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voOxr89. VOL. XVI. MANIN, S. G., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 0 92 A LIVELY MEETING. Senator Tillman Answered the Charges of Editor Appelt AND IS VOTED NOT GUILTY. Editor Appelt In His Reply Says He Is a Democrat and Will Grace fully Submit to the Majority. According to promise Senator Till man spoke at Manning on last Friday. The meeting was the result of an in vitation to Tillman from nearly 500 citizens of Clarendon county to speak in refutation of the charges made by Senator Appelt. editor of the Man ning Times. Senator Tillman was well received. He was entertained at a banquet at the Manning hotel, ten dered by a committee of business men and county ofticers. At 11 o'clock Friday morning a committee of 50 citizens escorted the Senator to the stand, which had been built, as was the case when he spoke at Manning eight years ago. on whiskey barrels. Senator Tillman and Editor Appelt were seate'i immediately on the left and the right of Chairman Davis, within two feet of each other. After prayer by the Rev. P. 1. Wells. the chairman introduced SENATOR TILLMAN who was received with considerable applause. He said he had come to defend his private character and his official actions. No prominent man escaped 4buse and vituperation. He had had his full share. Notwith standing abuse and dirty insinuation the people by unparalleled majority had again and again signitied their confidence in him. Not only was his character attacked, but there were in sidious enemies attacking the Diemo cratic party of South Carolina and him as the sentinel on guard. Realizing he had been assaulted be cause he had been protecting the party he was here to face his accuser and to answzr once for all these slan ders. It is customary among Anglo Saxon people, and we inherit it from our English ancestors, though we are not all English (laughter), that the accused be confronted with the ac cuser and the witnesses and that a copy of the indictment be given him before he goes to trial. WRITES TO APPELT. On April 16 he had written Appelt that he would be in Manning today to answer his charges, by invitation of citizens. In that letter he said: "I have seen copies of the Manning Times of Jan. 15 and 22, and I pre sume these issues of your paper con tain the charges referred to. If I am in error, and there are others, I desire to have them in writinig. You are the aggressor in this matter, and prosecuting attorney in fact, either in your own or McLaurin's interest and under the rules of law and decency, I am entitled to know of just what I am accused. If the two issues of the Manning Times do not contain all of your charges, then I demand that you give me any others, so that when I speak I may be through with the mat ter. A prompt response is request ed." Under the circumstances he would disregard the usual courtesy that obtains among gentlemen and read the "private" letter that Appelt wrote him in reply, because he had no right to answer ain otlicial "declaration of war" with a private communica tion. Here is the letter: S'ENAToR APPELT's LETTER. Manning. S. C., A pril 17, 1902. Hon. B. R. Tihiman, Washington, D. C.I Dear Sir: Yours of yesterday to hand. Will say that 1 have no desire what ever to appear in the role of "prose cuting attornery" in this or any other matter. 1 have sent you regularly every week The Manning Times, and in the issue of January 8 1 published your' harsh letter to me, and replied to it in same issue. I regreat very much that I have only one copy of January S, which is my tile copy, and 1 cannot send it. I will, how ever, try to secure one for you. The charges made by me and so stated. were based upon newspaper reports, certificates and your letter. I made none against you from any personal knowledge, because 1 know nothing personally. Your selecting the day (25) before the clubs are to elect delegates to the county convention I have no doubt is very gratifying to my opponents. and I may say yours also, because some who will mak'e very demnonst rat iv~e p rofes sions were among the set here who de nounced you two years ago and even scratched your name at the eeui on. I was largely instrumental in defeatinug them and because of that it is any t ing to get even. If vou had moditied your letter as I requested 1 am sure your feelings to wards me wouid~not be as they are now. My purpose in writing you to modify that letter was to avoid a tight and a wrangle in our own ranks. My sole object in the beginning was to work against any attempt hemng made to exclude a white man froinmh primary who took t he oath to abide the result and support the nominees of the primary, and when 1 started on that line 1 d'id not dream of any personal est rangement from you. So far as McLaurin is concerned. I have never said 1 would vote for him. Nor would I if it is shown convincingly to me that he is not a D~emocrat. But the place to show this is at the regular campaign meetings. If he is not a Democrat. not wit hstaniding my per sonal feelings for him. I could not sujp port him. even if lie were my brother. You may regard it gratuitiouson my part, but I will risk t he liberty of say ing to von that some of those who will play a prominent part in caringt for you are not your friends and are hoping to pretic hy your conungw. If I can I will secure a cop)y of the paper uf Januar'y 8, but simoould I fall andl on y'our arrival von will send some one to my ottice for it I will loan you my file copy to read. I do not want to beunfair or discourteous. In fact. I have no malice in my heart for you. and should you. as I hope you will. prove that the certiticates in myI ips5 session are false von will tind ine domng the maniy luhng by you. ' eyrespect fully'. Louis Appelt. On Auoril 22 Tillman wrote to A p pelt demnanding that he furnish him on his arrival in Manning with copies of the afmdavits of which he spoke in his paper on January 22 or that he have them read on the stand. ie furt her stated: "I propose to answer YOU fulIl and every one of your lies al ready published shall have my atten tito, but I must know what the others r e4' ee I can answer them. Sena o Tilman then read the fo~owing letter from Editor Appelt. which was marked personal: EDI)ToR APPELT'S SECOND LETTER. MAN NIN4, S. C., Dec. 30. 