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VOL. XIv. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1899. No. 50 FROMl THE FRONT. rhe Situation of Affairs in the Philippire Islards. A SCENE OF'CESC.ATICN. Nhat a Newspaper Correspen . dent Saw While Under a Flag of Truce in the Enemy's Line. The army co;rrespondtrt cIthe -N ork Journ&: with General McArth.ui n a rcent Itter says: An hour ago I eturned frci a parley with one of tht nsurgent ecmawanders. Sinforoso de h6 Juz. in front of our blist rilng trenchez and I am wrti-g thli dispatch in a hell shattered eniurch, where huly im ges lie shattered ot aI sides and ilitary telerath iustrument is click ing on-t.t-L(ide altar. It is a eeie of appaliun d.,lation Tired soldier., covered with the dust of the treuehe' are stretched out aslcel within the c haiel railig on the step )f the hiah alzar. A yellow spear (0 mnlight comes though a gap in tb of made b1 vne of Desvey's shells an(. ights up the fallet. Lroken figure of 2Irist. in tav.drv crimson and gilt "lose by sits Colonel Funston of th< wentieth Kansas Infantry, dictatirng Z lispatch to Git';eral MacArthur, who is .n Mazila. The sound of firing can bt 2eard in all directions, and insurgen! >ullets come singing in at the opei loors, for our firing lire is not mort :han four hundred yards away. We are right in front of Aguinaldo': :ain army. The trenches are so clos( :hat an American shooting can b( eard by the Filipinos. There are 8.00( >f the enemy before us-at least that s the number given to me by the rebel ommander when I talked with him an iour ago. It i., a stranze situation. From the >utlying parts of Luzon. from'the is ands of Cebu, Panay, Mindano, Mm lra and other parts o-ir empire in the Pacific comes word that the common eople of the sodl, together with the rincipal property owners, deplore the war against the United States, and hail :he American flag as a symbol of the lawn of liberty and justice after centu ies of oppression. It's the Taggalos, the fierce, the vain, trutting Tagalos, that we are fighting. Let no one in the United States imag ne that the 10,000,000 people of this ast archipelago are resisting the Am rican arms unitedly. The Tagalos done, assisted and encouraged by the -ih half breeds of 1anils. are waging var upon our army. Aguinaldo and his eabinct have sent umed bands of Tagalo4 into every part f the island of Luzon and into Pant y Iindano and several other of the larg r islands, tot fn-e the people to fight, nder threats ; instant death. Man% )f the trisoners we have taken have :old pitiful stories of Aguinaldo's cruel ppression. Ti'e island of Negros rone has defied him, and there the A.merian flag fies, and within a few lays there will bf'a r--ginent of natives n American uniforms to defeud it. .It is not more thia an hour since I alked from our trenches with Franlk in Brooks. of the Associated Press. within easy talking distance of the nain insurcent trench beyond the ~hurch in which Iam writing. We car ied a flag of truce to protect ourselves rom the fire of hundreds of swarthy iiipinos swarming behing the rough ~arthwoks under the tall bamboo :rees. We went-out across the blister ing hot fields to answer to signals from be enemy, many of whom seemed to want to surrender. The insurgents made us walk three-qjuarters of a mile between the lines, fearing to come clos e to the deadly Kansas rifles glisten tg over the edges of our trenches. Private Winterburn of the Twentieth. Kansas, was one of the party. The insurgents refused to come half way o meet us and frantically waved u 2n toward their crowded trenches. We beld our hands up to show that we were unarmed ard the enemy did like wise. The Filipinos forced us to g' three quarters of the way beteween th. ines to meet them, while both armies agerly watched the proceedings, th. ansas sharpshooter~s occasionail hooting, warning them against treaeb sry. It turned o'ut 10 he merely a pa ley for a true of a fewe hours. !he' ir surgents having heard that A giinald. had sent some sort of a proposal t. eneral Otis. Colonel Funston joined~ as and pronmptl acreed not to attack i' te insurgents ceased firins and ke pt t. their trenches. Ainost the first question asked b the Filipino commnarder revealed the deadly work done by the agitators fm Philippine independence in Washing "Have the American commissioner reached Manila yet?" asked the insur gent colonel a bullet-headed tawny lit tle Tagalo, in a smart new uniform. "Not yet," I said. "They're coming to treat with us," he remarked. "You have been deceived," I said. The only conmission you can deal with consists of General Otis and his The little colonel looked at me sus. piciously out of the tail of his eyes and pukered up his lips. "We have many friends in Washit~g ton," he said. "We have heard that the commissioners would come to treat with us." "How many men have you in front ous here?" I asked. "Eight thousand."1 "It is useless to continue a struggle against overwhelming force." I sugges ted. "We havec many thousands of vet eran troops on their way from Wash ington. t means utter defeat for you in a few weeks. Why not lay down your arms and come into our lines. where you can have food. protection and peace?" Blew His Brains Out. A special from Brunswick, Ga., says: News reached here tonight of the sui cide of George W. Fletning. a promin ent farmer of Camden county. Flem lng blew out his brains in the presence of his wife an'1 five li;tle children. He 'ra~inking for several days and -nrg of 4eiriam tremoas. Three Women as Widows of a Man Who Never Married. The reent.it c'o% iCtion in the criminal cob'] rei i. un tW ~'inditeL'ts ebiar I