Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Release Granted on $2$, OOG Bond? Depositors Protected. i, ? ? HONEY LOST IN SPECULATION. Frank G. Bigelow, President of the First National Bank and Head of the American Bankers' Association, is Arrested, Charged With Embezzle ment. Milwaukee, Special. ? Frank C. Wgelow, president of the First Nation al Bank of this eity and formerly president of the American Bankers' l'ari defflfulteU bank funds to the ex tcntof $ J, 600, 000. The capital of the 4 hank is $1,600,000 and a surplus of fiv200,C0C. Blgulmv signed over prop oily amounting to *300.000. making a r.et defalcation of $1,200,000. Aside (roin the surplus which will meet tho defalcation, the sum of $1,6H6,000 has been subscribed by the directors to iiK-et any demands which may be made on the bank. The aggregate wealth of the bank approximates over $20,000,000. The Comptroller of Currency has been Ask ed to. make immcdiato examination of the hank. Yhgelow admitted that that anjount bad been lost in speculation and he had falsified the hooks to cover up the defalcation. Henry CI. Goll, assisiant ?anhier of the bank has been removed, charged with havii)g teen a party to4 (ho falsification of figures in the honk's books. In making 'his statement to the di rectors of the bank. Mr. Bigelow said he had become involved in speculation In Wall Btreet several months ago. He had also been u persistent bull in the wheat market and recent losses in grain had been added to heavy losses In Wall street. From manipulation of the hankta funds, he had extended the defalcations until his shortage had passed fhe million dollar mark. He saw no possibility of returning the money, and therefore confessed his action. Funds were at onco provided by the directors of the bank to protect de positors against loss, to save the bank from a stampede. More than a mil lion dollars waa guaranteed to the bank by various stockholders, and no serious run was made on the bank. It is not thought that any complications with creditors of the bank will follow. The manipulation of accounts has b?Non going on for months, according to the statement, of one of the directors, but so cleverly was the work done b that neither the. .directors nor the na U<^pa| bank examiners discovered that r^ythlng was wrong with the funda of the bank. The flrst intima tion that thoro were Irregularities came to Charles F. Pflster, a director, when an employe of the bank gave Mr. Pfister Information sufficient to tftart an investigation. Then followed a meeting of the directors and a con teesfon. DOUBT efficiency of fleet Observers of Rojestvensky's Fleet In *?"** " Kamranh Bay Were Not All Favora 'vbiy Impressed. Kamranh Bay, Special.-'-Tho Rus sian squadron, consisting of 62 ships, Including the transports, loft Kam *ranh Bay at noon April 22, and the main portion soon disappoared in a i.Ortherly direction. SJjcteen vessels? the Russian cruiser Syletlana, the Russian hospital ship Orel, four Ger man transports, seven Danish trans ?forts, and three Russian transports re vnalned in the offing. * -"**? Those who saw Admiral Roj^stven ~ VRy prior to his departure sny he is suffering from dysentery, accompanied by severe pains. All the offfcers aud crews of the Russian ships appeared to he full of confidence. It Is believed here that it is Admiral Rojestvensky's intention to do every thing possible to have Admiral Nobo gatoff join him before undertaking a 'decisive battle. - A torpedo hoat de stroyer Is patrolling the coast. Although the Russian crews were confident of victory, Independent ob servers who got near enough to Ad miral, Rojestvensky's warships to be nble to inspect them were not unani mous . regarding the oOlcieucy uf the squadron. Five Indicted for Peonage. Athene, Oa., Special ? In the Fedora i Court Monday Indictment* for peon me were returned against R7U Quit t mann, Weldon P. Brooks, George 8 Huff, Ed. Huff, Rttfus Harvey, and fully twenty more cases are to be ^KfluSSUlnffton WAa arrested U to induce negroet ilssiMi tits bond ADVANCE IN WAGES. Flv? Thousand Employees of Colorado Corporation Will Be Benefitted. Pueblo, Colo., Special. ? Announce ment Is made, beginning May 1. that five thousand employes of the Colora do Fuel and Iron Co.. of this city, will 'receive an advance In wages. Office employes and' superintendents will re eelve an Increase of ten t,o twenty per cent and men In the mechanical de partmcnts seven per cent. RUSSIAN PRINTERS STRIKE. Typos Say They Won't Work on Sun days and Holidays. St. Petersburg, Special.? Printers sudderil.v struek Monday, announcing their Intention of refusing to work on Sundays and holidays. Only the Riiss and Novoe Vtemya appeared Monday iporning. Sulcitic on German Cruiser. 