1901. Ion. B. R. Tillinan. Trenton., S. C. D~ear Sir: Your letter reached me this eveningr too late to give it space in ml week. but if you in sist upon it of course I shall publish it in my.n next issue. 'So far as my meeting you before a IClarendon audience, or any other for that. matter. I would not be so foolish, for the reason that I haven't the ability to cope with you. The matters which have of fended you, and to which you refer, as you kwii are altogether from state 11nents Which haZve appeaUled- inl thle newspapers and with no pretense of any personal knowledge. I regret ex ceedong that you think 1 never was a friend of yours. I was, and a most faithful one, and my unyielding sup port to your cause and to you personal ly caused a rupture in my own family which time has not healed. I was your friend regardless of what you may think now. The right I am making is for a free and open primary, one that will permit any man to go into the primary and dikcuss any issue he desires. and I take it fiom wiat I can understand of your acts that you will use your intlence to prevent tuose who ditfer with you on certain national questions from getting in the primary. I have commented on the charges that have been brought out against you without ever once say ing they were true and would not say they are true unless I had the proof. Probably in my zeal to keep the pri mary free for all white men I may have allowed myself to take for some of my ammunition the charges of newspapers and went beyond bounds. Notwitnstanding this I- think your language -towaras me is not merited, but as I have punched you I suppose you feel right to punch and banter me. 1 would much prefer not publishing your characterizations of me, but will do so if you insist, not because you de mand it, but because I propose to per mit any man to use my columns that I have written about. Now, senator, you are provoked. You have a way of saying hard things. I know you and I do not believe you mean to be as offensive as your letter appears. Your rough letter will not drive me into the Republican party, nor will any action you and those who think like you take. I was born a Democrat, raised one, and expect to die one, and whatever action the State convention takes I will submit to. This I have said in my own paper and elsewhere and neither will your harsh language to a man who at Sumter threw himself between you and a man by the name of Villanean and saved you from being disembowelled, cause a ebange. I am a personal friend of Senator McLaurin, and you goading him has had something to do with iighting the attitude you have assumed toward him. I make no charge but refer to what is said by others. and if you want to come to Manning to make a speech come ahead. I am certainly not going to invite you to come here to "cuss" me out, nor would I, if you were to come, attempt to question you, but if you want an invitation to come here I have no doubt that there are others who would invite you, especial ly if you would make known your pur pose. And, then, I would not invite you to abuse me, because I would not care to stand by and~ hear language such as you use in y.aar letter, and would not. Therefore if you come you will have to do so on the invitation of another, and I certainly would not obligate my self to be present. It was no longer than this day that I said to a friend: "I do not like the recent developments at Washington,: ai is SiLaurmin really means to go over to the Ilepubticans 1 am done. 1 have stood to him and possibly gone further than I would for any other man,. but 1 cannot go with him into the 11eptublican camp. I am going te quit popping at old man Ben and let him and Mac do their own scrapping."' I regard your' letter a remarkable strange coincidence. 1 shall await yotur reply wih the hope you wi*ll withdraw it. Yours, etc., Louis A ppelt. SENATOR TILLMAN GOES ON. Tillman said that TIhe Times of De cember 7 contained slanders against him to the etfect that he was a thief. HeI had ignore'd similar accusations from others. If jie took tinme to an swer the thousands "1 lies against him he might grow to the age of Methuse lah without getting to the top of the pile. A t Galiney he told McLaurin to go befor'e the people because he want ed to st amp ou t t reachery, and he knew if he killed thle head of the snake the ot her part would r t and die. Since theni the little whipper-sna1poer news papers that McLaurin had bought. such as the Greenville News and the Columnbia itecord --one with the post olilce at Grijeenville anid thme other with the collectorship~ at C lumbia-had kept their columns tilled with abusive charges against him. it was only when my friend here. who got your votes because he was the biggest Tillmnanite in Clarendon. un dertook to father these accusations that I dkemed it worth my while to answer t hem. 1 demanded that his slanders cease. but he repliecd with four cul umnus of slush and wit h the cunning of thei devil reiterated them. So I am here. i~it I want to sax' that I am here' mor* particularly because as we are aboumt t()or'anize the party it is well that one of 'our le:lers come and tell you some' things to assist you in main t aining its~ purity and integrity. If the pi'oscet ig attorney is ready to procee with ':-se 1 will yield him the klor for !!: j)ronft. 