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2Bi ESTABLISHED 1S91. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10.1901. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
p PBHIP ARMOUR DEAD
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4|t Veil Known Millionaire Packer
Passes Away at Chicago.
r ILLNESS OF L0N6 DURATION
Lord's Prayer Was Read While
A Life Was Going Out?Brief
p Sketch of His Career.
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A unicago special Bays: rnmp uauforth
Armour, philanthropist, finauL
cier and multi-millionaire, head of the
Jtv. vast commercial establishment that
bears his name, died at his home, 2115
u Prairie avenue, at 2:45 o'clock Sunday
B afternoons
f - A muscular affection of the heart,
known to the medical profession as
p myocarditis, was the immediate cause
of death. He had been slowly recovering
from pnenmonia that for three
II weeks had threatened his life. At 9
B o'clock bis heart gave way under the
* strain of his recent illness, his pulse
^ k running up to 103. That was the beJ
ginning of the end.
Dnrlng the day he had realized that
W death was near. > To those around him
* he said:
"I know I am very sick, and am
ready for death when it comes."
Soon after luncheon, and just before
the physician forbade his talking more,
Mr. Armour in feeble tones said that he
would like to hear the Lord's Prayer
reed. One of the trained nurses who
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73s HSU Doea MWUUUl^ wu Ufcw t? uuau
to the bedside of the dying man and
slowly read from the Bible the prayer
for which the dying man had asked.
It was read sentence by sentence, and
^ each was repeated by Mr. Armour,
r When the "amen" had been repeated
by him, he Rank back on the pillow
, and closed his eyes restfnlly. It was
Il the last word the great financier spoke
except feeble farewells to his family a
^ little later.
B The end came after two years of illness,
during whioh Mr. Armour visited
German baths, passed the cold
Wr months in southern California and dfr
voted himself largely to an attempt to
B restore his health, which, however
B|f& had been broken never to be regained.
of; Estimates oi Mr. Armour's own esK
tate run from $10,000,000 to $25,000,r
000. This, of course, does not inolude
the $15,000,000 or $20,000,000 owned
. f by the younger members of his family.
|| Philip D. Armour, who was in his
y sixty-ninth year, made his own life on
1 lines unique and wholly original with
himself.
jpf; From a not over-rich Oneida county,
h New York, farm to the position of payr..
jng more freight and controlling more
7 provisions than any other man in the
BpNfeqrid were two extremes of his life.
m B^ The ancestral Armours were ConPL
necticut people, but Philip Armour
'' was not born until after the family
moved to Stockbridge, Oneida
county, New York. His birth date
B was May 16, 3832.
(p* American coai aooara its amenoia
^ bailt warships and other vessels of the
I czar's fleets will also test the product
L& of Virginia mines. The first cargo to
W be shipped the imperial admiralty was
J cleared at Norfolk, Ya., Thursday in
the British steamship Ferndine, Cap-0'
tain Jones, which cleared for Port Arthur.
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WISCONSIN COLONY COXING.
f and Saw Mill Property Purchased
By Promoter In Florida.
A. C. McComb, of Wisconsin, has
/* purchased 50,000 acres of land sonth
B of Tallahassee, Fla., along the line of
l\ the Carabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia
railroad, and also big sawmill
_ \ properties at Mclnfjrre. This deal is
~ for the purpose oi establishing a Wis
eonsin colony, and Mr. McComb already
has a number of families from
T * his state preparing to move to the
colony site within the next few days.
I- The California gold fever struck
lll'lr western New York in 1849, and young
Armour was the first in Stockbridge to
ife determine to visit the Pacific coast.
W He seedred the permission of his par-*
m ents and at that age started, having
W BBjthree or four companions from the
K same neighborhood. Hie almost incredible
part of it was that the party
walked nearly the entire distance from
fiSf^ ''Hkw York to California.
The commercial sense, which always
predominated in his life, indicated its
presence as soon as he saw the gold
^ fields of California. He made money
- from the start and at the end of six
|y-. months he returned home with a fortune.
Becoming dissatisfied with the
quiet life oilhis native town he went west
| again, and together with a brothei*inlaw
established a large wholesale gro f'
oery house in Milwaukee.
This venture was also successful
Ie and in a year's time he purchased the
v largest grain elevator in Milwaukee.
' This led to more elevators and railroad
stock. In 1866 he came to Chi
cago to take charge of the Chicago
? branch of a New York packing estab^
men! The result was that the Chicago
house ceased to be a branch and the
west gained the largest packing and
> provision plant in the world.
In works of charity Mr. Armour's
1 monument will be found in the ArI
mour Institute, to which but a short
| time ago be gave $750,009 in one re
p ' mem trance. Aa&eu unuc ?uh? uc
considered his best paying investment,
;T he replied: "The Armour Institute."
Cp- : Mr. Armour was a heavy owner in
||r'' the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
railroad company, and in the reorgan_
ized Baltimore and Ohio. He was
ft largely interested in the Illinois Trust
SEr-" and Savings, Metropolitan National
- " and Northern Trust banks,of Chicago,
and in the Armour bank, of Kansas
City. He was a director of the NorthAjt'
western Life Insurance company and
f was a heavy stockholder in the company
which controls the street railways
of Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas
City, Kas.
r RUSSIA TO TRY OUR COAL.
| F?el From Pocahontas-Mines In TlrgiBla
la Sent to Port Arthur.
