The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 14, 1901, Image 1
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?i ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. MARCH 14.1901. OSE DOLL AH PER YEAR.
I STORY OF BRUTALITY
Is Oiven ii Report of Aaderson
County, S. C., Grand Jury.
MANY CONTRACTORS INDICTED
Presentments Sensational and
^ Show That Negroes Were IHer
gaily Held and Mistreated.
EThe Anderson county, S. C., grand
jury made its report Thursday to the
special term of court on the abuses of
the labor eontract system in the counanntainfl
oilcnro flAT>
Ijr, jluo w suovoiuo vuo a
made that where the system is used
virtual slavery exists. The jury found,
however, that this method of working
negroes was employed by only twenty
men in the county and these were
presented, and will be indicted, for
false imprisonment at the June term
* of oourt
> The free laborers h ave been whipped
and shackled, and in one instance
a man was kidnaped in Georgia and
brought to a stockade in the county,
where he was worked until the grand
jury found him and he was set at liberty.
The report was prepared by a
committee of five and was adopted by
a the full jury. It says in part:
"A. T. Newell works state conviots
and has a stockade, but he has worked
no free laborers along with the convicts
until recently, when he has taken
S two contracts of that sort. One of
these was the case of the nnfortunate
negro, "Will Hull, who was killed by
W. 8. Newell a few weeks ago,
j "J. B. Miller formerly worked conW'
victs, but they were taken away by the
state and he now employes only 'free'
labor, if indeed we may use the word
free' to describe those laborers who
have signed his contracts and snbjectm
ed themselves to the conditions exist
ing on his farm. He has a stockade
whioh was originally built for his state
^ confrats.
L"On our first investigation at tbia
place we were met by a statement from
the negroes that thej were satisfied
^ with their treatment, bat their manW
\ ner indicated coercion, and subsequently
we made further investigation,
k . which convinced ue that J. R. Miller
and his overseer, J. A. Emerson, had
14 been guilty of whipping negioes,
locking them up at night, of working
thfen under guard, and putting shackles
upon them.
"In many respects, the most re^
mark able case coming under our notice
was that of Elias McGee, who has
never employed state convicts, but
who built a stockade and prepared to
treat bis laborers as convicts. Some
of the negroes had been arrested and
signed contracts after being put under
arrest We think the grand jury
should make presentments against
? ''.7 Elias McGee, and we so recommend.
"W. Q. Hammond runs a large farm
in this county and employs a considerable
number both of state convicts
and free',laborers. His contracts provide
that the 'free' laborers shall be
worked under guard and locked up at
V . night, and they suffer this illegal imprisonment
and more, for the evidence
shows that a number of these unfortunates
have been worked nnder guard
and gun, have been locked up at night
w n * a l 1 _1 1_
ana on sunaays, ana nave ueeu Buaua.ed
and whipped. Several of these,
who had been indicted last fall for
gambling, had been taken ont of jail
on bond by Mr. Hammond and kept at
his farm without trial nntil this investigation
began, when he surrendered
k them to the sheriff.
I "The negro, Tom Parks, whose case
was oalled to the attention of the grand
jury by the presiding judge, was re*
leased almost immediately thereafter,
j He was then taken forcibly and without
trial, under one of the harsh contracts
atove referred to, and confined
in the stockade and worked with the
\ convicts and suffered the other abuses
above mentioned until this investigaI
tion was begun.
> The report contains a list, of free
laborers who were whipped r* various
times, and recites an instar where
one of them received one hundred
lashes.
Judge Benet after reading the secret
evidence taken by committee, said
it contained "pitiful details of long
imprisonment, without even the mockery
of a trial; whippings, kidnapings,
from one county to another, and even
from Georgia."
He declared the grand jury had his
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state of South Carolina for the fearless,
thorough discharge of their duty.
He deprecated the unjust criticisms
of northen newspapers, and declared
that Sonth Carolina would not send
her dirty linen to a federal laundry.
The threat of congressional interfer,
ence was absurd. Such talk did harm.
It hurt the negroes* cause.
The solicitor will bring indictments
against these planters at the June
term of court.
House Calendar Reviewed.
A review of the house calendar
shows that congress was in session
197 days, which is less than any
congress for years, dumber bills,
A /.ftA. ui:. "ZA "
14,336; reports, o,uuu; puuiit?w,w,v,
private acts, 1,250; total acts, 1,595.
liubouic Plague Spreads.
The bubonic plague is spreading at
Capetown. Five corpses, all of colored
persons, were found within twelve
hours. Eleven others believed to be
affected by the disease, have been .removed
to a hospital.
CLEVELAND AND HILL.
Address Letters to the Crescent Democratic
Clob of Baltimore.
The Crescent Democratic Club, one
of the leading political organizations
* of Baltimore, celebrated its 29th anniversary
Monday night by listening to
* addresses on Democracy, delivered by
* leading local speakers. The occasion
was rendered more than ordinarially
interesting by the receipt of letters
from Groyer Cleveland and p?vid B.
BIN.
! MANY DIED IN STORM.
List of Tornado Victims In Ten.
nessee, Kentucky and Arkansas
Grows Heavier.
