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wmm . - . - ' The Bamberg Herald. mmm^~m' """""" _ - ?r ~ ' ???? ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY U, 1901. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. BRITONS ARE BALKY I Hesitate at Approval of tbe Nicaragua Canal Treaty. SENATE'S DEMANDS ARE A SNA6 Answer Will Be Tantamount to a Refusal and Will Contain Counter Proposals. It has been learned bj a representatire of the Associated Press in London thai a reply will shortly be sent to the United States Nicaragua canal project. It will not comply with the senate's demands. Neither will it be in the natnre of a flat refusal, though for purposes of immediate construction it will be tantamount to such a refusal. . It will consist, mainly, in a counter proposal, or proposals, likely to necessitate extended negotiations. The natnre of the proposal is not yet ascertainable. Lord Pauncefote will probably be the medinm throngh whom the answer will be sent, and by whom the subsequent negotiations will chiefly be conducted. In British official opinion it is likely that several months will elapse before th$ matter reaches a conclusion, by which time the Hay-Panncefote treaty will have lapsed, on the basis of the senate's amendments. The British counter proposals are now formulating, and it is hope! an entirely new agreement, satisfactory to both countries, will eventually be reached. FEELING OF BEGRET. A Washington special says: So far as can be ascertained the administra tipn has not had any intimation of the counter proposals the London dispatch says will be made in the matter of the Nicaragua canal project There is a feeling of regret that the British government has felt constrained to adopt such a coarse, as the hope was entertained that the amendments to the Hsye-Panncefote . treaty might have been accepted in the spirit in which they were made. Senator Morgan, when informed of the new stand taken by Great Britain, said he believed if Great Britain has decided, to take the action stated it would create resentment in the senate 3 al_ 1 1 ana among ine peopie auu uivirust ui the motives of that government. He hoped it might result in some action 011 the pending bill at this session. . One suggestion already made as a possible counter proposal by Great Britain was that in return for concessions made by her she might desire an open port on the Alaskan coast as an entrance into her gold fields in the Klondike. CHARGES AGAINST WILCOX PUcniwd Bj Elections Committee?Hal waiian Galls G?ar a T.iar. A Washington dispatch says: The charges against Delegate Wilcox, of Hawaii, were heard Friday by the house committee on elections No. 1. Mr. Wilcox was present, accompanied by Representative Robinson, of Indiana, who appeared as his friend and counsel The specific answer of Mr. Wilcox to the charges contained in the letters submitted was presented. It states: "That he (Wilcox) is a native Hawaiian; that he shared with the native people, loyalty to the former Queen Lilioukalani during her reign, and was not in sympathy with the reigning power immediately succeeding her reign." George D. Gear, the prosecntor, contended that the election oi Wilcox was irregular and void, as the requirements of the United states were not complied with. On cross-examination Mr. Gear stated that in Wilcox's campaign speeches he said he would restore Queen Liliuokalani. When the witness said Wilcox had "eternally damned the Americans," the. delegate muttered "liar," but was mild restrained by his counsel. After Mr. Gear had presented tho his evidence he made an extended argument argument arraigning the delegate. ARMY NOMINATIONS HELD UP. The Senate Skies at Names of Generals Wood, Grant and Bell. The senate committee on military affairs Friday agreed to report favorably the nomination of Major General Nelson A. Miles to lieutenant general, and also the three nominations to the office of major general under the. army reorganization bill. All the nominations to be brigadiers also were favorably acted upon except those of General Leonard Wood, Generick B. Grant and General J. Franklin Bell. These three were held up in order to permit further investigation, the feeling being that these three had not seen sufficient service to warrant promotion over older officers. ^BBER SECURED 98,000. Highwayman Knocked Aged Citizen Down Bnt Was Soon In Law's Clutches., a l nt.lln/lalr.kio fioinrdnr pstflr All XUliaucj^uiia ?-*?/ - ? ? Woll, an aged and prominent manufacturer, was knocked down on the street by a highwayman as he was leaving a national bank, and a satchel, containing $8,000, was wrenched from his hand. The money was reoovered by a policeman, who captured the thief after an exciting chase. TRAITORS ARRESTED. Prominent Manila Merchants Charged With Assisting the Insurgents. A special from Manila says: Theodorio Carranza, a prominent and wealthy Spanish merchant and hemp and cocoannt buyer, was arrested Wednesday afternoon charged with furnishing supplies to aid the insurg ents. Carranza is also a partner of D. M. Carman, an American coutrac tor and owner of boats, who had considerable business transactions with the military authorities. WHITECAPPER CONVICTED. < Pegram Cochran Will Spend the Balance of His Life In the Penitentiary. ] Pegram Cochran, the first of the seven men charged with the assassination of Sterling Thompson, the negro planter, near Fairburn, Ga., a ' few months ago, goes to the penitentiary for life. The jury, after being out all night | Friday night, returned a verdict of guilty Saturday morning, with a recommendation to mercy. The defendant was present in the court room when the verdict was read. He was pale and nervous, but stood the strain remarkably well. His aged ] father and two of his brothers were , present, as was his little boy. 4'Lord bless you, son," said the condemned father, as he told the little 1 fpllnw trnndhv urith tears in his eVt?8. 