa Ab dullah Wednesday morning. In the battle that took place at Omidurman thxe British army almost annihilated the Dervishes, who have retreated into the interior of Africa. The general added that the Dervish leader was re ported to be moving with such speed that some of his wives had been drop ped along the road followed by him. The Sirdar says also: "Officers have been counting the Decrvish bodies on the field and report the total number of dead found as about 10l.S80. From the numbers of wounded who have crawled to the river and town, it is estimated that 16,000~i were wouunded. Beside the above between 200i and 400 dervishes were killed in Omdurmian when the town was taken. 1 have as prisoners between three and four thousand tight ingz men." This grand victory of the British arms recalls to mind the kill ing of Gen. Chinese Gordau by these same IDervishers. To Feed the Starving. President 31eKinley has issued a pro elanmation directing that upon the oc cupation and possession of any ports and places int the island of Cuba by the forces of the I 'nited :States. Leef, cattle and other food supplies, intended for the relief of the starvine inhabitants of the island, ma:. be admitted free of duty, subject to the diseretion of' the com' manding officer of the inited States forces at the port of entry. who is charged with the responsibihmty for the gratuitous distribution of said food sup plies to the starv-ing inhabitants of the NEW NODE OF COLIECTION. An East St. Louis Man Goes at it With a Brace of Pistols. Win. R. McFarland of the horse coimmwission firm of McFarland & Evans of E..st St. Louis Thursday walked into the oflice of Louis Newigass & Son at the stock yards in Chicago. and present ing a revolver at the head of Louis N. Newgass. the jniior member of the firm. comIuIZOnded him to send for his eashier, Frank )IoselCy. Upon the appearance of Moseley. McFarland drew another revolver and ordered the cashier to draw a cheek in his favor for E10.416. which he claimed the firm owed him. When the cashier had finished making out the check, McFarland calmly in structed Newgass, at the same time giv in. a menacing foiurish to his weapons. to affix his signature to the paper. That done. the man from Eait St. Louis lined the two frightened men up against the wall of the office, and with all the SOielemnity of a judge at the bar a4min istered an oath to them to the effect that they would not attempt to follow him or raise an outcry. He then de parted, after stowing his revolvers and the check in his pockets. As soon as the visitor had left the office. however, Moseley and Newgass telephoned the police headquarters what had happened, The check was drawn on the National Live Stock bank. and Police Captain Lavin immediately dispatched two de tectives to the bank. McFarland was standing at the cashier's window with the check in his hand when the officers entered. He was so intent upon ex changing the paper for currency that he failed to notice the detectives until they stood, one at each elbow, and seized him. McFarland was quickly disarmed and a few minutes later was behind the bars of a cell at the police station. The $10.416 which McFarland attempted to collect by intimidating Newgass and Moseley is said to be the amount due McFarland in consequence of a sale of horses to the De Four Commission com pany. The transaction is said to have taken place some time ago, when the time was set for the payment of the money 15 days after the delivery of the stock. Later, it is claimed the time for payment was cut down to five days, whereupon the De Four company transferred -its inter est in the deal to Newgass & Sen. Me Farland feared he would come out loser in the transfer and chose summary tac ties to get even. PRIMARY FIGURES. A Majority of the People Want the Dsipensary. Govenor Ellerbe get 30,101 votes, Watson 7.579, Archer 1.998 and Whit man 367. Those four rdvocated the dispensary in the campaign. The total number of votes cast in the primary was 78.493. of which the four dispensary advocates received 40.045, or something more than half. Featherstone, the prohibition candidate. received 17,S82 votes, so the dispensary is 22.163 votes ahead of prohibition. Sehuiupert and Tillman preached high license. The former got 8,177 votes and the latter 12.389. a total of 20.566. The high li cense candidates received 2,684 votes more than the prohibition aspiran&. but 19,479 less than the dispensary candidates. The oppositton to the dis pensary is divided between prohibition and high license. Aggregate the votes cast for the candidates of both those ideas, and the vote for