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OL. XIV. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1899. NO. 24 RETURN OF LIQUOR. The Covernor Makes a Positive Statement About It. THE INSTRUCTIONS IN FULL. When it Is Seized According to Linstructions He Will Entertain No Proposition for its Return. The Columbia correspondent of the News aud Courier says nearly every day a bundle of letters goes to the execu tive office asking for the return of liquor seized by the State constables. This has been particularly the case dur. ing the rush of Christmas business. Governor Ellerhe announced Wednes day that hereafter people will save themselves a great deal of trouble and annoyance in not w riting for the return of liquor seized in compliance with the instructions to the constables. If the liquor intoned for personal use is seized under the intructions it will go to the State, and Governor Ellerbe says he will not entertain applications for its return. Liquor shipped into the State in conformity with the law and regula tions will not be interfered with, and if it is the constables are liable to get into trouble. In order that the general public cain understand the rules governing the con stables the instructions have been ob tained and are given in full, together with amendments agreed upon Wed nesday. They are as followss: L_ 1. Constables appointed under the dispensary law will act only under the law. 2. They have the right to exercise all the duties and powers conferred upon them by the dispensary law. 3. Constables de tecting persons open ly, or in the act of violating any of the provisions of the dispensary law, may arrest and carry the party before a mag istrate for a warrant. 4. They are to seize any wagon, cart, boat, or any other conveyance, together with the horses, mules, or any other animals, discovered transporting liquor in the night time. 5. They rju..t obtain warrants from magistrates for the arrest of any per sons who violate the dispensary law, and such \ jolations can only be proved by witnesses. The warrant must be based on an affidavit. 6. They have the right at any time during the day or night "we, to enter upon lots or open places. tres, etc.. to make search for contraband liquors with out a warrant, but should never search private houses or apartments without a search warrant, issued by a magistrate. Under Section 22 of the dispensary law all places can be searched when a com mon nuisance is maintained, and ai ar rest and search warrant should be issued as provided in that section, and such action should - be taken as is therein prescribed. 7. Constables cannot seize liquors, wines or beers imported by citizens of this State for personal use. Suich liquors are not requi ed to hav.e certiti cates showing analysis. W hen liquors come into this State marked for person al use, if it is consigned to a known blind tiger, or the constables have proof or strong suspicious circumstances that they are for sale. they can seize and hold for tw~nty-four hours for in vestigation, but no liquors must be taken from the railroad while they are in transit. W he n seizures are made upon suspicion they must be made after the liquors have arrived at their place of consiginment-their destination -or have pasar d into the hands of the consignee. Of course constables must exercise sound judgment and be careful about seizing liquors marked f r per sonal use. 8. When constables have a well founded suspicion that persons are cor. ducting blind tigers they should watch them diligently, so as to make it diffi cult and cangerous for them to sell, and frequent raids should be made upon them, a: d all liquors found should be seized. If constables are satisfied that liquors are illegally sold in any place, and suspect that liquors are kept else where and brought to the place in small quabtities, separate search warrants should be taken out and the suspected places searched. L9. All contraband liquors seized must be disposed of as airected in Section 31 ol the dispensacy law. L10. Persons having contraband liq uors in possession violate the law, and may be indicted and the liquors contis cated. gi1. All liquors shipped c. o. d. or order notify, or bill of lading with draft attaecd, or is in any w ay to be paid for in the State, should be seized. Lu12. Liquors found in any express offiee r-depot, at destiuation, consigned to a fictitious party, or intended for other than the consignee, should be seized. If there is good reason for believius that a package of liquor is for other person than the consignee, it may be seized and deposited in a dispensary, or with the sheriff for thirty days, or until investigation is made, and if, upon investigation, it is found to be a lawful hipment, it must be released. [J13. Liquora being shipped concealed, or bearing mi:,leading marks for the purpose of disguisin~g the contents of the package, munst be seized. When parties club together anid order liquor, to be divided or distributed between them, it must be seized. Persons can only order for themselves, and in their own name. and may not use the name of a firm or company. 14. Upon complaint being made by citizens of any conmmunity that soft drinks containing alcohol are being sold, or if a constable be satisfied that the soft drinks contain alcohol he shall glize and ship the same to the S:a-e commissioner. 