^ The Russian government is to-try
! CARMACK FOR SENATOR.
Tennessee Legislators Gather at
Nashville and Begin Work
By Caucusing.
A Nashville special says: The Democratic
members of the Tennesste legislature,
in caucus Monday afternoou,
made nomination by acclamation of ?.
W. Carmack, of Shelby, for United
States senator; Reau E. Folk, of Davidson,
for state treasurer, and Thos.
F. King, of Dyer, for state comptroller.
The caucus will later on nominate
a state librarian and a secretary
of state.
The Republican members nominated
T. N. Burkef, of Athens, for senator;
G. Li. Hannah, for secretary 01 state;
F. N. Gailbreatb, for treasurer; W. M.
Spelling, for comptroller, and Miss Ila
Hanna, for librarian.
The house and senate Democrats
held separate caucuses during the
morning and selected the speakers and
chief clerks, who were later elected by
their respective bodies when they met
at noon. The senate elected Newton
H. White, of Giles, speaker, and
James A. Kirby, of Robertson, chief
clerk. The house elected E. B. Wilson,
of Sumner, speaker, and E. E.
Adams, of Wilson, chief clerk. The
house cancus nominated Ed Martin
assistant clerk, G. J. Adams, sergeant
at arms; Fred T. Wilson and T. R.
Tnrrentine, assistants, and Miss Hettie
Farr, engrossing clerk.
The senate cancus selected Ed
Thomas, assistant clerk; Miss Graham
German, engrossing clerk; L. T. Johnson,
sergeant at arms, and Barnes and
Tibbs, pages. Both branches complete
organization Tuesday.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Lilt of New Industrie* Reported DnrInff
the Pa*t Weok.
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Among the more important of the
new indnstries reported for the past
week are brick works at Fredericksburg,
.Ya.; a broom factory at Hickory,
N. C.; a canning factory at Danville,
Va.; $50,000 car coupler works at
Covington, Ky.; a $150,000 cement
plai\? at Chattanooga; a $30,000 cigar
and tobacco factory at Raleigh, N. C.;
a 41.000.000 comDanv to develop coal
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and other mineral properties at
Charleston, W. Ya., and a $500,000
coal mining company at Charleston;
other coal and coke companies at
Knoxvilie, Tenn., El Paso, Ttx., aDd
Lynchburg, Ya.; a 10,000-spindle cotton
mill at Greenwood, S. C.; a $25,000
development company at Little
Bock, Ark.; an electric light plant at
Jack8on,Tenn.; flouring mills at Bockford,Tenn.,and
Bonham.Tex.; a $300,000
foundry and machine shop com[
pany at Dallas, Tex.; furniture factoi
ries at Little Bock, Ark., and Lexington,
N. C.; a $60,000 ice factory at
Dallas, Tex.; a $25,000 knitting mill
at Tuskaloosa, Ala., and another mill
for the manufacture of hosiery at
Ayden, N. C.; a laundry atTuscumbia,
Ala.; an oil mill at fcoutbport,
N. C.; an oil and gas company
at Parkersburg, W. Va.; a $30,000
phosphate company at Pensacola,Fla.;
a $100,000 real estate and building
oompany at Paris, Tex.; a sash, door
and blind factory at Bennettsville, S.
C.; a 8aw mill at Tallabaasee, Fla.; a
syrup refinery an? canning factory at
Nashville, Tenn.; a $600,000 ship
building and dry dock company at
Pensacola, Fla.; telephone companies
at Macon, Ga., and Baleigb, N. C.; a
tobacco factory at Bichmond, Ya., and
a wagon factory at Dickson, Tenn,?
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
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A "rAiariL
Spain I*|Stlll Sore Over Her Recent KnockOat
By Uncle Sain.
A Madrid dispatch says: In the '
senate Monday Connt Almenas pointed
ont that the minister of war, General
Linares, had not yet communicated
the docnments exchanged between the
government and the governors of Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines during
the war with the United States according
to promise. General Azcarraga,
the premier, replied that it
would be inopportune to reopen a
painful question.
Fitzgerald Must "Come Across."
In the United States court at Savannah,
Monday, an order was signed
directing the city of Fitzgerald to levy
a special tax to satisfy a judgment in
favor of the Fire Extinguisher company
of Chicago. The amount in- 1
volved is about $4,000.
"JOIt WAS WELL DONE."
Aged Father of executed Murderer Comment*
on the Hanging:.
James Kelly, a negro, was hanged
at Charleston, S. C., Friday for the
murder of Willis Bonneau, a miser,
whom he first robbed. The murderer's
father, an old man bent with age
and infirmities, saw the execution.
The father watched the proceedings
closely and when the body had been
cnt down he sought the sheriff and
grasped his hand.
"Boss," he said, "I is seen a lot of
niggers hanged, bat dat is de best job
of dem all. Dat was my youngest
child, but yon sure did hang him
good."
