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- . r : * : . % V. '> Sa^MV^v v- - >,. c - ' gags i The Bamberg Herald. 1 * 4 > ? 'T 1 - ... - ' ESTABLISHED IS9L BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 24,1900. . ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. J " ~~ ~ : " ? ~~ SDN'S ECLIPSE A PHENOMENON Cowing Homsntous Event Attracts Widespread Attention. ASTRONOMERS ARE READY Oa May 28 Old Sol's Face Will Be Obscured By the Moon. A Washington special say3: The forthcoming total eclipse of the sun on May 28 is attracting world-wide attention, and astronomers everywhere have long been making preparations for observing and photographing the phenomenon. Besides making the usual time observations, interest largely centers in photographing the corona, the eoronal streamers, the spectra of the chromosphere, and particularly the celebrated flash spectra m appearing THE PATH 0^ THE E^ both at beginning and end of totality. ?- Fortunately it -will be possible to wit& seas the phenomenon from many sections of the United States. The Johns Hopkins University ex- < peditions to observe the solar eclipse ill work in nnison with the United States Naval Observatory and under the supervision of the latter. The observations of the Naval Observatory # will be divided among five parties. At 1 Binehurst, N. C., there will be four i astronomers from Washington, under i the direction of Professor Skinner; the < Johns Hopkins party, and a party from i V the Coast and Geodetic Survey, under < Professor G. A. Bauer. At Griffin, ] Ga., there will be one Naval Observ- 1 atory party, consisting of Dr. L. S. 1 Mitchell, of Columbia University; ; Professor Henry Crew and Dr. Tatall 1 of thtf Northwestern University of Yir- J ginia, and L. E. Jewell of the Johns POSITION or THX PIAXETE. | : Hopkins University; Professor S. J. Brown, Astronomical Director of the Naval Observatory will conduct obser- < r ations at Barnesville, Ga. The col- ; f leges and universities of the country ' will be well represented. Expeditions ] will be dispatched by Harvard, Yale, i CUT PRICE OF FLOUR. Chattanooga Mil! Men Have Disagreement Over Their Compact. * The out of 50 cents on the barrel of four made by one of the Chattanooga *nill? Thursday created a stir in the oiiv Friday and several hundred bar- , rels changed hands at the rednced price, the millers limiting sales, however, to any one dealer to ten barrels. p.: The cut grew ont of a misunderstanding between the mills, a combination having been formed some time ago to keep tip the prices. One miller reduoed the prices and the other in a rage eat 50 per cent lower. EXPENSES IN CUBA. ? War Department Answers a Resolution Passed In the Senate. The -war department sent to the senate Friday, in answer to a resolution, an itemized statement of the receipts and expenditures of all sorts in Cuba, including salaries and allowances to officers, since the United States government assumed control of the island. The statement shows that the total receipts from all sources in Cuba for the year were $10.316,590. The ex-: penditures are set down asS7,421,719. 1 A CAIN-ABLE ACT. j ? 1 Brother Slays Brother In the Town of Arlington, Ga. At Arlington, Ga., Thursday night j is the store of J. S. Cowart & Bro? . the former in defending his own life, j shot to death his brother and partner, j J. W. Cowart. The two brothers have | bees engaged in the turpentine, him* | ber, general merchandise and extensive farming business there for a nam* tor of yeare. A business misander* standing arose between theme Columbia, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago, 1 etc. On May 28th the circular shadow of the moon cast by the sun upon the earth, and about eighty miles in diameter, will come sweeping across the American continent from New Orleans to Cape Henry. Along the centre of the path traveled by this swiftly moving shadow the sun will be completely hidden for a period of about two minutes, More than forty miles away, on either side of the track the eclipse will be partial, not total. An eclipse of the sun that will be visible can occur only when the moon is new. At that time she passes exactly between the earth and the sun. According to the calculations of Professor Lnmsden, the round black shadow of the moon, like a great arm, will sweep in ont of space some time after sunrise in the morning of May 28th. This gigantic arm will come into contact with the earth somewhere near the Revilla Gigedo islands in'the Pacific ocean. With tremendous velocity the shadow will rush toward the mainland and will enter Mexico, near I x&mMSiHJ$L*? ' c?