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ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. MARCH 29.1900. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. ' |
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FAST MAIL
IS WRECKED
Express Messenger on A. &
W. P. Road Killed.
A DOZEN BADLY HURT.
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Train Was Going Forty Miles an Hoar
When It Left the Track?Cars Roll
TIawm CmhanfrfflMil
vvnii uuuaiiiuiwut.
Train No. 35, the Atlanta and West
Point fast mail, which left Atlanta,
* Ga., Monday morning at 5:25 o'clock
for Montgomery, Ala., was derailed
eight miles south of West Point shortly
before 10 o'clock and one man?
Reuben J. Oslin, Atlanta, express messenger?was
instantly killed, while
fifteen were more or less injured.
The train which moves ou one of the
fastest schedules,.was drawn by one of
the immense locomotives the Atlanta
and West Point is now ising and had
just crossed the Ossanippa creek when
for some cause tho ergine left the
track while it was makbg a speed of
forty miles an hour. ?he engine was
being handled by Johr McWaters, of
Atlanta, one of the odest and most
competent men on theroad, and to his
fearlessness and ability is dne the fact
that more deaths wre not quickly
wrought in the sam> instant which
snapped off the life ?f Messenger Oslin.
* The track just oer the creek has
been- under watermore or less for
some time past and the accident may
; have been due to adefective condition
o caused by that Jut the impression
obtaining among the railroad men is
that an invisibleflaw in one of the
trucks under one of the cars caused
tbe derailment.
When EngineerklcWaters pulled off
the bridge over tfe creek he opened
the throttle to pic.up hiR speed. The
great locomotive nponded to the motion
of the lever, ad was just beginning
tt> settle forquick work when
McWaters felt thalbumping which a
trained engineer bows doesn't come
from the rails. > it he knew that
hiR engine had left le track and almost
with that knowied; instantly applied
his brakes.
It was all don on the tick of a
watch, but before he ponderous maI
chine oould be stojed the tender had
ft -torn itself loose frn the engine and
- '' buried its nose dip in the ground
/' ?while the rear en/vfent high up in
L the air. The engi> moved on a few
feet and then setfed itself sqnarely
across the track, stcessfnliy blocking
the road.
The mail car sipped the coupler
between it and tfc tender and with
the baggage car ^mbled down the
embankment, goin over and over in
its descent. The tmbination car, the
first coach in whh there were passengers,
turned upn its side, mixing
those within in aonfnsed heap, in-"
juring quite a nui>er. The passenger
coach, left the rack with its front
truoks, but did noflide down the em,
bankment, while ti Pullman remained
alone intact npa the roadbed.
The coaches wer all well filled and
' in a short time peple began pouring
from them down the embankment,
t , some calling for h$>, others too badly
frightened to do nything but limp
away from the brofen cars.
A -hurried inveagation was made
and willing hands inrriedly removed
those who were ncble to help themselves
to places of fetter rest An inventory
showed the oLiy one person
had Veen killed, ht to the eyes of
those who were abut, the .condition
of the wounded wa uncertain.
A wrecking trainwas hurriedly and
quickly made up ad with physicians
went to tne scene cine accident.
This is the idencal place where a
wreck occurred abut four or five
ears ago, when Ejveral cars fell in
Ossanippi creek anckilled and injured
a great many peopU
A singular coincdence is that in
both wrecks the engine and sleeping
car remained on tb tracks while all
others were thrown over the embankment.
HUNTINGTON FIQ1TING MOROAN.
Railroad Magnate Slid to Be Pulling
Against Akbamian.
The most interestng political story
in Washington just low is the alleged
entry of 0. P. Huntington, the great
railroad magnate, president of the
Southern Pacific Riilway, into the
senatorial- fight in Alabama. It is
stated that Huntington is at the head
of a -secret campaigt against the reelection
of Senator Morgan.
Senator Morgan bin self vouches for
the correctness of tho rumor.
"It is true," said the Alabamian,
ffnvtfin orf Aft {a trrri ri Ct tn PO.t,
L ~ W-5WU ID v.v.w^me.
Further than this I cannot speak
at this time."
Bank Robbers Confess Quilt.
Wilber and Wil^>n, the two men
who were arrested at San Antonio,
charged with robbing the Las Cruces
bank, have confessed their crime to
the officers and implicated two well
known citizens of that city who have
been arrested and placed under bond.
?ale of Railroad Confirmed.
In the United States circuit court
? for the eastern district of Texas Friday,
the sale of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
and Gulf to the Kansas City
Southern Railway Company was confirmed.
CASHIER MUST ANSWER.
Assets of a Rutland, Vermont, Bank
Found to Be Impaired.
The doors of the Merchants' National
bank, of Rutland, Vt., was or
dered closed Monday; pending an
examination of its books by a committee
of its directors. Certain assets
have been impaired, and the cashier,
Charles W. Mussey, will be asked to
explain certain discrepancies in the
accounts. Experts are at work on the
books.
