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WW ^r" . -ssg; The Bamberg Herald. 1 ; ~ ' W- ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 11,1900. ONE DOLLAR PEE YEAR. fg ~ J8 . <v ^3521 JULIA MORRI! SIie Tells Jury of Insu * By Leidei STATE HAS A STRONG CASE ^ Witnesses Declare That the Murder Was Premeditated?Sen^ sations Galore. The second day's trial at Chattan.t TVTioa .Tnlio. TVfr?rritnn fftr t.hft iiWga V* AUAOlf V M??M Murder of Frank Leidenkeimer was repele with dramatic situations. The state introduced -witness after witness who painted a black picture of the woman who trembled at their words. The trend of the testimony showed that she laid in wait for Actor Frank Leidenheiiner and when the opportunity came she pulled the pistol she carried concealed in the folds of her dress and fired into his face. After he had failed she stooped over him and deliberately fired a ball into his writhing body. The examination of witnesses for the state occupied the morning session and the court adjourned until the afternoon. STATEMENT OP DEPENDANT. Immediately on reassembling at 2 o'clock, the court ordered the examination of witnesses to proceed and Miss Morrison was called to the stand. The accused woman was quite flustrated at first and seemed to be very much excited, but she soon became calmer and proceeded to give her testimony in an emphatic and clear, though rather dramatic manner. She stated that she had been subjected to all kinds of insults by Leiden; that when Leiden found that she was mar ried he had subjected her to systetematic insult and abuse and had continued it until it became unbearable. The first witness called was W. J. Patterson, the stage manager of the Chattanooga opera house, who testified as follows: "Liendenheimer said nothing to Miss Morrison or made any effort to assault her when she fired the shot. She shot him before he could speak. The shot was fired the second she saw him." His story was very damaging to Miss Morrison. On questioning him on Liedenheimer's actions, he swore that he acted the gentleman and tried to avoid any trouble with Miss Morrison, who seemed to be ill-tempered and insulting. ? Leon H. Joseph, electrician at the opera house, was next called and his evidence was the most damaging of all for the defense. The attorneys endeavored to make him say he had discussed the case with the prosecutor and fixed up the testimony, but he denied it bitterly. Here the attorneys on both sides got into an argument, and it looked as > if it would be a personal difficulty, until the sheriff made all sit down and the judge ordered the first attorney under arrest who again made a disturbance. * Attorney Latimore asked Witness Joseph if Leidenheimer, the murdered man, was not a Jew. He replied he did not know. At this instant, Mrs. Antz, sister of Leidenheimer, who was present, jumped up and saia: "You lie if you say he was a Jew. ' You are trying to prejudice the jury." ; Judge Estell announced that all demonstrations must stop. ' Rogers Ryley, of New York, who was assistant manager of the "Mr. Plaster of Paris" company, was the next witness. His testimony caused a great sensation. When he commenced to testify Miss Morrison began to cry and hide her face. He ^ swore he heard her say to Leidenheimer the morning before the murder: "I'll put a ball through you yet very soon." He swore that he saw her the 1 night of the murder and that she had 1 her street dress on and was not made up for the stage, and did not have her 1 stage dress on or her stage make-up. The attorneys for Miss Morrison attempted to prevent Mr. Riley from telling what the duties of Leidenheimer, as the stage manager, were. 1 Here a dispute arose between the attorneys. Judge Estell became en- : raged and left the stand. He got between the lawyers, took a paper from ; their hands, and said: "This farce must stop. I'll decide this controversy. Mr. Riley, you tell all you know. We ars going to get at the bottom of this case, and are not going to have anything covered up." Mr. Riley was then turned over to ; the defense to be cross examined. While all this was going on Miss Morrison was spending her time in qnrl mntincr tue uuut u^/uiu ujiug HU?. ^ demonstrations. When Miss Morrison was called she arose and walked with a confident air toward the witness stand. Every eye was eagerly npon the occupant of the witness box. The seal upon her lips was about to be broken and a tale of ! DYNAMITE WAS THAWED. li a Result One Man Is Instantly Killed and Two Die From Injuries. Four quarrymen on the Tennessee Central railroad near Rockwood, Tenn., attempted to thraw out a stick of dynamite which had been frozen up in a box. The dynamite, of course, ex- ; ploded, and one man, a negro, was ; killed and three others fatally injured, two of them dying two hours aifter . the accident. FLORIDA REPUBLICANS ACT. ' Their State Convention Will Be Held A St. Augustine January 19th. The Florida state Republican convention will be held at St. Augustine January 19th. At the convention of Leon county Republicans at Tallahassee Friday the action of the state central committee in reducing the vote and apportionment to conform with the Democratic count in the several counties was strongly denounced. A bolt at the state convention was threatened. SON'S STORY