The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, January 12, 1905, Image 4
BUSTERS
They Made Things Hon During
the Past Year.
HIGH WATER MARK
m-
Wm Attained in Varioul Feats, Epi
sodes and Events Noted Through-
oat the Country, Ranging from
• .... ' r
Grave to Gay, from Lud-
icrous to Grotesque.
The strenuous record smashers
made things bum during the year just
dosed. The high water mark was
attained in various feats, episodes and'
events noted throughout the country,
ranging from the grave to the gay
and from the ludicrous to the gro
tesque.
- Cbroago produced the prize villain,
a man who was accused In court by
his wife, sister and employer wlub
desertion, Ingratitude, theft, lying,
' intemperance, profanity and singing
"Bjdella” when the neighbors wanted
to sleep. This champion simply fail
ed to live up to bis opportunities or
he might have pc«ed as the much
wanted Pat Crowe and the man who
struck Billy Patterson.
A Pennsylvania farmer won a meda'
from bis neighbors by having his wife
arrested for cruelty because she in
sisted on working a phonograph over
time on the tormenting air “Hiawa
tha,” In spite of all protests.
71 o St Loulsath rsty man drank
nine quarts of whiskey In 21 hours,
-—and died. Even the Prohibitionists
must now admit that rum has some
value.
The classic town of Evanstown, the
teat of Northwestern university, de
veloped the biggest pie eater of the
year. Five thick, juicy pies a la
mode—smothered In loe cream—de
voured at a single sitting was the new
reoerd set by Ed O'Laugblln In a con
test with Lawjrtnoe English, who lost
by half a pie.
But In the drinking line Harry E.
Vale of E iglewtod, & Chicago suburb,
seems to have taken the ton. "
“He diank up our bakery,” said
Mrs. Vale, In her suit for diyorce.
“It was a pretty big drink, but ho
swallowed It In short order.”
Checks to saloon keepers aggregat
log several thousand dollars showed
what that big drink had oobt.
-— An ambitious Misaourlan wrote
40,088 words on a postal card, a feat
In ohirography almost as difficult to
tehteve ** would be a sane explana
tion as to why he did it.
During a fire In a New York hotel
A woman dressed herself in Irss than
16 minutes. This r< ord Is likely to
■land fur at least a o >ntury.
WMW CHAHTCOim. ~
Percy T. Bennett Is a man thst
New Jersey judges eall the champion
> long distance pianist of the world—
without waiting to hear from all the
young ladles who are practicing “The
Malden's Prayer.” In a Newark
theatre he battered out “Farewell,
My Lady Love," ant etc ; for 24 hours
at a stretch, when compassionate
friends Interfered and dragged him
home bodily though he threatened
another explosion.
One hundred and ten times In seven
years was the ncovlrg record of the
Whelan family of New York, and a
moving tale It furnished In a Harlem
court when Mrs. Whelan testltied
against her husband f»r non-support
and drew weird word pictures -of his
nomadic habits.
Mr. Whelan looked as if Still anoth
er move would have cheered him up
somewhat when she told the judge
the only way she could get money
from her roving spouse was to take It
out of his trousers pockets ’while be
was asleep.
SOAK CLD rs i’LS.
Moses A. Cleveland, said to be a
oousin of the ex President set a new
psoe for octogenarian*. At Worces
ter, Mass., he and another veteran of
the Civil war, each being 80, ran a
h>.if mile foot race. Cleve’and won
the dash by se veral yards, and a box
of cigars into the bargain, where
upon he challenged any man of his
age In the world—with no takers, at
last accounts.
While the exploits of the old boys
are under review, those !of the girls
should not be forgotten; and Mrs.
’ Margaret Black of (Jreene county Pa
deserves first mention. At the cele
bration of her ninety third birthday
In August It was announced that she
had never been fifty miles away from
the place of her hirih and had never
ridden in a railway train, nor ever
seen one; yet this remarkable old
lady’s descendants Include six obll
dren, 43 grandchildren, 119 great
grandchildren and 26 great-great-
grandohildren.
A KBCOBD IN SPELLBINDING.
Shrewd guessets naturally would
plok Indiana as the scene of the latest
record breaking in political oratory.
In the last campaign Congressman
Landis delivered 60 speeches In less
ffiSa a
spellbinding produced two results—
his own re-election and a throat affec
tion which temporarily locked his
jaws.
