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VOL. XV. MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1901. publicans jeered. Proceeding he charg ed that his defeat bad been compassed by brib-ry right and left. "I was de feated," be concluded, "ycu are wel come to the glory and satisfaction of it " Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio also paid his respects to Mr. Len'z for teeming him f a fullower of Jefferson and Ln coln, and Mr. Moody, Republican of Ma-sachusettp, almost brought his side of the house up standing by reading an utterance of Lincoln condemning more the "'ily agitator who induced the vol dier to de- ert than the s -1iier himself " "Has Massachusetts shot Senator Hl at?" thuted Mr. Len'z SO. get out," ta'kd Mr D.J ell of Pennsylva' ia The excitement then subzided. The Ttexas Cotton Crop Tne follosing t a agraphs are taken fr m a lettE r written by Sam J)nts to. the Arln'a Journal: "exas' surplus this year in the pockets of the farmers is ju-t what Grorg-a farmers would have but for the enormius outlay for guano Georgia mist have commercial fer tiltz -rs. i'exas don't need them. The tenants on f hese rich farm lands in Txas pay the landlords $3 m~ney rnt ;er acre. and that's what it costs fcr guano per acre in Georgia. If I were a farmer i would rather rent land in Texas than own it in Georgia. Tfe llack cotton lands or Texas are selling from $30 to $70 per acre; $60 per acre will buy the best lands ten mile s from to vns. The q iestion is not how much cotton aan Texas make, but how much cotton can they p'ek out. I have travel( d. through Texas from Texarkana to El Paso, from Texline to Galveston, and I stay within the facts when I say that not one tenth of Texas cotton lands ever had a plow on them. If you will furnish Texas with half a trillion more plow mules and Negro plowmen, they will and can mike in Texas this Sear eight million bales of e-t too, weighing 500 pounds each. The delta of the Mississipp' in Louisiana and the good cotton lands of Texas can make fifteen million ba'ee and not use a pound of guano, and with the average season make a bale to the acre one year with another. Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina must look to their manufacturing in terests and their farmers to diversified crops and homemade fertilizers or go broke in a few years. Texas can pro duce her own wheat, corn, oats and ship millions of dollars' worth of cattle, hogs sheep, mules hsrses, etc , annual ly. Geerg a is no longer the Empire State of the South. Texas has the blue ribbon tied on her now." Aiding the Filipinos. A dispatch from Manila says Capt. Jones of the Eighth infantry has ar rested at a town on the bay, in the pro vince of L iguana, Florentino Ortana and Miguel Pone de L son, agents of the Tabacaleria company, and William Web, Pitdro Loretz2 and Victoriaco Sentana, employed by the Philippine Trading company, on charges similar to hose brought against D. X. Carman, the American contractor, namely, furnishing the insurgents with sup plies. The Tabacaleria company, the the richest corporation in the Philip pine islands, is accused of aiding the iasurgents often and exilensively. The parties arrested are prominent persons and the evidence against them is very strong. M. B. Hc9lterman, a B3lgian, connected with the Pnilippine Trading company, has been arassted at Mahila, and M.. Edourd Andre, the Belgian consul here and manager of the Philip pine Trading company, has left hastily with his family on his way to Europe on boar~l the steam r Montreado. An dre has previoudly been suspected. Oher arrests are expected. Filipino Cotton. The Augusta Chronicle says Augusta friends have received from Sergeant Major William Laubenstein, who dur ing the days of Camp Mackenzie was here with the 8:h Pennsylvania, but who is now 'with the 28th infantry on Isle of Mindanao, a spsoimen cotton grown in the Phkilippines. The boils are of good size, and though the staple is short, the texture is good despite poor cultivation. The sample is suffieient to show that cotton csn be raised there of good quality, -and when American methods of cultivation are introduced in the islands, the Philip pine cotton crop will probably have to be reckoned with. *A Queer Animal. A dispatch from Tamaqua, Pa., says: Richard Mi:1.r of Hauto has a curiosity in the shape of an aaimal that is half cat and half rabbit. The front porsion of the creature, with the exception of its red ey es, is that of a oat, while the rear halt is that of a rabin. One half of the animal's body is covered with the white hair of a cat, while the re mainder of its body is c~vered with the reddish brown fu- of a rabbit, ending in a short, bushy tail. It moves about wih half run and half hop. ani is very tame. It hveson vegetatl es and mi'.t, and has no use ior n.eat. It is about one-half the size of a full growo cat A Young Couple. McDanold Furman writing to the :ate from Privateer, Sum'er C~unty, says "A youthful marriage took place among the people of this township last Sunday. Mr. Harmon Hodge, the groom, is not out of his teens, and the bride, Miss Z ada Geddings, is barely 1.4 She is a granddaughter, on the mattrnal side of the venerable Ccenfederate sol dier recently mentioned in this corre spondence as never having eaten ice cream. A first courin of the bride, Miss Sallie Geddings, was married several weeks ago at the youthful age of 17. _________ An Opportunity. At the Lincoln birthday celebration at Springfield, Mass., Senator Hoar said: "In Massachusetts, I am proud to say, the Negro takes his place as an equal and sometimes as a superior in our universities, colleges and public schol-s." Now is the time, then, for the Bay State to send a man to Congress who will give color as well as tone to the Massachusetts delegation.