0 Newport News. Va., Spccigl^-'T.lbut L. A. P. Y. -JPtHc'tferman crul > committed suicide aboard Monday. His fellow offi cers declare ne was temporarily insane ss a result of ill health. -a. ! PALMETTO CROP CONDITIONS ? Weather and Crop Conditions a? View ed by the Department. The week ending Monday morning, April 24th, averaged much cooler than usual, especltlly during the flint three days, with blow rising temperatures until Saturday when a maximum above 80 degrees whk recorded in the south eastern counties. The lowest for the woftk wag 28 at Greenville on the 18th. The week closed with temperatures Considerably below normal. There were general ahowers and thunderstorms* on the 2ist, with hill in the central counties, but the rainfall was very light -in the extreme western and the southeastern counties, where the need of rain Is indicated. Then whr no damage by hail. Full rejiorts on the damage to fruit, vegetables and field crops by tho freeze and frost of the 17th and 18th, indicate severe and extensive Injury to peaches, apples, plums and other fruits in the western counties, especial ly on low lands where the destruction was practically 'total; in the central counties and In the commercial peach raising districts the damage was se rious, but not total destruction at any point; while in the eastern and south eastern counties the damage to fruit was slight. Garden truck was largely destroyed in all se -lions, except In the coast truck regions, where the damage was not mater<al, although thin ice was noted within about twenty miles of tho coast. Corn that was tip wa$ nearly all cut to tho ground, but only a small proportion of it will need to he re planted. A few reports indicate that wheat and oats v/ero injured. Tin large majority reports both grains all right and still promising. Tobacco that was see out was only slightly dam aged. Watermelons, cucumbers ami like field crops were practically all de stroyed and will be replanted. Many of the correspondents state that /it is too early to determine tho extent of the damage to poaches as fruit is dropping rapidly. The weather was generally favorable for farm work and rapid progress was made In cotton planting. It was too cold for favorable germination and growth. Corn looks yellow and sick ly. Early corn Irs being cultivated;, cut worms are numerous in many places. Transplanting tobacco was de layed by the cojd weather, but towards the close ?<rf tTio week made fair prog ress. Cotton planting is nearly fin ished in the eastern part of the State and about half finished in <^ie west ern part, whore the season is later than usual. v J. W. IlAUEIi, Section Director. CLEVELAND PAYS TRIBUTE. Ex-President Speaks as an Affection ate and Admiring Friend of the Dis tinguished Actor. Princeton, N. J.t Special.? Grover Cleveland Monday paid a tribute to Joe Jefferridn, who died at West' Palm Beach. Mr. Cleveland seemed (\eeply affected. He said: ... ^ ? ?" "U Is difficult for mo to speak ol Mr/ Jefferson. He was closely my friend, his delightful traits were so manifest to me In confidential Intimacy and my love for him was so great, that his death caused me to feel like a mourner whose sorrow should be si lent. "All know my friend's professional supremacy arid his conscientious ser vice In professional work; many knew, how zealously he defended dramatic art and hp'w Completely he Illustrated fhe Importance of Its cleanliness; manv knew how free ho was from hatred, malice and all uncharltableness, but fewef knew how harmoniously hij qualities of hcait and mind and con science blended in the creation of an honest, upright, sincere and God-fear ing man. '?I believe that in death he has reach ed a world where the mercy of Cod abounds; and 1 know that in the world of men the sadn?ss of his loss will felt mos( by I hose who knew him best." Key -West Octogenarian Cead. Key West, Flu., Special. ? .laimn C. Jones. fcS y^ars of age. United Stalei commissioner and deputy collector for the United States Court, died here Sunday. He had held the offices of mayor of Key West, sheriff and tax col lector cf the county and justice of the peace and United States marshal. He was born In Canada of French de scent and had a varied experience travelling around fhe world prior to 1S50. Senator Bacon Going Abroad. Washington. Spetlal. ? Senator na tion, who rollapfr-cd In the Sepnte just ly?fore the adjournment <if that body, ahj who has been Indisposed, will s ill on the steamer Prince ta Ire!^;M?ja Sat urday, April 2*. for Cenoa. lie >m.