A Memphis special says: Reports
of damage by Saturday night's storn
are coming in from the country slowly
as the telegraph and telephone wires
are being opend. Mail and wire re
ports to date indicate that no less thai
sixteen, and perhaps more, persons
lost their lives in West Tennessee anc
Arkansas.
Considering the velocity of the wine
and the heavy downpour of rain it is i
wonder that the death rate was no
gicatcf* ict an ui tuo suian iu?uo it
the path of the storm have not beer
heard from.
Around Forest City ihree people?
T. A. Wooley, a planter, and Pinknej
Watson and child were killed outright
The Wooley home was literally carriec
away and the inmates all more or les:
hurt.
The storm was the worst that hai
passed through Gibson county, Arkan
sas, in years.
At Covington, Tenn., Wyatt Smith
colored, was killed.
Many reports of serious injuries al
over west Tennessee and Arkansas an
being received, and it will be severa
days before the full list of dead can b<
asceitained. The farmers have sus
tained a tremendous loss.
Kentucky suffered greatly by th<
storm of last night and although then
are no reports of loss of life, mucl
property was destroyed.
A special from Owensboro says then
was a regular waterspout there an(
considerable damage was done. Cel
lars were flooded and gutter bridge!
swept away. The sewer well, at th<
intersection of Main and Davis streets
burst and there was a cave-in forti
feet in diameter.
In Clinton county several housei
were demolished and several freigh
cars blown off the track. A numbe:
of negroes were hurt.
At Padncah, in the Mason's Mil
section of the country, eight milei
from town, a storm overturned twelv<
tobacco barns, stables and outhouses
killing many valuable head of stock
destroying the Cumberland Presbyte
rian, Catholic and Baptist churche:
and crushing in three negro houses
filled with colored people.
At London the new residence o
Tillford Jones was blown from iti
foundation and is a complete wreck
The Sue Bennett college was damagec
between $800 and $1,000, and at Hick
man the Baptist church was destroy
ed, also one drug store and number:
of tenement houses.
Reports from over the state of Ar
kansas show that the storm was fai
greater than was anticipated. Thui
far there are sixteen deaths reported
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
List of New Industries Established Dar
inc the Past Week.
Among the more important of th?
new industries reported for the pas
week are bottlinsr works at Raleigh
N. C.; brick works at Tliomasville
Ga., and Natchez, Miss.; a carriagi
factory at Jackson, Ga.; $100,00(
chemical works at Savannah, Ga.; i
$25,000 cotton compress at Newton
Miss., $100,000 cotton mills at Syla
cauga, Ala., and Weatherford, Texas
a $35,000 spindle mill at Celeste
Texas, and a cotton mill with $25,00(
capital at Petersburg, Ya ; a $50,001
distillery at Columbia, S. C.; electri
light plants at Thomaston, Ga., Ellis
ville, Miss., and Sparta, Tenn.; ai
electric light and water company a
Highland, Ky.; an electrical supply
company at Danville, Va.; an electro
type foundry at Richmond, Ya.; flour
ing mills at Decatnr, Ala., Marsh
ville, N. C.; a grain eleval^^^^p
ton, Ya.; a hardware
Prescott. Ark.; a hogsh^Hjj^^^Hk
Darlington, S. C.;
at Brewton, Ala., W^^rogton, N. C.
and Franklin, Tenn., a $10,000 ic
and power company at Forest City
Ark.; $10,000 iron works at Owens
boro, Ky.; a $20,000 knitting mill a
Shelbyville, Tenn.; laundries at Lex
ington, Ky., and Galveston, Tex.; lnm
ber companies at Knoxville, Tenn.
and Wilburton, Tex.; lumber mills a
Tampa, Fla.; and Hattiesbnrg, Miss,
a $50,000 medicine factory at Waco
Tex.; a kaolin mining company a
Hephzibah, Ga.; a mining and millini
company at El Paso, Tex.; with capi
tal of $199,950; a $25,000 pottery a
TWitnn. Ark.: a S100.000 oil comDan
at Fort Worth, Tex.; and oil and min
ing company at Yanceborg, Ky.,
$100,000 oil mill at Jacksonville, Tex.
a $33,000 oil mill at Mount Vernon
Tex.; a sash and door factory at Porte
mouth, Va.; a sash, door and blim
factory at Petersburg, Va.; saw mill
at New Decatur, Ala.; and DeFuniak
Fla., a saw and planning mill at Hunt
ington, Tenn.; a telephone compan;
at Lafayette, Tenn.; and a woole:
mill atElizabethton, Tenn.?Trades
man, Chattanooga.
Wilson on Tour of Inspection.
General Wilson, chief of engineers
has left Washington on a tour of in
spection of fortifications and river am
harbor works along the southern coast
with Galveston, Tex., as his ultimat
destination.
CHEEKED SCHLEY'S NAME.
Marines at Pensacola Entertained B
Citizens With Smoker.
Over 200 men from the squadron a
Pensacols, Fla., were entertained b;
citizens with a smoker Thursday night
Captain Parkhill, of the city, re
sponded to the toast, "Man Behim
the Guns," and when he referred t
Schley the large hall shook with re
sounding cheers. Only enlisted me;
were invited from the ships.
