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^=*-?=* ' VOL. Xlll. THf wmw\ iiiL liiLuiannm Roosevelt and Fairbanks Wih Brilliai TREMENDOUS CROWD! PRESENT The G'ardest Pagcantiver Witnessed on American Soil-Qreat Crowds Present?The Inaugutl Speeches. Washington. D. C.,' pectal.?Theodore Roosevelt was t rauTormed from president by chance into Resident by choin from President thriigh an assassin i.idlet into l'residen.through the ballots of the people. I'mi; the shadow of the grajMoomoil capl'.ol. gazing into the placlc mar-j I>le feat urea of (Ireenough's sta-te of I tin- I 'M {'resident, the twentjsixth | I'residtnt if the United States t-vore j faithf.iiy to execute the laws ail to ; preserve, protect r.iul defend the con-, stitution. One before he had taken thl solemn oidigution; then, at the deati-bed of l\is martyred predecessor, surnund-j ed by a small company of tear-dlvmed j friends nod counsellors; Saturdc. In j the pr? senee ef a cheering host c fifty j thousand people. ' Then he had tdden many lonely miles over storm-wept mountain roads to reach the "aglc scene <f his elevation; now ht was escorted along the nation's graidest avenue from the White House t? the home of Congress between two d?isely pack, (i lines of his countrymen gathcrc.l from every quarter to chef him and wish him godspeed in the < ming four years. Then he had said, with ? hocking voice: "It shall be m* aim to continue absolutely unbroke the policies of President McKinley fir the peace, prosperity and honor of o.f be loved << .ntry." Snteurday he le't It for his eilow-cit izens, who had honored him with a greater majority than ever l > n :? given, to judge whether or no lit i ,..o redeemed that pledge. Th? nel of the Rough ltidei'8 has written : his erowdod hour in Cuba. Now iic ft; owed his former con',r&<te8 a now. ed hour in Washington. They were win; ir.g for him when he emerged fro. . !': \V: 11 House?-30 plako<I men i under (. \ -mar Rrodie. With the! crack . t. ... '-on A of the First Cavalry. I t'nit. ; Army, tliey forme'l his i esc .t ' the capitol. As thoy j wung; around Treasury building into 1 IVnnsyi. mia avenue a division C' the | G. A. i; with General O. O. HPward i and st: in the lead, which had. been | standi!., a*, salute, wheeled into the' eolumr. while the cavalrymen cheek-1 ed Hoi i'-ict to accomodate the slow-1 or ft- : . < ps of the aged veterans. A; mighty wave of cheers swept along! the av< i:.a as the President's carriage ^ eanie i*i ghf. Throughout the whole: route the President, with hat in hand. \ k? pi 1 a ;re In acknowledgment pf ihe I greeting- On his arrival nt the capi-i ml he 'v. . . ondnoted lo the President's room, in he rear of the Senate chamber. win : > he began at once the signing el Ik ted hills. At neon by en- j lercil ?i.e abode of the Senate tn? witness t installation of Senntorf Fairbanks a? Vice President. Thisteero-i ninny ' n. hided, he proceeded t|<> the star. . the east front of the enpitol to re e the oath from Chief jjistiee ! Fitlh 1 to deliver his iuaugurui addre s. Immediately upon its conclusion ' President was t>senrte?I lmnU to i! ite House, where, after liiiK'iiint itli t ho officials of the inaugural msiiittoo, he took his position on ti In front to review the foir.al inaugural parade. > v,? ' ORT iiminunimnii i . liUliUKHIIl > Inducted Into Office it Pageantry The inaugural cost about $65,000, wihch it is believed has been fully repaid in the sale of grand stand seats and ball tickets. The guaranty fund subscribed by Washington merchants and business men will thus be returned. Everything but the actual ceremoies were in charge of the inaugural committee, composed of Washington j residents, and headed by ltrigadier General John M. Wilson. U. S. A., retired. appointed for that purpose by Chairman Cortelyou, of the Republican national committee. The broad plaza whose level surface stretches east from the national cnpitol can accommodate an army. For hours Saturday morning Washington poured its own population and a vast increment of visitors into the front yard of the seat of government. From the porticos and windows of the eapltol building a good idea of the scope of the multitude could be gathered. Eight acres of humanity spread fanshaped from the focus made by a little covered shelter, open at the sides, where the president was to stand. Over toward the imposing facade of the Congressional Library it extended, literally