LIGHT SENTENCES
I
j Are Imposed Upon Self-Confessed
Conspirators By Judge Speer
In United States Court.
The confessed conspirators who
pleaded guilty the past week in the
United States court at Savannah, were
sentenced by Judge Speer Friday. The
sentences were as follows:
Daniel A. Tyson, five years in the
state prison at Nashville, Tenn., and
to pay a fine of $1,000 and costs of
prosecution.
W. E. Hutchinson, Morris W. Hutchinson
and J. H. Hutchinson,eighteen i
mouths each in the state prison at
Nashville and a fine of $100 each.
J. S. Wtueler, Jr., twelve months
in Chatham county jail and $100 fine.
i N. B. Watts and C. J. Phillips and
J. T. Ilammond, six months in jail
and $!t)0 fine each.
J. M. Harrell and T. L. Ricks, four
months in jail and $100 fine each.
The courtroom was crowded when |
court opened. The prisoners were
carried into the room fully half an !
hour before Judge Speer arrived, i
Many of them were joined by their
wives and families. Wheeler's wife
j was on hand, and so was JJarreH's.
Yysotf had his wife and child with him i
and all of them shed copious tears.
The wive and children had the deepl
est sympathy of the audience. They
were suffering for the deeds of their
fathers and husbands. Judge Speer,
j however, determined not to have a
I scene in the courthouse during the
j time the sentence was being passed.
A few minutes after 10 o'clock a deputy
United States marshal came into
the room and invited all the women
and children to accompany him to one
of the small rooms at the end of the
corridor, some distance removed from
the courtroom. The ladies filed out
red-eyed and weeping. Tyson seemed
more deeply affected than any one of
the other prisoners at parting with the
members of his family. ?
The attorneys made short speeches
appealing for mercy in behalf of their
clients. Then several of the defend
ants addressed tiie court.
Tyson was the last speaker and he
addressed the court at some length.
He said he did not intend any wrong,
and asked the judge to be as light,as
possible with him and he would promise
not to do wrong any more. If he
had not been prosecuted Tyson assured
the court he would have paid up all
his debts by the operation of a new
telephone line to Savannah he was
building." He closed by saying that
he had a wife and child, two sisters
and a brother dependent npon him
and he asked, in the name of the
Lord, that the judge bo merciful.
Judge Speer, after a few remarks
expressing regret -at the duty he had
to perform, passed sentence as stated.
HOUSE TARIFF STANDS
So Decided Republican Caucus Committee
On Porto Rico Bill.
The Republican caucus committee
of the senate at a meeting Friday authorized
Senator Foraker, in definite
terms, to propose the separation of the
tariff feature from the Porto Rican
governmental bill and to attempt to
pass the house tariff bill without
amendment. The program is to vote
down all amendments if possible to do
so, and pass the bill as it is came from
the house without any changes whatever.
The committee went over the situation
in detail concerning all the points
at issue. There were suggestions as
to the necessity of amending the bill
so as to suit the demands of the Republican
free trade element, bnt these
were considered as more than offset by
the situation in the house and necessity
of maintaining the party tariff
principle.
There was, however, a disposition
manifested to placate the free traders
by making various amendments to the
go.vernmental bill. The tariff advo?
A ^ ^ o a f A v?Q ft I
caxes uavo gwiio ou icki ho i.v u>iMt
amendments to that measure which
are intended both to correct administrative
defects in the honse bill and
also to meet many of the objections to
the honse tariff measure.
One of these amendments looks to
the enlargement of the free trade list
so as to include most of the articles of
export in which the constituents of the
free trade senators are interested.
There is also one looking to the removal
of the duty on articles from the
United States going to Porto Rico.
HON. J. n. STONE DIES.
Ex-Governor of Mississippi Passes
Away After Brief Illness.
Hon. J. M. Stone, president of the
Starkville Agricultural and Mechanical
college, a 3tate institution, and for ten
years the governor of Mississippi, died
at Holly Springs Monday morning after
a short illness with erysipelas. The
remains were carried to Iuka for interment.
Helping Along the Fair.
The' directors of the Atlanta Rail?way
and Power company met Monday
morning and subscribed $750 to the
guarantee fund of $15,000 for the
Southern Interstate fair.
RIOTS ARE THREATENED.
I Affairs m Porto Kico Are Assuming
A More Serious Phase.
i The situation in Porto Rico is now
more serious than at any time before
or since the terrible hurricane. In
many instances the poor are starving.
The price of rice, beans and codfish
has increased from 50 to 100 per cent.
Demonstrations against the delay of
the United States government in settling
open questions have recently
been held at Mayaguez, Yacuco, Arecibo,
Aguidallo, Fajardo, Juana, Diaz,
Guam and many other towns.
SILVER REPUBLICANS
! Are Called to fleet In Kansas City On
July 4th, Next.
Chairman Charles A. Towne, of the
i National Committee of the Silver Re:
publican party, has issued a call for a
i national convention of the party to
i meet in the Coates opera house at
Kansas City, Mo., at 12 o'clock noon,
on Thursday, July 4, 1900, to place in
nomination ca ididates for president
of the United States and for such
other business as may come up.
