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ESTABLISHED IS9L BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 24,1900. . ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. J
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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. |
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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.
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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sag n&s Deen proved against some jooer ;
prisoners. They will be punished.
Lord Roberts intends making an example.
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"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
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England Anxiously Awaits
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OTHER THINGS FORGOTTEN 1
Baden-Powell and His Bleagaered Force
Snccessfnlly Repeal Repeated s
Attacks of Boers. e
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A London special says: England a
still waits with intense and almost
breathless interest for news of the re- 8
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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 .
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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
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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.
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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
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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(
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)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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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