'The se.nator then tookN his seat amid cries of "ilur rah for T illman." ''Trot out A ppelt."' "Giv e Ap a cup of tea amnd let the meaisels bielk out'' lkiuit A p pelt." - EDITOR AI'PPELT T.\Es TH E sT .\NiD. Editor Appelt at tirst see'med a lit tle undecided. but tinally he arose and began to spe:m k. I will ask. said lie. that you take into conusideration the posit ion I "icupy that you consider the' u' werful ad(1versary that 1 unfort una'telvhve t o conteud against. Wh ile 1Im at homue still I realize what ele I'ne.' enn do friom a mani w..ith T ill nani~'s pwer'. I amun muac customied to this sort of thiing. At this~ point he was it'errupted by the crowxd and Tillmnan camne forward atnd said that lie was not here as a Ibulldozer. but as a prisoner at the bar on trial for thievery, and that he waited Appelt to have fair play. Senator Appelt then went on with his presentation. Ie said he had sup ported Tillman as faithfully and as loyally as any man in South Carolina. and with feeling said: "So help me God. I've been bis friend and have passed through a great deal for him right here in this county." le insist ed that he had not gone back on the Reform 'Movement. Circumstances brought about the present condItions and he and Senator Tillman's differ ence came about because of the primay isystem and the restrictions that Till Man favored, which he did not think necessary. From the outset he stated that he knew nothing, of his personal knowl edge, against Tillman and that what he charged was on written evidence or circumstantial evidence. Ile thought it proper to explain why he marked his letters as private, and that he did so because he did not believe them to be public matters and he did not look up on them as being "two-faced.' lie insisted that he was a Democrat and that if it was shown that McLaurin was not a Democrat he certainly would not support him. lie intended to re main a Democrat as long as he lived. No one had a right to charge that he was an insidious enemy to the Demo cratic party. McLaurin had nothing to do with his editorials. lie was a friend of Lic Laurin long before he knew Tillman and as much as he was a friend of 'Mc Laurin he has already told him that if he went into the Republican party he certainly would not support him, and MeLaurin has told him he has no idea of going into the Republican party, and he believed him. He has always advocated the party pledge re maining as it now reads, and he saw no reason at this time why there should be a change, and there was especially no reason why Tillman should favor change. as it was upon this very primary pledge that Tillman was selected as Governor and Uunited States Senator. He saw no reason why a small body of politicans should prescribe a man's loyalty to the party, and what he stood for was that the people should have the chance of judging a candidate's Democracy, otherwise the primary was a failure, Let the people judge of a man's fit ness. APPELT QUESTIO-S TILLMAN. Editor Appelt then read .the follow ing questions, which he suggested might be considered as the charges that he preferred, and that he really had nothing further to add this time. The list of questions follow: 1. Was not the primary system in augurated to give every white man a voice in the selection of candidates for otice? 2. Does not our party pledge allow every white man to be a candidate who pledges himself that he is a Democrat and will abide the result and support the nominees of the primary? Then why change it now? 3. Was not one of the main tenets of the Reform movement to bring the andidates face to face with the people and that there should be free thought, free speech, and free action? 4. Are you and some of your pre ending friends not in favor of fixing he party pledge so that a man who oes not agree with you on certain uestions, notwithstanding he claims o be a Democrat, endeavoring now to revent him from giving the people an pportunity to decide whether or not e is a Democrat? 5. When the dispensary system was naugurated, did you not make large urchases of the stock? 6. Did there not exist a: that time a whiskey trust," and did you not make arge purchases from a member of that rust? 7. Did not the trust have an agree ment to pay its purchasers a certain rebate? 8. D~uring several months of your ad inistrat ion large quant ities of liquor was purchased, was there any rebates r~corded on the books of the institu lion? 9. Why do not the rebates appear on the books? 10. Did you ever get cotton seed meal ad have it charged to the penitent ia ry, and insist upon that institution paying for it, and only paid ,after two years and then by comprom~se? 11. What authority did you have t~o buy for your private nse and have it charged to the State? 12. Did youm not get brick for your orivate use that belonged to the peo ple. of the St ate. Would vou have offer ed to pay for these brick had it not been exposed through t he Neal investi at ion? 13. How many bushels of oats did you get from the State farm and have ship ed to you at your home in Tren ton? 14. Did vou have the right to run a private farm at the expense c-f the State? 15. By what right in lawv or morals did you get the authority at Stat:e ex penseto get wood, coal and vegetales? 16i. D)id you not. continue to rEceive products f'rom the penitentiary at your home in Trenton as late as 19, not even paying t he express charges? 17. Did you not denounce your pre deoessors in oflice and charge "rotten ness" because of alleged pilfering froma the penitentiary? 