COLLISION ON L. & N.
. One Engineer Killed Outright and the
Other Is Mortally Injured.
A special from Montgomery, Ala.,
says: A head-end collision occurred
in a rock cnt near Helena, on the
Loni8ville and Nashville railroad.
Engineer Chase was killed, and
Engineer Morton was injured mortally.
The firemen were injured badly. Both
engines were demolished and the cars
smashed into kindling-wood.
FOR TEXTILE SHOW
Atlanta City Council la Asked to Donate
the Sum of lOO.OOO.
At a meeting of the general committee
of Atlanta citizens appointed
to wait on the council and ask for an
appropriation for the proposed Textile
exposition the amount of the required
appropriation was set at 8100,000.
After discussion it was unanimously
resolved to raise the amount of the
preliminary fnnd from 8100,000 to
8'2C0,000, and to ask council to contribute
half this amount.
EIOBT DIE IN FLAMES
Hotel In Minneapolis Bnrns and
Gnests are Entrapped.
NINETEEN MAKE THEIR ESCAPE
Those Who Perished Were Suffocated
By Smoke?Scene Was
Replete With Horrors.
Eight men lost their lives in a fire
at Minneapolis Sunday morning. The
fire had its origin in the rear of the
Standard Furniture store. The men
were overtaken by an immense volume
of smoke in the Harvard hotel, which
occupies the second, third and fourth
floors of the building, and death in
every instance was due to suffocation.
When the men were found in various
parts of the house a man named
Erickson was dead and the seven others
were unconscious. The fire was
discovered by Charles Hanson, and he
and the night clerk set about to
awaken the lodgers. In several instances
it was necessary to break in
the doors. What took place in the
rooms and narrow, dark hallways
will never be known. Every man
rushed for his own life. Nineteen
of the twenty-seven lodgers were
successful, but the others were unable
to beat their way through the oil
smoke and fell in their tracks where
they were found by the firemen.
Many of those who escaped came staggering
out on the snowy sidewalk like
drunken men, barely making their
way through the smoke and heat and
partially clad. Several had the most
narrow escapes. The loss on the
building and contents will not exceed
$3,000. The dead are:
Nathaniel Perly, sixty years old.
C. J. Skidmore, forty-five years old.
J. S. Bently, fifty-five years old.
B. Scofield, forty-five years old.
George Rudey, forty-five years old.
MichaeljMonahao, seventy-five.
J. N. Frickson, of Alexandria,
Minn., twenty-five years old.
Jacobson^ laborer, about fifty
years old.
The injured are: Henry cotton, badly
cut abuut hands.
OFFERS TO BETRAY OAXG.
Cudahy Receives Letter Containing; Proposition
to Betray Kidnapers.
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A leviur uus uccu kuiucu uiui iu
Chief Donahue, of the Omaha police
department, in which an offer is made
to deliver oertain information to him
regarding the abduction of young
Cndaby, upon his compliance with
certain conditions.
The chief and Mr. Cudahy evidently
considered the letter authentic, and of
enough importance to justify a reply,
because the following advertisement
appeared in the columns of a local
paper Sunday morning:
"Tour request, asked for in letter
mailed at Lincoln on January 4th, to
be answered before Jauuary 7th, will
be granted. "E. A. Cudahy,
"J. A. Donahue."
LETTERS LONU OVERDUE.
Mailed at Rome, Ga., Tvro Years Ago
and Jmt Received In Washington.
A peculiar defect iu the efficiency of
the postoffioe department developed at
Washington Saturday by the receipt
of two letters by Georgia congressmen
which were mailed in Rome, Ga., on
April 11, 1899. Where the letters
have been since that day has not been
determined.
W. J. Cooper, of Rome, desired to
be placed on the pension roll. He
wrote to Congressman Maddox, of
the Seventh district, and Congressman
Livingston, of the Fifth district. The
letters are stamped as having been
mailed on the date stated. Nearly
two years has passed since the letters
were posted.
Boers Release Helvetia Prisoners.
A London special says that the
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the Liverpool regiment captured at
Helvetia on December 29.
Ten Hour Day Causes Strikew
The miners of the Star mine at
Aspen, Colo., have struck because of
an attempt of the owners to enforce a
ten hour day system.
SALOONS CROWD EXSLEY.
Former Temperance Town In Alabama
Unuersoee Magical Change.
A unique occurrence took place in
the city of Ensley, Ala., the site of
the steel industry in the Birmingham
district, on New Year's day. The little
city recently obtained a charter
from the general assembly allowing it
to sell liquor. The law went into
effect New Year's day. Promptly one
minute after 12 o'clock on the night
of December 31st thirteen saloons
opened' their doors. Twelve other
saloons which were not able to secure
fixtures on time, are opening up one
by one each day.
WORKMEN BLOWN TO ATU.US.
Powder Explosion In Bepauno Chemical
Company Works Does Fearful Damage.
A fearful explosion of powder occurred
Friday in the powder machine
house cf the Bepauno Chemical company,
whose works are located at
Thompson Point, N. Y., 17 miles below
Philadelphia.