a "sea of fnces." There may have been uiiiy .'0.000; probably there were j nearer 100.000 in sight of the President when he took the oath. Stands on the central portico, extending to the tribune wherein the ceremony occurred, covered an acre. From the central entrance of the eapitol to the seats of honor surrounding the pagoda-like tribune was laid a carpet of crimson plush. Long before the ceremonies in the Senate, where Vice Pros- j ident Fairbanks was taking his oath of otllce, was concluded, most of the reserved seats had been filled by ticket holders. All In all it was the grandest pageant ever witnessed on American soil. The ceremonies were simple hut solemn and impressive. The order was t xcellent, the weather was fine and the exorcises were dispatched without a hitch. At a sign from Chief Justice Fuller, the clerk of the Supreme Court stepped forward, holding a Bihle. A hush fell over the crowd. The President raised his hand, and the oath to support the laws and constitution of ?tw? ! fluted States was revontly taken amid deep silence.- When this had lieen concluded, there was practically no demonstration, and the President began his inaugural address. As soon as he j finished speaking, he re-entere ! t'j* capitol. and as lie disappeared within the building a signal was flashed to the ! navy yard, and the roar of 1:1 guns was begun in official salute to the President. The expiration of the old Congress and the beginning of the new was wit- j nessed at noon. Senator Fairbanks took the oath as Vice President and , made his address as follows: VICK PRESIDENT S ADDRESS. Senators: I enter upon the discharge of the duties of the position to which I have been called hy my countrymen with grateful appreciation of the high ! honor and with a deep sense of its j responsibilities. I have enjoyed the , privilege of serving with you here for eight years. During that period we have been engaged in the consideration of many domestic ouestions of vast im portanee and with foreign problems of unusual and farroaching signifieance. We submit what we liave done to the Impartial judgment of history. I can never forget the pleasant relations which nn\e been formed during my service upon the floor of the Senate. I shall cherish them always ! among the most delightful memories ; of my life. They warrant the belief that I shall have in the discharge of the functions which devolve upon me I under the constitution the generous j assistance and kindly forbearance of both sides of the chamber. We witness the majestic spectacle of a peaceful and orderly beginning of an administration of national affairs ; under tiie laws of a free and self-govJernlng people. We pray that divine favor may attend it and that peace and progress, justice and honor may abide v.ith our country and our countrymen. v MI] FORT MILL, S. C? THE INAUGURAL SPEECH President Roosevelt's Remarks Were Brief, Timely and Appropriate. The inaugural address is as follows: My Fellow-Citizens: No people on earth have more cause to he thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with ; gratitude to the Giver of Good who has | blessed us with the conditions which have enabled us to achieve so large a measure of well-being and of happiness. To us as a people it has been granted to lay the foundations of our national life in a new continent. We are the heirs of the ages, and yet we have had to pay few of the penalties which in old countries are exacted by the dead hand of a bygone civilization. We have not been : obliged to fight for our existence . against any alien race; and yet our life has called for the vigor and effort without which the manlier and hardier virtues wither away, tinder such conditions it would he our own fault if we failed: and the success which we have had in the past, the success which we j confidently believe the future will [ bring, should cause in us no feeling of vain-glory, hut rather a deep and bid- J ing realization of all which life has j offered us; a full acknowledgement of the responsibility which is ours; and a t fixed determination t? show that tinder i a. free government a mighty people can thrive best, alike as regards the things of the body and the things of the soul. MUST R7 EiUENPLY. Much has been given to us. and mueli will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth; and we must behave as beseems a pec pie with such responsibilities. Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must he one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds that we are < arnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spr it of Just and generous recognition of all their rights. Hut justice and generosity in a nation, as in an individual, count most when shown not by the weak, but by the strong. When ever careful to refrain from wrongdoing others, we must be no less insistent that we are not wronged ourselves. We wish peace; but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid. No weak nation that acts manfully and justly should ever have cause to fear us. and no strong power should ever be able to single us out as a subject for insolent aggression. OUR RELATIONS MONO OURSELVES. Our relations with the other powers of the world are important; but still uiuii- 1111111111.(111 arc ciiir I't'iaiams amoni; ourselves. Such growth in I wealthh. in population and in power as tliis nation has scon during the century and a quarto:* of its national life j is inevitably accompanied by a like growth in the problems which are ever before every nation that rises to greatness. Power invariably means both re- : sponsibility and danger. Our forefalh- | ers faced certain perils which we have outgrown We now face other perils the very existence of which it was inpossible that they should foresee. Modern life is both complex and intense. and the tremendous changes wrought by the extraordinary indus- j trial development of the last half con- I tury are felt in every fiber of our social I and political being. Never before have j men tried so vast and formidable an i experiment as that of administering j the affairs of a continent under the j forms of a democratic republic. The , conditions which have told for our ' inatvelous material well-being, which have developed to a very high degree | our energy, self-reliance and in lividual ! initiative, have also brought the care and anxiety inseparable from the ac- : cumulation of great wealth in indus- \ trial centers. Upon the suet ess of our experiment much depends, not only as regards our own welfare, bat as regards the welfare of mankind. If we fail, the cause of free self-government throughout the world will rock to its foundations; and. therefore, our responsibility is heavy, to ourselves, to 1 the world ::s il i< l/wl:iv mill t.> tl... generations yet unborn. There is no > good reason wiiy we should fear the future, hut there is t very rens.ii. why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the prob- I lems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the utile tiding, unflinching purpose to solve thein aright. j Vet. after all, though the problems I are new, though the tasks set before us differ from the tasks set before our | fathers who founded and preserved this j republic, the spirit in which those tasks nipst lie undertaken and these problems j faced if our duty is to h well lone, remains essentially unchanged. We know that self-government is difficult. We know that no people need such high traits of character as that people which s eks to govern its affairs aright through the freely expressed will of the freemen who compose it. But we have faith that we shall not n;ove false to the memories of the men of the mighty past. They did their work, they left us the splendid heritage we now enjoy. We, in our turn, have an assured confidence that we shall he able to leave i ms nernaj-e iiuwasu'ii aim ee.iaigeu u? our ehildren and our ehil Iron's ehildron. To do so wo must show, not moroly in great ori. es. In;t in tlio everyday affairs oi life. the qualities of practical intelligence, of coinage, of hardihci d and endurance, and, a hove all. the power of devotion to a loftv Ideal, which a.:' h irreat the men who founded this republic in the days of Washingten. which made gnat the men who preserved this republic in il:e days of Abraham I.ituola. ll : WEDNESDAY, MARE BKi APPROPPIAIIONs" Congress Spends Public Funds With IavUH Hand THREE BILLS AGGREGATE HEAVILY Senate Passes Postoffice Bill, Carrying $181,526,843; Pensions. $138.I 000,000, and Rivers and Harbors, $38,350.899?