ilts Heaped Upon Her tiheimer. romance, cruelty, persecution, insult and tragedy, all of which reads like a work of fiction, was about to be unraveled. Colonel Jce Clift, for the defense, took the stand through the story of her wrongs and her wanderings. She began her story as follows: "My name is Julia Morrison James. My stage name is Julia Morrison. I am in the theatrical profession. I was born in Kansas, as well as I know. I Had some foster parents, ican i state exactly how long after I was born before my mother died. I do not know whether my father lived after my real mother's death. I was married before I was fourteen years of age. I didn't know until after my marriage that they were not my real parents. Their treatment was most severe. They would put me up in a corner aud take my ears and hold them against the wall and beat my head. "My husband and myself want from LaFavette, La., to Paterson, N. J. I then clerked a short time in New York. For a while we boarded on West Fortieth street, then East Fortieth street. I then went with the 'Mr. Plaster of Paris' company. "After I was employed by Harris, I stayed in New York awhile and rehearsed?went to rehearsals every day and worked hard. Leiden was with the company at that time. Upon the first few occasions he was very gentlemanly. He found no fault whatever. He told me I was great and excellent. I exhibited to Mr, Leiden my costomes which I had to wear. "In Peekskill, New York," the witness continued, "Leiden came up to my room. The door was open and I was lying on the bed with my head toward the door. I supposed it was my husband who came in. The next I knew there was a pair of arms around me, and he made an indecent proposal. It became necessary for the witness to tell what Leiden had called her, ^ *<nAr?U T vri?ifa tliooa UUU dliC &aiU J VttU V X tTAiVV kUVWV horrible things?" When told she must use the language, she proceeded. "I heard Leiden say to his assistant not to send out a lithograph of myself, as he expected to get rid of the " Here the witness used words unfit for print. "He frequently called me a bitch." Here the witness used language unfit to print. Referring to the incidents before the tragedy at the Chattanooga opera house, just previous to the tragedy, she said: "I arrived at the opera house a minute or two before 12. I heard Mr. Leiden say to somebody, 'What must I do with her?' He looked so angry that I started toward the steps. He came and shook his fist in my face. He said: 'I didn't call the rehearsal because the piece needs rehearsing, but to see if you would come.' He said, 'I would address you as a lady if I thought you were a lady, you bitch.' He said that I wasn't fit to be in a dog show. He kicked me in the abdomen and slapped me with his hand. He started to slap me again, but Mr. Breeding interfered. He wouldn't let him hit me again. He asked me why in the hell I didn't send that damned pimp of mine up, and he'd break his neck. "I made no threat that I remember of to put a ball through Leiden. I always carried a pistol in my bosom. Mv husband eave it to me in LaFay f w _ ette, La. I made no statement that I would see Leiden before the curtain went up that night. There is no truth in that "That night I went to the opera house with a maid. Mr. Breeding showed me my dressing room. I had on a street costume. The time I was to appear on the stage in the play was fifteen or twenty minutes off::om the time the curtain went up. My part did not require me to absolutely dress at all. The very dress I have on Mr. Leiden told me I looked beautiful in and I had worn it in the play. "After reaching my dressing room I took off my hat, opened my grip and took out my keys to open my trunk." That evening, she stated, Leiden had gone to the toilet room where she was, while she was sick, and had offered an indigntty, which she told to the court, and which is unfit for the prints. "I pushed him away and pushed him out of the toilet. He slapped me violently. A colored girl came after me. The colored girl followed me up the steps. There was no one in front. I found the steps very narrow. I was just in the act of stepping up the steps when Mr. Leiden leaned over and said in a low voice, 'What in the hell do you mean, you ^ I'll kill you!' I lost consciousness here. I believed he was going to carry out his threats. I have no recollection of firing one, two or three shots. I remember nothing else until the officer came up and said, 'Come, lady!'" At this juncture the court adjourned until Saturday. TO RESUME BUSINESS. New York Produce Exchange Trust Company Arranges to Reopen. The trustees of the New York Produce Exchange Trust Company have made all arrangements for the resumption of business. General Samuel Thomas, vice president of the reorganized company, authorized the statement that when the doors open again every depositor who may desire his money will be paid in full. JUDGE'S "RESORT" BURNED. Bleckley Home on Screamer Mountain Destroyed By Fire. News from Clayton, Ga., is to the effect that Judge Logan E. Bleckley's summer house, on top of Screamer mountain, was consumed by fire a few nights ago. The burning was not the work of an incendiary, as the judge has no enemies about, but was the result of tor common practice in Rabun and other mountain counties of Georgia