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VOL. XVIII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. APRI *MR,. WATSON TALKS. The Commissioner of Immigration Tells New York Paper OF NEW STATE DEPARTMENT. Commissioner Watson Makes a State ment of What He Hopes to Accomplish in.Bringing White Labor Here. By an act of the South Carolina legislature which went into effect on 1 Feb. 26 there was created in the State a department of agriculture, com merce and immigration. E. J. Wat son of Columbia, a representative of the new generation of energetic young business men who are the impelling I force back of the recent awakening of southern industries and commercial activity, has been selected by Gov. Heyward as the first commissioner of I _.,.the new department. Mr. Watson has been in New York for several days on business connected with his office. This summer he will make a trip to Denmark, Norway, Sweeden and Germany, with a view to presenting the advantages of South Carolina as a field for the desirable class of immigrants. wto come from those countries. Speaking Wednes- ! day of his visit to New York and of the ;circumstances which led to the t creation of the department of which l he is the head Mr. Watson said: "My presence in New York at this l time is due to the new conditions that have arisen in the middle south, and t it is no unmeaning errand considered a in the light of the development of the t country. The rapid development of I southern manufacturing and the con sequent robbing of the fields of the white tenant farmer class, the demon stration given to the world last fall of the dependency of its cotton manu- c facturing interests on the south for r raw material. not alone in this coun- s try but abroad-these and the ten- I dency of the negro to move to the centres of population and thence to the east are the three essentials to be considered. "It is perhaps a strange and yet not unexpected condition that the very rapid development of the manufac- C turing industry of the south-particu larly in my State-should result in in lury to agricultural interests. The C explanation, however, is easy. When > we went ahead 'and put nearly 840,- 1 000,000 into cotton mills, which could t only be operated with white labor for c reasons it is not necessary to discuss, I we simply robbed our fields of the C white tenant farmer class and left I the agricultural interests in such a s condition as to demand the attention r of the State government. Then came o a move of Sully and Brown which has f revealed to the whole cotton manu facturing world its dependency upon a the cotton growing states of this s country, accentuating the acuteness t of a situation already seen and realiz ed. The farmers fared well and they e have profited. Now they realize c their power and their opportunity, e but they find themselves without the necessary labor, and intelligent labor they must have. They consequently want something and want it quickly. "Another phase of this situation is the negro question. Our farmers have always had plenty of negro labor on their places. Today they are crying for labor with which to work their crops. Having lost the white tenant farmer for the reasons assigned, they 1 have suffered the additional partial loss of the negro farm laborer. This is due to the fact that the negro's ten dency, in our State at least, in the last few years has been, first, to seek the larger centres of population and commerce. In the cities he finds him self poorly clad, irregularly and ill fed and a natural 'rictim of immorality the consequent suffe-er from diseases which tend to balance the death and birth rate. Again, his tendency is to seek railroad construction camps and to move north and east. The exempli fication of this can be most strikingly found in Washington and Baltimore, and even here in New York, the in crease in the negro population in the two first name cities having been reached in the last two or three years. "All of these things have combined, together with the appearance of the boll weevill in Texas, to awaken the agricultural interests of the South to a realization of the fact that something must be done. The great need is white settlers from this country and abroad. My State has seen the situation, and that is why I am here. Our farmers know that the boll weevil. unless an insect to destroy him is discovered, is likely to cross the Mississippi at any moment and do what Sully had done this year, with the additional feature that the effect on prices will be per manent. They know that if the weevil does come prices will remain high, and that the danger of the pest is an ele ment in the situation- Tney realize that they want diversified and inten sified farming. and, knowing th.s, they have succeeded in establishing, near the heart of the State, diversifi cation farm No. L. by the federal gov ernmant, under the boll weevil appro priation. "Further, knowing the need of in telligent labor, the State has estab lished its department of agriculture, commerce and immigration, at the head of which I have been placed for four years, with the view of inducing desirable in restments and settlers from north European and American points to come to South Carolina-the real garden spot of tbe world, possess ing a soil and climate producing some crop the year round. We have thous ands of acres of land lying idle at this time, and it is the province of the new departmenlt to bring about their development. "The department has been fashion ed upon the best features of national and State departments of like nature, and the scope is broad enough to admit of its handling any conditions