BOERS MASTERS
AT MAFEKING
Plummer Retires Without
Relieving Garrison.
SITUATION ELSEWHERE.
Roberts Still at Bloemfontein; French Is
Kept Busy Fighting While Boiler
Rests In Natal.
j
According to advices received in
London, Colonel Plummer apparently
has retired to Crocodile Pools and
Mafeking seems further off than ever
from relief. The news was contained
in a dispatch from Buoloyao, dated
Monday, March 19, and pnlished in
the second edition of the Times.
These advices add that the base hospital
has been brought back to Gaberones.
The correspondent further
'says it is the object of the Boers'
demonstration of March 15-16 to
onver the movement of siecre crun9
from Mafeking.
Lord Roberts' main army continues
waiting at Bloemfontein. The sentimental
interest in the fate of Mafeking
has been greatly intensified.
Lord Methuen is skirmishing with
the Boers at Warrenton, 167 miles
a way. Although seemingly in force
sufficient to do pretty much as he
| likes, he has not advanced.
I General French's cavalry and mounted
infantry, according to a rumor, are
fighting somewhere east of Bloemfontein.
General Buller has not yet moved in
Natal.
The Eighth division will go direct
to Bloemfontein. Lord Roberts's effective
disposable at the front ten days
hence will be, it is estimated, 70,000
men, with the easy possibility of moving
eastward, forcing the Boers to
evacuate the Big^arsberg range and
joining hands with General Bnller beI
fore continuing the promenade to
Pretoria.
A dispatch from Bloemfontein dated
Thursday, March 22, says President
Kruger is reported to have issued a
proclamation declaring that Great
Britain is in dire straits and that the
Russians have occupied London.
A Springfontein telegram published
in the second edition of the Times
says:
"The apparent submissive attitude
of the Free Staters should be accepted
with caution. The large proportion
of obsolete inferior weapons being
turned in by them to the British is
giving the impression that the largest
stores of modern Mansers are being
concealed."
The Outlook's special correspondent
at Cape Town says:
"Feeling is running strong against
the leniency with which rebels of Cape
Colony and Natal are being treated by
the British authorities."
The enteric fever has broken out in
two brigades of the force which raised
the siege of Ladysmith. There were
2,300 cases of fever in the garrison
during the siege.
TO CHANGE BANKRUPTCY LAW.
New York Representative Is Seeking
To Have the Measure Amended.
Representative Ray, of New York,
chairman of the house judiciary cibmmittee,
has introduced a bill to amend
the bankruptcy law and makes a statement
as to it in which he says.
"The most important changes are
six additional objections to a discharge,
viz.:
"1. Obtaining property on credit
upon a materially false statement in
writing, and,
"2. Making a preference, though
the bill makes it necessary that the
creditor relying upon this objection
shall, prove that the preference was
fraudulent. "3.
The making of a fraudulent
transfer pf property.
"4. That the bankruptcy was materially
contributed to or brought on
by gambling.
"5. That a discharge shall be refused
to any one who has previously
been discharged within six years; and,
"6. That a discharge shall be denied
to any one who refuses in the
course of the proceedings to answer
any questions approved by the court. J
[ "The bill also provides that mer- j
1 cantile corporations may be adjudged
voluntary bankrupts after receiving
the consent thereto > of a major-1
ity of their stockholders; also that
a voluntary receivership of an insolvent
corporation under the state
laws shall be an act of bankruptcy. It
shortens the time from twenty-five
days to ten days when default is made
and provides for a short service by
publication where the debtor has absconded.
The bill makes the wife a
competent witness, irrespective of the
laws of the state."
PREDICTS M'KINLEY'S DEFEAT.
Maude Gonne Grows Garrulous On
Reaching: Gay Paree.
Maude Gonne, the Irish agitator,
has been giving a scathing denunciation
of McKinley through Paris newspapers.
She has just returned from
the United States, and is talking volubly
to Paris reporters.
She charges McKinley with having
outraged the sentiments of the Irish
in America by his pro-British policy
against Boers. She tells France that
his anti-Boer attitude will prevent his
re-election.
MANY NATIONAL BANKS
j Are In Process of Organization Under
Provisions of New Law.
A statement has been prepared by
the comptroller of the currency showing
the number and location of national
banks in process of organization
; under the provisions of the financial
bill approved March 14, 1900. These
bank3 number about 400 in all and
with the exception of ten or twelve
each will have a capital of $25,000.
THRILLING EVENT
| Occurs In Frankfort Courtroom
During Preliminary Trial
of Powers.
A Frankfort dispatch says: The most
thrilling event of the examining trial
of Republican Secretary of State Caleb
Powers occurred Monday afternoon
shortly after 3 o'clock, and for a few
minutes it looked as if serious trouble
could not be prevented.
