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VOL. XIV. FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MAY .i. 15)0.5. NO. 0.
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p Distinguished Party From the North
Greeted by Prominent Southerners
SOME SPLENDID SPEECHES MADE
Meeting at Columbia Opens With a
Cordial Address of Welcome by Governor
Heyward, Followed by the Annual
Address of Mr. Robert C. Ogden.
President of the Conference.
Colombia, S. C.. Special.?The Conference
for Education in the South
opened its eighth annual session here
Wednesday, with a large attendance
of leading educators from both North
and South present.
The Ogdon train, containing a party
of ladies and gentlemen from New
joriv, noston, Washington ami other
Northern cities, arrived at 3:10 p. m..
itirl .no visitors are being entertained
in various homes in the city to whit-h
they have been invited. Tin* party
numi rs ninety-five, being educators,
literary men and women and business
men interested in education. They
ano* in on a special of ten Pullman
jars, i bartered by Mr. Robert C. OgIcn,
of New York. The members of
the parly are his guests for a nineteen
Jay trip to different points in South
Carolina. North Carolina and Virginia.
During their stay in Columbia, they as
well as the many hundreds of other
visitors, mainly from the Southern
States, are guests of the eity of Columbia.
A party consisting of the mayor
of t! ( eity. the State Superintend nt
of Education. Editor Gonzales, of
The Columbia Sta'e, two professors of
the South Carolina College and several
atlier prominent citizens of Columbia,
met the party at Hamlet, N. C.. and escorted
it into the State. Every train
joining into thp city brings from all
parts of the South visitors to the conference.
Th< conference opened its first session
here with an address of welcome
by Governor I). C. Hey ward. The
Governor said in part .
GOVERNOR HEY WARD'S SPEECH.
. "Today throughout the entire South
the s hoolhousc bell is ringing. It
rings from the university on the hill
and it v.ngs from the little schoolhouse
by the roadside, and to you
teacher; wl.o are present at this con
Terence from our sister States of the
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......... ..ii.i liuiii rn i.i |1UI HUH U1 Ull. |
:?\vn State. I vjiBh to say that in wel- t
;omir 'g you l must also congratulate i
you upon the great work j'ou have t
loin . I believe that you have ac oninliswd
more during the past forty 1
year.- along educational lines than has j
ever !<< < n accomplished hy any peo- j
pi" in the same length of time. No <
. people have ever worked so well or i
under the same conditions, and iri
your work you have boon accorded ]
loyal - pport hy your people. In their <
days of poverty and in their days of j
pros| rity the tax-payers of the South j
ha\c shown a willingness and a de- i
sire to tax tlienjselves to support the
schools not only for their own children ]
?the white children of the South ?
but also for the liildren of anotder (
and dependent race. Though often ,
misunderstood, they have never let |
their hearts fail them; they have never
looked backward, but always forward. ,
and today we can see in university and
in college, in graded school and in
common school, in better teachers and
longer terms, a happy and prosperous
people?aye, in smiling fields and growing
rdies, the result of theif courage
and determination.
"In welcoming you to South Carolin i
1 welcome you to a State which has
always had a deep interest in the cause
in which you are enlisted. With us.
the modern schoolhouse stands beside
the college of a century. From the
earliest history of our State our people
have prized learning and cultivation.
Before the Revolution, South
Carolina sent her sons to Oxford and
to Cambridge. Shortly after the Revolution
we began to build colleges and
to establish public schools. The first
library in America to be supported in
any degree at the public expense was
that established in Charleston in ;
1 ?OCl
IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION TIT.' i
LIZED.
"I am sure, however, it needs no argmir
r.t to convince you that the importance
of education in its highest sense
has ? vcr been realized by our peo pie. I
The facts that 1 have just cited ttint
before we had colleges of our own we
sent cur sons abroad, and the further
fact that almost within sound of onr
vole - stands South Carolina College?
o\ ( r "SOU years old?these will show the
spirit that animated our ancestors.