15. Contraband goods, which for any reason are not shippped to the State commissioner at once, should be turned orer to the sheriff of the county; or. if more convenient, may by stored in a dis pensary and left in charge of the dis penser until ready to ship. L16. Contraband liquoxs must be shipped by freight if the quantity is considerable, but small packages may be sent by express. Railroai or ex press receipts must be taken for every mitininer. A report of he seizure mut be made to the clerk in the executive )uiee, giving any information obtained hat will be needed by him if applica ion is made for the release of the goods. All packages must be plainly marked. so that they can be identified. 17. When any team is seized for transporting liquor at night, or any li quors or personal property is seized, under search warrant or otherwise, the constable seizing same shall have an in ventary and appraisement made by three sworn appraisers, providing the property is worth more that fifty dol lars. The constable will then publish a notice for three weeks in three public places. describing the articles, etc., and requiring any person claiming them to appear and make claim within thirty days from the date of the first publica tion of the notice. It no claim is made within thirty days, the constable or other officer can sell the same, without further advertisement to the highest bidder. In giving the notice for the three weeks the constable should state in same that if the property is not claimed within thirty days and bond iled with the State board the property will be sold, giving place where it will be sold, and when sold. The bill for keep of team may be paid from the proceeds, and the balance remitted -> the State Treasurer. A complete statement showing gross proceeds, expenses and the sum remitted, most be mailed to the clerk in the executive office. 18. Constables may enter any ex press, or other cars, or boats, in the State, for the purpose of searching for contraband liquors, and may examine the books and way bills of the trans portation companies. Constables may use teams or horses in order to pursue and capturo teams or persons transport ing liquor when they could not succeed otherwise, but should not use teams to drive over the country in search of work. Only when reasonably sure of acconplishing goed work may the ex pense of teams be incurred. 19. It is the duty of all sheriffs, magistrates and magistrates' constables to enforce the dispensary law (see Sec tion 29.) and they are entitled to half the value of the contraband liquor they seize; but when the State constables get them to serve warrants, or merely to assist them in arrests or searches, the3 are not entitled to this commis siou and it will not be allowed. 20. The proprietor, and his aids and assibtants, in any establishment where liquors are sold contrary to law, may be arrested and prosecuted. 21. Constables will study ' law and enforce its various provisijns with 22. Constables will report daily to their immediate superior, who is re quired to examine the same and forward to the executive office. 23. Constables must be courteous to all, but will refrain from talking un necessarily about their official plans and business to the public. They owe no apology or explanation to anyone for oing their duty. 24. Constables will refrain from the use of liquors to excess, on pain of ex pulsion. 25. When constables get a case 0tgeinst violators of the dispensary law they should see that the witnesses are bound over and urge the proupt hear ng of the case, especially if they are itnesses themselves, so that if they re called away the case will have been isposed of and they will not have to etumn to attend the trial. When it an be done, cases should be brought within the jurisdiction of the magis rate and finally disposed of. Atten ance on the Circuit Court by consta les is expensive and takes much of their time. It will be well to note Section 13, to ut it out and paste it up, as there is ery much more trouble from evasion >f this section than all of the others > mbined. It is announced that the rules may may be changed at any time but the resent ultimatum is that where there re violations of the dispensary law, as romulgated in the rules to cornetables, he liquor will be seized and kept, and here is no use to bother to ask for its eturn. If liquor is ordered in copart ership, as is prohibited in Rule 13. it ay be considered as gone. If a wrong ame is given, as is prohibited, it is nother case of contributing to the State treasury, and so en. This is no New Year ultimatum either, but it is to go into immediate ffect. ___________ Could Not Happen Here. Charles W. Swan and Mrs. Isabella Brown were married in Manchester, Va., Tuesday night under most unusual onditions. It was the second time the same couple embarked on the matri monial sea as husband and wife, and followed two suits for divorce, a convic tion of bigamy and a pardon, and to further complicate the situation there is another woman in Manchester who bears Swan's name, and is the mother f his family of grown children. Swan, ight years ago, after his wife had been enied a divorce, applied for one him self and was granted a legal separation, which might, after five years, be per fected into a permanent divorce. At he end of five years, and without bring ng further proceedings, Swan followed rs. Brown to North Carolina, married er and brought her to live near his old ome. After many months his first sife prosecuted him and he was finally onvicted of bigamy and given three ears. The governor pardoned him the wxt day and the wedding was the se uel. _________ Gov. Russell's Surprises. A sensation was created in Raleigh. . '., Wednesday by the announce nent that J. M. NMewborne, the Fusion superintendent of the penitentiary, had eignted and Capt. W. H. Day, a Dem oratic lawyer, had been named by Gov rnor Russell as his successor. Mr. M ew borne'sresignation takes effect Jan. lt. Not even the most intimate friends f the interested parties knew of the ontemplated change in management. Capt. Day has accepted the position, and Wednesday announced that he would fill all the subordinate offices with Democrats,. He has already ap pointed R. J. Tillery of Halifax county as manager of the State farms and F. B. Arendell of Raleigh manager of the central prison.