-Char lotte Oaserver. It Was Cold. A dispatch to the Cincinnati En quirer from Dawson City in the Klon dike, declares that one day last month the mercury there went 85 degrees be low zero. How they ever get a ther mometer to register such a record is not explained. A I 0T 'TIM. A Sensational Debate in H us-i of Rep-esenativ.s. PHILIPPINE WAR DiSCUSED Len z Begins Ac'i-n W,'h D fect ive Ammunitlor, acct is Un equal to the Task f R. peling the A tck There was a hot time in the H; u-e of Represen atives last Wednesday. Mr. Lentz, an Jhio Democrat, furnished sensation of the day. He used a news paper pragragh recounting the death of Charles L land, territorial jdage of New Mexico, who ha-i been a member of the legislature which elected S:na tor Hanna, as a text for charging cor ruption in that electio2. This called forth a severe remark from Mr. Cannon. Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio attermpted to reply and the two Ohioans were aLxious for the fray, but Mr. Cannon would not permit it. He ihrught if "dirty linen' was to be washed the gentlemen should hire a hall. Later Mr. Lenaz made a second onslaught of a mcra sen sational character of the troops in the Philippines and hr ught down un of himself the whole Republican side of the hou-e. Mr. Lentz attacked cor ruption in high and low places charg ing that a judicial t lace had had been given Mr. Lyland in return for his vote for United States senator. Mr. Steele of Indiana made the point of order that Mr. Lentz was not speak ing to the subject under consideration, but was "jumping on a dead man." "I a-n not jumping on a slead man." replied Mr L.ntz, "but on a lian who. is so alive that he will ride down Penn sylvania aver~ue with.the president one week from Mor day." Mr. Grosvenor sought to reply Io Mr. Lantz, who refused to allow.him to do so. hML. Grosvener then angrily de clared that the gentleman from O-io, Mr. Lentz, bad been guilty of a mali. cious falsehood. "And he knows it." added Mr. Grosvenor. A very sensational episode occurred when the paragraph providing that not over $50 should be paid for the appre hension of a deserter from the army was reached in the appropriation bill, which was under discussion. This para graph was seized upon by Mr. Lentz fora base for an attack. He declared that reports were coming hack from the Philippines that our soldiers were kill ing prisoners and said that he knew of a letter received by the father of a sol dier in the Philippines telling of how a native had been buried alive by his cap tors and then beheaded. If that was the sort of -civilization that was being carried into the Philip pines Mr. Lantz declared that it would take $5,000 to prevent our soldiers from deserting. Again and again he shouted that they were justified in leserting. Mr. Lantz's remarks aroused the house to fever' pitch. Mr. Graham; Republican, of Pennsylvania, chal lenged Mr. Lentz to produce the letter, he had referred to, which Mr. Lents re plied could not be. produeel without getting the boy in to truble. Mr. Cannon in impassive tor~es do clared that a gentleman who would rise in his place in the American con gress and advise men who had enlisted under the American flag to desert might be safe here but if they should ray the same things in the Philippines they would be tried by drum-head court martial and shot. This statement brought forth a round of applause from the Republican side. But Mr. Lents returned to the as sault He read a reaspaper account of a letter alleged to have been re ceived by the father of a soldier saying that the soldiers were ordered to shoot every man and beast they found. Mr. Lents declared that he could net be "brow-beaten." If such orders had been issued, he said, this congress col lectively should be ashbmed to face she world. He charged that our soldiers were guilty of murder and said that the time had come when the country was entitled to know the facts and not to rely upon a "censored press." Mr. Cannon said the gentleman was lashing himself into a passion while the men he.slandered wcre busy in the per formance of their duty. Mr. Cannon said that in his lifetime he had heard morc ekhgnent men thin the gentleman from Ohio encourage desertion. '-When the life of the na tion was at stake," raid he, "men all over the north stood behind the fi ing line and encouraged deertion. I leave the gentleman to thesee.ntempt of an indignant people," cefnoluded Mr. Can non amid: a whirlwind of applau~c. "Was the gen'Lhran on tne firica line?"' cried Mr. L -nz "It matters not where I was," re torted Mr. Cannon. "I was not disloyal then, nor now." ('Renewed Republican applause.) Mr. Mahon, Republican of Pennsyl vania, challenged Mr. L intz to bring in a resolution to ask the secretary of war *whether such orders as he had referred to ever had been issued. The result, he said, would show the report to be a falsehood. "I have heard Euch speeChes as the gentleman delivered before," he con~ tinued. "They are but a revamp of the copperhead speeches from 1861-65. The copperhead cha. pd every sin in the calander to the Uaion soldiers. The boys in the Philippines are deserting becauss you encourage them to desert and the man who encourages them is worse than the deserter. During the rebellion I thought if 8,000 or 18.000 of the c ypperheads had been shot we would not have been troubled with de sertion. Some of those men still live thank God very few. (Applause ) There are none in my State. Neither the people or the press of my State culd be paid to make such charges as the gentleman