FORT MILL TIMES.
15TH YEAR. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1907. NO. 41.
TO THE PHILIPPINES
All Colored Troops Ordered to
foreign Service
NO ECHO OF BROWNSVILLE CASE
Department Issu33 Orders for Prcpartion
for Service and 3oldiers Will
Sail Between March 5 and June 5
of Present Year?Troops Being
Sent Becauso It is Their Turn to
Go and Not Because of Any Desire
to Get Tksm Out of United States
at This Time?None Were Sent Between
1902 and 1C05.
Washington, Special.?The Ninth
and Tenth Cavalry and the Twentytifth
Infantry, including nil the negro
soldiers in the regular army in this
country, have been ordered to prepare
for service in the Philippines and
will sail at different times between
March 5th and .June 5th of this year.
The only other regiment composed of
negroes, the Twenty-fourth Infantry,
is now doing service in the Philippines.
Other troops ordered to the Philippines
are the Sixth Cavalry, the
Eighteenth, Twenty-sixth, Twentyninth
and Thirtieth Infantry. The
troops which will be relieved by the
sending, of these new regiments will
be the Fourth, Seventh and Eighth
Cavalry and the Ninth, 'fifteenth,
Fifteenth, Sixctccnth and Nineteenth
Infantry.
It was stated by Major Genera!
Bell, chief of Staff- tlint tlio TiPirv.. vo.r I
intents are being sent to the Philippines
because it is their turn to go,
and not because of any desire to ;:et
them out of the United States nt this
time.
The negro troops are to sail for the
Philippines before most of the white |
organizations, the last of which will i
not leave this country until early in
January, 190S.
Statement by Department.
The followng statement was issued
from the War department in explanation
of the orders:
"There was a time, between 190'i
and 1905, when the colored regiments
wore not sent to the Philippines at
all. In 1905, however, this policy was |
tentatively changed, and the Twentyfourth
Infantry, colored regiment,
was sent to the Philippines and is now
there. The services of thp Twentyfourth
Infantry in the Philippines
lias been etirely satisfactory, and it is
thought that the services of the other
regiments will be.
"In reporting npnn this subject
General Wood states: 'I lecently visited
and made an inspection of the
Departments of the Yisnyas and Min<lnno,
and found the Twenty-fourth
Infantry very well liked by the eivi!
authorities in the neighborhood of its
various stations. In fact as Tacloban
the Governor expressed particular appreciation
of the line conduct of this
regiment.'
"Beeausc of this report and experience,
the general staff
ed and the Department decided it to
be wise to return to the former policy
of equal foreign service of all the regiments
of the mobile army.
' The present assignment of the
other colored regiments to the Philippines
is merely for an equal distribution
of foreign service. They have
not been there for four years. It now
becomes fair to them and to other
regiments that they be assigned to the
Philippines in due order.
"Foreign service, it should be stated.
increses the pay of the men 20
per cent and counts double time for
retirement. It was pointed out at the
Department therefore that the idea
that these orders were prejudicial to
the colored troops or were made on
account of the Itrownsville affair, was
utterly absurd."
The Georgia May be Presented With
Silver Service.
Washington, Special.?A number of
representative men of Savannah Saturday
called on Assistant Secretary
of the Navy Newberry, and conferred
with him regarding the presentation
of a silver sen-ice to the battleship
Georgia. Although nothing definite
Wnu nrrn?/?A'l " :
......ukcm, 11 is prooanie that the
vessel will be sent South in the spring.
President Escalon is Anxious to Suppress
Revolution.
Ran Salvador, Republic of Salvador.
By Cable.?Hondurnns residing
in Nicaragua and Salvador started the
recent revolution in the government
of Honduras, which was suppressed
by Nicaragua and Salvador. The
Central American republics arc anxious
t<> maintain pehce bv all means.
President F.scfclon. oi Salvador, made
an important declaration to this effect.
Kx-Prd'S^nt Poticarpo I Ionilia,
of Honllu as, who v as compromised
in the S^voluti'.in, has been imprisoned.
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A RIGID INVESTIGATION
Under Resolution of Congress, Interstate
Commerce Commission Will
Shift Every Piece of Evidence to be
had in an Effort to Ascertain if Recent
Railroad Disasters Have Been
Duo to Unreliable Block System, or
Carelessness of Employes Stationed
Here.
Washington, Special.?What promises
to be a most rigid investigation
f the recent wrecks <>n the Baltimore
St Ohio Railroad at Tern Cotta. D.