- Governor Russells political friends are severely criticising him for appointing Democrats to office Only two weeks ago he appointed a Democrat as adjiutant general of the State. and since then he has made the boards of directors for several of the in IN A BAD FIX. A Distressing State of Affairs in Beaufort County. CROPS RUINED BY STORMS. At the Request of Prominent Citizens Governor Ellerbe Asks for Aid for the Suff rers. Some time ago Governor Ellerbe re ceived information of suffering on the sea islands of Beaufort county. From information received Wednesday he has been apprised that storms have ruined the crops inland and that there is much distress and suffering in por tions of Beaufort county. He has decided to ask for contribu tions for the relief of these worthy and unfortunate people, and those who dc sire to aid them may send their contri butions to Gov. Ellerbe or to the gen tlemen who apprised the governor of the situation. Their communication is ap pended: Bluffton, Dec. 2. 189S. To His Excellency Governor W. H. E.l lerbe, Columbia. Dear Sir: In the face of the dire and general distress now depressing and op pressing the people throughout the township of Bluffton, Yemassee and Hilton Head, in Beaufort county. caused by two cyclonic storms within a month of each other, the first on the 28th of August and the second on the second of October past, we deem it proper to submit to the executive a statement of their present condition and solicit such assistance as the ne cessities of the case indicate and re quire. Previous to the first cyclone the er >ps promised an ample, prosperous harvest. but swept by the tempest and unprece dented flood the larger portion wa, de stroyed, houses blown down, all the bridges swept away and forests wrecked roads blockaded by fallen trees and the entire township naiued. devasta ted. The second storm con.,ummated the desolation and the destrut-tion is so pre dominant and general as to be the rule and not the exception. The other townships in the county suffered to a limited extnt, but the three townships about which we write are ent'rely wrecked. The rice and pea crops are destroyed; a one-half corn crop, one-half of it rot ten, has been gathered and a minimuni of storm cotton. valued at scarce one cent per pound in the seed. while the potato crop has been alniost a failure from the flood, fresh and salt water that submerged the townships. On the Savannah and New rivers in Yemassee and Bluffton townships there has been planted this year between 5,000 and 6.000 acres of rice with the promised yield of about 250,000 bush els, worth $250,000, and the cyclones have left only about 12,000 or 15.000 bushels of damaged rice, while the rice mizls themselves, trunks, banks, flats and boats have been to a lar e extent destroyed. The rice harvest had commenced and ito that time at least 100,000 in cash had been expended on the production >f the crop, all of which has been en gulfed by the cyclonic flood. The people are disheartened by the. esolation around them, their houses, fences and fields presenting a deplora le picture and discouraging prospects, with the want of necessities of life taring them in the face, while there is no work or enterprise offering to give them employment. In addition to this general calamity very family has suffered and are still smfering with malarial fever, the se uence of the flood and exposure. The people need subsistence, cloth ing, medicine and indulgence in the payment of their taxes. They, the people, have no money, and unless the payment of taxes is ex ended for them in Bluffton, Yemassee and Hilton Head townships, the little that is left by the storms will have to be sold and sacrificed, thereby disa lying them to cultivate a crop the en suing year. The real condition of the people in these townships is such as to deruand in ur humble opinion your official atten ion and interposition, and we feel con fident if one with authority is commis sioned to investigate the matter his re port will prove of such a character as to ender imperative, and .iustify the peo ple in the appeals to the public as well s to the State for needed considcration nd assistance. In the village of Bluff on many houses were blown down with a number of the best d wellings unroofed nd fences prostrated. These townships have been laid waste by four terrific cyelones within the past ive years, and the people, while eon fronting the inevitable and br-avely truggling to surmount their troubles. feel reluctantly constrained by their resent necessitous condition to solicit ublic aid and assistance. Respectfully suhbmitted by J. G. Verdier, 31enuber eleet. F. T. Hardee. Robt Crosby. C. S. Pritchard, .J. S. P'adh.