^r~" K-^| [BOUGH THE UNITED 8TA.TE3. Corrientes, at a speed of more than one hundred miles a minute*. In eight minutes it will have crossed the Rocky Mountains, and by 7:30 central or 8:30 eastern time it will have crossed the Qnlf and entered Mexico. Then on it will pass, over its selected path, until it is lost again in spaoe. The period of totality of the eclipse varies at different points along the track. At the Rocky Mountains the Bpectacle will last but about thirty ?_ - _ J -i XT A.I lU- ??.; seCOUUB, UUU st up* viicaun uig yci od will hare been lengthened thirtyseven seconds. At Union Point, Greene connty, Ga., the center of the path for the United States, the time of totality will be 92 seconds, while those who are at the Atlantis coast, jnst south of the city of Norfolk, will be able to continue their observations for 105 seconds. REEVES ADfllTS QUILT. Deputy rianipulator Of Cuban Financial Transactions In Cuba Makes a Confession; A special from Havana says: W. H. Beeves, deputy auditor of the island af Cuba, made a confession at midsight Friday and gave np $4,500 given to him by C. F. W. Neely, the arrested financial agent of posts at Havana, to perform certain services the day he left. General Wood and the postal inspectors refuse to disclose the nature of the confession, barely admitting that one has been made. It is claimed that $1,400 more will be recovered. General Wood says that the report ? - 5 11 1 1__ ACk from juuncie, xna., urn neariy ea,)00,000 worth of stamps have been printed there and sent for distribution to Cuban postoffices can be regarded is a canard. It is believed now that the whole itozy is known and that the amount of the defalcation will fall between $100,XX) and $125,000. Metbuen Takes Hoppstad. Lord Roberts telegraphs the London war office as follows: "Kbooxstad, May 18.?Methnen entered Hoppstad Thursday unopposed. Generals Daprey and Daniels and forty men have surrendered. ENV0Y5 ARE NOTIFIED Of the Relief of flafeking Bat Refrala From Making Comment. The first intimation of the relief of Mafeking which came to the Boer envoys now in this country was conveyed to them by a reporter of the Associated Press, who boarded the congressional limited, upon which they were being conveyed to Washington, as it passed through Baltimore. Abraham Fischer, who acted as spokesman for the party, read: the dispatches from Pretoria and London carefully, but without show of emotion. "I have no oomment to make at this time," he said. ABUSED WHITE FLAO. Serious Charges Brought By Lord Roberts Against the Boers. A special dispatch from Kroonstad, dated Thursday, says: "A clear case of abuse of the white j t - - 3 _ a. n I sag n&s Deen proved against some jooer ; prisoners. They will be punished. Lord Roberts intends making an example. . "The British patrol was fired on from a house flying the white flag near Klipfoutein. Three were wounded and three were captured. The house has been burned." STRIKERS ARE JAILED. Board Street Car In Defiance of Judi- i cial Orders. * In the United States district court at Little Rock Friday, Judge John A. Williams imposed a jail aentenoe of six months and thirty days uyon Gay i Miller and Alden Hayes for contempt of corn t in boarding a street oar and interfering with the non-union motorman and oonduotor who were employes of the ooart reoeirer now operating the straat oar system. RELIEF IS MR < FOR MAFEKING P England Anxiously Awaits Good News. } OTHER THINGS FORGOTTEN 1 Baden-Powell and His Bleagaered Force Snccessfnlly Repeal Repeated s Attacks of Boers. e ! A V A London special says: England a still waits with intense and almost breathless interest for news of the re- 8 g lief of Mafeking. A crowd remarkable for the number of men in evening n dress, and including many ladies, lingered around the war office even after . i] midnight Thursday night hoping for a some announcement. Only reluctant- f, ly did the people disperse, when the t! lobbies of the war office were finally ^ cleared with the word that nothing had been received. c One thing seems clear. The town s still holds out. Were it otherwise the wires laid to the camps of the beleag- j ! uers would have flashed the news. Skeleton messages from Lourenzo P Marques, based upon information that ? leaked out at the Pretoria war office, ^ show that the storm'ers Saturday fell into a trap. Colonel Baden-Powell ^ permitted them to seize one fort and he then surrounded and overbore them 11 before the large forces near at hand a perceived the stratagem. It was thus iL-i a 1 ui.