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friialirigw %, : —, - V”*- VOL. XXVII. BARNWELL, S. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1904. - ' * • - ~ ~ ' v T • • VfV NO 25 AN OHIO HOB *£.t • Negro to Death, Then Hanged Him and Shot Again. negro killed a policeman. The Jail Wee Stormed hr the Mob, Who Took Their Victim Out and Shot Him to Death. Rlchrrd Dl con, a negro, was shot to death at,.S[ ringfleld Ohio, Monday night \<j a Mob, for the killing of Pol Ice ns an Charles Coll is, who died Monday from <vouads received at the bands o * Dixon on Sunday. Coills bad ge ne to Dixon’s room on the net ro’s ie iixest. Dixoo said his mistretu; had b is clothes in her posses sion. C.dlis accompanied lirlon to the room and in a >hort time the man and woman engaged in a quarrel which resulted in D ; xion shooting the wo man, who Is variously known as Anna or Mamie Corbitt, In the left breast, Just over the heart. She fell uncon scious at the ‘first shot"add CollU; Jumped towards the neg'rn to pgsyent’ his escape from the^httfSrHT-D^on then firtid fou~ balii Into Collts, the last of which penetrated his abdo men. Dixon went Immecllately to po lice headquarters and gave nlmself _ «p, Hu was taken to Jalb . **. [am-Agrlouituf*! and Meehanieai Ooi- As soon as Coins’ death 1 rename known talk of lynching the negro was heard and Monday night & crowd be gan to gather about the JalL THE NEGRO SHOT TO DKATH. At 11 o’clock the negro was taken from the jail aod shot to death in the jail yard and the body was taken from there to the corner of Main street and Fountain avenue and hung to a tele graph pole where the mob spent the half hour riddling the body with hulletr^from several hundred revol vers. The mob forced an entrance to the jail by bunting In the east doom with a railroad iroo>AL 10.30 o’clock the mob melted rapidly and It was the general opinion that no more at tempts would be made to force an trance. Small groups of men, bow ever, could be seen in the shadows of the court house, two adjacent livery stables and several dwelling houses. At 10.45 o’clock the police were sat- [Lion isfied that there was nothing more to fear and they,.with other officials and newspaper men, passed freely in and out of the jal]. Shortly before 11 o'clock a diversion was made by a small crowd moving from the east doors around to the south entrance. The polled* followed and a bluff was made at jostling them off the steps leading up to the sooth entrance. —.— -U The crowd atlbis point kept growing; while yells of "hold the policed' smash the tl iors, lL “ lynch the nig ger” were made, interspersed with re^ volver shots. All this time the party with the heavy mil road iron was beating at the east door wh oh soon yeilded to the battering ram as did the Inner lattice iron east duo , and overpowered tbe sheriff,turnke; and handful of deputies and began ti e assault on the iron turnstile lead ng to the cells. The police from thi south door were called to keep the mob from the cells ^ a five nlnutes tbe south door * Ad shared tbo fate of the east one. - MOB OJT TWE.NTY-HVK HUNDRED. In an incredible short time the jail was filled.with a mob of 25o men with AH INDEPENDENT ACT fa Reference to the Purchase of Com- merclsl Fertilisers. To remind purchasers of commer cial fertilizer of their privileges under tbe law we reproduce an act of N the Legislature, approved February 19, 1900. If there has been any acts, amending or abrogating these statutes we have failed to see them. An Act, To Provide a means whereby any purchaser, in This State,- of any commercial fertilizer or Ma nures, may have the same analyz ed by Clemaon 'Agricultural and Mechanical College, free of costs, and to provide a penalty for deliv ering fertilizers or manured short lo Ingredients appearing on siu;k or vessel holding same. ' Section 1. Be It enacted by"thtt General Assembly of tbe State of South Carolina: That from and after the passage of this Act, any citizen of this State who shall purchase any commercial fertilizers or manures, shall have the same analyzed by Clem- son Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege by taking a sample of same with in ten days of receipt thereof from at least ten per ocjnt. of such fertilizers in the presence of at least two disin terested witnesses. to be chosen by the purchaser kad*bne by the seller who shall certify that suc$£ismple v/as taken from such