of the indiscriminate and unlawful firing oi the woods. ! "BALLOT RESTRICTION" Tbe Subject of a Strong Speech In the Senate By Horgan, of Alabama. j The feature of Monday's session of 1 the senate was the speech of Senator i Morgan, of Alabama, upon the general subject of ballot restriction in the south. The senator from Alabama j took as the text for his speech the res1 olution introduced several days ago by Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina, or rather the substitute which j that senator has since submitted in ' place of his former resolution. The j substitute reads as follows: Resolved, That an enactment by constitution or otherwise by any j state which confers the right to vote upon any of its citizens because of their descent from certain J persons or classes of persons and excludes other citizens because they are not descended from such persons or classes of persons, having all other qualifications pre scribed by law, in the opinion of the senate is in violation of the i fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States, and of a fundamen- ^ tal principle of our republican j form of government. In. opening Senator Morgan said that this resolution, reveals tho fact that we have reached a danger point in the history of the republic which we cannot avoid or neglect. The next apportionment of representation in the house must be made by this, or the fifty-seventh congress,said the senator, and the principles on which the apportionment will be made will be a question of the gravest importance in this year's election. He believed the question ought to be considered in advance of these elections. The people should decide the great question iuvolved in these j resolutions at the elections of this J year upon propositions submitted to them in some form. "I am convinced," said the senator, "that no other tribunal except the people voting in tho elections has the right or the power to finally settle this questiou here presented in the resolution offered by the senator from North Carolina." "ST. JACKSON'S DAY." Celebrated By the Jacksonian Club at Omaha, Nebraska. "St Jackson's Day" was appropriately celebrated in Omaha, Neb., Monday by the Jacksonian Club. Three separate functions were down on the programme. The first was an informal reception held at the club headquarters in the afternoon* at which W. J. Bryan, Congressmen Carmack, of Tennessee; Overmeyer, of Kansas; Weaver, of Iowa, and sev-" eral other Democratic lights, were the guests. Mr. Bryan was the chief centre of attraction, and during the two hours the reception lasted several hundred Democrats had paid their respects. At 6 o'clock a dinner was tendered Mr. Bryan and a few other notables at the Omaha CInb. At .9 o'clock occurred the annual banquet of the club in the parlors of the Paxton hotel. Covers were laid for thres hundred, and there were no vacant places. An elaborate menu was served, and it was near midnight before the speaking began. The speech of the evening was made by Mr. Bryan in response to the toast, "Our Nation." . SOUTHERN PROGRESS. List of New Industries Established the Past Week. The more important of the new industries reported for the past week inclnde coal mines in Alabama and West Virginia; copper mines in Texas; cotton mills in Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee; a cremating furnace manufactory in Georgia; an electric light company in Arkansas; an electrical supply company in Texas; flouring mills in Alahnma. MississioDi. Tennessee, I Texas; gold mines and a handle factory in Alabama; a hardware company in Texas; an ice factory in Arkansas; lumber mills in Kentucky,Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas; a machine shop in West Virginia; a planing mill in Georgia; a silk mill in North Carolina; a steel roofing plant in Tennessee; a telephone exchauge and a tent manufactory in Texas.? Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) NEW DEPARTMENT CREATED. Col. Randall In Command of New Department of Alaska. The president has created a military department consisting of territory of Alaska and assigned Colonel George M. Randall to the command. Colonel Randall is on duty with his regiment in Cuba, but will report in Washington enroute to Alaska. Oatacre Killed His Uuide. A private of the Irish Rifles, who fought at Stormberg, in a letter to his folks in London, ?ays that when General Gatacre saw the position the guide had led the troops into he shot the guide dead with his own revolver. M'MILLIX IN ST. LOUIS. Tennessee's Chief Executive Speaks at Annual Jackson Banquet. m CI ? cu xne xeuues&eo ouuicij ui ui. xjvuis held its annual Jackson Day banquet at the St. Nicholas hotel Monday night. Governor Benton McMillin, of Tennessee, was the principal speaker of the evening, responding to the toast, "Andrew Jackson." The governor received an ovation at the close of his address. VAST ARMY IN PHILIPPINES, j 1 With Arrival of Traimp >rt Grant Otis Will ' Have 65,000 Men. With the arrival at Manila of the 1 transport Grant, which left San Francisco on December 21 with the Forty- j eighth Volunteer infantry, General Otis will have command of an effective 1 force of about 65,000 men. ; The army now in the Philippines 1 aggregates 62,500 men, of which 31,000 are regular troops and 31,500 are vol-1 ' unteers. With the arrival of the Grant the entire volunteer strength of 3A,000 i' men will be in the Philippines. J RAILWAY FIGHT IN U.S. COURT Stockholders File Bill Against Georgia and Alabama. ENJOINED FROM COMBINING. Judge Speer Grants Order Direct. - ? 