Hobson at Home For Rest.
Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hot
son,of Merrimac fame,is at his Green*
boro, Ala., home and will remain se^
eral weeks recuperating his healti
Lieutenant Hobson was ill for a Ion
time in New York and is in need c
quiet.
General Miles To Yisit Cuba.
Lieutenant General Miles, accon
panied by his staff, will leave Wast
ington in a few days for a trip to Cub*
where he will make an inspection <
the principal military posts,
MORfiAN ON BRITONS
Alabama Senator Says America
| Will Not Be Bnlldozed.
' APPLAUSE ANGERS ROOSEVELT
i
j His Entrance In Senate Caused
1 Demonstration In Galleries
1 Which Was Cut S>iort.
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i In the senate Wednesday Senator
i Morgan, of Alabama, addressed that
body on his resolution to abrogate the
r Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
"There cannot be anything mor?.
i precious today to Great Britain," said
5 Mr. Morgan, "than to prevent the construction
of the Nicaragua canal. If
3 Great Britain by her 'golden' silence
. can prevent that, her profits will continue
and the loDger she can do that,
the greater will be her profits on the
Suez canal. She has remained as silent
1 as the Sphinx which looks out upon
the Nile and upon the desert, and she
seems to be looking out upon a desert
of wasted American opportunities and,
sad to say, American honor. Great
Britain is still silent.
He called her silence "golden" because
he asserted, Great Britain
through Liverpool, which was the
commercial center of the world, was
being enriched because of the lack of
the Nicaragua canal.
With some feeling in referring to
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, the senator
?aid:
"We make no compromise with
Great Britain on that subject. We
will make no concession to Great Britain
in relation to the treaty. What we
shall do with it (and some of onr people
are opposed even to that) is that
we shall declare it abrogated.
"If the vote on my resolution could
be taken today it would inform the
^ Alw rfV TT n ? A V* ft 4" V* t\
3 PrSBIUeill Ui UIO UUILCU uiaico iiiou uu
has no two-thirds majority in the senate
to adopt any compromise he may
. make with Great Britain. If it is the
3 purpose of Great Britain to still look
for delay she will not get it. If it be
her determination to pick a qnarrel
f with us about it, she will find the
5 United States can muster at least half
the number of men who voted for the
1 president in the last election?fighting
. men.
"And she will find, when that war
3 terminates, that the steel band which
binds the throne in Loudon with
. Australia and India and passes through
r Canada will have been rent in twain,
3 and with its severance down will go
the empire. She will find that her
possessions in the Caribbean sea have
lapsed. She will find that she has
overtaxed our patience. She has started
with a new king and upon a new
career that will break up the empire
* and reduce the king to the sovereignty
of his own island.
' "Dees not Great Britain suppose
she can escape from the terrors of the
* existence of the situation and the
prospective situation everywhere and
* that she can find a favorable opportu'
nity to display her military powers
against the United States?"
' Mr. Morgan said he did not boast
* of the power of the United States in
:J money, men or valor, but ho was
thoroughly conscious of them and
c gloried in that consciousness, because
he knew when the supreme moments
" should come and aDy power in the
world should undertake to bridle the
7 United States by placing such restraints
upon her sovereignty as were
contained in the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty the American people would re
' I siaLt^he bitter end.
resistance," he exclaimed
B^ehemently, "will mean the wiping
8 out of any power on earth that under'
takes the job."
0 Without concluding his speech, Mr.
' Morgan yielded the floor, and at 2:4:5
l* o'clock, on motion of Mr. Warren, of
Wyoming, the senate went into executive
session, adjourning fifteen min *
utes later.
? ROOSEVELT SHOWS DISPLEASURE.
; When the senate convened the gallf
leries were packed with people, a ma,t
jority of whom, as on recent days,
pr were composed of visitors to the city.
Promptly at noon Yico President
t Roorevelt entered the chamber. As he j
y stepped forward to the desk to call the !
. 6enate to order a burst of spontaneous
a applause rang through the galleries.
; With evident manifestations of his
1 disapproval, the vice president seized
i- his gavel and rapped sharply twice for
J order. Glancing sternly around the
s galleries he said, and the words cut
t through the chamber like a knife:
"If there is any applause or disory
der the sergeant-at-arms will clear the
Q galleries."
The chaplain, in his invocation, referred
with deep pathos to the sorrow
which has fallen upon the junior senofnr
fmm Alfthnmn ATr. Ppftna nnd
? his wife in the death of their only son.
* Inquiry from Mr. Teller brought out
^ the fact that it was not the intention
'? of Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut, to press
? his cloture resolution during the present
session.
ALL HANDS LOST.
British Steamer Avlona i? Wrecked at
y Bilbao Breakwater.
f. Advices from Bilbao, Spain, state
' that the BritisF steamer Avlona, Captain
Lennox, has been wrecked at the
Bilpao breakwater. All on board
j were lost.
0 She was of 1,110 tons net register,
284 feet long, 34J feet beam and 24
Q feet deep. She was built at Dundee
in 1880, aud was owned by the Avlona
Steamship Company, of Ayr.