fertilizers or ma tures, which certificate, with tbe sample, shall be sealed by a third dis interested party In the presence of said witnesses, and directed to Clem, A WILD MOB. Tks Homes of Isfroos Burnt In Ohio by White Ken. ANOTHXB NIGHT OP TURMOIL. Governor Herrick Was Very Slow In Ordering Troop* to The Roccuo of tbe Colored * People. A dispatch from Springfield, O., says intense exe tement prevails here at an early hour Wednesday morning which not even the presepde of seven companies of nat ional guard can allay. This excitement Is shared by all the business men an<l property owners of the etty, the fear that some negroes I'Jge. Section 2. Tbe said college shall have tbe said sample analyzed free of cost, apd ttUhio three mootts after receiving the sample, supply the pur chasers of such fertilizers or manures with a certificate giving the per cent, of the different fertilizing ingredients of same, signed by the Chemist of Cletnson Agricultural and Mechanical College, which oertificateg shaliha ad missible as evidence in all suits rela tive to such fertilizers or manures whether the teme be Instituted by vendor or purchaser of same. Section 3. That any vendor of com mercial fertilizers or manures whose goods or wares fall short to the ex tent of ten per cent. In any fertilizing ingredient guaranteed by the analysis appearing on the sack or vessel bold- same, when delivered to the pur- shall forfeit one-half the sale f, to be recovered by suit or set up asVpounter-daim to an ac tor the purchase price of such fertilizers or manures. Section 4. Be it further enacted: That If any seller or vendor Of fertl- lizers or commercial manures sha fuse, decline or neglect to chose a wit ness, as provided in Section 1, after having been notified or requested by the purchaser so to do, then he or all tbe entrances and yard_gaUa nf big* nineteen-year-old daughter's shall have forfeited their rights so to do, and the purchaser shall select t#o witnesses, who shall select the third witness, who shall prowed to take samples as hereinbefore provid ed. All samples of fertilizers drawn under the provision 'of this Act shall be subject to such other rules as may be prescribed by the Board of Trus tees of Clemson College not Inoonsis tent with the provisions of this Act. ’ Section 5 All Acts Inconsistent with this act be, and the 'same are hereby repealed. Approved the 19th day of February A. D. 1900. -— A Berlin Tragedy. A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, says Lieut Call Beseke, (retired,) after a long and steady decay of for tune Wednesday took his last money and gave a splendid dinner In honor Many of the negroes of the city were surely and moody Thursday night, and was realized .that only a spark was needed to set off the magazine qf a race war. At 9:30 o’clock Thursday night the crowd gathered in the levee blocked by fblly 2,500 men, thus mak ing It impoa-lble for the militia to have prevented access to “he negro,’ had. it l«en on the scene. The heavy iron partition leading to t ie cells re sisted he m(.b effectually until cold chi sols and slodge hammers arri ved, which were only two or three minutes later in arriving. The pad.ock to the turnstile was Token and tte mob soon filled the corridors leading lo the cells. Seeing hat further resistance was use less ancl to a'old the killing of inno cent prisoners tbe authorities consent ed to the demand of the mob for the right tran. He was dragged from his cell to the jail door and tbeno down the stone steps to a court In the jail yard. Fearing an attempt on part of the police to rescue him the leaders formed a hollow square. NINE SHOTS IN HIS BODY. $ Some one k locked tbe negro to the ground and those near to him fell back tour of five feet. N me shots were fir ed into his postrate body, ind satisfi ed that he was dfead, a dozen men grabbed the lifeless body and with a triumphant cheer the mob surged into Columbia street and marched to Fountain avenue one of the principle streets of tbe town. From here they marched south to the intersection of Main street, and a rope was tied around Dixon's neck. Two men oil mbed the pole add threw the rope over tbe topmost cross-arm and drew the body about 18 feet above the street. They then descended and their work was greeted with a cheer. Tbe fusillade then begun and for 30 minutes the body was kept s^i back aod forth from the force of the rain of bullets which bss