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IN* V-OL XVI 31A NINI NG, S. C. WEDNESDAY, 'NOVEMBER 6, 191.,01 CZOLGO5Z DIES. Said He Wss N 7t Sorry fm His Cfm. DEATH CAME QU!CKLY. Wihirn Fcur Mirugs frcm the Time He Lef: Celi Life Was Ex ir ct. T he Current Twice Appted. Leon F. Czclgcsz, murdercr of Presi dent Willim NIcKirley, p,:id the peu alty exacted by law at twelve minues and thirty seconds sfcr seven o'clock Tuesday mcraing, October 29, for hi, orime. He was shocked to death by 1.700 volts of electricity. He went to the chair in exastly the same manner as have the mojority of murderers in this state, showing no particular sign of fear, but in fact doing.what but few of them have ever done, talking to the witnesses while he was being strapped to the chair. "I kilhd the prcsident bccsu-e he was an enemy of g3od people, of goo:d working l eople. I am not sorry for the crime." These were his -words as the guards buried him into the chair. A moment later, mumbling through the half adjusted face at:ape, he iawd: "I am awfuuy sorry I co2la not ace my father." Czolgosz slept so soundly that when Warden Mead went to call him Tues day morning shortly before 5 o'ccek, the guard inside had to shake Czolgoaz to awaken him. He sat upoa the edge of the cot and ma:e no reply to the warden's salutation of "Good morning." The prison cfficial took from his poeket the death warrant and rend it slowly and distil ety to the assassin, who hardly raised his eyes during the perfunctory ceremony. Just as the warden stepped away from the call Czolgosz called to him and said: "I wouid like to talk with the superintendent." .Then the cm demned man rolled over on his cot, anxious to eleep again. At 5:15, how ever, the guard brought him a pair of dark trousers with the left leg alit so as to allow free application of the elea trocede, ard light grey outing shirt Re was told to put these on, which he did. Contrary to the usual estom he was given a new pair of shoes. W hen dressed he laid dywn on his eot again, and in this attimude Superin tenden& Uoliins found him. "I want to make a statement before you kill me," h3 sad. "Wnas co you wish to say, Czl goas?" asked Suptrirttendant Coilins. "i want to make it when there are a lot of people around; want them to hear me," said mne priso .er. "Wed, you can't," 6aid the superin tendent. "Tnen I won't talk at all," said Czol After Superinterdant Collins left the guaran brtoughs Czelu z a crear fast, consstizg of cothe, toast, cggs and bacon, asad ne ate a wash a reuhah. I.tnechamserEKectrician Davis and F'ormer Warden ?aayer, of Danuemrors, had arrar ged the chair test, piacing a bank or twenty-two incanuescenfts across thae arms and conneeunsi thes electrode wires at either end. The wit nes were ordered ses:ed and i'nen Warcen Miead onreiy addressed them, Sayiang: "You are here to witss the legsl death of Leon F. Lzo;go.sz. I desire you to keep your seate ana p:eserve absolute aenee in tne death camaeer no matner what aLmy transpire. i'e-re are pienry of guards and pnison cfficiais to preserve eraer and to nuer~d to the proper details." Wain~iead gave the signal to have the prisoner brougnt i;, and at 7:10 Unier Keeper 'Turner swung open the big steel door leading to the enaemn.d eelis, and as the steel bars etsang asiae two guards mai ched, ta prnce:e out into the conicizr, two ottcer3 f ollow:g, and the chicr aceptr walkir~g ii XronL Trhe guards on eiLtner bide of Csaigosz had hold of his arms as if etinecr to support him or to keep him irons making any demozemation. As he stt.pped over the thresho~ld to stumbleti, but they held him up and as they urged hi; forweid to ward tue chaeir he Btu.s.ie-Qn pia On the lituie rubber coveren plat?form upon whicn the chair rests. His heed crec:, and with his grey flannei shiut turned bauk at the neck, he tooked quite beyish. Hie wns in aenseiy pale and as he trica to Lfhro' his heaa back and carny himself erect .his chin quivered peicepubly. As he was being seated hej looked at 'the assembied winnesses wi--h quate a .steady stare and saift: "1 kiied the preident because he -was an enemy of good people, of the working people." fiis voice trembled shightly, out gained s~rength with every word. "i am not Eorry for my crime," he said loudly, just as the gutids p;ushed his head back on the rusoer head zest and drew the strap across bis forehead and chin. As the pressure on the strap tight ened and cound the jaw rliahtly he mumbled. "I am awfully scrry I canid not see my f ather." .It was exactly 7:11 o'clock when he crossed the threehold, and but a min ute had elapsed, and he hsd jrt fin ished the last statement wuon the strapping was completee, arnd the guad stepped back. Warden Mecad raised his hand and at 7:12.30 R~ectricinn Davis tamned the switch that threw i,700 volts of elec tricity into (Cigesz's body. The zuh of the current threw the body so hard against the straps that they creaked perceptibly. The hands clinched sud denly and the whole attitude was ono of extreme tenseness. For forty-five seconds the full cur rent was kept on and then slowly the electrician threw the switch back, re ducing the carrent volt by volt until it was cut off entirely. Th~en, just as it reached that point he threw the lever back again for two or three sec onds. The body, which collapsed as the current was reduced, s: fiened up again .gainst. the trapn. When it wa turned cif