The building was destroyed and
three workmen in it at the time were
blown to atoms.
AMBUSHED BY FILIPINOS.
Detachment of Third Infantry Surprised
and Two Members Killed.
A Manila special of Tuesday fays: A
detachment ef the Third United States
infantry was ambushed Saturday near
Malolos. The Ladrones fired a volley at
the Americans, killing two privates of
company F and wounding three. The
insurgents escaped into a swamp.
Numerous insurgent bauds have
been dispersed and considerable quantitien
of stores destroyed in the province
of Bulacan by General Grant's
mounted scouts.
FRACTIOUS TECH STUDENTS.
Senior Class Commit Mutinous
Act By Failing to Show Up
On Opening Day.
The senior class of the Georgia Technological
school at Atlanta, consisting
of fifteen young Georgians and one
Tennesseean. stand suspended for an
act of mutiny in which every member
of the class but one took a hand.
The class conspiracy which has ended
with the suspension of the seniors for
the time being is one with the ordinary
pranks growing out of the manifestation
of "class spirit" in every college
in the country. In refusing,
however, to return to college on the
day set for the spring opening by the
faculty the students of the senior elass
took the bit in their teeth in a startling
manner, as a result of which it
was "up to" the faculty either to demonstrate
their authority or to have
terms dictated to them by the members
of the class.
The latest development in the interesting
situation which has arisen at
the "Tech" is that in all probability it
will fare hard with at least seven
members of the class, vho are, it is
believed by the faculty, responsible
for the mutiny. It is said that the
seven members of the senior class,
who are students in the textile department,
have taken issue before with
the faculty in a matter of considerable
importance.
MUST FIGHT FOR FORTUXE.
Will of Millionaire Murphy To Be Con
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K'Breti in wic tunnel
At Nashville, Tenn., Thursday,after
tbe probating of tho will of Millionaire |
Samuel Murphy, his widow, Anna H.
Murphy, appeared in court and adopted
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Felder,
thus making them the heirs of the
millions that were left to the widow.
The late Dr. John A. Murphy, of
Cincinnati, was a broiher of Samuel
Murphy, who also formerly resided
here. Tho widow of Dr. John A.
Murphy still resides here, and it was
expected that her two daughters would
become the heirs of Samuel Murpby.
These nieces are Mrs. Edwin Gardner,
Jr., of Nashville, and Mrs. John Kilbretb,
Jr., of New York, and it is
claimed that they had been told by
their uncle, Samuel Murphy, that they
would become his heirs after the death
of his widow.
It is charged now that Samuel Murphy
made a different will just before
ho died,and that Mr. and Mrs. Felcler
were adopted a week after his death
while Felder was made co-executor of
the will without bond. In the petition
to adopt Mr. and Mrs, Felder,
the widow is said to have stated in
court at Nashville that Samuel Murphy
during his life gave his brother, Dr.
John A. Murphy, of Cincinnati, over
$500,000.
Mrs. John A. Murphy, in published
interviews, states that the amount was
less than $100,000, and mostly in real
estate, which has since greatly depreciated.
She and her daughter has retained
eminent counsel at Cincinnati
n nnntPRt thA will and the fldontioii of
Mr. and Mrs. Felder and other counsel
will be retained at Nashville for the
litigation.WORLIftS
CASH DOUBLED.
Director of the Blint Roberts Issues Interesting
Report.
An increase of more than 100 per
cent in the money of the world within
less than a generation is one of the
most interesting exhibits of the annual
report of the director of the mint.
The total stock reported in 1873 was
about $1,800,000,000, of which m)re
than half was in paper money not
fully covered by metallic reserves.
The situation at the beginning of
1900 showed a total monetary stock of
about $11,600,000,000, of which only
little more than one-fourth was in uncovered
paper money. Director Roberts
finds that, while the total money
annnlv of the tvorld has increased
about $7,000,000,000, the increase in
gold money since 1873 has been about
$3,600,000,000; in silver about $2,750,000,000,
and in uncovered paper only
about $650,000,000.
The quantity of silver money, which
was at its maximum of about $4,250,000,000
at the beginning of 1896, has
since been somewhat reduced by the
sale of silvei; by Germany and its retirement
in other countries.
MISSISSIPPI WINS CASE.
United State* Supreme Conrt Decide*
(Bight of State to Tax Kailroads.f
The United States supreme court
Monday decided a number of cases involving
the right of the state of Mississippi
to tax railroads in that state.
The roads involved were the Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley Railroad company
and the Illinois Central. In the
general proceedings against the Yazoo,
the court held, in an opinion by Justice
Brown, that the road was not exempt
from taxation. The decision in the
Illinois Central case was to the effect
that the cases involved a federal question.
The federal circuit court for
Mississippi was reversed on this point.
CAPTURED BY FILIPINOS.
Nine Men of n Scouting Party Are Taken
In Charge By Insurgent*.
Private George H. Ray, of ihe engineer
corps, and his assistant, Private
Lyons, of Company K, Fifth infantry,
five scouts and two native policemen,
were captured while on their way to
Batac by the insurgents.