"As to what we are doing teday for
the sons and daughters of South Carolina,
! have hut to point you to the
numbr r of colleges ot our State, and to
our growing system of graded and
public schools. The State supports
Winthrop College for Women. and
South Carolina College, the Citadel and
Clemson for young men, and also a
State college for negroes. In addition
to this, each religious denomination
supports onp or more colleges which
an- doing excellent work. There are
also many private colleges, several of
which are well endowed. Contributing
to these is my system of graded and
common schpols. Our State eon*t?t.''.tton
requires that the General Assembly
shall provide for a liberal system
of free public schools for children be
tween the ages of 6 and 20 years, and
the constitution imposes an annual tax
xceeding one-half of our entire Statu
ax for general purposes. With us the
lght to allow school districts to levy
l special tax has already been won:
t is incorporated in the organic law
if the State, and we are now extendng
the battle lines to the various disricts,
400 of which have already exerMsed
this prerogative. New victories
ire constantly being gained along this
inc. and within the next few years we
confidently hope to greatly enlarge our
irmy of educational progress.
"During the past year we built 175
school houses, and we improved ami
equipped many more. These buildings
ranged in cost from $300 to $40,000
ipiece, and in this equipment are included
500 libraries. Two thousand
md five hundred of our teachers last
rear attended summer schools in order
to better equip themselves for their
great work. It will require no prophet,
my friends, to predict that, should we
be again so fortunate within the next
row years as to welcome you within
the confines of this State, your eyes
will behold vast improvement in our
educational and industrial affairs.
"Pardon me for this apparent digression.
which 1 hope will prove to you
tfte interest we feel in you and in your
work. Let me give you some added
welcome to our State and to our capital
city. In the name of the great
cause which brings you hero; In tha
name of every school and college in
the State; in the name of those high
interests which it is your mission to
serve; in behalf of the people of our
State, and especially in behalf of the
ijoople of our capital city. I welcome
?'ou. ladies and gentlemen, to South
Carolina."
At the conclusion of the Governor's
iddress of welcome, the annual adiress
of Mr. Robert C. Ogden. presilent
of the conference, was delivered.
PRESIDENT OGDEN'S ADDRESS
In the opening Mr. Ogden spoke at
some length of the objects and history
>f the conference. Although this conerence,
he said, lias no education body
>f authority, it yet has a very deep
sommunity of interest with the Southern
Educational Board, the General
Education Board, and in a lesser de;rt^e
with the board of trustees of the
Peabody fund, ami the hoard of trusees
of the Slater fund. These several
loards arc so thoroughly co-ordinated
ind sympathetic that every facility
>rcatod by any is at the command of
mcli and the commonage of aim is so
perfect that waste by duplication or
competition is impossible. The work
>f these boards and funds having been
jriefly dealt with, the speaker spoke
)f what hail been accomplished. It is
he leadership of the child that we folow
here, ho said, inspiring this great
ompany more than curiosity, possible
mtertainmont or social fellowship?is
he interest of the child. And it was
lust the preparation of this pervasive
ntluence that awaited the advent o^
he new movement for education which
a-as unfolded in the triple alliance of
lie conference and the two hoards.
This movement came at the psychological
moment. Throughout this
Southland, isolated and lonely, many
able, thoughtful, well informed and
solitary souls were brooding over the
needy conditions of certain localities
with which experience has made them
paiinuiiy iamwiar. Anil with tlio perception
of need was associated a conscious
helplessness and vague, indefinite
hopefulness, or was this condition
of mind solely confined to the isolated
and obscure? Men of large public
affairs, women socially prominent,
were both equally anxious and sadly
doubtful. Here a voice had been
raised, there a little local effort had
been started, and beyond this the prophets
were beginning both persuasion
and provision* Then followed the
awakening of the earnest and anxious
thinkers. A strength of association
was promptly created. Symptoms of
many sorts indicated the educational
epiphany that has commanded the admiration
and respect of educators
throughout the land, the encouragement
of progressive citizens, the interest
of statesmen. Certain facts
mav he briefly outlined.