Maggie Albany's remarkable
achievement as a Sunday school pupil
brought her a gold watch early in
1004. Fur 28 years, without a single
denlletloa, she bad attended the ser
vices of the El enr zer Methodist Sun
daj school In Philadelphia. She be
gan, at the age of 5 jeara
“If I die at 80,” »ld proudly, it
will bo ft seventy-seven years’ record.
AMBITIOUS WOMEN.
»>
Miss Annie 8. Peek of Chicago re
tamed from South America with now
laaroloaoft mountaludlmber. Among
lw fonts was the j scent of Sorata,
the Bolivian mountain, frobo 20,000
to 26,000 feat high. She sorpasmd
the boat previous marks bj going
within 800 feet of the top. She had
bat next year
^nothing
ambitions woman,” she laid. TIE
The largest bottle ever blown was
made last year at the Illinois glass
works at Alton. It was a wine bot
tle seven feet high, and was made for
a wine exhlt It.
GIANT PHOTOGRAPHS.
In the year's harvest of oddities
two enormous pbotogrspbs out no
mean figure. One was a picture of the
Gulf of Nspleer msde by
company and shown at St. Louis. 1
was 30 feet long and 6 feet high—tbe
largest phot graph ever produced In
too high for an muster of words
the wer
The other was s photograph of tbe
Chloego Board of Trade, showing
tbe bulls and bears clamoring In tbe
pit at fever beat. Twelve pounds of
flashlight powder being distr buted at
350 different points around tbe bal
cony and ignited simultaneously by
electricity.
BIG FAMILIES.
Two record smashing families bound
for Cbloago landed fiou a steamer at
Baltimore in April. The head of one
family was Jrsepb Z iwloskt, aged 78,
whose sons, daughters and grandchil
dren number 30. The hi al of the other
was Carl Zenke, the father of a brood
oumberieg 17. The Two Million club,
for promoting population, ought to
hand out a few medals to Joe and
Carl.
An extraordinary instance of punot-
ualtty in maternity was given by
Mme. Byrres, glvlrg biithto ahoy
fourth to arrive on the fame date at
exact Intervals of one year. Men of
science regard this as a remarkable re
cord, and great curiosity Is felt as to
whether the woman will again bring
off the feat In January, 1906,
All hands agree to place the terpsl-
ohorean pennant over ihe domicile uf
Mrs. John Polinski, a Jersey City
bride, who danced seventy-seven times
at her wedding reception and then
fell in a swoon. She hal kept her feei
twinkling from 4 p. m. until long
after midnight, and It to >k a quick
and e'ever doctor to pull her back to
consciousness.
qUICK MARRIAGE, DEATH, DIVORCE.
At South Bend, Ind., Miss Mary
Mamie Tufct, a saleswoman, marfied-f- r
George P. Morehead, a well to do mer
chant, in baste, but subsequent event*^
came so swift that she never thought
of repentance. A few minutes after
tbe ceremony Mr. Morehtad willed bis
bride 150,000; two hours later he was
dead.
At 4:16 o'clock one afternoon R. C
nrthhlna nf Chlna^n nat r.lrMlna on a
tbursof
28.944 words, ai
words a minute. ^
Mayor MoOltUan of Mew York sst
a lively gait la autograph work by
signing bis nams 37,000 times ft
t ew issue of city bonds. Mr. Arm
strong, assistant secretary of tbs
treasury at Washington has signed
his name to offlulal d ocuments more
o 6.000 times a d*y with a pen,
hut ofte i he had to retort to mlisage
to keep his arm in working order.
In s contest by Chicago bank clerks
Lemoyn t 8. Hatch proved the adage
t hat pn otloe makes perfect by count
ing a total of 16.000 In notes of varl
ous denominations in tbe record
breaking time uf 21:06 4 6.
MONEY.
The total number of poetal orders
bsued by the government daring the
last fiscal year passed tbe 60,000,000
mark for tbe first time In history, tbe
gross revenue of the business being
13,626,676.
Records for coining gold currency
at tbe mints In Philadelphia, San
Er&octsco and New Orleans exceeded
all former marks, tbe output Of
Philadelphia alone aggregating near
ly 12 000,000 ^day st times. The lat
ter mint, being the only one wblcb
makes ents and nickels, also turned
out $25,000,000 a month In these
coins part of the year.
Mar-hall Field shattered all previ'
ous records in taxpaying. The Chicago
merchant paid on an assessed proper
ty valuation of $40,000,000, ^whlch
placed him at the head of hea^y tax
payers to the United States. - 1 “■
LUCKY BABIES
The youngr st baby In the worldlo
yart Ilf 3 with a bank account was
Hiram Goldstein of New York, $20
having been place 1 to bis credit one
hour after bis birth. Little Miss
Wldener of Philadelphia received the
Handsomest birthday, gift; at the age
of three sht received checks for
$500,000.
shop
o Miss Eisele; at 4:20 o'clock be was
ac* in the Id a mill, engaged In an
other big t a sact Ion.