-tt. R. 0. ley nolds. W. N. Barn~es, 31auistrate. C'. A. Verdier, G. G. Verdier, WV. RA. 3. \erdier. .J. 31eLer. C. J. Coleoek, 31ember House of R epresenitative&. A Terrible Avalanche. Part of Red Rock mountain. accr ing to a dispatch from Airolo. (a village of Switzerland. canton of Tieino) h asi fallen into Airolo, destroying a hotel and several houses. The scene of the disaster presents a terrible specacle, the debris of the avalanche covering a square mile. The hotel, with eight houses and 12 other buildings was swept into a great heap of match wood. A new terror was added by the out break of fire amid the ruins. Three dead bodies have been recovered. It is estimated that the damage will reach WANDERED AWAY. The Rev. W. A. Kelly Has Gone None Knows Where. To the Editor of The State: My husband. the Rev. Wm. Aiken Kelly. laboring under temporary mental aberration has left the city of Charles ton and wandering I know not where. Physically very delicate and a great sufferer for years, his exceedingly vig orous mind held to the point of t tmosL tension in preparing for conference ex amination has suddenly given away. Will his many warm friends of the State assist me with prayer and effort to recover him? Sorrowfully, Mrs. Wi. A. Kelly. The Charleston correspondent of The State says: "The Rev. Win. Aiken Kelly, a young minister recently ad mitted to the M.thodist conference of this State, has been missing for over a week ana his friends are very anxious about him Ile has a church in Sum ter. Ten days ago he came to this city accompanied by his wife and child to spend the Christmas holidays with friends. The Sunday before Christmas he preached an excellent sermon at Bethel church. On the followingTues day he made an appointment in the morning to meet his wife and some friends at a point near the city. He then left the house at which he was staying: and has not been seen since. His wife says that he had worked very hard preparing for his examination at the conference of his church and she thinks that his mind gave way under the strain and that he has wandered away. She does not fear foul play but she is afraid that he is ill somewhere and unable to communicate with his friends. Once before, after a period of hard study, the young minister left home and was not heard of for four days. le came to himself then in Au Z~ta. Ga. The Rev. Mr Kelley is about 26 years of age. His father was for years city assessor of this city and he and his family are widely known and popular in South Carolina. Sixty Thousand Gone. A dispatch from San Antonio, Texas, says the offic of the Wells Fargo Ex press Company at that place is out a money package containing $60,000. The money was sent there from Hous ton. It arrived Wed-iebday morning and was given to C. A. Beeler, the Wells-Fargo money clerk to hand over. Beeler started for the depot and was seen enroute. Four hours after his de parture his wagon was found five miles west of the city in a thicket, the horse almost dead from the effects of hard d.iving. Inquiry developed the fact that no delivery had been made. There was no evidence of a struggle in the vicinity of where tie vehicle was found. Bee'er has been in the employ of the company for niue years and enjoyed the confidence of all. He spent several years on the frontier as a cowboy. His triends stoutly assert that he is the vic tim of foul play and his wife also in clines to this belief. Supt. Taft, of the express company is here investiga ting. He admits that the loss will reach the sum stated while rumor near ly doubles the awoa. An Important Decision. The Charlestou correspondent of the State says Judge Benet Wednesday an nounced his decision on the motions for new trial basec' on the claim that one or more jurors were not 'qualfied elec tors" in the intent and meaning of the constitution. On the constitutional question his honor decided that a "qualitied elector." and a qualified ju ror, must be a "registered voter." T'his was favorable to the movers. But his honor decided, secondly, that all parties had due notice and with proper diligence could have ascertained before trial whether jurors were qualified. The objection should have been raised before trial. And, thirdly, his honor decided that there was not a sufficiency of evidence in the certiaicate of the clerk of the court that the juror's name did not appear on the registration rolls filed with him to prove that the juror was not a registered votr r. The mo tion for new trial was refused. A Terrible Tragedy. Wednesday three of the children of Charles Hiagerman were playing on the ice off the north shore of Wells Island, in the St. Lawrence River, when it broke arnd they all fell in and were drowned. A fourth child, who was on shore, ran to the house and notified her mother. Mrs. Hlagerman rushed to the scene and in her endeavors to rescue the children broke through the ice, and she too, was drowned. A man who was at tracted to the scene of the accident dove into the water and brought up >ner of the children, but as the man was trying to climb out on the ice the child slipped from his grasp and perished. The famn Jly consisted of Charles Hlagerman, his wife and nine children. IHagerman, who had been in Canada, arrived home an hour af er the drowning to take Christmas with his family. Hie went to the riser alone and recovered the tour bodies. ihey Speak out. The following resolution, offered by Comrade Beasley, formerly of North Carolina. was unanimously passed at a mieetlrig of the ('onfederate Veteran Camp of New Yo k: Resolved. That the Confederate Vet eran (Camy of New York condemns in unmeasured termis the efforts of Sena tor Butler of North Carolina (wvho is not a C'onfederate veteran) to debauch the manhood of the South by seeking to obtain pensions for ex-Confederate sol diers from the United States, and that any similar effort b~y any Southern member oh' Congress will be abhorrent to the camp and meet with unqualified condemn atio(n. An Experts Opinion. .Mr. Alfred B. Shepperson. the cot to exetsy in his leemrber edi opinions of a few Southern bank cash iers, a class whose occupation usually keeps them in their offices at routine work all day. I am certain that the con census of opinion among cotton factors and planters-the people who -are best informed on the matter-would be that 46 cents per pound for middling cotton in interior Southern markets