PROGRESS OF LOCAL TAXATION.
l*ocal taxation for education has
made great progress, notably in Alabama.
South Carolina. North Carolina
and Tennessee. The constitution of
the State of Georgia has been so
amended as to facilitate local taxation
for schools. The increase of public
appropriations both through States
and the local tax. for education, has
aggregated many millions of dollars.
New school houses by hundreds, perhaps
thousands, have replaced others
that were lacking in comfort, space
enu equipment. Hundreds of inadequate
schools have been consolidated
and transportation lias been supplied
to scholars that have been incommoded
by the changed conditions. School
terms have been greatly lengthened,
the oualiflcations of teachers improved.
and compensation increased
to meet the longer term and better
scr\ ice.
Laws against nepotism in education
have been passed and thus a beginning
has been made in the removal of a
corrupt and debasing influence upon
education. This is an incident in the
divorce of public education frond poll
tics?an end most devoutly to ho do
sired. Perhaps the most encouraging
single element of progress is found in
the formation of local and State or
ganizations of citizens and educators
tor the promotion of public interest in
education. In the cities of Virginia
large audiences of the best people
have horn assembled by the commission
to wait upon the teachings oi
men whose souls are awake to the
needs of the children and whoso
tongues have been touched with the
holy iire from the altar of public scr
vice. Such meetings have been hob!
elsewhere with success and power.
Put Virginia's leadership is exception
al in persistence and thoroughness.
No doubtful curiosity of suspicion
m
! mrKs >n tne DacKgrounfl; no academic
seclusion, no Intellectual superiority,
no cloistered exclusiveness now divides
higher from popular education in
tbo South.
Other prominent educators made I
splendid addresses. The meeting was
an eminent success in every particular.
Second Day's Session.
The second day's session of the
groat educational conference was
marked by exceptionally strong addresses
by notable speakers.
At the Superintendents' Conference
the State Superintendents of the following
States were present: South
Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia.
Alabama. Texas, Tennessee and Arkansas.
Each of these spoke on different
phases of the recent progress
.of education in the Southern States,
Columbia. S. C.. Special.?The Conference
for Education in the South
closed its sessions here Friday, and the
conference adjourned subject to the
call of the executive committee.
At the morning session of the conference,
Mr. Robert C. Ogden. of New
York, was unanimously chosen president;
Chas. R. Aycock, former governor
of North Carolina, was chosen vice
president. i no following executive
committee was elected to serve the ensuing
year:
S. C. Mitchell. Virginia: Sydney J.
Bowie, Alabama; R. it. Cousins. Texas;
Clarence H. Poo, North Carolina;
D. C. Caldwell. Louisiana; C. P. Gibson
Georgia; R. II. Jesse, Missouri; Dr. 1
A. Jenkins, Kentucky; S. A. Mynders
Tennessee; J. H. Hlneman. Arkansas;
I). B. Johnson. South Carolina.
The other officers of the conference
elected were: Secretary. B. J. Baldwin.
Alabama; treasurer. \V. A. Blair,
Winston-Salem. N. C.
The following resolution adopted by
the Association of Southern States Superintendents
of Education, abits meeting
on April 2G. is given out for the
first time:
"Resolved that the Association of
Southern State Superintendents of
| Public Instruction, desires to exflrt'ss
its appreciation of the valuable work
of the Southern Educational Board, in
co-operation with the educational authorities
of the States, and of the
spirit in which the work has been done
for the past three years: and also to
express gratification at the provision
for the" continuance of this co-operative
work."
All the Southern States are represented
except Tennessee. Mississippi and
Virginia.
Mr. Ogden. in a brief and expressive
speech, then pronounced the conference
adjourned.
Visible Supply of Cotton.
New Orleans, Special.?Secretary
Hester's statement of the world's visible
supply of cotton, issued Friday,
shows the total visible to be 4.141,621
bales, against 4.798,989 bales last week
and 2.931.311 bales last year. Of this,
the total of American cotton is 2.911,621
bales, against 2.944,989 bales lust
week and 83G.311.bales last year, and
of all other kinds, including Egypt.