the dispensary candidates is 1,597 ballets greater. So the dispensary's advocates outnumber the prohibition and high license forces crmbined and are far stronger than the supporters of either one of those ideas. The first primary has conclusively de2 monstrated that the dispensary has a majority of the Democrats behind it and that prohibition las the weakest following of any of the three ideas of dealing wit\ the liquor question. So shoubd Featherstone be elected in the ,econdl pi-imary, neither he nor anybody ise could twist this election into mean ing a triumph of prohibition over the dispensary. The dispensary is on top, a fact proven by the figures quoted above and still more conclusively dem onstrated by the legislative election. -Columbia Record. THE OLD RASCAL CAUGHT. Thomas Jefferson Mackey in the Toils of the Law. A dispatch from London. Ontario, says Judge Thomas J. Mackey. well known in New York and the south, has been captured there by United States detectives on a charge of bigamy. "'Send for Dr. Day. Tell him I met the object of terror at your door and that my plan failed. My life is in danger, and so I must be careful when with this man. Oh. God. what can I do. If he should know this miy life would be taken. He is a real Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde." Such was the despairing appeal made b Katheri ne S. Porterfield, of Ches tertown. W. Va.. third and unlawful wife~ ofJude Thomas .Jefferson Mack v wh o was arrested Wednesday cIarged with bica:ny. The note was written in the hand. of an educated woman. with lea'l pemrll. no a scrap of~ aer, and left at No. :1t ueens nye ne the house in which dudge Mack ey. with his young bride. engzaged a oonm. upon their ap~pearance in London. The present charge ag~ainmst .Judge Mcker ins that lie mrarried MIiss Kath rne . Porterfield while his second ime. MIr. Sarah Curtis 31ackey. ot New~ York was still1 alive and his le tal wifte. The bride conues ofa oo ami'ly in Chlarlestonl. W. \Va.. and she wa nmirried to .Jurle Mackey iw New Yok eity. 1rom 'New York thle husband and his wife. or prisoner, went to~ Chiicago. and w~hen lie found that the detectives were after hzimr ied to this city, where le was discovered ini a Queens avenue boarding house. Cubans Surrender Arms. Two hundred Cubans surrendered their armis and askedi for rations at Santiago Wednesday. The Cubans sax their forces in Santiaro province are suflferiing for wa.: ofl provisionS. Gen. Lawton has repied that heC will raon all the men wh~o w ill remr t l 1 town and give up their airms. lle W lievet it will not be lonw bfre mos Sf the Cubans have given up their light for recognition and have returned to SOUTH CAROLINIANS THEME. Trouble in a Jacksonville Restaurant. What Caused It. A serious disturbance at Pignolo's restaurant. on H ogan street. betweez o~cers and soldiers. occurred shortly after 12 o'clock Thursday night. with the result that zherc will probably be several trials by courtmartial on charge of "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman." Sergt. -Moore of Co. K, First South Carolina regiment, is also suffering from a broken note, as the result of a hlvy water glass being thrown at him. According to eye-witnesses the trou ble started over some officers of the Second Alabama regiment using pro fane language in the restaurant. Seat od at one table was Col. Alston of the First South Carolina regiment, with his wife, while at another table were soic South Caroli-iiains. officers and privates. and at another table. at the farther side of the room. were some of icers of the Second Alabama regiment. One of the South Carolina privates went over to the table where the Ala bamna oflicers were seased and stated to them that an officer from the South Carolina regiment. with his wifo. were seated in the room. and requested them not to swear. The private went back to his seat, but the profanity is baid not to have ceased. and he went over again. In the meantime the South Carolina of ficer and his wife. not caring to stay where there was profanity being utter ed, left the restaurant. When the pri vate went ever the second time the Alabama offieers are said to have re sented his interference, objecting to bL ing "caille dowa" by a private. Words followed, aid a general row resulted. A water glass, said to have been thrown by an officer. struck Sergt. Moore, while a coffee cup went through a win dow. The police were sent for, and several oicers were soon in the place, and with the assistance of the provost guards succeeded in restoring order. Several times the trouble was on the point of breaking out afresh, when the would be fighters were separated. The policemen had their pistols drawn, and had not the utmost forbearance been shown there is no telling what the re sult might have been. A detachment of provost guards were hurriedly sent from headquarters, and were stationed in the restaurant, pre venting anyone either from coming in or going out, while other guards held the crowd in check on the outside. The names of the officers that were involved in the difficulty were taken, and an in vestigation will be held. Sergt. Moore was attended by a surgeon. and after ward sent to the Third division hos pital.