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ESTABLISHED 1S91. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL 1.9.1900. ONE OOLLAB PEB ?EAE- |||
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BY DIRECT VOTE |
OF THE PEOPLE
doited States Senators Mai Be
Elected Henceforth.
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THE HOUSE PASSES RESOLUTION
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Contemplates Important Change
In the Constitution?The Vote
Was Unanimous.
A Washington special soys: Tho I
hou^p Triday by a vote of 210 to 15
adopted a resolution for a constitutional
amendment providing for the
election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people. Fourteen
Republicans and one Democrat voted
against it By the te:ms of the resolution
the amendment to be submitted
to the legislatures is as follows:
"The senate of the United S'ates
shall be composed of two seuators
from each state, who shall be selected
by a direct vote of the peopl^ thereoffor
a term of six years and each senatoi
shall have one vote. A plurality of
the votes cast for candidates for senator
shall be sufficient to elect. The
electors iu each state shall have the
qualifications requisite for electors of
the most numerons branch of the state
legislatures, respectively^
"When a vacancy hap^eus, by death
resignation, or otherwise in the repre
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sentation of any state in the senate,
the same shall be filled for the unexpired
term thereof in the same manner
as is provided for the election of senators
in paragraph 1: Provided, that
the executive thereof may make temporary
appointment until the next general
or special election, in accordance
with the statutes or constitution of
sash state."
. The remainder of the day was derated
to the consideration of private
pension bills. Several sharp attacks
were made .npon Mr. Talbert, Democrat,
of South Carolina, for his course
in delaying action npcn bills.
There were two joint resolutions on
the popular election of senators when
the house adjourned Thursday. The
majority resolution of the committee*
left it optional with the states whether
their senators should be elected directly
or by the legislature. The mi,
nority resolution made it incumbent
that each state elect by direct vote.
The minority resolution which was offered
as a substitute, was voted npon
first and was carried by an overwhelm
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Corliss tried unavailingly to ggt an
aye and no vote, but only nine members
seconded the demand. The vote
was then taken upon the adoption of
the amendment, the whole house rising
in support of the demand. The
resolution was adopted, 240 to 15.
The negative votes were cast by
Messrs. Allen, of Maine; Burleigh, of
Maine; Calderhead, of Kansas; Fordney,
of Michigan; Gardner, of New
Jersey; Hedge, of Iowa; Henry, of
Connecticut; Lane, of Iowa; Lester, of
Georgia; Littlefield, of Maine; McPherson,
of Iowa; Mann, of Illinois;
Bussell, of Connecticut; Sperry, of
Connecticut, and Thomas, of Iowa.
Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa, asked unanimous
consent to set aside May 1st for
tie consideration of the Nicaraguan
canal bill.
"I object," shouted Mr. Burton, of
Ohio, emphatically.
Mr. Hepburn then took steps to
overcome this opposition and a peti
tion to the committee on rules was
prepared, requesting that body to fix
a time for taking up the canal bill.
Mr. Hepburn circulated the petition
on the Republican side, and up to the
time of adjournment secured sixty-one
signatures.
Mr. Adamson, who circulated the petition
on the Democratic side, said:
4There is no opposition whatever
on this side, and every man present
today has signed the petition. The
number exceed/ sixty."
Notwithstanding these efforts, it was
. intimated pretty sbrongly in well-in*
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formed quarters mat toe comuunee uu
rules was not likely to bring in a spe^
*cial rule. The members of the committee
declined, however, to make any
definite statement on the subject.
ASPIKANTS WILL MEET.
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Bryan and Dewey Will Attend Celebration
of Lakeside Club In Chicago.
Admiral Dewey and William J.
' Bryan will meet in Chicago for the
first time since the hero of Manila'announced
he was a presidential candidate.
All donbt as to Mr. Bryan's
presence was dispelled when Max J.
Keise of the Lakeside Club received a
telegram from him saying that he
would cancel previous engagements in
order to be present at that organization's
celebration. Both the distinguished
guests are aware of the prosN
pective meeting.
PRESIDENT'S J?ECRETAKY QUITS.
Offing to 111 Health John Addison Porter
Tenders Resignation.
AWashinton special says. Cwing
to continued ill health Hon. John
Addison Porter, secretary to the president,
has tendered hift resignation and
. the president has accepted it to take
effect May 1.
George B. Cortelyon, of New York,
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the president, has been appointed to
the office.
GILMORE GETS ORDERS.
The Lieutenant Will Be Execute Officer
On the Crniser Prairie.
Lieutenant Commander J. C. Gilmore,
who has been on leave of absence
in Washington, recuperating from extreme
hardships incident to his long
captivity among the Filipinos, has
been ordered to immediate duty at sea
as an executive officer of the cruiser
Prairie, which will be engaged during
the summer in short cruises with the
naval militia of the Atlantic and gulf
states.
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JURORS CRITICISED.
Their Verdict Recommended Murderers
of Cassie Boan To flercy
of the Court.