1 o J ? Judge Candler sentenced him to life- j vtime imprisonment in the penitentiary and ordered that he be oonfined in Fulton county jail until carried to the ? penitentiary. { Counsel for the defendant gave ? notice of a motion for new trial, and ? the court fixed the first day of March c for the healing. There are six other defendants in Fulton county jail awaiting trial on the same charge, that of the murder of Sterling Thompson, colored, c SIUW EXPIRES SUDDENLY. c Congressman and Former G. A. R. Com- S znander Found Dead In His Room, t Representative Albert D. Shaw, of 1 Watertown, N. Y., formerly commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, was found dead Sunday t morning in his room at the Riggs fl house in Washington. A physician t summoned immediately after the discovery of the body pronounced death j due to apoplexy, probably about 2 c o'clock in the morning. g Colonel Shaw had returned about f 1.30 o'clock from a banquet at the t Ebbitt house in honor of his successor t as commander in chief of the Grand J Army of the Republic, General Leo t ?n/i K.frtro Via lttfV til A Kan- % ivaaDioui, ouu i/uvi^ uv ?v% ~ ^ quet ball responded eloquently to a toast and appeared in excellent health c and spirits. The body was discovered r lying face downward on the floor, v where he had fallen suddenly. c Colonel Shaw was fifty-nine years of jj age and a veteran of the civil war. t SPRAGUE POSTPONES DINNER. p 1 Uaiuehaietti Mas Invited Colored Con- p rreuman Through An Oversight. f A Washington dispacth says: Race g prejudice4ias caused the recall of in- a vitations sent out by Congressman Charles F. Sprague, of Massachusetts, to members of the house District of Columbia committee to dine with him. ^ By an oversight Sprague sent an in- * vitation to George H. White, the North a Carolina negro member of congress, * who is a member of the .committee. ~ Representative Otey of Virginia sus- ^ pected White had been invited to the "* dinner and he refused to accept 8 Spragne's hospitality. Other members ^ sent declinations, and as it finally dawned npon Mr. Sprague that he *3 would have to break bread with him- * self and the negro, White alone, he 8 decided to call off the dinner and will 8 get up another one to which the mem- 11 bers of the committee will be invited as individual members of congress. In this way White will not be invited. 8 The incident has excited much * comment in the honse. Northern as well as southern members refused to eat with the negro member. ' White is probably the last of the negro members of congress. He goes . ont on March 4 and will be succeeded , by a Democrat. J c SOUTHERN TRAIN DERAILED. * Engine Completely Demolished, But No 8 One Was Seriously Hurt. ^ Train No. 37 on the Southern, which left Atlanta, Ga., Snnday afternoon at P - * - 1 1 1 ' TTTOQ /la. t. i:lD O OlOCK lor Dllllliu^uauj, uv railed three and one-half miles beyond Waco at 6:12 o'clock. c The engine was turned over and en- 8 tirely demolished, but neither the en- r' gineer nor fireman was injured. * The only person on the train who r sustained any injuries of consequence ? was John Jones, a freight conduotor ? on the Southern, who was riding in the baggage car. ^ FURCHES FOR CHIEF JUSTICE. a OoTfrnor Russell, of North Carolina, Settles Interesting Question. Governor Russell has appointed Associate Justice D. M. Furches chief ^ justice of the supreme court of North t" Oarolina to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Chief Justice Faircloth. !' Judge Furches has accepted the ap- 11 pointment, whioh is for a term of two 9 years. * The vacancy on the supreme court a 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 regard- J ed as one of the ablest lawyers in the 1 state. r ' HUB" PRINTERS TO STRIKE. Demand That Women Compositors Shall Receive Equal Pay as Men. ' Boston Typographical Union No. 13, at a special meeting Sunday afternoon, voted to call a strike in every book and ] job printing plant in the city in case the master printers refuse to sign the J scale at once, the point at issue being c whether or not women typesetters shall * be treated as "journeymen composi- J tors" and receive the same wages as - men for doing the same \rorJc. W1LHELMAXA RETURNS THANKS. Holland's Queen Answers Congratulatory Message of the President. A message of congratulation was sent to Queen Wilhelmina by the ^ president on the occasion of her marriagc and the queen sends this reply: "PliESIDEKT OF THE UNITED STATES, * Washington: I offer your excellency and the people of the United States ny most sincere thanks for the warm congratulations offered me upon the occasion of my marriage. I appreciate 1 your good wishes very highly. < 1 "WlBHELMIXA." 