38. Was not a committee sent to in vest igat e the dispensary transact ionls refused the right to examine the bceks. and did niot tihe members of the trust refuse to be subjected to an examina t ill On oath? 19;. Was not your dealings with the trust qjuest ione'd. and did von ever de mand of the trust that they permit an in vest igtat ion of your t ransact ions? 20. Did von no: on the hust ings create the impressioni uponi the minds of the people t hat the cause of their oppressed condit ion was largely duei to corporate red. and that. the State of New .Jer e was an incubator for fraudulent cor poat ioons? 21. A re vou not a member and a di retor in a' New Jrer sey chartered corn p~orat ion? 22. D id von not -denounce the inter ference of'a Uniited States senator with ouri ca mpaigns? 23. is it rnot against the law for you to use a free pass. express or telegraph frank, and do von use themi? 24. Did von'not. as governor of thle State and.' as such. chia irman of. lie board of dIirectors oft the State pen iten ia ry. inst rue!t lhe b ookkeeper inef tiat imstitmmt ion not to charge anyvting on1 te boks tO von or t0o open anm accounit aginst youz? eOPI Es (OF (E|.TiF'ICATs. Senator Appelt thlen reap the follow n. with the stat emenrt that they were cet itied copies of t he originals: I hmerehy certify that during the year lI~9 or 19M, while acting in the ca yalt of yard policeman for South I CONTINUED ON PAGE 4.] A BRUTAL MURDER Of a Young Married Lady XNear the City of Charleston. PEOPLE VERY XUCH EXCITED. The Victim Felled With Club and Her Throat Cut. Robbery Was the Object. One Man Arrested. News comes from Charleston of a brutal murder that was committed near New Roads on the Charleston and Savannah lHailway a few miles from Charleston in Culleton County. The murder. which was one of no.:* extraordinary brutality. was commit ted on Monday morning. the victim being a young married lady. 'Mr. W. W. Jones. a section master on the railroad on returning to his home in the forenoon found the body of his wife in a doghouse near his home. The throat of the young wife was et. from ear to ear. and the head was al most severed from the body. A blood stained sickle, which lay near the corpse, showed how the crime had been committed. As several articles were missing from the house, robbery is suppossed to have been the main object. Whether, as has been report ed, there has been a more tiendish crime will depend upon the reports of physicians. New Roads, where the shocking crime was committed, is a Ilag station between lHavenels and Adams Run, on the road running from Charleston to Savannah, and is about twelve miles from the first named city. Mrs. J. E. hinis, a neighbor, and a colored girl went to call on Mrs. Jones. Walking about the yard they saw M1rs, Jones in a dog house with her throat cut from ear to ear. It seerns that the murderer used a club about three and >ne-half feet long in knocking Mrs. Jones down, and seeing a scythe lying earby, used it and almost severed the 1ead from the body. Cain Ford, a negro, was arrested Aonday night en suspicion of complic ty in the murder of Mrs. Jor.es and vas Tuesday brought before Magis :rate Behling. Never have the peo ile in this section been more aroused han they were Tuesday. About 150 >ersons were present at the coroner's nquest over the remains of the dead xoman and several times it seemed hat the negro would be taken from -he otficers and lynched, but cooler leads prevented this, and Deputy 3heriff ArnetV was allowed to carry bhe prisoner to jail at Walterboro. If ,he testimony against Ford had been .t all positive he would have been wung to a limab in a very few min tes. The object of the murder was clear y robbery. 3r. Jones, the section aster, had been paid off only a few lays. After the crime the trunks in he house were found broken open .nd the robbers left with a pistol, azor and a gold watch and chain. Dr. . T. Taylor, in his testimony, declar d that Mrs. Jones was not assaulted. t is thought that Jim Black, a notori )us negro in this community, 's the] nurderer and that Ford knows some hing of the crime. One witness testi ed that he saw Jim Black near the ~cene of the murder, hurrying through :he woods with a pistol. Deputy heriff Arnett and the citizens of the ~ommunity will leave nothing undone o capture the guilty parties. Mr. and SIrs. Jones were married one year ago Jonday, and before the former started o his work in the morning, he gave is wife the gold watch and chain. THlE MUrRDERER ARRESTED. MIr. Jones is distracted with grief md shock at the terrible end of his ~vife. lie had left her MIonday morn ing at their house to go about some luty at a distance. Returning du ring the day he went into the house md found no trace of his wife. Call ing for her and getting no reply. he earched about the premises and was orrified to tind the mangled body in box which had been used as a dog house. The bloody corpse had been hrown into this receptacle by the urderer. - Mr. JTones at once gave the alarm and the trail of the brutes were struck. Suspicion fastened upon Black and Ford and they were follow d across the country. Truesday morn ing F~ord wa caught at Adam's Run and confessed his participation in the crime. The sheriff of Colleton county is handling the case and the prisoner* will be taken to Walterboro. Excite Eent runs high throughout the coun try and it is possible some difficulty will be met in holding the men and in bringing the other to jail safely. Mrs. Jones was an estimable young oman and had many friends in the ountry abou: Ravenel's and in Char leston. Hecr husband has been in the mploy of the Plant system for sever l years and is highly thought of. Their dwellingz was near tie railr'oad. nd there were few houses nearby and the surrounding co untry is but sparse l settled with white people. NEGotIEs HUtNTING