| remain abroad for several" months, tak ing. by orders of his pliysltian. com plete rest. MIhk Nancy Carnegie, ??l??S^of An drew Carnegie, was married a J year ago to a riding master of thb nbmo of llever, who was formerly hor mother's c oat b man. ^ Polntad Parjr^rapK*. Agents of the 15?i1t?b!e A&Wance Society at a meeting In Nev# York fcdopted resolutions calling ri Vtcc Presldcnt Hyde to resign. \ ^ The Jury for the third trial of "Nan" Patterson. charged with -.he murder of ] "Caaaar" Young, was con pistil and Usa ?%?t*djcwrned until Monday. miia M<iCWIaat of Now York, Ua^j ttM bvfbrn the Stevens l^gbv.ativc Cmwimecrrgarrtlng the Now Yui* J ?? --a.-? -A sun emu minus i Occurrences of Interest in Varioi'8 Parte of the State. Charlotte Cotton Market. Those prices represent prices paid (? wagons: Strict good middling ; (Jood middling "'?< ? Strict middling 7V& j Middling 7 VI i Tinges 0 % lt> 7.00 , Siainy , f>V4 to ??'/? ! Gcne.il Cotton Market. Middling, j (JalvoHton, quiol 7 Now Orleans, atealy 7% j Mobile, easy 7 r>- 1 *5 I Savannah, easy 7% j Charleston. <|?i i?^t 7% > Wilmington,, dull 714 Ncrfolk. qulo( 7% | Baltimore, nominal 7 % New York, quiet 7.80 Boston, quiet . W7.80 Philadelphia, quiet ?.05 Houston, quiet. 7 Vi Augusta, steady 7 1-16 Memphis, steady 7 Ut St. l,ottis, steady 7 U 10 I ouisvillc, Hi in 7:?i Palmetto Items. II is prolr.ibl.? tha. |Ai# Thompson of Clreonvllle, will liar* a hard lime to ge^ a pardon. In 1003 lie kith'd Arch Sullivan in Croon villo and was sen tenced to serve the rest of bis 1 i f?? in p:lsen. A petition stating the ease l.as been received. Acting upon his tjsual custom, (.low Heyward sen! the ! porillc n l o (he proseq ui Ing attorney,^ who in this erase wim Senator Dean of 1 (Sreenville. The latter declares, 1ft 5 an | "iidorsement received Tuesday, that ' (he prisoner should h<< made to servo I a*, lea si a s senlenee for manslaughter, as there was lit lie in (lie case* lo roc- j ommend a pardon. II is declared In Ihe petition that Isadoro Thompson killed I'.io man who scdneed his daugh ter. refused to marry her and I hen wenl about bragging of what ho had done. However, the jury seems (o have thought1 l]ia( there was enough in ? i c case to Jiavn the accused sent to (he penitent iarv for life. Hib Smalls, (lie North Carolina white man who was (Oiivh-led of murdering a negro, will not he hanged at Dar lington on the r,th of May, as has been gene rally expected throughout Hie State, and has been strongly hoped by many people 1u Darlington countj^ His attorneys havo perfected the aj/peal to (he Supreme Court just in time to sav? his neck, and he thereby getting a year's respite, jf not a reversal and new trial. Notice of t lie perfection of (he appeal waA given Coventor Hey ward by Smalls' attorneys, and (he Covcrnor has notified the Darlington sheriff to hold up on (lie hanging. The appeal also includes some faint hope for the life and liberty of John Na'l, also white . convicted along with Smalls, but given only a life sentence, inasmuch as the jury recommended him to mercy. 14 ! .Tames Moore, a negro laborer 'at work oiv the excavations for the new bank building on Main street in Co lumbia, lost his life there in such a strange and unusual manner that his felloy workmen's superstitions havo been aroused rand It has been difficult to get 1hem to work a vain. Moore wan standing beside a six-foot embank ment. when part of II containing bricks ?gave way and fell against him, and although the impact of hardly more than a cubic yard of the stuff, he re ceived injuries which resulted in his death th^ce hours later. He was trip ped by the cave-in against a wheel barrow board walk, (he tyrlek masfTThs his head and neck against the board. Comptroller Central Jones is doing a bit of "l rust -bis? tin 5" on the side by raising <he tax of the returns of lil 3 corporations. The raising of the Vir ginia-Carolina Chemical Company's return from $700,000 to S3. 000. 000 haa been followed by raising the re turn of (he Standard Oil Company to $200,000 from $65,000. The par value of stock is put down I11 the return at $100 a share, and (he capital In pla::eJ at $100,000,000. with over $9?, 000,000 of that paid in. The stock la being quoted in the market at $t!70 a share, v1t is demonstrated that a gigantic cor poration with its various properties has a market value of over a billion J dollars. *rfio |)Ou|?l<' t'f Hork Mill* township in Anderson county have voted an ad ditional lax of four mills for school purposes. The vote for tlie spocluJ levy was unanimous, not a sinRle vote baving oposcd It. Many of the dis tricts in the county have voted spec ial levies to support their schools, rind the movement for better educa tional facilities Is steadily progressing In one instance, nt least. In addition to the voting of a special levy, the principle of consolidation has boon successfully carried out. The rails In the new railroad con necting Union with the Seaboard Air Lino are now ^belng' laid rapidly. A large force is already., at work without the corporate limits of Union, and the mils would he run riplit into where the new station will be located were it not tfe^eysary to build a trestle in the rear of U G. Young's residence. This tiektlo will be an pspetdatiy heavy rne about. 