On receipt of the news, an American
column was dispatched to effect their
release, but failed to overtake the insurgent
party.
NEW LINK FOR SOUTHERN.
System Will Bnild a Line From Illinois
to Bargin, Ky.
Information has reached Knoxville,
Tenn., that the Southern railway
would at once begin the construction *
of a line of road from Jellico to Burgin,
Ky., a distance of 105 miles.
A preliminary survey was made
some time ago. The construction of
the connecting link from Burgin to
Jellico will obviate the necessity of
the Southern railway using the Cincinnati
Southern in connecting its
lines in Kentucky.
KITCHENER IS SORRY
Butchering of Britons By Boers
the Cause of His Regret
DETACHMENT BADLY DEFEATED
Three Officers Killed?Cape Town
To Send Delegation to Report
On Situation.
Reporting to the London war office
under date of January 6th, Lord
Kitchener ays:
"Yesterday Babington engaged Delarey's
and Steenkamp's commandoes
at Naauwport. The enemy was forced
to retire to the northwest. Our casualties
have not yet been received, but
are reported slack. A Boer doctor admitted
that twenty Boers were killed
or wounded. Commandant Duprez
was token prisoner.
"It appears from reports of the
wounded who have arrived at Heilbronn
that a detachment, 120 strong,
belonging to Knox's command, came
into contact with a superior force near
Lindley. I regret that Lieutenant
Laing, two other officers and fifteen
men were killed aud two officers and
twenty men wounded. No details
have come from Knox of this action."
There are several Naauwpoorts.
Possibly the scene of the fight is the
Naauwpoort on the railroad between
Potchefatroom and Frederikstad,
Transvaal.
Advices from Cape Town state that
at a meeting of the Afrikander members
of the cape parliament Monday,
it was resolved to send Messrs. J. X.
Morriman, former treasurer of Cape
Colony; J. W. Saner, former commissioner
of public works, apd J. II. Hofmeyer
to England to represent the
state of affairs in South Africa to the
government, parliament and people of
?lreat Britain.
General Brabant has arrived to complete
the organization of the colonial
forces.
It is reported that 1,500 Boers are
nearing the town of Sutherland, and
that other parties are close upon Richmond.
The invaders have reached Calvinia
and are expected at Clanwilliam within
a few days.
Scouts report that the Boer commanders
under Delarey and Steinkamp,
in the Bufferspoort district,
number 5,000.
At Bloomfontein it is reported that
an influential peace commission is being
formed to interview General DeWet,
Mr. Stein and other leaders .to
explain Lord Kitchener's terms, and
to endeavor to induce them to yield.
The Boers boast that their present
incursion is only a big patrol, preparatory
to an invasion in force by General
nr.!. rm _ i_I.A.
ue >yei. j.ne lutuir a inuueuuo u*ci
the Dutch is so enormous that there is
no doubt his actual presence would
result in a general uprising.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
the districts of Calvinia, Clanwilliam,
Piqnetburg, Tulbagh, Paarl and Steelen
bosch.
WILL FIGHT SUBSIDY.
Hons? Coin mission on Bail way Mail
Transportation Finishes Report.
. A Washington special says: The
joint senate and house commission on
the transportation of the mails by railroads
has completed its report and will
Bubmit it to congress.
The commission will make a scathing
denunciation of the system of
subsidies, and this will be a fight on
the Southern railway New York-New
Orleans subsidy annuity of $195,000
for carrying the mails through Atlanta.
The commission has been investigating
the subject of transporting the
mails for two years, and its report is
one of the most important to be submitted
to oongress this year. The
commission will declare against the
pneumatic tube system for transfer of
mail in large cities and will fight this
proposition bitterly.
The commission will find that the
charges by the railroads for transporting
the mails are excessive and should
be reduced. This means a great fight
in congress to prevent a reduction.
FURCHES FOR CHIEF JUSTICE.
Governor Russell, of North Carolina, Settles
Interesting Question.
Governor Russell has appointed Associate
Justice D. M. Furches chief
it-- ~t cnni-ama nnni>i nt "Nf/vrtli
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Carolina to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Chief Justice Faircioth.
Judge Furches has accepted the appointment,
which is for a term of two
years.
The vacancy on the supreme court
bench caused by the promotion of
Judge Furches has not yet been filled.
Judge Furches, the new appointee, is
a resident of Statesville and is regarded
as one of the ablest lawyers in the
state.
BRYAN IN FLORIDA.
Nebraikan Will See Hit Cousin Made
Governor of the State.
Hon. Williams Jennings Bryan was
in Pensacola, Fla., Thursday night
enronte to Tallahassee to witness the
inauguration of his cousin, Hon. William
S. Jenning, as governor of Florida.
Mr. Bryan's presence at the inauguration
ceremonies will occasion one
of the most notable demonstrations
ever witnessed in the state.
NINE WORK HEN RILLED.
Trains Crash Together and Ylctlms Mangled
TFhlle They Slept.