TROI'BLE. Sheritl J. Elmor'e Martin (If Char leston County sent a posse of deputies to I ;ulow's phosphate mines for the protection (If the white people and property. on acount of reports re cived that the notorious nieg ro :rim .uls of that section had die termined to clean out the place. The negoes were worked up over the re ports of the white posses hunting for the negro murderers of the wife (If Section Master W. W. .Jones of the Plant System. at Riavenel. The ill-* ing ot' 's. Jones was a particulamriy brutal tragedy and the white people are naturally v'ery' mu'h worked up over it and purpose to follow the mur dcrers to their last stand. A telegram was received in Charles Ion stating that a negro named Cane For d haid been captured. ie admit ted compcity. but said t hat his only' Con ne'tion[ was toJ w.atch while anothep1 nero bumtchered Mrs. .Jones and1 serched the house for the valuable, ~whch er carried off. Ford is safe i' the tols but the feeling is said to e running high and a ly'nching bee may take place. The posses are close on to the other suspected negroes and it is no impm-anic that the whole bunch will stretch hemp, if they are caught. The Charleston authorities aire mfaintain- a strict vigilance in the suburbs for the suspects, and if caught. they will be turned over to the Colle ton county authorities. The negroes in the bottom lands in the suburbs of the city do not take kindly to the search for the suspected negroes of the RIavenel tragedy and they are behaving ugly. Capt. Mar tin is, however, the wrong man for them to run against, as they have found out in the prompt dispatch of the posse to the phosphate settlement. His instructions were positive and the deputies have gone prepared to pre serve the peace and do their full duty. A SUsPECT KILLED. A dispatch from Charleston to The State says information was received there Thursday that Ben Smith. a negro supposed to have had part in the killing of Mrs. W. W. Jones, near 1tavenel. was killed while attempting to escape from the magistrate's con stables. The negr' was handcuffed when he made the break for liberty. Ile refused to halt when ordered to do so, and he was swifter of foot than the constables, they opened lire upon him and brought him to the ground. It was was said here that the negro would have been a very important witness. le had preserved an air of stolidity from the time he was cap tured until Thursday morning when a lady from the country passing by where he was detained, exclaimed that Ben Smith had been on her farm the. day before and had had a watch which corresponded with the descrip tion of the section master. A GRAND PARADE. Old Confederate Veterans March to Old Tdnes in Dallas. The Confederate Veterans reunion it Dallas, Texas, came to an end on Thursday with one of the gieatest parades ever held at a Confederate reunion With their blood stirring to the same old airs which bade them lo and die for their cause two score years ago, the veteran remnant of the Donfederate army represented at the Dallas reunion marched through the ;treets of the city Thursday, the ob ect of wildly cheering throngs. . The day was a holiday in the city, ll public buildings being closed be ween the hours when the parade was >assing. Thousands of visitors. com ng for the sole purpose of seeing the ld soldiers were added to the multi ude already on the streets. That the weight of years was on nost of them was apparent in furrowed -eeks and snowy hair, in halting ;teps and rounded shoulders: but that he old pride of achievement and duty ,vell one remained was also to be seen n the dogged persistence with which bey followed the old flag and threw ff their years to the strains of 'Dixie." Many a veteran who in oth r days exhibited a brilliance of exe ution which added much to the suc xss of the strategems of Confederate eaders were compelled to drop out of ine before the march was over. Many rom the decrepitude due to advanc ng age or wounds received in battle vere unable to report, but they found laces along the way and waved their ats and screeched the famous rebel rell to show that they were with the narchers in spirit if not in actuality.1 The line of march, covering the lowntown district, was a packed mass >f humanity. The crowd was far and way the largest that the city has1 ~ver entertained. Windows were bright with the faces f women and girls waving handker-1 ~hiefs and flags and sidewalks were imost impassible by reason of the :ongestion. The decorations by rea son of the splendid weather recently vere as bright as on the first day. All the available police were kept usy tryving to keep the crowd off the treets but with ill success. The hrong was far te> large to admit of ontrol by any ordinary force. The spectators were for the most part or erly and many were forced into the street by pressure behind them on the sidewal k. The start was made at Main and ustin streets at 11 o'clock. Maj. ~en. Van Zanat, marshal of the day and staff, preceded by mounted police to clear the way, led the parade. Fol lowing him came Gen. Gordon and staf. The erect, slender figure, the alert eyes, the gray pointed beard of the commander in chief were well known to most of the spectators The location of the g:ay horse wvhicn lie bestrode could almost be told by the increase in the volume of cheers pro gressing like a wave. The general started to acknowledge the plaudits by taking off his hat but soon left it ot entirely, bowing incessantly to right and left. The sponsors and maids of honor of Forrest's cavalry rode with the veterans on horses and were roundly cheered all along the route. Even greater was the cheering for the rennlessee maidens who walked sidec by side with the old soldiers whom they had come to honor. The Ten nesseeans made a tine appearance as their dress was the uniform of gray of the Confederacy and they wore army caps and for the most part carried muskets with bayonets tixed. The Louisiana sponsors were mount ed and rode behind the tattered hag of the old Fourteenth Louisiana. 