A special from Columbia, S. C.,
says: At 3 o'clock Thursday morning
the jury that had for nine hours been
trying to reach a verdict in the case of
John Jackson and Harvy Jackson,
charged with murdering Cassie Boan,
announced an agreement. The judge
came from his hotel and the prisoners
were brought from the jail.
On a table near where the prisoners
sat were charred remnants of the young
woman's clothing, her shoes, one of
the fingers burned to blackness that
had been torn off, and her straw hat,
with the edges burned off, showing the
flames had leaped over her head.
"Guilty, with recommendation to
the mercy of the court," was the verdict.
Carolina newspapers will scourge
the jury for recommending mercy in
such a case. The men were sentenced
to life imprisonment at hard labor* It
is understood the solicitor has obtained
evidence against a number of other
men who will be prosecuted for connection
with this crime.
Cassie Boan was a comely country
girl about twenty years old, one-fourth
Indian. Her reputation was questionable.
The tectimony presented by the
state, and not contradicted, was, willingly
or unwillingly, the girl was
taken to an island in a swamp in
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least?John and Harvey Jackson?
that she was kept there from Sunday
afternoon till Monday night, when ,
she was seen running through the
woods, a mass of flames.
Those who first reached the sufferer
found her burnt from knees to
forehead and unable to speak. There
were n^ny gashes on her body made
with sharp knives, and the spot from
which she had come was found by following
the trail of blood. There was
evidence that the Jacksons had made
threats against the girl, but the cause
of their enmity was not made known.
It was suggested that they were jealous
because she showed favor to Sam
Woodward and repelled them.
The defense offered no testimony.
The attorneys in their speeches did
not deny the presence of their clients
at the orgie of the lonely island in a
swamp, but advanced the theory that
the woman had accidentally set her
clothing on fire.
BIG BUILDING COLLAPSES.
Without Warning a Number of People :
Were Caught In the Debris.
Without warning a four-story brick
building at the corner of Second ave*
nue and Wood street, Pittsburg, Pa.,
collapsed Thursday, engulfing in its
rnins a numbejr of people, three of
whom were taken out dead, six badly
hurt and several others slightly injured.
The building, which was occupied
by the Armstrong-McKelveyljead and
Oil Company, was being remodeled.
About forty-eight feet of the middle
partition had been removed, steel
girders supported by heavy iron posts
were in place, and the finishing touches
were being put on the remodeling
work.
When the accident happened business
was being traflsacted on the first
floor as usual. %
CANAL BILL SIDETRACKED.
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Up Defeated In Senate.
In the senate Thursday Senator
Morgan made a motion'to take np the
Nicaragua canal bill.
The motion was defeated by strict
party vote, with the exception of Senator
Foster, of Washington. Senator'
Simon, of Oregon, dodged, but with
these exceptions the vote was on party
| lines.
Senator Morgan, who has been
watching closely for an opportunity to
bring up the bill, first asked unanimous
consent that a day be set for a
vote on the measure, but this was denied
because of objection by Mr.
Lodge, who said the Philippines bill
must come up first. Later Senator
Morgan found an opportunity to make
a formal motion for its consideration,
the result of which was temporary defeat.
GREAT GOBS OF ORATORY
Brought Out In Discussion of the Porto
Rican Bill in the Senate.
A Washington dispatch says: As the
hour for the senate's vote upon the
Porto Rican bill drew near the popular
interest, so far as Washington is
concerned, was greatly increased.
Monday there was a flow of oratory in
the upper house of congress and tho
result was that the galleries were
crowded almost to suffocation, and
thousands of people were turned away,
unable to gain admission. Perhaps a
good deal of this interest was due to
the announcement that Senator Depew
would be among the speakers.
riVIL OOYFRXFR OF PORTO RICO
Charles H. Allen, Assistant Secretary of
Navy, Gets the Place.
A Washington special says: Charles
H. Allen, at present assistant secretary
of the navy, will be the first civil
governor of Porto Rico under the bill
just signed by the president. Thursday
afternoon Mr. Allen spent several
heurs with the president, when the
formal tender of the post was made
and his practical accej>tance was given.
Onr Philippine Force,
. Adjutant General Corbin has prepared
a statement showing the strength
of the troops in the Philippines on
the 1st of April, the date of last returns.
According to the statement
there were on the date stated 63,585
officers and men there.
Georgia Census Enumerators Named.
The census bureau at Washington
bas so far approved of the appointment
of about 500 census enumerators for
Georgia. There will be between l,00tf
and 1,200 enumerators in the state.
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Neal Case May lie Appealed.
A Columbia dispatch says: It is
altogether likely that Attorney General
Bellinger will appeal from Judge Benet's
decision in quashing the indictment
relative to Colonel Neal's last 1
case, in which he was charged with
failure to turn over public money J
within thirty days.
Mr. Bellinger thinks that there is a "
great deal more involved in this case 1
! than the mere quashing ol the indictment.