* f mair oai e* xjuju, X. icnucui/ o grandson, and part of his command * were taken and fifty Boers killed. n The Canadian artillery contingent of the Bhodesian force is now reported to have reached Buluwayo May 2nd. 0 The distance from Buluwayo to Mafe- ? king is 490 miles. As the railway is 11 open all the way to Pitsani, twenty- a eight miles from Mafeking, where a Colonel Plumer is, the Canadians may a yet take part in the relief. General French, scouting north- r' ward, found the Boers in strong force r at Bhenoster spruit, thirty miles from a Kroonstad. General Botha, De Larey and Oliver, with artillery, were holding the position. President Steyn, according to one _ dispatch, has gone to Pretoria. Another says he is a fugitive at Lindley. The Free Staters are surrendering on all sides. A dispatch from Cape Town s< says that proclamations are being p printed there to be published on the queen's birthday, May 24th, annexing the Free State. ^ One of President Steyn's brothers, c who is a prisoner of General Brabant, e says that the Free Staters will accept s< annexfcon. Those who took up arms c the second time, he explains, had to w do so under threats of instant death, t] Five hundred rifles have been sur- ii rendered at Kroonstad in excess of tl the number of Boers who have taken ii the oath of allegiance. Lord Boberts has directed the British commanders ti to receive all comers in a good spirit n and to issue to them passes to go to n their farms. o General Waller is pasmng straigni u ahead without opposition. He has G only lost five wounded daring the movement. Apparently he is aiming at b Laing's nek, which is the direct road G to the Transvaal, although he may tl diverge to Botha's pass. S Michael Davitt, according to a dis- p patch from Lonrenzo Marqnez, is 8**1 to have advised the Boers, while he ^ was in Pretoria, that if they could e hold out until the presidential eleotion 1 in the United States they might feel d "pretty sure of intervention." si At Johannesburg the women are e forming a police corps, so as to release li every man for fighting purposes at the front ? Dr. Archer, who was at Dundee dur- E ing the Boer occupation, asserts that b there several hundred Englishmen serving in the Boer forces who would desert if assured of pardon from the British. The Pretoria official list of h foreigners shows 160 Englishmen who I are not fighting, but hold their resi- tl dence in the Transvaal by special per- f< mission. They are bank clerks, en- tc gineers and shopkeepers. b RElflBURSEriENT BILL. Measure Passed In House to Pay Cer- p tain War Losses. For the first time since the civil war the house Friday passed a measure to pay Confederate soldiers for losses growing out of the civil war. It was a o bill introduced by Mr. Cox, of Tennes- I 8ee,to pay the Confederate soldiers who 0 surrendered at Appomattox for the J loss of horses and other personal ef- ri fects taken from them in violation of n Lee's capitulation to Grant by which officers and men of Lee's army were ^ allowed to retain their baggage, side c arms and horses. 8l The bill originally carried $200,000, n but the specific sum was stricken out. DECORATED GOEBEL'S GRAVE. ? - . - r> 1-1 r\.. I! Democrats At t-ranKiori Kejoico u*ci n Court's Decision. The announcement of the supreme court's decision at Washington in the b governorship contest was received at c Frankfort with the wildest demonstra- n tion on the part of the democrats. i At 4 o'clock Monday the grave of William Goebel was decorated by the p people, and at that hour a great out- r pouring of people went on a pilgrimage n to the cemetery. o House Passes Eight-Hour Bill. v In the house Monday the eight-hour labor bill was passed?151 to 24, and Mr. Gardner then moved the passage ! of the bill to prohibit inter-state traffic I I in conviot made goods, which was also 1' j passed without division. J ? p Clark Howell For State Senator. Clark Howell, Editor of The Atlanta Contitution, was unanimously nominated for state senator from the Thirty- e fifth Georgia district at the Democratic a convention held in Atlanta Monday t( afternoon. 8 - . -J - ^ )0M PAUL KRU6ER ASKS FOR PEACE? Report Reaches London That Overtures Have Been Made. JEWS IS UNCONFIRMED .'he Relief of Mafeking Is Now "Officially" Announced. A. report was received in London iaturday that the Pretoria government had decided to sue Lord Robrts for peace. While no confirmation f this rnmor is at hand, it is geoerlly credited. Displayed in the most conspicuous tyle in the London Daily Express of iunday the dominant war news of the lorning in the following editorial tatement: "We have the best reason for statag that in the last twenty-fonr "hours telegram has been received at the reign office, addressed personally to he prime minister, from President Lruger, proposing terms of peace, 'he exact terms of the message canot be stated, but we believe it is onched in an exceedingly humble train." It ia inconceivable, of course, that <ord Salisbury can have S9nt any rely except the one that stands ready n the lip of every Briton?uncondiional surrender. Saturday night's court circular confined the following: "The queen received on Friday ight, with the greatest gratification nd thankfulness, the news of the elief of Mafeking after a heroic deense of over seven monthq, by Baden'owell and rtroops under his comland." The significance of this, which