that may arise affecting industrial develop "I am here now to set the ball in motion toward getting that which we so greatly need-intelligent white labor of Saxon origin. The work, so far is of constructive character, but 1 trust it will be prolific of genuine results. I am dealing with all having any interest in the situation that is attracting attention to the middle south-the southern France of Amer ica-and thus far effectively. I am i trying to see all who are interested in any way, for I feel that those who invest or settle in South Carolina have a bright future awaiting them. When the waste places have been populated the act under which we are operating , s so constructed that we can turn our: ttention to other plans of develop nent as the necessity for them ar- { ives. "There is no part of the country hat offers so many inducements as. foes the middele south just now to be native and foreign settler and nvestor. Our State department has I ust been launched, but I believe it is onstructed upon better and broader ines than any similar State depart nent in the country, and I expect otew-rthy results. We are now in a >osition to offer to the desirable farm !r from across the water lands upon hich he can raise something the rear round, and with due considera-, ion to all conditions I cannot see therein the element of failure enters. know we have obstacles to sur nount, but obstacles ara ever an >lement in the success of any import Lnt undertaking which is of itself a leparture from the beaten tracks. "All the Sduthern Statesare begin ling to awaken to the value of their >wn resources, and it is safe to pre liet that in the next few years this )art of the United States will teome considerable factor in the produc ion of the wealth of the country at c arge. Eastern capital isat this time u >aving more attention to southern t and and other investments than ever >efore, and the spirit of progress is'y oday running strong in places where few years ago the people seemed to'! e ignorant of their opportunities." law York Sun. Five Were Suffucated. Five persons are dead and another s dying as the result of a fire that oc urred Wednesday in the Columbia c tall building, a metal sheathed three- 1 tory structure located in Wilson s ?lace at Mount Vernon, N. Y. The I ead: l Nathan Frey, 66 years old. E Isadore Frey, 12 years. c Stephen Frey, 9 years.c Henry Frey, 3 years. Gussie Dohring, 10 years, a cousin I f Mrs. Rebecca Frey. 1 Mrs. Frey is dying in a hospital. n The first floor of the building wasi s ccupied by the Columbia Piano com- t; any. On the second floor was Cu- R ambia hall, with ante-rooms and on ri he third floor were apartments oc- s< upied by the Frey, Barry and 1t .avigne families. Fire spread through- b ut the toop floor with great rapidity. Ii The inmates were aroused by the moke and heat and all endeavored to I a aake their escape but the members r; f the Frey family were o'vercome be ore any of them could even reach a ii window. Mr. and Mrs. Barry and Mr. ,nd Mrs. Lavigne managed to reach a windows on the third floor and were d >rought down ladders by the firemen. b All the dead are more or less burn- ii , but their deaths probably resulted, c irectly from suffocation. The prop- b rty loss is estimated about $30,000. ' Students. Shoot a Man. a At Lexington, Ky., Coley Hayden, C 9 years old, was shot at the State ollege baseball park Friday by Lee. tnderscn, a . State college student, vho was acting as guard at the park. ~ Ehe bullet entered Hayden's left r boulder and intlicted a serious wound. olice Capt. Brown went to the park ~ o0 arrest Andecrson. As soon as Ander on learned his mission, he pulled his evolver and declared he would not ubmit to arrest. A crowd of 200 state college students backed him up I n his refusal. Capt. Brown rushed I n before he could shoot, however, and fter a tussle, disarmed Anderson. He was placed under arrest and she students made no further 1 Lttempt to keep him fromb the >olice. Later he was releasedc >n bond. The State college and Central university were engaged in a tame of baseball, and Hayden was ooking on through a crack in the ence. Anderson ordered him away when, it is said, Hayden cursed him.I Anderson there upon shot him with ut further words. Gave Life ror Friend. 1 Four men lost their lives in an ex plsion Friday at the Pintsch Gas Compressing company's plant in south west Washington. The dead are: Stephen Henson, Charles W. Grigsby. Joseph Cumberland and an unknown negro. Henson, Cumberlanil and the negro were instantly killed. Grigsby was seriously burned and died at the hospital. His injuries were the re-. .ult of an heroic attempt to rescue: his comrades. He rushed into the:B engine room and catchig the arm of Cumberland, who was .buried in the debris, tried to drag him out. Tiue flames rapidly enveloped Grigsby but he released his hold on Cumberland only after the arrival of the firemerr: He told the hospital physicians that the disaster was caused by the gas be coming too high'and the inability of thec men to tind the leak. "The room," said he, "must have been full, the gas kept rising and the roof was blown off." A Trust "Buster." Congressman John W. Gaines. of Tennessee, in a speech against an ap propriation for building a road in Alaska, said that his constituents needed good roads and besides were oppressed by trusts, but the oppres sion of the ice trust had been relieved by Chief Justice Alton B. Parker and others in New York, when the Demo crats applauded the name of Parker, and Mr. Gaines again provoked ap plause on the minority side by saying: "We are going to put him in the White House. He is going