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VOL. XIV. MANNING S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCh 22 1899. NO. 38. R UINING THiE STATE. School Supplies Detract too Much from Educaticnal Fund. SOME ASTONISHING FIGURES State Superinterdent of Educa tion McMahan Makes a State ment in Regard to the Situation. When HloA. .J. JT. Mahan entered the ofice of state surcrintendent of edlucation, he began tt' investigate runfrs that the State was being fooded with maps and charts sold at an ex tra'agant price. and In large quantities. There was one chart in particular which r etesentcd the cost of z37.50, equival Ct to the ordinary salary of a public school teacher for a month and a half. His investigatiou led him to writc the county boards. urging them to check the sale of these charts. As the teach ers' associations of Salada and Kershaw couuties have recently adopted resolu tions disapproving of baying these charts in such grat quantities, Mr. MIc Mahan was Wednesday approached in regard to the matter. In February a cou munication in The State from Y rkvillc called attention to the indiscrianate purchase o charts in York county. and that Mr. McMahan in endeavoring to cheek the sale "..as af ter Mr. Mayfield." Mr. McMahan at the time denied that he was -after Mr. Mavfield.-- and stated in a card in The State that he was trying to prevent further purchases. He has since been making inquiry and compiling figures from th2 several counties of the State. He said in his statement. that from the reports of the county superintendents of education of the majority of the counties of the State, and from incom plete reports appearing in the last an nual report of the state superintendent of education, it appears that between $57.000 and 58,000 of public money has been invested in charts, and like ap paraus, chiefly the mathematical charts sold by the R. 0. Evans Co , of Chicago. The chart sells for 37.50. and conse quently cuts off at least a month's teaching in the school in which it is purchased. To indicate the extravagance of the principle in some counties. it may be noted that in Sumter county this item is reported as about S4,200; in Florence about-4.000; the proceeds of the th.ee mill tax in the latter county being be tween $10,000 and $11,000. In one district in Florence where there were four schools, the ,,ounty superintendent reports that the total school fund ap: vortioned was *30.GU, and that of this 5376 was spent fer charts, leaving $4.60 to run the school s. In another district the expenditure is reported as exceeding the appointment. _ In Horry county where the three miii tax rai-es something between $4,000 and $5.00. theamount spent for charts according to the item in the state superintendent's annual report is over $4,000, and it is currently reported to uave exceeded $5.000. This is more than was paid for the employment of teach ers, and their school would have been closed but for the dispcosary suppkc mentary fund. The counties that bought. spent usually about $2.000 fur these charts. the expenditure rangmng from about 51.000 to 53.000. Inl Fair field no permission to canvass was granted: likewise in Chester, Superin. tendent W. D). Knok saying that they had had expertence <. ihe i'.cr o turniust loont. :ents -ua a-hd trustees. Mr. Mc.\ahan le'a'i: g o the' danm age' being dlone, exer'e -hneelf to sto fu'ti'er purchases. Th enuntyi? board M Xhbeville rerorted tha they were in session considering the onestno when they receiv .i his Nt ace of war:. ing and they refutsl to pemi the agents to canvass the congcy. And'r son county hs also au .eon reacee by the agrents, sa 1't:m:5on was re fused. In Spart auburg and Greenville the canvass had begun but the expres sio - tnc s'te su-:i terC denlt had ecomel Enw in th1 ca'!JY, and the agents had become un:ble to sell and abandoneda the tielo' la Lancaster per mission was era' ted of ter the warninir. Mr. Mclahan .statd that he thought the cost of th c'.ert _was extravagrant. and that he~ was -u--tamrea m tms opin ion by a numbler of educators. He bad had teachers to tell him that the chart .vould do very w~eli in the hiaude of a capable teacher but not otherwise. lHe stated further that in some counties the agents had received permission to canvass. Whether or net tims would render the contracts invalid, he could not say, and the attorney general has not yet expressed an opinion. The charts were sold on contracts to ,be made payable upon deliver of the goous. These contracts were, as a rule. neco tiated and discounted immediately upon their being accepted. ElHe was asked if lie censuredu the state board of education for giving thc agents permission to canvass the State. He said that he felt diftdent in regard to passing judgment uipon those who were in a measure his superiors in oftice, but he thought that they had acted unwise ly in permitting the agents to conme into the State and market the chart at such orice. -Hlindsizht is better than oresight.' and the silate board prob ably had no idea to what extent th~e charts would tind sale. Hie then ex raned the connection of the state ooard with the matter. When a con cern ofzthis kiud desires to come into the State. it must obtain permission from the state board; then the agents can enter no county without permnission from the count:y becard. These grants of permission arc not necessaruv recoma mendations nor are they~ am' i on the school trustee-s. tate. ~The New" Labor Experiment A cot u fon wa issued Th'ursday to the e eto mi of Charleston, the capit al n (e1 of wh'ich isto be $M50. 000. The toniowing are theO corpora tors: J. H. Mont'mery, of Spartan burg S. M. in, of wYork:\W. M. ~Bird. of Ch'arlesto I . 