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VOL. XV. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, I LE BOER'S WAR. Ve-y Little Fighting Done So Far in the Transvaal. ELOWING UP OF BOERS. The Boers Lost Several Hun red Killed at Mafeking, at Which Place They Were Reoulsed. 'i he London Dily News Capetown con spondent says: "It is rumored her,: that news has reached Deaax JuL.(tion that the Boers attacked Maieking in force, but were repulsed. Thc defenders, seeing the enemy re trea ing, pursued them for some dis tance, allowing themselves to be driven in I v the Boers, who, eager to retrieve the* position, again advanced to attack and were drawn over Lyddite mines laid for the defense of the town. It is rep,..ted that 1,500 Boers were killed by he explosion. it is reported from Delagoa bay that the S'azi king, Bunu. is collect ing his forces with the object, pre sun-ably, of attacking ti e Boers. It is F ited that the Portugusee forces at DeL'.oa bay will be raised to war stro gth. It is announced from Pre toria that an eccentric person knuwn as Barnn Deginsberg has been courtmar tialed and shot as a spy. Plans of the local forts were found in his possession." T! e Capetown correspondent of The Daily-Mail, telegraphing at 10 o'cleck Thursday night, says: "Vryburg sur rendered Sunday. Tonight's dis patches from Kuruman, 90 miles west by scuth of Vryburg, state that the po lice having withdrawn from Vryburg, the town surrendered to the oers,. the inhabitants fleeing in all directions, mos-ly toward Kuruman. When the police withdrew the Cape Boers noti fied the fact to the enemy, thus invit ing them to take possession. There was a fearful panic. The British are wildly indignant at this scuttling." A special dispatch to the Cape Argus reiterates the statement that the fight ing at Mafeking Col. Hore repulsed the Boers, inflicting a less of 300 men. Complaints of Boer outrages upon the natives continue to arrive. These serve further to inflame the Basutes and Zulus. Yesterday one hundred and fifty Basutos from Johannesburg ar nved at Burghersdorp, Cape Colony, and alleged that the Boers had robbed them vwholesale and flogged them with "black snakes." The party, which in cluded a son of Chief Lerothodi, was supplied with provisions, and the Ba sutes then started homeward, cheering for the queen and chanting war songs. The Cape Times publishes the follow ing dispatch from Kimberley: "Beli able information from Mafeking says that an armored train, while reconnoi tering north ef the town last Saturday, enga'ged 500 Boer:, who suffered heavi ly. Col. Fitz Clarence's column foiled the Boers, inflictiug severe loss. The British casualities were two killed and fourteen wounded, two severely." &KIRMISHIED NEAR K~IBERLEY. The Boers suffered a rt verse on Sun day at Spruitfor~tein, ten miles south of Kimnberley. An- armored train went out to bring in a train reported to have been captured by the Boers near the Spruitfontein siding. A party of Boers who were encamped nearby lowered the railway signal and displayed a white flag, apparently with the idea of induc ing the train to proceed. The driver suspected that the Boers were in pos session and stopped the train, where upon Boers issued in large force and opened fire, but without any effect. The soldiers replied from the train and about half a dozen Boers were killed. The British were unscratched. Seven hundred Boers surprised a party of thirteen Carc Colony police who were guarding the railway at Riverton Road, 18 miles north of Kimberley, on Sunday morning. The police retired. A ttrrific explosion was heard later and it is believed that the Boers blew up the station. A relief party of 25 police sent from Kiumberley met the By rs near River ton. The enemy displayed a white flag to induce the troops to fall into their .:. but the pzlice were ordered to re tire. T'"'n the Boers opened a heavy fire upon tzem, discharging about 400 rounds. A bullet struck the horse of Surgeon Major Sullivan, who, with a trooper whose horse had stumbled and dismounted him, was captured. A DBSPBR ATB BA TTLE. In Whic'h the Boers Are Beaten With Heavy Loss. CA desperate battle was fought Friday between the British and the Boers,.in which the latter was defeated with heavy loss. The dispatch says after eight hours of continuous heavy fight ing, Talana hill was carrned by the Dublin Fasileers and the King's Rifles under cover of a well served artillery by the Thirteenth andsixty-ninth batter ies. The British artillery practice in the early part of the day decided the bat tle. The seizure of Dundee Hill by the Boers was a surprise, for although the pickets had been exchanging shots all night, it was not until a shell boome.d over the town into the camp that their presence was discovered. Then the shells came fast. The hill was posi tively alive with the s'warming Boers, still the Brkish artillery got to work with magnificent energy and precision. The batteries from the camp took up positions to the south of the town and after a quarter of an hour's magnifi cent firing, silenced the guns on the hills. The correspondent could see shells dropping among the Boer pieces with remarkable accuracy and doing tre mendous execution, for the enemy were present in very large numbers atnd in places considerably exposed. By this time the army held the whole of the hill behind Smith's Farm and the Dan dee Kopje, right away to the south, in which direction the British infantry and cavalry moved at once. The fight ing raged particularly hot at the valley outside the town. Directly the Boer guns ceased firing Gen. Symons ordered the fnfantry to move on the position. The infantry charge was magnificent. The storming of the pontion by the Iing's Royal Rifles and the