aga, Dr. kimcDona'd stepped to the eoLir and put his hnid over the hurt. .E4 syad hC feq no puh~at:on, but sug Lse. LLh.. thz cutrenLt be turned on r :- fe cx .d - -ain. Once more th: .:-bme r gd. A: 7.15 was turned off f.: -s l'he p 3.,1i press3. un C ' a:.n r t es to re Jr~i. zf ay hf.: r,-, ad %t -$:17 ,.Zwr~ asc ia hr.:.d sn d ;s . i s filed frm the dea.h e a' :, me-. of se v1isiLaiet d - r-dy w: tAda from the in~~~C araidd n ..Opers;-ing xble 1 as bu-:ed secrty wiJain 48 Trying Lo Defeat Koester. At a ing of the Clumbia Ccl red Ma r. .a urin, huia on Wed neZei, iso foliow ; preamblo and resoAuuons were paseu: . s as it Las been charged ard careauy rumored that George R. Ku.aser, who has been appointed oaf itEur of internal revenus for the dia trict of Souta Carolina, parztcipated in tae iync.ing c-f a negro about 1894, at Gaston, Lxingte:L 'ounty, dem-nding the fL-st shot, ad .;fer bcaating of hav ing fred the IrsL sLot, in coafckuence of Lecrowd ne ; ad tav!cg e at up vwith the victim, prior to oahers in pur sui.; auC Whitereas, the ssid charge remsins undenied up to this time; and Whereas, upon investigatiou the said chargo sccms to be sustained, there tore- - We, the szid oclored ministers, as sambied at Stenhouse haLi, Columbia, 6. Q , for the purpose of considering niEs heinous na.&r and for the pi pose of tking action, do declare our &aoorrerce of this dasts-rdly crime and .nd gnantiy protest against the P ppoint mnt of Lhe staa Gzo:ga I. K eeter, andA if uommissica has been issuea, plead fer its revocation unul the same nas been invesugsted. J. 8 Mobley, Chairman, U. P. Nelsoa, B. J. Ramsey, Committt e. A Prodigal's Tragedy. A 6ad story from Pris ii related of -a predigaI son named L ;uis Dussaux, wno, arter ten years' absence from home, returned from a far country to saknowiedge his misdoings and thioW himseif on parensai induiSence. When he arrived nom Thurrday night at his old residence in the Ro d'Argout, the youzg man was alrmed at seeing signs of Lour.ing. O3 entering an in rer room he found his mother bathed in tears tneehng by the eide of a ceiin contlnirng the body (f his fatzer. --You str ed away too lonE," taid his sonm.og moner. "You Droke your -ather'. h arn &s.a his grief at scur ab eece c Lim. He O Tnursaay.' Overtm - wahn sorrow, the you;s man ie;! Upj:Ia ni'aichrs' corpbe, Ikilaing a- franti. , and thien, rushing frara me rom, he te.zsd a knIfe, ana in an a s of remorse pinged it in, his beast. h-1 wAs tan LO tLe HOSpitai I Chan e, W(r ne lies in a grave canaition. A show Wrecked. A dispaten irum Gu en sys one uure n u et me rag L.orses or jauritm .LnL s wa west m~iw were. cuned to d..ath in a raanread wreetk nar L xitgton at 5 o c.cok h nSQAy morn..g. Aamong tao LnoisB kilien was r-.e. "ad Easia," the star ri.ng ae, was kui~au asa his m..ngies boua sis Loa top~ or one of tfle waeca.a en gt~-:. ..no te..m or maies La2t drew~ .n xie as i treken over .h I gar Hi saya ~As .A13 is $.0:000 E ac e was the resuit et a e enoa cillio beieeni a 1ast so ti.Uud frgh tala saa the secoan sc.. o: a:a row train, arnd wens c ue a mis udrtn airg o~ f rds.s de verki Lr.ai 'tzes wer~e iajarea~, but no one wasi kned. Cleveland Started It. In speaking of .icoosevelt's dinne: deipraa baLLanU ogs: Uoner kPsi dets, noLaDzy (%tuvor Ciove~aac-, isyaJ ran coloea sue S a ue Executive mIon %: acttie Ormers?i Vas LearQ 'pen ?ir. Civena. etmaninL cns cicuours mi or tiue coilI6 r.ace in as e u,.d, i.vata n asa4a Lo dae tze La1ti. cne antin the siL of tne Aeriaain peoCc, has s;.tr.ea a louror ,.egut te counrtry, ann the rests so ar a neis con~cer.d are simely to I ynre mainarstsa a candidate far tae ?liguAica~n ?resictential nomin~a F'rom One Potato. An inarcsting aanco.itural item is :eprnte.= n tao London .Umes rrm ts issue oi Umt. 10, . 181: ''A Mr. Voier of 11 ec~ora ffarm, nearPor, last sear pintout oneO roato, wfllifn proaccen Ztimz 335a number, anZ there uiluL Lave O~Ces st moa, nac not a Dy ko.st ~AOe i sa. ege ter ta P to was cu: in piec.s the Fsrmer he.Vng saved1 the whiole of . LhemI, had them planted, wiac'i te nas n(oq lug to the rt~umber of 9/236, and weagh 13ewt. 3ges , wL.c. a asiy is a very greas, inr.:aeo 1remL one~ bingle root in I British~ Losses. IWe have reason to cangratu!ate our seves that the Philippine Islarnds are nt peopled by Beers. The latest ffi Icil report shows the British casualties in Scuth Afrioa ?ince..he beginning of Ithe war to be 548 ofecers and 5,823 n killed in action; 1,529 offi:ers arnd 23j32 men wounded, 365 efficers ar~d 8 S,71 men captared or missing, arnd 1, 738 deatas fr~m disease and acci de~ts-a totali of 55,5u6 dead, wounded a~d missing. Will Never Happen. We r-tjil se'n in vain the society ool umns cif the Northern raprs to where de ultra .uaonable Republieos are enterlainitg the negro on a EOoily euly hass. It see nss as if rci dect is hagging this class of entertain ment." TALKS RIGHT OUT. What a colore d Editor Says Abz-ut That Dinner. AN UNFORTUNATE'INCIDENT. A Scathirg Arraignmert ef Mairy Nor.hern Dvinef, Merchamts and M anufac uersor th ir Rar kAHypocrisy. The following article on the famous Booker Washington dinner is from the B rooklyn Defender, which is edited by H. 0. C Astwood, a colored man: The Boker T. Washington incident at the White House, in our judgment, is one of the most unfortunate incidents that has happened in national politicsl affairs since Reconstruction. It is