D., in wihch more than two score of
passengers lost their lives, and oil the
Southern Railroad at Lawyers, Va,
>11 Thanksgiving Day, when PresiJent
Samuel Spencer and seven otk rs
were killed was begun by the interState
Commerce Commission, acting
under a general resolution passed by
Dougrcss in the last session providing
!or an inquiry into the operation on
the block system on the railroads
liroughout the country. It is the purpose
of the commission to determine
whether the responsibility for these
two wrecks should be placed on the
workings of theb lock system or the
;arelessness of the railroads' employ's
stationed at the block station.
Commissioner Clements is conducting
the inquiry, and the railroads are
represented by attorneys. It is understood,
if the block system is found to
be unreliable, some immediate Icgisla:ive
remedy may be urged upon Congress
by the commission.
The Terra Cotta Wreck.
The Terra Cotta wreck was first
taken np. Chief Dispatcher T. F.
Dent, of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
testified that the whereabouts
of trains are often unknown to hint
for f) or 10 minutes because of the
failure or inability of operators at the
block stations to communicate with
tint when a train passes their stations.
Kngitieer Hildeibrand, of the "dead"
equipment train, which crashed into
the Frederick (Md.) local at Term
Cotta testified that the "double
green" light was displayed at Silver
Springs and University station. If
there was any "danger light" at Takotna
station, the witness declares
he did not sec it. He testified that
between Friday evening at 6:30
o'clock and Sunday evening at 6:30.
when the wreck occurred, a period
>f 4S hours, he had had only eight
hours sleep. He said, however, that '
when he was called to make the fatal
tun he did not fcal a lack of sleep.
i)ui was 111 good trim.
Thrie Times Suspended.
Hilderbrand admitted he had heen
suspended); on at least three occasions,
once for allowing the engine
boiler to become short of water, then
for thiry days becans ehe did not
stop after the explosion of a torpedo
which he ran over, and again for
run nine: through a switch. He said
he had heard a number of instances
where engineers have passed by a
red signal, but he could not jrive any
speeitie instances.
He admitted he sometimes took a
drink when off duty, but that on the
day of the wreck lie bad not touched
a drop.
Prepared Special Edition of President's
Panama Message.
Washington, Special.?To meet a
great public demand for the recent
mcsage of the President to Congress
narrating the events of his trip to
the Isthmus of Panama last fall, the
Government Printing Office has prepared
an edition, with seven appendices
ami '2t> full-page illustrations
making, what is denominated a textbook
on the subject of the canal,
which wil he sold to the public by the
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. i.|.? i iiut nuiTii or Documents upon
application for 50 cents per copy.
Killed in Selma, Ala., Saloon.
Selma, Ala., Special.?Marion Phillips
was shot and killed by L. S.
Bureh in a saloon here. Both men are
white linemen. They had frequently
quarreled and after a dispute, Phillips
knocked Burch down, whereupon
Bureh opened lire, killing Phillips.
Bureh came here from Jackson, Miss.
Phillips has a wife in Savannah and
idatives in Augusta, Ga.
Abandons Reconstruction.
New Orleans, Special.?A teljrrarr
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i..win iimiiii^ion suites that the
United States government lias abandoned
its recostruction of Fort St
Philiy, near the mouth of the Mississippi
river, and that contractors
amounting to nearly $100,000 will be
abrogated. One ol" the contractor.said
that he had received a request
asking on what terms he will abrogate
bis contract. During the gull
hurricane last fall Fort St. Jhilip
was badly damaged.
BOMB WRECKS BANK
Cashier and Others Killed By
Explosion
CRANK WANTED A BIG LOAN
Dropped by Unidentified Foreigner
After He Had Demanded of President
a Loan of 85.000?Cashier In
iVIVu 111 v i>i ii\ t;( iiuu 1 UMvt'U 11HI1 lO DC
seated for a moment, lie was very
poorly dressed, had patches 011 li is
shoes and his entire appearance made
me a bit curious. While he was waiting
for me to finish the business 1 had
in hand at the moment I happened to
notice that he looked at me very curiously.
1 asked him his business and
he gave me his name as G. E. Williams
and said he wanted a loan of
$5,000. He did not look like a man
who could make a loan of that amount
and I asked him for collateral. He
said something about an insurance
policy and that it would mature in
from one to live years. I was then
convinced the man was a crank and
decided to dismiss him at once, not
for a moment thinking there was any
harm in him. 1 told him he would
have to see the cashier and directed
him out into the banking department.
At the same moment I called the colored
messenger, William Crump, to
see that the man was quickly taken
out of the building. As I turned to
continue my work at the desk there
was a territic explosion ami I thought
the building was coming down. The
man had not time to reach the cashier,
the explosiou came so soon."