has made. I am not surprised that the good people of Ohic left you at home-not .because you charged that the aministration paid $100,000 to defeat you: you are not worth it-but because of your everlast ing demagogism. (Loud Republican ap plause.) *This brought Mr. Lentz again to hii feot. When he declared himself a Je5. gsnianLincoln Democrat the Re J. W. TOLBERT SHOT. Returned to Tcwn from Which He Had Been Expelled MET THE FATE HE COURTED. Both Parties Used Pistols In nocent Visitor Said to Have Been Wound-d. Tol bsrt is Badiy Hurt A dispatch from G:eenwood to The Sate says James W. Tolbert has met the fate he courted. He was shot Thursday on the streets of McCormick;, where he had been told that he mus: not go or else he would have to die. Before he was shot down he fired two shots at a young visitor to the town of McCormick-a man who had nothing to do with the row going on between Tol bert and the citizens of McCormick. Both shots took effect, one in the body and one in the hip. This young man, a Mr. Martin, was visiting his brother in. law, M L B Sturkey, and was simp ly walking by when Tolbeit, according to the statements of those present, pulled out a pistol and fired at him. Immediately a fu-ilade began, with Tolbert as the target for all the avail able shooting irons in and around that vicinity. Tolbert owns quite a 13t of land around Moformick and some real es tate in the town. He has never at tended to the renting of this prorerty in person until this year; he will likely never do so again. About a week ago he went down to MoCermick deter mined to stay. In a few days he re ceived an anonymous letter advising him to leave. He refused to attach any importance to the letter and went on about his business of looking after his farm lands. Thursday he was ap proached by a crowd of men and told to leave. According to the statement of the best men present he attempted to argue the matter and to let it be known that he intended to stay. Just about this time young Martin passed by the crowd on the other side of the street, and seeing him, Tolbert pulled out his pistol and fired twice at Mar tin. As stated above, the shooting at Tolb ri then commenord, only two shots taking effect, both in the body. Martin was hit in the hip and in the bdy. There were no more shots fired a Tolbert after he fell. He was car ied to the home of Mr. Pick Hollings worth, and a heavy guard had been placed around the house. Youcg Mar ta was carried into the store of his brother-in-law, M. L B. Sturkey, and his wrunds immediately attended to by Dr Melldau. Even if Tolbert's wounds do not prove fa'al, his life is still in danger. The general opinion is that if Martin should die there would be no chance for Tolbert. Late '[hursday afternoon a 'phone message from McCermick stated that a good many people from the country were coming in tc.wn, and the universal opinion was that Tolbert had better be moved. His physician said that he could be moved, and ~his brother, R. B. Tolbert, expects to hava him moved to Augusta or some place of safety. Jim Tolbert, as he is known, has been bnoxious to the people of McCormick ever since the Pheenix riot in the fall f 1898 He rendered hi-uself doubly so by the celebrated "consipracy case" against some of the very best citizens of the place in the spring -of 1899 He has made several attempts to go back there, but every time he was told uietly but none the less firmly that he could not stay in the town of Mc ormick. Despite these warnings he has persisted, and it seems now that he will give up his life for his rashness. The people cf McCormick are very cool and very determined. He has been told to stay away, and all would be well, but to try to come back there would mean trouble. The trouble has ome. THE GOVERNOR CALLED ON. Thursday night Gov. McSweeney re eived the following dispatch dated MCormick, S. C.: To Gov. McSweeney, Columbia, S. C. Please send me here on special train tonight to protect me. I am shot to death. James W.,Tolbert There was evidently a word omitted in the above dispatch. Gov. McSweeney ordered the office at McCormick held open, and tele graphed in duplicate to the bheriff of Greenwood county and to Coroner W. B. Goings of Abbeville county, who is acting sheriff of the lat'er county since the killing of the sheriff, as follows: R I?. Mocas'an, Sheriff Greenwood co-inty, Greenwood, lS. C' H ave tel. g-am from Jamnzs W. Tol bert, Mco'o mick, st a iog he is shot to death. Glive me fii:1 particuhirs. Go to MCrm ok anid use sonr best judg met. Wi:e t'oight what you know about~it. 31. B. Mc8Sveeney, Governor. The following was also sent at once: Intendent McCormick, McCormick, S. C. Have received tonight telegram from James W. Tolbert, McCormick, asking protction and stating he is shot to death. Can you give me any paric uhr,? Wire answer tonight if possible. M. B. McSweeney, Governor. Shortly before 11 o'clock Gov. Mc 8,veeney ri ceivt d the followirg: Grer n ood,S C , Fe b. 21 Gov. M. B. McSweeney, Columbia,8S. C. Dont know any of the particulars. Hear that Tolbert shot twice before he was fired on, wounding a Georgian who was standing on the street. No tr ain from here before 2:40 tomorro v. A wait your wishes. R. F. McCslaan, Sheriff. At 11:30 o'clock Thursday night no further information had been obtained from the scene of the trouble by the governor._________ Big fire in Atlanta. Fire Thursday destroyed almost an entire block in the wholesale district of Atlanta, entailing a loss of a half mil lion dollars, on which there is insurance amounting to nearly $450,000. The burned area is bounded by Railroad avenue and Loyd, Decatur and CJollins STRUCK ON A ROCK of And Sunk