4-Annaof lilg uciciiuauts iu np^ai and Answer. The fight that Thomas R. Ryan and his associates are waging against the Seaboard Air-Line syndicate and John Skelton Williams, who is at the head of the syndicate, shows no sign of abating. Instead jt is more bitterly contested each day. A long drawn and closely contested legal fight is imminent. In fact it has begun. Ti:e latest move in what will probably prove to be one of the most bitterly fought railway battles of recent years was made at Macon, Ga., Monday when Judge Emory Speer, of the United States circuit court of the southern district of Georgia, granted a temporary injunction restraining the officers of the Georgia and Alabama 'railway from consolidating it with the Florida Central and Peninsular railroad or UDy other corporations on a bill filed by Michael J. Dady, a minority stockholder. It is alleged in the bill that J. Skelton Williams is at the head of what is called a "voting trust" that controls practically all the stock of the Georgia and Alabama railway aud is proposing to consolidate that road with the Florida Central and Peninsular, of which he is also president, and that the proposed consolidation with the latter road is in his interest as well as in the interest of other persons associated with him in the "voting trust" and contrary to the interest of the road and its stockholders. J. Skelton Williams, John W. Middendorf and C. Sidney Shepard are also parties defendant and the injunction operates against them. The bill was presented to Judge Speer by Marion Erwin and Joseph M. Terrell, as counsel for the complainant, Dady. Dady's bill, in addition to the allegations that the proposed consolidation is prejudical to the rights of the stockholders and the road and for the personal interests of the "voting trust" headed by Skelton Williams, claims that the Georgia and Alabama railway and the the Florida Central are parallel and competing railroads, and under the constitution of the state of Georgia their consolidation is prohibited. Colonel Joseph M. Terrell, of counsel for the complainant, as attorney general cf the state of Georgia, is now officially engaged in prosecuting two suits in the name of the state of Georgia and by the direction of Governor Candler to prevent other railroad consolidations claimed to be contrary to the same clause of the constitution of the state which is claimed in this suit before Judge Speer is about to be violated by the proposed consolidation of the Georgia and Alabama and the Florida Central and Peniusular railroads The bill prays that Messrs. Williams, Middendorf and their associates untVio 'incr trnflf." acrrAAmftnt. hA WW enjoined from voting the stock they hold under the agreement in favor of the proposed consolidation, and that these railroads be enjoined from receiving any vote under that agreement. The allegation is made in the bill that the Williams syndicate is proposing to get several million of dollars for personal services in carrying out the consolidation scheme. After considering the bill Judge Speer granted the following order: "Read and considered. Let the defendants named be temporarily enjoined as prayed until Saturday, the 13th instant, at which time they are directed to show cause before me at Maoon, Ga., at 10 o'clock a. m., why the injunction prayed for should nob be granted. "Ordered further, that a copy of this order be served on each of the defendants named or on their counsel." FOURTH DAY'S TRIAL. Grind of Testimony In Morrison Case Was Steady and Monotonous. The fourth day in the sensational trial of Actress Julia Morrison began at Chattanooga Monday morning at 9 o'clock in the superior court room, before Judge Estell and two thousand spectators. The prisoner, pale and distressed looking, entered the court room, declaring with an attempt at a smile that she was feeling some better than she had on Saturday. The trial Monday was without any sensational features, and the grind of + ^a*ir?/-w?Tr V>OQ hofln RtAflr1"V ftTlft mOTlOt igovAuuvuj Mttw MWM ?^ ? OQOUS. PARENTS SELL CHILDREN. I Starving Millions In India Compelled to Break Family Ties. Latest mail advices from India aver that the situation there grows darker every week. Three million people are working on government relief work. The sale of children by starving parents is becoming common. Families are breaking up, each member shifting for himself in search of food. WANTED JOHN (MINOR. Sensational Scene at Trial of Carter's Alleged Associates. A sensational scene occurred in Commissioner Sheild's courtroom in New York during the hearing of the case of the United States against Colonel John F. Gaynor and his associates in the Atlantic Contracting com| pany. A handsome woman burst into I the room and wildly exclaimed that sho was the original wife of Colonel Gaynor. Court attendants led the excited woman out of the room, while she shouted, "I want you, "John Gaynor; I want you." GOLD BILL IN SENATE1 Aldrich Makes Speech Explain-: ing Its Provisions, DOES NOT RELEGATE SHYER COINS ! Rhode