Ex-Governor Campbell, who was
conducting the examination of Whar- |
ton Golden, asked the witness to state
if Powers had said anything to him
abont killing Breck Hill, the Democratic
secretary of state.
Co>%ael George Denny, for the de- j
fendaht, in an argument upon the com- J
petency of a question, said:
"It is perfectly lawful for peopie-to
come here, and to come armed. I
came here several times myself."
Colonel Denny was referring to the
crowd of armed mountain men who
assembled at the capital and camped
in the statehouse yard just prior to
Governor Goebel's assassination.
Colonel Campbell, for the prosecution,
replied that he"did not consider
it lawful and was surprised to know
that Colonel Denny had come there
armed.
Denny denied having made such a
statement and said that he did not j
come armed. Campbell insisted that J
he had made the statement. Both men
were very much excited and spoke i
with vehemence and with arms shaking
commenced to advance toward each
other. The courtroom was crowded,
and the audience evidently thought a
i fight was on and made a mad rush for !
the doors and windows, people falling
over each Qther in their wild efforts to
get out of the room.
After five or ten minutes of the most j
exciting scenes since the assassination
quiet was restored and ex-Governor
Brown, one of the attorneys for the
defense, whispered to Colonel Campbell,
who promptly arose and apologized
to Denny and to the court, Colonel
Denny replying in a very happy
speech.
On an inspection of the record it
was found that Colonel Campbell had
misconstrued Colonel Denny's statement.
Golden, as the prosecution's star
witness, again created great interest.
Wh an nlaaar^ rm fhft fitfltld for CTOS8- I
examination be said he learned about
two weeks ago that he wonld be arrested
if he did not tell what he knew
abont the assassination, and that if he
did tell the attorneys for the commonwealth
would try and save him from
prosecution.
NEW METHOD AUTHORIZED
la the Collection of Money Orders By
Postoffice Department.
The United States postoffice department
has enlarged it) operations, and
by a method which has recently been
authorized in first and second-class
offices, the transmission ?f money is to
be made much easier and more convenient.
The following is >the substance
of a circular which has been issued:
"First, to cash all money orders,
irrespective of the place of payment
named in such order, it being understood,
of course, that the identity of
the owner shall be established, as in
all other casoa; and,
"Second, to cash any money order
drawn upon such office, irrespective of
the fact that the corresponding advice
may not have reached the office upon
which drawn."
NEW YORK'S OREAT TUNNEL.
Work On Underground Rapid Transit
Railway Is Inaugurated.
With a silver spado and in the presence
of thousands of persons, Mayor
Van Wyck of New York lifted from an
opening in the city hall square a few
pounds of earth which formally began
work on the underground rapid transit
railway system. The ceremonies
which marked the beginning of this
great engineering undertaking were
befitting an event of such great importance.
A handsome memorial tablet bearing
a suitable inscription was fitted
into the opening.
The underground railroad tunnel
will ha twentv-one miles in length and
will involve the expenditure by the
city of New York of more than $36,000,000.
The contract time for completion
is unlimited and about 10,000
men will be employed. Work will be
, begun simultaneonsly at several points.
THREE FIREMEN KILLED.
i Precipitated Into a Basement FiHed
With Six Feet of Water.
Through the breaking down of the
first floor in a factory building at New
York, which was totally destroyed by
Are Saturday, three flremen were killed
and two injured. The men were
precipitated into the basement in
which were about six feet of water, and
pinned under the debris. It is supposed
they were drowned.
Coal Diggers Get Raise.
The Berwind-White Coal Mining
company at Philadelphia notified its
miners of a general average advance
of 20 per cent.
EX-dOVERNOR A SICK MAN.
John M. Stone, of Mississippi, In a
Serious Condition.
Ex-Governor John M. Stone is se- '
riously ill at the home of his niece,
Mrs. Ernest McKie, at Holly Springs,
Miss. He arrived there a week ago, ill
and weak, and immediately went to
bed and has been more or less delirious
ever since. Erysipelks has set in
on his face, and his physician does not
I <Lnrietv as to the final issue
i t*UUV/0?? -T? ^
J of the ease.
HAND!.ED $75,000 ONE DAY
1 And On the Next Was Charged With
Stealing a Paltry $15.
1 Edward Hodge, a young white man,
' formerly of Dalton, Ga.,' is in the BirI
mingham, Ala., city prison, where he
was placed on the charge of stealing
an express package containing $15
i from the Southern Express Company.
I The day before the young man had
! handled $75,000 without touching a
I penny. He is well connected. The
I company decline to make a statement.
I SENATOR CLARK
SPENT $328,000
! In Order to Win Scat In the United
States Senate.
FINDING OF MEMORIALISTS
Wholesale Bribery Is Alleged To
Have Been Resorted To.
A Washington dispatch says: Counsel
for the memorialists in the case of
Senator Clark, of Montana, have submitted
their brief to the senate committee
on privileges and elections:
After reviewing the testimony in
detail counser presents the following
facts in the case from the evidence adduced:
First, that at least fifteen members
of the legislature were paid by Mr.