1ehind the old soldiers came the members of the Sons of Confederate Vetras. They were proud to follow their sires, as was stated by a speaker at their meeting Thursday. "we could do ro better than to (10 as they have done--to show courage. fortitude and devotion when the hour come." It was estimated that 1:2,00)0 men were in line, about :3.000 being veterans. Gen. Gordon had great trouble in getting back to his hotel. At every op)ortunity the crowds were eager to shake his hand. c rraled him and every moment lie stopped thle crush about him increased. A t the hotel a crowd of sponsors and maids of honor cap tured him and as many as could threw their arms about him. Adjt. Gen. Moorman rescued his chief by main force an~d actually dragged him into the otel. It was as line a parade as Ilever aw at a reunion.' said Gen. Gordon a an e.Morman echoed this expres A STEAMER BURNED To the Waters's Edge With Great Loss of Human Life. ONE EUNDRED PEOPLE PERISH. The Passen gers Were all Fast Asleep When the Fire Began and Escape for Many Was lmnpossiase. One of the worst disasters in the history (f Ohio river navigation oc curred shortly after 4 o'clock Monday morning at Ogdents landing near Cairo, Ill. While almist all aboard were asleep, the steamer City of Pitts burg was discovered to be o1 fire, and in a few moments was burned to the water's edge. The loss of over $80, 000 on the steamer does not include the cargo. both being total loss, The latest estimates are that 1 .10 porsons were aboard and that not more than 50 of them were saved. many of the latter were burned or injured. As the register of t be steamer wa's burned, no list can be given, either of ths victims or of the survivors, and in the confu sion it has I.een ipossible. to get com plete lists. Capt. Phillips admits that the death list may reach 100. Most of the passenger were stIll in bed when Second Clerk Oliver Phillips ave the ulaim. The engineer at once tarted all the pumping engines while the crew had brought all the hose into play. Amid the streams of water on ill sides. the fiames from the lower leck and dense clouds of smoke, the passenger rushed from their state rooms and a frightful paiic ensqed. ['he appeals of the officers and crew ould not appease the terror-stricken rowds that interfered with those hrowing water on the flames as well is those working with the life boats. ew could adjust life preservers or do inything for themselves. The smoke 1 Tas stifling. Great clouds floated brough the blazing steamer, choking he passengers and adding to the ter or. Children cried pitifully, beggig i hat they be saved. Lifeboats were 1 nanned and every effort was made to 1 ave the passengers from the floating I c1g.iace of flames. Beats were sent rom shore to help in the work of escue. The steamer was quickly leaded to the bank but passengers ere forced to jump from the stern nd trying to swim ashore through the wift current many were drowned. Iany also perished in the flames. )nly one yawl was saved, without ars, and about 20 or 30 women were aken off in the yawl. The rest were icked up out of the water. Help, ex ept from people living nearby, did ot arrive until 2.30 o'clock Monday t fternoon and passengers with only t might clothes, and without food, a uffered terribly. S CAUSE OF DELAY. C he State Boardj of Pensions Makes an Official Statement. The State pension board requests he newspapers to give the following t tatement publication:( While the law provides that the C ension money shall be disbursed on he first Monday of April of each ear, owing to the delay on the part i f certain county pension boards and S heir failure to make reports to the tate board on the first Monday int larch, as required by the rules of thet tate board, the State board has been 2 nable to examine new applications nd dispose of them until now-theirt econd meeting. The reports from I ome counties have been received since I he 1st of April, and straggling appli-C ~ations from counties have been comn ng in up to the present, some in fact vere received by the board today. ['hie members composing the State oard are anxious to disburse this fund t the earliest date possible, and any lelay in disbursing the same caanot roperly be charged to them. It is a act that if the board had held their neeting the 5th day of April, for in tance, which was beyond the date the ast regular list was received and dis epproved, all those applications that ~vere not in due form-several hundred eserving people, who as it is, will eceive pensions, would have been left >if the list entirely: but the board hav ng returned them for correction, the. ]elay caused has resulted in their be ng on. The State pension board vould like the various county papers o publish this statement. The State board is composed of J. . Derham, comptroller general and ~hairman: G. H1. McMaster, W. D. tarling. W. H. Harden, Dr. P. E. ri1in. Miss Kate F. Maher is the clerk. A "Dastard Villian." Senator Rawlins got hot under the he collar while discussing the Philip ine question in the United States enate on Thursday. He quoted the rders issued by general otlicers in the hilippines. lie was interrupted by r. Carmack of Tennessee. who direct d particular attention to this phrase n one of G;en. Chaffee's orders: "I do not urge inhuman conduct." "It strikes me." suggested Mr. Car nack, "that Gen. Chatfee should have said: 'I forbid inhuman conduct.'" "The purpose was," said Mr. Raw ins. "that the soldiers were left to ractice with inpunity