like the premature enfranchisement of the race that brought about the irre pressible conflict, and the cnrpet-bag regime in the South that caued see tional animcsiies, that has cost al 0:3t a sea of bood. Hero worship is a bad thing anyway, and whether we try to deify man or idels, confl.o:s are almost sure to come. This storm has been coming for some time and we have been predicting it. The writing of this editorial wiii ba just as much misunderatood by the colored people generally, and the hypocritical and mawkish newspapers of the North, as Pretident Roosevelt was misunder stcol by the sensational people and newspapers of the South. We viil be abused and traduced just as the Presi dent is being traduced by raah South fra criticism, and as the South is be ing traduced and abused by the news papers of the Ncrth, and yet we shall have the courage to write it. We are told by our best friends that it will kill our charces for a Federal position. Well, it may; but the truth must be told. Leaders are born and not created by men. The colored race has not been alowed to make or create their own leader; these leaders have always been mace and created by white men, and freed upon the race regardless of qualifications. Mr. Washington is a gentleman and a scholar and a great educator along industrial liner; but it is preposterous and ridiculous to try to impreass upon the world thas he is the only and greatest colored man and gentleman in the United S:stes. There are more than a thou.and colored mcn,-- ze, thousands- better eduacted; just as gentlemanly, grEater ieadera rnd more progressive in every way tnan Mr. Waslington, bot in Cautch and S.te, wno Lre purposeiy ignored aLd tuzr.ed down by the white people of the North every day. President Roseirelt is a great Presi dent, with an honest heart, with the purptse and courage to Lio right. H I Lnid no sinister mou)ve in inv1iing Mr Wkashington to cine wikh him. B-ougt into ine Presidentiai ofLair under pe cular and exsraordinary co:.aition~s, hie was-somewhat hanoic..pped andi would naua'Jy seek oio.ht in every eow. ceivale ?izectioni. tne South pre sented the greatest puzzie to nie inquir ig mwd, and he tfrs to puoty andQ conciiar~e oihrences cown there to the sa.isiscuion of ail partues ceneern ed. to ao tnis he mat not De imposed upon by his wei~o or colorca finns. ihe greatesn d~piomacy is niessary to ao ja.. a vexed queciica no: yes set ikd, ut wh-olh was beginning to be au jused tby his .'os mea:uree. - servative white re-on were tcing appoint en to offic and secuonai brriit were beirg turn cown. Tho colored leacers were calcd to the 'Whute House, cne a 1:5shop n the person 01 Bishop A,:s am Qint one oi the mon casuo us and ablest colored icelers er tne race in the ountry; the other an educator n the person of Prof Booker T. Wash igton, the estimable and honored pin ciaei of Tukegee. Banhop Grant was ir'acouely received, talken and t dvised wi-sh the Presient, arnd, ikhe a cautious rre as he is, kifL and made a good mression, as ne ains-y, does. Wo sLeWaca tsdom cf this man we qute a bit of uowritten bistory, per naps, bec.:e of his modessy, not gin al3y ?.nosn. .LmoC.1ely aft~er he Spanish war we had cause to visit the Xv aite House with Bishop Giant. President McKirdey, always graci ous, rceived him coatdentially an, taini:ng over the appointment of the labor commission, of fered him a piace upon it. We insist ed that Bishop Grant accept it. He said to tae Preside.t, ne, whilst he con siered it a great honor, yet it was .not in keeping wath his position as chief pastor in bis church. The President said to him: Wed, consult your Bish ops and if you all can decide upon a proper man I will appoint him. They cia no; decide upon a proper man in time and did not get the appointment. We print this to a iow Bishop Grant's diplomacy. Now to Prof. Washington's non-igioacy. An educator is never a poitician, or eeldom a statesman; tae them out of their useful avoca tins and irnject them into politics and they become absolute failures. Book er T. Washington, because of his great aneces as an inddustrial educator, in our judgyent the greatest in the na tion, doing more good in his way than any other one man to solve a difiult question, had been proclaimed a gcd and a Moses, a marvel, a phenomenor., te only educated colored gentleman in the United eses, when we have upon our fingers men his superi:.r in everyI way saving only the lines c f industrial edcatior; he has been flttered and favored, both by the whise people of th North and the South, until both he and th~e Presidens misunderstcod the difficlt political underlying situation. Bu Zir. Washington should have been the wiser of the two. When President Raoeveit invited Prof. Washington to the Waite Hause to confer wi:,h him he did the proper thing, for which we ap paud him. When he invited him to dine at the White House he did the getlemanly thing, the lawflul think; t the most ioexpediens politicai ting possible. Br.. Paul, the steaL apos, said: "Ali thingo are lawful, but all thirngs ara not expedient." Mr. W asing;on had given to h:m the grea; eat opportunity of hi:, life; had he Dcen a statesman or a nnlidinm had he baen 3 Bishop Grant, a Jonn-tMonr Lng ston, a Pinchback, a P. K Bruce, a Fred Douglezs; a Lynoh, a Lion, a WVite, a Cheatham or hadrotis of other able oiored leaders that we kaoF; had he cons'dered the weifare of th. Praident or