refers the receipt by her majesty of a copy f the Associated Press Pretoria disatch, is that it is the first official atimation of the relief of Mafeking, nd it would not have been made had ny doubts existed in the official mind s to toe correct nous ui me uvwb. The boisterous rejoicings over the eports from Mafeking have become ;ots in parts of London, Aberdeen nd Belfast and elsewhere in tlfr Jutted Kingdom. WITH ELABORATE CERE/IONY he Statue of Qraot Is Unveiled In Rotunda of the Capitol. The statne of General Grant, preented by the Grand Army of the Benblic to the nation, was nnveiled in iie great rotunda of the> capitol at Washington Saturday and elaborate eremonies commemorative of the vent were held in the hall of repreentatives in the presence of a va^< on course of people who included the idow, daughter and descendants of lie general, hundreds of his comrades i arms, the officers and committees of lie Grand Army of the Republic promsent in military and social circles. The statue represents the oontribuions of thousands of his oomrades, one of whom was allowed to subscribe lore than 15 cents, and is the result f a movement started shortly after General Grant's death at Mt. McGregor, July, 1885. The unveiling took place shortly efore noon in tke presence of Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Sartoris, the officers of tie Grand Army of the Republic, peaker Henderson and Senator Frye, resident pro tern, of the senate. In the senate the Grant ceremonies rere also held. After a handsome ulogy by Mr. Harris, Mr. Turley, of 'ennessee, delivered a notable adre8s from the view point of a private aldier in the ranks of the Confed rate army and his tribute was brilant. At 2:30 p. m. the ceremony of acepting the statnes of Benton and lair from Missouri began, the other usiness of the senate being laid aside. Alabama Campaign Committee. A conference was held in Birmingam, Ala., Saturday, between the >emocratic executive committee and ie nominees of theDemocratic party >r the various state offices and elec)rs. A campaign committee headed y F. L. Pettus, of Selma, was named. MEflBERS ARE VOTING or President of the National Typographical Union. An Indianapolis dispatch says: Bourns from the election for the officers f the International Typographical Inion are coming in very slowly. The fficial count will not be made until une 5th, although the result of the see for president 6f the organization lay be known before that time. President Donnelly has received by rire the vote in some of the larger ities, but will not give them out and ays the figures he has received are of o value in deteimining the final realt. STREET CARS QUARD&D. \ ____________ lace Trouble In Augusta Reached An Interesting Stage. Two hundred young men, assisted y armed deputies, rode on the trolley ars of Augusta, Ga., Sunday night intil the hour for the last car to go uto the shed for the night arrived. Early in the afternoon it was retried that the negroes were going tc aob the trolley conductors and motor* aen. The report came as the result f the enforcement of the state law requiring the separation of negroes and' rhite people on the cars. Hay Adjourn June 6. In the house Monday Mr. Payne, Republican leader, introduoed a reso* ation for adjournment of oongress on une 6. The reading was greeted rith applause. Director Rathbone Suspended. The postmaster general has suspendd Direotor of Posts Rathbone and ppointed Fourth Assistant Poatmai* ir General Briitow aotiog direotor eneral of post in Cuba. V - ' / .' > . ' " ... *-. { " : I 1 SOUTH CAROLINA I I STATE NEWS ITEMS. J ? fSlCMCMCMCMCMrslCM * Will Open Line June 2. The greater Seaboard Air Line proposes opening its entire through line on June 2 by rnnning a special train through from Richmond, Ya., to Tampa, Fla. The run from Richmond to Tampa will be over its own lines all the way from the Virginia capital to the Florida port. Governor McSweeney received the following telegram from Richmond a day or two ago: To His Excellency, Governor M. B. McSweeney, Columbia, S. C.?'We hope to have the honor of your presence representing your state at the banquet and ceremonies here marking the completion of the Seaboard Air Line Railway from Richmond and the East to Tampa, Fla., on June 3. You will receive by mail an official invita tion with further details, and I take the liberty of urging that you so arrange yonr engagements as to be with us on that day. John* Skklton* Williams, President. Governor McSweeney regrets exceedingly that he will not be able to join the party on this trip, as he has already accepted an invitation to go to Louisville, and'has called a meeting of the Chickamauga commission to meet on June 4, and he will not be able to join the Seaboard Air Line party. Governor McSweeney is anxions, however, for this state to be well represented on ' this occasion, which he regards as meaning so much for South Corolina, and will so inform Mr. Williams, who has kindly invited him to accompany the party. It is understood that an evening will be spent in Columbia and that there will be an afternoon reception in Savannah. The party will go through to Tampa, Fla., where there will be a celebration. 