would be more than a cent and a half per pcund below the averae cst of production.' BRYAN SPEAKS OUT. He Opposes a Big Standing Army and Vassal Colonies. IS STILL FOR FREE SILVER. But Thinks forthe Time that Issue is Overshadowed by Issues Raised by the Span ish War. Col. W. J. Bryan returned to Lin coln, Neb., his home, one day last week and was tendered a reception at the Oliver Theatre by the Woman's Bime tallic League. The house was crowded and Col. Bryan received an ovation. He was introduced by Governor Hol comb, who formally welcomed him home and complimented him for his patriotism in enlisting in the army. After thanking his neighbors for their cordial welcome and compliment ing the members of his regiment ard Col. Vifquain, in whose charge he left them, he justified his resignation as follows: "I had five months of peace in the army and resigned in order to take part in a fight. I am as much in terested in the people of the United States as I am in the people of Cuba, and unless I am mistaken in judging we are called upon to meet more im portant problems in the United States just now than will confront our army in Cuba. "Some of these problems were under discussion before hostilities began. Others have been thrust upon us as a result of the war. Let me improve this, my first opportunity, to assure you that my zeal for the reforms advocated a few months ago has not in the least abated. "Vital questions cannot be killed or burned and we were dealing with vital questions when the call to arms re sounded throughout the land. "The American people have not ac cepted th3 gold standard as final. It has wought more injustice in our coun try during the last twenty-five years than Spain has wrought in all her colo nies, and opposition to it will grow until the gold and silver coinage of the Constitution is fully restored. The trusts which now flourish in defiance of laws are more merciless than Weyler was and the new trust-the paper money trust-which is seeking to obtain con trol of all the paper money in the na tion, is a greater menace to the coun try's welfare than any foreign foe. "There are, however, two new ques tions which demand immediate atten tention, because congress is asked to act upon them at once. "The -presdent reccommends that the regular army be permanently increased to 100,000 men. This question must be met now or not at all." Taking up the subject of imperialism Mr. Bryan said that the president has misinterpreted the sentiment of the people. They are opposed to giving the Philippine Islands back to Spain, but they have not as yet declared in favor of embarking upon a colonial poli cv. So great a charge, he said, could not be undertaken without more inves tigation and deliberation than the peo ple had yet given to the subject. The principal part of Mr. Bryan's spech was devoted to the Philippine :question. In this connection he re ferred to President McKinley's inquiry: "Who will haul down the flag?" and replied: "The flag is a national em blem an~d is obedient to the national will. I: was made for the people, not the peop~le for the flag. When the Am ican people want the flat raised they raise it; when they want it hauled down they haul it down. The flag was raised upon Canadian so! during the war of 1812. and it was hauled down when peace was restored. The flag was planted upon Chapultepec during the war with Mexico, and it was haiuled down when the war was over. The morning papers announce that General Lee ordered the flag hauled down in Cuba yesterday because it was raised too soon. The flag will be raised in Cuba again on the 1st of January, but the president declares in his message that it will be hauled down as soon as a stable government is established. Who will deny to the people the right to haul the flag devan in the Philippines, if they so desire, ;hen a stable govern ment is estallished there? "Our flag stands for an indissolnble Union of indestructible States. Every State is represented by a star and every 'erritory sees in the Constitution a star of hope that will seine day take its place in the constellation. What is there in the flag to awaken the zeal or reflect the aspirations of vassal colonies which are too good to be cast way, but not good enough to be admitted to the sisterhood of States? "Shall we keep the Philippines and amend our flau? Shall we add a new star-the bold~ star, Mars-to indicate that we have entered upon a career of conquest? Or shall we borrow the yel low, which in 1896 was the badge of gold and greed, and paint Saturn and his rings, to suggest a carpet-bag gov ernment with its schemes of spoliation? Or shall we adorn our flag with a milky way, composed of a multitude of minor stars, representing remote and insignifi cant dependencies? "No. a thousand times better to haul down the stars and stripes and substi tute the flag of an indepcndent republic than to surrender the doctrines that give glory to 'Old Glory.' It was the fag of our fathers in the years that are gone; it is the flag of a reunited couu try today, let it be the flag of our nation in the years that are to come. Its stripes of red tell of the blood that was shed to purchase liberty; its stripes of white proclaim the pure and Heaven born purposes of a government which derived its just powers from the con sent of the governed. The mission of that flag is to float, not over a conglom eration of commonwealths, but over 'the land of the free and the home of the brave,' and to that mission it must remain 'forever true, forever true.'" A Sad Huunt. A dispatch from Florence to The State says James Willoughby, son of Mr. T. C. Willoughby of this city, ac identally shot and killed his little brother, Rueben, while