There are several other cases
coutingeut on this decision, iu which
the state is interested in c, monetary
way. The state is to be sued on certain
notes endorsed by Colonel Neal,
I as superintendent, in which this same
mnnntT i a inrnl varl find if fllA f?f?TirtS I 1
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sustain or reverse the view of Judge
Benet it will make considerable difference.
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No Pay For Mentnl Anjruinh. t
The state supreme court has decided
an interesting question. It holds
a person cannot recover damages for
mental auguish. It was in the case of
R. L. Lewis, of Columbia, who sued
the Western Union Telegraph Company
for $1,950. The complaint alleged
in substance (1) that the plaintiff's
father, living at Greenville, S.
C., being ill, a telegram was delivered
to defendant's agent, addressed to
plaintiff at Columbia, S. C,, ou December
1897, informing plaintiff of
such illness, which message was received
at defendant's office in Columbia
at 10:39 o'clock on the morning of
December 15, 1897; (2) that said message
being undelivered and yet no
notice of its non-delivery being given
to the sender, a second message was
on December 17, 1897, delivered to defendant's
agent at Greenvil.e, informing
plaintiff of his father's
illness, and advising him to come;
(3) that this secoud message was
delivered to plaintiff at 7:30 p. m., on
December 17tb, 1897, but the message
on December 15, 1897, was not delivered
to plaintiff till after December
17th, 1897?having been sent by mail;
(4) that when the first message was
sent, plaintiff's father was conscious,
though desperately ill, but when
plaintiff, going as soon as possible after
receipt of the second telegram,
reached Greenville, his father was unable
to recognize him and soon thereafter
died without the knowledge of
plaintiff's presence; (5) that by reason
of defendant's "willful, gross and inexcusable
neglect" in the premises,
plaintiff "has suffered great and grievous
mental and physical anguish, pain,
grief and sorrow, and has been put to
much extra and needless expense."
The jury found for the telegraph
company and the appeal^was taken on
exceptions -to Judge* Townsend's
charge. .The supreme court affirms
the judgment of the lower court
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Baby Inherits Fortnne.
A Columbia dispatch says: A telegram
received from Chicago announces
that Mrs. Mitchell, wife of Dr. Mitchell
of that city, had given birth to a girl
baby. Ordinarily this would be of no
special interest as a matter of news,
but the circumstances of -this case
render it a decidedly interesting bit of
news. It dashes the hopes that an
in "even half dozen" persons in
Spartanburg county may have had of
inheriting qnite a comfortable fortune
for this part of the country.
To begin with, Mrs. Mitchell is the
daughter of the late Mr/ F. M. Trimmier,
who for years was clerk of court
for Spartanburg county. At his death
he bequeathed to her his property, an
estate involving $83,000 at least. In
case of her marriage ahd an issue
springing therefrom, this large amount
of property would be hers, and then
at her death go to her child or children.
If she died without issue it
would revert to six persons, nieces
and nephe vs of the late Captain Frank
Trimmier, one of whom, Mr. T. R.
Trimmier, is administrator of the
estate. The daughter of the late Mr.
Trimmier, Miss Minnie Trimmier,
about three years ago married Dr.
Mitchell, of Chicago, 111., and they
have been residing in Chicago for
some time past. So this newly born
I girl will be the heiress to nearly siuu,000
worth of property in Sparianburg
county.
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Date For Democratic Convention.
The state Democratic executive committee
met in Columbia the past week
and the meeting was the most remarkable
in many years for its own eventfulness
and the fact that not a single
political issue was raised. There ^ as
not the semblance of a political discussion,
and sublime harmony prevailed.
There was no wire pulling
going on inside or outside the room,
and no one talked of the possibilities
of the coming campaign. It was really
difficult to believe that it was a
gathering of political party managers.
The question of doing away with the
ampaign by counties did not come up;
practically all the committeemen considered
that this is a matter for the
coming state convention and no one
suggested it.
The few formal resolutions looking
to the reorganization of the Democratic
party were adopted, the members
drew their pay, and the preliminary
by-play to the opening of the poI
liHoal circus of 1900 ended abruptly.
After making an address to the
meeting, Colonel Jones announced
that according to requirements 'they
had met to call the state convention.
The convention was called to meet
May 16th, and the following circular
letter has been sent out:
In pursuance of the constitution of
the Democratic party the State Democratic
Executive Committee, at a meeting
held 011 April 11, 1900, by a resolution,
directs that you call the Democratic
clubs of your county to meet
on the fourth Saturday in April, 1900,
to elect delegates to the county convention,
which meets on the first
Monday in May next, to elect delegates
to the State Democratic Convention,
which meets on the third Wednesday
in May next, to elect delegates to the
National" Convention; and for such
other purposes as the constitution directs
and the welfare of the party re>
quires.
Every club is entitled to one deler
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gate to the county convention for every
twenty-five members, and one delegate
for a majority fraction thereof.
Each county is entitled to double
the number of delegates in the state
convention as it Las members in the
general assembly.
