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r ' r: ' The Bamberg Herald. 1 ____ -====== ' ^9 v ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. MARCH 22.1900. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. || BRYAN'S STATE ! * ENDORSES HIM Democrats and Populists Hold Conventions. 1 PLATFORMS ARE SIMILAR ^ Both Parties Gathered In Lincoln On ' Same Daj?Brjan Was Present and Made a Characteristic Speech. ? In effect William J. Bryan an? nounced at Lincoln, Nebraska, Monday night to the Democratic party and ^ to the nation at large the platform which he considers best for the Democratic party, especially upon which he desires to stand if nominated at the Kansas City convention. The plalform which was adopted by the Nebraska Democracy in their state convention, with the greatest enthusiasm, reaffirms the Chicago platform, declares for "16 to 1," opposes a large standing army, denounces the action of the Republican party on the Porto Rican tariff bill, declares against trusts and "imperialism" and favors the choice of United States senators by popular vote. The platform is practically the creation of Mr. Bryan. He did not write it personally, but he / was consulted concerning it, and before it was read to the convention he had approved it throughout. The platform adopted by the Populist convention was substantially the same as that adopted by the Democrats. It differs somewhat in form, ^ but conflicts in no essential point. Both conventions were enthusiastic for Bryan to the last degree and every mention of his name was greeted with ? cheers of delight and approval. Instructions were given to both delegations to stand for Mr. Bryan in the % Kansas City and Sioux Fall conven. tions. ^ The Democratic state convention was called to order at 8:15 o'clock by Jas. Dahlman, chairman of the state democratic committee. He announced that Thomas J. Nolan had been sek lected as temporary chairman. Mr. Nolan took the chair and after being ? presented to the convention made a lengthy address. The temporary organization was made permanent and a committee on resolutions was named. While that committee was out Richard R. Metcalfe, of Omaha; W. D. Oldham, of V Kearney; W. H. Thompson, of Grand Island, and A. G. Tibbetts, of Lincoln, were chosen as delegates at large to the Democratic national convention at Kansas City. Whito f>r?T?vi?ntinn "wns in the midst of a row over the choice of al^ ternates to the delegates at large, Mr. Bryan appeared in the hall. The sight 1 of him pnt a stop to all business, and i the delegates went wild as he mounted the platform. Mr. Bryan's speech dealt almost entirely with the three question which y he has been discussing in various parts of the country?the money question, the trust question and imperialism. He said that the ratio of 16 to 1 was the only ratio that was discussed and the only ratio for which any consideri hie number of the people of the United States were working. He denounced the currency feature of the financial bill and said that the Bepublican part . ty had never in a campaign advocated the retirement of greenbacks and that it would not be able to defend that bill before the country. " The Populist convention was turbulent from the start. There were nuv merous candidates for every position, and objectors to every measure. The committee on credentials decided against the claims of the middleof-the-road Populists from Omaha to be classed as delegates, and barred them from the convention. ' After being denied admission as del ^egates to the Populist convention the S middle-of-the-roaders held a small con> ventioa of their own and appointed a Nebraska delegation to attend the Populist convention at Cincinnati. They also decided to hold a state convention in Nebraska at some date after the Kansas City convention. COMMISSION LEARNS MUCH. > Witnesses Throw Light Upon Prevailing Conditions In the South. Much light on industrial conditions jn the south, and Georgia in particular, was shown by the evidence before ^ the United States commissioners in Atlanta, Ga., Monday. The witnesses examined were Dr. J. D. Turner, president of the Exposition cotton mills; Colonel R. J. Redding, director of the state experiment station; Mr. J. E. Nunnally, of Nun-nally, Ga., and Colonel W. L. Peek, k- of Conyers, Ga., farmers. Each of the witnesses gave valuable information to the commissioners and i - was heartily thanked. DEWEY ACCEPTS INVITATION. Admiral and His Wife Will Visit 1 ' Tennessee Capital City. Mayor Head, of Nashville, Tenn., has received a letter from Admiral Dewey, stating that the admiral and his wife would be in that city on the 8th and 9th of May. The May festi* val will be held on those dates and it is also probable that a flower parade will be gives on one of the days of Admiral Dewey's visit. More Cotton Mills In Sight. A Columbia, S. C-, dispatch says: 1 Thursday the Clear Water blenchery, at Aiken, $300; the Iceman mills, Mcn~ii oonn nnn nrt/i Alnhn. mills. VUil, l74UU,VWI/, UUU IrllV t > Jonesville, $100,000, filed their in* corporation papers at the state capik \ :tol. The Andersou yarn and knitting * \ mill increases from $50,000 to $200,^000. ?*s Furniture Factory Burned. Fire Thursday night at Pentwater, Mich., destroyed Sans & Maxwell's furniture'factory and lumber yards. Loss $300,000. ^ rV .