his race, he would have ocziderntially Mil' L) the Prtes utnt: I tappreiate thia great h3nor, but might it no be misun eratood and fiieac ta eying prcjudices and embLr3 oA tenticnal fL ASng Lhat w3 are t:ing o emitguiSh? Had he dono tiis it wcuid ave Ceen a triumph in diploma cor i.Ld lhe astute and quick pcrceving Prident wuld have taken the hint. But the greitest harm that may re sult from this impolitic and undiplo matie incident is the abuse of the Northern press and Nrthern people of the South. It is not sincere nor is it conistent. The prejudice in the North is more malignant and spitetal than it is in rho South. The South has a cause and a grievance; the North has no cause or griavance; and yet its pre judice is greater in proportion than it is douih. is is a pretty hard thing for a man to be forced under ordinary condi tions to accept a man as hs cgal, in a quarter of a century, who had bee-i his slave for two centuries, and the Nrth refuses to do it, outside of a few col lege dinnere, chore the colored man was never his slave. The Rev. Hoff man, at Bryn Mawr, the Methodist prcacher, who offared the resolution in the preacher's meeting on Monday, commending the President, oreated a revolution in Bryn Mawr, becaure a house belonging to him was rented to a colored minister of the same persua sion and used every means, ecclesiasti cal and legal, until he was rejected. The young man was as gentlemanly and as thorcughly educaied as Mr. Wash igton. Bishop Potter, our gcod and worthy prelate, has many colored priests of his denomination here in the North, and yet he does not set the ex ampie by having them to celebrate at Roly Trinity and other Episcopal tem pes here in the North, or invite them to sit indseriminately at the Lord's table to teach the South the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Bishop Holly, of Hayd, one cf the most learned and scholarly negroes in the world, who comes here periodically, ig ignored and allowed to board in a colored boading house in Brooklyn, instead of being the guest during his tay at some ef tLhe white parishes. The white newspapers, such as the Phila delphia Record, the Now York Journal, the North American and other papers who ricieule the journals of the South, will not employ a colored man upon Lhiir staffs or-in any other important place in their offices, be they ever so conpe tent. The white business houses of the North, the factories and indaiurial plants, will not employ colored men or women in any of their departments 0bove the menial, and yet they rail at he South, where slavery existed for . wo hundred years, fr fighting polniical nd scial equality. The North is r ponsible for it al; let it stop its hy pocrisy, give practical lessons of its ,od intentions and not begin at the White Houso. If sectional prejadices ) again ifiamed and bloodshed be the :utcome -and Warhizgton ib appesied o, the negro will be lef4 to fight it out aone and bhirnd the barricade of Sate rights. The .Delender is the friend of e President and of Bjoker T. Wash Ltago-. We want to see the one suo med and re eiected to tie Presidency, tzd the other to continue his great work as an industrial educator at Lus sCegee, at~d we hope that onr Southern reds Will nut misunderstand the 'reienr and overturn thre good feel n now apparent, but that they will Gruit to his goonr judgment and equit sxe treatmenlt of aul tne people sake. W endozse tire temperate sentim~ent as :ures-ed ii rte - ntmos-JDeincrat, of New ;ican., printenQ in t~he Pitiladel hia Roeord at M~o.day last, and hope :ww rtnat the storm has exhausted itself A the era o' grod ?eing be re-estab ied. The izcident was unfortunate and regrettable. Eiitcor of the Defender, H. C. C. Astwood. Election of Of~cers. At the annual meeting of the State Agriutural and Mechanical Society reld in Columbia Thursday night, the following cffiiers were elected: A. H. Wnite, of Rock Hill, Preui lent. The vice presidents elected are: A. T. Smythe, firrst congressional listrict, Charleston. R. B. Watson, second congressional listrict, Ridge Spring. T. J, Kinard, third congressional dis J. Wash Watts, fouth congressional listriet, Mountville. J. W. Dunnovat, gifth congressional lirici, C nester. B. 11. Williamson, sixth congrestion 1 district, Darlingto-r.I G. A. Quignard, seventh congression al district, Brookiand. Excuive committee: M. L Don aldson, Greenville; A. Porter Haskell, L,olumbia; T. 0. Sanders, Hagood; ia. P. Hamer, Jr., Hamer; J. E. Wanna taker. St. Matthews: J. G. Mobley, Winnsboro; C. F. Moore, Bennetts vilic; . H. Wharton, Waterloo; D. E. Eard, Lexingt on; J. W. Dreher, Lees rile; iredell Jones, Rock Hill; W. G. insc, Charleston; L J. Browning, edala; R. M. Pegues, Cheraw. Ex effici members: Thomas W. Wood ward, Rockton; J. B. Humbert. Prince ion; Tomas Taylor, Columbia; E. R. ol~ver, Palmetto; B. F. Cravton, An lerso; R. A. Love, Chester; D). P. Duncan, -Columbia; Thee. J. Moore, ioore; T. J. Cuunir ghamn, Clowvney; W. D. evans, Cheriw. Cl. T. H. Holloway of Pomaria was re-elected secretary, and Mr. A. Gatne well LaMotte of Columbia waa re-esleet 2d treasurer. The office of assistant secretary is to be supplied. Sent Him a 'Possum. The Washington correspondent of the Charleston Post says some South sn "gentleman" sent to the President the other day a 'possum. The card of the donor was not attached, but it was absled "Booker Washington." The President