her it frauulently obtaining seule m~ny no the gocvernmjet eLUS' nof ie mt narkable casesc -er dC Cevehopd ;I the penion bureau I he evience hwd th:at the fraud hsd exteded over a period of thirty years. ea m ., a colored soldier. Ahve war record is the basis fur the oieont~inua sy s~em -f frauds. was a 1 -emnher of cmaniy E, First United Sates colo red in8fantrV. Ie came.,,, fom Prince George county. Maryland, aud enlisted in the early part of the ear 1664. In his flrrt eugagement in he battle of Wilson's Lanuding. he war ,hot in the head and ditd tive days ;ter at Fort Monroe. He was a young wan and unmarried. In his compans sus Charles Marbhall, since dead. and who, after he ciine out of the artniy. atarried Carrie Jones, a sister of the ouicted wominan He became what is tuwn as a "runnt r f'or a firm of pen ion azents and while thus engage conceived the plan of having his moth er-in-law, NahinA Jot-es. apply for a pension as the nidow of William But ier. Under the name of Mary Butler L p-nsion of iS a n:onth was granted in 169. This amount she continued to iraw without difficulty until her deat in 1S73. Her eldest daughter, Carrie Jones Mar-hall, thea represented her -elf as the mythical "Mary Butler" and continued to draw the pension for four teen years. Upon her death in IS7 uer si;ter, Ellen Jones, the convietee woman, took up the pension as a sort of heirloom and began to draw a pen -ion as the widow of Willidm Butler, a. ner mother and siter had done before her. This she continued to do for about twelve years, notwithstanding the fact that she is now not more than 40 years of age, and her alleged hus band, William Butler, died thirty-five years ago. Not only did the woman operate successfully in this respect, but .,he was able without much difficulty several years ago to have the amount increased from $S to $12 per month. The case is almost without a parallel in the history of a pension bureau. For a term of thirty years three different women have each, as the widow of a man who never had a wife, drawn his pension, and two of the women were small children when the man died. A Gold Statute Utah has it in mind to eclipse Mon tana in the matter of building statues of precious metal. It will be remem bered that Montana sent to the World's Fair at Chicago a great silver statue of Ada Rehan, worth thousands of dollars, and which statue has proved to be a very excellent. advertisement for the mines from which it came. Now the Utah miners are talking about making a larger statue, of pure gold, taken from the hills of their state. They have chosen Maude Adams. who was born in Salt Lake City, as the model for the statue. It will require $346, 000 worth of gold bullion to make the figure, and it is said the amount will be available at a moment's notice. The statue will be exhibited at the Paris Exposit ion of next year. A Virginia Tragedy. The dead bodies of Weston B. Tur ner and his wife. a well-to-do couple, each about 60 years old, who made their home at Falls Church, Va., were discovered there Wednesday. Turner evidently had shot his wife while she was asleep and then put another bullet through his own head. A paper of March 23, giving an account of a sui ide in Washington that day, and other evidence indieased that the tragedy occurred the night of the 23d. The couple frequently visited Washington ind it was cot until their absence be came prolonged that the house was ,roken into and the dead bodies found. Turner had been in ill health and quite melancholy all winter. The traged3 -vidently wcas an inspiration of the mo ment. Turner left an estate worth about $~>0,000. A Queer Dee: sion. A decision was rendered by Judge Peabody in the city police court of Sr. Louis Wednesday that under certain onditions a husbaud has the right to ntat his wife. T he case was one Bern ud Kretzer charged with bearing hi sfe~ because the would not agree with imn in the managetnent of their chil ir u. Judge Pecabo'dy said in passini. judgment: "lu thi., case the wife was ore guilty than the husband for try g to contradict and thwart her hus tna's tvi in the presence of the chil iren and setting them a bad examph. which he had a right to rebuke. There re times when a wife irritates her hus :and to such an extent that he cannot otrol himself and uses his hand an-c ist. As long ,as no serious harm is ione I don't believe in punishment." A Progressive Youth. A y outh in Kunsan, Corea, recently ut his hair to displease his parents. he latter wer, so enraged and grieved at this conduct that they " looked upon him as dead," and, calling in their rel atives and friends, went through the ceremony for the dead, sacrifices being offered and wailing indulged in. The incorrigible youth was a stoie spectator through it all, sitting quietly by him self, and when tired he made his way to the dispensary of Dr. Drew from whom the account i- drawn, and re ported the progress of the services. For a month no notice was taken of the boy y his parents other than giving him his food. He has taken to wearing foreign clothing. A Priest Removed. Monsigneur Santander, bishop of Havana, at the suggestion of Governor General Brooke, has removed a prieat in Cabezas parish, province of Matan zas. The request is the first interven tion by the military administration in ecclesiatical affairs. Major General Wilson, military governor of the de partment of Matan-zas, wrote to head quarters that the priest in question was a "drunken worthless, dirty old ssoun drel." that he had pastured his horse in the cemetery and let the consecrated enloure go to weeds, and that if the bishop did not remove him he (General MORRO CASTLE. The Dungeons