to crush the bal ance of the trusts in this country, which the Republicans will never do." She Played The Rtaces. The story is circulating in offcial circles and exclusive society, that Miss Alice Roosevelt has been banished; to New York for the rest of the: Washington racing season because she made tets on races and was photo graphed in the act by some photo-* grapher on the grounds. The man. who took the snap shots tried to sell the pictures to newspapers, but the; president and friends suppressed the WANT TO COME HERE. Tiews of a Aew Englander Who Wants His People rO SETTLE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. )ne Among Many Who Wish to settle in a More Temperate Climate. A Sincere Yankee Dec laration. ^o the Editor of The State: I have received two letters from my riend, Mr. Howard, who is deeply in erested in getting Massachusetts aen to settle in South Carolina. In his letter of March 23d Mr. How rd says: - Ware, Mass., March 23, 1904. o1. John P. Thomas, Charleson, S. C. Dear Sir: The Columbia State at and. Your editorial 0. K. I am clined to think Mr. Watson thinks ou and I have too much to say. At ny rate he don't condescend to ac nowledge our good intentions. I see 1. V. Richards has sent a man to lumbia in the interest of Southern allroad. We no doubt will see the rorkings of the bureau of immigra-! ion in good time if we only will have atience. Mr. Watson is no doubt rorking his brains. The class of peo le this very State of Massachusetts as allowed to come in last year are a arse to any country, and are contin ally dumped over here-to the bene t of the country they leave. and a arse to the one they come to. If ou don't believe it visit any of the ianufacturing cities of Massachu tts. I am, Very truly yours, W. V. HOWARD. In his letter of March 24th Mr. loward says: My Dear Colonel: I sent you a few' lippings yesterday and I see one in st night's paper I thought I would and you today, with my views of it. have advertised my property for the: Lst three weeks in 10 papers, viz.: oston Globe, Boston Herald, Wor ester Gazette, Springfield Republi in, Springfield Union, Springtield [omestead, Hartford Courant, Ware ,iver News and Barre Gazette. Yes, 0 papers, and I have .had but one ian to call to look at my farm and >me six letters of inquiry. The rouble in New England is the cold rinter for me; that is the one great ason I want a change and I can't .e why the west part of South Caro na is not an ideal place for me, a full lood, dyed-in-the-wool Yankee, and )ts more of us who have always been corkers, and are willing to let our rm out if we can come with the ight hand of fellowship extended. I know that there are some people 2 South Carolina who look upon the tew England Yankee as tricky, sharp nd always looking for the almighty ollar. This may be so to an extent, I ut these yarns as to the Yankee be-I ig a. "negro lover" is all bosh; the lass of people I would like to see ave a chance to better themselves rant none of it. There may be in nd around Harvard college and Blea on street a few so-called "nigger vers," but they want them at arms mgth. Now in my town of 9,000 eople there has never been in the ast 50 years but one colored family. )ur people outside of the cities know othing of them and want nothing of hem, only they would like to see the olored man, as long as the Great reator has put him on the earth,. iven a chance to bave a home and ountry and some of God's blessings hat are given to others; and the most the people, that is, the class I have equested you to present to the chief f the bureau of immigration for his' onsideration, would much prefer this overment (instead of the millions hat tave been blown in foolis i1y and eedlessly in the Philippines on a lot f people who want no part of us, and 0 per cent. of the people of this ountry want no part 2f them) would ~ive to the head of every colored fain ly a home of 23 or 50 acres of land n, we will say, Central America, Duba or Jamaica. Give the colored nan a country of his own and a flag; stablish him on his land with proper ooking after and advice till his chil Iren can have the benefit of schools. 'hat the colored people can live in his part of the world and a white nan would have a hard time of it, is rell known; that is the way the Yan see who works for a living would olve the negro problem. My dear colonel, I started to tell ou how I was trying to sell out here Lnd don't have the success I could wish; the fact is there are 1,000 farms *or sale to one buyer; farms are a rug in New England. I intend to write you from time to time anyway n order to keep posted as to immi ration, etc. 1 am, Very truly, etc., W. V. HOWARD. This is one clipping Mr. Howard sends: "The Hartford Post lightly says: 'Four Waterbury hotels were plum full the other night when a colored alergyman applied for a room in one after another of them.' It is for this reason that so many northerners see it to protest against the introduction of Jim Crow cars in the south. They have an easier method here. "-Spring field Republican. This is another: "Tables of figures showing the im migration of foreigners into New England during 1903 have just been completed by Rev. Joel S. Ives of Hartford, who for the past four years has conducted a census of the foreign population of the six States in behalf of the Congregational Home Mission ary society. According to bis figures, the influx of foreigners last year was as follows: Maine, 1,997; New Hlamp shire, 1,S61; Vermont, 1,611: Massa chusetts, 65,757: Rhode Island, 9,467, and C~ enecticut. 21,813, a total of 102,506. Southern Europe supplied a great number of these immigrants, for of the total 28, 151 were Italians and 11,877 Poles."