In the Ha'b3r of-San Francisco. Is t, - g STEAMER A TOTAL LOSS. to The Vessel Settled So Quickly That Many Persons Were Drowned d in Their Berths. A Terri s, h ble Disaster. r- A di'pateh from San Francisco sayl the Paofic Mail steamer Rio de Janeiro 1o ran on a hidden rook wbil., entering the e Golden Gate early Friday morning in a dense fog. Sne sank a f :w minutes after striking. It is thought ti at near 3, ly 150 persons were drowned. but it is 1- impossible to ascertain the exact nym I- ber, owing to the fact that Purser John it Rooney, who had the passenger list - and rester of the crew, is among the missing. I At 5 o'clock Friday afternoon 10 n bodies had been recovered, two white 1- women, one white man and sevsn Chi nese. The most 1 rominent passenger on the steamer was Rounseville Wild o man, United States consul at Hong [ Kong who was accompanied by his wife d and two children. It is thought all f were drowned. The ship was in command of Pilot g Frederick Jordan when struck. He was rescued. Capt. Win. Ward went . down with his vessel. Ai nearly as can . be learned there w, re 234 poeple on s bond the Rio de Janeiro, as follows: Cabin passengers, 29; second cabin, 7; f steerage (Chinese and J apanese), 58; n officers and crew, 140. s The folIo wing have been accounted i, far: Rescued, 79; bodies at the n.or ll gue, 10; total 89 Missing. 145 [ N THEIR BERTHS. e The Rio de Janeiro was three days 9 overdue frcm Hong Kong via Honolulu a when she arrived off the Heads Friday e night, and the dense fog pr.vailing at the tim i induced Pilot Jordan to bring a her to anchor until he could see his I way clear through the gateway. She d laid to until about 4:30 o'clock Friday morning, when the atmosphere cleared and she was started under a slow bell toward Point Bonita. All went well until 5:40 o'cleck, when she struck. e Most of the passengers were below at tl-e time, and it is believed that many of them were drowned in their berths. The first news of the disaster reached here at 7.30 o'clc c Friday morning, and soon afterward a boat load of rescued passengers and petty officers ariived at d the mail deek a Tugs were immediately disra'ehed to L, render any service that might be needed, e but no living persons were afiat when they reached the wreck. A number of drowning peaple were h rescured by Italian fishermen and the v bodies of two white women, three Chi , nese and a Japanese were brought in by the tugs. The search for victims has t continued all day. The officers were cool and gave the s necessary orders with the least possible e excitement. -Capt. Ward, who was on deck when e the vessel struck, at once gav'e orders , to the crew on watch to hurry the pas 1sengers to the forward deck. The quar a termaster on duly sounded the signal ~; for fire drill and within five minulies all e the men were at their stations. The* c aptain gave o:dtra to lower the life -boats and life rafts. -There was not much confusion until w15 minutes after striking, when the fbow of the -vessel suddenly plunged - under water. Then there was a wild - rush for the boats. Two boats had al n edyben lowered and others were get dtng away as rapidly as the trained dis 'f cipline of the crew could prepare them. I- A thick fog enveloped everything, and Sas yet no sign had come from the life -saving stations. Darkness was all h about, and with this added horror the , neople on the Rio had to cops. iIOne boat got clear of the vess-l with Iout damage. It contained Mrs. West, IMrs. Ripley, Chief Engineer Herlihiley, n Second Officer Coghi.an, Frank Cramp, e J. R. Russell, Storekreeper Borgg, Wa e tertender D. Lane, Qnartermaster L. Mathieson and Cap:s. Heoth of the Y German navy. This boat got clear of e the sinking vessel anid then stood by to s help in picking up those who had no itime to- get into the boats and were d in the water. Another boat, containing Third Offi c er Holland and J. K.. Carpenter, got a away, but was drifted around close up e under the bow of the steamer. As the *e forward end of the vessel plunged e downward the bow caught the small. e boat and cut it to pieces. The two men in the boat were uninjured and Sswam away. t Carpenter was picked up, but Hol -land is supposed to have perished. A e number of Italian fishermen who were 'ju~st starting out Friday morning saw e she sinking of the Rio and hastened to irendder assistance. Meantime many -~ of the terrified people rushed to the s- railings and jumpe i overboard. Some -were picked up, others drowned. The e~ Chin ne crew, numbering over a hun t drei was terrorized. Many jumped g into the sea. d Capt. Ward remained on deck until e the vessel had settled and the water was engulfing him. Then he went up don the bridge to issue directions. . - That the steamer sank almost inme e9 diately after striking is the report of a - majority of those rescued. T1he wreck e5 lies about three-fourth of a mile south of Fort Point and about a thou' and e yards off the rock shore. The smoke e stack and a portion of the upper works - of the ill fated steamer are visible. LE Three survivors say thiey saw Capt. SWard to the last, but Frederick Lind a -s:rom, the quartermaster of the Rio, i- emphatically declared that Capt. Ward ir emulated Admiral 'J vron of her Brit anic Majesty's ship Victoria, in going 6 down to his cabin,-where he met his doom behind a locked door. Quartermaster Officer Lindstrom was one of the first to land, According sto ig his story Capt. Ward, after consulting so with Pilot Jordan, came down from the a bridge. He was standing on the deck 'e when the vessel crashed into the rock. I~e 'here was a cry of "man the boats," as but it was apparent that in the midst