and without isapproval inhuman conduct. That s the only intelligent and reasonable nterpretation that can be put upon " That was the meaning ascribed to t by the subordinate commanders who practiced the most inhuman con lut that the mind of man can con eve. - Mr. Rawlins sharply criticised Gen. haffee and denounced him as a "das tard villian who had brought dishonor pon the American name and the American people." Application was made last' week to the secretary of State for a charter for the Imperial Baking Powder company f Charleston, with a capital stock of id,000. The incorporators are all hrleton men. LOVED THE MOSSES. A Splendid Tribute to the Late Gov. Altgeld. In opening his very elaborate ad dress at the memorial meeting to John P. Altgeld at the auditorium, Chicago. on Sunday last, Clarence S. Darrow said: "When the Irish patriot Robert Emmet was condemned to death, he begged his accusers and traducers -not to write his epitaph, but to leave it to a generation which could understand his motives and do justice to his cause. So. too, might John P. Altgeld have asked the powerful and great of the generation in which he lived, those who hated, despised and reviled him, to be content with destroying his repu tation and his life and leave another generation to.do justice to his namue. Not until the present commercial age shall have passed away, not until the world knows and recognizes and wor ships some other god than greed, can John P, Altgeld and men like him take the place they earn in the hearts of the unwilling world the serve. ".When reason and justice and lib erty shall once more control the minds of men a rejuvenated world will look back upon John P. Altgeld and and in his humble birth, his patient work, his heroic life, and his dramatic death one of the greatest and highest exam ples of devotion and righteousness that has over been given to the world. No man In this generation has been more misunderstood and maligned I than he in whose honor we have as- 1 ;embled here. The measureless abuse hat was heaped upon him while he I ived was due almost wholly to the act that he was a lover of his fellow I nan. This has ever been the one un- t ardonable sin that the rulers of the I vorld cannot forgive. John P. Alt- c eld was not the first martyr and will a ot be the last to be crucitied for i ighteousness' sake. Through all the u .ges the form of martyrdom has been i >ractically the same, but the cause s ias shifted accordin to the prevail- c ng sentiment of this day. In one age c he martyr was the brave soul who t ould cry out against religious intoler- 0 .nce; in another the man who fear essly challenged political tyranny; and v n the present age the man who dared p o question the absolute right of gold v o control the conscience and the judg- t nent of the world. This was John P. s Utgeld's crime. fe dared to place the d ights and liberties of man above the f ower of greed and wealth." d Funston is Muzzled. By direction of President Roosevelt, s Lting Secretary of War Sanger has a ddressed the following letter to Gen. 0 'rederick Funston: b War Department, Washington, April 22, 1902. d Sir: I am directed by the president e o instruct you that he wishes you 0 o cease further public discussion of Ir he situation in the Philippines; and I so to express his regret that you a ould make a senator of the United IN tates the object of public criticism or t iscussion. Very respectfully, a Wm. Cary Sanger; ti Acting Secretary of War. ti rig. Gen. Funston, commiandir';, de- q partmnent of the Colorado, Denver, Colo. - al At a banquet last Saturday night of v e Colorado Sons of the Revolution, a ~en. Funst-n is reported to have said is f Senator Hoar: hi "I have only sympathy for the senior c0 eator from Massachusetts, who is tl ffering from an overheated con- p ience." i Probably what caused the issue of a: is particular letter was an applica- P on from Gen. Funston for leave <~ f a bsence in order that he might attend q e banquet to be given in Boston by e: e Middlesex club. The request was s< fused and the president telegraphed si ren. Funston not to speak at the Mid- t1 lesex. A copy of Mr. Sanger's letter I as forwarded to Senator Hoar. 0 O Killed a Mad Dog. A special from Anderson to The tate says Mrs. Russell McGukin, t iving on Orr street, killed a mad dog s ith a rock Tuesday afternoon. The r dy was at work in her garden when g he animal ran in anid attacked her. he picked up a good sized rock lying n the ground and let drive. The ock struck the dog full in the fore tead and the animal's career was end- E d. Mrs. McGukin is a rather frail t dy, but she has exploded the old 2 heory that a woman cannot' throw a ock with true aim. To Be Treated Alike. Representatives Meyer and Ransdell1 f Louisiana saw the president Thurs lay in behalf of some Confederatec 'eterans employed in the census office. fhese men have passed the. age limit eyond which employes will not be re- 7 ~ained, in -the permanent census ureau, although an exception has beent nade in the case of Union veterans. he president indicated to them that te had no discrimination to make ast etween the two, and that he would ake the matter up with Directior Jarriam. A Sad Scene. The three Van Wormer boys have ~ een convicted of murdering their un le in New York and sentenced to be ~lectrocuted. "This is the saddest noment of my career on the bench,"C ~vere the opening words of Justic Ches :er as he passed sentence upon the c outhful criminals. The boys carried , t off with bravado, and their attorney - leclares they will get a new trial. - Should Pass.r Senator McLaurin of this State' c ntroduced in the United States on hursday a bill providing that after he passage of the act, "there should tot be collected any duty upon