Island Senator Declare* Demo* : cratlc Party Ii Not a Bimetallic Party. j I In accordance with the notice previously given by him, Senator Al.drich opened the discussion of the financial bill in the senate Thursday with a j speech in expiation of the senate sub- j stitute for the house bill. The speech was carefully prepared and was read from manuscript. Senators present gave him careful attention, but no one interrupted him with questions or otherwise during the delivery nor did anyone mm if est a disposition to reply after he ha ! con- j eluded. At the opening of the day's session, J Mr. Beveridge, of Indiana, presented J the following resolution: "That the Philippine island are ter- j ritory belonging to the United States; j that it is the intention of the United j States to retain them as such and to i establish and maintain such govern- j mental control throughout the archi-1 peligo as the situation may demand." I Mr. Beveridge asked that the reso- j lution lie upon the table until Tues- j day, when he would speak upon it. A message from the president was I read, transmitting testimony taken by j the commission appointed to investi- j gate conduot of the war department. ! A resolution was presented by Mr. ' Pettigrew calling upon the secretary j ot~the navy for the report of Admiral | Dewey of April 13, 1898, in which the | admiral said he could take Manila at any time. He asked immediate con- : sideration, but Mr. Spooner objected i and the resolution went over. I Mr. Allen's resolution calling for ' correspendence between the treasury department and the National bank and the Hanover National bnak, of New York, was agreed to with modifica-j tions. The consideration of Mr. Pettigrew's resolution concerning the advances reported to have been made by Agninaldo to General Otis was postponed until Monday. The senate, at 1:55 p. m., took up the financial bill and Mr. Aldrich addressed the senate. In the course of his speech he said: "The goneral purpose of lbs bill is to declare anew that gold is the monetary standard of ttie United States; to establish confidence in the intention and ability of our government to give j the greatest possible measure ' of stability in value to its currency and to | provide the means for securing for it at all times an equal purchasing power with gold; to enlighten in every possible way the burdens imposed upon the taxpayer by existing public obligations and to strengthen the public credit. No departure is intended by this bill from the public policy which was adopted years ago and has been consistently adhered to through successive administrations. "The bill now before the senate contains no disavowal of the position heretofore taken upon the question of international bimetallism and places no obstacles in the way of its accomplishment in the future." Senator Aldrich accused the Democratic party of advocating a policy that would lead to silver monometallism and declared it was not a bimetallic party at all. "The committet does not suggest any changes in the status of the silver dollar or the silver certificate. We do not propose to take away from silver any of the monetary privileges or perogatives which it now enjoys. In faot, we believe that the legislation suggested will greatly strengthen its position in our monetary system." The senator defended the refunding provisions of the bill as a precautionary measure in view of the possible increase of the public debt. At the close of the speech the senate went into executive'' session, adjourning at 3.20 o'clock until Monday. Roberts Hearing Resumed. The Roberto investigating committee resumed its session at Washington Thursday for the purpose of hearing arguments and bringing the inquiry to an early conclusion. . Strike Settled. C. C. Yonge, manager of the San.ford Lumber company's millt at Carryville, Fla., and Arthur McConnell, leader of the Knights of iLabor in this district, have amicably adjusted the differences between the strikers and the mill owners, and the men go back to work. To Watch the Conflict. General Otis has cabled the war department that in accordance with instructions, Captain Reichmann, 17th infantry, now in the Philippines, has been ordered to South Africa to report npon military operations in the Transanal. BISHOP CAPERS ON WAR. South Carolina Prelate Critlolses the National Government. Bishop Ellison Capers, formerly a - - . 1 i.;? ?^i confederate general, iu ma nuuuai visit to Trinity Episcopal church at Columbia, S. C., Sunday criticised the national government in the prosecution of war in the Philippines. He lamented the fact that a Christian nation was using shot and shell to remove a less fortunate people from the way of its march of progress. MOTHER SATES CHILDREN. Men Had Given Up Effort When She Rushed Into Flames. Mrs. Emanuel Hoffman dashed into her burning dwelling at "Springfield" farm, near Williamsport, Md., after several men had been driven back by the smoke and intense heat, Sunday night and heroically saved the lives of her three children. The flesh was almost entirely scorched from her bands and her face and neck are painfully burned. Her two-months-old babe is also seriously burned, but physicians say its life is safe. CNiCMCMrsirJiMrsirsia 2 SOUTH CAROLINA \ \ STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ t?MCMrsJf\jrslfNJtsl?Mi; Our Railroad Mileage. . A dispatch from Columbia says: "In 1853 there were 203.81 miles of railroad built in South Carolina, and that has been the record for any twelve months since that time. The nearest approach to equalling it was in 1892, when 181.57 miles were built. In the last six months, however, 197 miles of read have been constructed with the prospect of 100 and perLaps 150 miles more being built before the middle of next summer, far surpassing any previous twelve months' record. The Seaboard Air-Line leads with ninetymi'lot. +V>A A+lonfi/* P.nftnf Lin A U11D UillU"j W11U ~ _ comes next with thirty-four miles and the Southern is a close third with thirty-one and two-tenths mile. The remainder of the mileage is divided among three roads. In the last six months more miles of railroad have been built in South Carolina than were constructed in any state of the uuion in the previous.twelve months." Governor a Liberal Subscriber. Governor McSweeney believes in keeping in touch with the people through the nespaperrs. He reads the daily papers carefully and in addition wants to keep up with local affairs and has subscribed to all county papers in the state to be sent to the executive office. Quite a number of papers have been sent complimentary to the governor's office, but Governor McSweeney thinks it best to pay for all county papers. He asks that they be sent to his office and that whenever there is anything of special interest in the issue, or which it is thought will interest Governor McSweeney, or relates to industrial matters, he asks that it be marked or that a marked copy of the paper be sent to him. *** Conductor Shoots Necro. Conductor Frank H. Hursey shot and instantly killed Lewis Burton, a negro train hand on his train, at Pinei wood a day or two ago. The road is a branch of the Coast Line. The conductor was arrested by the town authorities and held at Pinewood. The conductor had discharged Burton and ordered him to leave the train at Pinewood. The negro attempted to get on again and was shot. Criticized Philippine War. Bishop Ellison Capers, formerly a Confederate general, in his annual visit to Trinity Episcopal church in Columbia last Sunday, criticised the national government in the prosecution of the war in the Philippines. He lamented the fact that a Christian nation was using shot and shell to remove a less fortunate people from the way of the march of progress. * i *** A Mistrial Ordered. A Columbia dispatch says: After being locked in their room forty-five hours, the jury in the case of Professor J. C. Meares, of the state asylum for dumb and blind, charged with the seduction of Cora Jenkins, a fifteenyear-old girl, was discharged and a mistrial ordered. ?*? Two Negrofa Hanged. C. Wilson and Z. Singleton, two negro murderers, were hanged in Charleston the past week in the yard of the county jail. The necks of the men were broken and death was painless. Wilson killed a volunteer soldier on the streets there in August a year ago. The soldier remonstrated with the negro for using vulgar language before ladies and the negro shot him. Singleton killed a negro companion ower a game of cards in November last. Problem For Lawmakers. How to purchase liquor for the state dispensary is to be one of the greatest problems the general assembly will have to solve at the approaching session. It is manifest that the present plan, through the state board, does not suit, for it is said that tde stale board of control is to be legislated out of office. The question then is how will the million and a quarter's worth of liquor be bought? *% Two Cotton Mills This Year. Since the opening of the new year two new cotton mills have applied for charters?the Dekalb, at Camden, capital stock $200,000, and the Monaghan, at Greenville, $500,000. The Rock Hill Harrow Manufacturing Company, $50,000, has also been incorporated. ** New Representative. Colonel J. B. Bates has been elected a member of the general assembly to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Captain Black, captain of the state penitentiary guards. Colonel Bates is a prominent citizen of Barnwell county, living at Millettsville. He is a successful and prosperous farmer. *** Extension of Offer. The "Wade Hampton Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy has decided to extend the offer of a gold medal for the best essay on the conditions of the south since the civil war to the students of the South Carolina college, Clemson and "Winthrop. Heretofore this offer has been made exclusively to the students of the South Carolina college, and there has always been a spirited contest for the prize. This year, however, there was only one competitor and, under the rules, no award could be made. This condi tion of things brought the change of the offer to the other state colleges. The delivery of this medal was always on January 19, the birthday of General Kobert E. Lee. In consequence of the extension of this offer to the three state institutions it was found necessary to postpone the annual celebration this year in order to I allow Clemson and Winthrop a reason! able time to enter the contest. The i annual celebration this year, therefore, j will be held some time during the j month of May. Next year the celebration