poured In on It. Frequently tbe arms would fly up convulsively when a muscle was strode, and the gpob went fairly wth witndeligbt. Throughout it all perfect order maintained aod every one seemed In tbe best of humor, Joking with his nearest neighbor while reloading his revolver. * birthday. Beseke then poisoned his ife. daughter, two sons, respectively and 10 years old, cadets at a tary academy, and himself, wlthsyan- ide of potassium, which he seemingly inserted In tbe mouth of each, in Die form of a pill, after they bad gone Into a drunken sleeps ■ ^ — After a brilliant career and mar riage with an heiress, Beseke ha( reached the end of his fortune and ils goods were to be sold by the sber- ff. He won the iron cross during the war of 1870-71 with France, married tbfe daughter of a rich hotel-keeper hereby having to leave tbe service, as he married out of his castle, am started a newspaper. - Tbe lieutenant wrote well, but the paper was not suc cessful, and he became sales agent for manufacturer and then manager o map-making enterprise. He lived beyond bis means for thirty years Last night, the Beseke family had box at the Iroquois. At 10 o’clock dinner was ordered in from a caterer. Beseke was.especially gay and tender and pressed his wife and his three children to drink lots of champagne He died bolding bis wife’s hand tight ly. He Has Skipped. P ' A few nights ago Mr. W. S. Cooper who has been for several months tbe agent of the Southern Railway at Honea Path, quietly took his trunk from the hotel and left for parts' un known. WETen tbe hotel-keeper In quired about him next morning It was found thftt he had left money to pay his board bill, and, as ter as your cor respondent can learn, he settled hit bills In town and was straight in his accounts with the railroad com pany. It was reported that he left without even resigning his position, but It is not definitely KR>wn whether or not this report Is trap. There Is no reason known here why ho should have left secretly, more than la con tained is an unconfirmed, but persis tent, rumor that tbsre Is the ine will attempt to ; venge the burning of the levee district i by tiring the down town business l ouses or their homes in the residence district. So far the negroes have not tried to make good their threats to dynamite the county jail to “even up” with Sheriff Rout- zahn tor permitting the negro mur derer Dickson to be taken by the mob Monday night without the shedding of blood to save him. Not a fourth of the business district of the city is under patrol by either militia or police and- it looks as ii' a close guard would have to be kept for several days to prevent" further incendiarism. It is thought, however, that the troops now on hand will be able to save the western .-levee district in West jton strOety which the- leaders openly dec'ared they would set fire to as soon as the work In the eastern half of the street was completed. There Is ttle or no disorder, the mob.of 2,000 men standing quietly watching the spread of the flames in the neighbor hood of Spring and Gallagher streets, and apparently ready; to help if It should show signs of spreading beyond the confines they originally set for It. When tlie leaders of the mob passed down off of East High street early last veiling to begin the work of burning the levee residences, Father John Cogan, assistant pastor of St. Rap hael’s church, got down on his knees on the sidewalk and implored them to desist in their work as they might start a tire they would not be able to control.. The incendiarists paused only a moment, a few of them cursed him and then went quickly on to be- I in their task. So far the fire loss (oes not exceed 130,000. ^ DETAILS OF NIGHT OF TRIAL. Threats throughout the day and Thursday evening to bum the levee, the negro district of the city, confirm ed Mayor G. J. Bowlus In his behalf that more trouble was brewing Thurs day night and he asked Governor IIer : ' rick for troops. Two companies from Dayton and ohe each from Miamis- jurg, Urbana and' Columbus, have been promised to reinforce the two and were Immediately sent towards the levee by a circuitous route. Company M. of the Fourth regiment, of Xenia, and Company D. of the Third regiment, of Urbana, are how picketed along the Big Four railway tracks facing the burning- district along East Washington street. There are 225 enlisted men In each. At 12:45 o’clock three cars attached