Dublin maiies wa one of the most mnsgnifi cent sights ever witnessed. The firing of the Boers was not so deadly as might have been exrected fron troops occa pying such an excellent posiion: but the infantry lost heavily going up the hill, and only the consummately bril liant way in which Gen. Symlons had trained them to fighting of this kina saved them from being swept away. In deed the hill was almost inaccessible to the storming party, atd any hesitation would have lost the day. fThe enemy s guns, so far as the correspondent e:uld see, were all abandoned. for the Boers had no time to remove them. A stream of fugitives poured down the billsidc into the valley, where the attle went on with no abatement. British Gen S3mous was wounded iarly in the cetion. and th, c nmind then dtvolved on Gen. Ynle. It is feared Gzn. Snious is fatally hurt. The Boers as they fled were followed by the cavalry, mounted infantry aut artillery. The direction takcn was to the eastward. At the latest reI orts the cavalry had not returned. Some say that four and some say five guns were captured. The 3ker aitillery fir ing was weak. A lot of plugged shells were used. Although the enemy Isi o sition was carried soon after 1 oceock, scattered firing went on alaost ail af tarnoon. The final rash was made with a tri umphant yell, and as the British troops chared to clone quarters the enemy tur ed and :ied, leaving all their im pec ! ents and guns behind them. W, ile this was going on. one battery of rJ i ry, the EightLeenthI Hussars, and tne mounted infantry, with a part of the Leicesttr regiment, got on the enemy's flank and as the Boers stream ed wildly down the hills, making for the main road, they found their retreat had been cut off, but they rallied for a while. and there was sevtre firing, with considerable loss to each side. Many of the enemy surrendered. A rou&!h estimate places the British loss at 250 killed or wounded, and that of the Boers at 800. A newspaper correspon dent states that through his glasses. during the fighting he noticed Los much the Boers seemed o be n nllut ed by the tactics of the inperiai troops, especially of the well drilled, swift moving horsemen. The Boei. are still, asof old, a mob. They are withut horses and forage and many of them rely for food on what they can obtain by looting. Their animals are mostly in a wretched condition. OFFERS TO SELL AGUINALDO. Gen. Otis Receives a Message from Gen. Pio del Pilar. A dispateh from Gen. Otis has re eived messages purporting to come from the insurgent General Pio del Pilar, offering to sell out his army and to deliver Aguinaldo into the hands of the Americans. Although he is not satisfied tniat this offer is authentic it is not improbable. The policy of Gen. Otis is firmly set against buying any surrenders: Pio del Pilar effers forthe sum of 50,000 to refrain from attacking Manila with his armw: for the sum of $250,000 to surrender his army after a sham battle, both sides firing into the air, and for the sum of $500.000 he says he will procure the overthrow of the insurrection and the capture of Aguinaldo, Paterno and other leaders. In the course of the communication he refers to Aguinaldo in contemptuous terms, indicating that strained relation s exist between them. Reports are be ing received from the distr icts oceapied by the enemy that the Filipinos bhteve that Pio del Pilar has an audacious plan to break through the Americanr ines into M1anila and seize Gen. Otis and the archbishop. Po.ssitly thecse rumors were started with an idea of helping him to make a deal with the Amerians. It is unnecessary to say that the Amerieans would welcome an attack of that sort. There has been much speculation of late regarding the wherabouts of Pio del Pilar. The re ent attack at La Lonia is credited to his mneu. It is belived that he is now in the vicinity of San 31steorvalley with a force of frotui 1.S8% to 3,000 men. Leaf from the Past. The following is f:-om a Pennsylva nia paper, C2ol. Simuonton's visit to Dce West is well renmembcrtd by many cit izens of that place: 1Dr. WV. M1. Grier, president of Ec-kine cillege, at Due West, S. C., died suddenig of applecxy Sunday. "Dr. Grier paid a visit a few years since to his hernefactor. the late M1aj. S. C. Simonton, of the Fifty-seventh Pennsy ]vania reaiment. Clarksville. At the battle of WVilliamsburz, the for tunes of war left the young Confede ate, Grier, a prisoner, seriously wound d, in the hands of Simionton's regi ment. The gallant and kind-hearted ft deal took compassion orn the y outh, for he was a mere lad in his teens, supi plied special surgical attention, and when able to be imoved Simnon gave him money, every dollar he possessed, to aid the boy in reaching his southern home, there to die in the arms of his family, as Simonton believed, and has often related the affecting story. For more than twenty years Grier tried in vain to learn the address of the north erm officer, and was finally rewarded for his search in reading his name in a Pittsburg newspaper. Simonton was invited to Due West, where the whole town turned out te do honor. The Greenville Advance Argus gave fuil details of this affair when it occurred some twelve or thirteen ' ears ago." How it Was iFad Every editor has received them, says the Tampa Tribune. The postmaster seads them to the editor. The post master is not to blame. For instance there was a man by the name of-well, say Tim Spriggins, who e mt us three notices to stop his paper, he didn't want it no longer. We wondered what was the matter. Upon examintng the subscription book we found Tim short $10. Hie never had paid a cent an yet he stepped his paper as a mat ter of economy-to us. le didn't want us to lose any more by him. A few days afterward