$332,000 Added to Riv- ! ers and Harbors Measure. Washington. Special.?During the day the Senate considered and passed throe supply bills aggregating an appropriation of over $357,000,000 and at night took up a fourth bill carrying over $07,000,000. This session began at 11 a. in., and after recess lasting from 0 to s. continued well into the iVght. The appropriation measures passed druing the day's sessions were: Tho postoH'tce bill, carrying $ I SI .000.000 and 1 the river and harbor bill, carrying in ! immediate appropriation and continn- ] ing contracts. $3S.350.S99. The river i and harbor bill was increased by 000, among the increases being Witiyah May. S. C\. $10,000; Charleston. S. $25,000; Cumberland River, T< on. $30.00O. During the considering oi the postoffice hill Mr. Clay took exception to the increase of the appropriation for pneumatic tube service to $1,500,000. j nuii me rosimastcr Ueneral's estimate called for only $500,000. He said that the plan was to extend the service to cities of 'JOO.tHIU. aim added that already cities of 100.000 were beginning to ask for the service. He also asserted that the expenditures on hehalf of the postoAires in the I'nited States were now practically equal to the entire expenses of the government I fourteen years ago. Mr. McCombs prpose I an amend- j ment giving preference to soldi* rs of the war of the rebellion in the matter , of the transfer of railway clerks to i the regular clerical service. "Make it soldiers of tIn* civil war," : suggested Mr. llaeon. adding. II is more courteous." The change was made and the amendment agreed to. The Senate agreed to conference reports on the Military Academy ami Agricultural Department appropriation hills. The report on the agricultural appropriation hill showed thai tin- Senate conferees hail receded from the Senate amendment requiring semi-monthly reports on the cotton crop, Mr. Da con read a telegram from ; iifSHHMit Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association, urging the importance of more frequent reports anil himself dwell upon the wisdom of the amendment. He said, however, that he appreciated the pertinacious and unyielding opposition of the House and that the Senate could not do otherwise than yield. lie attributed this opposition to the Agricultural ivnui- j ment. saying that subordinates, and not the head of that Department had haunted the rnpitol to defeat the It gislation. He remarked that it was the duty of legislative officials to execute the laws and that if they <ould not do so they should he required to ft tire j from office. Mrs. Starford Poisoned. Honolulu. By Cable.? Mrs. .lane ; I.athrop Stanford, of San Francisco, widow of the late Fniti d States Senntor l finnd F S'anford, died at 11.-10 o'clock Wednesday night at the Moana Hotel here. Suspicious circumstan es j surround the death of Mrs. Si:uie>:d. She was taken ill at 11 o'clock, and said: "1 have been poisoned." An autopsv was held and it was found that strychnine had been administered. but by whom is not yet determined. to Start South. Now York, Special. A number of iim ,,......1 ** .... .... ..iDi'in in i in .m'W I '>rK .National League baseball lnli will leave for the Southern training trip by the City of Mason, of the Savannah liii". on Thursday. Mathewsen. Wilt/. : Bowerman, Dahbn and others will be ..menu till' players to start. They no from Savannah to llinainyliam. Ala., to play from March l"> to the kT>. Company Bankrupt. Meridian. Miss.. Special. The Meridian Water Works Compan\ litis been thrown into bankruptcy and A. M. Lynn, of Birmingham, has been appointed receiver. Mr. I.ynn is district manager of the American Water Works Company, which owns the Meridian plant. Meridian has alrca lv voted SIM'.C00 bonds for a ne-.v plan if the present company's franchise can he annulled. Receiver for Lumber Company. Valdosta. ila.. Special. Judge Km orv Sneiuv of thi> i'nt?..,i sst.ii... nit trict Court, li;is appoint' 1 \V. .1 Hutlor. of Macon, and J. I*. Coffoo. of Olvmpia. joint receivers for tho Mm nosota Lumber Company, which has largo milling plants in Colquitt and Clinch counties. The roct ivors were appointed upon petition <T the receiver of the fir t National i'.anlt, of Faribault, Minn., which holds claims >f ?11<U)00 against the htmher company. The company's a. : <-t are en at $1(50,000 ami liabilities at 000. riML II S,1905. LIFE SKETCH OF PRESIDENT Sketch of the Life of the Man Inaugurated Saturday. The Congressional Directory. Theodore Roosevelt, President, was born in New York city on October U7. 