'Phone War In Columbia. The Columbia city council committee has decided to refuse the application of the home telephone company for a franchise. The application was opposed by the Bell and the South Carolina Telephone Company. The home company, G. A. Browning, of Greenville, president, controls all mi, nor systems in Piedmont Carolina. IThe Bell company is in sole control of Columbia. It has about four hundrorl snViawifiorn wKn nor Sif) a VPAT for commercial and $30 for domestic 'phones. There is an extra charge for each message over the long distance 'phone to points oat of town. The South Carolina Telephone Company's system is being instituted. According to statementa outside of the committee room, this company has spent about $6,000 in Columbia. It has had a great many ups and downs, and for that reason has been regarded as doubtful. Jb day or two ago this company put up a certified check for $1,000, which amount it agrees to forfeit to the city of Columbia if its line is not completed by August 1st, and the committee decided to report unfavorably upon the application of the home company for the present; but if the South Carolina company does not hurry its system to completion, then the council will invite the home or some independent system to locate in the city. The home proposed to fight the Bell. Its officers claim the Carolina company cannot make cennections with companies it controls. ? . Some Ante-Bellum Records. In the plunder room of the state house, which is being explored by Mr. Gantt, one of the interesting finds was the legislative report of the investigation into the famous insurrection in 'I'KA AMAA O A/MTl O f A uunricsiuut ^.UD cnuoui/c OCCUID W have been taken in Jane, 1862, and as a result a number of hangings were ordered. The evidence is quite interesting, and shows the intense ignorance and superstition of the negroes. Reiser Won Medal. The tenth annual contest of the Interstate Oratorical Association was held in the state capitol at Columbia the past week. The medal was won by W. Gordon Belser of the South Carolina College. The speakers were D. K. Lambuth, Vanderbilt, The Man With the Hoe; W. C. Monroe, University of Virginia, The Voice of a Heritage; W. G. Belser, South Carolina College, The Trend of Politics; and J. B. Dibrell, University of Texas, The Modern Demagogue, Center College, Washington and Lee and Sewanee were not represented. The judges were ex-Governor John C. Sheppard and Justice Ira B. Jones, both former speakers of the house of representatives, and Judge Andrew Crawford. ?% Dispute Leads to Marder. Tom Odom and James Israel, young white men, had a dispute in Greenville about a ball game in which they were interested. They seemed reconciled and went into a store, when Odom drew a revolver and fired a bullet through Israel's brain. Odom stood for a few minutes gazing at the fallen man nntil the deputy sherm arrived. He acknowledged doing the killing, but refused to be arrested^ This, however, was accomplished with the aid of another man. When taken to jail the young man acted strangely and seemed in a stupor. He was under the influence of an opiate. Neither had been drinking. ?% Attorney Makes Complaint. Governor McSweeney has received . another complaint from a Charleston lawyer about an out-of-town magistrate. Of course, Governor McSweeney knows nothing about the merits of the case or the parties, and he has referred the correspondence to Senaj tor Barnwell, with the request that he j I report to him what, if anything, there J ; was in the matter. The oharge is that! the magistrate prevented the servioe of Tapers aad otherwise offended one of the lawyer^ n*gro clients, ?* Requisition* lasuedi Governor McSweeney hss issued j requisition pipers for Louis Broom* field, who was sent to the penitentiary from York county, in 1888, on the charge of larceny and housebreaking. Broom held escaped, and he has been arrested at Monticello, Ark , and the requisition papers for him have been placed in charge of Captain W. D. Black, who will go for the prisoner. Governor McSweeney received a letter a few days ago from Governor Russell, of North Carolina, in which it is stated: "In the matter of the requisition of your excellency for one Peek, the governor directs me to say that the case has not yet been heard." FAVORED BRADLEY. Kentucky Republicans Would Like to See Their Ex-Governor Vice-President The Kentnc.fev Rermblican state con* | vention met in Louisville Thursday afternooD and after a session of nine hours