WISDsTOKH IN CHICAGO
)
J- Within Two Hours Damage to Property
r- Beached Aggregate of 8175,000.
i. One of the worst wind storms of the
g season struck Chicago early Suuday.
)i ana auring me iwu uuurs it was m jus
height damaged property in the city
to the extent of $175,000. Many heavy
plate glass windows were blown iu.
i- Telegraph and telephone companies
l- were the worst sufferers, and it will bo
i, some time before order can be restor>f
fed. Thousands of poles were blown
down and Chicago was practically ingofoted
Um the west and northwest,
EXPELLED M'KINLEY'S AGENT.
Hawaiian Legislators Object to
Presence of Territorial Secretary
Coop;r.
Advices from Honolulu, via San
Francisco, state that the first territorial
legislature of Hawaii began its
sessions in Honolulu on February 20th
and has been in session since.
J. A. Akina, independent, a Hawaiian-Chinese
member from the island
of Kauaai, was elected speaker of the
house and Dr. Nicholas Ru9sell, of
Hawaii, a white man, was chosen president
of the senate.
On the third day Secretary of the
Territory Cooper was ordered out o;
the house and escorted by the ser
geant at arms. Acting under the section
of the territorial act which provides
that he "shall record and preserve
the laws and proceedings of the
legislature," Secretary Cooper took a
place on the floor of the house with a
stenographer to secure a record of the
proceedings.
Representative Beckley, independent,
offered a resolution requiring him
to leave. The resolution set forth
that his presence on the floor was a
violation of the rule that the three departments
of government?executive,
judicial and legislative?must be kept
separate, and it was urged in debate
that Governor Dole had put Cooper
where he was with a view to intimidating
members.
Cooper was declared by Republicans
to be present as a representative
of President McKinley, as he had
been ordered to transmit a report to
Washington, but even this plea did
not deter the independents. After s
long debate they passed the Bleckley
resolution bj a vote of 20 to 9?the
Dine beiDg all the Republicans in the
house.
With both houses in control of the
independent home rule party and containing
a majority of native Hnwaiians,
the legislature has already been
the scene of some remarkable proceedings
and the end of the session promises
to see many very radical measures
adopted, among those to which the
controlling party is committed being a
liquor dispensary law, a taxation system
that will be a combination of single
tax and income tax doctrines, an
election law based on proportionate
representation and a law excluding
from the territory all persons who may
arrive afflicted with consumption
or leprosy.
The question of languages is another
source of trouble. The organic act
says that all proceedings of the legislature
shall be conducted in English.
Half of the members cannot speak English,
and Hawaiian interpreters have
been employed in both houses. It is
the opinion of some lawyers that this
will invalidate all proceedings and this
matter will come before tne courts
when some laws have been passed.
Chief Justice Frear and Governor
Dole, who were members of the commission
that adopted the rule in question,
have expressed the opinion that
it intended to provide that no language
but English should be spoken. The
independents claim that laws and reso
lutions, etc., shall be in English.
Every measure and every speech is being
given in both English and Hawaiian.
PROMINENT FLORIDIAN DEAD.
Judge Ziba King Passes Away at Arcadia
After a Long Illness.
Judge Ziba King died in Arcadia,
Fla., Thursday afternoon of Bright'fi
disease after an illness of two months,
aged sixty-four. He leaves a wife and
eight children. He wag the president
of the First National Berok of Arcadia,
vice president of the Exchange National
Bank, of Tampa, and directoi
of the National Bank of the State oi
Florida, Jacksonville. He was an exmember
of the state senate and house
of representatives, and the largest cattle
owner in Florida.
DEPORTATION CONTINUES.
Gen. MacArthnr It Bidding Philippinei
Of Insurgent "Sympathizers."
General MacArthnr has notified the
war department by mail he has ordered
the deportation of a number of per
sons "whose overt acts have clearlj
revealed them as in aid of or in sympathy
with the insurrection and the
irregular guerrilla warfare by which-il
is being maintained and whose con
tinned residence in the Philippine
islands is, in every essential regard,
inimical to the pacification thereof."
WARRANTS WILL ISSUE.
"Slave-Holding" Planters In Sonth Carolina
Are To Be Prosecuted.
A Columbia, S. C., special says
Judge W. C. Benet has signed an order
requiring the presentment of th(
grand jury to be served on the several
magistrates in whose jurisdiction the
"sla^e-holdiug" planters of Anderson
reside, requiring them to issue warrants
against the presented men and
bind them over to court for trial on
the charge of false imprisonment and
assault and battery of a high and aggravated
nature.
Judge Benet will not hold court ir
Anderson in June and this action goes
to the limit of his authority.
JURY IX NATION CASE
Deliberates Two Moors Over the Evidenc<
But Fails To Make Verdict.
The case of Mrs. Carrie NatioD,
Lucy Withers, Julia Evans and Lydia
Muntz, charged with wrecking the exterior
of John one Herrig's saloon
January 21st, was given to the jury at
"Wichita, Kas., Saturday afternoon,
and after deliberating two hours no
verdict was reached. Judge Dale
finally instructed the jury to bring in
a sealed verdict.
GEORGIANS COMING HOME.