Willie Joxef, Chairman.
U. X. Guxter, Jr., Secretary.
Stale May Get Something*
Mr. Jesse T. Gautt has returned to
Columbia from Washington, where he
went to see about the state's claim
against the national government. Ho
is very much encouraged at the prospects
and this state is likely to get
f-omething out of the claim. Senator
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matter for some time, and is nowjwith
the additional data he has, quite enthusiastic
over the prospects of getting
the claims settled. Senator Tillman
is confident that he can do something
-with the claims. He will not
offer a formal bill, but, being a member
of the appropriation committee,
hopes to get an item in that bill pro- j
viding for a settlement. He claims
that in this way he can explain the i
matter to the appropriation committee
and possibly secure a compromise
agreement whereby the claims and j
counter-claims can be settled.
Governor Gets Invitation.
Governor McSweeney has received
an invitation for himself and staff to
attend the celebration of the second j
anniversary of the battle of Ikfanila
on the 1st of May in Chicago. Gov- j
ernor McSweeDey does not think that
he will be able to attend.
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Barn and Stable* Barn. .
A few nights ago at Jordan, Clarendon
couuty, the barn and stables of
Mrs. S. T. Sprott were burned. There
were six horses in the stable and all
the supplies, forage and fertilizers for
running a large plantation were de
stroyed.
DETECTIVES INDICTED.
Tttc Bill* Returned Charging: Them With
Offense of "Embracery."
Detectives David S. Looney and
William A. Bradley were indicted by
the Fulton county grand jury at Atlanta
Friday for embracery.
The indictment of the two men is j
the result of the sensational developments
arising from their alleged attempt
to see if members of the Atlanta
bar would use improper means to
obtain a verdict from a jury.
Judge J. H. Lumpkin has placed
the bond in each case at $3,000.
In the indictment Looney and
Bradley are charged.with attempting
to influence Juror Penn in the Mattie
Adams will case. Penn is now serving
a sentence of twenty days in the
Tower for contempt of court, having
left the city in order to keep from appearing
in court.
Penu was taken from the Tower
to the court house Friday morning,
where he appeared before the grand
jury. ETe was in the grand jury room
but a short time, but he repeated the
charges against the detei^ives that
he made in the superior court before
Judge Lumpkin. He denied that he
had gone to Bradley and offered to sell
out, as Bradley claimed, but insisted
tnat ho had never agreed to accept
money. Penn declared that he was
approached first by Bradley and later
by Looney.
Attorney R. J. Jordan was also a
.vituess before the grand jury. He
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testified tfiat .Liooney naci approauueu
him in regard to the will case and
made what Mr. Jordan considered an
offer to secure him either a verdict or
a mistrial.
PENN (iETS SHORT SENTENCE.
Attorney Rodecri Makes Plea For Mercy
In Mis Client's Behalf.
Juror J. T. Penn was at Atlanta
Thursday morning sentenced by Judge
J. H. Lumpkin to twenty days in the
Tower for contempt. Penn virtually
admitted his guilt, and his defense
was in the nature of a plea for mercy.
The most sensational development
of the trial was the testimony of Judge
Robert L. ^odgers, Penn's attorney,
that Detective W. A. Bradley had offered
him money to advise his client
to corroborate Bradley's statement.
The statement of Penn contradicted
the accounts Looney and Bradley had
given of the affair in many important
particulars.
Judge Rogers read the answer of
Penn to the contempt proceedings, admitting
the juror had wrongfully absented
himself from the court, but
claiming he had no thought of showing
disrespect.
At the conclusion of the evidence
Solicitor Hill said he did not care to
make a speech, as the juror had virtually
pleaded guilty.
Judge Rodgers made a brief speech,
in which he asked the court to deal
mercifully with his client.
Judge Lumpkin then pronounced
sentence, giving Penn twenty days in
jail. He said that he might later have
Penn examined by physicians to see
if his condition would require other
treatment.
The judge said that it was the duty
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vindicate its process. The juror had
admitted that he had violated the instructions
which had been given him
by allowing people to talk to him
about the case, and also by failing to
report for duty Monday.
Judge Rodgers stated that there
would be no appeal from Judge Lumpkin's
decision.
FORTUNE IX NEWSPAPER.
Change In Ownernhip of Atlanta Journal
Involved 9276,500.
The ownership of The Atlanta, (Ga.)
Journal was changed Monday, and the
new owners, Messrs. Brandon, Atkinson
and Gray, assumed control
with Tuesday's issue.
The majority of the stock was owned
by Mr. Hoke Smith, president of
T'-- TKo n.rf 1 mrrraat. Vt old AT
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Mr. H. H. Cabiness, who has
been vice president and business manager
since the formation of the present
company. The remainder of the
stock was held in small in small quanties
by various parties.
The price paid for the paper was
$276,500. Hr. Hoke Smith received
three for one on his stock, his holdings
bringing $159,000. The minority
stockholders sold at two and one-half
for one, receiving $117,000,
JOHNSTON SATISFIED
Alabama Governor Is Grateful 10
Friends and Accepts Defeat.