“N) time fir sentiment In this
great age of civilization and progress,"
be said.
But It remained for David Metcalf,
a Chicago primer, to experience all
the degrees of matrimonial entangle
meat in a shorter time than any other
man In history.
' 'He was first married In April, 1882
He separated from bis wife, and last
September, when, entering the sere
and wrlnkl d period, courted and won
Miss Lucy Rounds, aged 20,
for dlvrroe and supposed it was grant
ed; married Miss Rounds, who learned
he had not been legally divorced, and
had him arrested for bigamy ; held to
the grand jury; ulforce given to the
first wife on a cross bill: blgam'st re
leased on a wtrt of habeas corpus; five
minutes later remarried to Miss
Rounds In the presence of first wife.
Slow mmic and Curtain on the love
affairs of Dave, all these l$ter events
having occurred wltbln a few Weeks
Diverted fourteen times in 23 years
was a record that didn’t suit Emma
Larsen of Chicago, and with tbe
..courts a d aha let Carl go for keeps.
- i-K*
Of fort Arthur Pictured ty Gen. wuitam j. i
Btoessel, the Coxremdait.
fteavv Ouwalttea and Dtaeeae Had
Depleted the Brave DeCend-
ara to Ten Thomand Men.
A TERRIBLE 8fOEM.
Great 8now Drifts Plied Up In New
York’s Streets.
l A dlSpathh from New York says
not In several years has New York
been visited by a storm of such pro
portlofW'ks'that which commenced
ruesd%y, .and continued tuntll early
Wednesd^: Nine Ihcbeioksffdw fill,
paralyzing traffic, and tbe marked
It seems Almost Incredible,” said
Judge Brentano of this city, when
Mrs. Oorenzo told her tale of woe and
asked for a divorce, “that this slip of
a girl should have had such a marital
experience."
“I was married at 14,” she said,
“and now Pm almost 16.- My husband,
Saverla, beat me morning, noon and
night, and I don't want to go back to
him any more."
8ho didn't have ti.
The speed record for^dlvorce was
awarded to Mrs. Mary M. R iaoh, who
was set free from Frederick l7 Roach,
ton of the president of the Chicago
Union Traction company, in proceed
logs luting 20 minutes.
L:o Peitz, also A Chlcagoin,
achieved the high water mark Id mak
l-**.*m Aft* r » _
'ipy wirrai'B* 1 - 111 "
’ On 936 different occasions since
our bidda.' trip in 1886,” the wife de
clared, “Leo has menaced me ana
warned me that I would soon see my
finish.”
Thn judge assented when she added:
“This is where I get i ff.”
After 25 unsuccessful attempts
Cecil Davis of Cailllaoe, Mich., com
milted suicide at Mil waukee by tak
Ing poison. She had tried almost
every known method, including bridge
Jumping, and was afflicted with a
sul Mdal mania. The final blow fell
when she was reproved for complain
ing about the color of the curtains la
her room* „ -
THE BIGGEST LOBSTER.
The biggest lobster ever seen In
Chicago anlved from the Atlantic
coast in November. It wslghsd i8
pounds aod 8 ounces, was over eight
oeiiverea DO rn I UQp „ * n d bad claws 15 inches in
mofilBu ^TTte lOUF dtstanoe dealers estimated its
age at 100 years. As It died on the
way, a fine lot of salad was missing.
Monster, a ribbon bedecked Iowa
steer weighing 3,060 pounds, broke
all records for heft at the live stock
show in Cnioago.
Beef at 36 cents s pound “on tbe
hoof" was the unpreoendented price
paid at this show for the champion
steer. Clear Lake Jute, exhibited by
tbe University of Minnesota.
Tbe largest rabbit hunt of the year
took place in Oregon In January,
when it was reported that 10,000 cot
ton tails were killed, some 700 men
atd women participating In the
slaughter.
1 RECORDS IN WHITTING.
Miss Mac Carrington of Springfield,
Masa, in a typewriting contest at
Madison Square Garden, New York,
made a word of 100 words a minute
bllndfolder.. At the St. Losls fair,
S. F. Cole of CatsklU, N. Y., broke
the world’s report for tbe
York and vioinity, while many per
sons, overcome by the oold, dropped
to the street, sjme of them receiving
fractured bones.