Twenty-Ninth Regiment Will Leave th<
Philippines on March 25th.
A Washington special says: Colone
Livingston has been informed by tb<
war department officials that the Twen
ty-ninth regiment of volunteers, knowr
as the Georgia regiment,will positively
leave Manila, Philippine Islands, or
March 25th.
The regiment will come to the Uniteci
States on the transport Grant and will
be landed in San Fi^qpisco in oboul
four week? pf sailing, or the latter pari
Of April# " *
fiEN. BOTHA YIELDS
Prayers of His Wife Leads Him
to Accept an Armistice.
DEWET AND STEYN OBSTINATE
Kitchener Reports to War Department
Satisfactory Progress
Toward Pacification.
A London special says: General
Kitchener has granted General Botha
a seven days' armistice to enable him
to confer with the other genarals.
A special dispatch from Pretoria,
dated Friday, says General Kitchener
aud General Botha had a lenthy conference
on Gun Hill Friday morning.
General Botha was alone and General
Kitchener was accompanied by his secretary.
The Daily Chronicle, referring to
the armistice at Pretoria, says:
"The untiring agent in bringing
about the negotiations was Mrs. Botha,
who was deeply affected by the hopeless
plight of the Boers.
"The meeting of February 27th was
limited to General Botha's request to
know Lord Kitchener's terms. Lord
Kitchener replied that a general amnesty
would be granted to all who
surrendered, as well as to all prisoners,
except those Cape Dutch, who,
being British subjects, had actively
fomented Boer resistance. General
Dewetand Mr. Steyn were, however;
expressly excluded from the amnesty.
"Lord Kitchener further promised
1 that if peace were concluded the government
would assist in rebuilding the
' farmhouses and other buildings destroyed
under military exigencies,
would reinstate the lawful owners and
would help them stock their farms.
Those guilty of acts of treachery would
be excluded from the benefits.
"Generrt Botha appeared to be satisfied
with the conditions and the
1 armistice being arranged. He proceeded
to consult his officers, a vast
majority of whom accepted the terms. I
"JDewet and Steyn both remained |
1 irreconcilable. They declined any
terms. Dewet adding that on his part
the war had become one of revenge,
and he intended to do all the mischiei
he could.
"It is possible that the original ar- !
1 mistice of a week has been extended.
It is believed that the remainder of
General Botha's officers have now
been won around and that he is likely
1 to make formal submission to Lord
1 Kitchener March 11th, when his force
1 will surrender to General French.
1 "Acoording to our information Lord
1 Kitchener's dispositions made the
speedy captnre of General Botha's
forces quite certain. General Botha
frankly accepted the situation and was
treated by Lord Kitchener at both in'
terviews with the greatest conaider1
ation."
"The negotiations between Lord
Kitchener and General Botha are in
abeyance," says the Pretoria corresnf
Tlia Timaa w?!Hnir WAr!
[JUUUCU If Ui XUO XILU1/D| >1 Vnesday,
"pending an answer from the
British government."
Dispatches frotr, Amsterdam and
Brnssels say that Mr. Kruger's entourk
age continues to profess ignorance of
the existence of negotiations deolaring
, that General Botha cannot act for the
i Orange Free State and that, in any
case, ' no terms are possible nnless
I Lord Kitchener is prepared to discnss
i independence.
> Lord Kitchener reporting nnder
date of March 7th, says:
"The Boers failed in their deterf
mined attack npon Lichtenbnrg. Our
losses, besides the two officers previ>
ously reported, were fourteen men
killed and twenty wounded. The Boer
General Celliors was killed.
"French reports further captures of
a fourteen pounder Crensot, with carriage
and limber complete, and one
1 Hotchkiss, making a total of seven
guns. The total number of Boers
5 known to have been placed hors dn
^ eombat since the eastern operations
began is 979."
Adding to his last report, Lord
Kitchener states that 169 rifles, 2i,970
* pounds of ammunition, 183 horses,
k 1,240 trek oxen, 3,920 cattle, 13,580
" sheep, 100 wagons and carts and large
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CJQttUUll^o ui luxuuto
? tared without casualties in Cape Colony.
TO THWART RUSSIANS.
United States and England are Having
Secret Negntlotions.
: A London Special says: A crisis
Las arisen in far eastern affairs, which
[ in the opinion of the British govern5
ment is graver almost than the troubles
i which originally turned the eyes of
the world toward the orient. Secret
[ negotiations are going on between the
i United States and Great Britain with
I a view to thwarting what both govern.
ments appear to consider a determined
attempt on the part of Russia to
i plant herself permanently in one of
i the richest tracts of the Chinese empire.
BROWN IN HONDURAS.
Bank Defaulter Said to Be Repairing His
Brokeu Fortune.
A Cincinnati newspaper prints a
| dispatch from a special correspondent
_ at Ceibo, Honduras, telling of the correspondent's
search for Frank Brown,
the defaulting official of the German
National Bank of Newport, Ky.
( The story runs that Brown is in
( Honduras in partnership with S. A.
Piper, of Montana, both engaged in
seeking to repair their fortunos.
TOBACCO TARIFF ABOLISHED.