** " So "RACE STRDGGLE YET TO COHE." Industrial Sub-Committee Hears Two Witnesses At Charlotte. VIEWS OF AN EDUCATOR Dr. Winston Talks of the Race Problem and Needs of Negro. Two prominent witnesses appeared before the snb-committee of the National Industrial commission at Char- | lotte, N. C., and gave interesting tes- ; timony. State Labor Commission?r Lacy testified regarding labor conditions in the state, while Dr. George T. Winston, president of the North Carolina College of Agricultnre and Mechanic arts, and one of the foremost educators of the south, gave interesting facts concerning th9 race problem in the south, saying the real race struggle is yet to come. Commissioner Lacy testified that i there -were about 33,757 employes in the *215 cottcn mills in North Carolina, divided as follows: Fourteen" thousand six hundred and thirty-eight men; 15,811 women; 1,679 girls and 1,629 boys. His opinion was that 17 or 18 per cent of the adults could not read, and about 30 per cent of the children are illiterate. As to wages, the Ir.bor commissioner stated that skilled men were paid from SI to $2.50, unskilled 60 cents to $1; skilled women 75 cents to $1.50, unskilled 30 cents to 73 cents; children averaged about 30 cents per day. Questioned regarding the subject of compulsory arbitration between employes, the commissioner said that this was impracticable, because it would be impossible to force an employe to work against his will on account of the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution, and therefore such a law could not bind the parties involved. Mr. Lacy said he favored compnlsory education. President "Winston informed the committee that the greatest need of the south was (1) a universal education, compulsory if necessary; (2) industrial education in the public schools and continued in technical colleges. He considers education a national as well as a state duty, and faTors a national university at Washington. In regard to the Negro Dr. Winston said that the real race conflict in the south is not political nor social, but industrial. The most pitiful and in some places the most cruel chapter in American history was the attempt to set up the emancipated negro slave as the political antagonist of his Anglo-Saxon master. This attempt had almost entirely alienated the two races in the south. The greatest blessing that could fall to the negro's lot do? would be the restoration of the olcl-time kindly relations with the white people. These relations can be restored by the complete elimination of the race from southern politics. ' The real race struggle,** said Dr. Winston, "has not begun ;;et. It will come with bitter intensity when the southern white laborer is arrayed against the southern negro laborer in a struggle for employment; when the white mill operatives who strike for higher wages are replaced by negroes. We shall then see in the south what recently occurred in Pan*, 111., but with more intensity. Unless the negro speedily abandons his political and social equality dreams and devotes himself to industrial training and manual labor, his fute is sealed. There is now a place for him in southern industrial life, and unless he fills that place speedily, there will be no place f or him, except as the veriest drudge." Dr. Winston said Booker T. Washington shows a fine appreciation of the real needs of ihe negro in the south. Such schools as his should be established in every part of the south, and should be aided by the national government. As to political rights, President Winston said the negro will be treated in the south for many years pretty much as the Chinaman is treated in California; the Indian in the northwest; the Hawaiian in Hawaii; the Filipinos in the Philippines; the Porto Ricans in Porto Pico; Me Alaskans in Alaska, and other citizens of less fashionable color in various sections of our possessions. SCHLEY HOnE FUND GROWS. Hany Favorable Responses To Clrcu* lars Soliciting Contributions. At a meeting in Washington of the national executive committee engaged in raising funds for a home for Rear Admiral Schley Saturday night Secretary Evans reported many favorable responses to the circulars soliciting contributions. He also reported that absolute refusals to contribute to the fund had been received from the naval contingent on duty iu Washington, with one single exception, that of Admiral Hichborn, and in some instances the refusals were accompahied by adverse comments on the committee's project. prattvTlle has a big fire. Little Alabama Town Almost Annihilated By the Flames. Prattville, the county site of Autauga county, Ala., was visited by a destructive tire Monday morning at 2 [ o'clock. Nineteen stores were comI pletely destroyed. They were all I wooden structures. Montgomery was called on for aid and responded k promptly, but before reaching Prattville the tire department was notified that its services were not needecl. The large cotton factory and Pratt ' gin factory were not injured. JOUBERT PRAISES BRITONS. Says They Rushed the Kopjes In a Fearless arfd Brave /Tanner. Advices from Pretoria state that before returning to the front General Jonbert said to a press representative: "The courage of the British soldiers is beyond question. They rushed the kopjes and