i of the awful confusion a systematic ef ~fort to save the passengers wonld be of no avail. Everybody was scrambling for his own safety. AOTHER ORNVILLE KILLINI A Dying Man Accuses) Two Men His Murder. Greenville has another murder my tery on hand: S Williams, who w fatally shot at Mill's Monday nigh died at 11 o'clock after etrugglii against death for thirteen hours. Williams sternly refused to reveal ti namne of his slayer until the very la mo'ner t. Finally, when told by his physioia Dr. R D. Smith, that he would so< be in an unconscious condition at would die with the secret in his hea' Williams in the last agonies of dea! gasped the following statement: "Ether Van Patton or Spurge Bu nett shot." After bring asked which of the to men he thouht fired the fatal slot I said: "'I think it was Van Patton." He was then asked to give particular but he positively ref ased to do so. Wi hams then bade his brothers and rel tions who were at his bedside a la farewell and gave up his desperate strut gle for life. As a result of Williams' dying stat< ment Van Patton and Burnett have bee placed in the c unty jail to await deve opments. A TRAGEDY FEARED. Where is Henry Saxton, the man wi it is said, was dragged from J. I Qreen's home Monday night by a crow of fifteen angry men for the purpose beating him? This is the question that is puzzlin the minds of everybody in the neighbo: hood. Saxton has net been fount Diligent search was made for him yet terday. Messages were sent to hi home at Fairmont, Spartanburg countl but his parents lave no knowledge c his whereabouts, not having seen hit since he left for Greenville a few da3 ago The swamps, woods, fie.d: itches in the neighborhood of the mi bave bcen thoroughly diligently searcl ed but in vain. The supposition i :hit Saxton has been murlered and hi body thrown in ditch a or perhaps in pond near where the shooting took plac 3onday night. The pond at the mil rill be dragged today in search of th body of the missing man. The sheri is deeply interested and is. determine .o capture the guilty parties. THE FXPOSITION ACT. Text of the Measure Making tb State Appropriation The following is the text of the act < she general assembly making an aj propriation for the Charleston expos cion: An act to provide for a building an State exhibit at the South Carelin [nterstate and West Indian exposition and to make an appropriation fer th tame. Section 1 Be it enacted by the get sral assembly of the State of Sout Jarolina: That the sum of fifty thot sand dollars, if so much be necessary be and the same is hereby appropr ated for the purpose of paying the cot af providing materials and construo ing in the city of Charleston, in thi tate, on the grounds selected for tb exposition proposed to be held in 1901 1902 by the South Carolina Interstat ad West Indian Exposition compans a building designed by Bradford L Qi bert, the architect of saiid expositio company, as the agricultural buildini and for the purpose of making at thi said exposition of Euitable and credii able exhibit of the past and present ri sources of this State, under the direc bion of the commission hereinbelo treated; and also for the purpose< paying the expenses incident to the se ection, purchase, preparation, tranm portation, installation, enre and retur f said exhibits, provided that sai 3ommision shall expend as much < saia money as they may deem neeel sary to obtain from the several ooui ties of this State full and complete e3 ibits of their natural resources, sue as stone, minerals, ores, woods, ooa Boils, water power and agriculturn products. Sec. 2. That the said amount hereni before appropriated shah be paid c the application cf the chairman of tI commission hereinbelow created, on t warrant of the comptroller genera Which warrant shall not be drawn bi Lhe comptroller general until it is mad to appear to him that the subscriptioz to the apital stock of the said expt sition company amount to two hundre thousand dollars by responsible sul scribers, payablei iucash, anud that n< less than 50 per cent. thereof has bee paid in and that the city couneil of ti city of Charleston has approjiriated ti sum of fifty . thousand doillars for th eretion of a building and otherwis promoting the said exposition. Sec.: 3. That for the purpose of oarr: ig into effect the provision of this al a commission consisting of .five men bers, of whom His Excellency, tk governor shall be one, and a director< the above named exposition shall i one, is hereby created, which commi sion shall seiva without camnpensatioi That the members of the said commi sion shall be appointed by His Ee lency, the governor, and he shall 1 chairman of the said commission. Thi the construction of the said buildiz and other woirk hereinabove providE for, shall be performed subject to ti approval of the said commission. Se. 4. That at the close of the sa exposition the said property shall r main the property of the State and ! turned over to the sinking fnnd coz mission to be disposed of for the Sta at their discretion. Se. 5. The commission hereinabos created shall receive and hold for ti use of the State all exhibits of a pe manent character that may become tii property of the State by purchase, d nation or otherwise, and shall make report as to such e:rhits. to the ge: eral assembly at its first meeting aft the close of the exposition. Approved the 8th day of Februar: A. D., 1901. As It Shouild Be. The Atlanta Journal says aceordii to the decision of the joint comnmitt Senator Hanna will be the President escort in the coming inaugural parad It will be generally agreed that t) selection is ain appropriate one. It h always been the custom to have, the i