to -the eastbound Big Four train brought Companies G and K, of Day- ton, and Company H, of Mlamisburg. They were stationed at various points to prevent ingress of either negroeivor whites and so fur as their scanty m Gi bers would permit, will,forestall ; ny efforts to burn t he immediate business district. At t lat, however, then Is grave tanger of the fire starting ip the great outlying- districts, ami ng the factories or dwelling houses : nd ten times'tke nuihber of t-roop^ow on hand would he entirely bisttidbiint to prevent Incendiarism. The tire In East. Washington street has burned out exactly tbe distiict tlie mob shquld go, and thcre ls no* no danger of It spreading ejthbr fur ther east or west or to the ndr*^ where the fashionable East High street district, including St. Raphael's Catholic church was for a while in imminent danger from tlie spread of the flames. , Charles Jackson, aged 19, a negroy flourished a big revolver in the pre sence of a small crowd of whites in Primrose alley and within two minutes a njob of several hundred surrounded P0ST0FFICES OWNED By Senators and Representatives Who Are Involved in Scandal. MONEY VALUE OF "INFLUENCE.” r Another Cltapier in Laat Hummer** Poatoltlco Investigation. Dif ferent Form* of Ompldcti Id? Business Let <lut. the I xtofflee wAs re. airmat ttee or befort closelj ges re in thi Another chapter in Invcstlgatior of last summe vealed Thursday when C Overstreet oHhe hou^u cornu ptarffifilthpost roads lal the i^iuse\>f representatives : printed document of 218 p counting fhe instances dn fill postofflee depart raent iu .which mem bersof the senateand house of repre sentattves hi ve used their "intluence" with officials of the postoftlce depart merit, with more or less succes?, to se cure Increasi s In tbe salaries of post masters, additional cleik hire and ad vantageous eases for buildings foa postoffke purpose^. The repori was ipade by the unanl mous vote ^%f the members of Mr Overstreet's committee, in respond to a resolution calling; for the informa tion. introd iced by Representative Hay of V'lrg nla. As the'tntormatior accompanies the report, the commit hiih and he was hidden by tl© police tee recomme ided that the resolnttor to save his life He .was lie)d,,at headquarters all. night, the police fearing to remove him to the county Tail. . •' ■. DISPENSARY APPOINTMENT. ocal companies. IT; A Large Number Held Over and Few Changes Are Made. The hew state.liquor commissioner, W. O. Tatum, of Orangeburg, Tues day announced his appointment tor the term. There are a number of changes and transfers, but several men are retained, and the result wfii be somewhat of a surprise to those who thought that the new commis sioner, would make a clean sweep. Mr. G. H. "Charles Is retainee as clerk of the board.of director; Mr Charles lay on the table. Thr^e cases are set forth in which members of congresi Own buildings which are leased to thf governrr)ent for postbttice 'purposes. The meiHibers involved are J. W Wadsworth of New York: J. D. Bow erstock, of Kansas, and Geo. L. Lille} of Connecticut. - • The history of 161 pases is given In the report wherein members of con gress figure }n getting" aufilbrization tor clerk hire In Excess of the amount the office In question was' entitled to. Many of these Increases were only temporary, ami have been dl&DnUQ' uedr - — — ' - ■: - Among those whose "Influence" seemed good with- the postoffice de partment are Senator Clay and Rep resentative Griggs of Georgia; Sena tor Pilchard secured an increase for has served in this office a. long time 1 clerk hire of Greenville, N. Ck, from and is fully up to its duties. The book keepers, Messrs. M. H. Mobley, B. AT Hawkins and W. M. E'der, all remain, as does Mr. T. W. Collins invoice bookkeeper in the commlssipuser's office. Mr. C. J. Lynch, former ship ping clerk, is displaced by Mr. L. L. Baker, and Mr. J. II. daffy, of Or angeburg, is'" made superintendent. Both of these men have been dispen sers, the formrer in” Batesburg. Mr. T. E. Dickson, former superinten dent, his been made contrabaht clerk, displacing Mr. W. W. Harris. Mr. Dickson has been In the dispensary a number of years,. Mr. W. J. Powers continues in office as shipping clerk, Texas—Representative Burleson. Vermont — Representatlvts Foster and Haskins. Virginia—Representative Swanson. Washington—Represen tattfe Gush- man. West Virginia—Representatlves Hughes and