1 Potter. of Spartanh=r: A. TI. A *?ythe. ot Charleston. T1his is the oil1 Charles ton mill which hia- gone through so many vicissitudes. and the experiment WORSE THAN ARMENIA. Words Fail to Convey an Idea of the Fearful Condition in Cuba. Willaia W\illard lloward. g:eneral mamniger of the Cub: n industrial relief fund of New York. pasc'. through .Jackscnville Wednetw'ay evening' on his WaV heIme fron Cuai. He Loes north to punihase agricltural iimoplenients a.d'A seeds for the uS of t Le indus'rial relief s:ation which he has jus e-tab lished at Guine-. -Cuba, 3r. loward Sa:: -The condition of Cuba. .o faras my observations have gone, is really worse than it was at this time last year when I made my first investigations. In the rural districts little has been done to restore the island to its normal condi tion. The fields are vacant and the farmers idle. The people still remain in the towns and cities, where arm3 rations are issued to them. They can not return to their abandoned farms be cause they have nothing to return with. Our government has done. and is doing niothinu to enable farmers to re sume the cultivation of their lands. All that it pretends to do is to distribute rations throuzh local committees of Cubans. Gov. Gen. Brooke and the ofiecrs under hin realize keenly the condition of things.but they cannot give any assitance except food. Ours is not a paternal government. "The condition of the widows and orphans of Cuba is heart-rending. There are thousands upon thousands of these poor creatures seatterea over the island. TIey have neither homes to live in. food to eat. nor clothes to cover them. One cannot think of their fu ture without a shudder. I am especi ally concerned for the poor little orphan girls who form the :treets, scantily clad. asking for a bit of food with which to keep their little bodies and souls to net her. What will become of these zirls? Their future for good or evil lies in the people of the United States. "Among these widows and orphans I have as lately as last week seen indivi dual cases of destitution ard physical emaciation worse than anything that I saw in Armenia during the two years that I gave to Armenian relief work. And to have these wrecks of humanity stand and look up to the Stars -ad Stripes waving over their city hall gives one a queer sensation. The generous American people surely cannot under stand the condition of Cuba, or these poor creatures would be taken care of. 'I do not speak of the sick, the in firm, or of those who hobble about, covered with loathsome sores. resulting from starvation. I cannot speak of them for the English language in inad equate 'o the task. They should have I been cared for in hospitals longmonths ago. Why it has not been done I can not understand. 'The condition of Cuba is a re proach to the American people, and a blot upon civilization. We are going to do something to improve that condi tion and we invite all lovers of human ity in the United States to help us for the good name of the American flag. Our flag should mean something to those homeless, helpless orphans and destitute country people. Money for these orohans or for our industrial re lief fund work should be sent to the Continental Trust company, 30) Broad street. New York city marked "For the Cuban Industrial Relief Fund. A Desperate Fight. The strongly fortified village of Cain ti, northwest of Pasig. was captured Thursday after a desperate fight, by the Twentieth regular infantry. The troops rst encountered the rebel outposts in theo dense jungle on the b-anks of the rver. The enemy was di~slodged after halIf an hour's fighting. The Americans advanced in ,1endid irde under a heavy fire untili was 14' essary to volley the rebels from the t-nches. The latter had tia nreat ad vntage and dropped a numbe to fi our men. The Americans charg.ed1 across tile rice fields, making four advanes on tie enemy. who numbere a to husan'a men. tive hundred of whom were en trenehed, and in the fice of a cro fire. Oar troops, howvever. carid nh town ater four hours' fighting an'd tburnsid the out skirts. the rebekls irmg from the windows and keepi:anitu a runnlog Itire in the streets. Tfhe Americns then withdrew in order to obtain moure ammunitton. oUR CASUALTIES. The rebel lIss about 100uimen and the American loss was 'orporal .Johnson of company C. and Private 31eAvoy of company L, killed. In addition the flloing Americans were woanded: Seret. Cheek. company L; Corp. Households, company M1: Private Kel ly. comnpanS- C: Private Kinney. com any C: Private Tinker, company C; ~rivate G illey, company C - Private Yaley, company G: Prniva 'Caley, company F: Private MIahan, company L: Private Gniffiths, company L;: Pri vate Lafeyth, company L; Private 31e Farland. copayL Almost Starved to Death. The train that has been snowbound on the Cheyenne and Northern railroad for the past three weeks was abondoned Weednesday. The passengers were ta ken in wagons from Altus to Horse Creek station, where they were trans ferred to a train and brought to Chey enne. A nuniber of relief trains were sent to the resue, but they failed to get through the drifts of snow and ice, which are 10 to 20 feet deep, and are now blockaded at different points along the road. E. P. Richardson, one of the rescued pasngers, satd of his experi ence: "I have been around the world several times. have been in shipwrecks Iand railroad collisions, but have had nothing to equal my trip of 154 miles on the~Cheyenne and Northern. We sufferd intensely fromi the cold and oor 'uality of food. being con~pelled to sleep in 'the coach without anything to lie on but the hard floor and with no coer-. Thle small stove only heated on end~ of4. - the ean. so that at times we *went- obligd to stay awake to prevent fezini. When we left the tr-a this 'morning1 'ur suply of tfood wa, comn pletely exhausted and had we been obli'ed to remain ,in the now abandan doredi traiu 24 hours longer we would .uely have starved to death.i Explosion on a Cruiser. The British