1858; entered Harvard College in 187G and graduated in 1880; took up the study of law, but in 1881 was elected It) the New York Legislature, and was twice re-elected; in his second term in the Legislature was the candidate of his party for speaker, the majority of assembly, however, being Democratic; during his third term served as chairman of the committee on cities and of the special committee which investigated the abuses in the government of New York city; was a delegate to the State convention in i 1884 to choose delegates to the Kepub- j 11 can national convention, and was se- i leetcd as one of the four delegates at ! large from New York to the national j convention; later in the same year he j went to North lkikota and spent most of his time there for several years on a ranch, engaged in raising cattle; j in 1SS0 vas tin* Republican nontint e j l'or mayor of Now York oily; was ap ; pointed a member ?>f the United States ' civil service coinniission in May. INNli, by President Harrison: resigned this position in in order to accept the presidency of the police commission of New York city, under Mayor Strong; in April. IS'.tT. was appointed by President McKinlov as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. I'pon the outbreak of the war with Spain in IS'JS, resigned tliis post and became lieutenant colonel of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, was promoted to the colonelcy of the regiment; was in the lights at Has (Inasimas and San .Juan; was mustered out with his regiment at Montauk. Long Island, in September. ISltS; was nominated shortly afterwards as the Republican candidate for Governor of New York, and elected in November, 1SUS; was unanimously nominated for Vice-President of the United States by the Republican national convention of 11100, and elect- j ed; succeeded to tin* Presidency upon | the death of President McKiuiey, September 14, 11101. Vice-President Fairbanks. The Congressional Directory. Charles H'arrcn Fairbanks, of Indianapolis. was horn on a farm near Unionville Center, Union county. Ohio. May 11. IS.".:!; was educated in the com moil schools of i Ii?* neighborhood ami at the Ohio Wesley University, Delawaro, Ohio, graduating I'roni that institution in isTii in tin classical course; was admitted to the bar by the Sup fine Court of Ohio in isTl: removed to Indianapolis in the same year, where he has sitae praetieed his profession; never held puldie office prior t<? his election to the Senate; was elected it trustee of the Ohio Wesley University j in 1SS5; was unanimously chosen as the 1 nominee of the Republican caucus for j United States Senator in the Indiana Legislature in January. 1S{?3, and sub- ' sequently reeeived Itis entire party vote in the Legislature, but was defeated by ! David Turpii', Democrat; was a delegate at large to the Republican national convention at St. Louis in lS'.tti, j and was temporary chairman of the convention; was a delegate-at-large to tli" Republican national convention at Philadelphia in WOO, and us chairman of the committee o;i resolutions reported the platform; was appointed a member of the United States and llritish joint high commis. ion which met '.a Quebec in I ", for the adjustment of Canadian ructions. ami was chairman of the United States high commissioners; was elected to the United St.'ties Semite January -i>, 1 st 7. to succeed Daniel W. Voorhces. Democrat, and took hi. .-eat March I. IsbT; was re-elected in tl'Ol!. Body Identified. Chicago. Special. The body of the woman found dead Itist Friday in Lako Michigan, at the foot of Fifty-ninth street, was identified as that of Mrs. i*,v;i nemiom, wikihc nome is .'aid to liavc !>? ? 11 in Milwaukee. The elew to ih?' woman's identity was furnished by John McCarthy, of Chicago, who asserted that he had known Mrs. Reliant t for some time, and positively idenlilie-.l the body as: that of the Milwaukee woman. Mystery still surround the death of the woman, but the police are of the opinion that they have a murder problem to solve. News by Wire and Cable. Mr. Robert I... ('ampin II was -rrieker, with smallpox in the Vcstmorolan 1 Club, Richmond. Four persons were injured in the wreck of a limited passenger train at Rochflsh, Va. A movement i: on foot to have all hanging in Virginia take place in the penitentiary. Two Ku-himuxl im>-( <)< ... who nro (oinlcinr.' i i?? bo hungr-d, w.-re baptized in a bath tub in tlx: jail. iv * 4 <$ >V?v * N NO. 50. STORMY CONDITIONS Worse Troubles Confront Russians At Home LABORING PEOPLE STILL RESTLESS Labor Delegates Representing the Whole Industrial Popoulation of St? Petersburg Issue Peremptory Demads Which the Government ii Almost Certain Not to Grant. St. Petersburg, Hy Cable.?Ulack clouds are again lowering over the industrial situation of Russia. Tha strike at Moscow has been resumed on a large scale, anarchy reigns in tha Caucasus, and at St. Petersburg tho measures which the government advanced to quiet discontent and restora good relations lad ween masters and men appear to have failed, with tha probability of causing the storm ta break anew. The labor delegates representing the whole of the industrial population of St I 'el ersiluiiM' mi.I wli,, ed to choose fifty members of the Schidioski reconciliation commission met again Thursday and reaffirmed the resolutions adopted the previous lay, which threatened, in case the demands are not granted, not only to refuse to elect labor representatives to the commission, but to order a resumption of the general strike. These demands are for the release of imprisoned workmen and freedom fiom arrest, unhampered speech, full publicity of meetings of the commission, and the abolition of the censorship. A practical ultimatum was delivered. calling for an answer today, and there is little expectation that the government will grant the conditions demanded. The strike already has assumed large proportions here, about lUl.OOO men being out. Among thosa who struck yesterday are the employes of the St. Petersburg shops of the Warsaw Hallway. The strike has not yet extended to the trainmen, but the leaders may decide to order them | out in order to paralyze one of the most important railroads in Russia. in n su'ucri on nauway. St. Petersburg. My Cable.?In a long. I dispatch from ('.moral Kuropatkin : which was received here, the commander-in-chief of the army in ManI ?hnria Rives details of various attacks by the Japanese during the last I f< \v days, and a dispatch from Mukden 1 cceived at midnight. indicates a conI tinmition of the artillery duel; hut neither report throws any light upon | the rumored intern ion of t'.enorul Kuj I'opatkin to withdraw northward, whieh has heen the gossip of St. Petersburg for the past two days. A ptiv.iti ii 1 .patch i cei\<d last night concludes with this significant, sentence "Within t u > weeks you may i Xpert great < v. nls." The Siberian Railway, which is being worked to its full rapacity by purely military Traffic, is about to nnvo ft further burden imposed upon it ?namely, that of feeding the re.stdent non-combat tint population. Tho stocks of provisions in Siberia were not :is large as usual at the beginning of the winter and are now run low. The government has been informed that provisions must be imported by the railroad or that the towns will bo face to face with famine within a fortnight. This will necessitate soma delay in the forwarding of military supplies, whieh are sorely needed at the present moment." No Tobacco Trust Investigation. Washington, Special. No action will bo tnki ti by the House at this session Oil the Kehoe resolution :'o- ?n inupoH Kation of iin* "tobacco trust." Itcnres< illative Smith, of Kentucky. who was delegated hy tin judiciary committee to consult tin- \tiotney Cetieral on the subject, has fotui'l it impossible to arlan^c :t sath fotory int< rview. and expressed ii?t* opinion that with the atccl trust ami Standard Oil investigation, the Department of Commerce and Iahor will he running to its full capacity during the summer. " I % Exiled Negro Sues the City. Lynchburg, Va., Special. Suit was instituted in the clerk's office of the Federal Circuit Court here hy Rev. .Ccliar I .lonet . colored, against tiicity of Roanoke for $:to,tico. and another against Mayor Cutchin ami City Sergeant .1. \. Manuel, who are sued as indivi lual: and not as officials, for $120.000. .Folic: is the colored Ikiptist preacher who we. charged with preaching mi iitfl'iiiim:ii??r\ >rm? ;i in Itoanokn shortly after the terrible assault a vim :i :<> mi Mi Shell hy a negro, an I wiio v a afterward: foveed to Hots from i an I), and lias sin u been residing in Pennsylvania. To Print Coll Weevil Literature. Wa hinrton. Sjieeial. The President, fa ni to C..ie i an elaboration of an ays. .Mural bulletin published a year ago. an I eontaining the i>: orvation? lor i'." l. relating to the holl wre.il. It wa. i nl to Congress in order to have it 1 i111 I for general distribution in Texas. Louisiana and other ootLon-growing.