spriggins was at church and his melodious tenor rang out clear and loud in the old stirring song. "Jesus Paid it All." lie mnigh t have been mistaken, but his earnest ness impressed us. So the next day we sent him a receipt in f-all and begged his pardon for not knowing that he had make an assigoment of his liabilities to tbe Lord. TRANSAAL YVAR. In Which the English and Boers Fight Again. WHAT THE WAR IS ABOUT England Is Clearly In the Wrong, and Should Admit It by Wi:hdrawing Her Troops. S.:veral days ago we reviewed the his toric relatioes of the Englih and the Datch in South Africa, showing how long and perlistently the Boers had cheriebed the ideal of independence, what sacrifices of home and property they had made to get out of the way of Great Britain and how they had been pur sued by the claims of alien author ity. A nearer view of the case, cover irg the immediate issucs which have rcsultod in war. is furnished by the New Yoik World. and to promote an und(rs!anding 'of the involved and much-obscured question of British rights in the Transvaal we here repro duce it. The World's chronology is as follows: 1852-A treaty known as the Sand River convention was signed by Great Britain and the Transvaal Boers in which the absolute independence of the Transvaal Boers was recognized. 1S77-During the general war be tween the whites ard the blacks Great Britain broke the Sand River conven tion and annexed the Transvaal. 18S0-1-The Transvaal Boers revolt ed. raiscd the standard of the republic and dtfeated the British in several baall engagements. 1881-Great Britain signed a treaty known as the Pretoria convention, in which self-government was granted to the Boers, Great Britain remaining the suzerain powcr. 18- A new treaty, known as the convention of London. In this there was no mention of Evzerainty; the Transvaal republic was granted com plete freedom, in fact became, as Mr. Chamberlain said in one of his dis patches last summer, "a foreign state.' Lord Derby, who negotiated the con ention of 1SS4 for the British, thus described (on Feb. 14, IS84) Lhe powers retained by Great Britain: "'By the omission of those articles of the convention of Pretoria which as signed to her majesty and to the British resident certain specific powers and functions connected with the internal government and the foreign relations of the Transvaal state, your govern ment will be left free to govern the country without interference, and to on-luct its diplomatic intercourse and shape its foreign policy, subject only to e requirement that any treaty with any foreign state shall not have effect without the approval of the lueen." 188-Gold discovered in the Trans vaal's territories. 18S7-Total output of gold from the Rand (Witwatersrand) mines 43,155 ounces. 1888-Output of gold increases to 218,121 ounces. Great excitement in Egland. Foreigners, chiefly British pouring into the Rand district and building uo Johannesburg at rate of 1,U00 a week. Discoveries of gold in ter parts of the Transvaal. 1889-The British South African company orgarized by Cecil Rhodes and several eminent Englishmen, in cluding the Prince of Wales' son-mn law, the Duke of Fife. The produc tion of gold iu the Rand rises to 381,557 uncis 189-The production of gold rises to 491,3-17 ounces 191-B; the invention of a new process the production of gold is in r-ased to 729,2.38 ounces. Scientists fiud that the Rand, instead of being exhausted within a few years s was thought, will produce gold in in raing qluantities for at least 75 years. 192-The Outlanders, who have hitherto cared dlothing about the fran chise, began to agitate. At Johannes burg d'etjunciations of the Bh-ers are open and plans for subverting the re publie and bringing about annexation to Great Britain are openly discussed. 1892-The [Beers, who in 1881 had been admitting any one to the franchise on t wo years' residence, now raise the time to feurteen years. 192-The production of gold rises to 1.210 8t32 ounces. 193-The production of gold is 1,478 473 ounces or double what it was in 191. 1894-Gold production, 2 024,164 ounces (.$6.000000O).- The agitation against the republic at Johannesbt rg increases, and is aggravated by the in ereasingt Bocr hatred of the British. The British S~uth Africa company (Cecil Rhodes) suspected with good reason of plotting the overthrow of the reublic. 189-96-The Jameson raid. Dr. Jamesou and his followers (British army officers and servants of the Brit ish South Africa comnpany) captured and delivered over to British authori ties for trial. They receive an ovation in London and are let off with nominal punishments. 189-31r. Chamberlain, speaking for the government, wnich is trying to ef face the impression made in South Af rica and throughout the civilized world h the Jameson raid, says in the house comoson May 8: "To g- to war with President Kruger to enforce upon him reforms in the in ternal affairs of his state, in which seretaries of state, standing in their places, have repudiated all right of in terfernce-that would be a course of actin which would be immoral-" 197-The r roductiod of gold in the Rand is 2.511,544 ounces, making it the tichst gold field in the world, and making the Transvaal the greatest gold producing country in the world. America alonec-excepted. The capital ization of ind mines, owned chiefly in Great Britain. is upward of $3,000,000, 189-MIr. Chamberlain begins to discuss the grievances of the Outland ers with President Kruger. The Boers lakd that all differences between the two govrnments be submitted to im partial arbitration. Mr. Chamberlain refused on October 18, 1898, raising the claim of suzerainty and saying that the convention was not like a treaty betee tw independent states, but was an agreement whereby