will be held on January 19, as is customary. The members hope to make arrangements to have this annual meeting in the state honse and . " ' the one for this year will probably be held there. It was decided that in the event of the winner not appearing at the celebration to read his own essay the medal will not be delivered to him. % Secretary of State's Report. Secretary of State Cooper in his annnal report to the general assembly shows that he collected $5,802.97 in fees. As to the state honse he says he has made such repairs as the funds would admit. Some provision, he insists, must at least be made for a good roof or mmch damage will be done. Kepairs can be but- temporary. He strongly urges the inauguration of some plan for the completion of the state house. The appropriation for rock steps at the east side of the building is returned because it was found inadequate. He suggests as to charters the assessment of a charter fee on the capital stock of companies and a nominal fee for recording papers. He suggests a change of the charter law as to churches, lodges and societies having no capital stock and holding property. ?* Ellerbe Debt PaIiI. Attorney. General Bellinger, had a satisfactory interview with Mr. Cash Ellerbe, the executor of the will of the late Governor Ellerbe. The state penitentiary had an account against Governor Ellerbe and Mr. Cash Ellerbe settled up the account satisfactorily. | However, there seems to be a horse lost somewhere in the deal. It ap- j pears that Governor Ellerbe turned over a horse to the penitentiary some time before he died. * ANOTHER VESSEL SEIZED. England Gives Germany Further Cause For Serious Complaint Or Trouble. Advices from Berlin state that the imperial mail steamer General has been detained at Aden and occupied by British troops, with the object of searching her cargo, which is to bo discharged. The General is owned by the German East African line, the owners of the Bundesrath, previously captured by the British cruiser Magicians' 01T Delagoa bay. The seizure has considerably aggravated the situation here, and the indignation against England is intensified. The go rernment is still earnestly endeavoring to preserve correct official relations, but England will do well to hasten to make the amende honorable to Germany. On absolute reliable authority, the correspondent of the Associated Press learns that Emperor William is now thoroughly aroused by the repeated seizures of vessels, no one of which, he has been assured, is guilty of carrying contraband. He regards the seizures as high-handed proceedings, which England would not have dared to undertake if the German navy were more powerful than it is. His majesty is said to be particularly incensed because information has reached him showing that the seizures were not due to the blundering of British naval officers, but strict orders from headquarters, which the officers are merely carrying out. He haB, therefore, instructed Count von Buelow, the foreign secretary, to demand exact and full reparation for the the outrage done to the German filag. No answer that is considered satisfactory has yet been received from London, and according to advices none is to be expected for several days longer. Thursday's news, howover, induced the German government to send another and more strongly worded piotest to London. Significant of the intensity of Germany's indignation Vn/rUnd in fhis mdtiflr is & nga&juov juAj^twuv* . __ declaration published bj the German Colonial Society, among -whose eighty thousand members are a number of reigning German princes, which safs: "England's recent proceedings against German vessels are an outrage. The fact remains that the small respect which the English people feel for Germany because of her deficiency in naval power has taken such deep root that the commanders of English warships hasten to commit breaches of international rights so long as Germany is touched. This lack of . fear to touch the German fiag must be thoroughly and speedily cured." Indignation meetings have been called by branches of the colonial society. The German press, with ha::dly an exception, thunders against England. Even the semi-official Berliner Post says: "It cafinot be denied that the indignation aroused by the wilfulness of the seizures by British commanders is spreading in wider and wider circles. " MONEY WAS IN THE BOI Grand Jury Finds Evidence and Also True Bills Against Colonel Whallen. A special from Frankfort, Kj.t sayS: It was unofficially announced Thursday night that the Franklin county grand jury found indictments against Colonel John H. Whallen^ and Charles Byan, who, it is alleged, attempted to bribe Senator Hanoi in tne governorship contests. The safety deposit box which Harrel designated as holding the money, was turned over to the grand jury during the day and was found to contain four $1,000 bills and five $100 bills. The money was Bealed up in a plain white envelope without writing. This corroborates Harrel's story. Tho selection by lot in both houses of the legislature of the members of the committees which are to hear the contest for governor and lieutenant governor was completed. In joint session the Democrats will have ten out of the eleven members of the committee on the governor's contest and nine out of eleven on the lieutenant governor's contest. The speecHs getting so high nowadays that enterprise has to carry around a jimmy and a bunch of skeleeton keys to maintain its reputation, i 7 ..."Tfjjr., ? --/V KENTUCKY ROW GROWS APACE j ! RepnMicans Hay Carry Matter to Federal Coort REVOLUTION SEEMS IMMINENT | All Depends On the Decision of the Legislative Committee as to Who Is Entitled to Office. A special from Lexington, Ky., ujt: ; ^ On the advice of ex-Governor Brad* ' ley, leading connsel for the Bepubii- ^ cans in the contest being made for the -state offices, they will hold oat v jgg tbe Democrats, even though the iegif Iature and the state election commission decide that the Republicans are f not entitled to the offices. He thinks. ! this action would result in throwing y&! the contests into the federal courts for final settlement. Probably one thousand stanch Be- i|| publicans will be summoned to Frank-, fort, ostensibly as vritnesses in the j conteste, but each man will go heavily armed and he will be ready to fight to ' 0 the death for the defeat of GoebeL Already companies of such BepuWi- , yyM* cans have been formed in several of the leading cities and they have been drilled in the duties they will have to perform if the Goebel men try to take : the offices. Each one of the Goebel , :leaders is to be covered by two of the republicans, and if they make a hoetile move they are to be shot down. Of course this action would produce a riot and Governor Taylcr would have ? | to call oat the militia to quell it He ^ would then declare the state under martial law and he could follow thft - jf|j up by asking the national government to his aid. The work of preparing the militia for an outbreak has gone on'steadily since the election and now it is ready for any emergency. Signal cannon have been placed at I all leading points and when they are discharged there will be a hurried / gathering of the troops in the respect-; ive armories. All rabid Goebel men ' have been eliminated from the militia, M and as it is at present constituted ev- J; ery man in the service will fight to ^ prevent Goebel from taking the governor's chair if ordered to do so. j Major P. P. Johnston, the Brown ' Democrotic candidate for lieutenant^ governor, in an interview said he believed Goebel was about to steal | the governorship, and that he will ; meet with no, such armed opposition from the Bepublicana as is threatened. || He says the Bepublicana are afraid to ^ j ukuv. _ , Urey Woodson, national Democratic ' committeeman and a member of the "d| ways and means committee, say <: ip "Mr. Goebel will be in possession ";||? of the governor's office between Janu- | >: ary 25 and and February let Black- - ^ barn, and not Goebel, is the man woo "-M ' insisted on carrying the contest up SM the legislature." GILLHOBE IS FREE, . All Amerieaof Held by P hill pin o? Hm /' ^ Been Beeeaed. Official confirmation has come from 'm both General Otis and Admiral Watson of the first reports from Manila of the release of the American prison- M era, and there is no longer any doahjtpfi flj that Lieutenant C-illmore, of the " Yorktown, is among the number. General Otis's dispatch reads as fol- H - 1'Manila, January 6.?The prison- ' ers now en route from Yigan arrived-*.; tonight, and a list of them will be tel- ^ egraphed tomorrow. Captain Gillmore is among the number." Admiral Watson's advioe Is as foi"MANiLAi January 5.?Colonels" Hare and Howe have recaptured aft of the American prisoners, including Gillmore, now at Yigan." I Family of Three Perish. . A tenement house fire in New York "'% * - . *M-~Sy3a Saturday resulted m tnree aeauia auu * seven persons being injured. The | deaths are: Mrs. Mary Sutheriy, a widow; Frank Sutheriy, nine yeans Sj old; James Sutheriy, 22 months old. | APPROPRIATION WASTED. 1 Louisiana Purchase Centennial Will Be. t? quest #5,000,000 of Congreee; 39 At joint meeting in St Louis Thurs- . ^S? day of the executive, legislative sad / finance committees of the worlds fair, gya ajg celebrating the Louisiana Purchase centennial, a resolution prevailed in- . ^ structing the legislation committee* to . jaw secure the immediate introduction - || into congress of legislation appropria- ^ ting $5,000,000 in aid of the fair, eonditional on $10,000,000 being raised M locally, one-half by subscriptions, to a ' S stock company and one-half being voted by the city in the form B BECK A BA2CKRUPT. _ m v Former Georgian. Now of Philadelphia, . Places Liabilities at <80,000. ? In the United Stales district oourt' \A at Philadelphia Thursday Albert L. Beck, until recently a prosperous citizen of Atlanta, Ga., received his final > discharge as a bankrupt Mr. Beck. ^ | was one of the largest real estate operators in Georgia. In his application If he placed his liabilities st $80,000 and || his assets at nothing. ROBERTS MAKE STATE ME1TT. Utah Man Argues His Cass Before Za* vest!eating Committee. A Washington dispatch says: The - Roberts investigating coqudumw w?tinned its session Friday with a large H crowd of interested spectators present After some preliminaries Mr. Roberts began his argument He spoke & 3 quietly and deliberately with some evidence of hoarseness. He took up a J type-written statement reviewing in detail the proceedings of his case np || ^ ' :l:! r. sj