is said to be very fond of possum, and as the new butler of the White 5ouse, Henry Pinckney, is a South Carolina negro, he is familiar evithi the art of preparing the dish in truc Suth Carolhna style. It is said the President will have it served on his tarjle at some future time. The Presi lent would like to know, however, who THE FIRE FIEND. The Business P. rd1on of Tim. monsyvIlle Laid !n Ashes. W. F. DENNIS ARRESTED. He and His Partner,aMan Named Smith, Charged With Applying the Torch to Their 4tore The town of Timmonsville, on the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, between Sumter and Flor once, was visited by a most disastrous ire on last Wednesday morning at four o'clock. Ninety-five thousand dollars worth of property, including twenty three housee, was destroyed. A dis patch to The State says the town waz awakened by a terrific cxplosion an& summoned to witnies the greatest Ere in the his :y of the p'ace. The ex plesion was th&t of a keg of powder in cne cf the small stores in the postoffi block, espposed to be that of Smith & Dennis. The fire spread rapidly, aided br an east wind. Soon the jewelry house of S. S. Carroll, the - grocery stores of Hill Bros. and Marion Sims, were burning beyond control. By great effort the postoffice was saved, but nothing could prevent the fire from crossing the street and burning the carriage hous of J. B. Harper, Win. gate's barber shop, Harrell's grocery and finally taking hold of the bank and Cuipepper's drug store, thereby insur ing the destruction of a solid brick square of 10 stores. There was roth ing with which the fire could be fsjught acd a great ccmpany of citizens suf fered the awful ordeal of waiching the busipess heart of their town burn to the ground. When the Ire had burped to the hardware house of Welling and Bonneitt it stopped, there boing a street across which it could not go. It was a fearful scene and brought tears to many eyes. The fellowing stores were burn.d: S. S. Carroll, loss $1,200; insurance $600. L Anderson. loss $7,000; insurance $2,500. Will Wintate, loss $100; insurance no0thil W. A. Lowman, loss $600; insurance $4,000. Gas Johnson, loss $500; no insur ance. Kill Bros., loss $1,400; insurance $900. U. A. Smith, loss $23,000; insurance $3,000. R C. Savorence, loss $11,000; insur azwe $4,800. J. F. (ulpeper, loss $2.500; insur anOe $1,050. F. M. Sims, loss $1,750; insurance $900. McSween building, loss $8,000; in surance $6,000. Welling & Banneitt, loss $10,000; insurance ut known. Sansbury & Lowhorn, loss $40, no 106uranos. J. B. Harper, loss $4,000; insurance $1500. Armory Furniture, loss $1,000;. in suance $400. Psthian hall, loss $1,200; insurance $975. A. J. Broom, loss $8,000; insurance $2.500. Bank building, loss $2,000; insur ance $800. Louis Lyons, loss $2,000; no insur anoe. J D). Ramsey, loss $1,000; insurance $500. Mtlaonio Fuarniture, loss $750; insur aes $300O. Smamh & Dennis, loss $3,800; insur anc $2,300. This constitutes the largest portion of business houses of the town. At one time the large store of John Mc Sween was in dangrr, also D. H. Trax lr, but were saved. A SENSATION. A sensation greater than the fire itself was the arrest this afternoon of W. F. Dennis of the firm of Smith & Dennis, who was charged with the burning. Aa the rumor to the effect that this was responsible for the groat fire brgan lat night, late in the afternoon severai citizens went to the house of these men and on searching the premises found svral barrels of shoes and hats and oher goods. Smith left town early ia the morning for his cuntry home, bumt Dennis was at home. He was inofier et in manner and had to be urged to o to the barn and assiat the citizens in their search. He wanted the men to await the return of SmithL before se-srch, but this they refuEed to do. Dennis p~ofessed ignorance of the goods in tne barn. Ho was arrested and sent to Florence. A warrant has been sent for Smith. These parties came here from Clarendon county in the winter and opened a small store. They bore good reputations and the peojIle are shocked at the turn things have taken. SMITH ARsTED. Alando Smith, of the firm of Dennis & Smith, was arrested Wednesday night at the home of his brother in Clarendon county 25 miles southwe~t of Timmoncville and carried Thursday morning to Florence jail to await a pre liminary hearing on Saturday. Mr. Smith explained the presence of the goods in the barn by saying that they belonged to a party in the country, but the explanation was not satisfactory. It will be shown at the hearing that a very large part of the stock carried by the firm had been secretly carried from the store to the residence and stored in the barn under hay. DAMAGING 3VIDENoE. It is thought that there was very lit tle in the store when the building burned. Shoes had been taken from the paper boxes and placed in barrels, the boxes being put again on the shelves and the barrels carried to the barn. Witnesses will swear that the irm was seen packing goods in boxes on the night of the fire. Another witn~ess will testify that a member of the firm was seen hiding the goods in the barn. Still another witness will swear that he was awakened by a horse at full ee d coing from the business section of ton just before the fire alarm became pneral and going into the yard of the firm's residence. fulese are some of the very damaging items of evidence which havo bccome