-Spiagfield Re publican. The third clipping I give is from the same paper, the Springfield Re publican: "The south wants white immigra in, but is Aenied it- and why that section in vain seeks to attract suc immigration is thus stated by ti Wilmington (N. C.) Star: "'As long as we lynch in the soutl and furthermore draw our guns an shoot each other to death on tt streets, we are wasting time in estal lishing immigration bureaus. Peop: will be deterred from immigrating t a State where a big murder record made year in and year out.' 'The Charleston News and Courit says of this that 'that is the plat truth plainly spoken. Only the de: perately adventurous and most und sirable would seek residence in a con munity or State where a citizen's abi ity to draw a pistol and shoot first i his greatest security.' Such tal from southern newspapers is very er encouraging. No situation, howeve bad, is hopeless where the truth fine out.spoken and fearless utterance." Wbtreupon Mr. Howard comment as follows: "There are knifing, cutting, shool ing and crimes of all sorts 50 per cen1 more in New England than in tb south." I wish to add that Mr. E. J. Wal son, the State commissioner, has it formed me that it is his purpose t communicate with Mr. Howard wit the view of ascertaining how he ca advance the cause of immigration t the south in New England. It is such men as Mr. Mattheso and Mr. Howard and such railroads a the Southern that advance in a prac tical way the main purposes of th breau of immigration. Let them b encouraged and sustained for th public good. JNo. P. THOMAS. March 30, 1904. CONVICTS REVOLT. An Uprising of Prisoners in the Miu souri- State Penitentiary. A desperate attempt was made b: about fifty convicts at the Missoni penitentiary to blow up that institu tion early Wednesday morning, killin all the guards who interfered wit them and to turn loose on Jefferso City some three hundred criminals. At 10 o'clock Buck Williams, guard in charge of the jail, hear some one call, "hold up your hands which was immediately followed b a shot. Williams grabbed a poke and yelled at a convict, "fire away." Yardmaster Lehugh heard tb shot and sounded a general alarrm John Brunner assistant yardmaste arrived, and breaking a window lei elled his gun at a convict who dodge into a cell after firing another shot. Several guards with guns appeare but Brunner was the only one wh had nerve to go into the cell building Taking an extra gun Williams an Brunner entered the building an with Williams proceeded to a cel where the convicts had been seen. They called on the guards, "Ho] up your hands!" But later brough their guns into play and the convict submitted. A search of the cell was made an twenty pounds of dynamite, beside a bottle of nitro-glycerine, two revoll ers and a box of cartridges, were foun and a number of skeleton keys. It i not known *how the weapeons or e2 plosives were obtained. Rioring Follows Strike. Although it was announced Tue! day night that the strike at tb American Can company's plant I Chicago had been settled tnle riotin around the place was fiercer Wednel day than it has been at any time an one man, John Nichols. lost his lii by a bullet fired, it Is sa'd, from train on which were a number of noi union men being taken -back to tI city after the conclusion of the day work. The fighting beagn early in tt morning, when 300 Greeks who has been employed during the strike a tempted to come to the factory. The were met at the gates by a large nun ber of union pickets who attacke them with stones and clubs. A larg detachment of the police had the hands full in protecting the Greel when a shot fired from the crow aroused the Greeks to fury. Tho! who had entered the factory canm pouring out armed with knives at revolvers and attempted to attack ti union men and their sympathizer wt were assaulting those Greeks wI ad not yet reached the gatewa; The police after a desperate strugg managed to keep the two bodies I men apart. In this fig ht a number'i men were hattered up. At ni4t when the 300 Greeks left the plai they were attacked by a mob ful: 10.000 strong that pelted them wil stones, sticks and bottles. Thle New Stamps. The new series of stamps commet orative of the Louisiana purchase e pc sition will be placed on sale by ti postof~ice department April 30 at will be continued till December 1i The designs are as follows: One cen with portrait of Robt. R. Livingsto United States minister to Franc who conducted the purchase negoti tions; twu cent, red, portrait of The Jeierson, president at the time ti purchase was made; three cent, pu ple, portrait of Jas. Monroe, speci ambassador to France; iive cents, blu portrait WAilliam McKinley, who president approved the act of co gress otficially connected with ti exposition: ten cent, brown, bearii United States map, showing the te ritory of the purchase. Had None to Cut. The House of Representatives Washington was considering a bill prohibit the docking of horses' tail Congressman Perkins was speaking favor of the measure when he wasi terrupted by Mr. Cooper of Wisco sin, who asked: "Why does anybo' dock a horse's tail?" Mr. Perkins plied: "Chiefly because it looks a gre deal better. Why do you cut your hu instead of having it down over yo sholders't" The humor of this reply any, lies In the fact that Mr. Coor is about as bald as a turnip. A Foolish Denver MIan. In order that she may get pho1 graphs of the face of a man in t greatest agony for reproduction a realistic painting, Mrs. Josephi Devel, an artist of Morristown, N.. has hired a Denver man who has cc snted to have his