During a heavy fog Tuesday morning
a freight train, westbound, collided
with a work train of five cars and
an engine going east in a deep cut
about 600 yards beyond Tanden station,
Cal., causing the death of nine
workmen and injuries of a more or
less severe character to about twenty
others. The victims were asleep in
the bunks in one of the cars of the
work train when the trains came together.
ATTACK ARMY BILL
Senators Have Lively Tiit While
Discussing the Measure.
SHARP CRITICISM INDULGED IN
Some Republicans Were Arrayed
With Democrats In Opposition?President
Scored.
For five hours Friday the senate
discussed the army reorganization bill.
The debate took a wide range at times,
bub was confined principally to the
i question of the necessity for the increase
in the regular army provided
for in the pending measure.
The Philippine question was threshed
over at great length, but few really
new points were advanced. Speeches
were made by Mr. Carter, of Montana;
Mr. Teller, of Colorado; Mr.
Hoar, of Massachusetts; Mr. Stewart,
of Nevada, and Mr. Caffery, of Louisiana.
One of the sharpest colloquies
of the session was between Mr. Carter
and Mr. Wellington, of Maryland.
Mr. Hoar advanced a proposition to
create a commission, to be composed
of all shades of political opinion, to investigate
the entire Philippine question
and report its findings to congress
in order that a basis might be formed
for intelligent action. Some slight
progress was made toward the completion
of the pending measure.
The resolution offered Thursday bj
Mr. Pettigrew calling for information
with reference to the Philippines was
laid before the senate, and Mr. Lodge
moved that it be referred to the committee
on Philippines, and it was
finally so referred. Mr. Pettigrew
said the president maintained there
was no war in the Philippines. The
military committee declared that war
existed there, and that at least 60,000
men would be required to suppress
the rebelion. He, therefore, demanded
the facts.
Another of Mr. Pettigrew's resolutions
calling upon the president for
information as to the necessity for an
inorease in the strength of the army
was referred to the committee on military
affairs. On demand of Mr. Petticrrew
the committee report on the
army bill was read. Mr. Carter asked
unanimous consent to pass upon the
unobjected amendments. Mr. Petti*
grew objected.
Mr. Wellington, of Maryland, de?
manded to know the intention of the
administration with reference to the
Philippine islands. If it was to force
an annexation of the Philippines, then
a large army would be necessary. Two
campaigns had been fought out and
the situation was worse than ever, Mr.
Wellington was opposed to an increase
of the army, if the government purposes
to try to deprive the Filipinos
of self-government.
Mr. Carter replied that "the president
has no authority to decide what
shall be done with the Philipines."
"The moment the treaty of peace
was ratified," said he, "that moment
it became the supreme law of the land.
If the president had refused to maintain
sovereignty of the United States
there, he would have laid himself liable
to impeachment."
"Has he not already given up sovereignty
over a portion of Alaska?" in
quired Mr. Wellington.
Mr. Carter replied that what the
president had done as to the Alaskan
boundary had been accomplished
through a modus vivendi, a purely
temporary arrangement. "It is nevertheless
a fact," declared Mr. Wellington,
"that territory over which we
had undisputed sovereignty has been
abandoned. The British flag has been
raised over it, and it is controlled by
British constabulary. That is the
fact."
Mr. Hoar suggested a general amendment
to the bill looking tp the conciliation
of the Filipinos and expressing
the opinion that in time of peace
we should have one soldier to each
1,000 of our population. He did not,
therefore, he said, oppose the bill on
the score of increase, but he did oppose
it because of the avowed policy of
military control of the Philippines.
"It is idle," he said, "to tell us that
these people are not fit for self-government.
The way to prepare them
for liberty is to set them free."
APPEAL FOR HELP
Hade By Storm Victim* In Llttlo Town ol
laGranfr, Tennessee.
The people of L&Grange, Tenn.,
have sent out an. appeal for help.
They say that all the business portion
and nearly all the residence portion ol
the town are in ruins and many of the
inhabitants are left utterly destitute.
They ask that contributions be sent to
W. F. Hancock, mayor of the town.
Safe Crackers at Work.
Professional cracksmen burglarized
the Farmers' bank at Orland, 0. T.,
Wednesday night, and secured more
^an 85,000. The robbers blew the
aafe open wit>* nitroglycerine.
Bank Cashier Is Missing.
President Fowler, of the Kay county
bank, at Richmond, Mo., stated that
Cashier John W. Shotwell is missing
and that a state bank examiner is going
over the books. Stockholders
have subscribed $21,000 to cover any
shortages.
Admiral Kantz Retired.
The navy department has announced
the retirement of Rear Admiral A.
Kantz, to take effect January 29th.
FAILURES OF PAST TEAR.
Liabilities, S1C7.184.703, Assets, 860,119.803.
licporifd to llradstreets.
There were 9,913 failures, with liabilities
of 3127,181, 705, and assets of
$00,119,895, reported to Bradstreets
iu 1900, a gain of 2.8 per cent in number
o\er 1899, and an increase of 6
per cent, or about twice the former
percentage in liabilities, but assets
only equaled those of the preceding
year.
An increased number of failures is
noted in the Middle, Western, Northwestern
and Southern States.