public. The case is very strong against the accused. They hd oaly reccently taken about all t.c insurarce ttcy cculd secure. On Saturs.y the h. ar.vg will be had hero anL then everything will be brought out. LOOP TURN.1D IVENTs OF DAY* Schley Says Movement Was Turning Point in.attie. With the opening of the Schley court of inquiry Weaneeday Admiral Schley began the fifth day of his testimony and the third day of his cross-examina tion. Q instioning Szhtey as to the cause et the delay in beginning a re connoissance al ter Cervera's where abouts were discovered, the admiral aid two dais were neccessary to coal and to be ready in case the enemy came out. The cross-ezamination on the bat tie o! Santiago bogan with the question as to what was tho first movement of the Brooklyn's heim after the enemy's ehips were sighted coming out. *We were heading west by north," he replied. "At first the helm was to port." "Capt. Cook gave the order for the turn?" "Yes." "You regard that turn as very im portant, don't you?" "I think it was a movevent that de cided the events of the day." The admiral said in response to ques tions that ho had not mentioned the loop in the report of the battle. It was an incident of the battle which he had no idea would ever come into con troversy. Capt Cook had given the or der without orders from him, except under his general instructions to close in and keep somewhere about 1,000 yards away, outside 9f the broadside torpedo range.. When the time came for the turn Capt. Cook's conception of the movement coinoided with his own. "Do you assame full responsibility for the turn?" "Absolutely. It I did not give the ordefr, I alproved it," replied the ad mira]. "Did the Brooklyn stand in and at tempt to sink the Spanish fiect in the channeo?" "oI started in at firat to help the oth er vesseis and have them help me. I felt if we could atop the Spaniards the battleships could go in and sink them. I never had any idea they would get away." Continuing, he said: "We estimit ed that the Brooklyn had gone into within a mile or a mile and a half of the mouth of the harbor and was within range of the shore batteries. I thouyhr for some twelve to fourteen minutes the lagship hed bed within i range of lers than ',000 yars fiom the Spinish uips. They looked very c.ose," he aid. "When the Spanish ships Euqceeded n getting out of the harbor without be ing sunk in accordance with crders, what alternative was there but to chase them?" The admiral said that while several f the vasela had failed to jia in the hase, leaving the work after the sink ng of the Teresa and Oqouendn to he Brooktyn and Oregon, tis was ecause they coula nor foaosv at the pace set by the Spaniards. A Montana Prodigy. A special trem Great lhuis, Mont., says tnar a t welve year ola boy.~ named SLuthwicZ kiinapped rne six year oid ~on of Ii. W. Ryau, a wzom.nent gro oer ei tilat city ana~ sint a note to thle atner demuanda1g $1,500 ransom, nreatening to ram pi-.es of glass into the chi:Es eyes and cur his haads off uniens Lhe demand was compiled with. 1alr. liyan notdi:,d tne pdoe, who ar rested young douithwich shordly after ae R~aa boy hd arnived as his father's notoe uaziarmed, taving been released fg sounawich. de cow.fe:.s:d that he dA it of is own voliuion and that he nad no accompnioee. .H expressed no repenltaree, and caid: "'I would have bit the oid man for $8,000Q if I thought ie would kave stood for it." Triple Tragedy. The story of a trie tragedy has eeced nirevepon, Lja, fromi dreen wood, La., 14 muws fromr dilreveport. ifhe parties imphicated were all negroes aid were employedl . on a plantation known as the Hoss place, near Green wood. Wach Rl~awnns entered the ome of Victorna Anderson, a negro woman, andl round her in the company of a negro named Charley Wisiams. He at once opened fire on Victoria, kmuling her instantly. 'The weapon was then turnt.d on Williams, who attempt ed to escape, but faied and was fatatly wonded. .tawains rushed to the door, turned his weapon on nimself and pull en the trngger, aying inrsunly. Serious Fire in Darlington. DLarlington had two fires 'inursday, the first at the Darlingron oil mill and the second, which occurred after night was at the freight depot of the Atlantia cast Line. In born instances there was great damage done, The whole of the wooden part of the mill was de stroyed together with a large lot of cot ton 2n bales. Tile wind was from the orth. The gin and factory together with Eeveral cutbuildings were de stroyed, including the oflice, though the books were rescut-d by employes. Caught the Thief. A Parsian actress who had for some ime .beena suffering losses of jewelry etermined to set a trap fcr the thief. o she left a diamond bracelet on her bureau, retiring into an adjourning oom and began to watch through the keyhole. Presently a starling hopped trough the window, seized the bracelet ad deposited it in the chimney, where ll the misaing jewelry was subsequent y found. This was, of course, the ird's equivalent of a human thief's abit of putting stolen property up the pot. Suicide Made Easy. A Chicago man has struck on a now cheme and proposes to open a shop here people who want to ecmmit sui de can do it nicely arnd without much rouble. All they have to do is to go in, take a seat in an electric chair, ouch the button when they are ready ad tho apparatu3 does the rest. It is ot stated what he proposes to charge foh