uinbent escort the incoming Presider -an in this incident the rule works bo It was at this time that Lindstrom says he saw Capt. Ward standing on the forward deck. Suddenly the cap tain turned and, walking hurriedly to his cabin, disappeared nehind the door, which he closed. A second latcr the vessel was plunging to the bottom of the sea. Underground Fish. A dispatch from Goshen, N. Y., says William J. Brown of Elmira, an ex pert in the use of explosives, a day or two ago fired a driven well at the Howell cemetery, at Pine Island, with two e'targes of a high explosive, weigh ing respectively seventy and ninety pounds, which were set off, the neavier 120 feet from the top and the 1 ghter at a depth of 200 feet. The later is supposed to have torn a huge pocket far down in the well, and a colum of water was spouted up to a height k f over 300 feet. With it came the earth add rocks and three very curious fish. One struck near the well and fiippcd back into it, and the other two were captured. The larger measured eight inches in length and weighed almost half a pound The fish were eyeless, a dull gray color and were similar in shape to a frankfurter sausage. A by stander caught the big one, but says that he received a heavy electric shcck when he toucied it. He stiuck at it with a hatchet and the blade glanced off its body. It soon died. The survi vor is covered with sma'l scales, so ar ranged as to render it impossible to tell which end is head and which tail. Heading either way it swims equally well, but prefers to burrow under a heap of sand. A Hundred Years ago. The London Times is observing the new century by republishing selected articles from its files of a hundred years ago. Among the items is this in the issue of January 21, 1801: We have the m 'rti&cation to learn the con firmation of the choice of Mr. J-fferson and Mr. Barr as President and Vice President of the United States of America Letters were .yes:erday re ceived from Philadelphia, dated the 16.h of December, which mentioned "that it is now determined that Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Barr are to be Presi dent and Vice President of th3 United States." The Times' advices stated further that the sucaess of the two gea tlemen was due entirely to accident, the nature of which is thus set forth: The northern part of Carolina was in favor of Jefferson;,the south part unani mous for Mr. Adams. It so happened that from the frost not having set in, the electors of South Carolina were fearful of catching the fever common to that country if they left their homes to travel 140 miles to the Presidency to give their votes during the open and damp season; the consequence of this was that twelve votes were lost to Mr. Adams, which had been reckoned upon as certain, and the want of them has. lost him and Mr. Pickney their elec tion. Profane Gratitude. Gen Felix Agnus of Baltimore re cently told thia story: "I was wounded at the battle of Gaines' Mills. The bul let entered my chest and shattered my holder. When my senses returned, I found that a Confedera'e, also wound ed, had fallen across me, for the battle had been ahand to hand affair. The man was faintly whispering for water. I lifted up my canteen-it was filled with cold coffee-and handed it to him. He took a long drink and handed the canteen back to me. 'Yank,' he said, "thank you ' And then added, with equal sincerity: 'Damn you.' "Not long ago I was in the Carrollton Hotel, in Baltimore, when a party.- of ex-Confederates, who were giving a dner, captured me and took me into the banquet room. They called on me for a speech, and I told them the story of the man with whom I had-shared my cateen, expressing my admiration fcr the .apirit which thanked me and damned me in the same breath. The next day a fine looking gentleman call ed upon me at my office. He had heard my story, he said, and had come to tell me that he was the wounded soldier. From that day to this we have been the best of friends. Drowned in a Mine. As a result of the givinE way of a wall the asylum mines were fioodei at Tus caloosa, Ala , and 13 Negro miners are now entombed in 10 feet of water it is thought, with little prospect of being rescued. The surrouuding waters runr into the mine as rapidly as it is pump ed out. When the first rush of water entered the mime 11 miners were able to get out. The accident is attributed to a miner who was digging coal close to the wall of the abandoned shaft which has been filled with water for some time. Suddenly the wall was pierced and th> stagnant water rushed in upon the men, hemming in 13 of them, who were at work below the break. The other 11 managed to esape and reached the surface, There is a large force of hands at work pump ing the water out of the mines but lit tle progress is being made as it fills up almost as rapidly as it is pumped out. fhe fate of the entombed miners is problematical. It is thought it .will take frcm 24 to 48 hours to clear the mines. At present there appears prac ticaly no hope for them unless air reaches them in a short time. ' Saloon Keepers's Wife Shot. Mrs. Rosa Hudson, wife of John Hudson, a saloon keeper at Milwood, Kansas, was shot and killed Tuesday night during a raid on her husband's saloon. Hudson had been warned to close his saloon but refused. About 10 o lock three men entered the place ad called for drinks. When served they rapped on the counter and gave the signal. Hudson jumped from be hind the bar and grabbed one of the men. In the scrimmage the shotgun, which one man carried, was discharged, its contents entering the wall. Mrs. Hudson, attracted by the noise, ran screaming into the room, while a mob of forty men most of