Clark and his agents fpr their votes.
Second, that at least nine others
were offered money for their votes and
that the total amount of offers reached
3175,000.
Third, that 3100,000 was offered by
Dr. Tracy, a friend and agent of Mr.
Clark, to bribe the attorney general to
dismiss the proceedings in the Wellcome
case.
Fourth, that the agent of Clark offered
Justice Hunt of the supreme
conrt $100,000 to dismiss the Wellcome
case.
Fifth, that Mr. Clark and his friends
engaged in wholesale bribery and attempted
bribery of members of the legislature
to secure the election of Mr.
P! ,rW
Much is made of the testimony alleging
efforts to bribe Justice Hunt and
Attorney General Nolan in the Wellcome
disbarment case.
"It is evident," they say, "that Mr. ,
Clark and bis friends fully realized
the importance of the decision of that
court in its bearing upon Mr. Clark's
ontest, otherwise they would not have
taken a special train to bring his
agents to Helena to negotiate and arI
range for the purchase of that court.
I The fact that Mr. Clark's agent, Mr.
Jesse B. Root, law partner of Mr.
John B. Wellcome, paid Mr. Z. T. ;
Casou $1,500 to leave the state of Montana
and not testify before the court the
I circumstances going to bear out the
charge of unlawful expenditure and
corrupt use of money by Mr. Clark
and his agents to carry out their purpose.
The offer of $100,000 to bribe the
attorney general to move the dismissal
of the proceedings is but another
chapter of the long story of bribery
and attempted bribery that marks the
the entire history of Mr. Clark's campaign
for the senatorship from the
time in August, 1898, when he agreed
with Governor Hauser and others to
pat up $35,000 for primaries and from
$10,000 to $60,000 more for the general
election and as much afterwards
as was necessary up to and including
the $1,500 payment to Cason.
Of the 95 members of the legislature
(including Mr. Whitesides) 26 were
sworn before the committee.
"Of these memorialists say nine
have taken oath that they were offered
monev to vote for Senator Clark; two
I IT -
have admitted the receipt of money,
$5,000 each, after voting for
Mr. Clark, but tried to excuse it.
Hither by direct testimony or otherwise
they claim that the acceptance of
| bribes is fixed upon fifteen others,
j "From the proof adduced it is rea|
sonably determinable." they say, "that
in addition to the $328,000 actually
paid to members of the legislature by
Mr. Clark and his agents offers were
made to other members, aggregating
aboat $175,000."
INDIANS VISIT TANNER.
Illinois Governor Makes a Big Impression
On Poor Lo In Florida.
Governor Tanner, who is sojourning
at Palm Beach, Fla., continues to
improve in health, and is anxious to
return to Illinois.
The other day when three Seminole
Indians were in the city and heard
that the governor was a "big heap *
medicine man," they visited his excellency
and smoked the pipe of peace.
They also presented him with a bag of
herbs for curing his ills and a fine Indian
pipe. - The governor showed his
appreciation by giving each of his
visitors a present, and they left with
the remark: "Him good medicine
man, heap talkee, talkee."
PRESIDENT GETS INFORriATION.
Citizens of Kentucky Tell flcKInley
Their Tale of Woe.
Colonel Andrew Cowan, a merchant
of Louisville, Ky.; Samuel J. Roberts,
editor of the Lexington Leader, and
John Marshall, Republican lieutenant
governor of the state, all prominent
Republicans and friends of Governor
Taylor, had an interview with President
McKinley Friday on the situation
in Kentucky. They said their sole
mission was to explain the exact situa
tion in the state. They said they assured
the president that they did not
want any federal interference. They
, allege the Goebel partisans are not
abiding by agreement of-last month.
EDITOR SUES FOR DAMAGES.
Alleges That His Feelings Have Been
Greatly Lacerated.
EditorW.T. Wear,of the Opelika, (Ala.)
News, has brought suit against Messrs.
George E. Driver, H. F. Lowe, R. M.
Greene, Jr., H. C. Jemigan, T. D.
Power, Wiley Ross, C. P. D. Taylor
and J. W. Willia/ns, Jr., for $50,000
damages for an article which they published
denouncing him for charges
made in his paper.
Davis Will Control Fund.
Secretary Root has stated that the
money appropriated by congress in the
special relief act for Porto Rico Mould
be spent in accordance with the recommendations
of Governor General
Davis.
Iowa Is at Monterey.
The United States battleship Iowa,
flying the flag of Rear Admiral Kautz,
arrived at Monterey, Cal., Sunday, en
route north from San Diego. She will
remain at Monterey one week.
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LOOKING SOUTHWAKD.
Industrial Activity For This Year
Is Destined to Break All
Previous Records.
The Chicago Times-Herald says:
The colonization season has been
vigorously opened by the railroads
which extend into southern territory,
and the work of building up the south
commercially is to be carried on this
vear on a scale hitherto unknown. In
y "?- --
dnstrial agents declare tbat the year
promises to be a record breaker for
immigration to southern states and
for the location of factories and industries.