the queen as sovereign granted certain rights of self-government to the Transvaal, while retaining her suzerainty. This enveloped the British govern ment in an atmosphere of suspicion and is largely responsible for all the diffi culties since. Daring the present summer the Boers actually granted all of England's original contentions. They have pass ed a law reducing the term of residence for naturalizations to seven years. The hitch in the negotiati-ns has been part lv the question of suzerainty, partly the British determination to have a joint British-Boor inquiry into the workings of the franchise, partly the British re fusal to submit the other disagreement to impartial arbitration. The rupture came about in this man ner: On August 21 the Boers, having been assured by the British agent at Preto ria, Mr. Greene, and by Sir Alfred Mil ner that the proposals they submitted would in no way affect the -tatus of their case and would in all probability be accepted, sent the following pro posals: That they would reduce the residence for enfranchisement to five years and institute all the electoral and repre sentation reforms asked by Britain on condition (1) that Great Britain should Irouise to not interfere again in the internal affairs of the republic; (2) that nothing more should be said about "auzerainty:" (3) that all matters in dispute should be submitted to arbitra tion. That is the Boers were willing to run the risk of being reduced to a minority in their own republic provided that the integrity of the republic should be tbus guaranteed. Mr. Chambelain rejected these pro posals and put forward fresh propos als, making larger demands than ever. The Transvaal government then with drew its proposals and asked that Great Britain drop its fresh proposals and go back to the original proposals. The Transvaal government professed itself ready to accept those proposals. Un Sept. 22 Mr. Chamberlain sent this reply, breaking off negotiations and foreshadowing an ultimatum: "The imperial government are now compelled to consider the situation afresh and formulate proposals for a final settlement of the issues which have been created in South Africa by the policy constantly foliowed for many years by the government of the South African Republic (the Trans vaal.) "They will communicate the result of their deliberations in a later dispatch." The Boers had been stunned by the British rejection of their proposals of Aug. 21.-Mr. Greene had told them that those proposals would probably be accepted. He recommended them to Sir Alfred Milner in an official note for acceptance by the British government. During the latter part of August and througnout September Great Britain pressed preparations for war in South Africa. After Mr. Chamberlain sent his ultimatum, or rather foreshadow ing of an ultimatum, on Sept. 22. these preparations were pushel with vigor, and Mr. Chamberlain and other mem bers of the government made war speeches. Ihe Boers decided that the last hope of peace was gone. They waited for Mr. Chamberlain's promised ultimatum until Oct. 9. T hen they sent him an ultimatum demanding an agreement to imartial arbitration and the cessation of the campaign of military investment of the Transvaal. Mr. Chamberlain's ultimatum, em bod ing the final proposals of the Brit ish government which the Transvaal must accept-aor go to war, was going over the wires to South Africa while the Boer ultimatum was on its way to Lndon. It has never been published There is up .to the present time no trustworthy information as to its con tents Such is the story. It needs no argu ment to show that Eigland was and is the real aggressor and that the B )er states are but contending for their clear and acknowledged rigrhts. Served Him Right One afternoon last week several young Negroes at Boston, Ga., hired a hack and while taking in the r osa in great style, passing one of the most highly respected young ladies .in the street alone, one of :he party invited her to get in the hack with them Sh-e did not know one of the Negroes, but an investigation proved one to be Jack Davis, a half-grown Negro boy. A maked party of unknown men went to Davis' house about midnight, presuma :ly to impress upon him that such invi tations addressed to white ladies were no; agreeable. Upon their entry to his home he ran, and a shower of bul'ets followed. One shot took effect strik. ing a rib and glanced and stopped un der the skin near the pit of his stcm ach. Dr. Daniels was called and the ball removed. A Mysterious Drowning. Miss Kate S. Gause, a highly es teemed lady of Wilmington, N. C., was drowned Wednesday afternoon at t; o'clock at Greenfield mill pond, one and a half miles from the city. Miss Gause, with a party of children, had gone for an afternoon stroll to the country, and at the time of the terrible accident was some distance behind the children, sne having retraced her steps to a spot near the bank, where she said she had left her purse. Just how the accident oc curred will never be known, as the children soon after her departure heard a splash in the water, which is at this point about fifteen feet deep, and were startled to find Miss Gause struggling between life and death in the water. She was 31 years of age. A Family Relic. Mr. R. F. Peek of Orleans, Ind., writes The State that he has in his pos session an heirloom that belongs to the heirE of Thomas Pinckney Alston which has been found in Orleans. He says it is a small writing desk ;presented to Thomas Pin ckney Aiston by his father, Feb. 28, 1857. Mr. Peek is anxious to return the desk to its rightful owner. He states that it was found some where in South Carolina by a Union soldier during Sherman's raid where a house had been burned. The soldier could not