45 feet long, and will require about two or three weeks to be com pleted. For sevcial days ('apt. I). .1. Griffith, a railroad conductor, who has been grading out for the new railroad yards, has been working ahea'J of tho track gang In order that the roadbed vould bo In first Mas* condition. v. Ilayward Wednesday offered ? icwkrd of $160 for the arrest of the pCiHon who bilrned the barn of I,. F. Stafford in Union county . on the t of April *2nd. T^e offer of re gard waa made at the tcqucst of ffo Ticltor 8ea?e. The Spartanburg Herald Company, Lxttfc SIMM casttaU And with a. k. Oontalea. W.^W. Holland. If. U Wai' mm a F .H. MrMactvm a? toftform ton, WM xomoHasionad. .... r" - NEW ORPHANAGE OPENING The Opening of the Thornwell Orphan age After the Fire Disaster. NVhon the lire occurred hi the Thorn A'Oll Orphanage on the 4 1 )i of Novem her last, there were lmrd times fur a while for two hundicd orphan rhlldiVn. They had neither pantry nor store house, and hjM "old mother liuhhard pone to the supboard," she would have loiiiul (hat the cupboard was not bare; It was gone! All the pickles and pie set ves and dried fruit ayd other little supplies fixed up for th^ winter use wej<? gone np in smoke. And In addi tion, all the flour and meal and bacon ami rice and molasses and vinegar and sugar and lea and coffee had been food for the devouring flame*! There wuh not oven a kitchen left, ninth les.s a storehouse; but the people ((Sod blent* the penpln, the'.r JiC.SCta p.i'p :?!! s*!ght!} the people i-ume to our reaeue and now we have completed and are ready to open a handsome new building H)0 fi-ot one way by 65 the other. It is cover ?d with tin nnd it took fifty-five squares to rover it. The floors, are of brick laid in cement. It has been furnished with ranges and stoves. The Majestic llangc Company of St. Louis, gave us a splen lld new range and two portable bakers. Hut it woefully lacks something. There Is not a dust of meal nor a grain of rice, nor a cruise of oil, nor a pound of sugar,? there Ih nothing in the store house. Why, not even a mouse has gone there to hunt his dinner; not a fly is fyloking out for the pickings! And yet ^r>n that storehouse 250 children and their teachers are dependent for their laily bread. It is time for a house- warmine! Let us have it. What have you at hand that | you can send? Do not wait for a com mittee to call on you or a preacher to j net afteV you. The third week of April i*; our reception week. Kverybod.v will | lie at home. If you get your gifts sent i n that week it will not be too late. I somebody askr., "What are the children <0lng lo do for something to eat till ? lhen?r If you aro the one who asks, | we will-Just nay that there ore flf t y ; two reception weeks ai the Thornwell r Orphanage, but the third week of April i in reception week In particular. Tt is to i'ommemornte the flre and to make us ! feel good that once more we have a I kitchen and dairy and storehouse and i the trimmings that go along with them, j l-o not forget. Send something cvery i body! Fill that storehouse for ? >nce. It is a right good sized room and there is i no danger of overcrowding. v God bless you, dear friends, and may Me put It into yopr hearts to make glad the fatherless. r Send provisions In barrels and boxes to Thornwell Orphanage. Ojinton. S. C., and cash to Hey. Wm. P. Jacobs, Clin ton. S. C. \ Arrested For Ar^on. ! / An arson warrant has been placed /n the handa of Comptroller General.^ Jones' special deputy ipr J. Ed. Boyer, In whose store the blg^ti^e which de stroyed fifty houses and placfcs -ot-buaU'l tiess nt Brookland, across the Con garce, started from the explosion of Ills keroseno engine. The evidence which the Comptroller General has gathered Indicates that he had made prepara tions for the fire by moving out his goods. The warrant was Issued under the special act of the Legislature re quiring the Comptroller Geneval to In i vestignte all suspicious fires. Mr. Boyer is more or less prominent In the town and his arrest has created a scnsi l^pn. although it was not altogether unexpected in certain weil-inforrr.e 1 quarters. The evidence is circumstan -\ ! tlal so far. but it is strong: on its face ] ilie solicitor had advised the arrest Duee, a3 it was reported that Boyer was making prepatations to leave