Details as to what actually happened
when the man left the office of
President Hushton differ, as no one
can he found who snw l.? ....... J
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I the bomb. The door to the offlee of
Cashier McLear is only a few feet
from that of President Rushton and
the man must have dropped the deadly
misslc between tho two rooms.
Cashier McLcar was sitting at his
desk at the time and his body was
badly mangled. The boom-thrower's
body was torn to pieces.
Savannah Puts In Her Bid.
Washington, Special.?A delegation
from Savannah, headed by former
Senator Norwood, arrived here in the
interest of the establishment of a subTreasury
in that city. Col. .1. 11. Estill,
of the Savannah Morning News,
and Pleasant A. Stovall, of the Savannah
Press, were among the party,
The delegation held a conference with
Senators Bacon and Clay and members
of tho Georgia delegation in the
House of Representatives and next
week will go before the ways and
I means committee to urge Savannah't
I claims.
stantly Killed and Bomb-Thrower
Blown to Pieces?Tho Injured are
Clerks and the Negro Messenger,
Who Was Fearfully Hurt, Both
Eyes Being Blown Out, Scalp Torn
Off and Face So Mangled That He
Is Unrecognizable.
Philadelphia, Speciul.?Demanding
a loan of $5,000 and failing to get it,
a man who has not yet been indentified
dropped a bomb in the Fourth
Street National Bank Saturday, blowing
himself to pieces, instantly killing
Cashier \V. K. McLear, and injuring
six others, one or two of whom may
die. The only clue to the identity of
the bomb-thrower was a bunch of keys
found in a portion of the clothing attached
to which was a plate inscribed
"K. Steele, Garner, Iowa."
The Fourth Street Uational Bank is
the largest tinancial institution in the
city and occupies the greater portion
of the tirst floor of the Butlitt building
on Fourth street between Cuesnut
ami w ainut streets in tile heart ol tlie
financial district. The explosion was
terrific and it caused tremendous excitement
in the crowded building and
the street.
The explosion occurred a few minutes
before 12 o'clock, at a time when
the bank is usually well filled with
persons in a hurry to transact business
before the bank closes. No one
saw the unknown man enter the bank
except E. F. Shanbacker, the vice
president, who was passing out of tho
building 011 his way to luncheon, lie
noticed the man was poorly dressed,
looked like a Russian and carried a
small parcel. The man walked straight
back to the rear of the bank and asked
a clerk to direct him to the office
of the president, Richard II. Rushton.
What took place in his office is
best told by the president himself.
Asked a Loan of $5,000.
"I was very busy when the man entnrn.l
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CONGRESS AT WORK '
Both Houses of Congress Resume
Work After Holiday Recess.
Soon after the Senate inet Senator
Forakcr's resolution providing for
an inquiry by the Senate intS the
discharge of the negro troops of the
Twenty-fifth Infantry on account of
the Brownsville, Texas, episode, was
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...... uciuiu ini? oenaio ana oenaioi*
Culberson mnde an address on tho
subject. He said that lie would liaro
kept quiet but for the fact that great
injustice had been done the people of
Brownsville..
Mr. Culberson said that the eonduet
of the negro soldiers had boon
' very iritating to the Brownsville
people and especially so to the women.
He related that on August 4,
last, the day before the "shouting
up" of the town, a criminal assault
had been committed by one of the
soldiers on the wife of a reputable
itizen and said that no arrests had
been made for the crime. Mr. Culberson
defended Captain McDonald,
)f the Texas He tigers, to whom Mr.
Foraker had referred because of
Major llloeksom's reference to him
as a man who was "so brave that
lie would not hesitate to chargo hell
with a bucket of water." Mr. Culberson
also said that he knew Major
Blocksom to be a gentleman.
Defends the President.
In defending President Roosevelt
for his dismissal of the troops, Mr.
Culberson said the fact that the
troops were negroes had nothing
to do with their discharge. Confusion
as to the legal question involved
was, he said, resposible for the statement
that the President had no authority
to make the discharge. The
President's constitutional authority
and the authority given him by the
articles of war clearly covered the
case and made his action legal, he
declared, lie contended that discharges
for criminal offenses are covered
in the articles of war as are also
discharges made to effect punishment.
Mr. Culberson said that there was
it distinction between a "discharge
without honor." In the former case
the President could exercise his discretion
as he had done in the instance
only lie made as the result of a courtmartial.
He instanced several cases
to sustain his position.
Negro Soldiers Motive.
