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F t 4 4I\iI1!Jii1flr t ;Iif[Nl, w MAti'\I\'tY, S. C.. NY' E LD\'E S D A1', FEBRUARY 13, 1901. TRRImL E VU RL('. A Train Jhmped..the Track and Pi w !d into a Hil. FIVE K!LLED, MANY MISS:N3 F. w Passengers E'caped rj a y Three So dyers Urder 0: ders for Philpines A'e Among the Dead. Tra'n No. 5 the Now Ycrk-Chicago limited on the Erie railroad, was wrecked Thursday morning within the town :imits of Greenville, Pa. Five passengers we:e dead when tak:en from the wreck, several are miss:.ng and there are many badly icjured. THE DEAD. The dead are: Sergeant Major Harry A. Hart, Fort Wood. N. Y. George W. Patterson, Philadelphia, private Co I, U. S., infantry; carried a card of Iron Moulders' union. Peter J. Curry, Cobcc, New York, private Tenth infantry, aged 21. Unkrown man, aged 25 years. Unknown man, only papers on per son was a postal card that had been sent to the Adams Produce company, Rushville, Ind., and a ticket from New York to that point. His face was liter ally torn to shreds. THE INJURED. The injured are: Wm D. Moore, 32 Lenox Road, Brooklyn; compound fracture of left leg and badly cut about the head. B. A. Marsden, Philadelphia; terribly crushed about the body. Ivan Lestersmith, Canistow, Pa badly bruised. Jos. Kennedy, Brookfield, Mass.; compound fracture of left leg and bruised about the body. Wm F. MaeGinnity, attorney, Port land, Ind.; hip crushed, face out. O. H. Simons, Kentcho, brakeman; compound facture of left leg, right leg badly bruised. C. J. Henry, Meadville, baggageman; left leg broken, injured about the chest. S. Aiken, salesman, New York; slightly, suffering from the shock. Clarenee Leek, Summerville, N. J.; injuries serious. Milton Stanley, Newark, N. J.; leg fractured, cut about face. Harry Weisburg, express messenger, Dayton, Ohio; crushed. HardJy a passenger escaped without some injury. The train was comrosed of vestibuled Pullman cars, three sleeping cars, a day coach, combina tion smoker and baggage car, and a mail car, and was drawn by one of the new Atlaatio type of engines. The smoking car was completely telescoped by the steel mail car ahead, which went through it as if it were paper, tearing, crushing, maiming and carry ing death. The scene of the wreck is on a sharp curve. On one side, 40 feet below, flows the Shenando river, on the other is a steep bluff. The engine left the track at the curve and before it had gone two car lengths pleowed into the steep hill, where it fell upon its side and was half buried. The train was running two hours late, and the acci dent happened at 7:10 just about the time when the occupants of the sleep ers had finished dressisg. After the terrible crash the unin jured passengers set about the rescure of the dead and wounded, surgeons were summoned and within a few min utes the dead and dying were being carried from there as fast as they could be discovered beneath the wreckage It was several hours, however, before the victims had been removed and placed in the two rear Pullmans. The scene inside the telescoped cars was terrible. Men begged to be released and screamed in agony. They were all heaped in a corner of the ta-, dumped there by the impetus of the mail car. T~he injured were placed in a special train and taken to the Spencer hospi tal, Meadville, about noon. What iit - ie was left of the baggage cr express matter was dumped in the river to clear the debris for rescue. Several hiudred sacks of mail were apparently little injured. Th'e train was in charge of Conduc ter Randali, with Engineer Lueie and Fireman Eckert. Both the engineer and fireman escaped by jumping, though both were painfully braised. Supt. T 'helknap and other cffcials were early on the ground. -They were unable to assign a cause for the accident unless spreading rails can be blamed. A par ry of nine soldiers on their way from fort Porter, New York, to Port Crook, Neb , occupied part of the snoker. Of these, three were killed and two scri cuiy injured. They were under orders ior the P'eilippines. B. A~. Marsden of Phila~elphia. pin ned in the smoker by a besm. his foot and ahest crushed, his face thatered withs he brains of one of the sol.ciers, insisted on the rescuers raeasing an unfortunate Jew nearby. Mr. Mars .den's wouvds arc considcred fata McKinley :>asted. A sensation was cre:s-ed in the house of repeesentatives Monda~y weet wihen Speaker Henderson failed to call .the soint s,:ssion to order for thne Jon Mar. whall day exercises. He was ;rese't in The house. but sent Speaker Pro, 1em Daizell to the chair. It is sula tne speaker is indienant over the selection of Wayne Mo~eagh as thc orator of the day, and th:.: his failure to take part i the txercises is the result of the selec tion Republicans denounce the action of tbe bar association in asking Mc Yeagh to speak. The reason for this was shown when Mco eagh, delivereda ensat ional and scathing ,denneiation of the policy of the administration y the Pnilippines toward the close of his sreech eulogiz:ng Chief Justice Mar hall. The denunciation of t.he pohcy2 of imperialism was enthusiastically ap planced by Democrats, but Republican: present remained silent. President McKinley was present and he was com pelled to listen to the speech criticising nis course. The address was couched -in parlimentary langusge and while itE meaning is clear, Mr. Mc eagh's utter ances were not offensive. The agair i: the talk of the house. THE SHIP 'ZU3SIDY STEAL Se a'or Meiaurin Advccates Mark Hanna's Pet Scheme