of the Famous For tress Explored. HORRIBLE ASSOCIATIONS. Notes of a Recent Visit by the Rev. Dr. Henry M. Field to the Spanish Bas tile. In coming to Havana the one thing which I wished to see above all others was the Morro Castle, which has been for centuries the citadel of Spanish power. I had only to express my wish to see the interior of Morro Castle, when a friend soon brought tue a pass, not only for myself, but for any of mt. fricnds whom I should wish to take with me. That was enough. The next morn ing I was with a friend at the landinz. from which a boat took us to tue other ,ide. As we climbed up the hill the landscape stretchkd out farther and farther. Instead of a narrow neck of iand, or a rock in the sea, just large enough to be a base for the fortress it 5elf. was an upland plateau stretchin out far and wice as if to give the great er effect to the white tents that were seen in the ,istance. On thin breez l.ili top was a plain broad enough to be the camping-ground of a hundred thou sand men. As our pass did not come from the Governor, the first sentry directed us to the tent of commanding officer half a mile away, where we found him sit ting under the canvas quite alone. H. received us not only graciously. Ile had but to glance at our pass to give it his approval, and to tell our escort to show us everything in both castles, the Morro and the Cabanas. the latter of which was by far the larger and the more full of thrilling, though horrible associations. While giving us this complete unrestrained liberty, he felt it due to us and to himself to warn us of the danger we should run. The old fortress had been for months reeking with pestilence, and in spite of all attempts t- make it clean, only a short time before three sturdy men, who were employed in the work, were struck down with yellow fever and hurried in to the grave. If we ventured where they had fallen, we must do it at our own risk. We thanked him for his thoughtful kindness, and then proceed ed to do the very thing which he had warned us not to do. How could we help it? It was as if we were standing on the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, with permission to descend into the dungeons below. And then there was a fascination in the danger it self. We began cautiously, taking our first view from the outide. I am not a soldier, but I have seen first and last a good deal of the world, and no fortress has impressed me so much except Gi braltar. The Cabanas alone covers many acres of ground, and the fortifiea tions are in the style of those in Eu rope, as for example in the Low Coun tries and along the Rhine. They are girdled with higrh and massive walls, surrounded by a deep moat and an outer wall beyond, the two together being sufficient to repel any attack that could have been made before these later times of dynamite and other explosives that seem sufficient to tear the very earth itself asunder. But the walls standing alone, cannot, would not, move us more that the bro ken walls standing on the Caaopania around Rome. It was the tragedies wrought within that were to stir our blood. Following the guide over the bridge that crossed the moat, we came down into the interior. Here we were on lower ground and could look up to the walls above us, and then turn to the l'.~osure within He we soon zaas in close touch with recent events, and a trange horror came creeping over us. What was the matter? Oh, nothing! nothing! I was only standing by a lit tle tree, and had put my arm about it lovingly, as if I were embracing one of my own loved maples on the Berkshire hills. To be sure, the bark was a little rough, and there were many marks, as if the woodpeckers had been peeking at the bark. There must have been a neick to peek so many holes. So a stranger would reason til! the horrible thought comes over him that these deep inden tations had been made by more terrible destroyers than the birds of the air 'hat little tree had been pierced by a undred bullets from Spanish rifles, and at every discharge fell some native f this islaud, who had loved it, not wisely, but too well. To judge from the shots, many a brave heart ceased to beat on that spot. But the exercise of Spanish skill in firing at the tree was a small affair com pared with the larger massacres that took place within these walls. I did not attempt to count the prisons vault ed with stone into which the rebels were forced by hundreds. Here was a grand array of captives upon which their brave captors could vent their rage! On every side the halls are pit ted with shots, at every sound of which some poor creature had an end put to his suffering, till even the murderers, if they still retained a touch of human ity, must have been sick with the sight ofblood. But if they grew tired of their work, there were outsiders who were never tired of massacre. Many of the rich Spaniards in the city of Hlava na were eager to witness a tragedy that was more to them than a hundred bull fights. They had been accustomed to shout with delight when a bull gored a horse, that rushed bleeding around the arena. and now they would tind a still greater excitement in the shedding of huan bloud' It was the spirit of old Rome when captives were thrown to the lions in the coliseum, and human life was thought nothing if it could serve to make a Roman holiday. So these Cuban prisoners were kept for a great battue. "Do you see that line." said our guide, 'along the wall?" That was the dead line. where the con demned were ranged in a row of a hun dred or more, with their backs against the wall. to be shot dowa in cold blood, while thie pride and fashion of Havana crwded every