tell in what part of the State it was. Mr. Peek was a member of Gregg's regi ment; afterwards he was in the McBeth artillery. He asks that any one able te give the information he desires write to hi at Orleans. ANOTHER MURDER. One Brother Shoots and Kills An other in Charleston. ONCE BUSINESS PARTNERS. Deceased Met His Brother at Cal houn Hotel By Appointment. A Family Affair Was Cause of Trouble. Charleston has had another mysteri ous murder, in which one brother shoots to death another brother. N. T. Pittman, a well to do and prominent merchant at G.urdin's on the North eastern Railroad, about fifty miles above Charleston, was shot to death Wednes day afternoon by his brother, A. J. Pittman. The killing occurred about 1 o'clock, in th, reading room of the ho tel Calhoun, which is in the rear of the office. The trouble that led up to the tragedy is not fully known, but from what was learned shortly after the kill ing it is sup poed that either money matters or an unpleasant family affair waq the cause that led to the. shooting. There was no eyt-witnesses to the shooting, and just what took place in the reading room between the dead man and his brother cannot be stated. They were the only occupants of the room and had been for some little time, hav ing gone there. presu-nable, to discuss business matters. The curtains of the reading room, which shut out the view fr m the office, were partly drawr, th augh the two men could be seen, si. tng down in chairs, talking togethe-, but their presence in the room attract ed no attention whatever, and their con versation was held in an ordinary con versational tone and did not fortell of the tragedy that took place. Suddenly the attention of Mr. Guy A. Stoner. the manager of the hotel, was attracted by the report of a pistol, followed in quick succession by four more shots-, all of which came from the writing room. Manager Stoner turned Pittman over to Police Officer Luby, who sent him to the station house. Mr. Pittman did not appear to be much ex cited, but for aman who bad just killed his brother, was remarkably cool and collected. The only statement that he would make was that he did not care to know the result: that he did it in self defense. The pistol with which he fired the fa tal shots was a new Smith & Wesson, 32-clibre. All the shells in the weapon had been discharged. Coroner Rivers and Deputy Coroner Waring were noti fied and they took charge of the body at once. The dead man was found sit ting in a chair, having been removed by some one from the floor, where he fell after being shot. A hasty examination was made of his body, and it was found that he had been shot in the back, near the right side, and under his arm. It is supposed that when he received the first ball he threw up his arms to pro tect himself. On his person was found a heavy gold watch, a telegram from A. J. Pitt man to N. P. Pittman, sent from Sum merville yesterday, saying that he would meet him today at the Calhoun hotel between 9 and 10 o'clock, several leters, a large sum of money and an unsigned note for $1,000, payable to imself. These the coroner took charge of. The inquest will be held tomorrow and it is expected that there will be some important developments. The deceased arrived in the city last niht from Gourdin'b accompanied by Mr. J. C Gr aham. They slept togeth er last night and were together early this morning. Mr. Graham stated this morning that he knew about the trou ble- that existed between the deceased and his brother, but had no idea it would t :rminate fatally or he would not have left triem together. He said it was a family affhir. but refused to state what it was, saying that it was told to him in confi lence. The dead man was 60 sears old and well-known in Char leston. He is a man of wealth. He leaves a wife and ten c.hildren. Mr. A. J. Pittman, who did the killing, is about 50 years of age. At one time he was engage~d in the etton business on Vendue Range. He now lives in Sum merviile. The family of Mr. N. T. Pittman have been notified of his death. No weapon was found on the dead man. On one of the writing tables was found a small, pearl handled knife. T'here was no evidetx of a strug1e having tak~'n place. The ink stands were in place, arnd the chairs and tables were undisturbed, v hich would not have been had there L.:en .t scrimmage Up to a few years ago N. J. Pittman and A. J. Pittman were engaged in the cotton and naval stores business under the name of Pittman Bros. About four years ago they failed, which left Mr. A. J. Pittman in straightened circumn stances. Mr. N. T. Pittman. having considerable ineans, it is said, helped his brother in money matters consider ably. It is understood that bad blood exi.ted a long t'me between the two brothers over financi-al matters. It is not known who Mr. Paitma i will retain as councel to defend hi-n --The State. Worthy of Soloman. President Kruger is not a man ex actly after our ideal pattern, but there is no denying that he has lots of sense. The following anecdote showvs his shrewdness and was originally told by the Cape Times: "It is related that two brothers who had inherited a large farm couidu't1 divide it between them selves. They went to the president for advice, and he advised them that the older one make the division and the younger one the selection.' The Phila dlph'ia Rcor~d remarks that this jdig me t is worth y c f Solomoin. They Need Help. As goes Baltimore so goes the State of Maryland is a rule that history has made in that State. Just now Gover nor Lowudes and his frcends are exceed ingly fearful that the 6,0 or 7,000 in dependent voters in Baltimore are go ing to vote the Democratic instead of the Republican ticket in the election this fall, and their perturbation