To establish the motive actuating
the negro soldiers in creating the alleged
disturbance, Mr. Culberson
read resolutions recently adopted by
negro citizens of Iioston, which admitted
that the soldiers "shot un"
the town ami said they '"were determined
to do for themselves what
the uniform of their country would
not do?protect them from insults
and punish nt the same time the
authors of their misery."
Disclaiming any partisanship for
the President, Mr. t.'ulherson created
a wave of merriment by saying:
"I have ntohing to do with the
President in tlie matter. 1 care nothing
about hint. My personal relations
with him are about as cordial
as those of the Senator from Ohio."
(Mr. Foraker.)
In all fairness. Mr. Culberson said,
the country ought to know that the
report made to the President was reliable.
In the House.
Within 15 minutes from the time
the gavel of Speaker Cannon fell
calling together the House of Representatives,
after the holiday recess,
the lower branch of Congress adjourned,
the absence of a quorum
bringing about the early adjournment
The Houso was a triHe late in
meeting due to the absence from the
Speaker's table of the badge of authority,
the gavel, and in consequence
the small membership of the
House present were kept standing a
minute or two longer than usual until
the Speaker obtained the "hammer."
But when the gavel was received
a responding whack brought
the House face to face with what
bids fair to he a busy session.
W TP TPtiirl aliHirli nf tlif* f? l*of
California district, and Charles (}.
Washburn, of the third Massachusetts
district, were sworn in as members
of the 5{)th Courtoss to take
the places of James X. Xorris (iillett,
of California, resigned, and
Itockwnod Ifoar, of Massachusetts,
deceased.
"The Omnibur. Claims Bill."
( "The omnibus claims bill," socnllcd.
carrying npropriations 1'<?i ,
claims under tiie Bowman and Tucker |
i acts, and miscellaneous claims on'
which favorable reports have been
. been made by the war claims committee,
was before the House and foi
| nearly live hours the merits of th :
. measure were exploited. The bill,
however, hardly jjot beyond the start
ing post stage when the House adjourned.
Immediately after approval of the
journal Speaker Cannon announced
the appointcment of Representative
Englebright, of California, to a place
the committee of mines and mining,
vice Mr. Williamston. of Oregon,
removed. The Speaker based this action
on the ground that Mr. Williamson
had failed thus far to attend a
single session of the Fifty-ninth Congress.
lie has been convicted of par
iHi|?iiiun in Kinti irauus in Oregon.
Senator Culberson defended the |
President's order discharging the ne-i
gro troops, and Senator Koraker replied
to him.
The Fornker resolution was, by
agreement. -:ven the right of way in
the Senate next Monday.
The House remained in session only
long enough to enable two new members
to take the oath of office.
The government will appeal from
the decision of Judge Evans declaring
the Employers' Liability law unconstitutional.
Train Robber Arrested.
Huntington, "W. Va., Sjiecial?Percy
Martin, of Atlanta, Ga., was arrested
here charged with being one of
the bandits who held up a Seaboard
Air Line train 8 miles south of Richmond
on New Year's eve. He admitted
his guilt and delivered to the officers
a $500 diamond ring which had
been taken from one of the passen*
gers. He told where most of the mon*
cy cau be found.
The Vatican Determined.
1'aris, By Cable.?Developments in
tlie church and State situation continues
to indicate that the Vatican
authorities feel constrained to vindicate
their course, by which church
property in France to the value of
$120,000,000 was forfeited by the rejection
of everything offered by the
government, and will even go to the
extent of ordering the clergy to leave
the churches in the hope of driving
the Pr? neh Catholics to demand redre.
' I lie ballot box.
Four Killed and Two Fatally Injured
In Explosion.
Kenosho, Wis., Special.?In an explosion
in the grinding mill at the
La l't in & Hand Power Mill Company,
in Plesant Prairie. Kenosho county,
four persons were killed outright and
two were fatally injured. Two others
were hadlv hurt. One of the dead iRalph
Alderson, the other three aiv
Russians; names are unknown. The
financial loss is about $10,000.
No. 97 Is No More.
Spencer, N. 8|>ceial.? Fast mail
train No. 07, running between WashilllWAM
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"s'"" ??iiu .M*w wrieans, the fastest
train known to the railroad world, and
the onlv one ol the kind in the United
States, being maintained by a special
act of Congress, made its last trip
Saturday night, passim; Speneer two
hours late. At midnight a general
change of schedules on the Southern
Railway system takes effect and
four new trains take the place of No.
J7 on the main line.
Sciious Floods in Arkansas.