Activity in the phosphate mines, renewed
interest in ihe cotton industry,
the discovery of the value of cassava
as a money-making plant, the knowledge
that the railroads have countless
sectious of unoccupied and fertile
farming lands, together with the renewed
prosperity of the entire country,
has made new possibilities for the
south that were little dreamed of several
years ago. The work of the Illinois
Central road i3 a fair example for
the boom that is now on. Up to the
present time the road has exceeded last*
year's record of new factories located
along the line by 80 per cent. This
remarkable showing has been made
despite Ihe fact tbat the months of
April, May and June have always
proved to be the best months for prosecuting
this work.
In Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi
and Tennessee there have been
established a krger number of new
cotton, paper and saw mills and creameries.
Some of the roads whose agents
declare that the rise of business is exceeding
all expectation, are the Plant
System, the Louisville and Nashville,
the Mobile and Ohio,and the Southern
railway. The Louisville and Nashville
is doing an unusual amount of work
in d(>vf?lor>incr nhosnhate lands in Ten
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neesee and in colonizing farming lands
and disposing of timber lands in Alabama
and Florida.
Cassava plantations are becoming
numerous in Florida and especial attention
is being paid to inducing people
to engage in this new industry.
The fact that from this plant can be
made starch and glucose of fine quality
and that as a fattening agent for
stock it has no equal, is engaging the
attention of northern farmers.
In Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama
and Georgia the Southern railway
is locating large colonies and
thousands are taking advantage of the
homestead seekers' excursions which
are run every first and third Tuesday
in the month. Over 300 families have
been located this spring between Danville
and Richmond. At High, Point,
N. C., theie have been established
twenty furniture factories; at Rome,
Ga.; a new basket factory, and at
Knoxvilie large hat and woolen factories.
At Hnntsville, Ala., another
large colony has been located and
many are visiting the peach .belt with
a view of engaging in that industry.
The Plant system is developing its
phosphate fields and locating factories
and colonies all along its route. At
the present time it has all of this class
of business it can attend to and it is
expected that the rush will continue
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the roads are watching with eag9r eyes
developments in the Cuban and Porto
Rican situations, with a view to being
a field for colonization pnrposes. One
or two roads have already made plans
for large business in Cuba and when
matters become settled there they expect
to get all the business they can
handle.
RODE INTO TRAP.
English Officers Surprised and Shot
Down By Boers.
At a late hour Saturday the war
offic^ in London posted the following
dispatch from General Roberts:
"Bloemfontein, March 24.?Yesterday
Lieutenant Colonel Crabbe,
Captain Trotter and Lieutenant The
Hon. E. Lygon, of the Grenadier
Guards and Lieuteuant Colonel Codrin'gton,
of the Cold Stream Guards,
rode eight or nine miles beyond their
camp-on the Modder river without escort
except one trooper.
They were fired upon by a party of
Johannasburg police and Lieutenant
Lygon was killed and Crabbe, Codrington
and Trotter were seriously
wounded. The trooper also was
wounded. The Boers went to their
assistance and did all they possibly
could, attending to their wounds.
MANY fllLLS FOR TEXAS.
Nttfnber of Charters Recently Granted
For New Factories.
During the past few days charters
have been issued for $100,000 cotton
mills at Corsicana and Henderson,
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Texas. UOIliracis lur uiauuiiicxjr unvc
been let for a $50,000 cotton mill at
Wharton and a $50,000 oil mill at Corsicana.
Seventy thousand dollars of
the capital stock for a $100,000 cotton
mill at Pittsbnrghas been subscribed;
$48,000 toward a factory at Rice, and
$60,000 toward a factory at Cnero. A
Texas flour mill has closed a contract
for 700,000 pounds monthly to be exported
to London.
TALBERT INEXORABLE.
He Insisted On Having a Quorum to
Consider Pension Bills.
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Tlie 1101186 gSVB up Ji'riuaj a ocooiua
to private pension bills, passing 142
of these measures.
Late in the day Mr. Talbert of South
Carolina raised the point of no quoram,
and as the attendance was small,
business came to a standstill and
the doors were closed. A quorum was
secured after a call of the house and
pages had been hurriedly sent for
members.
BAILEY OPENS CAMPAION.
Congressman Begins His Fight In
Texas For United States Senate.
In a set speech, at Cameron, Texas,
Saturday, Congressman J. W. Bailey
opened bis campaign for the United
States senate in opposition to Senator
Horace Chilton. A large number of
prominent public men of Texas were
present to hear him. The senatorship
will be decided iu the primaries for
members of the legislature, a direct
vote beiug taken.
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First Train Over Cheraw Line.
The Seaboard Air Line lianled its
first train from Portsmouth to Columbia
over the new line from Cheraw,
via Camden, the past week. The new
line is a direct route and will give the
Seaboard a splendid Florida connection
as soon as the bridge over the
Congaree river, just south of Columbia.
is finished.