> President Issues Order Calling: Off Duty
On Cuban Weed.
I The president Friday issued an ex3
ecutive order abolishing the Cuban
export duty on tobacco from April 1st
i next. This action was taken on the
? earnest recommendation of the Cuban
i economic commission, which recently
visited Washington, indorsed by Genl
eral Wood. A previous order had
I been issued fixing an export duty of
t 50 per cent on Cuban tobacco from
\ April 1st, The president's action removes
the export duty entirety?
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Salt Over Prize Money.
A peculiar case will come up for settlement
at the next term of court for
Lancaster county. It grew out of the
offer made last year by the Atlanta
Weekly Constitution of a prixe 01 $ouu
to a subscriber who guessed nearest
the number of bales of cotton received
at the port of Savannah for the
season.
It seems that Lewis Cauthen, of
Heath Springs, was the canvassing
agent for the paper, and he had some
arrangement with those who subscribed
that he would receive half the prize if
they won. He advanced the subscription
price of the paper for Wylie Lowry,
of Oakhurst, Lancaster county.
Lowry made his guess, won the prize
and received the check for $500, which
he deposited with the Kershaw Mercantile
and Banking Company. Lowry
refused to divide, denying he had such
an agreement.
Cauthen has commenced suit, making
the banking company a party to
it, and obtained an injunction preventing
the bank from paying any other
money to Lowry. A motion to dissolve
this injunction made by attorneys
for Lowry was refused by Justice
Jones, of the supreme court. After
all, the lawyers will probably get the
prize.
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Clemson College to Make Exhibit.
The board of trustees of Clemson
college met a day or two ago and apI
propriated $2,000 with which to make
I an exhibit for the institution at the
South Carolina Interstate and West
Iudian exposition next winter.
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Death Caused uy vacciuauuu.
A Columbia special says: "Nellie,
twelve-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. D. N. Smith, of Orangeburg,
was at school Tuesday suffering from
the results of vaccination, but there
were no signs of a serious tnrn in the
trouble. Yesterday complications set
in bringing on lockjaw, from which
death resulted."
Relic of Revolution Unearthed.
A plowman on Major E. B. Cantey'e
place at Hobkirk Hill, Camden, hat
found a relic of the battle of Hobkirk
Hill, fought during the revolution. II
is a short side sword, suppose to have
been worn by a'British tfficer. The
blade bears a coat of arms upon it.
The handle is inlaid with gold and has
several bands of pure silver around it.
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A Conspiracy Case.
Mrs. Mattie Thompson, a young
white woman charged with arson, came
clear at Spartanburg. The solicitoi
asked for a verdict of not guilty. II
turned out that it was a negro conspiracy
against this woman. Judge
Klugh made some strong remarks in
dismissing the case.
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Warrants Against "Slave-Holders."
Judge W. C. Benet signed an order
requiring the presentment of the grand
jury to be served on the several magistrates
in whose jurisdiction the
"slave-holding" planters of Anderson
reside, requiring them to issue warrants
against the presented men and
fViom nvsr to onnrfc for trial on
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the charge of false imprisonment and
assanit and battery of a high and aggravated
nature.
Judge Benet will not hold court in
Anderson in June and this action goes
to the limit of his authority in bring
ing the action to trial.
Press Wants Bill Vetoed.
Governor McSweeney is being over
whelmned with demands from the press
of South Carolina to veto the act re
pealing the free pass law. This bill
passed the senate by one vote, Lieu
tenant Governor James H. Tillman
casting the deciding ballot.
As a rule, the old conservativet
voted against the bill, while the old reformers
voted for it. The act that this
bill repeals was one of the first reforrr
measures. It was claimed that the
railroads were using free passes en
bribes.
There is almost a unanimous demanc
that the law prohibiting legislators anc
state officers using free passes be al
j lowed to stand.
Governor McSweeney has given nc
8'gn, but it is believed he will veto th<
repealing act.
The dispensary act was recently
amended allowing distilleries anc
breweries to be established in Colum
bia and Charleston. The amendmen
is to be taken prompt advantage of
J. L. Farman, formerly of the Acm<
Brewing company, of Macon; N. M
Block, Alex Block and L. Block, Jr.
have applied for a charter for a brew
ing company in Columbia, with a cap
ital of $50,000.
Tillman Scores Critics.
At Clemsen college the past week
Senator Tillman made a statement re
garding Cuban, Philippine and Charles
ton exposition matters. In referenct
to the exposition the senator said:
"I did what I could in a legitimatt
way to get the appropriation foi
Charlefton, and there was practically
no opposition in the senate. The op
position was in the house. I gave nc
pledges and received none. All cor
respondents who have been qaoted t<
prove the contrary are Republican!
who are quick to fly-blow Democrats
senators."
"Shall I say that you are pleasec
with the turn of affairs at Anderson?'
was asked.
"Oh, yes, I am glad for the impres
sion it will make outside the state t(
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see tne Drave, uru, neusiuiu
taken by the court and jury. For i
still better effect along this line J
would like to have seen indictment
at once handed out. We want thi
outside world to see and know tha
we are able and willing to deal witl
the matter. Outside interferenci
from the United States government ii
ready to come in if we fail to do ou
full duty in stamping out the infamj
and punishing the wrongdoers."
