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JULIA MORRI!
SIie Tells Jury of Insu
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By Leidei
STATE HAS A STRONG CASE
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Witnesses Declare That the Murder
Was Premeditated?Sen^
sations Galore.
The second day's trial at Chattan.t
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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 \
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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.
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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.
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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. *
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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KENTUCKY ROW
GROWS APACE j
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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."
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Family of Three Perish. .
A tenement house fire in New York "'%
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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.
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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 ||
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