point of vantage on the wals that overlooked the spot, and cheered with wild enthusiasm as they saw the heaps of dead that were thus pie up in +'.e are. before tham! This seemns the last. limit of horrors. lBut no; thee may be conditions that are worse than death. We have read of the "Black Hole" of Calcutta. There were many black holes in the Cabanas fortress, into which not a gleani of sun shine ever came. Who could endure auch horrors with''rt a fearful tempta tion to curse God and die. But when I come to suoh a spot it had for me a strae fascination. a- if I were look ing into the mouth of hell. In spite of the warning of tlx general lest I might be struck down with yellow fever, I couid rot refrain from thrusting my had into places where the ceiling was not high enough for me to stand, and where to move at all I should have to creep and crawl, to move my hands as well as my feet! Better a thousand times to be sleeping in a quiet grave than thus to be burici alive! This is the last extreme of human suffering when death itself will not die. A great fortress has innumerable passages underground. More than once our guide asked us to stoop very low; to get oi my knees, to look through the long passages, one of which connects the Cabants with the 31orro Castle, to which the garrison might retreat in case !he first fortress fell. to find escape by way of the sea. Lu this 'dorro Castle there is at pres ent no garriton, and it was an immense relief to the teution of the last three hours to emerge from underground passages and look out upon the broad *ea, which knows no servitude to man; whizih preaches freedom in the very dashing of her waves, and to look up and see the Star-spangled Banner .av ing over us, with a promise of freedom for Cubt as boundless as the sea. WHY SHE KILLED HIM. On Trial for Murdering the President's Brother-in-Law. A thrilling story of ruin and retribu tion wa. unfolded rccently in the courts of Canton, Ohio. It told of a woman's frailty, a man's villainy and the ven geance of one loved and then cast off with mocking scorn. The man in the case was the brother-in-law of Presi dent McKinley, and his tragic death on the night of October 6, 1898, sent a thrill of surprise and horror through every American household. Very few people were aware that the gentle mis tress of the White House had a brother who, to speak as charitably as possible of the dead, was a libertine whosc tragic end no decent person could deplore. He died by the hand of the woman he had wronged and deceived-one of many. Little Allie Shoffer, of Canton, 0., the first girl whom George Saxton wooed, died of a broken heart when she found him false to her. A leading Canton physician shot him for attempting to invade the peace of his home! The libertine spent a vacation on a country farm, and after he had left, the pretty little daughter of the farmer, a child of fourteen, crept out in the night and drowned hersclf in a pond. Then Sax ton came into the life of the woman by whom he met his death. He was a fine looking man, big and blond, hearty, wealthy and full of life. She was a happy wife and mother, sharing com parative poverty with her husband, a carpenter. The man of wealth was her landlord. His attractive personality ani his money gained for him first place ia the affections of Mrs. Semple George. Then began the tragic part of the story. Mrs. George gave up all for Saxton. Saxton promised to marry her when she secured a Dakota divorce. He bad made that promise very often in his lifetime, but he died a bachelor. Sick at heasrt and half mad over her troubles M1rs. George came to Saxton one day to claim his promise for the last time. "Go to the dezvil," said Saxton. Two days later Saxton was shot to death in Canton. No~ one can be found who ha~d the shots fired. 3Mrs George had told her seducer he should die for his villainy. The Country's Marvelous Growth. The censuus of 1900 will show that the United States has a population of 77,500,000 people, if the estimates of the treasury department are correct. The statistician of the department is sues a monthly statement of the esti mated population of the country, and, according to his figures, there is an in crease of about 140,000 every thirty days. and a gain of over 1,500,000 ev ry year. Thme official population fig ures in 1890 were 62.881,000. and those of 1830 were 50,000,000. The numnner of people in the United States has been more than doubliug every thirty years since the f oundation of the government, and the figures for 1900 promise to be more than twice wbat they were in 1870. 1This was a great nation in the latter year. but it has grown more in the past three decades than in the en tire century prior to 1870. The in rease in the past ten years amounts to almest as much as the entire population of the country in 1840. Few people realize how rapidly the United States is growing. Many young men of today will be alive when 200,000,000 people shall be living in the domains of this great republic. That immense popu lation will be attained in the next fifty years if the present rate of growth is continued. Terrible, If True. Dr. Chas. V. Harris, of the medical department of the United States army, passed through Fort Worth, Tex., Wed nesday eu route to Washington on im portant business with the war depart ment. He comes from the Philippines and says the reports of the excellent health of the American troops is false. He states that many of the soldiers are disheartened at their physical condition and deliberately place themselves as targets for the enemy's guns. The opinion of Dr. Harris is that if the troops remain in the Philippines any great lengtih of time sickness and death is sure to follow. Whiskey's Work. Iuna recent lecture delivered at Liv erpool, Dr. William Carter pointed out that the deaths directly attributed to intemperauee in 18%6 were 91 per 1, O000,000 among male and 52 p-ar 1,000. 000 among females; that the rate is con stantly increasing and that the deaths are increasin& among women far more rapidly and in a far greatet ratio:than canQfl man. A GREAT VICTORY. The Trusts Gets a Black Eye in Chicago. REBUKED BY THE PEOPLE. Carter Harrison, Democrat, De feats an Independent Democrat and a Republican by a Large. Majority. Chicago has just held the most sen sational election in the municipal his tory of this country. The bitterness and corruption which marked it have no parellel. It will be remembered as long as offices are filled by popular vote. It was unique-reeking with rottenness and billingegate. The election was held on Tuesday and Carter Harrison was reelected may - or of the city by a plurality of 40,000. Altgeld's entire vote was but little more than that. He was running as an inde pendent Democrat. But Harrison, the regular Democratic nominee, found a more formidable opponent in Zina R. Carter, the Republican nominee. Carter was the acknowledged choice of Charles T. Yerkes, a multi-million aire who has been charged with every crime in the decalogue, but a man ot such prominence that his personality becomes an issue in every question that comes up in Chicago. Harrison's friends say that Yerkes was really sup porting both Carter and Altgeld and that his sole purpose- was, not to elect either, but to defeat Harrison. Yerkes is the principal owner of the Chicago street car system, which will soon need to secure a renewal of its franchises. He is playing to get them for nothing and Carter Harrison made his campaign on a platform of compen sation to the city for the franchises, with ultimately the municipal owner ship of the street railroads and all other public utilities. The bitterness of the campaign cannot be imagined. lHrri son was accused of having levied tri bute on thousands of protected crimi nals. He is said to have raised nearly half a million dollars. The number of dens of vice said to be thus protected by the mayor is ap palling. According to the figures given out by his opponents, there are no less than 1,850 disorderly houses. There are 1,000 stale beer joints. There are 150 opium joints. There are more than 700 policy shops. There are in the neighbnrhood of fifty panel and badger joints. There are more than 300 wide open gambling houses. There are al leged to be 1,0'0 criminals plying their vocation of theft and violence, all un der protection. Houses and stores are robbed. "Uitizens are knocked down and robbed at night, and even int broad daylight. Men are murdered, sneak thieves and pickpockets reap a harvest. In the city hall itself officials knock down ond half kill men. Pickpockets ply their trade tLcre as openly as they do iu the public streets." The mayor's heelers are charged with having committed four murders in eight days. They are said to have brought into the city 7,000 bums and thugs who were registered and voted. On Easter Sunday the campaign waged furiously and meetings were held ali over the city, with free beer flowing like water. Harrison made nine speeches, address ing 15,000 people in the aggregate. The other candidates were no less ac tive. The Inter-Ovean. owned by Yerkes, openly charged 1Hinkey Dink, a Harri son heeler, with incitinz thugs and thieves to riot. His speech was report ed literally, a part of which is as follows, Hinkey Dink referring to the Republi can worker-: "Dey is iust bluain', e.d ycon fellers don't need to get a scare trun into you by sucha gazabos. Jes' go to de polls on Ielection day and vote as you please. If any of dose Republican guys stick in any gab paste 'em one, and if you are arrested I'll go on -our bonds and get you out of troubre. Smwash de first gazabo who sticks his mug in your busi ness." (Cheers.) The candidates themselves indulged in some choice epithets. In one of his speeches Harrison said Altgeld, in claiming to favor municipal ownership, "deliberately lies." All these things were during the campaign. What the scenes must have been on election day can be better ima gined than described. The overwhelm ing victory of Harrison, though opposed by two candidates and the limitless wealth of Yerkes was an evidence of great strength or of magnificent man agement. It marked an epoch in elec tions. It was a heavy blow -to Y-rkes and the corpora. ions.-Augusta Herald. Death of a Leper. Hannah Garey. aged 22 yoars, the older of the two Garey sisters who hare been afflicted with leprosy for the last 17 years, died at their home three miles from Junction City Wednesday evening after two week's of intense suffering. About two months ago the Garey sis ters were examined by a prominent specialist on that cla-s of diseases, who diagnosed their disease as gunuine lep rosy. The family live on an isolated farm in Perry cousty, which is sh-inned by all the natives. Nobody Claims It. There is a neat but orphaned little fortune in the Miontana state treasury. Nobody claims it; nobody knows to whom it rightfully belongs. The mo: ey-$30.000-was turned over to the legislative investigating committee by Senator Whitesides, who stated that it had been given to him by the campaign manager of United States Senator Clark as a bribe to vote for Clark. Senator Clark promptly denied the ownership of it. It was turned over to the state treasurer and remains in his hands awaiting an owner. Ugly.Behavior. The Fourth New Jersey soldiers, mus ered out in Greenville. en route north Thursday kept up a regular fusil lade of indiscriminate shooting while passing Laurecns, S. C.. one bullet crashing into the dining room of a prominent citizen while the famlly were at dinner. No other damage is ?eortad. XILLED IMSELF AND FAILY. The Awful Deed of a Prominent Young Georgian. Walter R1. Jackson. one of the mest prominent young men of Albany, Ga., killed his wife and three-mouths-old child and th; n shot himself dead in his home there Wedncsd::y night. The re mains of the family were buried Thurs day at Oak View cemetery. The funeral was directed by the St. Paul's Episcopal church, of which. Mrs. Jack son was a member. The shoeking tragedy startled the people of Albany and all day a great crowd of curious people remained about the house. Jackson is supposed to have mur dered his faiiily and then slain him self in a fit of desperation by the loss of his position with the Carter and Wolfolk Warehouse and commission company. le was until last Monday week employed by that firm as cashier and bookkeeper. The crime could not have been more shocking had it oc curred in any family in Albany. Jack son and his wife were among the most popular young people of Albany and everybody thought their home life se rene and happy. The coroner of this county empan nelled a jury and after investigating concluded that while temporarily in sane Jackson shot his child, wife and himself. Jaczson resided on Pine street. Thursday morning at 6 o'clock a servant went to the family room and found the dead bodies. The baby was held in its mnother's arms and the life less forms of husband and wife were stretched en the bed side by side. Mrs. Jackson was shot through the left temple, the baby through the chest and Jackson through the right temple. There was every indication that all died instantly. The crime is supposed to have been committed about daylight. but no one was found who-heard the pistol !hots. Jackson's pistol was found by his side. The only other oc cupant of the house except the Jack sons was Mlrs. Ed. Richardson, Jack son's grandmother, who did not hear the shots. Jackson's employers decline to make a statement of the cause of the severance of the young man's connec tian with the firm, but declared that Jackson was not short in his accounts as reported and that he had the good will of the firm. Mrs. Jackson, was the eldest daugh ter of Wm. Godwin, of Albany, and she was the idol of her family circle and the special favorite of a large circle of friends. NO MORE SCANDALS. The Directors of the Penitentiary Takes Steps to Prevent Them. The penitentiary directors held the'r regular monthly ineeting Wedneday. Col. W. A. Neal. ex-superintendent. was present to con;fer with the board on matters of business. Principally routine business was transaeted, but resolutions introduced by Mr. Tatum of Orangeburg, and adopted by the board, tend to show that the board will risk no chances of runniag up against a barbed wire investigating committee The resolutions restrict the liberties of the superingendent in financial trans actions. Following is the paper idopted by the board: Resolved, That the rules and regula tions be, and they are hereby, atmended as follows: 1. That the superintendent shall as a part of his duties furnish monthly to the board of directors, prior to the reg ular meeting of the board, an itemized statement of all financial and such other transactions3 as the board may reqpuire, said statement to be accompa nied by a voucher for each item involv ing the expenditure of money. :2. That the board as a whole or by a committee of its members shall check up said statement item by item and shall pass no item for which a voucher is lacking. -- 3. The superintendent is forbidden to discount any paper due the peniten tiary, or to endorse offieially any lia bility except as specifically authorized beforehand by the board. 4. The board shall designate the bank or banks with which the business of the penitentiary shall be transacted. and the said bank or banks shall in consideration of such designation, fur nish to the board monthly or at such time as the board mayindicate an item ized statement of all transactions with the superintendent showing particularly deposits derived from discounts, if any have been authorized by the board. And the said bank or banks shall bei notified by the secretary of the board of the rule relative to discounts and endorsements by the supierintendent. 5. Each contractor shall furnish to the board at each monthly meeting and at such other times as the board may designate, an itemized statement of authorized expenses incurred for the benefit of the institution, and shall set tie his account monthly in cash. 6. The commissary business shall be confined to the actual and legitimate needs of the institution. A Costly NIap. A party of railroad surveyors, who arc surveying a route for a railroad from Aiken to Columbia. have been making their head'juarters at Mr G. W. Reeder's in Lexington county. Satur day of laa: veek. they sent their wagon, with tents and other things on to Mr. Noah Shumnpert's by a Negro to put up a camp Tne Negro stopped in an ol/ broom sedge field, unloaded, built a tire and then dropped off to sleep. The tire caught the grass and burned up the teuits, bLd'ling anid everything in eluding books and papers containiuz the note, ol' the work from Aiken. Loss a bout 8000. Killed. by a Demented Mian. John Campbell. colored, and Arthur Cuuningham. white, 11 years o'd. were shot and killed at Nashville, Tenu.. Wednesday night by G. D. Atni: whom the poliee believe to be deinented. Campbell is a driver and was on his wagon when accosted