tirstclass eruiser Terri ble from M1alta reports that a boiler ex plosion on board of her MIonday killed a stke. fatanl injured another man A NRTHERN VIEW Of the Working of the South Caro lina Dispensary. THINKS IT IS A GOOD LAW. The Unquestioned Success At tained Under the Law. Should Commend it to the Study of Temperance People. The March number of the Zion's Herald, published at Buston, contains the following report of an investigation into the operation of the dispensary law: We arrived at Columbia. the capital of South Carolina, about 5 p. i. Learning that the legislature was in session in the evening, we looked in on both houses and listened for a consider ble time to the proceedings. While the dispensary law was up for consid eration, we observed that it was true as we had been previously informed that both senators and representatives were very careful to profess that thec believed in it and were supporters of it. This fact indicates the measure of approval of the act which is now gener al throughout the state; but more of this later. The Negro of the South has been so thoroughly eliminated from politics and ofice-holding that there is but one colored man in the house and none in the senate. As there are cities in the State. notably Charlestou, where. if we remember correctly, there are more Negroes than white people. it will b* seen that the process of elimination is very successful. The personnel of both houses was very creditable, and the speeches heard were able and perti nent. The speaker of the house and the president of the senate were ar rayed in richly-colored robes-a sustom we have not seen in any other common wealth. The State house is a cheerless and unattractive building, looking more like a railroad station than anything else. Columbia has a population of twenty five thousand people, but the city as a whole is disappointing. There are spacious streets, but they are unpaved, and the sidewalks, if there be any worthy the name, even on the main business streets, are perilous. South ern cities are very poorly lighted in the evening. It is difficult to understand how the Deople, with so fine a location and a city so well laid out, can be so indifferent to improvements which, a:. a slight expense, would add so much to its beauty and convenience. But we are here to study the dispen sary law, and so devote our time to it, mainly. The next morning, with an apologetic air (for no one is supposed to go into the dispensary except to buy liquor and it cannot be purchased else where), we asked to be directed to a dispensary. It was a few doors from our hotel. We recognized it because the word "Dispensary" was painted across the front window; and this is all the sign or indieation that is allowed. It is a little after 9 oclock in the morn ing, and when we enter we find no other person there except a man behind the counter. and here we are at last, in a dispensary! What sort of a place is it? Certainly not an inviting place in which to linger. There is not a picture on the naked wall, nior i there any chance to sit down, not even on a three-legged stool. There are no refreshments of any kind to attract the driker, such as are advertised by the salons of our cities. And, as if to prevent any social relation or conversa in between buyer and seller, the manager is shut in behind his high, broad~ counters, fenced away from all else contact with his visitors. Noth inr is to be seen in this store, which is perhaps thirty feet deep and twenty feet wide, in addition to what has been menioned, except bottles on the plain helves on either side of the ecunters. W. commence our inquiries, which are rupetfully answered. The dispensary -open from sunrise to sunset. neve'r even~Iings. Any adulk can purchase iquor, if he is knowr not to be a drunk ard or' a man whose wife has requ:ested the manager not to sell liquor to him. No minor can purchase liquor in a dis pensary. The dispensary is not olen Sunda s, h.olidays or evenings. Every particle of liquor bought in the State must be purchased at the dispensary under these and more exacting and in violable conditions. Every bottle of liquor is scaled, and the seal must be broken outside the dispensary, and in no instance can it be tested or drunk on the premises. There are four dis pensaries in this city of 25,000. We are not arguing this case, but reporting it. We are anxious, how ever, that our readers should catch the full significance of what it means to thus strangle the liquortrade and crowd it into such confinement. How would it seem in good old New England, if there were no saloons and no entice ments to drink, no treating, and no op portunities for going into a place to purchase liquors and drinking it there? How would it seem if no boy or-to our shame be it said-girl could go into any place in our cities and purchase wine and other intoxicants? How would it seem if there were ne selling of liquor among us in the evening or niht, when carnivals of hell are carri cd on in our very sight? With us the laboring man is enticed into the saloon in the evening, and wastes there his substance and himself in riotous living, only to go to his home, late, drunken. robbed and ugly. Nothing of this kind can take place in South Carolina. The manager of the dispensary is puit under $:300 bonds, and his bond is good for two years after lie resigns or is reimovel from his oficee; and if he violates a sin gle one of the many conditions under which he acts, his bondsmen are liable. In the half hour that wye remained in that dispensary four people caine in to buy liquor-three negroes and one white ma, one of the negroes being a wo man. A record was made of each sale. The purchasers each bought a half pint of whiskey, p~ut it into their pockets or in some way concealed it, and quickl slid out of the place as if doing some thing they did not want