The new line is built of finest material
and heaviest rail. All the rock
ballast has not yet been put in.
Freshets delayed completion of the
Wateree river bridge, near Camden,
and the Congareo river bridge, near
Columbia, but within a month the
Seaboard's trains will be running
through and over the Florida Central
& Peninsular.
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Much WhUkey Nee<lerl.
A Columbia dispatch says: Under
the new laws the directors the South
Carolina dispensary will in a few
days advertise for those willing to furnish
liquor to the largest retail establishment
in the world for the next succeeding
ninety days.
Before the dispensary was established
the then Governor Tillman frequently
alluded to it as a "great moral
institution," the argument being that
it would result in such a reduced consumption
of whiskey that the effect
would be, practically, as beneficial as
prohibition. Prohibitionists who voted
for the measure on that ground will be
startled when the figures are published
showing the amount of liquor those
who are awarded contracts are required
to furnish for three months' consumption.
The supplies will be as
follows:
X corn, 1,600 barrels; XX corn, 100
barrels; X rye 525 barrels; XX rye,
450 barrels; of higher grade rye, 60
barrels; apple brandy, 90 barrels;
peach brandy, 75 barrels; porter and
ale, 75 barrels; whisky in better grade,
2,400 cases; Cognac, Scotch whisky, blackberry
cordials, 500 cases.
The beer used is supplied by the
beer dispensaries that make their own
purchases, paying the dispensaries a
royalty of 15 cents a dozen.
No liquor establishment wishing to
make bids is permitted to send a representative
to make personal inquiry,
nor can they solicit orders or praise
their goods by letter. Sealed bids,
with half pint samples, mast be sent
by express to the state treasurer. He
will keep them opened in his vault till
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tne directors are gamcicu iu ^uuuv
meeting, then deliver them in public.
Visited Haunts of Sin.
Bev. Arthur Crane, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Charleston,
preached a sensational sermon on vice
and sin in that city. He had previously
visited the blind tigers, gambling
houses and questionable resorts, and
his * sermon was a tirade on these
places. He made statements in his
pulpit about the city not altogether
true, and some of his stories and jokes
had the congregation in a flutter of
laughter and merriment. It was a
sensational day for a church, and wise
people are not in sympathy with the
movement, according to a correspondent.
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Seven Dlnpensary Districts.
Governor McSweeney has divided
the state into seven dispensary districts.
He thinks that it is better to
have a chief more directly responsible
for his jurisdiction and by having
smaller districts closer attention can
be paid to the work and more familiarity
had with the people to be dealt
with. He'thinks from the letters he
is receiving that the people are better satisfied
than they have been with the
administration of the law. He has
not been receiving letters complaining
of the existence of "blind tigers." It
has all along been his policy, where
complaints came from responsible
men, to have a prompt investigation
made.
A week or two ago Governor McSweeney
thonght of making some
changes in the districts, and as soon
as it was heard of in the communities
involved, letters were received from
the leading business men stating that
they were pleased with their present
chiefs and the administration of the
law; that there was no friction and
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that officers were doing their duty as
best they could and that it would not
be well to make a change and jeopardize
the good feeling and co-operation that
exists.
Governor McSweeney has directed
that a statement be made up from the
records showing the work that the
constables have been doing, the seizures
that they have made and where
i they have been operating,
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Recommends Their Sale.
The naval inspection board, as a result
of its visit to Port Royal, has
recommended to the navy department
the sale at auction of the singleturreted
monitor Nantucket and the
tug Comanche, both lying at the
Port Royal naval station. The board
round tD&t li; w8H cosuu^ me *ci
ment about $2,000 per nnnum to care
for these vessels, which are of no use.
It was recommended that the Nantucket
be towed north for sale. She
was appraised at $15,000, and the
value of the Comanche was placed at
$5,000. The Nantucket was lent to
the North Carolina naval militia before
the war, and during the war she
was used by the government to defend
the entrance to the harbor at Port
Koyal. She looked very formidable,
and it was only after the war was over
that it was discovered that her big turret
guns could not have been fired, the
vents being plugged.
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Opportunity For Charleston.
The directors of the Atlantic Cotton
Oil Company of Snmter have called a
meeting of stockholders to authorize
^ie increase of the capital stock of the
company $250,000 to enable the company
to build another oil mill and a I
refiuery. The company now has mills
iu Snmter, Bennettsvilie and Gibson,
N. C., and the new mill is to be built
in Camden, and the refinery will probably
be built in Charleston.
It has not been definitely decided
to locate the refinery in Charleston,
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and other things are equal Charleston
will have the preference. The refinery *
will have a capacity of 500 barrels and
it will be the best equipped in the
south. The Atlantic Cotton Oil Company
is a Sumter enterprise, and a
most successful one, having had* a
most phenomenal growth within a
few years.
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Important Decision By Supreme Court. 1
The supreme court has filevl an opinion
which is of general interest. * It
appears, in a word, that a young man
named Kountree gave a hen for $50,
and that he was arrested on the charge
of selling cotton nnder lien. A bond
was given and then the effort was made v.
to overturn the bond and the lien,.