The storm began with an Icy sleet
which struck to oar rails and caused a
speedy abandonment of railroad and
trolley schedules. The ideet covered
the sidewalks and street# with loe and
rendered them almost Impassable.
Scores of horses fell and many were so
badly injured that they uad to be
killed. A fine snow succeeded the sleet
and, aided by the wind, soon piled up
drifts that shut off many suburban
aDDlledl pointi from the city.
y Five of the seven men who met
death from tbe results of the storm
died from exposure, another slipped
on tbe icy platform of an elevated
station fell in front of an approaching
train and was ground to pieces. The
seventh, L. W. Eller, a conductor on
the Pennsylvania railroad, blinded by
the driving snow, stepped in front of
the “Congressional Limited’? train, at
South Amboy, N. J., and was instant'
1/killed.
The demoralization of the surface
car ser /Ice played havoc with those
going t i business. The elevated trains
ran in requently, throwing the bulk
raffle from the-upper dlatrlntii
)ity to the subway. Even the
ound road did not escape the
of tbe
of the
undety
storm,
snow >
Geo. Stoeosel’s dispatches, by way
of Jbefoo, to the general staff, St.
Petersburg relate how the position of
the fortress of Port Arthur gradually
becoming less safe and more critical,
the ravages of scurvy increasing en
ormously the casualty lists already so
considerable f om the Ja
saults and bombardments. Towards
the end of the year the supplies of
ammunition completely gave out,
there were 14,000 sick and wouunded
In tbe hospitals and 300 fresh casual
ties coming in dally. Tbe general re
ports that at the end of the aelge be
had only 10,000 men under arms, the
remainder of the original garrison
having been either killed or disabled.
The text of Gen. St<«sd’s dt: pitch
es follows:
On Deamber 28 the general wrote:
The poeltion of tbe fortress is be
coming very painful. Our principal
enemies are scurvy, which is mowing.
do*n tbe men, and U-Inch shells,
which know no ob tacle and against
which there Is no protection. There
only remain a Jew who have not been
attacked by scurvy. We have taken
all "the possible measures but the dis
ease Is spreading. The passive e«dur.
a-oe of the enemy’s bombardment, t he
ll-inch shells, the Impo-slbitity of re
plyli g for want of ammunition, tbe
outbreak of acurvy and the U ss of a
mass of officers—all these cauies dim
inish daily the cap&bdtlles of the de
fense. The tile of the loss s of higher
officers Is an indication of the enor
mous losses we have sustained. Of 10
generals two, Krondratenko and T»er-
pitsky, have been killed, Rnznatov. ky
Is dead, two are w^mnded, myself and
G^noadelre, while Gurbatoweky is suf
fering from emtusions. Of nine regi
mental commanders and colonels,
Prince Matchabeli Naoumenko has
been killed, Douire and Glagolevt have
succumbed to wounds, and four otbere
have been wou idid:.. One lieutenant
colonel has been killed and two are
wounded. *7,* - „
“Among the field artillery, Col. Ir-
man was wounded, Co'. PriteiQff was
killed and six officers were wounded.
Among the other high officers there
was an enormous percentage of killed
or several times wounded. Many.com
panies arc commanded by eos'gns and
the companies only average 60 men
strong. v
“Toe Japanese since Deeem' er 18
have refrained from assaulting. Tues
day they explode 1 a mli e under the
fortifications of fort No. 5, and about
a s:ore of hardy Japare e m mated
the ramp&rt, but were exterminate i
by bayoi ets and band grenades In re
vengo the Japanese bom o&rded all
nignt long and all day long with 11-
Inch shells, et-pechlly tht hospitals
and ambulances, although knowing
f u 11 well tha t there wax no possibility
of our wounded heroes jitniug tbs
ranks of tbe defenders.
- “There are 14,000 sick and wound
ed in the hospitals and the number
Increases by about 700 daily."
Oj December 29* Gen. Stoessel
write:
“At 10 o’clock Tuesday morning
the Japanese blew up part of the par
Apet of fort No. 3. They afterwards
opened t. severe bombardment along
ti e whole front, but especially on fort
No. 3. At about 3 o'c ock in the after
mon they dashed to the atiack of tbe
pi rapet from the moat sod glacis,
wmrA they had bee 3 held In readi-
At the Times Square a'a'lon
rifted in, forming a drift five
feet high and it was impossible for
people to use the station until tbe
suow had been cleared away.
Found Hi* Dead Body.