entrenchments in a fearless manner, but were not a match for the Mausers, which ' simply mowed them down." MANY TRAITORS INFEST MANILA % City Is Veritable Mot Bed of Insurrection. OTIS HAS HIS TROUBLES Filipinos In the Field Are Being Helped Bj Those Who Profess Loyalty To Uncle Sant. Advices from the Philippines state that General Otis considers Manilla the most troublsome center in the situation there, just now. The insurgent junta " *r-itUi Allot in Tfrtnir TTnnff 1U I'UUUClUUll niiu tuuv IU growing active. The military authorities have been forced to put a stop to Mabini'a intercourse with the public. The local and foreign press considers his recent utterances calculated to incite the Filipinos to a continued revolt and prejudicial to American control. Flores, who has just ariived in Manilla says he comes trusting to American leniency, and that he would not have dared come to Manilla if Spain were yet in control. He cherishes the hopes and aspirations which actuated him when in the held and desires to watch congressional action npon the question of the Philippines. The insurgents, he says, do not expect to vanquish the Americans, but. are maintaining a resistance with the idea of forcing congress to accord them the best possible terms. A number of representative insurgent leaders from different parts of Luzon have recently been in conference iz> Manila. Some have been placed under arrest, but the others thus far have not been interfered with. Louis Spitzel, head of the firm of Louis Spitzel & Co., contractors to the Chinese government, and himself a suspected filibuster, came from Hong Kong to Manila last week and was temporarily detained in custody on suspicion. It is asserted npon good authority that three loads of arms and ammunition have recently been landed Uil if lie coaK tvao v vi xiu?jvu? Reports are current of active rebel reorganization in the province of Morong, where the insurgent leaders are said to be assisted by prominent Spanish residents. Inhabitants of this province who are now in Maniia have been advised not to return to their homes, but to remain under the protection of the Americans. It is also reported that the rebels are reorganizing in the province of Zambales under Macardo. Brigands are committing atrocities in the province of Neuva Eciga, where they have murdered twenty natives and Chinamen. Eight other murders have been committed near Tnrlac. The Neuva Eciga insurgents are heavily taxing local traders and farmers with the result that business is paralyzed and there is a general scarcity of food. The funds for maintaining this guerilla warfare are collected from the various towns of the island, wheth-' er occupied by the Americans or not, even including Manila. In the province of Albay the insurgents have ceased harassing the Americans, owing, it is reported, to a lack of ammunition, but they continue ravaging the country by burning and looting. The natives are tiring of this sort of thing and threaten to turn against the marauders. Already the townspeople of Legaspi, Albay and Donzoi are slowly returning to their homes. Major Allen, of the Forty-third regiment, has bsen appointed military governor of the island of Samar, where Lukban, the former leader of the rebels in that locality, is still in the mountains. Evidence acumulates of the treason and perfidy of the municipal presidents in the provinces of General MacArthur's district. The presidents of several towns in Lepanto and Union provinces have declined to continue ir? fV(?ir nr?Ritinns. sftvincr that thev do not desire any further identification with the Americans. Travel between the towns garrisoned by the Americans is becoming more dangerous. All wagon trams must be escorted by heavy guards to insure their safety. BISHOP WILMER EIGHTY-FOUR. Greatly Beloved Prelate In Alabama Celebrates Birthday. Rt. Rev. Richard Hooker Wilmer, senior bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Alabama, celebrated his eightyfourth birthday at his home at Spring Hill, near Mobile, last Friday. On November 21st he will celebrate the thirty-ninth anniversary of his bishopric in Alabama. He is the dearest old man alive, perhaps, in the minds of the majority of the people of Alabama. He is devotedly loved by the people of all creeds and classes, and his birthday is a matter of interesting note in the state. Federal Prison Bids Opened. A Washington dispatch says: At noon Monday Attorney General John W. Griggs opened bids for the construction of the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. Eight firms snbmitted estimates. The attorney general announced that the bids would be taken under advisement and the contract let later. Ex-Chairman Taubmeck Dead. Herman E. Taubeneok, well known as the former chairman of the national committee of the People's party, died in Seattle. Wash.. Monday. DEWEY REACHES SAVANNAH. Admiral and Wife Are Given a Hearty Reception In Forest City. t or>fI Afrn Dflwpv arrived in rvumn ai ? - -- - j Savannah on their spocial train from Washington Monday evening at (3:3(5 o'clock. The streets from the depot to the hotel were lined with peopie, who waited an hour in a gusty rain t? welcome the distinguished guests. The admiral and his wife were driven at once to their hotel in a closed carriage. \_ REFUSED TO CONCUR House Does