with two hours intermission, elected four delegates to the national [ convention, four alternates and two presidential electors; indorsed the administration of President McKinley; cbndemned the state of affairs in Kentucky, chargeable to the democratic party, and instructed its delegates to vote for McKinley for president and W. O. Bradley, of Kentucky, for rice president Ex-Governor Bradley made a speech in which he referred forcibly to the state of affairs, invoking restoration of civil liberty which, he said, had been so long disregarded in the state. He denounced in unmeasured terms the assassin who shot down Senator Goebel and said he hoped the guilty party would be punished, but not the innocent While the ex-governor was speaking Governor Taylor sat behind him with his little daughter on his knee, and as Bradley referred pathetically to the criticisms made of Taylor the latter buried his face in his hands and wept bitterly. ' The unusual spectacle of Democrats addressing a Bepublican convention was seen when Judge W. H. Yost and Richard W. Knott, editor of The Evening Post, of Louisville, life-long i. an/1 ,nnnAi4aro a! ar.AnV X/CUIVWObO OUU OU|/yVi Wi u v* vov ww* ernor Brown, were called for and Bpoke. APPROPRIATIONS WANTED. Alabama and Georgia People Appear Before House Committee. A Washington special says: Georgia and Alabama occnpied the attention of the rivers and harbors committee of the honse Tuesday morning when the delegation in the interest of the Coosariver improvement was given a hearing. There was a fall attendance of the committee and a number of senators and representatives partly interested in this work were present, Colonel D. B. Hamilton, of Borne, was the principal speaker. He explained the condition of the waterway and the great benefit to be received from its improvement on the line which he suggested. He was followed by Mr. Lay of Gadsden, Mr. LaMirop, of Biverside, and Captain Flagler, the engineer officer in charge of that work. The speeches were all short and to the point and the questions of members of the committee showing that they took great interest in the matter. There is every indication that favorable action will be taken on the proposed appropriation. The emergenoy river and harbor bill, which was reported to the house Tuesday, carried a total appropriation of about $500,000. Two hundred thousand dollars -' AVi- nnniamnlafaH Tillr Ui IU13 lu ^U IV liUO WuwuA|/tu?v\* chase from the Eades heirs of their property at the month of the Mississippi river. The rest is to go for emergency work to be applied on certain necessary improvements to be made nnder the direction of the engineers of the army. Among the specific projects to be covered by this appropriation are the following: Sonth Carolina, Great Pee Dee river, between Cheraw and the Wilmington, Colnmbns and Angnsta railroad bridge; Ashley river, from the city of Charleston to the head of navigation . Georgia, Savannah harbor, with a viow to re-examination of the plan of deepening said harbor as submitted in the report of chief of engineers for 1888 and a report as to what ohanges of modification, if any are necessary to carry ont this plan. Alabama, Mobile harbor, with a view to obtaining a channel of a width of three hundred feet at the bottom of the channel across the bar below Fort Morgan, with appropriate side slopes and with a mean depth of twenty-five feet respectively. STRIKERS "HELD UP." Federal Judge Issues Injunction Restraining St. Louis Mobs. For one week at least the striking employees of the St. Louis Transit Company will be face to face with federal authority, which speaking through Judge Elmer B. Adams, of the United States circuit court, in the form of an injuction, has commanded them to abstain from interfering in any manner with the running of mail can on the various street car lines of the city owned by the Transit Company. The writ of injunction, issued at 4:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon by Judge Adams, is sweeping in its nature, and is made returnable May 26th. It commands the strikers to refrain from doing anything whatever that will delay or obstruct the operating of M ?