TECH STUDENTS PUNISHED.
riutinous Conduct Results In Their
Suspension By the
Faculty.
The faculty of the Georgia Techno
logical school at Atlanta met Friday
afternoon to take cognizance of the
organized disobedience of the seniors
in entering into a compact not to return
to school on December 31st
The entire facalty was present, and
one by one the. eighteen seniors were
brought before their preceptors to undergo
a searching examination. The
men confessed without hesitation to
having signed the agreement to stay
away in violation of the rules of the
school until January 2d. They offered
no excuse for their action except an
occasional murmur against the decision
of the faculty that the men should
return t?, duty on December 31st.
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Alter listening ijp xue siaiemeiua ui
the seniors, the faculty took J>ut a
very few minutes to arrive at a decision,
and zander their action the following
textile students are suspended
from thb institution until March 30th,
while their diplomas are withheld until
Deeember 31, 1901:
L. C. Swords, Madison; E. W.
Camp. Moreland; Wade Langston, Atlanta;
L. F. Brown, Atlanta; A. S.
Mead, Decatur; W. D. Hughes, Twiggs
county.
The only remaining student in the
textile department of the senior class
is J. G. Johnson, son of Colonel Lindsay
Johnson, of Borne, Ga. Young
Johnson escaped the . heavy 'punishment
inflicted on his classmates on
the ground that he did not take part
in the former mutiny in which the
? textile students were engaged.
The remaining students of the senior
class are suspended until the first
Saturday in February, while their degrees
will be withheld until the first
| Saturday in November. The men who.
undergo this punishment are as follows:
W. P. Sullivan, Savannah; J.
' F, Towers, Borne; B. W. Holtzclaw,
Perry; J. S. Waterman, Macon; W. J.
Holman, Fayetteville, Tenn. ;W. Newsome,
LaGrange; D. 0. Dougherty,
Atlanta; J. W. Moore, Hapeville;
George Merritt, Macon; L. P. Benjamin,
Atlanta; E. Gay, Atlanta.
TTn^or th? wholesale rmnishment
inflicted on the senior class by the
faculty of the Technological school it
is probable that no effort to hold a I
commencement this year will be attempted,
for of the eighteen men who
' would have graduated in June not one
will be entitled to a diploma before
1 the first Saturday of next Nowmber.
WARSHIPS TO VENEZUELA.
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1 Uncle Sam Determined to Back
t Up Minister Loom is With
Formidable Force.
A Washington special says: There is
, a war cloud hanging over Venezuela,
and the United States is in it. Comt
pared with other recent experiences
which this country has had, it is a
very small affair, bat it is a war oload
nevertheless.
A few years ago, the announcement
i that three American warships had been
sent to a South American port because
of a possible clash with that
government would have resulted in
flaming headlines in all the newspapers
and in great excitement
throughout the country. Today it is
regarded as a trivial episode. There
is, however, some substance to it.
The arrival of the Scorpion at Lai
Guayra places three warships in that
harbor of Venezuela, and they are
there to back up United States Minis'
ter Loomis in his determination to
prevent President Castro carrying out
his intention to convey certain propi
erty to concessionaries in accordance
t with a decision which he has already
rendered. If Castro attempts to make
good his threats, he will have real
i tronble on his hands.
New Railroad Projected.
A company of Tennessee and Chicago
capitalists is preparing to con- i
| struct a railroad from Louisville, Ky., j
to Port Royal, S. C. Surveys will be
made within the next two or three
- weeks, and next spring the promoters
expect to have the work under way.
Mills In Receiver's Hands.
The Dingley Woolen Mills Company,
an extensive manufacturing concern at
Philadelphia, has gone into the hands
of a receiver.
REQUISITION IS TURNED DOWN.
Governor Somfortl Finds That All Records
Jn Case Aru Lost.
Gov. Samford, of Alabama, refused
requisition papers for B. G. Douglas.
alias Eldridge Williams, arrested
, at Butte, Mont.,charged with attempting
to murder his wife and who con1
fessed to having killed James Boswell
of Wetumpka, Ala., in 1891, and after1
wards escaped, pending his trial. The
governor's grounds for refusal was
that tjie indictment had been lost or
stolen and all pages of court records
on which a record of the case had been
made had been surreptitiously torn
from the books since the escape of
Williams.
Turks Assault British Diplomat.
Some Turkish soldiers have grossly
assaulted and maltreated the British
charge d'affaires. Mr. DeBunsen, and
other members of the embassy, in the
vicinity of the powder magazine at
Makrikin.
Martial Law Proclaimed.
Advices from Capetown, South Africa,
state that martial law has been
proclaimed in the districts of Beau#
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ZX5C DEPOSITS ABE FOUND.
hafts Art To Be Sunk and Work Begat
at Once Near Kaozrlile. Tran.
Another extensive deposit of sine
has heed fonnd near Knoxville, Tenn.,
on the farm of Captain Frank M.
Smith. A company has leased the
property.
Shafts will be sank 300 feet. The
ore is said to be richer than any fonnd
in the Joplin, Mo., district
George Cnrrans, of Mattoona, HI.,
has leased extensive iinc properties at
New Market, Tenn., and will develop
without delay.