The body of Nett-S. Paelpe, the
1 capitalist of battle Creek, Mich., who
mysteriously disappeared a number
of weeks ago, and who later supposed
: to have been located in British Colum
bia, was found Wednesday badtv de
oompofed in.the river there. Phelps
was the constructor of a sanitarium
here bearing his name and was prom
inent lu the TOJd iuditerjii la Iftfll
his affairs beoame Involved and he
was given a year In which to straigh
ten out the tangle. It was Just be
fore the explratiou of this year that
he disappeared. Soon after Phqlps
disappeared it was discovered tqat
$30,000 of stock In a publishing house
that Phelps was interested in bad
been forged and used to secure loans
fr< m banks in Adrian, Tecumseh and
In this city.
la Good Shape.
Special dispatches fftm Ti klo, say
that the Port Arthur garrison was
marshalled at 9 o’clock Thursday
morning at Yahutsui in acc rriauce
with the terms of the supplementary
agreement. The Standard’s Port Ar
thur correspondent report* that the
town appears to have been a little
damaged by tbe bombardment. Car
riages and rickshaws, he says, are
moving about with well dressed peo?
pie who apparently are anything but
starves The ruThed ‘form resemble
hills shaken by a mighty convulsion
and In many cases every trace of tbe
works has disappeared.
Postal Clerk* Dl*mi**ed.
' W. E. Crlsmon and W. E Stokes,
clerks In the Portsmouth postoffioe,
were dismissed from the seivloe
Thursday by Postmaster Butt. This
action was ordered by the postoffice
department upon recommendation of
the civil servlcf com mission, before
which both had been tried for alleged
Thoughtful men in America are
coming steadily and rapidly.to the
conclusion that William J. Bryan la
the strongest moral force in the poli
tics of the republic, says tbe Atlanta
New*. , ■
There has never been a campaign
led by this great dennorat In wblcb
the moral note has not been heard,
dear and definite, above all other is
bus of the canvass. R'ght, June
aod truth, as Bryan saw them, have
been the key words of every a'gument
that has pulsed the two most elo
quent and stirring presidential cam
paigns that the American hustings
nave ever known. Everywhere the
moral note has been dominant.
Take for Instance the recent oontri
butioa of the Outlook, perhaps the
most thoughtful utterance of Mr.
Bryan since the St L mis convention,
ind this is its general paragraph:
“The democratic party is now in a
position to oom id vr the moral issues
preseuted by pending problems, and
in the- presentation of the moral
phases of public questions is the
strength of the' democratic position
today. Every great polttloil ques
tiou has an economic bearing, and
every economic questlon^ls at f mnda-
tlon'a moral question. T le line be
tween right and wrong runs through
every problem of government, and tbe
final decision of the problem Is along
Ibis line. No propjsition is better
supported . by history tbas that
“nghte: usness exalteth a nati n,”
and it !-> as true of a party as it is of
a naiion. In fact, no one cm form an
accurate judgment upon tbe individu
al man or upon groups of men who
does not accept a, hit m*jor premise
that truth rests upon justice, and is
omnipotent. JU tins) far as an in
dividual follows this dOotrine he suc
ceed!; there is uo other measure of
success. la proportion as he depart*
from this doctrine be fails If for a
rime he seems to prosper, his pros
perity is only apparent, for no amount
of wealth or honor can compensate for
the doing of an injustice, and history
deals with men, with parties, and
with nations, according to one inex
orable lav—“The wages of sin is
death.”
Where was there evira political
career more clearly p tched and more
resolutely maintained alQQg hj&b Ubhi
t >an thi- ? It is like a weet wlnff
driving tbe miasma of modern poll
t cs to hear a man talk like that—
when all men know that there is a
min bibind the words who has lived
the w r Is to the line and tbe letter.
There is not a slain on Bryan’s
public or ptiYste life, even in the
mirror which htsenemi s ho d up be
fore him. No wund r that Lyman
Abbott, In the Outlook, s aunch in
dependent, and often staunch re pub
Ucan, should editorially declare:
“There is no misunderstanding Mr.
Bryan. He does nor guard bis affirm
ations with so many qualification that
no man can guess what he really af
firms, nor leave so many loop-holes
for retreat la case 14* doctrines fall
toflodad herehtsT
KRFTREI QLFYBE H 1
That is exAetlv wtet it is, A Flrt KHler. _
day at the State Fair showing Its fire fighting qualities.
Every Farmer,OliMill, Saw *'"*
JPTBE1I!