Brazil, India, etc., 1,230,000 bales,
against 1,235,000 bales last week and
1.095,000 bales last year.
Of the world's visible supply of cotton.
there is now ailoat and held in
Groat Britain and continental Europe
l.!".?i..000 bales, against l.GGS.OOu bales
last year.
Movements of Russian Squadron.
Kamranh Bay, Special.?The Russian
squadron, with transports, left
its last stopping place last Wednesday
evening for an unknown destination.
The warships are provisioned for six
months, and are believed to be bound
for Vladivostok. Four German colliers
arrived at Kamranh Bay too late
to proceed with the squadron, but subsequently
sailed in the same direction
in the efforts to catch up with it.
Nebogatolf's division was expected
to arrive yesterday in Indo-Chinese
waters, where it is believed the admiral
will receive instructions regarding
the place where he is to effect a junction
with Rojestvensky, whose squadron,
besides 25 Warships, includes a
repair ship and a water tank ship.
Sentence Commuted.
St. Petersburg. By Cable. ?An imperial
rescript summons Count Vorontzoff-Dashkoff,
viceroy in the Caucasus.
to the council of the empire and
appoints him a member of the council
of ministers, and charges Baron Noble,
Secretary of State, to represent the
viceroy in the council's declarations.
A rescript commutes the sentences ot
tin? officers concerned in the incident
of the firing during the cercmonv ot
the blessing of the waters of the Novo.
Illinois Gambling Laws.
eiitnairn :i 1 ?The Worth .lock
cy Club on Friday definitely abandoned
the clubs race meeting, which was
to begin Saturday, opening the race
season in Chicago. The stock holders
decided that there was nothiAg e'se
for them to do but to bow as gracefully
as possible to the ultimatum of
the State's Attorney, who declared
that the laws of Illinois concerning
gambling must be observed.
$250,000 Saw Mill.
White Springs. Fla., Special.?The
saw mill of It. J. and B. F. Camp, one
of the largest concerns of the kind in
' Florida, was burned** here Thursday,
! with the dry kiln, veneering mill, comi
missary and 2,000,000 feet of lumber.
> The flro spread to the neigliliorlng
houses and several of them wefe de!
stroyed. The loss will reach at least
$250,000.
Sir Thomas LJpton Hias invaded
t Paris. He has opened a store in the
Place do I'Opera.
I
SPECIAL IS WRECKED |
Ogden Party Thoroughly Shaken Up
in Fatal Collision
TIIC I 1CT nr r?r . r* ? ?
lilt LI3I ur ucau anu WUU.MJtl)
Rounding a Curve in the Yard Limits
of the Southern Railway at Greenville,
S. C., the Train Bearing the
President of the Conference for Education
and His 100 Guests Crushes
Into the Rear of a Freight.
Greesnvile. s. C.. Special.?While ;
founding a curve in the yard limits of
the Southern railway at Greenville,
and running at an estimated speed of
50 miles an hour, the special Pullman
train bearing Robert C. Ogden and 100
members of the Southern Conference
for Education, crashed into the rear !
end of a freight at 7:55 oclock this
morning, killing four persons and injuring
a score of others. None of Mr. I
Ogden's guests were killed.
The dead are;
Charles M. Cope, white, brakeman
of the special. Columbia. S. C.
John Little. W. \V. Cummings and
J. P. Hayne. negro employes on the
dining ear St. James.
The injured are:
Prof. Henry \Y. Parnham. Vale 1'nlverslty.
arm broken and cut on head,
and Mrs. Henry W. Karniiam, badly
bruised about head and arms.
St. Clair MeKelway. editor of The
Hrooklyn Eagle, bruised on back and
shoulder.
Dr. Julius D. Dreher. former president
of Roanoke college, cut on the
head.
Robert M. Ogden. secretary to President
Ogden, cut on hand and head
bruised.
-Mrs. J. G. Thorpe. Cambridge, Mass.,
rut and bruised on head.
Bishop \V. Nr. McYiekar. of Providence,
R. I., bruised.
James Hunter, engineer on special,
leg and arm broken.
Walter Kershaw, electrician on special.
ear and head cut.
Conductor Edward Acker, bruised.
John F. McCoy, agent Pennsylvania
railroad, gash on head.
II. Shall, negro cook on St. James,
cut on arm.
George Williams, waiter on diner
Waldorf, bruised.
Ogden Calls For Inquiry.
The Greenville wreck will lie investigated
as is shown by the following:
"Hon. 1). C. Hey ward, Columbia. S.
C.; Would respectful1;' suggest the
extreme use of the executive power
as may exist by the coroner's jury or
railroad commission for investigation
of criminal negligence, local and management,
that caused wreck of my
train. Four hands killed and others !
injure:!, also Prof, and Mrs. Farnham. !
My impression is that t,he ease is a )
had one and needs drastic treatment.
"ItOHT. C. OGDEN."
Governor Hoy ward replied as fol- j
lows:
"Robert C. Ogden. Greenville. S. C.: |
I have referred your telegram to the i
j railroad commission, who will imme- I
j diatcly investigate wreck. Coroner's j
! inquest will he held l?v countv authorj
ities."
Making Investigation.
i Greenville. Special.- Prof. Farnar,- j
! of Vale University, and Mrs. Farnar, |
i who were injured in the wreck of the
j Ogden special, are both resting easily
I in a sanitarium here. It has not been
decided when they will be able to travel.
but the attending physicians -sav
not before Tuesday. Electrician Kershaw.
also injured in the wreck and
detained here, is doing well.
Assistant. General Superintendent
H. Baker and Division Superintendent
' McManus, of the Southern, are here,
j and an investigation of the cause of
the accident is being held behind
I closed doors.
Sixteen Killed in Texas Storm.
l^aredo, Tex.. May 1.?Later dentils
j from the tornado, which struck this
J city Friday evening indicate that tlrst
reports in circulation here were hy no
! means exaggerated, either as to the
number of lives lost or the financial
damage resulting. Scores of people were !
injured and are being attended by the j
various physicians.
It will he impossible to state th?
number of the injured, hut it is not
belived that may deaths will result
from injuries.
The number killed is sixteen in this
city.
i
St. Paul Globe Suspends.
St. Paul, Special.?The St. Paul
Globe, after Sunday's edition, will suspend
business. The Globe was the.
only Democratic morning daily in
Minnesota, and it was the recognized
oigan of its party both in State and
in municipal affairs. The reason announced
hy the paper for its suspension
was that, in spite of its large
circulation, it was not properly patronized
by advertisers.
A
TO PENSION PROFESSORS.
Munificient Gift of Andrew Carnegie \
For The Purpose of Assisting Needy
Ex-Teachers.
Now York. Special.?A gift of $10.- j
000,000 by Andrew Carnegie to provide
annuities for college professors who are
not able to continue in active service,
was announced by Frank A. Vanderlip.
vice president of the National City !
Bank, of New York. Professors in the '
United States, Canada and Newfound- '
land will share in the distribution of
the fncome of the fund. United States
Steel Corporation 5 per cent, first
mortgage bonds for $10,000,000 have
been transferred to a board of trustees,
and steps will be taken at once !
to organize a corporation to receive 1
the donation. Dr. l'ritchett. president of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
and Mr. Vanderlip have been sc-'
lected by Mr. Carnegie to obtain data
on the subject, to be presented at the
first meeting of the board of trustees,
which will take place on November
loth. The bonds have a par value of j
$11,000,000 and will produce an annual
Income of $500,000. The corporation
v?? ieh is being formed will be styled
"the Carnegie Foundation."
Mr. Carnegie's secretary has sent a
letter to the press, giving the forego- '
ing information and inclosing a letter
from Mr. Carnegie, dated April 18th, j
which says, in part:
"I have reached the conclusion that
the least rewarded of all professions
is that of the teacher in our higher educational
institutions. New l.ork city
generously, and very wisely, provides
retiring pensions for teachers in her i
public schools and also for her police- ;
men. Very few. indeed, of our colleges
are able to do so. The conse- j
cpiences are grievous. Able men hesitate
to adopt teaching as a career, and
many old professors, whose places
should he occupied by younger men,
cannot be retired."
Mr. Carnegie says that the fund will J
apply to universities, colleges and
technical schools "without regard to
race. sex. creed or color;" but not I
to institutions supported l?y State or '
colonial governments. Another class !
excluded is sectarian institutions. "Only
such sis arc under .control of a sect,
or require trustees, or a majority thereof.
or officers, faculty or students to
belong to any specified sect, or which
impose any theological test, arc to be
excluded."
Mr. Carnegie specifies the duties of
the trustees, and concludes with the
hope that, "this fund may do much
for the cause of higher education and
to remove a source of deep and con- 1
slant anxiety to the poorest paid, and
yet one of the highest, of all professions,"
Among those named as trustees are
Presidents Kdwin B. Craighead, of Tit- I
lane, and (Jeorge H. Denny, ot" Wash- |
ington and lx*e.
EXPLOSION KILLS SIXTEEN.
Every Man in the Mine at the Time
Lost His Life Except One, and He
Will Die.
I>n Bois, Pa., Special. Sixteen men
were killed and one-will die as the re- I
.miIi of an explosion at the ISleanora i
shaft, near Big Hun, Friday night. The j
mine is owned by the Rochester and '
Pittsburg Coal and Iron Co. The
nigiu snin -was small or thorp would (
have been more fatalities. Every ;
man who was in the mine at the time
of the explosion, except one, was kill '
ou. Three bodies have been recover* |
i (1. The men were English speaking
and resided at Eleanora, a small inin- j
ing village two miles from the shaft.
Great College For Tennessee.
Columbia. Special.?Wyckliffe Rose, j
dean of the Peabody college at Nashville.
made the announcement here that j
the $S00,00() required of Tennessee, had '
been raised to match the $1,000,001) the
Peabody hoard voted on the 24th of
last January for the establishment of ;
a teachers* college at Nashville, on the |
condition that Tennessee raise $X00.000. j
Of this amount. $250,000 comes from the ,
State and $50,000 from Davidson county,
the home of the proposed college,
which will be the largest teachers* !
school in the South. In addition to
the $1,800,000 thus available for the
institution. J. P. Morgan has made an
offer of $250,000, provided a similar
amount is raised.
Peonage Case Dismissed.
Jacksonville, Fla.. Special. Judge j
Rocke, of the Federal Court, issued an
order sustaining a demurrer to an !
indictment against John W. Rennet
and Richard Rennet, of Bradford county,
who were indicted on the charge of
holding Maggie Williams in peonage
July 1. HUM. All parties are wliito. anil
the llennets prominent citizens. Judge
Locke's order virtually dismisses the
case. This is the only case of alleged
peonage ever brought in Florida.
Russians Sighted.
Hong Kong, lty Cable.? The steamer
Stettin, which has arrived here, sighted
from thirty to forty vessels of the
Russian Second Pacific Squadron in
llongkohe Bay. Annr.m, (about fifty
miles north of Kamrnnh Bay.) Thursday
cft'Tucon. Two < misers, which
l ad their decks :;tucl;ed with coal
s: nailed the Stettin to stop, and que;
' ioacd her. The Rest was preparing
lui sea.
GEN. F1TZHUGH LEE
Stricken With Apoplexy While oa
Board a Train to Washington
DISTINGUISHED MAN PASSES AWAY
Had Been a Confederate Major-General
Governor of His State, and Consul*
General at Havanna, and also a Retired
Brigadier-General in the U. S.
Army.
Washington, Special.?General Fitx*
iugh 1,00, United States army, retired,
md one of Virginia's foremost sons,
iied at the Providence Hospital hero
Friday from an attack of appoplexy.
which he suffered on a train while en.
route from Huston to Washington.
In the room when he died were I)r.
Montgomery, one of the physicians at
:ho hospital, Miss Dorsey, a relative
ind a nurse, two of the attending physicians,
Drs. Edie and Kean, having
retired temporarily. A pathetic feature
Df the case is that although General
Lee had a family consisting of a wife
ind live children, not one of them was
with him at the time of his death. The
general was 6fc years of age.
Arrangements for General Lee's fun;ral.
together with ti e selection of the
place for interment of the remains, will
lot he made until after the arrival in
Washington of Mrs. l.ee, who is now
in her way to Washington from Fort
Oglethrope. Ga. Meanwhile the hotly
will be prepared' for burial and will re?
main at the hospital, it. is possible
.hat the body may he laid to rest at
he national cemetery at Arlington, alhottgh
it is expeeted that General 4
Lee's friends may make an effort to
tiave a site chosen somewhere else In
Virginia, the State in which he lived so . .
many years and with whose interests
he was so strongly identified.
A widow and five children survive
Seneral Lee. Two of the boys are army
officers and two of the girls am
wives of army officers, while the remaining
child is a young woman still
in her teens The children are Mrs.
J. C. Kae. wife of Lieutenant Rae, now
it Fort Oglethorpe; Lieutenant Fitzbugh
Lee, of the calvary branch* now
in Manilla; Lieutenant Mason Lee, of
Hie Seventh Cavalry, who is now iu
San Francisco; Mrs. Anne Brown, wife
of Lieutenant, llrown of the Seventh.
Cavalry, who is now at San Francisco,
and Miss Virginia Lee.
General Loo was stricken with appoplexy.
the entire left side being affected.
at 3 o'clock Friday morning,
while on a train en route from Boston
to Washington. The train had just left
the Harlem river when the stroke
ante. The train hearing the general
arrived in Washington shortly after
1 o o'clock. I'nder the direction of Major
Kean, United Slates Army, of the
Surgeon General's office, the patient
was removed to Providence Hospital.
A physician was taken aboard the
train at Jersey City. At Philadelphia
he gave place to another, who accompanied
the general to Baltimore, where
still another was taken aboard and
made the trip to Washington.
General Lee had been spending a few
riays in lloston ami was returning to
Washington, on liis way to join Mrs.
Lee.
His Distinguished Career.
General Lv long has been a prominent
figure in Washington, and he always
was given a hearty reception,
wherever he went.
Prior to the eivil war at the beginning
of which he resigned his commission
in the United States army. General
T>;c saw considerable frontier doty
in moving against the Indians. Ho
was an ex-cavalry officer.
His services in the Confederate army
as a major general are well known,
and during the interval between this*
war and his active work in the Spanish-American
war. General l>ee filled a
number of important positions, including
governorship of Virginia, the presidency
of the Pittsburg & Virginia railroad.
the eollectorship of internal r?;vcnue
for the Lynchburg district, an*
the consul generalship at Havanna.
Following his honorable discharge
from the volunteer army on March 2.
1901, General Lee was appointed to the
regular army with the rank of brigadier
general, and with this rank ha
was retired in the March following.
Hail Goes Through Roofs.
Savannah, fia., Special.?Dispatches
from Southwest Georgia report a severe
hail storm Friday. Fifteen miles
(if A1 hfl n V in I Imifrhtorv iirtil
Worth counties, cotton and other
crops were broken to the ground. On
J 11. Bynum's farm the roofs of houses
were broken through. Near Hartsfield,
Joseph Stovail, an old and wellknown
citizen, was killed by the blowing
down of the bouse of his grandson
John Stovail.
Monument to Joe Jefferson.
Tlichmond, Va., Special. A popular
subscription has been started here for
the erection In this city of a monument
to Joseph Jefferson, the actor.
It bids fair to be successful. The city
i.; expected to provide a site.
Steamer Passed Warships.
Island of Penang, Special- The British
steamer Catherine Apcar from
Calcutta, reports having passed two
detachments of eight and seven warships,
respectively, Thursday night
sixty miles south of Penang. Tbe^
were beading for Singapore.