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Dlnpenaer Player Under Arreat*
F. M. Player, dispenser at Kingstree,
was arrested on the oharge of
malfeasance in office. The dispensary
was robbed of a large sum of money
Christmas night. Player told that four
masked men had ridden to the dispen- . 3
sary and had forced him to open the
safe. It has since been learned that
Player was drnnk in the dispensary
that night, and that he had refused to ;
deposit the money with the county
treasurer as required by law. For |j
criminal carelessness he was arrested {
by W. H. Hollo way. After his arrest
he admitted that he had loaned the / - j
dispensary money to his friends.
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Will Change Quarantine Law*. ^
Acting on a statement from the
naval board that the quarantine laws
of Charleston would have ft be modi*
tied in the event of moving the naval
station to that city from Port Boyal, . ^
the board of health met and amended f
the regulations for inspection of
United States vessels. Secretary Long
was notified that hereafter all revenue
cutters and naval vessels coming from '
any domestic healthy ports of this or ' -yt
other states would not be examined by y.
the quarantine officer and will enjoy
immediate pratique, unless having had ^
communication with a vessel or plaoe j
where contagious diseases prevailed.
These quarantine regulations for ships |
of the navy are similar to the regulations
adopted by Florida four years '
ago and will allow vessels free entry
to the port . * 0
Geta a Change of Venue.
Judge Buchanan, in the state oourt,
has allowed a change of venue to Or- J
angeburg county in the suit brought
by Miss Annie Carroll for $15,000
damages against the Charleston Con* ,
solidated railway. In her affidavit
made to the courtMiss Carroll alleged ^
that she could not get a fair trial ia ^
Charleston owing to the power of the 0.
consolidated corporation. T^o former vtrials
resulted without a verdict In |gfll
the case of Discher against the consolidated,
in which sensational affidavits
were presented by two negroes who
said they were told to stand by the
company in the hope of a financial reward,
a change of venue was refused. , |
Three other motions were made for'
new trials in other damage suits against |sj
tne consolidated company, du* oniy ^
one was allowed.
Deep Eaongh For JCmry.
The government engineers state
that the next chart of Charleston's
harbor Trill show thirty feet of water
at high tide. With this depth of the
harbor the best possible facilites will
be afforded the navy department in its
work of building a naval station which dp
will be the largest and best south of . '?
Norfolk. The reports will prove conclusively
that Charleston has deep
water sufficient for the navy department
to send the largest ships to the it
port to be docked and repaired. The
work of removing "lumps" from the *
harbor is being continued, and within
a short time two dredges will be constantly
at work under government
supervision.
More than $2,000,000 will be expended
on the dock and station, and
several valuable and available sites
have been offered the government..
Demurrer Is Overruled.
Judge Simonton, in the United
States circuit court, overruled the demurrer
filed to the bill of complaint by
Mrs. Alioe Middleton Lowndes et al.
against the United States government
in an action for $10,000 damages. In
the complaint the fact was alleged by
the plaintiff that they owned two rioe
plantations on Mosquito creek, in
Georgetown county, and that by reason
of recent government work along
the waters in that vicinity the lands
were rendered unfit for rice cultivation.
They claimed that the rioe
plantations had been under cultivation
for 200 years. The government demurred
on the ground that the
complaint did not state sufficient to
constitute a cause for action. This, %
however, was not allowed to stand fay /
the court, and suit will go to trial on
its merits.
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Two Greenville Stores Burned.
Fire in the grocery store of Goldsmith
Bros., of Greenville, at 2 o'clock
last Sunday morning resulted in damage
to the stock of goods amounting
to $500, principally from water. Four
hours later the grooery of & O.
Wright was badly injured by fire, the
stock $500 and the building $1,000.
, Both storerooms were of brick. The
origin of the fires is unknown.
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Savannah Hirer BUI.
Senator Tillman has introduced a
bill in the senate authorizing the Twin
City Power Company, a corporation ' 4?
organized under the laws of South
Carolina, to oonstruot two dams on
the Savannah river near Augusta, Ga.
One of the dams is to be constructed
across the river at or near where Dorton's
creek, in Edgefield oounty,
emntles into the Savannah, and the
other is proposed to be built at the
southern end of Price's island, about
five milea from the mouth of Dortou'a
creek.
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SWEEPING CHANGES SCHEDULED,
Number of Office* of the A. M W. F.
Railroad to Be Abolished.
The report is current in Atlanta,
Ga., that under an order which will
be issued by President and General
Manager Charles A. Wicker*ham, of
the Atlanta and West Point Railroad
and Western Railway of Alabama,
several of the most important offices
on the system will oe aDoiisneo.
In place of the office of superintendent,
which is among the offices abol- v
ished, the office of consulting engineer
has been created and George P. Huggans,
the present superintendent,
given the position.
Seattle Is Offered Library.
Andfbw Carnegie has promised Seattle,
Wash., a donation of $200,000 to
be expended in the construction of a
| new public library. He requires a
| yearly guarantee of $5,000 for maintenance
and improvement.
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