Demonstration every
ualities. A *
M1I17 Ginnery and any one owning
For sale by
property sbould have them. For sale by
C0LUMBU SUPPLY Ufa —7—
Columbia, B. O. The machinery Supply houae of the State
irregularities in Ahelr examination be
fore the civil service commission in
Portsmouth. ~
Tbe Great N»*«d. j—
The Jacksonville Metrapolls says:
“Educate the youth at hazards Is our
advice. If parents will tot send tbeir
children to school let a law be enact
ed to make them dp It, and aery
child will in the^oomli g years sing
the praise and proclaim the Miralnp
of their benefactors." "
*• • yj*-' 7- •• ^ .• ~ "7
mss. Tao attacks wtre repulsed, but
tie J spine: e occupied the funnel
st sped opening formed by the exp'o
si in and reenforerd by their reserves,
b gsn to run across the moat in
gioupecf about fl\e. They occup ed
the parapet and at dusk two batta
lions had entered the interior of the
fort. Our troops fought from the ea-
trenebmen's, which were bad'y dara-
aged. Part vf our tiOG&s hid them
selves In the casemates, hut tbe Jap
anese placed machine gunstirtront of
the exit from the casemates, thus de
priving our meu bidden there of a 1
possibility of making an attack. Three
counter attacks from the outside by
our reserves met with nosucoeis, Toft
*gftren .eguftnUy remained in p s ea
sloo c f the Iipanete. Our losses
considerable, esp3cialTy in officers.
The survivors of /the garrison succcd
ed In getting cut of the fort by the
windows. By the occupation of this
fort tbe Japanese-became masters of
tbe whole north front, and the fort
rcss can hold out only a few days
more. We have almost do ammuni
tion. I,will take measures to prevent
carnage In tbe streets.
“Scurry is sensibly weakening the
garrison. I have now under arms only
10,000 men, all sick.
“Gens. Fock and Nik tina have
been veritable heroes and admirable
collaborators.”
~ Gen. Stoeasel's report of Djcemb?r
28 and 29, paintirg the barrowing
picture of the depleted and exhau>ted
garrison fighting on hopelessly, were
posted on the bul'etin boards Tuesday
afternoon and attracted enormoura
crowds, whose grief at the fall of tbe
borusft words la a
double sense, nor employ them to ob
soure his meaning nor put on a sem
blance of wLdom ami morality by in
Julgencc in gere-al plattltudes. He
is clear, definite, p «itive L concrete
The intelligent and mnest reader can
easily understand his meaning.
Woether be will be the democratic
oaadld-ite in 1908, or even the demo
cr&tlc leader in tbe interim, ft r s too
early to prophesy. But it cknoot b
doubted that he Is the clean st an 1
ablest exponent, if not of opinions en
tertained, at least of a p dljical spirit
_*nl pn-pnsB nharei faj a Very great
tion for the herbic defenders. Toe war
office and admiralty were soon btallrg
ed ,by grief strlken' relatives and
friends of those at Port Arthur, eag
erly asking for news, but the staffs
were completely without details aud
could give noue.
The city is perfectly quiet the agi
tators finding that the people were In
no mood for demonstrations against
the government. It is presumed that
the emperor is already acquainted
with the details of the terms of the
surrender, it being assumed that
Stoessel wai Allowed to communicate
with his maj.-sty, but th« war
is atlll without Information ex
cept such as is oontaloftd in the Tcklo
dispatches.
At the foreign offioft, while it was
said that any proposals Japan might
make would receive due consideration,
the officials were unable 16 imagine
how it could be noetlble for Japan to
offer conditions which Russia could
accept.
direct
offlje 1
nu.nl er of America c tzens, and so
the representative o a polit'eal fore
which mu t be reckoned with, and
If reckoned with, must bj uidjr-
stOnd.”
It Is not the language of enthusi
a^m or of pr rtlsans ilp, but a simple
stat meat of truth wiiichctaMfnpetbe
oaodi r of all true citizens, that Bry
an’s life and Bryan’s arguments and
Bryan's record of consist* ncy and sin
oerity have earthed the moral tone
of the republic.
We hs ve said years ago as we say
today, that If William J. Brvan lives
and labors for tea years longer on ttie~
same lofty plan4 that be follows now,
he will hold in this rrphlc the
position which William E Gladstone
tbe sea.
A moral force in a republic must
eventually b cune its m ghtlest force
Tried to Escape.
While a train carrying 130 convict*
in the employ of tbe Tennessee Coal
and Iron Railway company was going
fr< m Mine No. 3 to the prison, Wil
Filler a negro convict, exploded i
stick of dynamite in one of the
coaches with a view of effecting i
wholesale release. J. Dawkins, a cdo
vict from Henry county, was killed,
Guard Pickett lost a leg and an arm.
Geo. Delaney, one of the trainmen
was hurt, and several convict* were
sightly Injured. During the slam
pede guards from the other oars rush
ed forward and prevented the escape
of any of the oonvlota. Tbe explo
sion blew out the erd of the coach.
The Unloaded Pistol.
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eme solicited. |
WAR CLAIMS OF CO1F1DUATX0.
How They Will be Paid for Proparty
Taken After Paroled.
There has been a general misunder
standing of tbe scope of the act of
congress proposing to pay ex-Confed
erates for horses and other property
confiscated from them at the close of
tbe War of Sesaesslin. Congressman
Wyatt Aiken has secured from tie
quartrermastd* general, Col. C. F.
Humphrey, a statement detailing the
manner in which claims are to be
filed, no claims to be received after
April, 1906. Tbe following regula
lions mart be observed;
oh claimant must state his
own claim under oath (the department
furnishes no blank forms fur the pur-
pose.) mailing it to tbe quartermaster
general, U S. A , Washington, D. C.
2. In his affldavft he should state
his name, rank, company and tbe regi
ment in which be was serving at tbe
time of the surrender, and by whom
officered.
3. The date and place of surrender,
and to whom sarrewdftred,
4. That he was paroled at or after
the surrender, naming the paroling
officer, time and place. Wrltt n pa
rties, if in existence, should be filed
with claims; otherwise, tbe sworn tes
timony of two credible persons (pref
erably s (idlers.) krowlrg the facta,
must be submitted as proof.
5. That he was required to be
mounted for tbe performance of his
milHary duties, aod that the proper
ty taken was hi* own and that it was
being used in the Confederate service
at the time of tbe surrender and was
taken by U. 8. trorps acting or pre
sumably actiog under ordeia, stating
how, when and where (and by whom
if it la known) it was takeg. State
value of each hone or mule, saddle,
bridle, blanket and side arms7
6 At least two credible persons
(soldiers preferred) must corroborate
all tbe claimant’! statements in esaen
tial particulars, statirg bow their
knowledge thereof was obtained.
7. If tbe soldier be dead, bis widow
may make the claim If both be
dead, bis child, or children Jointly; or
if no children survive tbe sdtdier, a
parent may nriske tbe claim. Allow
ance for only one horse and equip
ment is made to a private soldier
hnd two horses, equipment aod sice
r.rms to a commissioned <. fflear.
AH htatemonte
Vital Weakness,
Blood Poisos aad
All Discharges.
——
WRITE HIM AND HB WILL GlVg TQO
THE MEANS TO CURB TOURSRLf ^
AT BOMB PRIVATELY.
Recognized as the oldest established
and Most Reliable Special
tor’s direction*, and no on* but yoa and A*
know anything about IL In a Aort lima yon
And youraelf wall aad haalthy and not a pain
or tign of dleeaae anywhere.
Ha cure* (mpoU ncy in old man, atop* dis
charge* in a few day*, diaaolrea Striotura
without pain, aud in the tame short tlma af
fect* a manrelooa change for the bettor in nil
private diaeaae* of men. By an orij ‘
tom of aaawera, bo can tall exaotljM
rigiaal aya-
whatietha
6—AH btatemonte by the claimant
aud witnes-tfs must be under oath.
Tee credibility of each moat b3 certl
fl :d to by the official b' f (re whom
tirey make tha oath-rend his official
real must be affixed to each affiiavlte.
CALHOUN COUN iY.
nn-Over-
Carrled the Election by
whelming Majority Last Week.
The people In the territory Involved
have declared in favor of tbe estab
lishment of Calhoun county. Tbe eleo-
ingly In favor of tbe new oounty
it Is but left to the legislature to
Ify that action. A dispatch to
matter with you, and compound I
to ourt*
Ho —nd* It dhoetjy to your homo in a plafta
package without mirks to indicate tbe oon-
taota. Let him send yon hi* new book* cover
ing the dtaosaea of men. Ha baa font of them
—PteeaM* of the Vital Organa, Blood Poiaon-
Ing, Stricture, Varioooa'e. Hie full iddreaa la
Dr. J. Newton Hathaway, M Inman Bldg.