Not Agree With Senate On Porto Rican Bill. CHAIRMAN CANNON STANDS FIRM i Insists On Original Frovlalon?Democrats, J However, Were "Willing to Avoid Further Delay, A Washington special says: The bouso Monday refused to concur in j the senate amendments to the Porto Rican relief bill. The Democrats supported a motion to concur on tho ground that it would avoid further de- 1 lay in extending relief to the inhabitants of the islaud, but the Republi- j eans stood firmly behind Chairman Cannon in his demand that the house should insist upon its original provis- < inn tn nnnrnnriate not onlv the money I | g r ? . collected on Porto Rican poods up to j January 1st, but all subsequent mon- | eys collected or to be collected. j 1 When the Porto Ric 1 appropria- j 1 tion bill was called up Mr. Cannon j i moved that the house non-concur in ( the senate amendments and Mr. McRae, of Arkansas, moved concurrence. ' Mr. Cannon explained the changes i made in the bill by the senate. Mr. McRae said that the essentia! difference between the two bills was j that the house affirmed the right of f the United to impose the Dingley ( rates against Porto Rico, whereas the ] senate provision upon this subject was j indefinite. I Members on both sides, he said, ? were agreed that the duties collected ] on Porto Rican goods should be re- . turned, the Democrats taking the po- ( sition that there should be absolute j , free trade between the island and the j 1 United States. (Democratic applause.) Mr. Bell, of Colorado, also advo- j cated concurrence in the senate j amendments. I Mr. Moody, of Massachusetts, and Mr. McCleaty, of Minnesota, advocated Mr. Cannon's motion, declaringthat the Porto Rican tariff bill pro- ( posed to treat the people of the island j better than the people of any territory j of the United States were ever treated. ] Mr. Swau8on of Virginia denounced ( the Porto Rican tariff bill as "infamous" and said the pending bill to 1 give back the duties collected under ( the Dingley law was an attempt to sn- : gar-coat the outrage. The power to 1 tlx the duties on goous coming into j and going from this country was the power exercised by England prior to the revolution an dwa* one of the main reasons why the colonies threw off the yoke. ( The motion to concur was lost, 86 to 116, a strict party vote, except that ?- r i ' Mr. Thayer, .Democrat, or massacnu- ] setts, voted with the Republicans. The motion to non-concur then pre- j varileil without division. The speaker appointed Messrs. Cannon, Moody , and McRae conferees on the part of the house. , j ROOT VISITS CHARLESTON. 1 1 War 5ecretary Inspects the Forts and 1 Fortifications On Sullivan's Island. > Elihu Root, secretary of war, ar- 1 rivid in Charleston on board the trans- ' port Sedgewick Monday and immedi- ' ately went to Sullivan's island to meet 1 Colonel Randolph, commanding the FiVst artillery,-and Captain Sanford, ' United Statos engineer in charge of { harbor improvements. At the colonel's residence General Nelson A. Miles 1 was fonnd, he having also gone over j from the city to inspect the forts, etc. All went , to Fort Sumter and after- ' wards visited Forts Capron and Jas- 1 per and reviewed the garrison. The ' usual salutes were fired and there was j music and flags flying. j BEVERIDGE'S IDEA. < Young Indiana Senator Offers Substl* tute For Porto Rlcan Tariff Bill. j Senator Beveridge, Republican, of 1 Indiana, offered the following snbsti- < tute for the Porto Rican tariff bill, in j the Senate Monday: "All articles comiug into the United States from Porto Rico or going into Porto Rico from the United States shall be admitted free of dnty, but this act shall not be construed as ex- ( tending the legislation of the United States or aoy part thereof over Porto ! Rico, and it i3 hereby declared that ' the legislation of the United States is not extended over Porto Rico." * ( Tn 1IV r.ncc THDfil IHH TDP5TI F. ' B VJVl-O >l\vwx?.i M ?? * Bad Accident Happens To Fast Mail On the Plant System. The fast mail train on the Plant System leaving Montgomery, Ala., Sunday night -went down at Clay Bank j trestle, one mile from Ozark, abont 1 o'clock Mouday morning. It was a \ double-header, running fifty miles an j hour. Both engines passed over the ] trestle, but the entire train went down except the rear sleeper. The trestle is | 250 feet long and forty feet high. The j t coaches were split into kindling wood, j Two passengers were fatally b"?rt j and about fifteen received mor? or lens j serious injuries. I PRISONERS TRANSFERRED. Removed By Order of Court From Louisville Jail To Frankfort. Sheriff Suter, of Frankfort, accom- ] pauied by two deputies, arrived in 1 Louisville Thursday night, pursuant < to order issned by County Judge 1 1 ^t4i?ati0^n?? t a T?ronVlin i iUUUir, J'.'I iiao uiiiiDiw iv jl ihu^iiu ! county of Secretary of State Powers, | < Hollaod Whittaker, W. H. Coulton ! and Captain Davis, ttie four alleged i accessories to the assassination of Governor Goebel. It iR understood i the prisoners will be given a speedy < trial at Frankfort. 