pork, eal, mutton or beef imported into f he United States from foreign coun- I cries." The bill was referred to the C ~ommittee on finance.1 r Casualties to Veterans. c A. V. Winters, a veteran from r facon, Ga., died from heart disease at t the depot at Terrell, Texas while on 1 iis way to the Dallas reunion. An- I ther veteran, whose name is un mown, fell from the train at Elmo ras, and will die. t' A NOTE OF WARNING. Senator Rawlins Vigorously Attacks Government's Philippine Policy. THE COMMISSION'S POWERS. It Can Make Peace or Declare Wa Without Asking Congress. Gen. Funston Given a Roasting. Formal discussion of the bill tem porarily to provide a government for the Philippine islands was begun in the United States Senate on Tuesday of last week, Mr. Rawlins of Utah, the leading minority member of the Phil Ippine committee, opening the debate with a speech in opposition to the measure. He denounced the bill as an inwarranted imposition upon the Fili pinos, declaring that it would establish >ne of the foulest oligarchies in the istory of the world. He maintained 'hat the Philippine commission was 5iven too great power by the bill and isserted that under its provisions, the slands would be exploited for private an. While he was speaking two efforts vere made to, maintain a quorum, the econd resulting in a lively tilt among everal senators, Mr. Scott of West irginia intimating that no argument - hat could be made upon the subject ould influence any senator. "We seem to have arrived at that iint in our history," said Mr. Rawlins where there are those who affect to elieve that it is sedition to think and reason to talk. 'For Gtd's sake, let us :eep silent until the war is over!' ex laims a peripatetic hero and gradu te from the Philippines who wants to 2ake frec speech treason and to cart s away to the gallows, although he aight give the senator from Massanhu ftts the benefit of clergy on account " f his sympathy for a 'superheated ; nscience.' All, if we are to believe im, with the approvalof the president f the United States. "Congress no longer has to declare rar. An Otis or a Chaffee are pre ared to attend to this any day in the. eek. A few days ago a message came us that Malvar, the last of the -in irrectos, had surrendered. The next ay it was announced .that Gen. Chaf ,e had declared a new war and had ispatched an army to wage It against wo millions of people In the Island of [indanao. But mumisto be the word >long as there Is any disturbance. 3ywhere within our borders or in any ae of the more than thousand Islands -yond the seas. "This bill sticks its roots into and rives its support from that excres ice upon,the army appropriation, bill 1901, known as the Spooner amend ent. The qualification of the abso te power therein conferred, adopted Sthe instance of the senator from assachusetts, by this bill is elimina d. All property rights In the islands id the fate of their inhabitants are trned over to the control and disposi on of the commission, without any aalification of Importance. "The commission may declare war id make peace; raise armies and pro de navies; regulate commerce with 1 sorts of discriminations between lands and ports; levy taxes withoub; mit and without uniformity. It may >inl money and regulate the value 1ereof; and may establish religionand inish those who do not conform to s tenets. It may destroy free speech, 3d punish as an act of sedition the ablication of truth in regard to their lministration. It can establish an in isition; devise and apply methods of tcruciating torture, compelling per mns to be witnesses against them Uves and disclose Information which ie commission may desire to extort. i may practice any or all of the acts ltyranny which history has disclosed r genius may devise. "It is useless to say that this power ~ill not be abused. Attention willibe ivited to some instancees in the his ory of our relations with the Islands aowing the extent to which our rep esentatives have gone in acts of per dy, injustice, oppression and cruelty." Still Fighting. A dispatch from Manila says two ngagements have been fought be ween the American troops and the foros of the Island of Mindanao dur ag the past twenty-four hours. foore of the Twenty-seventh in antry, while out with a small party tunting for water, was fired upon at >ng range. Lieut. Col Baldwin, rith a battalion of troops and a 2ountain gun, went to the assistance f Moore's party and drove off the toros, who lost seven men. The fir ag was at 1,100 yards' range. The oro villages are flying red flags, eaning that they intend to figit to hie utmost. Later the Sultan of 'ualo and a force of natives attempt d to re-occupy the ground gained by he Americans but the Moros were arcibly dispersed. Stealing Children. A dispatch from the city of Mexico lys continued revelations in the mat er of child stealing for Yucatan have reatly excited the common people, rom among whom a large number of bildren have been lured away by a and of professional kidnappers. The bildren which were stolen have been ant to Yucatan, some to work as aves on the Honequin plantations, thers to be servants. Enrique Iglesias, ne of the alleged leaders of the kid appers, has delivered himself up to Le police and is in Relem prison in ommunicado. An Editor's Schedule. An Oklahoma editor announces the >llowing cash-in-advance schedule: 'or telling that a man is a successful itizen when everybody knows he is tzier than a government mule, $2.75; eferring to the deceased as one sin erely mourned by the entire commu ity when he will be missed only at he poker circle, $1.08; referring to a dy as one whom it is a pleasure to eet when every business man hides f he sees her coming, $3.19; sending ,tough to heaven, with poetry hmown in, $5.