whom wore masks, entered at the signal. In the melee Mrs. Hudson was shot, the top of her head being blown eff. William Webb, one of the raiders, was shot in the shoulder by a revolver. Nearly a hun dred shots were fired. They retired without wrecking the joint. Milwood is in furors of excitement and more troule is threatened. STRUCK BY A TRAIN. A Carriage With Six People -in it Demolished Near Spartanburg A dispatch from Spartanburg to the Columbia State says Wednesday after noon about 3 o'clock the passenger train No. 13, on the S. W. & C. railroad, while speeding along about two and a quarter miles from the union depot, near the car barn of the street railway, and as the engine was emerging from a cut and acess a railroad crossing the pilot of the locomotive struck a six seated vehicle, crowded with persons who were returning from a funeral al Gleniale. As a result all the oeupant were scattered helter skelter near the track, and s-me in a ditch near by. Providentially no one was killed out. right and even the horses hitched t< the carriage escaped unhurt. The conductor of the train was Capt. Chase and the engineer Mr. Bird. The engineer is positive that he gave the signal for the railway crossing. The party was riding in a closed carriage and a high wind was blowing in direct ly an opposite direction to the ap preaching train. The occupants of the vehicle were: Mr. and Mrs. Mills Ross, John Ross, Mis-eq Hattie and Lizzie Ross, Mrs. Nina Ross, Mrs. Julia Sherbert and Pearl Ross, a girl about 12 years of age. These people were returning from the funeral of Mr. Ben Sherbirs, husband of Mrs. Julia Sherbet, a lady of 70 years of age. The locomotive struck the vehicle, to tally demolishing it and the party wa damped in every direction. The train was stopped a short distance above the crossing and backed and the injured people placed thereon and carried to the city, where Drs. Dean and Blake treated the suff-:rcrs. The following are the injired: Mrs. Herbert. an aged lady, left leg broken above ankle and left arm oroken. She is in a serious condition. Mrs. Nina Ross, considerably bruised on body and perhaps internally injured. Mr. and Mrs. Mil's Ross were alsc badly bruised and shaken up. John Ross, head was badly gashed. Pearl Ross, the little girl, was pain: fully hurt. A baby belonging to Mrs Nina RCs, wrapped in a blanket, was thrown pos ribly a distance of 30 yards and when found in a ditch it was discovered that the infant was unhurt. Devoured by Animals. A current report of the governmeni of India shows that during the yeas 1899 the number of deaths among hu man beings attributed to wild animals was 2,966. Tigers caused the death o1 899, wolves of 338 and leopards of 327 human beings, while bears, ele phants, hyenas, jackals and crocodiles were accountable for a large propor tion of the remainder. The loss of hu man life from snakes reached the high total of 24 621, a greater mortality than in any of the four preceding years. Nearly half the deaths occurred in Bengal, while the northwestern prov inces and Oadh came next, with near ly one-fourth of the total. In Bengal the relatively high mortality is attrib uted to fb~ods, which drove the snakes to the high lands on which villha homesteads are built. As will be ob served, snakes are more destructive ol human life than are the wild animals but the reverse is true of the destruc tion of cattle. In 1899 no less thai 89,238 cattle were destroyed by animal1 and 9,449 by snakes. Different Views. The asrociated Press dispatches fron Manila teem with accounts full of cheel for the imperialists, bus private letteri do not tell the same stori. A westeri senator has received a letter from at army officer in theVissyas,stating that it would require 50,000 men to subdue the insurrection in that group of islands. "We have administered," he says, "the oath of allegiance to about 39,000 na tives, but the trouble is that itrequires a soldier to protect each native whc takes the oath, as many of those whc do so are promptly killed by their peo ple." A congressman has received a letter from another army officer declar ing the Filipinos "do not know what fear is" but "take killing well" Whal an inveterate prejudice in favor of thal something called independence, which we once cherished in this country bal now consider a childish aspiration o: weak peoples! Five to Die. A dispatch from Sylvania, Ga., say: Arnold Augustus, Andr'ew Davis, Rich ard Sanders, Win. Hudson and San Baldwin, five of the niegroes who kille< Fillmore Herring and Milton Mears two white men, in this county last An gust, were found guilty of murder Wed nesday night and sentenced to be hang ed March 29. The men were members of an organization known as the Knighti of the Archer. The charter of this or der, which was found by the posse ar resting the negroes, is said to contait an oath of vengeance aggainst the whitel and the members were obligated to tie fend themselves against the whites un to death. Swung up Five Tirnes. A mob toor Baebe Montgomery fron the j ii at Dyersburg, Tenn., Thursda2 night ard swung him up five times letting him down each time, to makt him confess his complicity in the as sault with Fred King upon Miss Alice Arnold. Tne negro denied his guilt. The mob then carried him back to th( jail more dead than alive, deciding t< wait until the third guilty negro il found whom King implicated. King confessed that they had slated five- o: the best known'young women of Dyers burg for assault. A number of negre were whipped out of Dyersburg lasi nght. ______ __ Killed in a Runaway. A horse attached to a small wagoz containing two ladies and two childrer ran away while going down a