1 BRYAN LEAVES AUSTIN. After Attending Nebraska State Con- . vention Me Will Tour Far West. j Hon. W. J. Bryan left Austin, Tex., J : Thursday for his homo in Lincoln, ( I Neb., to attend the state convention at | 1 that point. From there he goes for a { month's tour through South Dakota, Utah. Washington, Oregou, California, , Arizona and New Mexico, He is j booked for a number of speeches in each of the states named. I AMENDED BILL SATISFACTORY Objections To Porto Rican Measure Eliminated. IT SUITS THE DEMOCRATS President's Power Revoked and Expenditures Which Are Made Under the Bill Mast Be Specified. The senate Tbnrsday passed the | Porto Rico relief bill amfnded in a j tray to meet the criticisms urged j against the measure by the Democrat! J cf the house. Tho action of the sen- I ite demonstrates that the members of the house were right in the objections they made at the time the bill was nn:ler consideration there, the Eepnblicans of the senate themselves indorsing the Democratic position. There were two points in which the Democrats criticised the house bill and on which they based their refusal to support it. One of these was the clause which gave the president unlimited power over the Porto Eican funds, not only those now raised, but those which may hereafter be raised. This was insisted npon by tho house representatives, but the senate committee immediately struck it out. The other provision was the absence of specifications as to the uses to which these funds were to be put.. Tbe Deodocrats insisted that these should be specified. When the bill came from the senate committee it had not been corrected in this respect. Senator Bacon took it to the house, consulted with Messrs. Eicbardson ind Bailey, and then got the senate committee to put in the bill the exact langnage upon which the Democratic leaders agreed, so the position of the bouse Democrats is in every way sustained. After the morniDg routine Mr. Sul livaD, of Mississippi, look tbe floor to deliver liis annouured speech on the relations with the Philippines, but at the request of Mr. Allison yielded for immediate consideration of the bill appropriating for the benefit and government Porto Rico, revenues collected on importations therefrom. The debate on the appropriation bill developed a decided difference of opinion, as Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, offered as a substitute, for the measure a bill to return the duties to those who bad paid them and providing fqr absolute free trade between tho United States and Porto Rico. Mr. Jones substitute ! was as follows: "All duties collected upon articles imported into the United States prior to or since the first day of April, 1899, the date of exchange of ratifications of the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain, be returned to the persons from whom they wero collected and from and after the passage of this act no duties shall be collected on asticles coming from Porto Rico." This substitute precipitated a lengthy discussion of the constitutional questions involved. Mr. Hoar then came forward with a proposition to fix a time for a vote the heated colloquy said no more. There was objection to naming a date | and Mr. Hoar postponed his request until Friday. Mr. Hoar then addressed the senate on the Porto Rico appropriation. He expressed his willingness to let the appropriation pass for humanitarian reasons, but took occasion to repeat his views on the general question of expansion. Before tbe discussion of tho pending bill had been concluded Mr. Wellington, of Maryland, presented an elaborate argument against the seat; 1 -\f_ LUg Ul iUl. v^uaj At 5 o'clock the senate adjourned. Rhode Island Democrats. The Bhode Island Democratic state jonvention met at Providence Thursday for the nomination of state officers md the selection of delegates to the Democratic national convention. Nathan W. Littlefield was nominated for governor. SWUNG FROM SAME OALLOWS. Two Negroes Expiate Crime of flurder In North Carolina. Robert Fortune and John Taylor, two negro tnen, were hanged at Nashrille, N. C., Thursday morning for the murder of Robert Heiser, white. The crime was the most horrible affair that has occurred in that section n years, and their victim was a man oved and respected by all. The execution was public, and people from miles around were present to see the two men as they were ushered into eternity. It is estimated that fully 10,000 peoplo were present at :he double hanging. . LADY ROBERTS LEAVES LONDON. Accompanied By Her Two Daughters She Goes To Join Husband. The departure of Lady Roberts from London for South Africa Saturday tvas made the occasion of a popular demonstration. AmoDg her fellow travelers were the duchess of Tech. who has gone to join lier husband; General Sir Frederick Carrington and staff, and Miss Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes' sister. The departure of the train was the iigna! for a great outburst of enthusiastic cheering and tho waving of flags and handkerchiefs. GASOLINE EXPLODED. Burning Fluid Caused Death of Five People At Columbus, Ohio. Five dead, onefatally and one seriously injured, resulted from an attempt to start a fire with gasoline at Columbus, 0 , Fridav night. Georg< White used the flniq . at James Wen or's residence and an explosion ful towed, the building was set on fire md the inmates were coveted with the burning fluid. HOB'S VENGEANCE AT MARIETTA Jail Doers Are Battered Down and Negro Prisoner Secured. STOOD UP AS A TARGET Crime Was Attempted Assault