Dayton. Wisconsin- Representatives Minor, Jenkins, Copper, Davidson, Babcock, Each and Brown, -y — A supplemental list Is appended to tbe report including the names of Re presentatives Burnett and Thompson of Alabama and Representatives W. W. Kitchen and Small of North Caro lina. Gonsressmaa Croft Dead* A dispatch from Washington dated March 9, * says: "Representative George W. Croft of the Second con gressional district of South Cirolina Is critically ill at his home hers aod hope of his recovery has been aban- ioued He Is suffering from blood poisoning with com plications of storm- ach trouble and heart failure due to protracted illness.. Heart stimulants and saline solution are being admin istered, hut they are giving only In different relief, and his death is be lieved to be but a question of a few hours. Mr. Croft’s brother, a physi cian of Aiken, S. C., is with him. Mr. Croft's Illness dates back about eight weeks when he suffered at Inflamma tion of the right hand, d ie, It is be lieved, primarily to a spl nter wtylch was removed from the palm after he had been sick several d kys. For a time the Inflammation decreased and Mr., Croft apparently was better: later, however, it again b«ame acute and spread-vrttb gmrt than before, the whole rii'ht forearm being affected, Mr. Croft, is 57 years of age, is a well known lawyer of- South Carolina and was leading coun sel for the defense in the Tillman trial last year.” He died Thursday. The Colleton dtory False. The Charteston Post says Mr. W. W. Jones called at tbe office of The HOW 18 THIS? Thomas 1. Watson Finds n Flaw in Grover Clsveland’s Denials. DOUGLAS AND WIFE AT WEDDING He Also Says Cleveland Who* Governor of New YorJti. Signed a Bill for Mlse<1 Hchools. Thomas E. Watson, the historian and an ex-member of Congress, who, because of his retirement frctgjactlvo political life ptf**en«e8 unusual Influ ence among the people of th 3 south, In an open letter to the Atlanta News declared that Cleveland was worse than Roosevelt on the negro question. Mr. Watson's letter, dated at bts home, Thomson, Ga., Is as follows: Mr. Cleveland denies that C. H. J.. Taylor lunched or dined at bis table. Certain newspapers devoted to Mr. Cleveland print his letter under scars headlines which announce that “NO negro ever ate at Cleveland's tables.” In saying this they unwittingly go too far, and they make trouble for their oracle. lie did not say that “No negro ever ate at my table.” He confined bis den al sthctly to Taylor. It might not be fair to recall In stances where colored Congressmen dined at the W bite House, at State dinners, but it i i perfectly fair to re mind Mr. Clevel uid of Fred Douglss. This negro, ,wbc bad married a white women (of a ortaln sort) was not virniftnfw only treated with offiMll lion, but when Mr. Cleveland (with extreme delicacy) bad bis bride come to the White House that he might wed her there, be invited Fred Doug las and his wife to attend the recep- Hq-l This reception was not a state funciion. It was social, purely."; NO t n» bad the right to be present save thise Invited, and surely iffr. Cleve^ la td must have respected his lovely and accomplished bride too much to ,l ^*T"’but >}r. Thot^as Reasoher is displaced district numbered 1,500 and one_pr_ Jntpectors, Messrs. W. J. McCartha, two revolver random. shots had been fired at byMr..,W. H. Sondley, a hew appoint ment. It Mr: ; J. E. Etirhardt retains his po sition as assistant superintendent, as docs Miss E. P. Bairigan.as steno grapher to the commissioner. The 170 to 1150 -per annum, which on Dec. 1, 1903, was discontinued altogether. He also secured an increase from $40 to $150 for Wake Forest, N. C., which was reduced to the former amount Oct. i, 1903. ~ ~" Senator McLaurin appears tor an increase In South Carolina. Repre sentatives Brown low and Hibson se cured several increases in 'Tennessee which have been reduced since. Six out of 11 cases in Virginia are down j °boirty. to the credit of Representative Swan son, while Park Agnew’s name also appears far others in this State. _ There are accounts of 177 instances in the report where members of con gress have made recommendations in connection with leases of buildings tor postoflice purpeses. ^eawtor Overman is the^owner-of day to the effect that Section Muter Jones, of the Atlantic CoutLine, had recently made confession, on his death bed In Colleton county, to the murder of his wife at llavenel station in 1902, for which crime three negroes were lynched. Mr. Jones stated that be was section master at Ravenelln May, 1902, and that tbe story was utterly without foundation and did him a se- sious injury. The Evening Post’s re port was to the effect that the story was being toll in Colleton county, whence It had been brought to Char leston. The report made no assertion of the. truth of the story, but merely stated that It was current in Cplleton Evening Post to make emphatic de ^ ntal trf a story published l»st Thurs- have aummoued any man or woman he ’ 1 it s&nn Man's Freak. i— At Valdosta^ Ga., a negro named Jotm .Wesley Stevens was adjudged in- ! sane arid will 1 e sent ,to the asylum. He bad been terrorizing the negroes around Clayatteville and Olympia and was arrested Saturday and started to the city on tlie train. When some L .ij, * . . . . . .distance this side; of otympta he the building'in which tlie postoflice at 4 jumped liead-fgremost-through the Salisbury, N. C., is located. ,The re-1 oar W indow-a.id took to the woods. ' Don't Blame Her.— At New York, Mrs. Eva Abernathy, who, according to her husband, is only 26 years old, was put la the jsy- vuic'ward at Bellevue Hosp tal last night. £>he lives at 123 West Thirty first street. Her husband, a >! a dace occupied hv porter, said that she had been mide i saloon keepe-r Tre- insane by the care of tfie rTbirt en children, all of whom are alive. Ibe has made threats, he said, i,o kill her self. By 9:30 o'clock a crowd of 2jf)00 men had assembled along the Btg Four railroad tracks almost blockading Washington street which is known as the levee from Fountain avenue. Two hundred negroes were clustered together just west of Fountain avenue, in the levee district near the place called Honkyton t. — The negroes were unusually quiet and seemed to bewailing tor a start to be made by the white men. The other crowd- was boisterous and there were frequent yells and several pistol shots heard, although no one has been jaxr—-——*-* At-11:20 the t ureat of the mob, fre quently made through the evening, was finally made good and a volume of flame was seen to shoot up from the roar-oL 4 ‘Les“ Thomas, i saloon keepe ceding the firing of the building, the mob at a distance of a hundred feet, shot at the front of the building for a half hour, but it is not known whether any of the occupants' had remained in the building and if they did w hether any fatalities resulted from the shoot ing. The fire spread both ways from Thomas’ place. It is understood Chat the negro population is highly incensed at Sher iff Routzahn tor not using greater force In protecting Dixon. Sheriff Routzahn had iwen warned that the instant the torch was applied in Washington street he had better re move his family from the jail as that institution was to be immediately dynamited. Throughout the day there has been a vague unrest In every quarter of the city. The body of the lynched negro was taken from the telegraph pole at 3 o’clock Thursday morning and placed in a little undertaking shop. Through the forenoon fully 15,000 people saw the body and stood about the city In groups. The police and officials were worried, but did not seem to know what was best to do. At noon the undertaking office was closed. Th* crowds did not disperse, and nobody seemed to be working. At nightfall there were reports of threat ened trouble flying thick and fast and A. R. Jkan and C. L. Brown have been retained,'but J. C. Richards, of Kershaw, formerly a member of the legislature. Is appointed In place of N. H. Stausel. No appointment has been made yet for the inspectorship now occupied by Z. T. Searson. A new office has been created by Commissioner Tatum, that of stxk bookkeeper, and this place is to. be filled by J. T. Parks, of Orangeburg, tbe editor of tbe Orangeburg Patr ot. port says-that on taking his .seat as a United States senator lie offered to surrender the lease, but Ihe^dfer wan declined by the government, it being held that the leise was not invalidat- eTby hls elccETon as senator. ~ The report tiles In the pnstoffloe de partment indlcitc that the office at Tuska^ae, Ala., is owned by the Rep resentative Thompson of Alabama. The report gives the correspondence between Beavers and Representative Thompson at h s successful efforts to have the rent allowance increased He was found Sunday in a lake, wad ing around in water up to his neck