1 WRECK ON THE ERIE Five Killed Outright and Many are Badly Hart. THREE SOLDIERS WERE VICTIMS Engine Crashes Into a Steep Bluff and Cars Were Completely Telescoped. Train No. 5, the New York-Chicago limited on the Erie railroad, was m?iAAlrA/1 Thnkfi/lAH within tVfcO RICl/ACU lliuioua^ UiV/iUiU^ n iiu/u vuv town limits of Greenville, Pa. Five passengers were dead when taken from ;he wreck, several are missiug and ;here are many badly injured. Hardly a passenger escaped without tome injury. The train was composed sntirely of vestibuled Pullmans, three deeping cars, day coach, combination imoker and baggage car and a mail tar and was drawn by one of the new Ulantic type of engines. The smoking tar was completely telescoped by the iteel mail car ahead, which went hiough it as if it were paper, tearing, trashing, maiming and carrying death. The scene of the wreck is on a sharp turve. On one side, forty feet below, lows the Shenango river, on the other tide is a steep bluff. The engine left he track at the curve and before it ?ad gone two car lengths plowed into he steep hill, where it fell upon its tide and was half buried. The train vas running about two hours late, and he accident happened at 7:10, just ,bout the time when the occupants of he sleepers had finished dressing. After tthe terrible crash the uninured passengers set about the rescue >f the dead and wounded, sur;eons were snmmoned, and within a ew moments the dead and dying were eing oared for as fast as they could >e discovered beneath the wreckage, t was several hours, however, before he victims had been removed and riaced in the two rear Pullmans. The scenes inside the telescoped ars were terrible. Men begged to be el eased and soreamed in agony. They rere all heaped in a corner of the ar, dumped there by the irresistible mpetus of the mail car. The injured were placed on a special rain and taken to the Spencer hospital, Meadville, about noon. What Lttle was left of the baggage or express matter was dumped into the iver to clear the debris for resoue. leverai hundred sacks of mail were pparently little injured. THREE SOLDIERS WERE KILLED. The train was in charge of Conducor Randall, with Engineer Luce and 'ireman Eckert. Both the engineer nd fireman escaped by jumpiug, bough both were painfully injured. Superintendent Belknap and other oficials were early on the ground. They rere unable to assign a cause for the ccident unless spreading rails can be ilamed. A party of nine soldiers on their way rom Fort Porter, New York, to Fort Jrook, Neb., occupied a part of the moker. Of these three were killed nd two seriously injured. They were nder orders for the Philippines. ^The P. B. and L. E. railroad sent orty men from their shops in the city nd lent valuable aid before the Erie rrecking crews arrived. ASSAULT ATLANTA'S DEPOT. ate City Health Authorities Rip Up Flooring of the Old Shack. Decisive steps were taken by the .tlanta, Ga., health authorities Thursay morning regarding the unsanitary ondition of the union depot. A big orce of toen from the health department swarmed about the old building nd began ripping up the flooring that .ad long since been condemned. Before the work was finished the roceeding were stopped by an injuncion secured by the railroad people. Later on cases were made by the ity against Presidnct Charles Wickerham, of the Atlanta and West Point oad; General Passenger Agent C. E. [arman, of the Western and Atlantic ailroad, General Agent S. E. Magill, f the Georgia railroad, on the charge f failing to abate publics nuisance afar having received orders- from the oard of health. PUSHING SMASHER'S WORK. 'opekn Citizens Issue An Ultimatum to The "Joint" Keepers. Three* thousand male citizens of ?opeka, in mass meeting in that city lunday, decided that the numerous oints of the town must close. They ssued an ultimatum giving the jointsts till Friday at 12 o'clock noon to t< . 1:_ i QIC DUSiness. jli ima is nut uuuc, rarning was given that a thousand rmed men would immediately move n the joints and remove them by orce. The action of the meeting is he result of the crusade started in ?opeka by Mrs. Carrie Nation. The aeetingwas a remarkable one in every espec*, BOUNDARY LINE SETTLED. tone of Contention Between Tonneaaee and Virginia Relegated. A special to the Chattanooga, Tenn., Slews from Bristol states that the legislature of Virginia has accepted the sedsion of one-half of Main street in hat city, made by Tennessee as the boundary line between the two states. Che matter of the boundary line ha? Deen in litigation many years. FIVE COOKED TO DEATH. steam Pipe of VeMel Collapaed While On the High Seaa. mi _ -A ine new Bietuner touiuic, nu.vu irrived at Saa Franoisco Thursday :rom Philadelphia, brings news of the scalding to death of five of her crew md the injuring of five others as the result of the bursting of one of her steam pipes on January 23d. Leather Workers Locked Out. An attempt to organize a Leather Workers' union at Bnford, Ga., resulted in a lockout of 200 men at noon Thursday. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. Lljt of New Industries lteported For the Pant Week. Among the more important of the new industries reported for the past week are bottling works at Pensacola, Via.; a $3.10,000 brewery at Alexandria, Ala., and another with capital of $100,000 at Mobile, Ala.; a canning factory at Fort Wortn, Texas; a $150,000 coal and coke company at Charleston, W. Va., and coal mines to be opened at Birmingham, Owensboro, Ky., and Scarbro, W. Va.; a compress and gin at Mount Calm, Texas; a $195,000 flouring mill at Dallas,Texas; a $150,000 electric motor company at Memphis; a flouring mill at Monroe, X. C.; $75,000 foundry and machine >-hop to be rebuilt at Birmingham; a furniture factory at Greensboro, N. C.; a $25,000 hardware company at Monroe, N. C,; a $00,000 ice factory at New Organs, and others at Pine Blnflf Ark find Charlotte. N. C. 1 a knitting mill at Enfield, N. C.; a $50,090 land company at Richmond, Va.; a laundry Birmingham; a lumber company at Norfolk, Va.; machine shops at Americas, Ga., and a $50,000 machinery cjmpauy at Camden, Ark.; a raa'ch factory at Winston, N. C.; a $25,000 inattross an 1 spring bed factory at Atlanta, Ga.; two 81,000,000 oil companies at Beaumont, Texas; another with capiat of 850,000 at Beaumont, and others at Liberty and Orange, Texas; an oil and gas company it Houston, Texas; oil mills at Holliudale, Mi>s., and Athens, Texas; an oil refinery at Port Arthnr, Texas; a paper box factory at Pinleigh, N. O.. a 8100,000 compauy to be organized at Chattanooga for the manufacture of plows; saw mills at Moultrie, Ga., and Wayaesv He, N. C.; saw and planing Uii::s at Demopolis, Ala., Savannah, Ga., and Wiggins, Miss.; shingle mills at Demopolis, Ala., and Linden, Texas; $50,000 steel works at Atlanta, Ga; a tannery at Monterey, Va.; a anoic acid factory at Buena Vista, Va.; a telephone system at Louisville, Ky., and a water power company, at Houston, Texas.?Tradesman (Chattanooga, Teun.) TUP. SF\ A TP'S TirftHTS Argued From Constitutional Standpoint lly Mr. lJacnn, of Georgia. The features of Monday's proceedings in the senate was the speech of Senator Bacon, of Georgia, on his resolution declaring the right of the senate to call for copies of any papers, records or documents of any department of the government. The resolution was introduced some weeks ago ard grew out of the refusal of Secretary of War Root, upon the advice and approval of President McKinley, to send to the senate a copy of the rejo t by Expert Examiner Lawshe, who unearthed the Neely and Rathboue frauds in Cuba. The refusal was based on the ground tla it was incompatible with public interest to make public the report. Senator Bacon argued the issue from a constitutional standpoint, showing the precedents and demonstrating the right of the senate in such matters. MKS. NATION ROUTED. Mr*. Nation Meets Her Flrat Utter D feat at Topeka, Kansas. At Topeka, Kan.. Monday afternoon Mrs. Carrie Nation met her first defeat in her saloon smashing career. With six women, each armed with bright new hatchets, she had started out to wreck a restaurant that dispensed liquors. Before she could wield her hatchet Mrs. Nation was disarmed,and a free for all straggle between restaurant poople and her wreckerB was began. In the melee numerous eyes were blackened and many noses were made to bleed. Mrs. Nation was led away to the station on a charge, of disturbing the peace and was followed by a jeering crowd. MONEY FOR THE SOUTH. Several Streams Get Appropriations In Sundry Civil Bill. The sundry civil appropriation bill was completed Monday by the house committee on appropriations. In southern items the provisions include a public building, Tampa, Fla., $300,000; river and harbor items over $50,000, including Cumberland Sound, Ga., and Florida, $200,000; Winyah Bay, S. C., $500,000; Congaree River, S. C., $50,000; Potomac River, $98,000; Savannah River, Ga., $100,000; Tampa Bay, Fla., $27,000; Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama and Mississippi, $240,000. TWIGGS COURTHOUSE BURNS. Was Erected In 1825?Records and Pen ?lon tnecK* uegiroyeu. Twiggs county, Ga., lost its courthouse and all county records by fire at an early hour Thursday morning. It was built in 1825. Several thousand dollars' worth of pension checks were bnrned. l'u addition to the county loss the officials will snstain individual damage by the burning of private papers and property. Subsidy Bill In Senate. Thursday the senate passed the pension appropriation bill and at once took up the ship subsidy bill. OS CHARGE OF 31UBDEK, AHegeflCampbell County, Ga., YTliltccapper Is Arraigned In Court. The case of Pegram Cochran, charg?>d with the murder of Sterling Thompson, was called iu Campbell superior court at Fairburn, Ga., Wednesday afternoon. The state announced ready, but the defense moved for continuance i on accouut of absence of witnesses. The court overruled the motion, and tb ) case was opened. MANILA WOMEN OKUAMZE. They Have Formed a "Peace League" to Aid in Knding War. Fifty American and 200 Filipino women organized the Woman's Peace : League at the Libertad theater in Manila Saturday. The league advocates American sovereignty. A Filipino woman presided. The executive committee will meet at the residence of Mrs. Taft, wife of Judge Taft, president of the United States Philippine commission, to complete the organization TILLMAN IS AROUSED Sonth Carolina Senator Indulges In Strong Language. HE SWEARS A MIGHTY SWEAR Asserts That He Will Block All Pension Bills That Come Up Hereafter. A Washington special says: The passage at the beginuing of the session of