Monument to American Heroes.
As a result of the commemorativi
meeting held at Fort Prince, Spartan
burg county, July 4th last at which i
fund was raised, a monument has beei
built ea the sjtf of the fort, It i? ii
bom r of the American soldiers who f
won a victory over the British, retak* .
ing the fort, which was originally bnilt
by settlers as refnge from the Indians
in 1776. Colonel Edward Hampton
commanded the successful Americaus. j
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Wild Woman Captured.
Bessie Pinckney, the companion of
the wild mau captured in the swamp
above Charleston some time ago, was -|
captured one day the past week. The J
man. Isaac Glover, disappeared with
the Piuckney woman, and both were
raving mau. They ferrorized the strip j
of country above Charleston. Glover
was caught with lassoes swung by
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back to the swamps to continue her
wild life.
Negroes fled from the section, and
when the woman came to the edge of ?
the swamp on the day of her capture
a crowd armed with ropes and clubs (
followed and managed to get her fast- <
ened. She fought like a panther, but
the crowd got her under control, and |
wrapped with heavy ropes she was
carried to the city and locked in a 1
cage. The capture of the two wild '
people will give a more settled condi- 3
tion to the negro section.
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Killed On a Sunday Hunt. 1
While on a Sunday hunting trip on
James island Benjamin C. Webb, Jr.,
eighteen years of age, was instantly <
killed by lightning and two of his <
companions were badly shocked. 1
Webb's clothing was ignited and his
bcdy was severely burned.
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Defective Boiler In Chicago Law*
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\ Half a Hundred Workers Were
Buried In Debris, But Heroic
Work Saved Many Lives.
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| By the explosion of the boiler in the
. Doremas laundry, 548 West Madison
t street, Chicago, Monday morning eight
> people were instantly killed, twenty*
nine were injured and several are miss5
ing.
The cause of the explosion has not
been determined with accuracy as yet
and it will probably require an official
> investigation to settle the matter. It
> is known that the boiler was old, a
second-hand affair, and there is no rek
cord in the office of the city boiler in
spector of any inspection having been
> made within the last year. Pending
L the verdict of the coroner's jury A.
L. Doremus, the proprietor of the
laundry, is held in custody by the
police and it is the intention of tbeau.
thorities to institute criminal proceed*
[ ings against him should the facts
. brought out at the inquest warrant
j such proceedings.
i The list of dead and wounded was
difficult to secure. Reports of the
[ number of dead in the ruins were all
l the way from six to twenty. It is
[ known that. thirty six employees of
. the laundry had entered the place be*
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t the automatic timekeeper, found in
, the ruins, and which was not damaged,
showed that number of registered arrivals.
Two or three were entering at
the moment of the explosion, making
an approximate total of forty employees
in and around the building.
. The list of injured includes, however,
several people residings in the
I adjoining bnilding, nearly all of which
were badly damaged. The most conservative
estimate by the police concedes
that at least three, dead or alive,
i are still in the rnins; yet the search
for bodies in the ruins came to a sud}
den end early in the afternoon and
t the work of rescue was entirely aban}
doned.
5 The canse of the cessation of the
search was a dispnte between the fire*
j men and police as to who was respon.
! sible for tLe recovery of any bodies
which might be concealed beneath the
debris. The firemen said they had
pei formed their whole duty, and gathj
ering up their hose they retired from
: the scene. The police said it was not
! their work to dig for bodies, and no[
body else volunteered to do the work.
The trouble was brought to the atten*
tion of Police Inspector John D. Shea,
in whose district the accident oocur'
ed, and he held that the search prop*
i er'y belonged to the fire department.
Both the police and firemen remain*
In Annfinnfl fn
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, search for bodies. While the firemen
maintained that all the bodies had
been recovered, the police asserted
that this fact had not been estabished
and Police Lieutenant O'Hara said
' that the general understanding was
that more bodies were in the ruins.
3 While the firemen and police were
arguing and explaining their respective
3 sides in the matter, the city building
. i department stepped in.
^ Building Inspector Kiolbassa sent
a deputy to the scene of the catastro}
< phe and a notice was sent to Jackson
_ i Bros., agents for the property, to im?
J mediately begin the work of palling
i! down the walls and clearing away the
, | debris. Jackson Bros, were given
two hours to comply with the order,
I! their failure to do so to result in the
.' building department performing the
task. The real estate firm soon had a
! number of wreckers at the ruins and
~ | the work of pulling down the walls
k I was immediately begun. This opera
|' tion made it impossible to continue
j- the search for the bodies for the time
a j being.
5 Sealed Yerdict Showed Mistrial.
* No verdict was reached by the
1; Wichita jury which heard evidence in
31 the trial of Mrs. Carrie Nation fcr
3 smashing a ''joint" several weeks ago.
r ; The jury stood 7 to 5 for conviction,
7 and was discharged.
If salt has anything to do with the
3 prolongation of life, then Michigan if
entitled to credit for increasing her
3 output last year. In 1899 she filled 4,*
3 820,8G5 barrels, just 5,48tf more than
, \hc tmfced cut in 1898.