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BE ACQUIESCES IN TBE RESULT.
Says He Ifas No Unkindnes* Fot Senate r
Morgan and Will Contlnno In the
Go d Old Way.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
Governor Johuston, who met his political
Waterloo in Satnrday's primaries
in his race for the United States
senate against John T. Morgan, gives
out the following statement:
"It is manifest that the Democracy
of the state has declared for the reelection
of Senator Morgan. I am a
Democrat in victory or defeat, and
shall acqaiescein that result, as I have
always done, without a murmur.
"I know there wore a very large
number of gentlemen who were my
personal friends, and would have beer,
glad to support me, but felt that they
could not turn thefr backs on a senator
who was so illustrious.
"I am glad that I can look back in
the canvass with the consciousness
that I have indulged in no filth or misrepresentations,
and that today I have
no uukindness in my heart for the
distinguished gentleman who has won.
"I am deeply grateful to the friends
who have fto liberally supported me in
this contest. I hope that I shall live
long enough to show every one of
them tbat my gratitude will only
cease when I shall 'cross over the rh'er
and rest in the shade.'
"I congratulate myself that in the
contest with one so distinguished and
beloved as Senator Morgan I hive
polled nearly 4ft per cent of the vote |
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in tne primary ana mat a uuuuge ui
less than 10,009 votes would have given
me a majority in the legislature.
"The reforms secured during my
administration have aroused no little
resentment, but I hope that when ihe
passions of the hour pass away the
people will see that these reforms will
be of lasting benefit to them and that
in the end all will come to acknowledge
that the good of the people and
the glory of the commonwealth has
been nearest my heart.
"I had hoped that if elected to the
senate I could be of substantial service
to may people, among whom I have
lived so long, and with w&oni I have
shared all the perils of war and struggles
of peace.
"I have done something, I hope, to
reunite our people, and to compose
the differences that so sharply divided
them, and I shall continue to struggle
to accomplish that end, whether as
a public official or a private citizen.
"We must all stand together to
build up our state, develop its resource",
improve its educational facilities
and to give the people the blessing
of a just, impartial and economical
administration ofstheir affairs."
ROBEItTs SPREADS SET.
He Is ITopefnl of a Haul of Boers When
It Is Drawn In.
A London special says: Lord Roberts
has spread his net far and wide to
catch the adventurous commandoes
that have been making mischief in the
southeastern part of the State. The
net has not yet been drawn in; but, at
the headquarters of Lord Roberts, the
impression exists that the power of
the Boers is decreasing.
A Daily News correspondent has
them flefeing to the southeast; a Standard
correspondent reports them fleeing
northward; a Daily Telegraph
correspondent says that some are going
north and others south, while a
Morning Post representative says it is
not known what the Boers are doing.
Evidently the feeling at Bloemfontein
is that the dispositions of Lord
Roberts are such as to enable him to
concentrate a large force rapidly at
any point. The Boers, being aware of
this, are presumed to be thinking now
chiefly of retreat
Miller Convicted of Orand Larceny.
A New York dispatch says: William
F. Miller, of Franklin syndicate fame,
was found guilty by a jury in the
county court in Brooklyn Monday
night of grand larceny in the first degree.
STOCKHOLDERS MUST PAT. I
Z>efun?t Little Bock National Bank As*
sessment Holds Good.
In a suit involving the liability of
stockholders of the First National
bank, of Little Rock, Ark., now defunct,
on an assessment of 92 per
cent levied by the comptroller of the
currency to discharge the bank's liabilities,
Federal Judge John A. Williams
has decided that the stockholders
are liable.
The assessment was levied on $250,
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UUU DanK fslocK, represeuuug wo
amount of the increased capital stock
preceding the bank's failure. The j
principal defense was that the increase
was void because not authorized.
SHIPPER PAYS THE TAX.
Supreme Court Renders Decision In Favor
of Express Company.
The supreme court of the United
States Monday decided the cases involving
the stamp tax as it applies to
express packages, the question involved
being whether the shipper or
the carrier shall pay the stamp charge
on packages. The opinion was handed
down by Justice White and was favorable
to the express companies.
FOUR KILLED IN BRAWL.
Italian Uses Pistol and Stiletto With
Deadly Effect.
Four persons are dead and two are
dangerously wounded at the mining
town of Windber, near Johnstown,
Pa., as the result of a drnnken row
Sunday in a disorderly honse kept by
a French woman. One Italian is
charged with the wholesale crime, but
it is believed that he is already beyond
the reach of the law, as a man answering
his description was ground under
a train at Southfork Monday morning.
MORGAN WINS
IN ALABAMA.
Satnrday's Primaries Decided the
Senatorial Contest
GOVERNORSHIP IS STILL OPEN.
Day . Was Replete With Exciting
Interest and Surprises
Were In Order.