On Young White Girl. ! At 1 o'clock Suuday morning a mob of masked men, numbering about 150, j marched to the jail in Marietta, Ga., j battered down the doors with crew- J bars, rudely awakened John Bailey, a negro charged with attempted rape, wn.nViA/1 Vitm tViAf?pntAr of th? conrt lUUi CUV'A 4JMAA % W M w VV->W. ? house square in the very heart of the city and fired fully fifty shots at him, leaving him for dead in the spot where he fell. It is not kuown who composed the mob. All or nearly all were masked. It is thought, however, that they came from tho country. The crime which Bailey attempted aud which caused the assault on the j&il is not often attempted in Cobb county, where in the past there has been but little trouble with the negroes. The knowledge of what the negro had attempted, however, stirred the people of Marietta and vicinity as that quiet country folk has not been moved in many years. Thursday afternoon, shortly after 4 o'clock, while Miss Amanda Snellgrove, a young lady of Cobb county, was returning to her home, which is within a mile and a half of Marietta, she was accosted by a negro man, who made knowu his purposes in unmistakable terms. She sought to escape him, but he seized her in his grasp and she could only struggle and fight for her honor as best she knew. E.vidently alarmed by her screams and fearing that the neighboring farmers might be attracted, the negro released his intended victim and ran into the woods. Miss Snellgrove, faint and sick from her experience and narrow escape, made her way to her father's home and related her experience. Snudry braises about her head, throat and body attested the violence with which she had struggled while in the negro's grasp. The relatives of the young lady immediately informed the sheriff of the attempted assault and a posse within a short time was scouring the woods for the negro. Suspicion pointed to John Belding Bailey and at 10 o'clock Thursday night his cabin was surrounded. He did not resist arrest, but protested his innocence. He was taken to the Snellgrove home, where a confrontation with Miss Sneligrove ocrurred and her identification of him was complete. The negro wns at once conducted to the jail, where he remained until the mob stormed the place Saturday night. ENGLAND HONORS SHAMROCK. Ireland's National Flower Greatly la Evidence On St. Patrick's Day. A London dispatch says: Shamrock day promises to vie with primrose day in the hearts of the people, judging from the enthusiasm with which the loyalists all over the United Kingdom celebrated. From Windsor castle, where the queen observed the dsy by - * * l? wearing a sprig ui genuine *v/m-mo.cu shamrock, to the east end of the slums of London, nearly everyone sported something in the shape of a green flag. A word from her majesty has turned the emblem of semi*disloyalty into a badge of honor aod has made the-shamrock the most prized of all the plants in the British isles. By the queen's older, the bells of the curfew of Windsor castle honored St. Patrick Saturday morning; Irish airs played by the Grenadiers enlivened the queen's lnncheon, and London's mansion house floats a new Irish flag, with the Union Jack in the upper corner. MoRt of the government officials hoisted the Irish flag and the clubs were similarly decorated, the officials all wearing the green. The lord chief justice, Lord Russell of Killowen, set the example in the law courts aqd all the judges followed his example of wearing the shamrock below their ermine collars. DON'T WANT NE0R0E5. Citizens of Michigan Town Say the Black Man Must Go. Citizens of Larium, a flue residence suburb of the big mining camp of Calumet, Mich., have appointed a committee to rid the town of negroes. They object to having it called a vigilance committee and announce that only peaceable and legal methods ivill be used, but that the negroes must go. Colored men were unknown until a contractor brought several from Tennessee and Alabama about eight months ago. Several white girls have eloped with negroes and constant trouble has led to this action. INDIANA GIANTESS DIES. Weighed 550 Pounds and a Special Coffin Was Constructed. Mrs. Lida Grejcraft, the largest woman in Indiana, died suddenly at her home in Russiavillo Sunday, aged thirty-two years. Her weight was about 550 pounds. A coffin was constructed especially for her, the largest casket obtainable being too small for the body. She was a daughter of George Uuger of Middle Fork, a family noted for large physical proportions. STARVATION IN PORTO RICO. (Jen. Davis Hakes An Urgent Appeal For Food Supplies. Adjutaut fi-eneral Corbin at Washington has received a cable message from General Davis,, commanding the department of Porto Rico, saying that t! e condition of the inhabitants there is distressing and suffering so grtAt and widespread over the island that lie will reqnire at least 500 tons of food supplies weekly nntil further notice. I SOUTH CAROLINA I 4 STATE NEWS ITEMS. S iC\JCMCNJr^r\ICN)CNKNl/ W.n a Falna Alarm. The station agent and other citizens of Neeces, Orangibnrg county, telegraphed the governor one night the past week begging for troops to protect them from white regulators who had twice visited the town, beat people, white and black, and promised to return to kill them. Work on the surrounding