hand mutilat while the camera at " HORRIBLE DEEDS Told by a Presbyterian Missionary e to the Can-o Free State. o THE CANNABAL ARMY MURDERS s Innocent Womnen and -ebildrfen Who Are Captured to Show that n Work of Raiding Villages is Well Done. Dr. W. M. Morrison, Southern s Presbyterian missionary to the Congo Free State, in an address at Lonisville, r Ky., gave an impressive recital of s alleged barbarities practiced on the natives of Congo by the authorities, S and of the obstacles thrown in the way of their correction by the of ticials. He said: "I lived with these peo e ple seven years, and know what I am talking about. -King Leopold has there a native cannibal army of twenty thousand men, officered by white Belgians and armed with a repeating rifles. They are men re -presenting the worst and most savage o type of natives, caught and carried far from their homes and forced into ? military service. In turn this soldiery s is used to compel the natives to bring in enormous tribute of ivory and rub ber. It is worth nothing that the King of Belgium is today is reputed to e be the largest dealer in ivory and rub ber in the world. "As a result of forced military serv ice and labor, great and unspeakable cruelties are practiced on the natives I have seen five thousand fleeing to the forests to escape the cannibal soldiers of King Leopold. I have seen soldiers scouring through the forests catching men wanted by the government as laborers and taking - the captives away with ropes tied around their necks. s "Raids upon villages are constantly made, some are killed, others sold into a captivity and others forced into labor and military service. One can bu. a all the slaves wanted for ten or fifteen 1 dollars each. In these raids innocent " women and children are killed or cap , tured. Their hands are cut. off to be r taken back to the Belgian officers to show that the work has been well e done. On one of these raids near the mission stations, one of our mision r aries counted eighty hands cut off, drying by a fire to be taken to an 3 officer and forty-five dead lying near. "The Belgian government make a 3 stereotyped denial of all charges. I ? have seen personally the Governor of the Congo Free State and have been i in the palace of the King of Belgium; d neither will do anything. The British government is interested in the situa tion., Consul Roger Casement, as the d English and American representative t to Congo, has just made a tour of in s' vestigation. His report is now in the hands of the government at Washing 3 ton and presents a most deplorable s situation." Clearing a Mystery. s The first trace of Mrs. John C. Burns since her disappearance from a Chicago hotel two years ago was found last week when James Taylor, a negro, was arrested at Cincinnati. -He had in his possession, Mrs. Burns' e Daughter of the American Revolution f pin, engraved with her name, as well g as several articles of jewelry which - bore initials. Thbe prisoner is said to d have disclosed the hiding places of e other jewels, which are alleged to a have been the property of Mrs. Burns. IThe total value of the property re e covered is nearly 55,000. About two syears ago, Mrs. Burns announced that esewsgoing away on a short visit. C Her husband was believed to be in r Europe. Taking several truinks, but yleaving many of her belongings in her troom, Mrs. Burns left the hotel giv d ing instructions to hold mail until eshe sent her forwarding address. From r that day to this no word has been re s ceived from her or her husband. Mrs. d Burns was prominent as a member of I the Daughters of the American e Revolution, and also was connected d with several women's clubs, most of Le the organizations to which she belong - 0 ed having been located in the East, .0 where she resided before coming to '. Chicago.________ yf Stole the Mormions Wives. >f Prospectors from the lower Sierra t Madre Mountains of Mexico, south t west of l Paso, bring the story of a y raid made by Guan Coloroda, alais b"John Redhead," upon Don Felipe, a newly formed Mormon c:olony. The noted bandit and his band pillaged the settlement, carrying away three 2 of Elder Hiram Johnson's wives, one of which is the favorite of his large ehousehold. A posse of Mexican rural d pol:ce and a squad of Mormons, who t. as a vigilance committee, style them tselves "aegigangels," pursued the 2bandits for t hirty-six hours and tinal e, ly surprised them in the fastness of athe Sierra Madra Mountains. A tight s. took plack in which two of the out elaws were wounded. The band fled, r- leaving the women. They had been al kept-two days in a cave, where a con e, siderable amount of bullion treasure was found, which. it is believed, was a- stolen from a pack train recently. eGreat Trust Grower. Unquestli nably Theodere Roose r-velt is the greatest friend the trusts ever had, judging from the figures. Under eight years of Cleveland 8250, n 000,000 worth of industrial trusts to were formed, under McKinley about s. 2,00,000.00, while under Roosevelt in the capitalization of these concerns a- reached the fabulous sum of $3,670, n000,000. Never in the history of the ly world have the trusts flourished in e- such rank luxuriance as ttiey have at under the benign influence of Abdul .ir Roosevelt. i Served H-im Rtight. er IAt Savannah, Ga., Henry Olson was found guilty in the United States court Wednesday morning of shang haiing sailors out of Savannah. A re - ceipt was shown in court indicating be that Olson had received $250 for the in shipping of eight negroes who were ne subsequently discharged penniless it .Bristol, Eng., wvhence they were re - turned to this country