hunting Tues day afternoon. The afflicted ones have the entire sympathy of the communi NEW PRODUCT OF CORN. Ground Stalks Make a Superior Forage for Stock. The Baltimore Sun says the new corn products, upon which investigations have been conducted at the Maiyland Agricultural Experiment station to de termine its value as a stock food, has been given inuch consideration by the farming community of the State; in fact, many States have taken up the subject and are conducting experiments to ascertain its relative feeding value. In the process of the extraction of the pith, the blades and husk are first re moved and the stalkP are cut up in small pieces. After the extraction of the pith from the stalk the balance is ground up into meal, which in general appearance resembles coarse bran. This ground material is termed the "new corn product." The new corr product contains eleven pounds per hundred more digestible matter and two pounds per hundred more digestible protein than the w'iole fodder shredded. Dur ing the past few years much has been done in the way of testing methods for preparing corn fodder for feeding, with most of the results in favor of some method o? shredding the stalk. Shred ding possesses many points which makes it supericr to the ordinary or old way of cutting fodder, the principal one of which is that the shredded fodder is al most wholly eaten by animals. It is found that the corn product contains within one pound as much total digesti ble matter as wheat bran. but less than one third as much digestible protein; consequently the nutritive ratio is wider. It was further observed that animals fed with a fattening ration with the new corn product base made more gain in live weight and upon less feed than with a fattening ration of the bame grain and corn blades. The keep ing qualities of the new corn product are as good as linseed meal, cotton seed meal or wheat bran, and rations made up with this material can be fed with less labor and less waste of feed than when hay and fodder are fed separately, as ordinarily practiced. The naval de partwent of the United States govern ment has conducted extensive experi ments with corn pith for fse in vessels, and the results have been so satisfac tory that it has been adopted and speci fied for use in the construction of all new vessels. Its ability to absorb great quantities of water quickly and thus swell very rapidly so as to close a hole be'ore water can enter a vessel is the chief advantage in its favor. FOUR MURDERS IN A DAY. Women and Wine Cause Three of the Four Murders. Henry Perry, a well known citizen of Atlanta, was shot and almost instantly killed Wednesday in alhouse on Madison streeet, by John A. lilam. The men had a de3perate light for a revolver. which Milam finally secured Florence Livin -ston, who lived in the place, en deavored to separate the men. but fail d. She afterward told the authorities that she did the killing, and presented - apistol as the weapon used, but all the hambers were filled. A passer by aught Perry as he fell and heard him say he had been killed by Milam. Mike Day, 17 years old, a cripple, hot and instantly killed Frank Fleury t noon. Day says he discharged the weapon without looking. Harry Fleu y, a brother of the dead b'oy, says Day pointed the pistol directly at the child. He declares that Day and his brother ad quarreled several days ago, but Day says he was friendly with little Fleury. A year ago Day shot Jack Jones, a boy is own age, but the wound was not fa al. Levi Patterson sh.>t and killed Tom Fster, who was intoxicated and trying o pick a quarrel. Special Officer A. J. Cavender of the ulton bag and cotton mills, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by Jesse Owen, an employe of the cotton mills. Owen's relatives were celebrating hristmas rather hilarously and Caven er went to arrest Owen, who fired on im. TI e police, in the past 48 hours, have rrested nearly 200 persons on different harges, which is believed to break the record here. The saloons were closed as usual at 10 o'clock Saturday night, and were not opened today by special order of M1ayor Collier. Nearly every person taken in by the police had a bottle on his person, and as a result the large vault at Central station is well tilled with a varied assortment of bottles and liquors.__________ Major David Hemphill. The Knoxville Sentinel of Tuesday printed the following relative to the de mise of 3Major Hemphill. formerly chief ua termaster on Gen. Bates' staff, w to died in that city on Mlonday night: M\ajor David IHemphill died last night at 7 :) o'clock at the division hospital. lis serious illness was of short duration But little over a week ago he was a fa miliar figure upon the streets and cir ulating among the many friends made since he came to Knioxville. His plans were that at the hour his life went out, to be speeding homeward for the holi days. His home-going has been delay ed and when his body reaches his place of birth in South Carolina it will be but to be consigned t the grave. His death resulted from a complication of diseases. All that could be done by the army surgeons and phiysicians of this city to save his life was resorted to, without avail.I A Drunken Brute. 