-- ?? nafViarino and diatri. mail cars, i/i uuo **-*o iuv. ....... bution of the mails. Everything prayed for in the petition for an injunction presented to Judge Adams by Unted States District Attorney Rosier was granted. One thousand copies of the injunction have ueen printed. Each person named in it will be served with a copy by United States Marshal Bohle. Bulletins will be posted at the varions carsheds and they will also be posted in conspicuous places along the street over which the mail cars run, Do you want an up-to-date, Ike newspaper?one that will keep yon posted on aJGffcirt at home and abroad) Yon will answer the question affirmatively by sending n? jroar none and subscription for this paper for a year or at lout six aoithi. SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS MEET State Convention la Held and Delt* tatea Selected. GATHERING HARMONIOUS. Assemblage Was Unit For Bryan and the Chicago Platform. The Sonth Carolina State Demo* cratic Convention in session at Columbia Wednesday was harmonious for the first time in a decade and a unit for Bryan and the Chicago platform with added planks. W. F. Ste* venson, of Cheraw, presided. He congratulated the state upon the harmony in the ddmocratio ranks. The delegation to the national oouvention was, after debate, instructed to Tote as a nnit upon all matters. The* delegates are large are: Senator B. B. Tillman, Governor M. B. McSveeney, Stete Chairman Wilie Jones and A. C. Latimer. From the congressional distriots: First District?W. B.Wilson,-Thornas Talbird. Second District?James H. Tillman, C. W. Garcia. Third District?T. H. McCalla, W. J. Steybling. Fourth District?J.A.lfooney, John Gary Evans. Fifth District?T. A. Williams. Sixth District?D. H. Taxler, T.W. Bonchier. Seventh Distriot?J. William Stokes, W. B. Gruber. The platform declares allegiance to | the national party and demands reefI firmation of the Chicago platform at i Kansas City. It condemns the financial legislation of the Bepubliopn party as subservient to trusts and national banks. It decries the power of trusts and the hypocritical attitude of the Republican party, "using money stolen from the people to debauch the ignorant voters." It denounces the foreign policy of President McKinley, saying: < "The 'benevolent assimilation' of the Filipinos has proven to be the benevolence of murder and the assim nation or roooery. we aenonsoe n as an outrage to the eonaeieueee of Hberty-loving persons. Free institutions cannot long survive the destruction of these principles upon which they rest, -and the spectacle of subject peoples held down by the bayonet and robbed by carpet baggers but foreshadows the fate for our oountry unless the people are aroused to our danger. The unjust war of subjugation now being carried on in the Philippines by President McXinley should be ended at once." The platform demands a strict adherence on the part of the United States government to the solemn pledges by which congress promised independence to the Cuban patriots. The treatment of Porto Bioo is also condemned, and the wise party leadership of Bryan commended, "bettering that he will restore the lost pree| tige of the high office of president** Concerning England's course In the Transrsal, the platform says: "Great Britain's unrighteous course deserves the condemnation of ell lorera of self-government arid we denounce the cowardice of the present administration for not extending an offer of its good offioes to terminate the nnhoiy war of subjligation." Colonel Lawrence W.-Youman made a bitter attack npon Senator Tillman's record, but the convention, with the exception of his rote, passed resolutions indorsing his policy in opposing imperialism. The convention passed resolutions condemning the jnte trust. NEW COLORED BI5H0P5. African Methodist Conference Selects Five Additional Prelates. The general conference of the Afri* can Methodist Episcopal church, in session at Columbus, O., elected fire new bishops,-as follows: M. M. Moore, D. D.f Washington. Evans Tyree, D. D., Nashville. C. S. Smith, D. D., Nashville. C. T. Shaffer, D. D., Philadelphia. L. J. Coppen, D. D., Philadelphia. But one ballot was taken. With the election of five additional ' bishops the ootxncil now contains thirteen, and all elected for life, Bishops Turner, Arnett, Tanner, Gaines, Grant, Lee, Salter, Handy and Derrick being the former bishops. CUBAN AFFAIR IN HOUSE. Jones, of Virginia, Introduces Resolu* tlon For an Investigation. A Washington dispatch says: Representative Jones, of Virginia, introduced a resolution in the house Thnrsdoy directing the secretary of war to furnish information in connection with the Neely disclosures in Cube. It follows the Baoon resolution in the senate, and adds three further inquiries. HAFEKINQ NOT RELIEVED. Oom Paul's Burghers Storm Outposts But Are Surrounded. An official bulletin issued at Pretoria announces that the federal troops stormed and occupied the forts around Mafekiog on Sunday morning. Th? same night the federals were surrounded, losing, so far as known, seven killed, seventeen wonnded and a number taken prisoners. The British casultiea are said to have been fifty killed or wounded. Steel Company Issues Stock. A certificate was filed with the secretary of state of New Jersey Saturday certifying that the American Steel Company has issued $49,000,000 of oapital stock, of whioh $45,000,000. was issued for the purchase of proper* : ty sod the remainder $4,000,000, wis paid in each. King of Belgians la BagUnd. A Loudon special says: The king of tha Belgians mi mif9i la fingland oaariait, COURT DECIDES FOR BECKHAM Taylor Loses In Kentucky ; | Governorship Case. ??? LACK OF JURISDICTION far Justices Dissent Fna FMhp <f J Cent?Chief Jasfce Filler Basis . Dm Opiiiet. -; V: i ' j|a The supreme court of the United' States handed down its decision Monday in the Kentucky governorship case in favor of Democratic Governor ? Beckham in both the quo warranto and the equity proceedings. For want of jurisdiction the court dismissed the writ of error from the Kentucky oourt of appeals. The opinion was handed down by Chief Justice Fuller and a rrJ rigorous dissenting opinion waa delivered by Justice Harlan, the only one to advocate reversal of the Kentucky court's decision. Justices Brewer, Brown and MeKenna also dissented from portions of the opin^||| In dismissing the writ of error the chief justice said the court should be the last to overstep the bounds limit- icg its own jurisdiction and that in the, determination of cases of this character, contests for state offioes must aev* ceeaarily be settled by the political^ branch of the government That branch had acted in the Kentucky & case when the general assembly took There was no appeal from the qj|g| sembly's decision, which was favorahie to Goebel and Beckham, except to the tribnnal of the people, which tri- ? banal, the chief jnstioe said, was at^p ways in session. He also said the'^| case was purely' a state case?thak l Kentucky was in the full possession of its faculties as a member of the un- m iqn and that there was no emergens^ at this time calling for interference of the general government to enforce constitutional guarantees or to put down domestic violenoe. The chief justice quoted numerous decisions holding tMl PUUUB mm ^ are mere agencies or trusts, and not property, as such, nor are the salary and emoluments property secured by contract, but compensation for services , actually rendered. A similar order was entered in tits injunction esse between the same per- iyMThere were three dissenting opinions. Justice McKenna was the first of the dissentors to be heard. He stated that while he concurred in the^SM result, he was not prepared to say that a public office was not property. Justice Brewer also based his dissent on tite point of office as property, He also, held the view that the United ; States oonrts were not without jurisdiction, but contended that the decision of the Kentucky court should be affirmed instead of dismissing the . Ih conclusion Justice Brewer agrees $ : with the court of appeals of Kentaci^J that upon the award of the assembly no other judgment can be entered than i : that which sustains it. Justice Harlan, in his dissenting opinion, quotes various authorities, and says that notwithstanding them the decision is that this court has no jurisdiction to inquire whether the citizen has been deprived without due process of law, of an office held by him under the constitution and laws of his state. If the contest between > the one holding the office and the per*-.^ son seeking to hold it is determinable ^ h. th. I?m.latnr?. in ? PTOKgHwd r~M mode this court, it appears, oonnot ip; quire whether that mode was pursued _ rf| and cannot interfere for the protee* " p tion of the incumbent, even if the final; ] action of the legislature wsjs confessedly capricious and arbitrary, inooa*-^ sistent with the recognized principles that belong to dne process of law tnd jl not based, in any degree, upon tike * evidence taken in the contest Quay Again a Candidate. A Philadelphia dispatch says: Matt S. Quay has announced his candidaej v for re-election to the senate. NO PEACE PRQP03AL. Report That President Kfatw l^ Made Overtures Is Denied. An Associated Press dispatch from ~ London says that no message from " President Kruger, direct or indirect,, ! . has receently been received by Lord:^ Salisbury or by any department of the British government, nor; ; it msy be added, is any oommuni*|| cation from him dealing with the ques- , S tion of oessstion of hostilities expect- - > ' ed by them in the immediate future.' The proximity of peace, according to the government point of view, will t rexnain a matter of military nro|rril>as , ^ w w'-? t A C AlUOANTINPa ^^9 - ... Against Sao Francisco As Resolt of Bubonic Plague Reports. .5? A telegram was received in Austin, Texas, Saturday night confirming the r*^ reports'of the existence of the buboufov| plagne at San Francisco. Immediate- *4} ly upon receipt of the news Dr. 'Binni declared absolute quarantine against San Franciseo, and stationed inspectors at ?1 Paso and Texarkana. Ho passengers or goods of any kind will . be admitted from San Francisco. LAW-riAKINd PRESBYTERIANS Assemble In isad Annual Sealii^| With 1,000 Delegates Present. The 122d annual session of thePres- : byterian general assembly, the h|Mp9 '** .'?c: