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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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." *
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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.
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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;
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.