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rORNADO IN TEXAS i
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Little Town of Wills Point Almost
Torn to Splinters.
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fHE LOSS OF LIFE VERY SHALL J?
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Many People, However, Are Badly
injured, and Several Hay Die.
Property Loss la Heavy.
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Texas, Saturday, killing four persons ^
jutright, injuring many others and destroying
a great amount of property.
Black clouds had been hanging in r<?
the southwest all the morning. The ||
itmosphere was heavy and at intervals *..
there had been blustering showers of M
rain. It was just at noon, when there .
eras a long roar of rumbling thunder, a ^
puff of wind and then the air was fthiek pjj|
with flying timbers.
The cyclone came from the south- E1
west and held to a straight northeast ; ^
course. Its path was about 300 yards
wide. It struck the northwest quar- ,
ter of the town, in the residence section.
No house is left whole; those
that are not left irreparably wrecked
are in the> minority. Most of them
are demolished?mere heaps of debris,
that offer opportunity for the .-Mjk
junk man. Household furniture and >*;
utensils are strewn further than the
eye can reach, and they mark the
storm's path.
East of Wills Point the country is
dotted here and there with evidences
of the storm's fury, and by the little mounds
of wreckage its course can be
followed to the Arkansas line,
At New Boston and at Texarkana it
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seems 10 uavt) ieii< we bum. at wv?
these places, especially at the former,
houses were considerably damaged.
At New Boston two negroes were injured
by flying debris. The recovery
of one of them is doubtful. A'number
of small houses were wrecked. Al
Texarkana some damage was done on -:i||
Colloge Hill, asuburb, but it was of a \
minor character.
' The westernmost trace of the storm
is in Collin county, about thirty miles
north of Dallas. Here the wind was
very strong,but it did not develop itself
into the strength of a tornado. Hail
fell and it was followed by torrential
rain. At one place where a measurement
was made 1.85 inohea fell in
forty minntes.
At Terrell the rainfall was extremely
heavy and some damage was sustained.
There was'no one injured there.
At Blossom no one was seriously in?
jured, but the damage to residences
was great. At and near Emery, Baines
county, one man was killed and several
persons werehurt, two serious- ^
The storm was first reported from / Vf||
Uvalde, ou the Mexican border, where
a church was wrecked. Several towns
between Uvalde and Wills Point report
small damage, bat it was not ontil
the last named place was reached
that there was tornado effect. .
The storm section extends into Arkansas,
Louisiana and np the Mississippi
valley nearly to Memphisdo regions
almost without wire or rail.
Telegraph companies are finding it
diffinnlt to rather details of the storm, ";.aH
bat enough is known on which to base
estimates of property losses approx- ~
imating $1,000,000 to the farming and
other interests, and at least a soore of 7^
people dead.
Bailroad trains to Dallas from the
storm sections were .badly delayed.
Passengers report extensive destroy
tion ot property along the lines.
Sunday Mayor Finney issneda statement
on the Wills Point situation. He . : %
says nearly one hundred persons are
entirely destitute and are being cared t
for by local authorities. A relief oom- ' 0
mittee has been formed. . /4p?
HARRISON'S CASE SERIOUS.
Physician Reports Life of Ex-President :
As In Orare Peril.
A Minneapolis special says: The j
condition of former President Benjamin
Harrison is serious. Dr. Jameson '0
stated Sunday that the upper part of
General Harrison's lefi lung was bv . 7^
darned. There is some danger of the - '
congestion extending to the rest of
the lung and to the right lung.
NO DAMAGE FROM SLAP.
Barker Sued Cooper for 10,000 but He
Got No Award. gj
George G. Walker, of Maine, sever- 44
al days ago instituted in the Distriot ' -.-'-M
criminal court at Washington a suit '.- 4
for $10,000 damages against Congress- .4'
man S. B. Cooper, of Texas, for an al- ^
leged assault last summer, and Satur- '-4
day a verdict was rendered in favor of - < 5
the defendant. On the Slst of last ~ 4May,
while both were journeying from
the south to the city, Barker objeoted V':J|f
to Mr. Cooper expectorating upon the
floor of the car and after considerable
remonstrations, the congressman slap** %
ped Barker in the' face. This action
brought on the suit.
INSURGENTS ARK BRIBED*
General McArthur Offer* Them Indaee*
menta to Stop Fighting. ^
A Manila special says: Additional
inducements have been made to the
insurgents to surrender their guns.
General McArthur has directed all
department commanders to release -.
one prisoner for e7ery rifle surrendered.
An insurgent who surrenders
his gun will be permitted to name the ^
prisoner to be released, provided no
exceptional circumstances require this
man's detention, in which case another
selection will be allowed.
Tonng Xr. Hay Coming Home.
The American Line steamer New
York sailed from Soutnampwm oaiurday
for New York. Among her passengers
was Adelbert Hay, former J
United States consnl at Pretoria.
Bobbers Make Big Hani. The
private bank of J. H. Springer '0M
at Argonia, Kansas, was burglarized H!
Saturday night by three" men and \\M
$2,000 in cash and $4,000 in registered
goTwomebt 8 par cast bond* aacmadf &