accoammodation. BOERS STILL FIGHTING. They Inflict Another. Disaster to British Arms. A dispatch from London says Lord Kitchen<.r has r. ported to the war of fie a disaster to the' British -ear Bethel, eastern Transvaal, in which two guns were lost, several officers killed or wounded, and 54 men were killed and 160 wounded. The following is the text of Lord Kitchener's dispatch dated Pretoria, Nov. 1: "I have j nst heard of a severe attack made on twe rear guara of Col. Bin eon's column wiien about 20 miles ncrthwest of Bethel near Brokenlaagte during a thick mist. "The strength of the enemy is re ported to aave been 1,000. Trey rushed two guns with the rear guard, but it is uncertain whether they were able to move them. "I fear our casualties were heavy. Col. Benson was wounded, but not te verely. A relieving column will reaen him this morning." Later, Lard Kitchener telegraphed as iollows: "Col. Barter, who marched from the constabulary line yesterdsy, reached. Bgnson's column early this morning (Frida;) anopposed. Heareports that Cci. Bonbon aied vi his wounds, "The other asualtits are the follow ing: "Killed-Col. E. Guinness, Major F. D. Murray, Capts. M. W. Lmdsay and F. T. Thorold, L'euta. B. V. I. Brooke and B. E Snepaerd, an* Second Lieut. A. J. (crlett. Died o: his wC.ids-Capt. Eire Loyd." Lord Kitchener then gives the names (f 13 other mocers who were wounded, most of them severely, and announces that 54 non commissioned efficers and men were killed and 160 wounded, add ing that four of the laster have since died of their wounds. The dispatch then says: 'I asume that the guns have been recovered and the* enemy has with drawn, but I have no furmner details. "I aeeply regret the loss of Col. Ben son and he ofbiers and men who fell with him. In Benson the service loses a most gallant and capable officer who invariaoiy led his column with marktd success and jadgement. "The fightng was at very close quar ters and maintained wirn great aiter mination by both sides. Tue enemy suffered heavily, but I have'not yet received a reliable estimate. "The Boers retired east." Getting Better. There is great interest in the condi Lion of Tom IU, thi Greer's depot igent, and it is a cause of rejoicing 6has ne is likely to- recover. he is a brave man and his nerve is needed in he word. . This is a time when the people will keep one eye on the corpo ratious in whose behalf Mr. Hill went aght into the jaws of death. It will be said is is none of the people's busi ress but they are decidedly of the Dpinion that the railroad and express :ompanies cught to treat him hand somly, and in the case of the raiiroad there is reason to hope ne wixl be taken are of. The moral effect of tne deed is worth a los, azside from what was iaved. As is usually she case, Tom t~iai don's look lixe a nero. hte is one of those small, wiry men whose worth is never known unti a greas tes comes, one of the prosaic iooking giants of ro mance. The Banner City of Anarchists. Spring Vailey, lii., is sne banner at arohiss city of the Unii~cd States. With a p~aiao oi 7,000, is nas 500 people wno are anaicemsts. Tnat means snas one out of every 14 of is popula tion is an anarchist, or between 7 and B per cenit. No city in she United States can show anytning like this pro portion of the followers of sue red fisg, and is is doubsfui if any city in rare worid can. Is is quite trae that there are other American cities that contain more anareist5s taas pring Valley. Chicsgo, for instance, has 3.000, ac cording to Caps. Sohuetser, whoe has the most accurate knowleage of this subject of any man on the police force, k'atsburg is 6anocner anarchist centre, and has 1,500J dormant Ozlgoszas. I'aterson, N. J., is generally regarded as a veritabie hotoed of anarchy, and wth a good cause. Yet 1'att~erson has only 2,000 anarcnists. Postoffice sobbed. Oi Tuesday night late, the postoffie at IRutherfordton, N.- U., was broken into and the safe blown to pieces. The robbers and safa .rrackers secnred an amount of money, several checks and notes and a lot of stamps. There .is not the slightest clue as to who the daring burgiard were. Batrance was effected by breaking down sne back door. The possoffice in Rutherforaiton is a frame building, occupied for no other purpose and Do one sleeps in it. The safe explosion was evidently the work of artists in that line. Mr. J. S. McJaniel is postmaster at Rutherford ton. None Too High. The Pittsburg Dispatch finds that the investigation has been fully .insti fied by results. Is says: "There cannot but be a feeling of satisfaction that the court of irnquiry has been held. High ly as his countrymen have held the vie tor of Santiago the testimony shows that the estimate was none too high. I it erred it was upon the lesser side. Facts have been brought forward that might have never become public know ledge." __________ State Exhibits. We are requested to annonnce that no shipments to the superintendent of the State exhibit in the State building at the exposition at Charleston be made without notifying the superin tendent. Otherwise they will be harged full freight rates. Notify Superintendent A. W. Love, Chester, S. C., and he will send shipping direc tions and frank. Eaten Up by the Enemy. A special dispatch from Antwerp says that a detachment of blank troops recently sent by the Congo authorities to quell a revolt at Balingis, in Ksssai, was captured and