the country. Boyer took his arrest calmly, being allowed to come to Columbia I jndor guard to consult an attorney. The h preliminary examination has been set I for Friday, morning at 10 o'clock before { Magistrate J. P. Merchant, at Brcok i land. A peculiarity of the arson law in this ?tate is that a man cannot be I punished for setting fire to bis own ? place, but if. as a result of thai fire, other houses ave fwod or are within tivi^j ! lcfial dinger limit he is liable for in j dictirrnt for arson. j To Celebrate Return of* Flags. Tallahasso. Fla.. Special. ? The spn cial committee in charge of the cole | bratlon arranged for the official re 1 eeptlon of tho Confederate battle ! flags of the Florida troops has issued 1 invitations to the several chapters of j the* I). A. Fl. and camps of Confederate i veterans, to attend the celebration, ; which will - be held in the halloo f the j House of Representatives at Talla | hr.ssee, on May 2. at 10.30 a. m. V Will Get Some Money. { f'rcfcidqnt Sloan,/ of the South Caro ? Una College, has received a letter from ; William Jennings Bryan notifying him j that the South Carolina College has j been named as one of the 25 State 1 Universities he Is dliocted to name in i article 17 of the Fbllo Sherman Ben | noil will, setting aside ^lO, 000 to be divided equally among such univers' iJe*. The amount each University will Rfi After inheritance taxes are paid will be S36S. the^nterest ,on which I P ? to be used to purchase an annual prize ? for the best essay discussing the prlu j 1 1 pies of free government. The g.ft | wag accepted with thanks by the ex ' ecutlve committee of the trustees, Mr. ! Bryan says he has so far established i such prizes in nineteen States. 76 Per Cent, of Peaches Killed. Atlanta, Ga . Special.? After a trip through Georgia, State Rntomologlst Hv 1, Smith, said : "There la no doubt about the fact that 75 per cent of the peach crop north of Atlanta la a to tal loss as the result of tin recent cold weather. All the orchards throughout that aectioa have auCered, some more than others, fett t from per sonal examination and reaaHa from various source*. i feel safe in say lug { ?Ut therd will not be more thaa one lletrth <X the crop ha this section." " .... . , All RUSSIA IN TURMOIL iVholosale Anarchy and Disruption Feared by Government. POSSIBLE REBELLION OF ARMY Ulirml Hop* for ? Cut) Miiitiion in | I'lllmuto ll,<(V?l of tho i't&t l?y I -Arrmli Mini* on AH 1'olaiHl iiml Oilier I'lo vlncf* An< ll<i?*lly l'oll< ?<l< SI. i *r'l Im I'ur. Kussla. Not only fill tiro of (lie war In I lie Km* Kits), hut the fatt? ol' tlu? whole program of In ternal wfot in in which Iimporor Nlebo !as stands committed seemed to lay ! ill ?<>ii the issue of t ho sea hattlo be tween Itojest vonsky and Togo. Tho novornmoiil undoubtedly would be treat ly strengthened, at least for tho moment, by a victory decisive enough to change the war situation. Tho (.literals have boon impatient at the delay and suspicious of every move of the < iovcrmmiit . They have boon convinced that if victory comes to the bureaucracy, to which the realiza tion of reforms haw boon consigned by tho Kmporor. will be aide, despite the Mamor throughout tho country, to keep tho execution of those reforms in their >wa hands, which, of course, in their )pinl<Mi, would mean their eventual lisslpation Hi a labyrinth of endless commissions. o Practically the interior administra tion has been conducted through a po lice regime. Already thoro has been ?vory where evidences of return to Von IMolive methods. Domiciliary visits lint arrests by scores and hundreds are reported in every part of th? empire, imj meetings of all classes of tho peo ple have been forbidden and broken up by the police under the direction of the local government. ICvon zeiustvo meetings in Vladimir. Kli/.ahcthpol. Orel, TKlls and ldvadia havu been closed. Of course the Government properly, argued that it oouhl not fold ds arms and see tho tlames of revolu tion fanned by agltatprs. put If was no ticeable that such spokesmen of reac tion as PHnoo Mestchorsky, editor of the (Srashdanin. have again lnddly pro Maimed* the doctrine of repression, Miarncierl/.ing the Constitutionalists tnd "Intelligentsia" as lunatics. "Kus da has suddenly become a vast lunatic asylum. ', says the (irashdauiu. "and inicss mad people are locked up and placed out of harm's way there is no >rodictlng where all this idiocy will [ ?nd." In the meantime the Master holidays '?nd May Day wore a.waited with o.\ trcine anxiety both by tho authorities , tnd the public. Tin* Social Democrats ind ItevolutlonaircK have planned dem mstrations on an extensive *calo. They seemed to have plenty of fund*1, fib lished both from abroad ami by wealthy sympathizers in Russia, The wildest stories of plans for blowing up Che members of the Imperial family, Ministers and palaces and oknlllnge murder of 'ncflif lir>? 