3Mrs. Winnie Hlearney. aged 28 years was found badly burned Wednesday at her home in the tenement building t 10:2 Detroit street, Cleveland, Ohio. Her bed was partly burned. She now lies in St. John's hospital at the point f death. The cause of the fire was given by the woman and her husband. Joseph Hearney, a laborer, as the ex plosion of a lamp. At an early hour this morning, however, the police ob tained from the 9-year-old daughter of the couple the statement that Hearney ame home intoxicated and because his wife would not get out of bed and cook him a meal, soaked some rags in coal il, lighted them and threw them on er bed. The police placed Hearney uder arrest. ANABSCONDER ARRESTED. Former Prominent Georgia Merchant is Held in California. S. LaFayette Almand, a Georgia merchant, who is charged with abscond ing with some forty or fifty thousand dollars, was arrested in Tulare, Cal., last Sunday morning and Monday night City Detective Hewitt of Atlanta. Ga., started for California after the abscon der. Almand was a merchant in this state with headquarters at Convers, Ga., and did a large business. He had the confi dence of the business men of the state and almost unlimited credit. He ap peared to be flourishing when, about three weeks ago, he suddenly disap peared, and when those who had trusted him examined his affairs they claimed he had carried with him several thous and dollars which he ought to have turned over to them. Just how many were victimized can not be said, as all of then decide to keep quiet and try to catch Almand. Nor can the exact amount of the modey alleged to have been taken be named, as even the victims do not know, but it is estimated that the amount will be be tween $40,000 and $50,000. Almand is a young man, not more than 30 years of age, and well connect ed throughout the State. He is mar ried, and his family has been residing in Conyers. Last Saturday the sheriff of Rockdale county went to Atlanta and saw some of the parties interested in the capture of Almand. He said he had received information which led him to believe Almand wai in a town called Lures, Cal. No such town could be found, and it was then discovered that Lures was meant for Tulare. A private call was made on Chief of Police Manly, and he was informed that Almand was in Tulare, Cal. Sun day morning a telegram was sent to that town and Monday a reply was re ceived stating that Almand was under arrest. A special to the Constitution from Covington says: It develops that the shortage of S. L. Almand, who left here a few days ago, will reach a sum vari ously estimated ac between $15,000 and $40,000. It is said that his heaviest reditcrs are the Marietta Guano com pany, Atlanta; Baldwin Fertilizer com pany, Port Royal, S. C.; the Southern Pacific Guano eompany, Atlanta; and the Gate City Oil company, Atlanta. He was manager here of the Gate City ginnery. He dealt heavily in cotton and cotton seed. He is said to owe farmers all over this and adjoining counties for cotton seed. His plan was to give each man a due ill on the Gate City Oil company's blanks, telling them that the company would dejosit the money in the bank here in a short time and redeem the due bills. NEGROES, ISSUE ANADDRESS. Lot of Talk About the Suffrage, Lynch Law and Education. A Negro council was held in Wash on several days last week, and just be ore adjournment Friday night adopted long address to the American people. 'he address congratulates the council hat the Negro race everywhere has grown stronger and stronger in all ele ments of Christian morality, of thrift and intelligence. Considerable atten tion is devoted to the political condi tions of the Negroes in the South and the address says that since 1868 there has been a steady and persistent deter mination to eliminate them in polisics f those States. "We are not opposed," the address adds, "to legitimateiestric tion of the suffrage, but we insist that estrictions shall apply alike to all citi ens of all States. We are willing to ccept an educational or property quali atin, or both. We insist that neither f these was intended or is conserved by the new constitutions of Mlississippi. oth Carolina or Louisiana." The address calls on congress to re uce the representation of those States n that body. The address says the in rease of mob and lynch law has be ome a source of reproach at home and broad and regrets that the president saw fit to treat with silence this vital matter in his recent message to con gress. It speaks of the separate car law as unjust and appressive. In the interest of humanity it requests that the penal institutions of the South be reformed. The suggestion is made that a art of the public domain of the South be devoted to the maintenance of schools of higher learning and indus trial training, and for a more effective maintenabce of the public school sys tem of those States for each race, share and share alike. The opinion is ex pressed that a more general distribu tion of the Negroes throughout the States of the Union and new territories of the republic, in order to reduce the ongested population of the Southern States would do much to simplify the race problem. A Family Feud. Another chapter in the Sherman fa2: ly feud in 31eMiun county Ga.. was acted Wednesday and as a result Stewart, a druggist of Decatur. Teun.. is lying at the point of death wiph a gunshot wound in his abdomen. Stew rt was driving with Pete Sherman. a ember of one of the families involved in the feud. At a point about eight miles from the city they came upo Steve Sheimnan, on the other side of the feud. Accounts differ as to who fired the first shot. Stewart received two bhots. one in the leg and the other in the abdomen from the effects of which he will die. Sherman was not hu't. e went to Athens and gave himself Will Have to Fight Both. The outlook now is that we will have to fight both the Cubans and the Fili inos. We will fight the former in or der to make them free and the latter in order to prevent them from becoming1 so. This is the programme of the im perialists, and it is truly a lovely one for the contemplation of those who be ieve that the Declaration of Indepen dence, which we won our freedom, con tains a noble and sacred truth in the assurance to our own people and man kind that "all governments derive their lust powers from the consent of the govmJd.