The efforts failed and the supreme
court sustained Judge Townsend's declining
to interfere. ^k||
There were several grounds of ap- v
peal, bat the chief ground seems to be pSB
that the lien was given by a minor,' be
being 18 years of age. The supreme
court, after disposing of the various
issdes raised, says on the matter of the
minor making a contract of this kind: " $?
"There are circumstances under
which ap infant can make a valid con- . v^?
tract. Whether they existed in tlus
case depended upon the facts, and, ax
we have said, they cannot be reviewed , \
by this court. If, however, we had *
the power to pass upon the facts we
would sustain the conclusion of the
circuit judge."
New Charters Issued.
A charter has been issued to the .
Abbeville Savings and Investment
Company of Abbeville. The capital
stock of the company is to be $50,000. - ^
The Charleston Crockery Company #
has notified the secretary of state that
it has increased its capital stock from
$10,000 to $50,000.
A charter has been issued to the F:
M. Butte Company of Hamburg. The
capital stock of the company is to be ^
$1,000 and the purpose fs to do a real
estate and insurance business.
The Schumpert Hardware Company ... \
of Newberry advises the secretary of
state that it wishes to change its name
to the Newberry Hardware Company.
The law having been complied With iM
the necessary authority was given. ,"?||
Messrs. Thomas J. Martin, C. G, ' ^
Edwards, J. L. Simmons, L. D. ^
Childs. W. C. Bates, T. H. White and "
Samnel McFadden have secured a /J
commission for a charter for the or
ganization of the Chester Bottling ~J|
Company of Chester. The capital V
stock of the company is to be $1,600
and it is proposed to bottle soda water, |j
miperal waters, ale and other aoft
drinks. Jg
Thirty-Seven Constable*. '|
There are now thirty-seven constables
on the force. Of that number
thirty have filed their bonds with the $S|
state treasurer, and the others* ace
arranging to have their bonds prepared.
Three of the bonds have been
"held up,'* so that the proper revenne
stamps may be attached, the bonds '?jj
having been sent to Columbia without
the stamps.
KITCHENER TURNED DOWN.
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Coolhess Said to Exist Between Lord
Roberts and His Aide.
Mail accounts of the capture of General
Cronje, just received in London,
bring out interesting points as to the
rapidity with which Lord Boberts ; J
changed his plans when he found that'
General Cronje had escaped from Mag- 1%
ersfontein, where it was originally intended
to attack or close in upon him. fj
Lord Kitohener was sent to inter- ||
cept him, and at the battle of Paarde- r.
berg Lord Kitchener seems to have
shown that he is better as an organizer
than as a fighter, for it was at his
order that the British infantry repeated
the blander of other generals?at- .' "
tacking entrenched Boers, who allow* -M
ed the Britishers to get within 1,000
yards before opening Are.
As the British had absolutely no ^
cover they lost heavily and uselessly vj
, and we>e compelled to fall back mo- 4 '
mentarily with some amount of oon*
fusion and to withdraw to a safe disThis
fact makes a signi Scent 00m- ^
mentary upon the rumors that have $
been in circulation of some coolness
between Lord Kitchener and Lord
Roberts, which is said to have accounted
for the former being sent to Pries* ||J
ka to suppress the rebellion. ^
NEW COMPANY INCORPORATED
As Result of Friendly Conferences -JS
Between Carnegie and Frick.
The Carnegie Company, the formation
of which has resulted from the
conferences of Andrew Carnegie and
H. C. Prick to settle the business be- . 1
tween them, was incorporated at Trenton,
N. Saturday. The capital is
$160,000,000 aud the stock is all subscribed.
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The par value of each share of capi- w j
tal stock is $1,000. The state receives
$3^,000 fee for filing the incorporation
and the annual franchise tax will be
$11,750.
The Carnegie Company under its
charter is authorized to promote, con*
struct, acquire, carry out, umuwu, /,..~
manage and develop on lease or agree- . -
ment railroads, pipe lines, quays,
wharves, docks, hydraulio works, gas
works, gas wells, mills, dwellings for Hw
employes and other works.
The company is given express power * >to
acquire the existing Carnegie Company.
The company is also authorized p|
to deal in merchandise and personal v|
property of every class.
TO FORM Line TRUST. ilS
Thirty-Five Concerns Represented at
fleeting In Birmingham.
Thirty-five lime manufacturing concerns
were represented at a meeting
held in Birmingham, Ala., Saturday
for the purpose of. forming the Con* * jm
solidated Lime Company, which will
come near controlling the lime inter- v
ests in the southern states, with the J
exception of Texas. . _
The company will have, when com- ." &
pleted, a capital of $3,000,000, which.
will be divided into common and preferred
stock. It is intended to control
almost exclusively the^prodoction
of the lime kilns throughout the south,
and intimation is given that the prioes
that now prevail are not sufficient with
the amount invested in the plants con