Primaries were held in Alabama
Saturday at which the Democrats of
aboijt half of the counties voted their
choice for United States senator and
govern .r, and in about one-fourth
more selected representatives and delegates
who will be authorized to vote
the choice of their constituents. The
other one-fourth of the counties have
already acted.
The United States senatorship has
been the overshadowing issue for the
first time in the history of the state,
obscuring the contest for governor.
The candidates for the legislature
were f elected almost entirely with '
their preference for senator. Senator
Morgan and Governor Johnston are
the only candidates for the senatorship,
while Messrs. Stallings, of Butler,
Samford, of Lee; Waller, of Hale,
and Shelley and^Tomlinson, of Jefferson,
are candidates for governor.
As a result of the voting Hon. John
T. Morgan has been renominated for
United States Senator by a surprising
majority. The returns make it appear
that he will have something like 100
of the 120 votes in the Democratic legislative
caucus. Hon. W. J. Samford
made a phenomenal race for governor.
Senator Morgan who has represented
the state with great credit in
the senate for twenty-six years, and
Joseph F. Johnston, the present governor,
whose administration has been
signally successful, are undoubtedly
two of the ablest and most powerful
men in the state, politically, and the
contest between their friends has been
full of ginger and acrimony. The
campaign opened last summer and
has not lagged for a day.
Ten counties with fourteen members
of the assembly voted prior to Saturday.
Nine of the members from these
counties were instructed for Morgan
and five for Johnston. There are also
sixteen hold-over senators, of which
Morgan is understood to have nine
and Johnston seven.
SOME LATEB NEWS.
News received by The Montgomery
Advertiser up to Sunday midnight indicated'tbat
Morgan has carried fiftyfive
of the fifty-six counties holding
primaries.
The returns from the fivfe or six
counties in Alabama which were omitted
from the first reports only add the
more to Senator Morgan's viotory. If
rfll of the Democratic nominees should
be elected, the senator would have
about 116 or 118 members of the two
houses of the assembly, but probably a
dozen Populists and Republicans will
slip in and this will subtract somewhat
from the figures stated.
Colonel Samford has secured about
200 votes in the state convention. He
needs enly about fifty more to win,
but there,is talk of a combination
against him. Mr. Waller, who ran
ennnnJ in iKa (mWnfttnrift] rflf.P. has
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a well orgainized support of about 185
or 140 votes, aud is the second choice
of many another delegation. General
Shelley has sixty or seventy votes in
the convention and Mr. Stallings has
the remainder of the 504 convention
votes. Good generalship, therefore,
will have considerable to do with
naming the next executive.
The surprise of the campaign is Mr.
Stalling's light vote throughout the
state. Stallings ran third, Shelly
fourth and Tomlinson fifth. The sound
money men in the state supported
Morgan and Samford.
The returns from the counties in
the second district show the nomination
of Colonel A. A. Wiley, of Montgomery,
as congressman.
The returns from the counties in
the sixth district confirm the re-nomition
of Hon. John H. Bankhead to
congress. He had no opposition,
STRIKERS READY TO FIGHT.
Italian Workmen Are Canting Trouble at
Croton Landing, X. T. a
A dispatch from Croton Landing,
N. Y., says: While everything was
quiet and peaceful in the neighborhood
of the Cornell dam Sunday night,
where Italians are on a strike for increased
wages, nearly 300 armed deputies
guarded the works and each one
of them was guessing what would happen
next. The striking Italian laborers,
whose homes are in the vicinity
- * a?a V?a^ot?inrt /ininflv
OI lUU WUXACj aio uouaviug v^uavviji
but are doggedly determined. The
strikers swear that if outside labor is
brought in they will fight tooth and
nail to prevent it.
IGNORE SPANISH CLIAMS.
Secretary Hay Sends the Dons a Note
Regarding Certain Islands.
A special to the New York Herald
from Washington says:
Secretary Hay has formally notified
the Madrid government that the United
States cannot accede to its claim that
Sibutn Iisland aud Cagayan Sulu, of
the Philippine archipelago, belong to
Spain.
PORTO RICANS STILL SUFFER.
Desperate State of Affairs On the Island
Show No Improvement.
Advices from San Juan state that
general conditions in Porto Rico remain
the same from week to week.
Delegations of country people continue
to arrive at the governor's palace almost
daily and beg for relief.
Without doubt, thousands of Porto
Bicans are destitute and without work.
One need but glance at the poor,
ragged, barefooted peons, notice the
expression of want and destitution, to
be convinced of this fact
KbLlfci m WtrtWtK.
'Forward Movement Has Been
Checked/' Says "Little Bobs"
at Bloemfontein.
A London special says: "The forward
movement is checked," says
Lord Boberts. This is taken to mean, ,
not by fighting, but by dispositions to
head ofi their advance and bar their
way to vulnerable points in the line of
British commnnications.
Belief is on the way to Wepener.
The Boers in Natal appear incapable
of developing an aggressive move at
Elandslaagte.
Lord Methuen is at the Zwartkopfontem,
twelve miles east of Boshof,
and is sending small, swift eolumns
through the adjacent country. Lord
Chesham, commanding one of these,
encountered a small commando about
ten miles southeast of Zwartkopfontein.
He found most of the farms
occupied by women and children only.
An editorial note in The Daily Mail
avers that Mafeking is in a very bad
way, and that hope of relief is far off,
as no force is advancing from the
south.
The war office announces that 4,000
horsps will arrive at the Cape this
week. It is well understood that the
animals are not fit for work until about
ten days after the voyage. Two thousand
more are due at the Cape within
a few days. The war office has called
out the reserve companies of several
infantry battalions which will be sent
to South Africa forthwith.
The Boer peace envoys have documents,
the Borne correspondent of
The Daily News says, that urgent advances
to the Transvaal to wage war
were originally made by Germany.
The correspondent also asserts that
Count von Buelow, the German foreign
minister, who was said to have
gone on a visit to a sick brother, really
went to Milan for the express purpose
of conferring with the delegates.
MURDERED HIS WIFE.
Bloody Tragedy Resulted From a Separa*
tlon and a Quarrel.
' A 1 Pai/lav rtirrlif .TomAB
All Alriauiil, UD>| X'tlUaj Ulguo vi??vw
L. Baker shoved a pistol into his wife's
* face and fired four shots. With a groan
the woman fell to the floor, the blood
, gushing from two wonnds in her head
from tfhich she died a few hours later.
. Mrs. Baker had separated from her
husband a week before, and bad gone
to live with Mrs. Martha J. Payne, at
whose houpe the tragedy took place.
The inmates of the house were at
supper when Baker walked into the
dining room, and with the remark,
"You have turned the old dog out,,
have you?" shot straight in his wife's
face. There was so little said, and the
shooting was all done so quickly, that
it was some moments before it was
realized what had happened.
The affair has some very highly
sensational and dramatic features.
Baker claims, first of all, that his igife
aud himself disagreed on account of
her son by a former husbatld, and he
also claims that he shot his wife because
of Charles A. Pittman, a young
carpenter, who is a son-in-law of Mrs.
Payne. He first admitted shooting at
his wife, but later in the evening he
changed that statement and said lie
shot at Pittman and, missing him, hit
his wife accidentally. *
Pittman and all the other inmates of
the house state that Baker shot point
blank at his wife, after addressing a
remark to her.
The wounded woman said her husband
shot her because she refused to
live longer with him.
Baker is a meat cutter by trade. He
is said to be addicted to drink, and
was under the influence of whisky
when the shooting occurred.
Pittman was arrested at .the same
time with Baker, and the charge
against him was booked as "suspicion."
Baker was charged with assault
with intent to murder.
FITSfON IX OREGON.
Demnmti, PopnlliU and Silver Republicans
Join Their Fortune*.
The state convention of the Demo*
crats and Popnlists of Oregon, after
being in session for two dajs in Portland,
effected a fusion of the two parties
and adjourned.
The silver Republicans also joined
in the fusion movement, though they
held no convention. Both the Democrats
and Populists indorsed William
Jennings Bryan for the presidential
nomination, but the Populist delegates
were instructed to vote only for a Populist
for vice president.
Was a "Model" Young Man.
John C. Farrar, teller of the Waterbury,
Vt., National bank, is missing
and there is a defalcation of $25,000
of the bank's funds. The community
is greatly shocked by the news, as
Farrar was considered a model young
man.
Off For St. Helena.
The transport Lake Erie with upwards
of 500 Transvaal prisoners, including
French, German and Bussian
members of the foreign legion captured
at Boshof, -sailed from Cape
Town for St. Helena Saturday.
COULDN'T STAND PROSPERITY.
Bricklayer Inherits Fortune, Goes Crsiy
and Commits Suicide.
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J U11UH XV.UBIO*, a UiibAiav.
York, who recently inherited $300,000
from his brother's estate in Germany,
was fonnd dead Snnday swinging
from a rope in an empty water
tank on the roof of his honse. Koster
had recently recovered from a long
spell of sickness. The sndden change
from poverty to riches left his mind
permanently affected.
SOLDIER ASSASSINATED.
First Blood Flows as Consequence of
Strike at Cornell Dam.
The first blood sbed as the ontcome
of the strike at Cornell dam at Croton
Landing, N. Y., was the life's blood of
Sergeant Robert Douglass, of .the
Eleventh separate company, of Mount
Yernou, who was shot dead by an unknown
assassin while h > was relieving
guard at ten minutes to 9 o'clock Monday
night. The wildest exoitement
prevailed throughout the different
tents as soon as the news of the assassination
spread and the soldiers are^
frantic over the crime*
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HfcftlUUi KUW
IN HIGH COURT
Supreme Tribanal oi the Lail Ja
Will Settle the Contest
DATE FOR BEARING IS SET. M
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Attorneys File Documents Making
the Situation Plain and
Ask For Early Decision*
A Washington special says! The |
cases involving the Kentucky governorship
were docketed in the United
States supreme court Monday. A -vK-|
brief statement in which counsel for :
both Taylor and Beckham joined was
filed at the same time, asking for an
early hearing.