WX hen the Snip subsidy bill came up in tie i t :ax stes Senate Thursday esnat:>r 31cLau:in, of this State, an t. ut eni his itcOtion of voting for it and 'et ator 31organ, of Alabama, op. d it in vigortus language. Mr. E spoke in support of the bill, bases his his advocacy of the measure upon the theory teat the pa-sage o it wt.d bcn<it tne cotton growing in:er es of the CU e-n S atcs. lie cited ie ; :ion of the S u i erc Cot'on Spin ners ass -caion at Charlotte, N. C., in urging legislation of the character pur posed in the pending bill. He contend ed also that anything that wouli stim ulate American shipping would benfit not only the cotton interests but all other agricultural interests. The re solutions adopted at Charlotte, he said, typify the sentiment of the entire south and presage a return of the old prestige and presperity of that section. Mr. Mc Laurin referred to the effect of the Civil war upon the south and said the time had come to put aside the animos ities aroused by that struggle and take up the interests that were characteris tic of the old south. Mr. Mallory said in reply to Mr. Mo Laurin that his opposition to the bill was based upon the opinion that it would not do what it professed to do in aiding the American shipping. MORGAN AT THE BAT. Mr. M>rgan then spoke for five hours. Mr. Morgan urged that the shipping bill be committed to the committee, to be recast in order that its constitution al and other imperfections might be corrected. He said it was now being consliered not on its merits but as a party measure. "A measure cannot become a party measure," suggested Mr. Allison of Iowa, "until we know what it is. As it stands before us now it is merely the measure of the committee and is sub ject to such amendment and change as the senate may determine." Mr. Morgan expressed the opinion that the A-nerican ship yards now, wiheut any assistance, were the best in the world. "Do you not think," asked Mr. Hale, "that if the naval ships tluilt in our yards were put to the test of actual conflict they would prove themselves to be the best ever constructed? ' "They have proved that," replied Mr. Morgan. Rererring to the o. mpetition likely to arise between the United States and foreign nations, when this government should vote a subsidy to American shipe, Mir. Morgan declared it would re:uit in a cormercial conflict between the United Stat s and great Britain in which the financial batteries of the two countries would be arrayed against each other. He was inclined to think the United States might be worsted in such a conflict because of the immensely superior sea power of Great Britain. Mr. Morgan pleaded for the adoption of the Clay amendment to the suosidy bill authorizing negotiations for a right of way for the Nicaragun canal. Much as he opposed the shipping bill, he indicated a purpose not to oppose it if the Nicaragua amendment was added and provision made that con gress shoud have power to repeal the shipping act at any time. Murderers to be Taken. Governor Eeckham is prepring to clear the Kentucky mountains or mur derers, or at least of those persons in dicted for murder by the grand juries and who arc defying arrest by the county offiers. The plan is to send Col. Roger D. Willams ~with the first battalion of state mihttia to 31archester or some other convenient point to rouno. up these outlaws and deliver them into the hads of the courts. Incidentally the soldiers will attempt the eapture of John L. Powers and Berry Howard, convicted of the assassina ->n of Gover norGoebel and who are uw derying arrest. Thero are in ClXay county alone fourteen men under indictm~ent for murder who have not been even arrest ed. __________ Marriage of a Queen. Wilhelmir-a, the first ruling queen of Holland, Thursday married Duke Henry of Aleellenburg Schwerin, who becomes prince of the Netherlands by proclamation in the Court Gazett Thurs day evening. The marriage was a seriee of brilliant colored pictures. But the sever - simplicty of the Du:ch form of marriage, which was followed to the letter in the civil co'ntrpet before the ministsr of justice, Dr. P. WV. A. Cort van Der Lintien, and in the old fashion e2 reiigious service in Groote Kcrk, gvoit a democrratic spirtt. Electrocuted. Lorenzo Priori. wha murdered Vincen zi G tuz', in New Yrk CGty. Decen ber 11, 1838, and a few weeks ago se cared a sig~ of execution by ths repre setation tur.: ' critse a a committed by his wifeb brother. Jermes Saearrdo, wai pu to death in the <letric chair in the state prison at Sing Sing Wee n-e day, it requiired two sa' ks to kill rim He left wxth the pra~sts wh~o at t.n"ded hin a stgcemout declari~g his Republican Anti-Tr-ust Plank. This~ tedecy of trusts to increase in number~ au to raise rices is calcu late to si 'j the agris uhturists an z other e.s~es of casamearM now hollow was the anti trust plank in the Phila dephia itlat form, and ought to cou vince those am'ong them who voted the Republican ticket that they deserve to be disoiplinei by an automatic kicking machine.