Little Hock, Ark., Special.?The
floods through central Arkansas art
the worst known in 20 years. Little
Iioek and Hot Springs arep radically
isolated. No trains have beer,
operated to or from Hot Spring?
sine Wednesday afternoon. Not until
Thursday evening was the liock
Island able to operate trains out ol
Little Hock, and all through train*
on the Iron Mountain are detourcd
via Texarkana and Camden.
Tributes to Mrs. Jefferson Davis.
Montgomery, Ala.. Special.?Tributes
to Mrs. Jefferson Davis, ir
manuscript, or other eligible form
brought forth by her recent death
will be sent to the Ladies' Memorial
Association, to b- kept at Montgomery,
"the cradle of the Confederacy."
This is given out by Mrs
Margaret Davis Hayes, only surviving
child of Mrs. Davis, in compliment
to the neighbors of her mothei
during the early days of the war.
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1 ? ,, Good Ryo Whisky per gal 1.73
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SATdSIiURY - - - NO,
Alexander .1. Cassatt, president of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, dies suddenly
in Philadelphia.
James M. Thomas was found dead
in a ravine near Danville under mysterious
circumstances.
A prominent Atlantan shot and
dangerously wounded another at a
wedding near that city.
I.ahor Commissioner Neill says he
hopes for early settlement of Southern
Pacitie firemen's strike.
A number of new laws, notably the
Pure Food. Free Alcohol and AntiPass
laws went into effect.
The indications now are that Henry
A. Richardson will he elected United
States Senator from Delaware.
Governor Charles K. Hughes, of
New York, in taking offiee, declared
for purity in the public service.
Accusations against the Governor
of Mississippi were made by the retiring
warden of the penitentiary.
Dr. Foster remains do facto superintendent
of the Williamsburg Hospital
despite efforts to supersede him.
Sweeping reforms were advanced
in the lirst message of Governor
Hughes to tin* New York legislature.
Titty-live persons, principally Italian
laborers, were killed or burned to
death in a wreck 011 the Rock Island
road.
After trying for nearly a week to
fret married in the fare <>f opposition
a ltichmoud pair were made one on
a t rain.
Governor Glenn, of North Carolina,
ordered the arrest of Congressman E.
Spencer Itlnckhurn, on a charge of
criminal libel.
The French bishops will meet to
discuss the church's crisis in that
country at the Chateau de la Muetta
January 15.
The new $(50,000,000 coastwise
steamship consolidation formed by
Charles W. Morse was incorporated
at Portland, Maine.
Governor l'ennypaeker of Pennsylvania,
in his message to the legislature,
courted an investigation into the
State eapitol scandal.
A young woman against whom ho
had decided a suit involving an inheritance
tried to shoot a judge in his
courtroom in St. Louis.
Tlic Atlantic licet, under the command
of Wear-Admiral Evans, has
sailed for Guantanamo, for the winter
evolutions of the tleet.
Major-Gencral Jesse M. Lee was retired
under the aire regulation, Brig.Gen.
J. Franklin Well was promoted to
the rank of major-general.
The deadlock among republicans of
the House in Delaware was broken,
both branches of the legislature were
organized and the governor's message
was read.
United State.-, pledges support to
Great Britain in any steps toward
ameliorating conditions in the Congo.
Mayor McClcllnn of New York in
declining to reappoint a Murphy candidate
on the Board of Elections, uses
blistering language regarding the
Tammany leader.
In a report to President Woosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lift.who 1)a^ made :>n investigation,
stales that the coal famine in North
Dakota was due to the shortage of
cars on Western railroads.
Charges of fraud were filed with
the Postmaster fienernl against the
New ^ ork Cotton KxehnntjC hy lieprfsentative
Livingston, of (Jeoriria,
and Harvie Jordan, president of the
Southern Cotton Association.
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| MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST f
It is reported that the Murlboroughs
have become reconciled.
Hot municipal elect ions were held
in several West Virginia towns.
Chancellor von Buelow calls on the
German electorate to put down socialism.
Great Britain will send a splendid
naval lleet to the Jamestown exposition.
The new Freneh Church and State
Separation bill was signed and promulgated.
Archbishop Hyatt denounced the
French government officials as worsu
than pagans.
Judge William Bush. S2 years old,
was run over and seriously hurt at
Parkersburg.
Defeated for re-election, a Massachusetts
septungenarian officeholder
took his life.
Two thousand Norfolk women met
to plan the city's part in the Jamestown
exposition.
Gov. Vardntnan, of Mississippi, declares
stories of Sijpoba riots were
greatly exaggerated.