seen. To show the operation of this law: There was a regiment of solders there a few weeks before, when it was known that they would remain a day in Columbia. the theol ir could niot obtain1 drink. thy were peaceable and Inoffensive. Te ne d ay they werc in a neighbor in, -tatethere licene prevailed. and thi d k toaty excess. lou ted the tot'. t into brutal lihts. and one or 111 wer kiled. Th at is the be-t coIn enr lt we I -r. on the ent of ii : a a l , two -tor brc bildi ti -, city. Where the VIoile li-oii r bne of the State i2- n . lr all the liOuer" furished,.C~ h dienai t hr-M.'1 ohtw the State are ti. eheicaly eind bot tied ami . a lare number of men anid wonn re kept ibu-y. The vihsit r i cordially uelome: and his qustitn are ans.ered. and there is no atteumpt tO C(n-e:ld any feature or part of the bne-,s. W e coO f-s that there vias nothig especially attractive or in spiring about this place-in beholding hundreud., of barrels of liquors curing and takinfi on age. and se, Ing, men and womijeli fiitiig th uwands of bottles and sealing and packing them for sale. But if it must b sold-and it will be--is it not better for the State to take it in hand. see that it Is pure. and regulate the Sale, as South Carolina does? We re-"ui;Ite the sale of Eunpowder, dyna I mite. and other things which prove harmful to the people. Liquor selliindiriminate or uuder license whih usually means no restraint, or the violattd prohibitory law which breeds the low dive, does a thousand times more barm than these regulated articles that the states everywhere control. 1 there not more sentiment than sen;e in much of our thinking and actinL concerninLt liquor business in New Enlana? One thinz is certain: The dispensary law, which was first passed in 18s2, has j'istifidd itself to the best people of the State, and, as we said at first, it has theirsupport; and men are very care ful, Whatever their criticisms may be upon some special feature of the law, to highly commend it as a whole. Sev eral leading men in the State whom we questioned, acknowledged, in substance, that ati. first they did not support it, but had become convinced, againsttheir prejudice and opposition, that it is the best law in the world for the regula tion of the liquor traffic and the drink habit. Three facts are claimed for it that should be more fully stated: 1. Only pure liquors are provided. All liquors are chemically assayed by an expert, and nothing isallowed to be sold unless it is pure. 2. There is no appeal to the selfish ness or avarice of those who are employ ed in the business. The greed of gain, the desire to receive the largest returns for money and time and strength put into the business, is the loadstone which draws many a saloon-keeper amon us to the business, and which tempts him. when once engaged in it, to make men drunken and to teach minors and women to drink. But all this is entirely taken away by the dis pensary law. Everybody cimployed in the business receives a salary, which is in no case based upon the amount of li quors sold. It makes no difference in any way to the manager of a dispensary whether he sells a half pint per day or several gallons. :3. The sirnificant fact which has al ready been'suggested. that with no open saloon and no enticements. no evening and no nig~ht sales, and no sale to minors, the great husiness of drundkard-making, which is so large ly the accursed feature of our saloons, is eliminated. The importance of this fact need only to be mentioned in order to be appreciated. Here, it seemis to us. is the best feature of the law. If only we had this here in New England, what unspeakable bor~ror and anguish we should be spared! The dispenary law seems to have conquered foes, which have been legion. 3Ien who hove drink, and oth ers who want to get rich carrying on the business. have fought it wi' h wicked despratiotn M1en whom did not and do not like Senator Tillman, who made and press--d this las through and saw that it was excuted. are now forced ti confess. and do confees. that the law is an unparalleled success. Judges of the United States courts have stretched t hir vi -ws of the la and been preju died in the ex.munination of facts in order to break down the execution of the same: hut all this opposition is con guerehd. 'The L'nited States supreme court has finally given a decision to tile effect that the police regulation of liquor business which South Carolina exer ises in executing its liquor basiness is allow able in that or any state. Here is the decisioin. --Tie police power includes all meis ures for the protection of the life, the heath, the piepierty and tile welfare of the inhabitatnts. and for the promotion of good order andi the publie morals. It covers the suppression of' nuisances. whether ijurious to public health, like unwholesome trades. or to the public morals, like uambling houses and lot tery tickets. 'The police power extends to things not only intrinsically danger ous to'the public health, such as in feted rags or diseased meat, but to thinas which, when used in a lawful manner, are subjects of property and of commerce, and yet may be used so as to be injucious or dangerous to the life, the health or tile morals of the people. Gunpowder. for instance, is a subject of commeree. and of lawful use, yet, because of its explosive and dangerous qualities, all admit that :he state may regalate its keeping and sale. And thr-e is no artilc the right of the state to control or to) prohibit the sale or manufacture of which within its him it is better- established than intoxicat in liquor- . Ila order~ to answer- tihe many tues tions wthit-h may ,have arisen in the mnd of our rceers. we give in their ore eve~n at the expense of replitition, the leading features of the law: T he law establishes a state board. which has entire control of thec liquor traic. -aid board havi ng power to draw on the state treasulry for al su n re uiredin carrying on the buines-. and al lilulneys received1 from ale-s are~ turn ed into thec state treasur. \Allt liial s are saiaried men. and hi-e no0interest in the sales. They mut ailso be ku01,nn as tenperte imen. A pti in signed byv a miajo'rity of the voters of any tv no tarsLi'p is re juiredi to get a loc-al dispensary.