__________ Paying the Piper. Earl Roberts says he will need every soldier in South Africa for the next twelve months and will ask the house of comon ecr $350,000,000) during the ermuing insaceial year, in addition to what has d'~eady been voted for the war. And yet England has 1,00)3,005 pprtosupport by pnblic taxation. kietythe British statesman has somethics t inevrjust now. - China is Still "It." -Chinese officials are talking about re imbursement for the looting suffered by Pekin. It seems difficult for China to understand that it is the football, 4 nt one of the players. THE TAXES. The Amount Each County Has Assessed ITS Cl TiZENS T HIS YEAR. Figures that Will be Read With interest by Tex Pay. ers All Over the State. In the House on Friday the supply bill was called up. This bill makes the evy in the several counties for the pur poses of conducting State and county ffairs. The first stetion of the bill re tires that a tax of 5 mills, in accord Lnce with the appropriation bill, be evied for the purpose of conducting she State government, and 3 mills for he public schools. In the respective sounties the following is provided: Abbeville, for ordinary county pur oses, 2 1 2 mills; $10,000 may be bor .owed at 7 per cent. to pay salaries of eahers; 20 cents per day is filed as ee for dieting prisoners. Aiken ordinary purposes, 3 m'lls. Atderson, for ordinary purposes, 3 nilis; past indebtedness, 1 mill. Beaufort, for ordinary purposes, 4 3 4 ills; past indebtedness, 1-2 mill; sink ng fund, 1 mill. Berkeley, ordinary purposes, 5 mifls. Bamberg, for ordinary purposes, 3 nills; for the special road district of Denmark, 2 mills. Barnwell, ordinary county purposes, 1 2 mills. Cheerokee, for ordinary county tax, 1 2 mills; for new jail, 1 mil!; for county road tax, 1 mill; for sinking und for Draytonville, Gowdeysville, White Plain, Morgan and Limestone ownships, 2 mills; for sinking find for herokee township, 11 2 mills; for in erest on railroad bonds, Cherokee :ownship, 1 1-2 mills; in Draytonville, owdevsville, White Plain, Morgan bnd L mestone townships, 1 1-2 mill. Chester for ordinary county tax, 3 l-2 mills; for interest on railroad bonds, mill; in Court House township school listrict No. 1, 1 mill, to pay past in lebtedness. Clarendon for ordinary purposes, 3 nills. Colleton, ordinary, 5 mills; past in lebtedness, 1 mill; interest on railroad )onds, 1 1-2 mills. Darlington, ordinary, 4 mills; past ndebtedness, 1 mill. Dorchester, ordinary, 4 5-8 mills; in erest on county bonds, 5 8 of a mill; reen Pond and Walterboro railroad )ods, 3 8 of one mill. Eigefield, ordinary, 3 7 8 mills; past ndebtedness, 1 8 of a mill. Fairfield, ordinary, 4 mills. Florence, ordinary, 3 1-4 mills. Greenville, ordinary 4 mills; past in lebtedners, 1 4 mill; for reindexing ecords, 1-12 of one mill; forinterest on &ir Line railroad bonds, 1 2 of one nill; for interest on Greenville and aurens railroad bonds, 12 of one nill; for maintaining convicts and >ridgs, 2-3 of a mill. Greenwood, ordinary 3 mills; past ndebtedness, 1 mill. Georgetown, all purposes, 5 mills. Hampton, ordinary purposes, 4 mills; for home for poor, 1-2 mill. Horry, ordinrry, 5 3 4 mills; interest n railroad bonds in fnur townships, 4 mills. Eershaw, ordinary, 4 mills; interest n railroad bonds, 2 1.2 mills. Lancaster, ordinary 4 1-2 mills; in terest on Cheraw and Cheater railroad bonds, 3 mills; for retiring said bonds, mill; for Three C's bonds, 3 mills; 3 mills in Pleasant Hill township; 5 1-4 in Gill's Creek, and 4 1 2 in Cane Creek township. Laureus, ordinary, 2 1 4 mills; past indebtedness, 1-4 mill; road purposes, 1 mill; interest on railroad bonds, 3 mills; all the county's part of dispen sary profits go to the public schools. Lexington, ordinary, 3 1 2 mills; past indebtedness, 1-2 mili; interest on rail road bonds in Fork, Broad River and Saluda townships, 1 1 2 mills; retiring bonds in Saluda and Broad River townships, 5 mills; in Fork township, 4 mills; attorney's iees in Broad River and Saluda township. 1 4 of a mill. Marion, ordinary 3 mills; past in debtedness, 1 mill. Marlboro, ordinary, 3 mills, past in debtedness, 1 mill; New jil, 1 mill; roads 1 mill. Newbrry, 2 1 4 mills for ordinary purposes. (conee, for ordinary purposes, 4 1 2 mills. Orangeburg, for ordinary purposes, 2 1 2 mills; past indebtedness, 1 4 of one mill. Pickens. ordinary, including roads and bridges, 5 mills; past indebtedness, 2 mills. Rihland, f..r ordinary county tax, 3 1-4 mills; in Columb'ia towvnsphip, for interests on railroad bonds, 1 2 of one will; fur retiuing r:.ilroad bjznds, 1 4 of one mill; and in addition thereto there shall be levied a tax of 2 mills in the school district of the city of Co lumbia. Spartanburg, ordinary, 3 milih; in terest on rail read bonds, 1 mili; sink ing fund, 1-2 mill; roads, 1 mil per manent improvemecets on roads, 1 1 2 mills; one half of dispensary profits to o to schools. Saluda, ordinary, 2 3 4 mils; pastin debtedness, 1 8 miia; jurors and wit nies e , 1 1-4 mills; permanent improve meets on rc ads, 1 mill. Samter, ordinary purpos-es and past inde bte dness, 3 mills; out of dispensary praats $2,000 is to be set aside as a siking fund. Union, ordinary, 2 1 2 mills; interest on railroad bonds, 2 mills; sinking fund, 2 milln; road tax, 1 mill. Williamsburg, ordinary purposes, 4 York, for ordinary county tax, 4 1-2 mills; in Catawba township. 2 mills; in Ebenezer township, 1 1-2 mills; in York township, 3 1-2 mills to pay inter est on the bonds issued in aid of Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad. Mr. Lide offered an amendment to reduce the penalty for non-payment of taxes, from 15 to 10 per cent. This he sid would in a measure obviate the demand upon the general assembly tc continually extend ime for payment. The amendment was adopted and the bil the pasd second reading. WHERE THE MONEY OES. Approprirtions Made by the House of Representatives. The appropriation bill adopted by the House of Representatives is as fol lows: STATE HOUSE EXPENSES. Salary of givernor, $3,000; private secreta-y, $1,350; mesieeger $400; con tingent tuon, $5 000; stationery, $300; stenographer, $100. Salary of secretary of state, $1.900; clerk. $1,350; contingent fund, $150; stationery. $500; cxt-a clerk hire $1U0; for books, bla:.ks, eta.. $300. Comptroller general's salary, $1,900; three clerks, $1,400 each, contingent fund, $200; printing; $500; stationery, $300; traveling expenses, $5)0 State treasurer, $1,900; chief clerk, $1,500; two bookke'uers, $1,350 each; contingent fund, $200; printing of bonds and stocks, $2,000; stationery, $200. Superintendent of education, $1 900; clerk, $900; contingent fund, $200; printing, books, etc., $1,319. State board expenses, $300; stationery, $300; stenograper; $400; traveling expenses, $300. Adjutant general, $1,500, assistant adjutant general $1,200; State armorer, $350; traveling expenses, $550; contin gent fund, $500; stationery, $150; re pairing arsenal at Beaufort, $300; for the militia, $8;000. Attorney general, $1,900; assistant, $1,350; contingent fund, $150, station ery, $100; litigation expenses, $1,500; for emergency $500, if necessary. Railroad commissioners' salaries, $5,. 700; secretary, $1,200; contingent fund, $1,200. State librarian, $S00; contingent fund, $175; stationery, $300; other ex penses, $100. Two watchmen State house, $900; janitor, $160; engineer $75 for seven months and $25 for five month; two firemen at $35 per months; for five months; keeper's contingent fund, $200 Supreme court, Chief Justice Mclver, $2,850, Justice Gary, $2,850; Justice Jones, $2,850; Justice Pope, $2,850; clerk, $300; librarian, $300; reparrer, $900; attendant, $200; messenger, $200; )ntingent fund, $500; bocki for library, $500; 100 copies of 59tn and 60tb, reports, $1,200. For each of the eight circuit judges, $3,000; solicitors $11,05u, stenogra phers, $10,000. Board of Health-For quarantine purposes, $15,000; fot State board, $2. 200; Charleston quarantine station, $2.650; St. Helena's, $950; Port Rioyal, $1.275; Georgetown, 5675; Lazaretti. $300; clerk hire for State board, $300 Salaries of county auditors, $25,500; printing for county aulitors, $2,500. STATE COLLEGES South Carolina college, $28,107, and $11,000 for steward's hail. Winthrop college, $43,600; for schol arship, $5,456; for new dormi.ory, $20, 940. The Citadel, $25,000; repairs, $750; laundry, $1,500; laboratory, $758; libra ry, $2,500. State colored college, $3.000. For the public schools, $100,000. PENAL AND CHARITABLE. Cedar Springs deaf, dumb and blind asylum, $20,000, and $20,000 for the erection of a new buildiog. Salaries of State renitentiary offi ials, $5,400. Catawba Indians, $800 and $200 for Echool, The State hospital for the insane is to get: For running expenses, $100, 000; bailaing purposes, $10,000; Wal lace property debt, $4,120; salary of su perintndent, $3,000, board of regents, $1,200. DEBTS, INTEREST, ETC. For the completion of the State cap ito, 815,000. Charleston exposition, $50,000. The largest single item is $285,045. 45 to meet the interest on the public debt. In the sama connection is $20, 000 for the payment of past due interet liable to accrue on old bonds and steeks liable to be founded under the laws of this State. For the pensions $100,000; $600 for clerk and $120 for postage, etc. MISCELLANEoUS. Public printing, $12,000; claims, $8, 000; governors's mansion repairs, $250; water, $2,900; lights, $6,000; fuel $1, 200; phosphate inspector, $1,500. A number of improvements on the Sate house are contemplated, among tem $2,000 for rewiring. The amount fr repairs to roof is $250. Phosphate inspetor's salary, $1,200. For legislative examining committees on penal and charitable institutions $463. Salary of code commissioner, $400. Expenses of committee to examine books of State officials, $500.50. Expenses of militia in Georgetown and Florence treublcs, $2,536.10. Unpaid accounts, stationery of house, $24.44. Expenses J. B. Watson, witness, $16.20. ,hdnt of office for State superintend ent of education, $400. Salary L. M. Ragan, clerk, State board of canvassers, $80. Gas used in session of 1899, $169.21. Unpaid salary of adjutant general for 19u0, $300. Insurance on South Carolina college buildings, $3,000. F'or attorney general's office to aid in prosecuting fertilizer companies said to be in the trust, $2,500. Relic room in Confederate museum at Richmond, $100. Coal Burners. The consumption of coal by the big Atlantic steamers is an interesting sub ject cf study. The fastest passenger steamer in the world is the Dcutsch land, which hai made 584 miles a day, with a consumiption of 570 tons of coal, almost a ton a mile, while the Kaiser Wilhelm has made 5SC miles on 500 tons of coal. The Deutschland is 38 feet longer than the Kaiser Wilhelm, or 680 feet, and one foot wider. It has a dis placement of 23,000 tons and engines of 35,000 horse power, while the Kaiser Wilhlm is of 20,0J0 tons and 23,000 horse power. The~ Lu'~ania, the queen of the Cunardera, mnakee 50G2 miles on 475 tons of cal. The St. Paul, the fastest American ship, made 540 miles on 300 torns of coal, which shows how expensive fast steamers are. For every additional mile of speed the consump tion of coal must be greatly increased. WANT THEIR HEADS The Formal Indictment of Quilty Chineee Presented NAMES AND OFFENSES GIVEN The First Matterto be Determined in Sett ement of the Case Against Poor Old - China. Dispatch from Pekin, China, says at the meeting of the foreign ministers and Chinese plenipotentiaris, Wednesday, the entire proceedings being presented to the Chinece. A formal indictment against the 12 cicials whose punish ment had been demanded by the powers was read, however, though Keng Yi and Li Ping Heng are dead. The offi cials whose punishment has been de manded are: Duke Lan, vice president of the p) lice, who was accessory to the giving of orders for the capture of foreigners and was the first to open the gates of the city to the Boxers. Ying Nien criminal accomplice of Prince Chuang and Doke Lan in their machinations. Kang Yi, one of the instigators and consllors of the Box:rs who always protected them. Chaos Sn Kiam, a nember of the grand council and also minister of jus tice who was one of the leadeas against the foreigners. Yu Hsien, who reorganized the Box ers, was the cruel author of the mas saceres in ihg Shan Si province and as sassinated with his own hand foreign era and missionaries. Gen. Tung Fuh Siang, who with Proine Tuan carried out in Pekin the plans against the foreigners and who commanded the at'acks on the lega tions and the soldiers who assassinated the Japanese chancellory. Li Ping Hene, who influenced recog nition of the loxers and tutor to the heir apparent HEsu Cheng Yu, vho has the same re sponibility. Kih S'u, minister at the rites of ser vice of the Boxers. The ministers then announced that these personages all deserved death When this question was settled the foreign plenipotentiaries will have to indicate who, to their knowledge, com mitted crimes in the provinces, punish mont for which will have to be in flicted. They will also present to the Chinese in order to prevent misunderstanding, the text of the edict referred to in ar ticle 10 of the collective note, before its publication. The ministers definitely decided to demand the imposition of the death penalty upon 12 of the Chinese officials named in the list submitted, including those who are dead, on ac:ount of the moral effect upon the Chinese. The sentence of the living must be inflicted except in the cases of Prince Tuan and Duke Lan, which the em peror may commute to banishment to Turkestan. A PLEA FROM THE THRONE. The foreign ministers gave out for publication a secret imperial edict to them by the Chinese plenipotentiarle9, which pleads especially for the life of Tung Fu Biang, commander-in-chief of the army. It says the only reason is on ccount of the the turpulent population of the provinces of Shen Si and Kan u, who are devoted to him and might rise and commit acts of violence against the missionaries and Christians, which the court would greatly deplore. Consequently his punishment re quires caution, deliberation and careful ansiders- ion. The emperor it is pointed -out, even in the punishment of princes of the blood, had not been moved by motiv-:s for tbeir protection. Why then should he do so in the case of Tung Fu Siang? What had already been done should be taken into consideration. Eis army had been reduced to 5,000 men, wi:.h the object of lessening his- power and with the ultimate object ef his future punishment, which wiil ho p-romulga ted in an edict, the language of which will not be too patent. After the de privation of his official rank, the em peror will, hereafter, decide on a heavy punishment. TilE PLEA REFUSED. At their meeting the foreign envoys prepared a note, to be delivered to the Chinese plenipotentiaries, containing the substance of the decisions arrived at last night, including the sentences of executuon. This will be translated and delivered to Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang, who will immediately communicate with the court, before re ply. The ministers refuse tbspare the life of Tang Fu Hsiang, on the ground that they did not consider the claim of the plenipotentiaries reason. They al lowed the lives of Pr-ince Tuan and Duke Lan, because of their relation ship to the imperial family and the e f fet their death might have on the Chinese. May Come This Way. The current number of the New York Medical Journal gives an account of a new disease attacking the eyes, and in many respects resembles "pink eve," wich is epidemic in Chicago. It is infectious and is not confined to any particular part of the city or class of neople. The explanation offered for t~he origin of the malady is that it is due to the clouds of dust driven about since the windy season set in. These dust particles are with reason supposed to have caused inflammnation, which has developed the infectious epidemic af fliction, concludes this authority. Republican Prosperity. The Wilson Daily News wants to know, very impertinently too in our contemporary, how it helps this coun try for our manufacturers to sell their stuff to 4nropeans at half the price they sell them to us. Why, that is the Re publican idea of prosperity, and we "protect" them so that they can do it. That's the way this country gets rich, or the manufacturers, which means the same thing in the Republican diction ary and when we disagree we are told that we are drea ners, running after taois-Florence Times. A NEGRO'S GIFT. One Thousand Dollars to Entertain Confederate Veterans. Robert R. Church, of Memphis, is a type of that class of Negroes wl o realize that there is a community of in terest between the whites ard the Ne groes of the south and that the Negroes shculd cultivate cordial relations with their white neighbors. Church is one of the wealthiest No grats in the country and is noted for his publi spirit. He contributes liber ally to charities and takes a lively in terest in whatever Mempbis undertakes. Unsolicited he has contributed $1.000 to the fund for entertainment of the Confederate veterans at their reuninn to be held in Memphis next May. He was born a slave and during the war was steward of a Mississippi river steam boat which did the Confederacy Lo lit tle service. After the war he became a popular caterer in Memphis and amaesd a fortune. In reference to his contribution to the reunion fund Church says that he made his money in Memphis and feels that he should do what he can for the city whose people have been so good to him, and he adds: "No persons on earth are more dis posed to help the former slaves than are the veterans of the Confe deracy, those old men who yet remember the Negro in slavery." The chairman of the local committee of arrangements in acknowledging Church's gift writes: "I have never seen a more striking act to show what should be the real getuine feeling between the races here and to prove beyond the question of a doubt what should be done in cement ing and building up the real interests of this great growing city regardless of nationality." Such Negroes as Robert R. Church are an honor to their race and credit able citizens of the communities in which they live.--Atlanta Journal. Justice Harlan Unseduced. A recent incident which is receiving considerable comment in the press may b^ related in the words of William E Curtis, writing to the Chicago Record: Justice Harlan created a little sensa tion by a speech Friday night in re sponse to a toast at the regular month ly meeting of the Loyal Legion. Sev eral members of Congress were p-eeent and Representative Moody of Massa chusetts took down his words. Among othe things he said. "Tie fathers never intended that this government should ever exert any power or authority over any part of the earth's surface free from the letter and spirit of the constitution." This is construed to mean that Judge Harlan believes that the constitution follows the flag and to indicate the probable decision of the supreme court on that question. Another sentence in Judge Harlan's speech was: "Oar government was founded upon the rights of man; founded upon the theory that man had rights as a man. If we enter into this world power hus iness upon any other theory, we enter it for evil and nor. for good." This is construed to mean that at least one justice of the supreme court will insist that the Filipinos and the inhabitants of the niewly acquired pos sessions should have the rights of citi zenship'__________ Smallpox Spreading. Gov. McSweeney Wednesday receiv ed from County Supervisor J. R. Cuip of Chester county the following report as to the apperance of smallpox in that county: Dear Sir: I regret to have to announce to you that smallpox has made its way into our c~untry from the infected county of Union. There are some 10 or 12 csses reported which are to all ap pe arances genuine. We are doing oii best to segregate them with the means at our command, but would be glad to have such aid prom you as you can ex tend to us in our effo.rts to prevent the spread of this loathsome scourge. The caes alluded to are near Lt eds on the 8. A. L. railroad, near Oarlisle. The report of the superivisor was promptly forwarded to Dr. James Ev ans, eeretary of the State board ol health. Train Robbery. A dispatch from San Luis Po'.eei, Mexico, says: "-The first train robber3 in American style ever committed cx Mexican soil occured on the Maxicax Central railway near there. News oi the affair ha3 ja~st reacd the city. A passenger train was held up by ngashec men, who entered the Pullman sieepeJ and robbed the passengers of money, valuables and baggage. Theo train cress were held up with pistols. The banditi were five in number. The leader an< it is believed all the other robbers weri Americans. The bandit~s are being pur sued by a force of troops and their cap ture is almost certain. The robbers, ii caught, will be speedily put to death as Mexican law is very severe on suck criminals." A Senator Arrested. A dispatch from Washington says warrant was issued Thursday afternoox for the arrest of Senator William V Sullivan, of Mississippi, charginig hin with assaulting Miss Mae Lucy Leeton the young woman who is suing him fo: $50,000 for alleged breach of promise. The assault is said to have been com mitted shortly after S o'clock Saturday night. Miss Leeton alleges that while talking to Senator Sullivan he slappei her in the face. Senator Sullivan's at torney attempted to have his client for feit twenty dollars collateral, but th4 lawyers for Miss Leeton objieted. Thi warrant was then placed in the handi of a detective. The Senator was cited to appear in court Friday morning. Van Wyck Right. In The Commoner issued Thursda3 Bryan upholds the action of Mayo1 Van Wyck, of New York, in failing to lower the flag when Quesn Victomi died. He says it is not a serious ques tion, but simply on account of courtesy. e adds: "Mayor Van Wyck pro seted a complete defense when hc cited the failure to pay this trihute t< Joubert as a precedent. If a flag on a public building is not made to paj tribute to the memory of a hero ,wn~ died in freedom's holy cause then it ui nt extremely important that that fiai be regired to pay tributeto Kings an Queens." THE FARCE OF LIFE. As Brought out Vividly at the Queen's Funeral. How the Angel of Death must have smilcd last Saturday at that array of power as represented by those emperors, kings and princes who followed 4ieen Victoria's remains to the last restirg pixee There they were, two enp ror:, five kings, more than half a hun-lred traDces, innumcrabie dukes, earh. lords, etc , marching behind that one little coffin. And there was the Annd of Death also. There the combi,.. representatives of all earthly power ard zlory. There the unseen mooa--h of them all, to whose mandate that pries. ly array are as much subj ct e .ho t umblest vaseal is to their own; to whose beck and call they must lay aeide all ear thly trappings, throw off th~e taw dry crown and r)be of offie and so hence, as humble as the lowliest of their own subjects. For as some one has said, at the grave all men are equal. How flimsy a thing seems kingt:.n all earthly power and display when brought face to face with the Angel Death. It is as some groat maj:stic ship whose great proportions and won derful construction excite admiratirn, and even amnzement, yet whMich, in he fury of the eie is picked up, tossed about ltke a ship in a mill race, its masts stripped off as if they were straw3 and the whole final!y broken in two and thrown to the bottom of the ocean, as a child might chunk a pebble into a tub of water. All things seem great or small by contrast, nut the great ships that go down to the sea are not more at the mercy of the storm nor more insignifi cant in its fury than the greatert of king and queens and princes aad loirs at one look or nod or ca!! from the Angel of Death. Even the chip that floats on the bosom of a turbulent river is not more subject to its currents and eddies than they are tubject to the slightest whim of the Infinite. For of all ephemeral things, this thing of kingly power and display and glory and even existence is the most ephemeral. Yet they all play it out to the end even beyond the end. They strut even in the face of death-even af-er death. One paar little coffin, a couple of em perors, four or five kings, a few score of princes and dukes and lords. The Angel of Death. How the latter must smile. I say, at their pretensions. How he must chuckle over their theory of "divine right." Tiliman on Child Labor. The following letter from Senator Tillman explains itself: United States Senate, Washington, D. C., Dec. 5, 1900. Mrs. Elizabeth L Baldwin, One of the King's Daughters, 1915 N. GatesSt., Columbia, 8. 0. Dear Madam: I have your letter of Dee. 2d. I sympathise heartily in the effort to prevent children being put to work in factories at such an early age, and would gladly see an act passed by the general assembly such as the King's Daughters had introduced last session. Child labor such as you describe must result in rapid deterioration of those subjected to it, and I bid you God speed in your effort to secure legisla tion that will prevent it. The develop ment of the cotton mill industry in South Carolina has been phenomeur.l and there is a disposition on the part of the legislature to let well anough alone, at least for the present, but if the good women of the State will take the matter in hand and systematically organize and go to work they will be successful in the long run. I do not know what active support I can give you, as my duties here will not allow me to be in the State when the legislature is in session, but what ever influence my name may give is yours to use as you see fit. There are to agencies you have to combat-the mill owners who ewploy the children because they get them for small wages, and the pared? who are earless of their thild's welftare, .o that it is earning something, very of ten to support the adult in idleness. T'he working of children, of tender years, in mills injures them both phy sically and mentally, the good sense of the State will so declare whenever ti~o question is properly presented. Wsigyou Godspeed. (Signed) 3B.R. Tillman. Americanb as Looters. There has been maa~h published in the newsp~pere .hout the looting <-f Chinese homes, store5, *.na pubbie buildings by tiie soldiers of the powers in China, and in most .-f the accounts our own soldiers have been declared 'to be exceptions to the ruic. In this een nection the following extreet from the letter of a soldier in the Ninth~ Uoitid States infantry in China, piiasthea in the Worester SPY. will be interesting: "If I could have taken caro of and safety handled a'1 the loot u~ plu:or which I had and could hav6 got, I would return +o the United Stateu a rich man eaielo wo'dh $25,000 to p30, 000, but I couldn't do is, and had to get rid of what did fall into my hands as quickly as possible. I sold nearly $1,000 worth of loot. I had silver bullhon gal ore, beautiful and costly furs of all kinds, silk in abundance and a great variety of precio-us stcnes and jewels, but I could not carry it, so I had to dis pose of it as quickly as I esuld. I sold $1,500 worth of pure silver bar for $200, Mexican money, equal e, $1 in old. I have often stated in my pamy ays that I would like te have all the wealth I could earry, aid here Is a ease of where I have it. But it avails me nothing, as the poor enlisted mau gets nothing out of the affair but hardbsek, and with but ene-fourthratious at that. Many of the effievru have seenred enough cut of the affair to be wealthy for life, and the higher the rank the more loot they got. When yen read in the paper of the Amerisan not lootieg, you can just wiak the other eye and be wise. The Americans and the 1&glish were dead in the game, and the Engisih got a trifie more thanr the Yanks, be cotuze they were a trifie' smarter. Six Men