farms bad been stopped and people driven from their business. The governor telegraphed the sheriff to ride across the country with a posse and give protection till troops could be sent if needed. The governor received a dispatch from the sheriff later on saying that everything was quiet, and that the people were unduly alarmed. Tiiflfra Garr G;i<lly Hurt. Associate Justice Eugene B. Gary, of the supreme court of South Carolina, while out horseback riding at Abbeville the past week, was overcome with vertigo and fell from his horse in the upper part of t]ie city. John Ferguson, who was coming in from his farm, found Judge Gary and carried him home. No bones were broken, but Judge Gary was a long time in gaining consciousness. Slain By HU Son-In-Law. News reached Columbia a day or two ago that Thomas Beynolds, a farmer living near Williamston, had been killed by his son-in-law, Mr. Jesse Moore. It seems that Beynolds became intoxicated and threatened the murder of his household. His wife sent for Moore, who lived some distance from the Beynolds home. When Moore reached the place and attempted to ] acify his father-in-law. the latter attacked him with a shotgun and knife. Moore wreuched the gun away and crushed Reynold's skull with the stock. *** Charter Granted For Bleachery. A forward move in the textile industry in the south is about to be taken. For years a bleachery has been talked about, but it never got beyond talking. New cotton mills were built and old ones enlarged, bat they were all for the coarser goods. This is now to be changed. A party of Angnsta gentlemen, all practical cotton manufacturers, have been granted a charter by the secretary of state of South Carolina, to engage in the bleachery business. The corporation is to be known as the Clear Water Bleachery and Manufacturing Company and its plant is to be situated^at Clear Water, in Aiken county, a short distance from Angusta, where it is claimed there is as fine "water for bleaching purposes as can be fonnd anywhere in the Uoited States. The pnrpose of the corporation, as set forth in the charter, is the manufacturing, spinning, bleaching,dyeing, printing, finishing and selling of goods of every kind of cotton or wool. Death of J. A. Allen. When the Spanish-American war began Abbeville sent the first company of the state to the front, and it was known as company A, First South Carolina volunteer infantry. Not a man of this splendid company died until one day the past week when J. A. Allen of Abbeville departed this life. H6 was a patriotic young man and was among the first to respond to his country's call, and he did faithful service until the regiment was mustered ont. The exposure of the service developed consumption. A singular coincidence i8 that his first cousin, Clark Allen, tfas the first man from Abbeville to lose his life in the war between the states. / % . A New Railroad Ronte. The Yorkville Enquirer of a recent date contained the following railroad item of more than ordinary interest : "There is talk among the railroad men to the effect that the South Carolina and Georgia Extension Company is arranging to run through passenger rains between Marion. N. C., and Columbia, S. C., on a schedule to be put into effect at an early day. The arrangement contemplates the use of the line just being completed between Columbia apd Camden by the Seaboard Air Line. As to whether there will be two irains or only one the reporter has not heard." South Carolina Statehonao Assured. The South Carolina statehouse commission will award contracts for completing the bnildiug ou April 12th. At that time the architect will be elects, and in the meantime architects are invited to 'submit plans. The man chosen will have a profitable job. Several Georgians are in the race. The following resolntion was adopted: "Resolved, That this commission meet on the 12th day of April, 1900, at 12 m., for the pnrpose of electing an architect and adopting plans and specifications for the completion of the statehouse, as nearly in accordance with the original plan and design as the present condition of the bnildiDg, the bnilding material on hand and the appropriation available will permit; that the compensation of the architect for all services required by this commission shall not exceed 2i per cent of the cost of the completion of the statehouse in accordance with the contract therefor made pnrsnant to the terms of the house for plans and specifications and 2$ per cent for supervision of construction, which compensation shall be payable only in event a contract for such work, under said act, is secured and approved uy rue commission, and which compensation shall then become payable as the work progresses. " **+ Wagefl to Bo Advanced. The Pelzer Manufacturing Company at Greenville ba& given notice" of an increase of wages, to take effect on April 1. About three-forntbs of the 1,800 employees of the mills will receive the benefit of this raise. *? Dewey In South Carolina. Admiral George Dewey was enthusiastically greeted when he passed through Columbia. This state sent ft J. battalion of naval reserves, a regiment * of infantry and the First Artillery band . to take part in the Dewey parade at % 3avannab. State Printer In Busy. The state printer is hard at work on -1 the new acts. Already