'ntrtK41*e ^fealthy have b^?en current, especial# In aristocrat ly^ drawing rrtoms, njCi ai any socii(fy people. thor*Hlgl|ly frightened, ln\vo made pniparat'lol^Uo7 jo abroad. ' _ ( V Large relnforeehmrtts of troops, nnii especially w Cwgsaeks, have been Drought to St. IVTcrsburg. Arrests and iearches of the lodgings of suspects jontlnue, but even General TrepolT, nl ;hough he has been taking every memo ire of precaution, did not seem to know exactly what to expect. That 10 anticipated trouble ami bloodshed vas apjiarent from thoj'act that ho had -lot 1 llcti all manufacturers to guard >igalnst iiicendbirii-nt, and through louse porters had warned every family hat women and children must remain )ff the streets. i'olluli Cltlm >11 SI.Uo ?? I KIok*. Although disorders moreor less serious ' lavo been anticipated every where, | Poland ami the llnltlc provinces proli lbly aro the ktorm centres. tJenenil Wnximovitch. (Jovernor-tJeneral of Warsaw, ha* Just returned to his post if tor a conference here, clothed with ilmost dictatorial power*. All the I'o ish cities have been In a slate of minor slego. but the <Jovernnr-<^ener:?l was authorized (o declare martial law, und iniple troops have been furnished, There were many disquieting reports i of disaffection of troops, and the name.* of regiment?, even in the imperial (inards, were given- as "having been won over to "the cause of liberty." The military authorities, however, h<i id j there was no question of the loyally 3f the troops and that orders .wohhl be >beyvd. They admitted, however, that I the revolutionaries# have pushed their propaganda among lite soldier* with great earnestness. Hpeelal regulations have been Instituted to keep the nrmy free front vontamlnatlon. and these liavc been enforce.! in individual eases, both of otlleers and men, who have been found to be in communication with revolutionaries. Such eases, the mthorlties declared, have been de tected. particularly among .lews, and severely punished, but tlie authorities ire confident that no units have been iffecied. ?<im* Troop* llrmlv to Mutiny. Independent invent igatiou seemed to bear out the official contention, except a* lo the Cnuranus. where, according io. nrivnte nd vices just receive*!, the tronfcx were badly f?l, and were on the j v*rg?^ of mutiny and ready to Join tlie ! revolutionaries. These advice* reprr?* #ented that the' situation liordered on enarcby. with the revolutionaries In practical control. ? ? ? 7"; ,??. . ? . - WOMAN DIED OF FRIGHT. HP*** ? 8ca**d by a MistUaippl Cyclone Which' Damaged ? Town. Mobile, Ala.? New* wae received here thai coiMilderable d*m*K? wa? do??? by a cyclone Which **in*ck the neighbor hood of Newton, Mi?s.. and caoaed the dea? , from frlgbt of Mr*. Jf. J. Nkrboj mm; Wbw tba atar* broke ?fae fall uncouncionn In Iter yard f,t*d never recovered. , ? Fire bulldittfe. els M**ea. Md tivtwt out l>tru ?i4 hoc*. Trr; ? 7"T^- ? *??' -w JOSEPH JEFFERSON DIES1 J | Noted Actor Passos Away in His Florida Home. IHnrm of SoniH Dmvm llitd tli? V.Utl? Ilia Kntnlly >?t ili? llfilililti | West Palm lieach, Klii. Joseph Jof. ; for. sou died at ti. !.*? o'clock it ( night, at his home, Tlu? iteefs, | Ml I in HofoVli. of IMicuiitoiilii. At his bedside with the ? modi cnl attendants wore his wife; two of liis sour, Charles H, aiul Frank; III* grsudduughtor.s, Marion Jefferson and .Mrs. C. Symons, and his faithful old servant, Carl Kettler. He expressed a desire to see the ocean during his last few moments, and wanted to he left to die as peacefully us he had lived while a I The lie of. Thu parting with his famfjy was ealni and resigned. The body was taken from Palm iteaeh on a .special train to lluz&ard'* Hay, Mass., nocompanlcd hy the mem bers of the family who were here. Since his last sinking spell, after a rally on Thursday morning, which was followed by au^tpparcut improvement until Friday^Tfie faintly had been wait ing for the end. Mr. Jefferson's con dition on Saturday niKht grew steadily worse, and tin1 family, who had retired, were summoned. The patient's condi tiou continued to grow worse all through the day, and the brief bul letins from tin* bedside contained no words of encouragement. The sickness was con tracts I, j( is be lieved, while on a recent visit to Mr, Jefferson's son. Charles It. Jefferson, at Hope Sound, a few miles above Palm Hcadl, whore the actor went to meet ex-President Cleveland. It Is believed that from a slight indiscre tion in eating there he suffered an at tack of indigent ion. Mr. Ji'ltciKin'ii ('i?ri'?'r. Joseph Jefferson was of the fourth generation of (he Jefferson family of actors. The lirst of the family whose name is recorded in the theatrical annul* of Croat Britain was Thomas Jefferson, who was born in 17-S and died in 1Si*7. lie was an actor of more than respectable repute in the time of < iairiek. The second of the Jeffersons, Joseph, a son of Thomas; horn, in 177 I, crossed the Atlantic Ocean in l7U.r?, and for nearly twosuoro years thereafter was one of ??tile best liked actors in -tills country. With the famous old Chest nut Street Theatre, In Philadelphia, his name is Inseparably connected. This Jos'. ph Jefferson was a comedian of versatile oowors. IU* had many 1'hlldren. Thomas, his cMosI son, was an actor, who died ii, liis young man hood; John, another son, also an actor, died young; lOupheinia, who became an actress, married William At.derson, and w?is the mother of M:s, <i, C. tier mon 11 ud Mrs, Jiuhth, and the grand mother of Efliu (ionium; K.llzubeth wits an actress of distinction. The other children of tha first Joseph Jefferson did not take to the stage, except Jos eph, bin second son, who, was born In 1KU4. Ha married Mrs. Thomas Burke, He wits qj eOtiutty manager, often In hard lueki and an 'ftetor of respectable attnlnimnis. His soil Joseph, ? .born Kebrtuiry 20, 1821), in I liiladeiphla, was the JomVson of our own era, the great -Rlp^Tan Winkle. HI* ClitMlmo I mid V >iu Hi. Young Joseph, besides having a the* I ancestry from whom ho might have bus u expected, to Inherit the (Ira uiatk' Rift, was trained to t ho footlights almost from liis infancy. Tho cele brated ".lim ('row" Itice employed him in his darky song mid dance when tho child was only four years ?>hl. lit- was carried on thy stage In a la rue bag, ! from which he emerged in the guise of a little colored person, the very counterpart of the grown-up Jim Crow, j whose Hinging and dancing he Imitated i to perfectl6h. In 18o7 he took part In a broadsword combat, a la .Master Crummies, on the stage of the Frank lin Theatre, in New York, where his parents were then enuaued. During the next twelve years the family were strolling actors, traveling in the West and South. Joseph passed about .three months at schooJ' iiV all his boyhood. He suffered many hardship* nntk pri vations. but he mastered hi* art. Mr. Jefferson acted Hip Van Winkle, the part be made lam. mi*, throughout the Cnited States. Ft):- many years ho needed no other piece. The public could not seem to get enough of the humor and pathos of ltip. ills two long en gagements at Booth's Theatre are silll remembered. In ISO!) Jefferson bought a bouse with ample grounds, beauti fully situated iu the Saddle It Ivor dis trict of Nergen County, N. J., near tho hamlet of Holtoku*. This place, which he greirtly beau tilled and improved un til It became a model country residence, he told in 1SSS. In 18U'.), also, he bought his I/OiUshina plautatjou. of which ao much has hecu*ald In print. His summer house oft the shore of Huxzurd's Hay, called Crow's Nest, was huilt later, and. with Hi:* furniture and nrr works it contained, cost JSWHT.OOO. It was burned April 1. 1 S!Kt. but tho builders were soon set to work upon a new lujusff on i lie name site. In his leisure hours lie found plenty ? ?f pleasant occupation away from the theatre, lie was a painter of quit? unusual skill for an anntcur, and au expert fisherman,- toe. Mr. Jefferson had. by his two wives, eight children. Ills eldest^son, Charles Burke Jeffer*oh, bus been an a dor, and was for a lime a. prosperous the atrical manager. Other nous are Tii.v.ras and JoiepU Warreu. Jefferson, both WtWfc MASSACRED BY TIBETANS. Chinese Commissioner aqd Bis Retina* Said to Have Been Slate. London. England.? Correspondents at Shanghai give an nn<*nfiratdj?Iliitf!S4L Mi^rt to tho effect tbaf Vm n-Cbneu, the Amban (imperial .V?ninil>sloB?c to .0* Three ?ui.p i >cOlV Japfiut*c warship* ai*iy*&.?# Ma sitt P.JL . r. . NVX^UINCITON. When Ma.io|'-<?enerai < * i I ionpit; re tires in June, itrigadicr tioneral (Icorgo M till llllll II will ho promoted, Tho .Na'lonai Academy JJeJences held its annual meeting. Tile Itl'Kl illcUlllhoilt of I lit1 pOKitiOII, NN" i 1 1 in it i II llnycitck, was made assist ant Miperiutciidcnr of I ln? city delivery fccrvlee in tin' t'ostotllce Department. F.xaiuituitiuun will In- held .1 ti no l'J to till twenty nine vacancies of tho grade of it ssiMf n itt paymaster in (lie navy, tho only olio In which appointments at'o made from civil life. The Photographers' Association, of Pennsylvania, w hich has also a large membership in .Maryland, Delaware and West \ irginia, held its ninth ait* nnal (?onvention. A i* I'ltlil i'l'iMli