- It mut be plainly fitted up, Opeut during he day~ timle, closed on Suinday , holi Idas and election days. No li uoi can sohd less than one-half pint of stronp liquors, -ach package to be sealed awl a certifi ate of purity attached. In ca -i ease the buyer must make out an ap plication, giving name, etc. Not liss than a bottle of beer is sold. No liquor is sold to uimnors. intoxi cateid prsons, known drunkards, or to one whose family has entered a protest azainst selling to him. All the prfiAts from1 the 'ale of - iionabout :48),0( per year-goes to the several counties of the state f or 1 public school purposes, and c' egend ed without discrininat ion. There arc 10 dispensaries in the stau whres, under leene, there wer e than a thousand legal place for the sale of liquor. Public sentiment heartily suprs I the execution of' the law, and the sui wary effort to abolish the low dive called in South Carolina the "blijd ti ger. The unquestioned successattainedun der the law should commend it to the sLudy of temperance people of all shades of opinion. A request address ed to Hon S. W. Vance. state comnis sioner, South Carolina dispensary. Co lurtibia. S. C.. for a copy of the law and other data necessary to understand its operation, will secure favorable and prompt reply. LUETGERT THE SECOND. Becker Confeses He Cut His Wife Up and Burned the Pieces. A di.patel from Chica2osays August A. Becker, the sausage maker who has been under arrest for weeks on the charge of murdering his wife, made a fall confession Wednesday. He said that he cut his wife to pieces and buurned the remains in a stove. Becker. when first arrested, admitted killing his wife, but declared he pushed her )ff Randolph street viaduct into the lake and that she was drowned. The police have never placed any :eliance in the drown ing idea and have kept up the work on the theory that Becker had killed the woman in his house and made way with the body. The finding of a portion of a human lung three days ago in Beck er's barn put strength in their theory and late Wedneday they induced Becker to confess. In his confession. Bccker said he had killed his wife by striking her on the head with a hatchet in the kitchen of his home. He then cut the body to pieces and boiled it in a large kettle. Becker says he took what re mained and burned it in a red hot stove. The bones which were not burnned he buried on the prairie near his home. January 27 was the date Becker says he committed the murder. He asserted the crime was not premedi tated, but that he quarreled with his wife on the afternoon of that day, and. in the heat of passion, he struck her on the head with the hatchet. The piece of lung and a portion of cali.o which 1 wcre fbund under the barn, and which the police believed to be strong evidence against Becker, he says, coul. not be any part of the body of his wife, as he is certain that he destroyed every par ticle of flesh, and he maintains the dress which she wore was entirely burned. The police will look for the woman's bones tomotrow. They refuse to tell at present the location of the spot where Becker says they are buried. Eaten by Cannibals. The Sun's Tacomo advices say that Y okohama papers just arrived contain details of the murder of M. G. Blanch ard, formerly of Cincinnati, by blood thirsty Manchoorian Chinese Several years ago Blanehard joined a British ship at New York. but deserted her last year at Callao. Then he drifted up the coast and finally sailed from Tacoma to Yokohama. hrm there he got to Vladivostock, and then proceed ed to the interior. He was captured by one of the bands of Manchoorians that rave througth north China and taken to the mountains. There was three feet of snow on the ground. Tne unfortunate American was tied hand and foot and after being stripped was laid on the snow by a fire ao that his head and shoulders were nearly rOdted, while the rest of his bidy was feezing. In the morning he was flayed with bamboo canes until lie was dead. and he was then eaten by the canii >als. A Georgia Lynching. Twenty men, armed and maaked, rode into Palmetto, Ga., on Thursday morning and put to death four Negroes, fatally wounded one. and broke the arm of a seventh man. T wo others who were of the crowd upon which the bul lets were showered miraculously es caped. These unfortunates were un der guard .of three men awaiting the hour of 9 o'clock. when they were to have a hearing before a justice of the peace on the charge of arson. Wmn. Cot ton, the leader of the nine men. con fessed sonme time ago that a con spir'acyI has been enterted into which resulted in two incendiary fires in February, and on this evidence the men were to have been tried. Gov. Chandler, of Georgia, denounces the lynching and has offered a big reward for the arrest of the lynch ers. Japan May Adopt Christianity. There may be no foundation for the report that the mikado has already de cided to make Christianity the estab lished religion of his empire, giving it the place which Buddhism occupied un der the Shogunate, and which the tra ditional Shintoism now. nminally. holds. There is no doubt. however, that the expediency of placing .Japan among the Christian powers has been for some time the subject of earnest discussion in the native press, and that it has been seriously considered by em inent public men. A Tornado Strikes a Town. A fierce tornado passed over the towni Iof Avendale, Ala., and twenty re-iI deces, three churches and two ma c~ne shops were