the senate Saturday of a bill granting a pension of $50 a month to Stacy II. Cogswell, company F, Thirteenth Indiana volunteer regiment, induced Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, to make some forceful comments upon the house in not taking action upon a bill providing a pension for a Mexican war veteran who had resided in South Carolina during the civil war and naturally had been in sympathy with the confederacy. The bill had been passed by the senate, but the house invalid pension committee was delaying final action upon it. Mr. Tillman said that there was so much sectioual animosity in the house committee that the members refused to permit action upon tho bill for the benefit of his old Mexican veteran. "Wo, of the south, want to know if the struggle is ended," shouted the irate senator, as he uttered oaths to Senator Halo of Maine, who objected to further debate. Senator Tillman went to Hale's desk and 6wore he would "see them in hell" before any more pension bills should pass, if he could prevent it. Later he obtained the floor and reiterated his complaint against the house committee and refused to be disciplined by Senator Chandler. Senator Tillmau was furious, and his speech quickly drew a crowd to the galleries and all senators to the door. Senator Tillman demanded the repeal of the law presenting the pension of veterans of the Mexican and other wars becan8e they rendered aid to the Confederacy. MINISTER BU(K AT HOME. Arilvrgln Atlanta From Far Away Japan On Hrlef Vacation. Colonel A. E. Bnck, minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to Japan, has retnrned to Atlanta for a brief vacation, after an absence of abont three and one-half years. The minister and his wife reached Atlanta, Ga., and registered at the Aragon. On the hotel register Colonel Buck gave his residence as "city." He will remain in Atlanta for two or three days attending to some private business before proceeding to Waghington and reporting to the state department. He peets to sail from San Francisco to resume his post in Japan about May 1st. This is Colonel Buck's first visit to his old home siuce his departnte for his post in the orient in May, 1897. Colonel Buck was asked about his plans and particularly abont his participation in the councils of the Republican party in Georgia. He said: "I am not going to hold any coninith th? "RennhlicAii leaders of the spectator?. BART LETT SKK1017LY ILL. Georgia Congressman Has Desperate Case of I'neuinonla In Washington. A Washing!on special says: Judge Bartlelt is so desperately ill that it was determined Tuesday to send at once for his friend and family physician, Dr. Hall, of Macon. In the opening prayer in the house the blind chaplain referred feelingly to the critical illue;-8of the Georgiau, praying that he might be spated for many years of further usefulness. r FirZHUSH LEE NAMED. I t Vig.'nian Nominated By President To Be a Brigadier General In the Regular Army. A Washington special eays: The president Monday sent to the senate the nominations of James H. Wilson, ] o? Delaware and Fftzhugh Lee of Virginia, now brigadier general of volun teers, to be brigadier general in the regular army. The senate has confirmed the following nominations: Major General Nelson A. Miles, to bo lieatenant general. To be major generals, Brigadier General S. B. M. Young, United States army; Colonel Adna R. Chaffee,Eighth cavalry United States army (major general United States volunteers); Brigadier General Arthur MacArthur, United States army (major general United States volunteers). The senate held two brief executive sessions for the consideration for the office of brigadier general sent in by the president under the army reorganization act of the present session of congress. At the first session the nominations to that position which bad been favorably reported upon were recommitted to tho committee on military affairs. During the afternoon there was a hurried meeting of the committee, at which a favorable report upon all tho brigadier nominations before the committee were acted upon, and at the second closed session of the senate they were all reported. Those favorable recommendations included not only th6 nominations heretofore reported, but also the nominations of Generals Wood, Grant and Bell, which had been previously passed over, and also those of Generals Fitzhugh Lee and James H. Wilson, whose names were sent in during the day. When the nominations were reported Senator Pettigrew objected to favorable consideration and they went t -i m 3 1.^ xl X^ over until ruesaay uuuer me acuaiu rule. It is understood that there will be a change in the order in which the nominations were made, which will relieve them of the criticism that was made on account of the high relative position the original assignments gave certain officers. SULZER RAISES ROW. Lively Day In the House Over Senate's Action and a ProBoer Peroration. Monday was a field day in the house, being by far the liveliest day during the present session. A very interested debate over the constitutional limitations on the power of the senate over revdbue legislation initiated by the honse was precipitated when Mr. Payne, the chairman of the ways and means committee, brought in the resolution of the committee to disagree to the snbstitnte proposed by the senate as an amendment to the war revenue reduction act and to ask for a conference with the senate. Mr. Tawuey, of Minnesota, championed the course of the house and its paramount rights over revenue legistion, bnt was unfortunate in not bringing forward a resolution to return the bill to the senate with the declaration lhat the senate had transcended its powers in substituting an entirely new measure for the bill of the house. Later in the day daring the consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill au impassioned pro-Boer speech by Mr. Sulzer, of new York, drew from Mr. Mahon, of Pennsylvania, the recital of the raising of a fund of about $1,200 for the benefit of the widows of Boer soldiers at a meet - i?i?.t_ o-i lug held in tne cny, aiwnicu jut. oujzer presided. He declared that after the *'terrapin and cold bottles got in their work" only ?18 was left for the Boer widows. This stung Mr. Snizer to reply at length. He said he had no connection with ' the expenditure of the fund, to which he had contributed $175 and a very lively row followed, the climax of which was reached when Mn Sulzer had read an anonymous letter which made a sensational attack upon Mr. Perry S. Heath, late assistant postmaster general, who was secretary of the Republican national committee during the recent campaign, charging him with being Neely's sponsor, and then denying it after the arrest of Neelv. EXTKA SESSION IMPERATIVE. Subsidy Bill, Cuban Constitution and Philippine Affairs Must Be Attended To. A Washington special says: Ther* is no longer any doubt but that tber. will be an extra session of congress called to meet March 5 for the purpose of passing the Hanna ship subsidy bill, acting on ihe Cuban constitution and defining the relations to exist between this country and the island and to enact legislation establishing civil government in the Philippines, and to pass some of the regular appropriation bills which will probably fail at this session, including the river and harbor bill. HEAD COMPLETELY SEVERED. Conductor on Griffin and Cnrrollton Road Met-ts Horr:blo Death. At Griffin, Ga., Wednesday afternoon, while his train was switching cars, Conductor C. B. Beid, condnctor tho Griffin and Carrollton branch of the Ceutrnl of Georgia railroad, was knocked off and the wheels passed over his body, completely severing the head from the trunk. Reid had only recently been promoted to the poaition. Furniture Companies Combine. The 'consolidation of the largeet J furniture firms in Grand Rapids is j now practically assured. The oombine j will include fourteen of the leading I case goods plants, representing assets 1 of ?5,000,000 with a total output of J ?0,000.000 aunnully. Co'd .Mining Company Incorporated. The Tallapoosa Gold Mining Company, with a capital of $3,000,000, has been incorporated in New Jersey. The company is empowered to operate gold mines in Haralson county, Georgia. lO&^UVVW >'??** VMV ?- ? ? ? in Georgia. I am out of politics. I may see some of the leading Republicans who are my personal friends, but I am not going to talk politics with them. I do not intend again to take an active interest in politics in the state. I am not in politics any more." TOWN RID OF "JOINTS." Barroom* In Hollon, Kansas, Demolished By Biff Force of Raiders. Hollon, Kan., was purged of its joints Saturday. The purging process was accomplished by a band of at least 1,000 who took the town in their hands and attacked the joints. Three joints were put out of business and Hollon is a dry town for the first time in fifteen years. Three Sentenced to Die, Saturday, at Greenville, S. C., Judge Bennett passed the death sentence upon three negroes convicted of murder. John Turner, Lawrence Choice and Miles Cureton were bribed by a white man to kill Ned Clark, for whose murder he was convicted. CARNEUiE SELLS OUT. Morgan Syndicate Secures Railroad Stock of Mnltl-Mllllonaire. Tk/, Vow Ynrt Mail and Emress and The Evening Post announce the sale of the Carnegie stock to the J. P. Morgan Syndicate as an accomplished fact The Mail and Express says: "The only hitch that oconrred in the negotiations leading np to tli? transfer of the control of the Carnegie company was in relation to the control of the bonds held by Mr. Carnegie. The Morgan syndicate agreed to take the $86,379,000 stock at something above its market value, but Mr. Carnegie held out for a guarantee of the *'j per cent income on fifty-year bonds FIYE HUNDRED VICTIMS. Awful Story of a Petroleum Conflagratinst at Baku. Rutisla. A dispatch received in St. Petersburg, Russia, from Baku says 500 persons perished in a petroleum conflagration at that place Thursday. The police station, ten largo tenements, 500,000 tons of mazoiit, 350,000 tons of naptha and all the Rothschild reservoirs were burned. The mazont caused explosions which killed many I jjrsJCNjtxw^^ ? exf j I SOUTH CAROLINA I ? i STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ "" kfSKMCMIMCMCMfMCVJl I A Bank For Woodruff. A bank is beiDg organized at Wood- *ro ruff. The capital is to be $30,000. ?T A. W. Smith is to be president. ?% Knitting; Hill For Bine Ridge. af?c The Blae Ridge Hosiery Company J0* will build a knitting mill at L&ndrum, Spartanburg county. The capital is it. $20,000. hin ** lets Direct Line To Rniherfordton. . A new railroad is in progress from Q0 Spartanburg to Rutherfordton, N. C., ^rc thirty miles distant. The city of ^} Spartanburg has voted $25,00ft in g0y bonds for this project and two towns in Rutherford county, N. C., have voted to issue a similar amount for the ? ?- A /tnmnanv to IfOflrlV ( BSUIO purpusu* A WU4|/?UJ AW in existence to build this road. ?01 qCf New Trolley Line In Proapect. * The city council of Charleston has granted a franchise to the Charleston Suburban and Summerville railway j?" and there is a possibility that Charleston will have another trolley line. The franchise, however, will be re- STr voked within thirty days unless the company gets down to actual work P? before that time. : * be * A Liberal Legislature. C0E The present session of the Iegisla- n.01 tnre has been characterized by remark- tl01 able liberality on the part of the house C?E in the matter of appropriations. The appropriation for confederate veterans' "*e pensions was made $200,000 instead of 3150,000 as heretofore, while the appropriation of $50,000 for the Charleston exposition was granted with praotically no opposition. Bil ** i Suspected Incendiaries Acquitted. The two negroes, Brown and Moss, have been acquitted. When these two J men oharged with arson in Hampton a'fc county were arrested f oms months ago the feeling was high egainst them,and in order to prevent a lynching the 80r governor ordered them brought to ma Columbia to the peniteatiary for safe riv keeping. The first trial resulted in a wa mistrial. ] a 1 Cotton Acreage to Be Increased. Ce Judging from all interior reports Od the South Carolina cotton acreage for for the present year will be the largest in the history of the state. The farmers the are still excited over the high price Cl< paid for the staple and in the hope the that it will remain near the 10 oent pa] mark they will continue to plant. The movement of fertilizers has been ex- coi ceedingly heavy and railroad faoilities coi have been taxed to get the goods Ya through. Should this year's crop he < good and with prices remaining firm em the farmers will be richer than at any 811 other time of their life, the of Plucky South Carolina. 1 fit The Memphis Scimitar says: South Carolina, known in nullification and secession days as the "pluckiest little state in the union," is about to place J herself on record in a light that will Jt easily warrant that appellation. There j is now pending before the state legis* ^ latnre in session at Columbia, a bill providing for the barring of children . under twelve years of age from cotton ^ . mill, mine and factory labor. The , , New England states, under the lead- nQ, ership of Massachusetts, have all . , a ! il. i_ passed similar measures, toe uuijr un- .. ference being the age limit, but no 1 * southern state has taken action look- . ing to the regulation of the age at which children should be allowed to begin such labor. am r agi Three New Cott<m Mills. Three cotton mills are now being mi built near Spartanburg. They are the rnl Saxon, in the snburbs, John A. Law, 0f president; capital $2,000,000; the pre Woodruff mill, A. W. Smith, preBi- fou dent, $225,000 capital; Inman mill, cot Joseph A". Chapman, president, $200,- tie 000 capital. This will give the conn- th< ty twenty-seven mills, with a capital of be about $12,000,000. or cor nai Spartanburg la Pleated. fj A recent census bulletin makes it plain that taking places legitimately claimed as suburbs, Spartanburg is at least the third city of the state, if not se1) the second. As cities go, Spartanburg is well provided with suburbs, has more and larger outlying settlements than either Columbia or Greenville. aw< The population of the city is 11,465 ter ?400 less than that of Greenville. Spartanburg township has a population of 23,810. Greenville has, according to the claims of the people of that city, a population of over 20,000. Columbia ^ has 23,000 people, with three suburban towns of sma^l population. With two or three mill towns near by, the whole fPz " * * ?in i u_i?OK nnn ine ol uommoia win uuve uevwccu ?v,wv and 30,000 people. * sen o c. No Increase of Prosecutors. ^ The state legislature has killed the ^ bill offered to have a prosecuting solicitor for every county of the state. jj?1 The prevalence of crime was put. forth < as an argument in support of the bill, , and it was claimed that with {he pres- " ent amount of criminal business the solicitor of the judicial circuit was not . able to give it proper time and attention. Since the establishment of the ? state dispensary the work of the prosecutors has increased wonderfully, and in the city of Charleston alone hun- ^ dreds of cases for violation of this law ^ are given the solicitor for prosecution. . There is enough work there for one ^ prosecutor, but his time has to be divided with other counties. The meas- , ure was looked at as a capital move, hnt not all the members of the house ? were willing to adopt it. f**1 ** wif Woman** Department Work. ^ The woman's department work of the Sonth Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition has been or* I ganized at Charleston with Mrs. Sarah say Calhoun Simonds as president; Mrs. We G. A. Wagener, vice president; Mrs. ind W. A. Pringle, treasurer. The ladies rea who have offered to take charge of this oth I feature of the big show are very much to < encouraged and are