-Jacksonville Times. DIED IN THE LINE OF DUTY. Foreman Wiley S. Walker Instantly Killed Near Denmark. 31r. Wiley S. Walker. section fore man on the South Caro.ina and Geor gia Railroad at Denmark. was instant ly killed near that place on Tuesday night of last week by being struck by the tend'er of Engine No. 12. The Denmark Times says the engine was backing down the track at a high rate of speed. and it is said displayed no light other than a small kuntern. 31r. Walker was coming toward Denmark with his section crew on a crank car. .They had been working all day on the wreck at Bamberg. Besides their tools. there was a barrel and two sacks of flour on the car. When they heard the ap~proaching engine there was time to save themselves if they had abandoned the ear. but Foreman Walker. true to his duty-realizing that if the car re nmained on the track it might derail the swiftly moving engine, ordered his men to lift it aside. They first rolled off the flour and tossed to one side the tools. Two men were outside the rails and MIr. Walker and Dick Parler were inside lifting at the car. They had it upended when the tender struck, hurl ing the crank car. the foreman and his crew into the ditch. The three mem bers of the crew escaped without in jury. and the car "es not damaged. 31r. Walker was instantly killed. As sistance being summoned from Den mark,his mangled remains were brought back to his grief-stricken family, the members of which had parted from him early that morning in the best of health and spirits. Wiley S. Walker was born 49 years ago near Elk.. and had been in the employ of the S. C. & G. rail road for 17 years. He had r. comforta ble farm in Aiken county. and his life was insured in the K. of P. for $1.000. He leaves, to mourn his tragical taking off. a wife, three sons and two daught ers. His oldest son. Thomas J.. is a member of the United States sigz-al corps, and is with Gen. Brooke's Porto Rican army. His eldest daughter. Miss Belle. was to have entered as a student at Winthrop College in a few days. There was no man in this community more universally respected than the deceased. HeI was esteemed by the ofiieiais of the railroad company as one of their most careful and trustworthy employcs. and it would be an act of generous justice on the part of the di i-ectors if they paid tribute to the mem ory of this brave servant, who sacri ticed his life to duty. if they took up the work lhe laid down. and finished the education of his fatherless child ren. Captiver. Start Home. Fot-fouir of the~ officers and men captured with the dlesira.tiin of Cer vera's fleet at San tiaso lit the naval hospital Wed nesday in e.e f Lieu ~t. Segrera, for Now YNr whe-~re they wiflembark for Spin.~i 1 Lit. Segr ra. who steaks Eni- ' h. was~ prof u-e m thanks to the hei 0tRl .an: rtefor kindrtess slow' the 'atvs The'i Spainaris embarked on. th &- tise Old Iionintion of the 01.1 Domiin steamf shit liie. To Go to Jacksonville. tarv to leavin: Clbimbia. Ile thinks the retimenit will be abio to leax-e in A FATAL FALL. The Dridge of New York and Ottawa Railroad Collapsed. WERE PLUNGED INTO WATER. Eighty-Two Men at Work on the Structure. Gave Way With out Warning. Carried its Human Freight Down With It Into Stream. About noon Wednesday two south spans of the International bridge, of the New York and Ottawa railway,now under construction across the St. Law rence river, about three miles above St. Regis Indian village, in the State of New York. fell without warning, with 60 men at work on the bridge, all being thrown into the river, some 60 feet be low. Over 30 were picked up and taken to Cornwall hospital and 27 are now missing. The bridge consists of three spans. of which two were com pleted and the third was neatly com pleted, when the south pier gave way at its foundation, causing both spans to fall into 60 feet of water, taking its load of human freight with it. The scene of the accident is located about four miles from Hogansburg, N. Y., above the St. Regis Indian reserva: tion. The bridge that gave way was being built across the St. Lawrence river at the foot of Long Salute rapids near Reinhardt's island. The water at this point is known to be as swift as in any part of the river. The immediate cause of the disaster and the giving way of the span of the bridge seems to have been from the washing away of one of the large piers. Late reports from Cornwall hospital says 33 men have been taken out of the river and transferred to the hospital. ]Eighteen of them have since died. The latest information concerning to day's tragedy makes it probable that the death list will reach 30. Many of the men are terribly injured. As far as can be learned 82 men reported for work this morning. Of this list only 3S have actually been accounted for. An . eye-witness of the fall of the bridge says he was sitting on the bank of the river, watching the busy work men above him, when, without warn ing there came a fearful crash. Two spans of the bridge collapsed, the im mense mass of timber and iron dropped down, and the agonizing shrieks of the men who were being crushed in the wreck were drowned by the rushing waters. Then he saw bodies coming to the surface, and the work of rescue be gan. This was hopelessly inadequate,there beivg only a few boats in the vicinity. and very few men who could undertake to swim out into the turbulent waters. Many who might have been saved were drowned before help could reach them. About 50 of the men employed on the span were Americans. The remainder were mostly Indians, who acted as as sistants. Every man on the division went down with the wreck. Many of those who escaped climbed up the iron work, which still rested on piers at either end. The scene around the Hotel Dieu, where the wounded and dying were taken, is a heart rending spectacle. The wives and relatives, of missing men are anxiously inquiring after their loved ones. A Horrible Death. Mr. Theo. Huggins, of Williamsburg County, met with a terrible accident one day last week. It appears that Mr. Huggins had just started to gin his first bale of cotton this season and was feeding thQ gin himself when his hand got caught and in tryir-g to get loose from the gin the other hand became entangled. He was powerless to help himself. Before the engine could be stopped not only both hands but the greater part of both arms were literally cut to pieces. It was five miles to a physician's house and before one could be summoned the unfortunate man bled to death. Mr. Huggins was about 25 years old. He was married and leaves a widow and three small children. He was a prosperous farmer, merchan dised on a small scale and ran a steam gin and grist mill. To Bankers and Merchants. Mr. J. C. Wilborn, president of the State cotton growers, Thursda.- issued the following: "The merchants and bankers of South Carolina are hereby cordially in vited to attendi the cotton growers' con vention to be held.in Columbia, Sep tember 20. It is hoped that every in dividual intcrestcd in the production of cotton will feel himself invited to participate in the move to advance the price of cotton to a point that will pay the cost of production and give a rea sonable compensation. There is no de sire to exclude the bankers and mer chants.: on the contrary, we express the desire that all South Carolina may act in unison at this trying crisis in oar affairs. J. C. Wilborn, President of Cotton Growers of South Carolina. Safety of Railway Travel. Last year on American railways one passenger was killed in accidents out of evcry 2.8S27,474 passengers carried. That is to say that you can take a tramn 2.S27.474 times before, on the law of averages, your turn comes to be killed. You wri!! have to travel 72,093. 963 miles on the ears before that turn comes, and 4.an.jg5 miles before you are injured. If you travel 20 miles every day for :-;9 d-ys in the year. youi can kcep on at it fo)r 758S years before your turn coes to be hurt. If there had been railways when outr Saviour was born and you had began to travel on the first day of the year~ A. P. 1. and had tavled 100I rmiles in every day of every month of every year since then. yo w ~ould still have (in this year 1898) nerl three million miles yet to travel before ; our turn came to be killed. A Mean Joke. I 'reiste hm:ent of ai rural Ten nesa.eitor of the Ifardemian Free Prss im-~ e wish to explain our lack of edioria this week. We was down S emhis, and a smart Alec at the t~srn pt train oui on our greens and vi twas vinegar. Of course we were l ie de: omubaw for three days. and now that we are able to talk. our lan --ag is not fit for publication."