He wa§ finally-arrested again and brought here for trial. The negro has some lucid momlnta, though he -suffers periodic, spells, caused by hav- ing his head crushed under a wagon wheel some time ago. This oftlice Is made because ©f^theffrom $240 td $300 annually enormous amount of stock hand let. The folio wing names of senators and members appear in the report a» having made representation to tb*» postoftlce de jartment concer Ing-thc leases of premises for postof ces and for allowance for rent, fuel a id light. * Alabama -Representativee B4nk head and Cli.yt<»n, SenatorJJt^tus.. Connecticut—Representatl es llen- ’-HilLaud ..illy. _ _L _ dll not consider bts or her social equal. It dees not appear that he In vited either bis cfAcbman or hit cook. Fred Douglas, whose color proclaim ed the African, was present among the guests, and with him qune his white wife. ' " ' \ Not only did Mr. Cleveland do this kind of thing in Washington, but when Governor of New York he signed ^ the bill provldliig foi mixed-schools, Owing to this 8}stem, which he thus approved, negro children have been Injected Into tbe white schools, and white children have.been compelled to submit to negro teachers. If this Is not racial equality, what la It? What does tba . system of oo-eduoa- tion lead to, Inevitably? * tbe Southero white people noth ing could be more odious than this forcible bringing together, on' terms of absolute equality, little white girls and little negro toys. To compel thf Intimate association of the two race! in tbe school bouse during the plastic period of youth is tbe most Insidious and dangerous attack that cou.d be made upon the racial integrity >f the whites. Toe effort to delude the people loto the belief that tbire Is any material difference between Cleveland and Roravelt oh the negro question, or any other polithal issue Is enough to stir ones disgutat. There isn’t any material differeroe, and all observant ning sixty Senator Speaker The Koreans. The people of Korea are neither Japanese nor Chinese. They are Mon golian and have a polysyllable lan guage, with a phonetic alphaiiet.- They have a recorded history, of ite- putkd avthenticlty, which claims for them a continuous existence as a Ko rean people of about 5,000 years, the earlier part of which; of course, Is shrouded In the mists of tradition and fable. , " • >\ —* - v/. - the crowds In tlie streets grew larger. It was rumored that the negroes would attempt to btfrs the city and the In surance men appealed to Mayor Bew- lus to protect them. The police were In a state bordering on panic after their horrible experience at the jail the night before. The company of militia from Xenia arrived at 1:30 (Wednesday morning) Murder and Haloid e. At Trencbtown, N. J., Miss Wyker, pretty young school teac ter, is dying, and Paul Weave', eighteen years old is dead, as the remit of his insane jealousy which led him Wednes day night to make a murde rous attack on the girl with a pistol, and when pursued by a posse of his neighbors he took his own life. Hhe Must Work. A court at Coshocton, O., has en joined a woman who Is suing her hus band for divorce from abandoning her household duties," ordering that she must make his bed and cook his meals during the pendency of tbe action. This would seem to be carrying gov ernment by injunction to the limit. ~" p A Fatal Flgbt. In a fight near Valden, Miss., Aaron Stewart and his son on one side and W. W. Hill and two song on tbe other, on Wednesday, Hill and one son were killed and hie other son was seriously wounded. They foright with pistols about a boundary line. Georgia—Representative G rlggs.^ Illinois—Representatives G. W Smith, Marsh, Graff, Mann, Cullom, ex-Senator Mason, Cannon. Indiana—Representatives Watson, Hemenway, Cromer-, Overstreet, Brier aod C. B. L;.ndis. +' J Iowa—Representatives Conner, Hej- burn, Hull, Cousins, Thomas, llat- ghen and Senator Dolllver. Kansas— tepresentatives Caldei- bead, Curtis and. Bowersaek, Louisianna—Representatives Brea- zeale, Ranseell and Senator McEnOT}. Maine—Representatives Burleig i id Allen. Maryland — Representatives Jacksoi Mary-I and Pearrle. Massachu setts R e p r e sentativt s Loverlog ard Greene. Michigan-representatives Gart ner, Smltlr; Fordne Hamiltor A. Smith And Darragl. >y, Bishop, Wm. A. Smith ai Minnesota—Representatives Mc- Cleary and Tawney. Nebraska—Representative Burkett New Jersey —Itepresentative Howell