destroyed. Many persons were injured, one perhaps fa tally. The Southern railroad was com peled to abandon all its trains west of Birmingham and the Louiasville & Nash ilyle trains are ten hours late. Theey lone was attended by heavy rain an lihtning. It secems a miracle that nore fatalities did not occur. An Awful Mistake. A~ -'ecial from Oraung-. Tex.. says: Mrs. Henry G;rubbs, on her way to sit up with a sick person, was mistaken for a footpad by Will Fourch and shot and kiled. lie surrendered and was brouht to Houston for safekeeping. A STREET FIGHT. In Which Several Men Are Killed and VonadedI. A .,hootin: iecurred at IHoi ri::gs, Ark.. Thursda evenim whih resulted in the death of fiiVe men aId the wund in of one e. The kii!e ere: ThmsToler. chie.f tf", lo J1. E. Hart, citydtct-: 1 . I J jn Wilins. son' of She-riff Wil liam. Louii I nk dir of a brewery W2 .!o)n. E I 'ers wan -het in the neek and miay die. The shoot'in gre iout of the mayor alv eI Li' unIdr -W' h are. Sheriff W ill i was a wemr supp >rter of the re ul- r Democratie nouiuec, while T 'er. art 'U -a(d tse re supp)rt ilg an ppiOn candiis:e. Eirly in tihe afterrnuoroshots were ex chanred betWeen Sie-iff Williams and his son JoLhn on the one sile and Sar Teant G .ee on the othir. but no one wal ijur -d. After this both parties determined to have it our. Toler Hart and Gfoslee were walkinz south on Cen tral avenue at about half past 5 o'clock when they m- Sheriff Williams and his two sons. Joka and Coffev and Ed Spe:rs. No one eau tell who fired the first h-0t. hn: in a moment there was a general fasilhtde, in which 40 or 50 shots were excbanzed. When it was over. Tuler. Hart. Goslee and Henkel. a n'neombatant. were dead. and John Williams was niortally wounded. He died an hoar later. Louis Henkel at teimpted to separate the combatants when the fight opened. le was shot in the head and died in-tantly. The mayor. immediately after the shooting, appointed Judze L. D. Beld ing chiei of police. Deputies were sworn in at once and all saloons were ordered cloied. There is little factional feelina outside of thos.- engaged in the shootin. Order was easily restored and the ceity is now quiet. The sheriff and his son Coffey are under arrest and no further trouble is anticipated. Sheriff Williams was not pressent when the battle occurred, but soon ap peared, and on learning of the death of his son became frantic with rage. About 20 minutes after the main bat tle another affray occurred nearby in which four or five shots were fired. In this fusillade Detective Jim Hart went down with the whole top of his skull blown off. All of the dead men leave large-families. DEATH TRAP TO MANY. A Large Number of People Burnt to Death in a Hotel. Fiamec which originated from the igniting of a lace curtain burst from the second floor of the Windsor hotel at Forty-seventh street and Fifth ave nue. New York, shortly after 3 o'clock riday aftprnoon, and in a few minutes they had leaped up to the roof and en eloped the entire Fifth avenue and Forty-seventh street fronts of the hotel. Ten minutes later the flames were roar ing through the interior of the hotel. and all means of escape by way (f stair ways and elevators were cut off and there was the wildest scene of excite ment within and without the building. Hundreds of guests and employees were in the hotel when the lire broko out, and for many of them escape with safe ty was impossible. Probably fifteen lives were lost within a half hour. and 30 or 40 other persons were injured in jumping from windows and in rushing through the flames in the corridors and on the s:airwvays. Many who were in jured died later at nerby residences or at hospitals, and others who made wild ieieps to the stine sidewalks were so badLy iinjared that they are still hoverinr between life and death. It may be 24 hours or more be fore the com plete hist of fatalities be comes known, and it rey be longer thrun that bef.,ce it can be ascertied deiniely M' w many charre-d bodies are in the mass of fallen masonry that maks the spot where th- hcwel stood. The Timroi MIemorial It is hoped that the plan of issuing a memorial edition of Tinrod's poems will meet with great success. Hie was one ot the south's greatest goets. His war lyrics have stirred southern hearts with a fervor unequalled since "Chevy Chase." His unpreteatious monument in Columubra-hardly larrgr than an ear of eorn-is a mocke'~r . Timrod should have a mornment worthe ol his name and fame. It shouild be~ a pleasuire and a privilege for all S outh Carolinians, ad, indeed, for all southerners in whatever sta'te they may -make their home. to contribute to this memorial fund. Oar neighbors aeross the river, espeialy the newspaper brethren. are doing all in their power to) make, tihe monument a rrreat success. and we nope that their wishes may be gratified. - Aurusta Herald.' Army Enlistments. The following additional recruritinc stations have been established for tire purpose of endisting men to fill tire reuar army up to the maximuum of 6.. UUU) allowed by thie new arm:y law: Charleston, S. C. : Knoxville. Trenn; Memphis. 'Tenn.; Norfolk. Va.: Savan nah. Ga. Io addlition to thee statio ns the war departnment will h'ave oilicers at every place where tolunteers re mus11 tered ot. Anm order Ihas b-en ue bx tihe war *eiupruunent uicraing thre ae lim iit for enlrisment f romn th irty to tirty-five years. The youngest age at which a mcm an ue ennli iti i- 1years. "he results so far for the e-nlistmnt -of trops is very enecoura'!ing'. A Poor Outlook. .