by' Atnip. who accused him of stealinrg wsood and at tempted to arrest hun. Campbell nro Iteste I. and Atnip) opened1 fir. Arthur' Cunningham. a boy at play in a vacant lot. was kilied as was the Niegro. At nip was arrested. Cayenne pepper is highiy recommnend ed for driving away ants. It shiould3 be enrinWle aronnd their haunts. A MLLION AND A HALF. The Southern Methodists Have Under taken a Gigantic Venture. The great Methodist denomination, both in this country and in Europe, proposes to signalize the opening of the Twentieth century by raising an iunense thank-offering to be appro printed principally to educational pur n)ose0. The amount called for is near ly S30.000.000. This is a large sum to be sure, but let it be remembered that the total membership of universal Methodism according to the latest statis tics counts up 7.100,601. Multiply this by four and you have the approxi mate of Methodist adherents at 28,402, 404. Or divide the amount called for into as many parts as there are esti mated members, and it will be seen that it will require a fraction less than $5 to each member to make up the amount. There are almost as many Methodist adherents as dollars asked for this great Methodistic financial ven ture. So, it will be seen that it will not be impracticable for this whole amount to be raised within the two years during which it is proposed to operate the plan. What is required is system and a will to work on the part of the man agers of this fund and to give on the part of the great Methodist body. "A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull altogether.' is a homely way of put ting what these Methodist people pro pose to do and are actually doing. The great body of Methodists of the south (Methodist Episcopal church, south.) have started out to raise as their share of this great denominational offering a million and a half dollars. This will not be considered excessive when it is remembered that there are about as many Methodists in actual membersbip to do this as there are dol lars to be raised. According to the last count (the ieports for the 'eurrent yeai not being all in) there were 1,466, 757 southern Methodists. Now there are in the South Carolina conference, which embraces the terri tory of the State of South Carolina, re ported at the last conference session in December, 1898, a membership of 74, 223. It is proposed that these raise during the coming two years $100.000. Ten per cent, of this is to -go to the Vanderbilt university and most of the rest to be devoted to denominational education-notably Woftord college and Columbia Female college in South 4r olina. The raising of this fund is now being prepared for by a committee of gentlemen, Mr. T. C. Duncan of Union, Rev. H. B Browne of Orangeburg and Rev. James W. Kilgo of Charles ton. They are making appointments for educational meetings all over the State to be addressed by leading educators and preachers of the denomination. 1hey are also.arrangiog for a thorough canvass of the ditffretit pastoral charges svith a view of gettin- a maximum subscriptiou of $1 apiece from every member of the church. This is a worthy wovemen, and promises to be a great event in the history of this great Metho dist denomination. This paper will be giad to chronicle the progress of this movement and in due timd to an nounce its final success. ANOTHER FIRE B0EtROR. A New York Millionaire's Family Burned L. Death in Their House. Thirteen people were burned to death in New York Friday morning by the burning of Millionaire Andrew's house, and one in the Adams house which was set afire by sparks from the Andrew's house. Besides these, Kate Downey and Marie Roth, Mrs St. ,John's maids, are missing. The bodies may be found in the ruins of the Andrews house. The fire began early Friday morning in the mansion of Wallace C. Andrews, the millionaire ggg a "~ 4-' YWrk --as Sixty-be lag lmat Jfames spread so rapi a. famhily was cut off in the upper ories. When awake1 e I fiom s!eap they wer e unable to reach the street. The entire family of Andrews, also the family of his son-in-law. Gamaliel St. John, perished. Mr. St. John'went to Wilmington Thursday and escaped. The dead are: Wallace C. Andrews and wife, Mrs. Georgie St. John and daugh ter, Orsen Wallace and Frederick, chil dren of St. John. The servants, Nellie Rolden. Mary Flanagan, Eva Paterson, Kate Downing. Masie Ross, Annie Neary and Jennie Burns, the laundress, died at the hospital. The bodies of Mrs. St. John and her children have been identified. Six others have been found and twoare be iieved to be those of Mr. and Mrs. Wal lace and the rest of the servants. Alice White, the cook, is in the hospital, in a critical condition from the shock. The flames skipped t wo blocks catch ing the residence of Al. Adams, a sportsman, on Sixty-ninth street. A number af the inmates jumped from the windows. Mrs. Adams was injured ini the back and is suffering from the shock. Nellie Q iin, a servant, jump ed from the fourth floor to the exten sion and was severely bruised. Mrs. Mary Langran, the housekeeper, died at the hospital and four others were in jured. ________ True Bills Found. In the United States circuit court at Ctarlestou Fricay Judge WV. H. Brawley, presid.ing. a true bill was foiund by the grand jary against 13 of the men aceused of la nehing Fraser B Baker, at Like City. S. C., Feb. 22, 1ni38. The men on trial now are: Mar tin Ward. W. A. Webster, Ezra Me Knight, He-nry Stokes. Henry Gidwin. Moultrie Eps Charles D. Jay ner. O-ear Kelly. Maron Clark, Aionso hI dUrs Elwin M. ilodgers, Joseph P. Newh..m and E- try P. L.e. mer-hauts and farm ze s of La:ke City a:d v