is not slight, for it is believed beyond eis tio that this will give the State to the Democrats No wonder the Rlepubhi can managers wanted President Mc Kinley to come over and start the po litia ball to rolling, WANTED TO SELL OUT. Ten Former Spanish:Soldiers Offer to Betray the Filipinos. A dispatch from Manila says ten for mer Spanish soldiers who were captured by the Filipinos, and for a time acted as officers and members of a Filipino artillery regiment located in the vicinity of Santa Rosa, in the Laguna de Bay district determined to surrender the artillery to the Americans. The plot was discovered by the Filipinos who killed seven of the conspirators, the other three making their escape to Manila. It appears that when the sur render was dstermined upon the Spani ards delegated one of their number to rocced to Manila and to propose to Gen. Otis to surrender, after a prear ranged mo-k battle, about 12 pieces in cluding Krepp-Nordenfeldt rapid fire gurs, well supplied with ammunition rom Lipa powder factory, in exchange for certain sums to be paid the Spani ards, who were to be pardoned for car rying arms against the Americans and to be tranFl)rted to Spain. The dele &,ate left S inta Rosa accompanied by three Filipinos. entered the American lines at Calanba. The Filipinos did not proceed far, deciding to await his return at a given time. As the de!e gate was detained in Manila longer than they had expected they grew suspicious and returned to Santa Rosa. The plot was then revealed and the remaininD, Spaniards were attacked. The gunboat, Napidan, coasting near Santa Rosa, perceived two men on the beach hur riedly embarking in a canoe and push ing out toward them, she took them on board and they reported that the Filipinos on discovering the plot to surrender the artillery had cut the throats of seven of their Spanish com panions and that they themselves had barely escaped with their lives. The three Spaniards are now hiding in Manila, fearing Filipino vengeance. Gen. Otis had declined their offer through the delegate, to surrender the artillery for money, but he promises to send the three to Spain. BRYAN'S GOOD WORK. He is Turning the Tide of the Blue Grass State Whatever may have been the previ ous opinion as to the wisdom of Bryan's visit to Kentucky, no doubt can now remain that his council to Democrats to support Goebel has materially aided the latter's fight. Even at Mount Sterling some 8,00 or 10,000 people stood in the rain on the court house, green, many of them having driven scores of miles over the mountains. In every instance where Bryan has made a speech the climax has come when he boldly espoused Goebel's cause and ad vised all Democrats to vote for him. This has been the one thing which the people have evidently desired to hear. and the Democratic managers say that reports from localities where he has spoken show conclusively'that his influ ence has brought hundreds of bolting Democrats into line. The newspaper organs of the latter evidently appreci ate the fact, for both the Louisville D spatch and the Lexington Herald at tack him in their editorial solumns Tis is adding, of course, to the bitter ness of this remarkable struggle, but Democratic leaders say that it will only drive the followers of Bryan into Goe bel's camp. Killed From Ambush. At the closing of a concert at Riser's Chael, in Ba uberg County, one-quar ter of a nmlle above the Colleton County lin'. a fuss was started, and on their wey nome, near the county line, a few pis.A shot were fired by John Moore and Gerhard Brown, Bob Roberson using his stick on Gerhard Brown John Moore ran off across the field in the directie.. of his father's house, got a gun and secreted himself in the creek at Folk's Mill. Bob Roberson and his wife, Eveline, came along the road with the Brown crowd gatreling, and when they reached the creek a gun was shot from ambush, ksilling Calhoun Moore and severely wounding Mose Walker. This occurred a bout 2 o'clock Sunday morning. A jury of inquest was held by Trial Justice Henry Gum mings The jury of inquest agreed that Calhoun Moore came to his death by gunshot wounds inflicted by John Moore. and that Bob Roberson and his wife Eveline were acsessories to the murder. At a post-mortesn made by Drs. Ackerman and Folk it was found hat one shot had penetrated the heart. Thesa two Moores are no kin, btut it is beieved that John Moore missed his man, Gerhard Brown, who had alrecidy passed that place. The Golden Key to Happiness. The woman who knows how to keep silence has in her possession "the gold en key that unlocks one of the doors to secret happiness." It is hard some times not to speak. You know how it is. You are with a dear frieni whose afection and loyalty you do not doubt. and in one of the unguarded moments you are led to the extreme of confidence, telling some thought, some hope, some belief or aspiratioa which before has been hiden in your soul, seiarcely whis per d to your:-elf, yet as vivid and real to you as though it were sentient with the life of its own fulfillment. Your friends does not comprehend, treats it lightly, and ges away onto some topic far removed. You have an instant sense of betrayal, and a sort of resent ment toward the friend whom for the moment you think has failed you. It is you who are to blame for <xpecting more of your friend than she was cap able of giving. A Swam of Wasps. A Swarm of wasp3 suddenly appeared aboard the train for New York from New Haven the other day, and at Stam ford it was found 'nececssary to detach two cars that wyere fairly alive with the insets and substitute new ones. The passengers were driven from one coach to another, until finally everybody who could crowd in was aboard the smoker. All the passengers got otf