\ i-ditr'rl edioir wxho wx ai . dCleUrat to nhe last Rbeiublicanm nauit'iial conven ion fromnn onre of the suthrern states ant nounics that he has finally sueceeded in securing .r suprply -of gardien seeds to distribute t-> hi friends. At tire pres t time the i'ndications are that tire southern del":ate busines next year wil not even pay cadeweedi divi n-i - Washingtoni Post. Built His Own Gallow s. Robert Lewis was hanged at A:lantar at non Tluesdayv for the imurder 'if Ciharles IIyne'. on thre gall.ows built by Lewis two years aico when employe. i. as a w?k mar. Chnarles Hlaynes was tire foreman of a buildirng here at~d dischaed Lew is. The latter met Hlaynes in Dcm erila and shot him to death. OUR ELEPHANT. What to Do With the Philippines is the Question. Wiat to do with the Philippinzs is question which presses upon us with in creasing force and incereasing uncertain ty as time passes. It is taken for grante that we shall finally subdue the natives who are making a desperate struggle . for independence, though opinions differ as to whether that re sult will be accomplished in one or five years. But sooner or later we shall have the Philippines fully on our hands and the disposition of them will be forcerd upon u; as a practical question. Professor Clay MacCa uley, of Tokio. JTapin, visited the Philippine; in Janu ary to study the problem for himself. The conclusions he reached have been stated on his return to Tokio with a fraukAess and a freedom from partizan asperity which commend them to re spectful consideration. He went to Manila strongly predisposed in favor of anzexation; he came away convinced that annexation would be a most unfor tunate thing both for this country and the Filipinos. A majority of the Am ericans in Manila, he says, are opposed to annexation in any form. Professor MacCauley does not discuss constitu tional objections, but considers the question as a practical problem. The annexation of the islands by force he thinks would entail freque-nt and almost incessant revolts. requiring us to spend far more money to hold them than they could possibly be worth to us. To buy the Filipino insurgents off would secure a compromising gain of doubtful value. Aaother possibility is the transfer of the islands to the Phil ippine republic, the United States re taining Manila Bay and the forts. This plan, however, would expose the Philippines to the greed of the world's powers and "would be neither honorable nor wise" in the opinion of Professor MacCauley. The third so lution and the one he favors is to recog nize the autonomy of the Philippines under an American protectorate. This would insure the independence of the republic in the administration of its internal affairs, our government tak ing charge of the supreme judiciary and the foreign relations of the republic. Professor MacCauley believes that only in this way can be secured peace and prosperity both for the United States and the Philippines. He says: "As for the subjugation of the islands, it is folly to talk of a war of conquest for the reason that the climate, so good physicians tell me, would place 60 soldiers out of a hun dred hors de combat in 60 days." The intolerable hot season begins the latter part of March and lasts until August. Moreover," adds Professor MacCauley "the Filipinos would have hundreds of miles of country to fight over, and their tactics would be a guerilla warfare. Every bamboo thicket and jungle would be a shelter for their rifles and the loss of life and expense of such a war would be terrible. Professor MIacCauley has put the difficulties of the Philippine situation in a very impressive manner, bat he has probably not exaggerated them in the least. A BILL AGAINST TILLMAN. The Neal Investigation Shows Him a Debtor to the Penitentiary. The penitentiary investigation comn mittee 3Monday of last week devoted practically its whole time to an inquir) relative to the brick which came into the possession of the penitentiary. Under a concurrent resolution thirty convicts were allowed the asylum to make brick for the new building. The asy lum made a contract with the peni tentiar y to secure a certain number of brick in lieu of the conviet's. The pen itentiary then mode a contract with T J. Lipscomb by which the asylu:n was to get its brick and then the remairnde wesre to be divided between Lipsenmn and the penitentiary. Lipscamb sup plied half' the wood, machinery, cla) and turuers and the penitentiary th, labor. In one of the settlements the penitentiary is charged with 1,200u briek sent to Senator B. R. Tillman at Trenton, S. C. These brick were ship ped July 3rd 1895 and have never ye' been paid for. Lipscomb certified that Neal told him to charge the brick aainst the penitentiary share after having sent Tillmnan a& bill and having received no reply. Neal testified that Tiliman owed the penitentiary for the brick and they would no doubt be paid for by him. -He said that the Tillman account should appear as an asset of the penitentiary, and the only reason he could assign was the fault of thibook keeper, and the bookkeeper swore that Col. Neal told him to leave Senator Tiliman's account open until he saw him and not to transfer it to the peni tentiary account. The bill was fot $72. The committee took recess until MIay Cotton a By-Product. It is estimated. says the Savannah M1orning News, that during the past yar over 4,OtJ0,000 tons of cotton seeds were crushed, and that from them products valued ent more than $12).000,0J00 were marketed. Only a fwand ago the seed of the cotton plnt wspractically a waste produet, adoften a source of annoyance, if not of acutal expense. to the planter. The itrowth of the cotton oil industry has been hardly short of miarvelous. Last year there were shipped nearly 4iI.0.00 gallons of the oil to Europe. a large imcreas~e ovei nil prviu years. and it is confidentlyv expected that thet exports of oil for the present year will be very much greater. And while the feld for the. oil is bein extended new usecs for it areO bein' constantly toundi. The market, theref e is far from be ing fully developed. In view of these facts. it is not beyonid the range of pos sibilities tha.t