stee] grade on Red mountain iour miles fron Birmingham, Ala., Friday morning The wagon struck a telephone pole anC was upturned. Those in it were throwi down a fifty foot embankment. Mrs Alexander and Arthur Aiexander, 3 year-old son of Mrs. Alexander, wer killed, Mrs. E. J. Simms, mother o Mrs. Alexander, was seniously injure and will die. The other child was no aijtred. TRAINS COLLIDE. Ten People:Killed and Twety five Wounded. SCENES OF HORROR It Is Believed that Some t f 'the Wounded Were Bu'ned to Death in Subse puent Fire. One of the worst collisions in the history of the Amboy division of the Pennsylvania railroad oscured about 5:30 o'c'ook Thursday evening at Rusie's siding near Boidenton and about- ten miles south of Trenton, N. J. The "Nelly Bly" express from New York for Atlantic City collided with passen ger sin No. 330 running from Camdei to lIernton. The number of dead so far as known is ten and the number of injured upward of twenty-five. A special train about 9 o'clock from the scene brought four dead bodies and eighteen wounded persons to Trenton. The wounded were distributed among the three Trenton hospitals. Other wounded passengers were taken to Cooper hospital at Camden. Among the killed was Walter Earl, engineer of the express, and James Birmingham, baggage master of the local train. Most of the killed were -Italians. Frank Boland, a passenger on train No- 330. an employee of the Pennsyl vania Railroad company, had both legs out off. The doctors say he will die. Michael McGraw, fireman on the "Nellie Bly," is badly injured but is ex pected to recover. Frank Thompson, engineer of No. 330, had a 1 g broken and is badly bruised. He is in a precarious condi tion. Edward Garwood, fireman on N,. 330, was badly bruised by j amping, but will recover. Eiward Sapp, conductor of No. 330, was also injured by being thrown for ward on the floor of the rear car of his train. His wounds are not believed to be serious. Most of the remaining dead and in jured are Italians. The Italianswere riding in the smoking car of the express train. They were being taken to Atlantic City to do canstruction work for the railroad company. The two trains collided at full speed and both engines were completely de molished. The forward car of the ex press train, iL both instances,. a - com bination baggage and smoker, were en-,, tirely demolished, and to add to the horror the wreckage took fire. The see ond car of the "Nellie Bly"~ turned over on its side and the passengers- had to climb out through the windows. In this they were assisted by passengers from the cars that did not leave the track. The track at this point is so closse to the Delaware and Raritan canal that the passengers in getting out of the over turned coach got into the canal and many bodies of the dead and injured had to be taken fromthe water. Thomas Lawredce of Trenton saidhb -saw one man buried beneath the ruins and erring for assistance.- He tried to -pry him dut, bhut found he could do nothing to help-him. ..JH.believes the man perished in the fiames. The scene of the wreck Vas far outside assistanc . and when the wrecking train arrivi . from Trenton it was after dark and the work of clearing up the debris and re- * moving the bodies was necessarily slow. The "Nellie iBly" was running in three sections, and it was the third section with which No. 330 collided. The local train had taken the siding to permit the express to pass, and it is believed that through some misunder standing or mistake .the local came out on the main line track after the second section had passed, mistaking it for the third section. The latest information shows nine persons killed outright besides Frank Boland, who is expected will die from his injuries. .E'ght bodies have been brought to Tronton an'd at least on 3 is known to be under the -debris. The dead identified are: Walter Earl, engineer ef the express train. James Birmingham, baggage mister of the local train Frank Hill of White Hill, a railroad employ. who was a passerger on the local train. John Gates of Trenton, a passenger on the local train. Four Italians whose names have not been learned. Birmingham's charred body was taken from the wreck late tonight and brought to the Trenton morgue, where -all the bodies were at. Thirteen of the 18 injured brought here are Italians. The other five were passengers on the -local train and are not thought to be -seriously hurt. Murder will Out. Murder will out-sometimes. In Moscow the superstitious are telling of what seems to them to be pretty nearly a miracle. Not long ago a carriage, which was conveying the imagine of the Holy Virgin of Iberia collided with. a cart that was full of snow. The wheels were interlocked, and after sev eral minutes c f vain work, it was pao posed to tip the cart. over as the .only. method by which the carriage could be pfreed. The driver of the cart protested,' pand feeling ran so high that the police phad to be called in to quell a miniature riot. They dumped the cart and turned it over, and in doing so found the body -of a murdered man that had been con Sealed in the scow. The carter was arrested, the murierer found, convicted and hanged. Bank Robbed. The private banking institution of F. B. Vennum at Vosher, a small hamlet situated in the northwest part of Chain pa'gn county. Ill., was robbed Wednes day of $1620 by Arthur Hyer, a reck less farmer boy aged 22 years. The cashier handed out the money at the pistol's paint and the robber boarded a -freight train, took charge of the engine and pulled through town at a high speed. Several citizens caught the Icaboose and the desperado was cap tured in the cab of the engine. The money was recovered.