ielnity. The ia-t two me~n mecutione- i have turned State's evi .ing MU da. Ex- . trney G -neral W. A. Ib) 'n 1 J.I P. Kiiunedy Bry an ofth Chaleto)u r will 1 s bra ith our pants on: we need br-tad withi our boots on, ad ifoursubse~ iuers who are is arrears don't scon pay up we all .b..nA c.ad 'vthnnt anythinj n. * A NEW DEAL. Douthit Defeats Vanc for Dispen sary Commissioner. MILES ELECTED CHAIRMAN. Inspector Hill Gets Left, While all the Other Employees Pass Through Safely. A New Superintendent. There was something of a shake up in dispensary affairs Wednesday morning when the elections for various positions were held. Mr. Miles was elected chairman and Mr. J. B. Douthit com missioner, while in minor positions other changes were made. When the board met and the elec tions were about to be 6ntered upon chairman Haselden created some sur prise by declining to stand for re-elec tion and in doing so made a brief fare well address, so to speak. He said that he had served as chairman to the best of his ability for the past year and if wrongs had been done and had not been corrected it was not from any lack of effort. The board is composed of five members and he believed it would be best for the interests of the dispensary to have rotation in the chairmanship. The election for chairman, as were all the others was taken by a viva voce vote. Mr. Miles being the only candi date received all of the votes, except his own, which he cast for Mr. Hasel den. Mr. Miles thanked the board for the honor, and requested Mr. Haselden to continue to act as chairman until the next meeting. Capt. B. C. Webb was unanimously elected to his present position as clerk to the board and chief bookkeeper. But the election in which most inter est was taken was that for commission er. There were two candidates, Col. S. W. Vance, the-incumbent, and Mr. J. B. Douthit. The result was the eleo tion of Mr. Douthit, the following vot ing for him, Messrs. Williams, Miles and Boykin. Colonel Vance received the vote of Messrs Haselden and Rob inson. Both candidates were very'con fident up to the time the election was held. Colonel Vance, the retiring commissioner, has been an efficie-it offi cer and is popular in Columbia. His successor will naturally drop into the harness in his new position, as he has been for several years an efficient mem .ber of the board and is consequently thoroughly familiar with all the details of the business. Mr. D. A. G. Oazts was unanimous ly re elected clerk to the commissidner; Inspector Hill was defeated bi Mr. L. W. Boykin, of Camden. He re ceived a unanimous vote, Mr.. Hill * Aving withdrawn his name that morn irg. Mr. Boykin is a brother of the member of- the' board. Inspector Moody was re-elected without opposi tion as were Messrs. Charles and Mob ley bookkeepers; V. W. Harris, con stabulary clerk; Jolin G. Black. ship ping clerk; G. B. Pettigrew watch man. W. H Bryant was elected superin tendent vice Dixon who resigned some time ago. The board then proceeded with rega lar routine work. The board in suspending Dispenser Troy, whose accounts show discrepan cies of over $400. Mr. Trny says he can explain it all. The apparent shortage of Dispenser Lamar, of Aiken, is $500, but Inspsy' tor Moody investigated and fonid that the negro porter forjafy~ employed was guilty of stealiag' the stock. Ac tion against rafaar was discontinted. Mr. U3. X. Gunter put in a claim of $15 fpr legal services in prosecuting Yiol'tors of the law. The claim was en 4.rsed on the back. "Governor Ellerbe has refused to al low this claim. We think it. just and ask the board to consider it, W. B. Evans, Private Secretary. W. W. Harris, Clerk." Thbe matter was sent back to the gov ernor's office. Messrs. Boykin and Robinson were appointed to devise some plan whereby reputable druggists might obtain alco hol without having to send to Columbia for it. A Big Farmer. David Rankin, of Tarkio, Atchinson county. Missouri, who ofras and man ages 23,000 acres of land in Atchin son county, scattered over an area of forty miles, is described in the Indian apolis News as an all-round farmer who farms all the year round. To work his farms, which average from 600 to 3.000 acres, requires 140 employes, 700 horses, more than 100 wagons and many plows, harrows, cultivators, etc. Half of his land goes under the plow yeazd ly. About 2,000 acres are sown to wheat and the rest is planted in corn. Other land is laid do.in in clover, tim otby and bluegrall pastures. Every year M~r. Rankin buys and fattenq from 8.000 to 10,000 head of cattle. He keeps 12,000) head of hogs at all times, atnd sells about $80,000 worth yearly. He began to buy his land in 1876. In addition to his duties as a farmer he is the president of the First National Bank, of the Electric Light and Power comnpaniy of the Water company and of a brickz and tile company. He has been liber-l in his support of the church and Burned to Death. A Mr. Smith and his wife, recent arrivals from the north, were burned to death inr their house Wednesday night near Hairper's station. 10 miles from Pensacola. Fla. Their bodies were found Tfhursday. Sheriff Mitchell, Couinty .Juidie Holley and the coroner's jury 6r0m Milton. in Santa Rose coun ty. left immediately for the scene to :uake an investigation. Nothing is kziosn here of the full name or former home of Mr. Smith. A Floral Corset. In thie Wisconsin assembly last week ai imuerse floral corset, tightly laced, *-as zresent ed to) Assembly man Dagget, :Llher of the anti-tight lacing bill. It ~tas the rift of the young women of Watertuowu, and its app-arance, when broaght in by the sergent-at-arms, was the signal far hilarious demonstration