in thec course of time and it may. not be such a long time, ither--the lint of the cotton plant wil bec~.ome the by-product and the ed th hici staple. Four Hundred Drowned The - r.: steamerCi which has j ust ret urnled t Bribaine fro-m Cooktown ojn lndeavr rieer. Queenstand colony, re-I parts that three schooners and eighty loswere lost and that four hundred coored persons and eleven whites were drowned during the recent hurricane that swept the noitheamst coast of nueensand1 MORE IGHTNG. Wheaton's Column Sweeping Everything Before Them. ENEMY SUFFER SEVERELY. Rebel Avenue of Communication Now Ciosed, American Cor don Now Stretching Over a Mile. A dispatch from Manila Wednesday avs at seven o'clock. hearing the in surgents' bugles sounding, Scott's bat tery dropped three Shrapnel shell into the woolS on the left of the Pasig church. No reply was made, and at 7:45 o'clock the Twenty-second regular infantry advanced until they encount ered a number of volleys. This fire was returned with interest. The line then wheeled toward Pateros, in the following o-der: The Oregon volun teers, the Twentieth regulars, the Washington volunteers, a cavalry de tachment, the Twenty-second regulars and reserve artillery. Troops followed the roads; while the gunboats Ceste and Laguna de Bay assisted in sup pressing the fire on the left flank. Three rebel canoes were captured on the river. TE ENEMY ROUTED. Brig. Gen. Wheaton's column ad vanced beyond Pasi- to the shore of La guna de Bay, sweeping everything be fore them. The enemy made a run ming fight and suffered severe loss. The rebel's avenue of communication north and south is now closed, the American cordon stretching- over a mile from the river to the lake. The rebels are in force at Pateros and Taguig. Two of yestefday's wounded, Private Stewart, of Company B, Twentieth infantry, and Private Munson, of Company K, Twen ty second regiment, are dead. T HE ENEMY IN FORCE. Late Tuesday General Wheaton's column encountered the enemy in such force between Pateros and Taguig, as to necessitate a change in the original plans. The cavalry attacked the rebel stronghold in the jungle, -driving the enemy into Pateros. The Americans had one man killed and three wounded. Scott's battery shelled the city and woods effectively. Later the enemy crossed the river from Pasig. Two companies of the Second Oregon in fantry cleared the right bank after a sharp engagement and then retired with three wounded. In the meantime the Washington volunteers closed in driv ing small bodies of the rebels bsek upon Pateros. One man was killed. During the night the enemy burned the town of Pasig. WHAT GEN. OTIS SAYS.: Adjutaut General, Washington. Until yesterday field operations here since capturing Caloocan of minor na ture consisting of driving back small bands of insurgents, with considerable loss to latter. Yesterday General Wheaton, with the Twentieth, 2nd in fantry, the Oregon and Washington troops, section Sixth artillery and squadron Fourth cavalry, attacked the regular force of enemy and drove them back and took line of Pasig river, which he now holds. Two improvised gun boats in Lake have been captured, con siderable p-:operty. insurgents loss heavy; our, one killed and wounded slight, aggregating thirty-five, mostly lightly wounded. Insurgents made no determined stand. Otis. A ToWS BL-RNED. Wheaton's divisional brigade contin ues the work of clearing out the rebels around Pasig. T he Washington volan teers ha'.e captured and bun~t .neetiaor -.itb a sharp fire from the ene ny While crossing the river. Tuerday's ii;ting wvas like that of the rset week, ac insur ents occasionally making a tand but eventually fiseing. Tneir oss is suppmed to have been small, as he-~ A-inas were unable to see the ne.y in thle thickets. True progress ,t the Americans' advance is slow. A~ GRAND TICTOEY. Gen. loyd W\heaton, commanding the United States fiying column, at tacked and defeated a force of 2,000 Filippinos at Pasig WXednesday after noon, innlieting a heavy loss upon them. ['he American los was slight. The Americans c ared 350 Filipinos. Mlany bodies of rebels killed in the engagement arc floating dowu the river. About 350) Filipinos surrendered at the town of Taguig to the Washington regi ment and 175 Filipinos were captured at Pasig by th.e Twentieth regiment. Our troops found 106 dead Filipinos and 100) new graves near Pasig. The prisoners were unarmed, and, therefore, it is presumed1 they executed their threat of throwing their arms into the river. Gen. OXii says this is the great est victory since February 5. The Americans will now pass toward Aguin ado's headouarters. Soms Hard Facts. (hr troops at Manila have taken two or three suburbau towns after hard fghting but with little loss. It is eau to take subuirban towns from guer rilla toes. It is even easy to take dis tant towns by marching strong bodies of our excellent soldiers to them. But that it is not sucessful occupation. Pleace to remembner that the Spaniards held every town~ in Cuba for three years, but lost~' 10,Jd') me and 4everal hun dred ilioni'~ d 'lai holding them to what good? Peniltentiary Appointments. CapL G ridi~h the ,new Saperinten dent of th: State Penitentiary has an nunced the following appointments: Physician. Dr. L. K. Sturkie, of Or Ir. W. D). Black, of Barnwellcoun ty, is to be eartain of the guards. i-. Serreant WS. W. Adams is to be re tai ned. Rev J. (. Abney, of Columbia. has been approinted. chaplain. The Second Regiment2 F'ro:n order iudby the war de partment it appe ars Ii :ely that the Se cnd ltcriment will be miusteredi out at sava!1uan. Thne regime-nt with other Southern tr.,ops has been ordered to that city and' it is expecd that they will reach there within a few weeks he governmwent intends to get all the volunteers back from Cuba by May 1, at which time quarantine regulations usii