The court advanced the case to bi'jfgB
heard on the 30th instant, and allotted
each side four hoars for arguments. ;
The agreed statement seta out ttutt j
both Taylor and Beckham, as gover- ,
nors, John Marshall as lieutenant governor
on the Republican side, and L.V.:
H. Carter as president pro tern, of the ;
senate, and John B. Castleman as ad* *
jutant general on the Democratic side,
ore each and all claiming the right/t^S
and are actually attempting to
cise the powers of the respective
ces severally claimed by them, thus ||
producing great confusion in Ken-. m
tucky by reason of the doubts as to ;g|
which of the persons named has tfife
lawful right to exercise the authority
pertaining to the several offices name^^
all to the great injury and detriaaidS
of the people of the state. .The agreed^
statement then continues as follows: $
"Thus, under the constitution airipi
laws of Kentucky, the governor of the ~ ||
state, in addition to 'being charged " 'jjg
generally with the duty of seeing thai ' Ji
the laws are faithfully executed, is also - 'm
specially charged with the duty and m
invested with the power of filling many ii H
important offices in the state by aprjg
pomtment, some by original appoint?*
ment and others by appointment to AHM ;
vacancies, and also with the' power to - J
issue commissions to many officers,'^ '
whether appointed by him or electe&||
by the people, and also with the power ?
to issue pardons and to remit fines ilM "
"Both plaintiff in error, William 8||| f
Taylor, and defendant in error, J". C. -. ' ||
Beckham, are claiming the right to '?
perform all functions of the aforesaid | If
office of governor, and each of them is ~ ,
attempting and haa actually attempted^
to perform many of the said functions,'% "
tfnch, for-example, as issuing pardona--',"
and filling offices by appointment,etc., ^3
"Some of the officers of the state
recognize the Acts of the plaintiff I
in error, William S. Taylor, as:-; I
the lawfnl acts of the governor of ^ I
the state, and refnse to reeog4| :;|g
nize similar acts by defendant w||
error, J. C. W. Beckham; while aSmm jp
officers of the state recognize thnifflH
J. C. W. Beckham as the lawful : p
of the governor of the state and
to recoznize the nets of WilliazhjfiyflMB
Taylor as sneh governor.' m
"Among other officers whom 9
governor is authorized and required*! B
to appoint are the officers of- ^
eleemosynary institutions of the states^
and each of the said two claimants,;
the office, of governor has attempted
fill said offices and some persons rap*^.
ognize the authority of the appointees pj?
of one of said claimants to jhe offices M
and refnse to recognize those of tfeagBB
others, and vice versa. By reason of " ||
all these facts and others which might ^
be enumerated, it is of the utmost im-1
portance to the people of the state,of^
Kentucky that the question of right
to office involved in the aforesaid ;
litigation be determined. The que**^
tions of law involved in said caese^^^l
are of very great and grave interest
and importance, involvingthe natuwr.^JH
and extent of the powers of an election >;>
contest tribunal and the powers of
judiciary with relation thereto."
Mr. Louis McQuown appears aa
attorney for Beckham and other of
the Democrats, while Holm Brnoe ~|f
appears as attorney for Taylor and >:
other Bepublicans. j
MORGAN THANKFUL.
Old Senatorial War Horse of ilabma
Expresses Gratitude. "
Monday Senator Morgan, who is is
Washington* wired the Birmingham |a
Age-Herald as follows on the result of
his almost unanimous indorsement at B
the hands of the Alabama Democracy 4
in Saturday's primaries:
"The very remarkable vote of so %
many counties gives a safe assurance 0
of the future strength and harmony of the
Democracy of Alabama. The con- : :
fidence thns expressed toward me aa - '?
one of the senators from Alabama excites
my gratitude to the people and !
will increase my devotion to their is- ;
terests and prosperity.
"John T. Moboan." *
Public Building For Durham, 11
The senate committee on public
buildings and grounds lias authorized .
a favorable report on the bill for a new ;
public building at Durham, N. 0., to ' |
cost $80,000. :
Increased Allowance For Militia* ^
The house committee on militia decided
Friday to fix at $1,000,000
the amount allowed annually to the j
militia of the several states in the
place of the $400,000 now allowed. '-I'M
BOERS ARE CONSERYATIYE.
They Want Mo More Credit Then Really
Belongs to Them.
A New York Herald dispatch from -
Pretoria Wednesday VIA LdlWWJ Mil" JS
quez, say8:
The report to the effect that the
total British prisoners taken in the
operations southeast of Bioemfontein
was lt800, was an error owing to the
two Boer generals reporting the setae *.o
engagement under different names. 4
The oorreet total of prisoners it about ^vi
1,000.
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