Drowned. Six men were drowned in the Ala bama river Wednesday at Reese's ferry, a few miles south of Montgomery. The menwith team2 swere in a ferry boat when the latter struck a snag in the middle .t the river and upset. STILL CRUSADING. Mrs. Nation Smashes Another Saloon in Topeka. SHE ADDRESSES CHILDREN And Appea's to Thm t' 3mash Saloon Wind: ws With Rocks in All the Cities. Mrs. Carrie Nation and three follow. ers Wednesda- wrought dalaage to th Extent cf ti.500 in thc "Sena?," the finest (quipped "joint" in Tepeka Kan. She &ko gai:,d the rot plioc pretee tion The poliee followed up her raid of Wedtesday and arrested the proprie ter of the Seste and two men who were guarding the p'aee, and the stock of li aor the saloD secured i, sell to the crowd, flocked to view the wreehage. Mrs. Nation was arrested, but pronpt ly released. Mrs. Natio' --ad her wreckers, each armed with a hiatchet, sallied forth at daybresk. They forced t'ir way past a Neg::. o was guardin the tioor of the "Senate" and in loss than can mi;t utes had strewn the fiocr with broken mirrors, bottles, slot machine: and splintered bar fixtures. The Negro fired a shot of warning into the ceiling. but it had no effect. Presently a potema walked leisurely i:.to the rwoan and said: "Well, Sister Nation, I guess we'll have tc arrest yon again." Mrs. Nation had just smashed the last bottle and was ready to go. The police Judge was glad tc r-lease her when she appeared for trial and ad ministered a rebuke to that official Mrs. Nation soon went down Kansas avenue, free again. Later Cbief of Police Stahl, in an in terview with a reporter, said: "I do not eare if Mrs. Nation smashes every joint in Topeka. I sympathize with her, I hope she will close up the saloons of the city. As an officer of the law, thought it is my duty to arrest her every tire she creates a disturbance or destroys property. If we had the right kind of state officers it would not be necessary for Mrs. Nation to do what she is doing." There are reports of plots to hurt Mrs. Nation. It was said that several sa loon mon have charged thick glass bot tles with tremendous pressure, so that an explosion will follow their being broken. She is not at all disturbed by these stories. Wednesday Mrs. Nation dictated an appeal "to the children o2 the higr schools of the United States," in whi:h she urged ebildren everywhere to sm-sh saloon windows with rocks. When Mrs. Nation appeared in oourt, to answer the charges of "disturbing the peace" and "smashing a joint" the first charge was dismissed, notwith standing the crusader demanded a trial; a hearing on the second charge was set for Thursday, the prisoner being re leased without bond. "The charge of distur~ug the perace is dismissed,'':sid Judge Magraw, as the crusader stood at the railing. The charge followed her arrest Tuesday, after her fruitless attempt to wreck the Unique restaurant. "I object to the dismissal," exclaimed Mrs, Nation. "I was arrested wrong fully and deprived of my liberty." To the charge of smashing a joint, Mrs. Nation replied: "I ea uit to that, I rathier think The prisoner demnand;.d :t~ the 'lty attorney be brought int and ha comn pelled to give cause for arrestir.g her Tuesday. Tne polio. judge tried to ignore her and the chief of police re fused to listen to her demsad. Then Judge Magraw began to read the law' touching offenders wzho crostos a public distuxhaee es cuse riot. Mrs. INation interrupted evaral timnos and told the ourt it "might s well rcadI a novel to me as that sul. It &jes'i cover my caso." The judge was indignant and Clef Stahl threatened to have the marsnal p-it h'rr ont. Jaage Macaw had no desire to held the prisonar and permitted her to go on 'aer o';a recogeizance to a.pa Det Thursday for trial. Mrs. Nation thanked him and shook hands and departed. Mrs. Nsden was eain arrested on a asrrant sworn cnt by tas~ owners of the "Senrie" sm'o'. She is c'harged with maiieior, ietreotion ei property. She was relkased on $100 boial for tril Saturday. A. Hailey, physical director of the Y. M. C. A., fought Tuesday afternoon over 'he merits of M.rs. Natioa'asade with a Nogro named Jsckso:. who sid he wished M~ra. Nda had L ~a kiIl'. Johr 0. Nicholsxa, a lawy"r from Newton, ic here with a bill hie has pre pared to lasiise joint. amashing. A Shooting Scrape. At Spartanburg on .ruesday of last week E. B. Dean was shot and painful ly wounded by Cheif of Police A. B. Desan, The principles of what ws nearly a trae y are first ceusins. The exsct esause which led to the difficulty aanet be ascertained, bat political re lations between the two are the suppos ed eaxses. Lest August Capt. Geo. B. Dean, father of E. 3. Dean, the wound ed man was defeated by Jac. 3. Ver non for sheriff of the eennty. I .is elarged that A. 3. Dean used his in Lence for the suosi alecandidate,$-hen khief of pollee. Mr. A. B. Dean was elated as succe.sor of J. 3. Vernon, as skief ef pelies, whiek position he now holds. The In jured man is being at tended 3y Dr. Geo. R. D)ean, a soustn of both parties. A Serious Charge. The Newport News Herald says H. L. MAler, who was arrested at Bc-k Hill, 8. C., en the charge of havios sent through the mails an obscone !'e ter to a young woman2 arrived at Nor folk Thursday night in charge of I)ep uty United States Marshal Dodeon of Rock Hill. McAler was livingen New port News when the alleged crime aanttePostal laws was committed. He was placed in jail in Norfeik and will be tried in that city. He has a wife and family in Roick Hill.