the train as rapidly as they knew how when it came to a standstill. One of the passengers said there seemed to be thousands of wasps in the train, and that several persons had been stung. A wise man is one who is wise enough to- anse th qetions a fool can ask. BUsILJJ Al TiY bAir . For a Crime Unparalleled: for Its Merciless Barbarity. A special from Canton, Miss., says: The little town of Saint Anne, 20 miles east of Canton, in Leake county, was Thursday night the scene of a tragedy-a sequel to the burning of the Gambrel family the night before. Joe Leflore, a Negro, who was captured by a posse, confessed that he, in company with other Negroes, had tied Mrs. Gam brel and her four children to the floor of the house, saturated the surround ings with kerosene and burned the peo ple alive. The Negro, after a confession of the crime, was promptly roped to a stake and burned to a crisp..while the citizens looked on in silence. Another Negro, Bob Smith, was saved in the nick of time, as there was doubt as to his guilt. The Gambrel tragedy occurred Thursday morning, and it was first thought that the fire was the r. sult of an accident. A casu al investigation revealed circumstances so suspicious that a more searching in vestigation was made, and it was soon established beyond doubt that the fam ily bad been murdered and the house fired. Posses were immediately formed to scour the country and followed ev ery pa:sible clue. Before the posses left St. Anne it was discovered that Joe Lefiore, a Negro, who lived in the neighborhoad and who had heretofor, b:rne a good reputation had disappear ed. Etrly last evening Lefiore was captured several miles from the scene of the murder. At first the murderer denied any knowledge of the crime, but finally broke down and confessed that he and Bob and Andrew Smith, two other Negroes, were guilty. He hoped for no mercy and told with a brutal frankne.,s all the details of the crime. In the yard where the Gambrel resi dence had stood Leflore was tied to a stake and burned alive. No one sent a merciful bullet into his body to kill him. Andrew Smith escaped from the mob while Leflore was being burned and has not been captured. Bob Smith wasted to another stake and a fire startea, though he was finally released as there was a possibility of his prov ing his innocence. Andrew Smith will be recaptured, and if it is proven that he and his brother Bob are guilty, it is thought no power can save them from a similar fate meted out to Leflore. The sheriff of Leake county went to the scene of the tragedy Friday afternoon and took the Negro Robert Smith and three Negro women who were implicated by Lefiore and started to Carthage, the county seat. It is not thought the sheriff will reach Carthage with his pris oners, as there are about 500 men gath ered about the scene of the crime, and they seem determined to let no guilty one escape their vengeance. Telephone communication is very limited, the nearest connection being St. Anne's, about four miles distant from the Gam brel place. GOT BIT AND SQUEALED. A Green Greenwood Man Got Among Sharpers. A dispatch from Greenwood to The State says the entire Wa'l!ace rhow out fit was unader arrest for several hours in that city Thursday night, and at one time it looked as if the show would re main there indefinitely. At the after noon performance several gambling games were in full blast under the can vass and S. H. Hurne, a well-to-do far wer, went up against one of the games and came out loser to the amount of $600. Mr. Hlorne reported his loss to Lfhe police and also employed Mir. F. B Grier to look after the case. Mr. Horne, acting under the advice of his attorney, swore out warrants be fore Magistrate Austin against men named Hines, Smith and others eon nected with the show, charging them with conspiring to defraud him out o the sum mentioned. Smith was ..rres ed and lodged in jail, and the word "others" used in the warrant was con strued so as to include the drivers of the wagons. As they drove up to the care to load the circus paraphernalia the3 were placed under arrest and carried t< the court house, and the court roon was being rapidly filled. The work ot loading the cars was rsummarily stop ped. Finally one of the managers of the circus saw Horne and the case was set tled by the c'reus paying Horne the amount he claimed to have lost, $600. The men under arrest were thereupon released and the work of loading the cars was resumed about 10 o'clock. A number of other parties were fleeced by the fakers connected with the show, but the amounts were smaller than Horne's anl no other case was made out. Must be Stamped. The attention of the internal revenue bureau having been called to the method adoted by transfer companies in the various cities of giving at a residence or hotel a receipt for a trunk which calls for the delivery of such trunk at some hotel or house in another city, it is held thait such receipts or bills of lading are clearly liable to the stamp tal under schedule of the act of June 13. 18. Internal revenue officers therefore are directed to investigate transfer companies in their respective districts with a view of determining whether they are issuing such receipts, and if so whether they are fully com plying with the law regarding the stamping of such receipts. Blue Married. Lieutenant Victor Blue. of the Unit d States Battleship Massachusetts, was married in New York last Tuesday evening to Miss Ellen Foote Stewart. Lieutenant Blue is a native of South Carolina. fromu which state he went to Annapolis. He is the officer who made a tour around Santiago and discovered to a certainty that Cervera's fleet was in the harbor. Lieutenant and Mrs. Blue will spend their honeymoon in the south with relatives. A Warning. A scho~ol airl in Wabash, Ind., is suf frirg from paralysis of the muscles of the nmouth, caused by too persistently chewing gum. As a result the left side of the mouth is drawing up toward the ear, and whether the affiction will yield to treatment, aided by refraininz fom the pernicious practice, is still roblematical. ULK 6lAJE f Ail. Assurances of a Great Gathering of the People. ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED Officers of the Society Confi dent of :Success. Action of the Business'Men of the Capital City. COLUMBIA, Oct. 21.-Special: The management of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society - have issued the following announcement: "The Thirty-first Annual State Fair of South Carolina, to be held in Colum bia November 6 10, 1899, promises to equal any 4n the past, and superior in some respects. The annual fairs are occasions for the assembling of the people from all sec tions of the State to view with each other the progress in Agriculture, the Exhibit of fine, stock, machinery in operation, poultry of a high grade, the household and the needle and fancy departments and the art by our fair women will prove an interesting feat uie. The exhibit by Clemson College, the Farmers' College, will show what is being accomplished by the students of that institution under an able faculty. The racing promises to be very good. The railroad iates for exhibitors will be on a par with former charges. The rates of passage for visitors commenc ing on Thursday, November 2nd,- for stockmen and officials will be one full fare for the round trip except for Tues day 7th, Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th when tickets will be sold at one cent per mile traveled, plus ten per cent., with coupons attached on I all tickets sold, of fifty cents for admission to the fair grounds. The citizens of Columbia will arrange for quarters for visitors to the fair at minimum rates, and also provide for attractions each night during the fair. The State Ball, with a great number, is an attractive feature." The efforts of the management are being seconded by the press of the State, and all signs now point to a large attendance upon a most success ful and attractive fair. The latest an nouncement is that the cadets of Clemson College will attend in a body, a fact that will but ~add new induce ments to the pedl'e to come here in crowds. The citizens of Columbia are doing their part. The local association has already arranged for attractions that must greatly increase the pleasure ef the thousands who are expected to at tend. Various amusements of a high order will be given on the streets and State house grounds, free to everybody. The Fifth Artillery Band, stationed at Fort Moultrie, will play on the fair grounds during exhibition hours and every evening will give a free concert at some designated place in the city. Unless all signs fail, the fair of 1899 will be one of the finest in the entire history of the Agricultural Society. President Cunningham and Secretary Holloway have been untiring in their efforts to this end, and they are both confident of a big success. A White Man Hanged. Avery Kale, a white man was hanged at Newton, N. C., on last Thursday for the murder of George Travis, also white near C-.tawba last year. Kale vvas em ployed in Alley's distillery and for some cause was discharged and Travis given the place. Kale went home, got a shot gun and returning to the distillery shot Travis in the head, while the latter was at work. The shot tore away a large s -etion of Travis' skull, death resulting instantly. Kale immediately left for Marion. enlisted in Co. A, the Hornet's Nest Riflemen of Charlotte, and was arrested soon after reaching camp at Jacksonville, brought back to Newton, tried and convicted. Mutiny and Murder. The brig Juliana Sahlosser recently arrived at San Cruz de Teneriffe, on her way to Brazil, and reported that during the voyage the helmsman had murdered the captain, the captain's wife and the mate, The Brazilian con sul asked assistance of the authorities and the Spanish cruiser Infanta Isabel sent several boats' crews to the brig. They were fired upon by the brig's crew and the marines replied, finally board ing the ship. Eleven seaman then jumped overboard but were rescued by the cruiser's boats and are now impris oned. The helmsman committed sui cide. Another murdered man was found on board. Smiled and Drank Poison. Wednesday night Mr. Charles Orr, a merchant of Brewton, Ga., committed suicide by taking strychnine. The fa tal dose was taken at the supper table. Orr telling his wife that it was medi ine. After taking the poison he lay down upon the bed and began playing with one >f his children. In a few minutes convulsions set in and Dr. S. D. Bland was called. He worked hard to save Orr, but to no avail. Orr ac knowledged that he took strychnine with suicidal intent. Should be Done. A Raleigh, N. C.. camp of Confed erate Veterans has initiated a move ment for the erection there of a monu ment to the women of the Confederacy. In suggesting that the monument _be built, Commandant Stronach said: "We have built monuments to our selves, or helped the women of the Con fedracy to build them. But if anybody deserves a monument, it is the women of the State." Killed With a Brush. At Muncie, Ind., Miss Goldie Coch ran, aged 14, struck a burglar in her room, a few days ago, with a silverback ed hair brush, and the unknown man will die as the result. The man was detected carrying a valuable clock from the residence, when the girlecommanded him to drop the time-piece. This he did, and, closing the door, turned upon her, when she threw the brush, strik ing him in the temple. He fell to the fl.o ad ha reaend unconscious