luWw'oi'j! Hnni'rt tary Morton ami Acting Secretary i.ootni* tt was announced that a decis ion had been reached lo have Die re mains of John I 'a til Jones, unearthed h.v Ambassador Porter in Paris, brought to America in n naval vessel with a proper convoy. Daughters of she American devolu tion dedicated .Memorial Continental Ilall. the society's new home, in Wash ington. oru adoptkd isr-A^ro. Santiago Igletias, the Portofjtieo or ganizer of (lie American Federation of Labor, who has arrived from Police, continued Sanchez's statement it h to the disturbances there. lie reported 11:?t sixty persons were hui'1 in tho riots, none seriously. Fourteen thous and striker* on the plantations do wiMi.letl an increase of wiikcj) and-a re duction of hours. The canu , cutting seagull Is on, and if the cutting is de layed the crops will be j;uincd. A general strike for more wages has begun on the largest sugar plantations ia the l'once District, of I 'or to llieo. Meetings of laborers aro being organ ized. The America it Federation of La bor has been taking an active part 111 the movement. ' Tho court-martial in the case of Coin mander John It. I biggs, in Manila, for merly in command of the cruiser llaltl ir.ore, who was tried for running that vosxol aground in the 'Straits of; Ma lacca while en route to the Philippines, lias returned it verdict of aequittriF. Pedro lto.vas, who was placed under arrest in Manila on the charge of fur- < nishiug supplies lo the ladroucs, ami Administrator Oliva, who was accused of complicity in the offense, have released on $r?0,(?0 and $25,000 ball, respect I voly. Thi"niost inlluentlal Fill pines signed their bomls. The 0Qtl.V9 press censured the Hovernment for tho arrrsts. trial by court mnrthil of Major Frank Cnrringtori on charges of ..con duct unbecoming an ofllj'er and gentle man was opened In Manila. Mtijor . Carrlngtou, w ho is under sentence for forty years' liuprlsoumi'ui-foi' the QHK bezaleinvnt of Uovcrttmcnt funds, pleaded ubt guilty. DOMESTIC. The Now Y6i'k #f?uo Senate, at A.1* bany, N. Y.. 'passed the Keenau bill. It prolilbltH the Long Island Railroad Company from chaining ita patronp for . travel anil baggage any greater price than thai Jn force previous to January 3, 1005, Captain Thomas H. Dafrab, whoar* rived In San Francisco, Cat., ihe other day, .on the transport Sherman from Manila, i? the bearer of a letter to President Roosevelt from the Datto Plang, a Moro chief of tlfo Island of_ Mindanao, l'lang has a fine collection of native weapons, "whtetrfn the letter h re tendered to the President as a token of loyally. In consideration of their desthia'ijbu, the weapons -were paused ( free of duty by tho customs omchtlti; ~ ~ The mules for (In* work on the Pan* Himi Canal arc to bo purchased In Lou* Islauii, and I$ew Orleans dealers expect that fully ltjjooo anlmnls will bo need* , ed. They Are already preparing to sub mit bids, and arrangements are being made to bring in as many as neces sary from the plantations. ,T. L. Brls tow, formerly Assistant Postmaster^ General, will do tho purchasing. Because a number o? Japanese boys were permitted to attend public schools In South Omaha, Neb., 800 school chil dren went on st'.'lkc, locked the teach* ers out of tho sehool building, pveveht' od tho Japanese from getting Into tho place, i. ml. after being dispersed by th?> police, obtained Haps ami paraded ths> streets, screaming "Down with thfj Caps!" The Japanese arc children of strike breakers Imported last sumraef during tho bi? packing Louse ?strike, ; FOREIGN, The Japnnoso torpedo boat destroyed KIJI, ofi over 200 ton*' displacement, was launched at Kure. ? . ^ A dinner In honor of Ambassador White was given In Rome, Italy,; by Rev. Dr. R. .1. Nevlu, vector* of the American Protestant Episcopal Church there. A dispatch 4o the Matin, of Paris, France, from Fort do France, Marti nique, says that tho yolcnnoi of Mont Pole was agat^i octlvc and dTsefiarglng molten metal. Flashes of light wer? seen at ihe ?? rater and rumbling sounds were heard underground in the vicinity of the mountain. Minister Barrett to Panamft gave * banquet in honor of tlfe Captain and ?ttlrera of the German crulsev.Fnlko. ; Tin? leaders of the Italian railroad employes have decided not to urge a general strike, unless the Government should have reeouise ro repressive measures or should apply the clauses of the RftUivmd hill providing for the dismissal of strikers^ ^ There was rt renewal at TPouhJ?r?t^ the Putlloff Iron Work* iu ftt. Peter#* burg. Russia, where police au4 wwk xneu came In collision *18 Many 'tfrtt"; Injured. Over 20,000 peraous atU funerals at Lltuofeik ?*w?W$j? flrtliia iif tbj . ancef. .. . The IfiUttish Katates J t isauf .