by the Ameri ed Ican couccil. There are other cases o1 a similar choaater aoainst Olsen. SHOT BY CONSTABLES. They Were Assaulted by One White Man and Two Negroes. A dispatch from Charleston to The State says M. S. Sullivan, a lineman of the Postal Telegraph company, was shot and seriously, perhaps fatally, wounded in an affray with State Con stables J. T. Owens and C. T. Hud son, which occurred Thursday night on the steam launch Hornet, between 11 and 12 o'clock on the cove beach at Mount Plea ant. The shooting grew out of the capture of contraband 1h quor which Sullivan was conveying fro'm the Clyde wharf to a storehouse on the water front. Two negro men were with Sullivan at the time, one of whom, it is said, was also wounded by the constables. Their names could not be learned, for neither has been seen since the affair. Both ne groes fled from the boat, it is said, when the shooting commenced. It is not positively known which constable shot Sullivan. At the St. Francis Xavier infirmary Thursday, Sullivan, -it is alleged, stated that he was shot by Constable Owens and that the negro was shot by Constable Hudson. Sullivan is thought to be in a critical condition. He was brought to the city Thursday about 3 a. m. and sent to the infirnary. An operation was performed upon him and it was found that the ball had passed through his left arm, entered theside and perforated the intestines in six different places. The bullet was not located. Constables Hudson and Owens ar rived in the city this morning at 3 30 o'clock with 19 gallons of whiskey, which they had captured from the Hornet, Sullivan's launch, having hired a row boat at Mount Pleasant and rowed the goods over to Charles ton. Chief Constable Holmes was immediately notified of the shooting of Sullivan and the capture of the li quor. Chief State Constable Hammet was informed of the shooting early Eriday morning by Constable Holmes and he is expected in the city soon to make an investigation. Consta bles Owens and Hudson, acting upon the advice of Constable Holmes, sur rendered to Sheriff Martin about 11 o'clock Thursnay and were sent to jail to await further developments. A WOULD-BE SWINDLER. Coughed up the Money When the Doctor Dosed Him. At Columbia Wash Kinsler. a young negro man, will be given a prelimin ary before United States Commission er Vernor shortly on the'charge of at tempting to pass counterfeit money. The story of Kinsler's attempt to escape and his attempt to evade the charge is strange. Kinsler walked into the fruit store of the Syrian, George Mack, on upper Main street, Saturday night at 12:30. He purchas ed a pair of cheap earrings and some fruit and carelessly threw down what purported to be a $2 bill. Mack spott ed the counterfeit at once. Officer Dunning happened to be passing and was called in. The situation was taken in at a glance and the officer grabbed Kinsier. He was just a little too late, however, for Kainsler rammed the bill in his mouth and swallowed it, despite the choaking he received. Then Mr.~ Dunning called for Dr. Pope, the city phy sician, and the rest was easy. A hyperdermic injection was given Wash, which acted as an emetic and the bill "came up" in about three minutes. The negro was searched for more counter feit bills. No bills were found, but a watch he had stolen was recovered and the negro stands a chance of serv ing a term for the State for larceny and for the United States for attempt ing to pass counterfeit money, the penalty for the latter, according to the revised statutes, being from five to fifteen years. The bill which Kinsier attempted to pass is an old Richand Building and Loan certifi cate, this association flourishing about 1878. The certificate looks very much like money and there are a num ber of them floating around. Kinsler lives on Gates street, near Senate, and his reputation heretofore- has been very gcod. Knife in the Brain. At New Hagan, Con., a portion of a long thin knife blade, which had been imbedded more than twenty years in his skull, penetrating an inch into the brain, was remoived from the, head of Christopher Osborn by Dr. M. J. Adams. The patient is a negro, 57 years old. He is employed by Prof. J. M1. Weir, of Yale. According to Osborn's hi story of the knife blade, he quarreled with another negro, who struck him in the head with a knife. The blade broke off and the steel close to the sk-ull. Osborn was sent to jail for his sbare in the fight, but recover ed and suffered no inconvenience until a few weeks ago, when he began to have convulsions. They grew in fre quency, until last week he had them every half hour and paralysis be gan. Dr. Adams says the man will recover. Passing of a Fad. The Chicago board of education has condemned the vertical system of writing. Through its oliicial bulletin the board says: "It is an injustice to the child to impose a system of hand. writing upon him and Lorce him to adhere to it through his growing years at the cost of not only suppressing hi~ individuiality in this acquired mode of expression, but also at the sacrifice of his time and the mental tluency that comes with the ease which accompan ies a mode of expression fitting the individuals characteristics." New Postal Card. A new style of postal card for re* turn message will be issued b)y the postotlice department as soon as the stock of the present series is exhaust ed. The card will bear two portraits, one of Gen. William Tecumseh Sher man for the side bearing the message and one of Gen. Phil Sheridan for the return side. Many millions of the new card will be ready for distributior at an early date and all offices sending requisition for them will receive theih quota as rapidly as they can be sup plied. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. Official Programme of the Meeting to Be Held in Colnmbia. Mr. William E. Pelham of New berry, secretary of the State Sunday School convention, has issued the pro gramme for the twenty-seventh an nual State convention which meets in Columbia on May 2nd. The conven tion will be held in the Washington Street Methodist church and will be attended by a large number of Sun day school workers from all parts of the State, The programme is as follows: Monday evening, May 2.-8.30, Devotional and song servi -e; 8.45, ad dress by the president, Prof. E. L. Hughes of Greenville; 9.30, address, "The Sunday School's Call for Men," by Rev. B. W. Spilman of North Car olina; enrollment of membels; ap pointment of committee on nomina tion of offiders. Tuesday morning, May 3.-9.00, Devotional and song service by F. F. Whilden; 9.30, primary teaching by Miss Minnie Macfeat of Winthrop college: 10.15, open conference and questions; 10.30. "Teacher Training," Dr. George B. Cromer, president of Newberry college; 11.30, open confer ence and questions; 12.00, "The Sup erintendent," Rev. B. W. Spilman; 12.30, Conference and questions. - Tuesday.afternoon, May 3.-3.30, Devotional exercises and song service; 4.00, practical primary work, Miss Minnie Macfeat, before a class; 4.30, report of officers; 5.90, "An Amateur with a Blackboard," Rev. B. W. Spilman of North Carolina. Tuesday evening, May 3.-8.30, Devotional exercises and song service, Rev. F. H. Wardlaw; 8.45, "Christ as a Teacher," Rev. Jame3 A.B. Scherer, Ph. D., Charleston; 9.45, "A Study of a Bible Character for Sunday School Teachers," Rev. B. W. Spilman. Wednesday morning, May 4.-8.30, Devotional exercises and song service, Rev. J. P. Knox; 9.00, "How to En list and Hold Young Men," Rev. W.. B. Duncan, Laurens; 10.00, conference and questions; 10.30, "A Look Ahead," William E. Pelham, chair man executive committee; 11.00,.] "The Question as a Factor in Teach ing," Rev. B. W. Spilman; 12.00, business session. Wednesday afternoon, May 4.-3.30, Devotional exercises and song service; 4.00, reports of departments: (a) exe cutive committee, (b) treasurer, (c) superintendent primary department, (d) home department. Wednesday evening, May 4.-8.30, Devotional exercises and song service; 8.45. "The Teacher Getting Ready for Next Sunday," Rev. B. W. Spil man; 9.30, "Christ the Great Teach er, His Subjects and Methods." Dr. H. N. Snyders, president Wofford col lege; adjournment. The Sunday School association is in ter-denominational; its object is to build up the Sunday school cause in South Carolina. Its present aim is to organiz'; every county in South Caro lina. Every wide-awake and progres sive Sunday school of South Carolina may send delegates. Pastorsi super intendents, teachers, workers, all are eligible. The officers of the organization are the following: Prof. E. E. Hughes, Greenville, President; John F. Toi bert. Laurens, vice president; Prof. B. W. Getsinger, Spartanburg, secre tary; Rev. W. I. Herbert, Columbia, treasurer; H. E. Revenel, Spartan burg, superintendent home depart ment; Mrs. M. A. Carlisle, Newberry, superintendent primary department; executive committee, William E. Pelham, chairman, Newberry; Rev. T. H. Law, D. D., Spartanburg; J. E. Ellerbe, Esq., Sellers; Rev. J. W. Shell, Spartanburg; S. B. Ezell, Esq., Spartanburg; Rev. W. B. Duncan, Laurens; Dr. E. C. Jones, Newberry; Rev. George A. Wright, Newberry; H. E. Ravenel, Esq., Spartanburg. Stoical Death of White Horse. Sixty-three Indians in a special car en route to Washington to see the President were smashed into by a mail train on the Chicago & North western, two miles west of Haywood, 11l., Friday morning during a heavy fog. Three Indians were killed in stantly, three fatally wounded and 20 others more or less seriously injured. IWhite Horse in charge of the Indians on the train, was fatally injured. The bodies of the Indians who had been killed were laid on the prairie beside the the track. Chief White Horse being carried with them. He said that he knew that death was nearan requested that he be placed near his dead companions. The chief was propped up and sat stoically while phscasworked on his injuries. He smoked a pipe quietly, and gave no sign of the pain he must, have suffer ed. Persons on the train say the wreck was unquest ionably caused by a fog, which stretched many miles from Lake Michigan. The Indians were from th'e reservation at Rush ville, Nebraska, and on a journey east ward primarily for show purposes at New York. Five Were Drowned. Five persons, members of a pleasure party frmthe Florida Methodist col lege ma Stherland, Fia., were drwed ear Anlot light house Sunday night. Toe dead are: Mrs. Walker, wife of the president of the college. Miss O-Connor of Atlanta. IMiss Slaughter of Sutherland. Miss McCray of Sutherland. Mr. Bouland of Sutherland. President Walker and Miss Newton reached the beach alive. The bodies of Mrs. Walker and Miss O'Connor have not yet been recovered. The bodies of the other thiee who lost their lives were washed ashore on the beach and recovered. President' Walker had taken the party out for a cruise to the house, but met with rough weather and the boat was over-: turned in the gulf. The Florida; Methodist college is located at Suther land, on the west coast or the gulf, about 30 miles from Tampa. Had a Fight. IA dispatch from Huntington, W. a., says that John McFarland, chief of police of North Fork. and J. A. Ballard, a lumber merchant, are dead, as the result of a pistol duel which followed the Republican district con