8. Broad St. Atlanta, G*. Writ* for the on*
yon want. It la free, *lao a detailed
covering your cnee. It la a good way to
out if yon can be cured end at no ooat to yon;
eo writ* without delay, aad aa the doctor baa
bean prominent in the Sooth for twanty-ftvn
year 1, yon can rely on what bo eaya.
T. S. HOI JJEYMAN, M. D. t
The Specialist -
Curt* all diseases of men. Lost
manhood, syphilis (blood poison),
gOnorhoea, gleet, stricture, varlooeftle,
hydrocele and all private dtiieasaa of
men. Catarrh In all forma cured
quickly. Piles cured without opera
tion or detention from busloeat.
Under guarantee. Rioms.dll end
422 Leonard building, Augusta, Ga.
Write for home tree meat. Office
hours: $ e. m. to 7 1. m. Sunday’s
9 a. m. to 2 p. m.
nefllln hilf MUUffiLflHiilftud ftitota Stata Wednesday night from its cor-
mpondefit at Mceo'mtek— u “-
aigpiieh from Holly Hllllw The
State says Jim Russell, the 14 year-
old sou of Mr. T. S. Russell, who re-
resldes nearHolly Hill, accidentally
shot himself Thursday morning with
the proverbial “unloadedpistol.” In
taking his fitber’s old pistol, wbiob
was believed to be unloaded,
from a bureau drawer it was acci
dentally discharged, the ball'pacing
through his band and entering his leS
just above the knee. The ball was
not taken out but thejtoy tejtesting
quietly Thursday night. The wounds
will be some time Id healing.
Milled by an Explosion.
Specials from Gov tog too, a town on
the Georgia railroad about 40 miles
eest H Atlanta safr The boilers at
tbe electric light plant exploded there
Wedneeday and killed the fireman, J.
L. McCullough. Ti e cause of the ac
cident la unknown, tha boilers being
practically new, having teen used hat
tow years.
turns from election for establishment
of Calhoun oounty show an over
whelming majority, bsyond the two-
thirds required by the constitution.
Returns show the following figures:
Abbeville, ayes 246, nays 41; Edge-
field, ayes 237, nays 95; Greenwood,
ayes 60, nays 11. This mak a a total
of SSf fbr the establlabment of the
new oounty against 147 In opposition.”
There was considerably more than a
two-thirds majority In tha territory
In each of the counties affected. Thp
State’s correspondents at Edgefield
and Abbeville corroborated these
figures.
The lines of Calhoun countv aa pro
posed this year are as follows: The
line of the proposed new oounty will
run from the mouth of Stevens’ creek
on the Savannah river and np the
Savannah river to a point opposite the
lower end of Cedar Island, the line
running* south 80 degrees east 1,4IT
chains to a state on Greenwood ocuo-
stak
ty line, tbecca along tha lower line of
Greenwood oounty south 12 3 4 de
grees east 140 chains to mile post on
C. A W. O. railroad near C. M. Slbert’i
thence along straight line to the Till
man White place, thenoe to the house
of W. T. Lovelace, thenoe acrom Cut-
feetown creek at a point near China
Grove place, thenoe along the line of
Edgefield and Greenwood oounty line
to iron pin In Marttnto wo road, thence
sown Martlntown road to centre point State leys Mr. Kapoteon A. 81:
but <>* owe? bridge over Turtef creek,
thenoe along tbe middle line of Tur
key creek to Biff Stevens' creek,
thecoe along tha middle line of Big
Stevens’ creek to the month of said
creek, at Savannah river, the point of
beginning. ‘
Robert Coney, colored, bed one
leg shot off br a trap gun while ateal
log ehktena from a coop in
N. J., on Friday. ~~~~
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Got Him at Last.
A dispatch from Charlotte, N. O.,
■ays: “Will Harris, a noted negro
crtmlaal, who escaped from the State's
prison about a yeAr yfp under |to
year sentence for barn burning and
who was some months 'ago outlawed
by magistrate's proclamation, wiser*
rested in Salisbury Tuesday. While
at large In this oounty Harris created
a veritable reign of terror In the see*
tlon In which he was known to stay.
Many farmers stayed up all night to
guard their premises against hie
torch.”
Falla Dead.
A special from Yorkvllle to
while sitting on
denoe two miles east of YorkviUe
Tuesday afternoon, had an attack of
heart trouble and fell deid, Mia.
Simrll w! teaming the aad occurrence.
Mr. Slmrll was one of the most auo-
oeariul and enterprising men of York
county, and was highly estaamed by
his many friends. He leaves * wid*
ow, one eon and two danghtcre. One
of the latter is a student at Wlnthrop
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