-Atlanta Journal. LOOKING SERIOUS. Row Brewing Between Amer! cans and Cubans in Havana. SOME STARTLING RUMORS. Reported That Gen. Menocal's Troops Have Once More Taken to the Field. In tense Excitement Pre. vails. A dispatch from Havana says start, ling rumors were flying around thateity Thursday night and are given credence by excited crowds thronging the streets. It was reported that Gen. Marianao Menocal and his Cuban forces at La Paya had been asked to take the oath of allegiance to the United States and had refused. The news that Cuban soldiers had re fused to take the oath of allegiance was cheered by the crowd and mounted in surgents scattered through the inn, telling the people in the street that Gen. Menocal had withdrawn his troops from Le Paya and taken to the field. This story, regardless of its truth or falsity, is chiefly worthy of-serious at tention becatime of the.eagerness with which it was received by the crowds who insisted upon its truth. They js ti0d Gen. Menocal's reported sensa tional action. The situation grows out of the refusal of Gen. Brooke's permit for the participation of Cuban troops in the exercises on evacuation day. The feeling is intense. The United States flag was torn down from many houses in tho lower districts tonight. Upper class Cubans sent ca blegrams without number to President. McKinley today begging him to inter fere. Cablegrams have been sent broadcast over the United States asking for public meetings and appealing to the common sense and justice of the American people. The Cuban leaders here are doing ev erything possible to prevent an out burst, but say that if Gen. Brocke's command is carried out not only. will they be helpless, but they will think whatever- happens to have been caused by what they consider the arbitrary and unjust action of the United States. Judge Advocate Charles Gould of the American commission, cabled to.Presi dent McKinley -that there is intense uneasiness in the situation here and ad vising that the Cubans be permitted tc participate in the evacuation ceremonies. The more excitable of the population of Habana's lower districts are begin ning to hoot the American soldiers. The higher class Cubans are bitterly chagrined and disappointed at the turn affairs have taken. They hardly know what to say or do. Their plans were to have 1,000 picked men, the flower of the insurgent army, march into Habana on Jan. 1. The Cuban soldiers eame into camp at La Paya and Mariana with the understanding that they were marching to Habana for evacuation day. They bought new uuiforms in honor of the occasion. The streets cf Habana have bern most lavishly decorated. The people intended to meet the insurgent soldiers t the outskirts and escort them with music and cheering to the Prado. The soldiers are the popular ideal of the people of Habana. The entrance of he Cuban soldiers into Habana has been the dream of the people of the un appy island for 50 years. During the late war Habana has ever been thbe ob ective point. Now Spain has been driven out, but the Cuban soldier must not enter. The ubans compromised on the original plans two days ago. It was said the soldiers might enter on the second proximo. Five days of rejoicing was planned. The people of Hr~bauna plan ed a great feast for the soldiers. Gen. Brooke, who is supposed to act under instructions from Washington, said thi arrangement could not be carried out. The developmenats of the next few ays may mean peace or war between the United States and Cuba. Habana itizens say they beg not to be driven way from the United States. THERE WILL BE PEACE. A dispatch from Havana says the uban patriotic committee, consisting f 150 leading Cubans, lawyers, doctors and business men, at a meeting which lasted until 4 o'clock Friday morning, ecided to yield without reservatien to the wishes of Gen. Brooke and Gen. Ludlow in the matter of postponing the six days celebration and has approved a manifesto to the Cuban population of abana, on the lines of djen. Ludlow's reply on the subject of the proposed elebrations, quoting some portions of it and paraphrasing others. The Cu an citizens of Ilabana and the Cuban soldiers outside the city are intensely ecited, but the patriotic committee and the military chiefs of the Cubans hink they can quiet this feeling and prevent violent incidents. Embarked at Charleston. Nearly 3,000 United States troops sailed from Charleston to Cuba Friday. The transports Minnewaska and Mani oba went out on the morning tide and the Ward line steamier Saratoga went o sea later in the day. On the first aaed ship there were Gen. Bates, his caquartrs. the brigade hospital and the 0xth regimont of Ohio volunteers ound for Cit'uegos: the Manitoba .uit d Gen. Sgetr, his headquarters nd the twelfth regiment of New York oluteers, whide the human cargo of the Saratoga co1.-isted of 4>0 men of the first regular infantry. In addition o th-- troops ca -h vessel carried an im nense quantity ot supp1lies, p-ovisions, bagiage, lumber. etc. The Saratoga roes to Ilabana while the Manitoba ~aks Gen. Sanger and his staff to Ma azas of which city and district he will ave military charge. Where, Oh. Where? The Springfield Republican says: E-Pension Commissioner Corporal fanner is in favor of opening the sol iers' homes to Confederate veterans, d the St. Paul Pioneer Press is free :o say that the north went too far in ra[ ifying the 15th amendment and giving he ballot to the negro! Where is the ,lack man likely to be found when the. econliainn i complcte?'