vention at North Fork. They met after the convention, the lie was pas ed anr1 the shooting norred. BACK FROM NEW YORK Jommissioner Watson Well Pleased With Prospect for Immigration. }BEAT INTEREST IN THE EAST. r he South's Opportunities for Set tiers and Investments A re Attracting.A t t en t i o n in All Classes. The Columbia State says Col. E. 3. Watson, commissioner of commerce and immigration of South Carolina, returned Wednesday evening after s ten day's trip to New York in the nterest of the new work of which he zas been placed in charge. The commissioner has the faculty >f taking up everything he does un lertake with enthusiasm, and this in ;tahce is no exception. -He is highly Tleased with the results of his trip md seems fully imbued with a deter nination to accomplish something in he fieli to which he has been called. rhe interview and editorial is re roduced from the New York Sun how that Col. Watson "caught on" n New York, as such a paper as The Sun dces not open its columns to a iobody. Soon after reaching the city Wednesday night Cal. Watson had a alk with Gov. Heyward and the governor was well please with the in ormal report which he made. Wednes lay the governor -received the follow ng note from Mr. William Williams )f the New York department of com erce and labor: "Mr. E. J. Watson, the head of your department of agriculture, comr erce and immigration called at Ellii [sland today with your letter of Groduction; It gave me great plesi. ire to see him and I will assist him. so the extent of my ability on his present mission to the east." When seen Wednesday night 'Comc nissioner Watson talked most inter. stingly of his trip and the prospects or his work. While all that he. had earned, considered and undertaken ould not be reviewed in the time - ;hen at his disposal, he consented to sell of a few things that had come un ler-his observation. "1 have been in the east," he said for the last ten days giving the most arnest attention to the southern im igration problem, and arranging all he preliminaries for the founding of ihe work of the new State department upon a substantial basis. I knew t , the outset that the work was one of m many ramifications, and that speedy action and vigorous measures would be necessary. Since studying all con litions and the methods'employed by he trunk lines of the west and the ransatlantic steamship companies, who control the great bulk of the ever unflowing tide of foreign population,I an say That the task ahead of us is :o easy one. "I am greatly gratified at the man er inwhichlIwas met by the officlals af the government and by those who really control the tide of immigra ion, and feel that the first fortnight )f the new department's career has ben well utilized. "What struck me most forcibly In the east was the widespread Interest in all circles-whether Wall street or . an Ellis Island, or in eastern business or official circles, or at the national capitial-in the maovement In the south for Immigration and emigra tion. The federal government, I gathered, would be glad to see the ide turn southward, thus preventing the congestion in large centres of - commer ce and the consequent milsap- - plication of intelligent farming casse to trades and callings for which they are totally unfit, resulting In depor tations. Never have the eyes of the east been so thoroughly turned to the middle south not only in population movements but in investments. The easterners realize the value of our re- - sources better than our own- people, and I have received the heartiest as surances of earnest aid and co-opera tion on all lines. "In Washington the liveliest Inter est is manifested on all sides, as has been manifested by the prompt, favor able action taken on Senator Sim mons' immigration information meas ure. I am more than ever convinced of the opportuneness of the move ment launched in this State, and 1 sincerely trust our effort will' be crowned with success. One danger is in the people expecting too great results in a short time. The work Is necessarily slow, and when it is based upon a determination to handle only such matters as posses the elements of success, patience is- an es sential. However, I trust results can be shown in certain branches of the work at an early date. Another dan ger is in the possibility of landowners wishing prices for their lands at first that will make their utilization diffi cult. I trust that this danger will not materailze. In a few days a call will be issued for information wanted immediately in this office concerning available lands, and official blanks calling for the exact information will be furnished the land owners. The department is already receiving scores of inquiries from all parts of the coun try. "Of what has bren accomplished and what balls have been set in mo tion at the country's chief port of en try I do not care to speak just now, as competition in immigration work is so strong I can only say that results thus far obtained exceed my expecta tions. "Concise pamphlets of information as to our resources are badly needed and these will be issued at the earliest possible moment. Brief ones will be issued in the different north European languages for speedy use." A Queer Notion. - Mr. C. M. Strader, a Keutuckian, before dying in Philadelphia theother day, dictated a will requiring his body to be cremated, the ashes taken to Louisville and "scattered on the waves of the beautiful Ohio." He concluded: "When this is done, if the angel Gabriel can collect my re mains-for the judgment, I1 will take off my hat to bim, and will be there at the last roll call." The instruc Mion3 have been ctarried out.