and Gardner, New York—Representatives Alex ander, Breeland, Ketcham, Sherman, Wadsworth, Payne and Littauer. North Carolina—SenatOf tlvermah. North Dakota -Repre sientatlve Spalding. Ohio—Representatives Van Voor- hts, Sklles and Grosvenor. Pennsylvania — R e p r e s e ntatlvrs Wagner, Bates, Evans, Acheson, Sib ley, Dalzell and Butler. South Carolina — Re presentatlves Findley. South Dakota — R e p r e a entatlve Burke. Tennessee—Representatl vet Brown- low. AJZaitOrajr. Massacre. The southbound limited express, an tbe Alabama Great Southern, run- miles An hour, collided a north-bound Southern Railway freight near Kewanee, Miss, early Tut slay. According to reports received there, no passengers' were killed, but five railway employees lost their lives, several were injured and parts of both trains were burned. The dead are: Engineer P. P. Larkin, Fireman Henry : Banks, adored; Robinson Riggs, mail clerk; D. D. Nicholson, mail clerk; Express Messen ger J. H. Hinds. Both voads use the same track'near Kewanee, -the ex press train was three hob rs lat 3. Wanted to Lynch Him A special-from Murpht ysboro, 111 says that seventy-five Carbbndale cit izens attempted Thursday morning to take a negre from jail to lynch hlnL The sheriff frustrated tbiir plan, and arrested four promineit . citizens. Sheriff Thorpe was apprised of the mob’s departure tor Carbmdale, and, with a deputy, waited b i tbe second floor of, tbe jail. When i he" mob ap proached the jaH they were covered with, guns from the wlr dows above, aud hurriedly dispersed. Vaughan Is charged with criminalias ault, htsvi<£ tim being a Carbondale rahool teach er. ■■ Ought to Have It. Mrs. Mamie Bonds hat filed suit for divorce iu tbe district court of Beau moot, Texas, alleging that she recent ly became converted to the Baptist faith, and that her husband, J. T Bonds, persistently, and without any valid and legitimate reason, refuses to permit her to be baptized, causing her great mental anguish and fear o loaing her soul, causing her to be tranged from her husband by reason of bis scoffing remarks, and that life with him is unbearable and a prosecu tion. —, Section Hands Killed. At Harrisburg, Pa., four unidenti fied men were burned to death In box car containing gasoline, which caught fire near Harrisburg Wednes day. Two others barely escaped will their lives. The men were employee as section bends. One man lighted his pipe near the cask of gasoline which exploded. men know it. . • ~ Recently John Sharp William! the )emocratic House leader, labored faithfully Jg one of tbe magazines to show that bis wing of the Democra tic party had an issue. In spite of all that John Sharp could do, his article amentably failed to disclose any issue. John Sharp’s entire magazine produc tion could be summed up In ot» sentence, “We would rattier do li thaq Tlfthe' other fellows do it.” , Without Intending to amuse any body, Jt^n Sharp’s perTormanoe was almost as humorousas the caperlugsof those Democratic Senators who have been. ^ua&ifigVtoosqvelt with tongues and ffitfirslng him with fchelr votes ou the Panama business. If I were a party man at all, which am not, I would shell tbe woods where this kini of tweedle-dee and riweedle-durq, nonsense goes iu; and I would do my level best to create the opportunity for some national candi date with brains enough and pluck enough to make an Issue with our present lords ai d masters. "homas E. Watson. A 31g Plant. =rt»eT Secrets *y of State TueadAi ". issued a commission to the Pope Clay Product Com pa 17 of Aiken which will have a capitalization of $700,000. The corporator are J. C. Mosser and J. O. Murphy of Harrisburg, Pa. This concern Is back sd by Andrew Carnegie and will manufacture aluminum from the kaolin with which Aiken abounds. Tbe manufacture of pottery, gla« and fire brick also will be oondnoted. The clay of South Carolina ie attract ing great atttentioa now, a $100,000 concern having been chartered recent ly to make paint ontof the Inexhaast- Ible ochre beds near Columbia. Population of China. United States Commercial Agent R. T. Greener, at Vladivoetock, baa transmitted .to the department of commerce and labor the following from a Chinese pabliestJon on " last census taken in China, by rial order, In view reaase . the total number of amounted to 42$,447,32S 18 Chinese provinces prof 737,305; Manchuria, golla, 3,354 r 000r4rtbeV6»l Chinees Turkestan, 4M,C tents.’’ ' ■