enthusiastic with the plans and they will help to make B this one of the best attractions of the wo >osiuon. xuemDers oi iuu uoaru ox ninistration and ladj commissionfrom other states and oonntriea 1 be named later. Killed By His Brother. jee Babb and his brather, Henry, o live on the Jordan road, six miles m Greers, have been on bad terms some time about a land transac3. Henry Babb and his two sons, srrence and Isam, learned a few days > that Lee Babb was out in the ods cutting wood for his mother. ned with shotguns end nistols. ther )roacnea Lee, who was unaware oi ir presence, and opened fire on flL i, riddling him with shot and buli. He lived but a few minutes after ng shot It is stated that Lee had ^ weapons, and had no idea that his % ther and nephews were intending | nolest him. He leaves a wife and en children. Mill Owners Are Satisfied. 7otton mill owners and managers in ith Carolina are rejoieing oyer the eat of the ehild labor bill by the ith Carolina legislature, although measure will crop out again at the ct session. In faot a commission i been appointed to visit the mill tricts with a view of studying the tdition there, and a report will be >mitted next year. The main faot ich helped to defeat the bill was the ition from 6,000 mill operators in i Piedmont section, who asked to let alone. They showed that the idition of the operators was better v than over before. In other aeons, however, it is claimed that the tditions are not so encouraging,and i investigations will go forward in se sections. SIZING KNOCKED OUT. II Passed In the Senate Provides For the Expulsion of Cadets Caujht Hazing. i Washington special says: Soon er tho senatj convened at 11 o'clock m >lnesdaya bill authorizing Jeffer- | i county, Ark., to construct and intain a bridge across the Arkansas er within five miles of Pine Bluff ? passed. Bills were also passed setting apart ^ tract of seven acres of land near |f otral City, Col., for a cemetery for TM J Fellows; appropriating $50,000 the preparation of a site and the | ction of ft pedestal for a statue of i late Major General George B. Meillan in Washington city; the an- | trizing of the Arizona Water Comay to constrnot a power plant on the ^ na Indian reservation in Maricopa mty, Arizona; providing for the ostraction of a bridge across the < lobu river. Grenada county, Miss. Consideration of the military acady appropriation bill was then rened, the pending question being ) amendment offered by Mr. Allen, ^ Nebraska, providing that cadets, on entering the academy, should ie an oath not to engage in hazing | 1 if fouod guilty of hazing be disssed from the academy and not be gible thereafter to hold position her in the army or in the navy of i United States. J3 Cn supporting the amendment, Mr. en asserted that the brntal practice unUinff anrwfVior whn Vtl hll ' a-" aooaUlNUg ?MV*MV* ?f ? ? v. tior had been carried to a ridiculous ' _ | ent at the military academy and he ieved it would never be broken up til the most rigid measures were :en in good faith to pat an end to Ifter further discussion Mr. Allen hdrew his amendment and offered M oe amendments making stronger i phraseology of the oommittee's endment relating to hazing. "As reed to the hazing paragraph reads: "Tbat the superintendent of the iitary academy shall make such ' e8, to be approved by the secretary ear, as will effectually prevent the ictfce of hazing; and any cadet md guilty of participating in'or eniraging or countenancing such praee shall be summarily expelled from 3 academy and shall not thereafter re-appointed to the corps of cadets ^ -'':M be eligible for appointment as a missioned officer in the army or * -i me bill as amended then was passed. .. SLAPPED WOMAN'S FACE* ' tor Snllim of Mississippi Arrested For Assanlt sad Battery. A warrant charging assault - was | jrn out at Washington Tuesday af oon against Senator Sullivan, of Bsissippi. This is part of the afterth of the breach of promise suit right against the senator some time >, and is the immediate, result of a . ference whioh he had on Saturday h the woman who is suing him. e Lacy Lee ton, the plaintiff in the ),000 breach of promise suit, had i warrant sworn oat She charges t while talking with the Mississippi ator Saturday evening about eight lock, the statesman slapped her in e? When asked whether it was true that had slapped a woman, Senator Sulin is quoted as saying: 'It is true that I slapped Miss Lee- ? i's face. I was exasperated beyond lurance by the tannting of the won. She had written me importun: me for money to go to her home in jsisnippi. As I was leaving my amittee room at the capitol and was ? J ng to a street car she walked up. . >ld her I was in a harry and asked to walk with me to the ear. I was ring earnestly with her and telling that I would give her the moneyif would return to her home. I am. last person in the world to whom i snouiu aiive {jjmeu iw iuuuoj, ten I reached the Baltimore k Ohio tion she became moat insulting and i lond voice began to revile my a. I lost my temper and slapped x,?? City Officials Indicted. L special from Newport News, Va., s: The grand jury at 6:20 o'clock dnesday afternoon returned two ||| lictments in addition to those aldy found against Mayor Moss and er officials for bribery, making six late. '-21 :eep your feet wasm and yoor nost nt get red. I