abont half of -J9 the volume has been printed and no ' *?1 time is being lost. The printer expects to have the new acts and joint resolutions out in a very short lime. Already a great number of inquiries ;-*|9 are being received from persons do- ,'M siring copies. ROBERTS MOVING. ' British General Pushing Toward || Vaal River With a Force of 120,000 Men. A London special says: By the time Lord Boberts reaches the Vaal river he will command some 80,000 men, while General Bailer will have 40,000. From the military point of view, the critics cow think there if IV 1COI* Events are moving in the South >|| African campaign in a speedy and aat? ^ isractory manner, from both the mill- v tary and political points of view. It could hardly have been expected by 3 tlie most sanguine Englishmen that1 they would take a turn so favorable.: It appears that when Major Weston', cut the railway north of Bloemfontelu' ':-'M he thereby intercepted Gen. Joubert, who, far from having retired from the -, campaign, was then marching south- : ward with 3,000 men, presumably to: superintend the defenses. Elaborate defense works three miles long had been prepared outside of the town. *J| The evidence goes to show that so far as the southern part of the Free ^ State is concerned, there will be no> 3 further resistance. The cheers which greeted, the read-.^ ing in parliament of the correspondence with the United States are reechoed throughout the country. The ^ speech of M. Delcasse has increased % % the satisfaction, and, taken withtha^| general belief that Emperor Nicholas :fm is personally averse to any interven-, ; tion, these incidents spread ' the idea < M that there will be no farther seriou s attempt to interfeie from any quarter. : M Mr. Montagu White's three*. In an>3 American newspaper, that the Boers - '' | will sacrifice Johannesburg and rasa " it to the ground, if necessary, is not J ... taken seriously. Mr. Chamberlain's statement that President Kruger has already been \|| warned as to the consequence of such ? conduct is regarded aa showing thai sufficient precaution has been taken. Th a Times stiff treats that burffhersi^H "" ~ ov , ?-? w- . . " should be warned that their farms willi \J| he taxed as a guarantee against any! damage to British .property, but no; serious apprehensions are entertaiaedi . <1 of such conduct as Mr. White is said' ; to have foreshadowed. " TEXT OF MESSAGE ?_ Sent By President McKinley Offering Aid To Restore Peace I In South Africa. A London dispatch says:. "In the " house of commons Thursday, replying : -4 to Mr. William 'Bedmond, Irish N?- 'v tionalist, who asked whether the United; *1 States had offered its good oflleen te^ | her majesty's government with the-l^ view of bringing abont peace is South 1 Africa, the government leader, Mr. 'I Balfour, said her majesty's government would not accept the intervention of any power in the settlement of ' South African affairs. The following is the text of Mr. Bal% four's reply to Mr. Bedmond: "The United States charge d'affaires, - March 13, communicated to Lord Salisbury the following telegram from I " 'By the way of friendly and good- w office inform the British minister of foreign aflaira that I today received a telegram from the United States con?nl at. Pretoria, raoortina that the ernment of the South African republies request \be president of the United States to intervene with a vi$w of a cessation of hostilities, and saying . that a similar request has been made to "# the representatives of the European ^ powers. In communicating this re- |] quest, I am directed by the president x ^ of the United States to express the M earnest hope that a way will be found to bring about peace, and to say that } * he would be glad, in any friendly man? f nerftoaidin bringing about the desired result.'" ^ The reading of this dispatoh wee greeted with cheers from the Irish | members: Cos tinning, Mr. Balfour said: ;v*.j "Lord Salisbury requested Mr. 3 * White to convey the sincere acknowl- jM, edgement of her majesty's government . to the government of the United States for the friendly tone of their oom- I munication, and to say that her majesty's government does not p'jopose to accept the intervention of any-^4. || powQr in the settlement of South African Affairs." Load and prolonged cheers followed this statement. LAWYERS ARE ON HAND. ^ Prominent Attorneys Will Defefld Goebel Suspects At Frankfort. Ex-Governor Brown and J. C. Sims, who will defend Caleb powers, John Davis and will H. Coulton, suspects Held on tne cnarge 01 ueiug nwvmwvom to the murder of William Goebel, tr- ^ rived in Frankfort Sunday night. Ex?|39 Governor Brown was asked if the par-MgM doDS granted by Gov. Taylor to Power* and Davis on the night they fled and were overhauled at Lexington would be pleaded as a defense to the proeecation at the examining trials, bdt ha gji refused to answer. Wheeler Outlines Report. General Wheeler called at the navy department Saturday to consult with ^l| Secretary Long and Assistant Secretary Allen, respecting the report he V-&2 was charged to make regarding the xi of CJnftflUt Negro Lynched In Alabama. Lee county, Alabama, had a lynch- \M ing Sunday, when Charlie Humphries a negro who had attempted to outrage a young white girl, was caught ihd shot by a number of white men.