that the soldiers were mudered roated and eaten. j A RACE WAR. Whites and Biacks In Battle for Halt an Hour. A TRAGIC STORY OF BLOOD. "Do You Want Any More? And the Anwar Comes From the Blacks. "No." Several Kilied A special to the New Oleans Pisa yune from Ball Town, La., says that the race war between the blacks and whites which started at a negro camp meeting at Duncan Chapel Sunday forms a story of blood unequalled in the aistory of the Pearl river valley. One white man is dead another is dying with a bullet hole through his atomache, and a third white man is badly injarod. Nine negroes were killed in the bloody aflhas; five men, three women and one smalh child. A dozen or per haps more negroes escaped to the woods and swamps with wounds that are be lieve- to be certain death- in the brush away from medical care. The dead, white: Joseph Seal, son of Willis Seal, aged 32 reisdene at Varando, La. Wounded, white: 01sr ence Thomas Elliott, eged 26, fattally wounded now dying, residence r an do La. Eiard Thompson, 45, shot through thigh and fleshy portion of the leg, residence, Varando. Dead, color ed: Rev. Alexander Connolly 50, pas tor Dancan Chapel, Mary Davis, 30, his daughter; Orear Lott, 463 Julia PeterF, Lotts daughter, 24; Melon Peters, her child, 4; Amy fony, 75, mother-in:law of Crear Lott; Lewis Dancan, 18, son of Helen Duncan, liv ing in Poplarville: Thomas Parker, 24; Kid B-verly, 18, a turpentine worker from Georgia. No one is able to estimate the num her of wounded negroes who escaped the carnage behind the church. They scattered in all directions. Some are known to have been shot, batithey have not been found. The coLfliot raged for an hour.:Those at a distance say the firing souided like a battle between troops. To the camp meeting negroes had come from 200 miles, all up and down the valley. Elder Stephen Duncan, of New Orleans for whom the Chapel was named, as present. On last Thursday the meeting open ed with Eeveral hundred negroes en camped around the church, in tents . and in rudely constructed shanties. On the day previous to the camp meeting, wnen the negro, Bill Moris had been burned at the stake near Bali Town ior an assault on Mrs. J. J. Ball, public feehng was at a high pitch. Under those conditions the negroes gatered at Live Oak. There was trou ble over a license and Crear Loti's tent became the centre of contention. Some trouble occurred Saturday evening, but there was no bloodshed. It came up again Sunday afternoon when Consta ble Boon and a posse rode up toLots's tent with a warrant. Lost came out and is reported tohave shouwed wish an oath:. "One'negro has been burned, but a white man wili be next." Wade Walker, one of the constable's posse, was struck over the head with a Winchester, and then .the slaughter began. The blacks fled from te rail wooden churca, for it was no shelmer. from tme rain of bullets. Lots retired into his Lent, shooting and fighting. Johin seaL received his deash wound. 1'reacher tConunolly was shea while standiing in his yard. His daughter fell juast inside tae nuse. The other ne groes around Loin's place kept up a steady rain of t allets. Lott's old -mother-in-law, his two. daughters and the little boy fellin a 'nesp inside the shelter. Sophie Lot saved her life by concealing herself be - hind the stove. Tan she escaped and the men did not harm her. They were af eer Urear Lott. He was barricaded arnd the next move was to fire the place, waich they did. Wnen the Are reached him from under cover he appeared in the doorway and twenty rfidie balls went crashing through him. He fell in a heap, head foremost on the ground. Parker and Beverly, both blacks fell with him. Jf&r swenty-four hours it looked as if a general- uprising would wipe out the biack race in Washington parish. Over 1,000( armed men yesterday were at she scene of thme battle. The negroes who were left in a heap where they had died,'were piled into their unmarked graves, dug near the chaired remamns of ioas's sent house. There was no ceremony. Theminister and his daughter filled one of the holes, the woman and a child the other, the men a third. At the same time pro minent citizens held a conference, which was attended by Sheriff Sim mons, and a message was sent to the negroes: "Do3 you want any more?" "No," came the reply. Tnis had a quieting effect and the negroes left the country. It is believed there will be no further trouble. "P11l Smash Everythingi" The German press is discussing in lively fashion the following utterance attributed to Emperor William: "fno commercial treaties are nego tiated, I shall smash everything to pieces." In an address at a meeting of the Fieet Society in Hanover, Capt. von. Weltheim, of German Navy, is repre sented to have said: "Germany's interests in the five re publics of Central America, in view of Amerijan competition, can only be maintained when we have a fleet strong enough to say to the Americans 'Hands 0f.'" This declaration was received with stormy applause. The papers gener ally ignere it, and the Freisinnige Zsi tung observes: "1There is a species of political mis chief-making which while not unish able under the.Pena Cede, is none the less calculated to cause apprehension.' A Poser. What's Bocker Washington going to do with the negra mechanics he is training. They would be shot down if they went to Pennsylvania, Ohio or Ill inois to find employment. The records show this.