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r,,, - - -. , /. - \ ' -"^321 Hr: ' -. 'r-\ p. Tyt Bamberg Herald. 1 * . ?g= ' ' ~ ^ ' ESTABLISHED 1891. / BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. JANUARY 22.190. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR 7 A ' : :Av . - / f CAPTURED A TRAIN Foot Men Play the Bold-Dp Act | WitboDt the Trimmings, -j BRUTALLY SLAY A PASSENGER , - I ' I i Engineer Is Covered With Guns and _ i ^ m Forced to Do Bidding of Would r Be Bandits?All Are ?: Arrested. Four white mon killed J. M. Rhea, ?? i i an inoffensive passenger on train No. 6 I ? of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley j branch of the Illinois Central railroad, j at an early hour Monday morning, near Leland, Miss., cut the locomotive from the train and forced the engineer to run to Cleveland. All four men were i arrested, one being in jail at L,eianu. | ! and three are locked up at Shelby. The j j -four men are: ^ Ashley Cocke, a prominent business man of Cleveland; A. M. Phipps, postmaster at Shelby; Thomas Lauderdale, said to be a relative of Phipps, and a man named Biackman, residence unknown. The men went from Shelby to Iceland early Sunday night. At Leland ? it is said they spent several hours drinking and carousing. At 3 a. m. the men bearded the northbound train to return to Shelby. J. M. Rhea, an engineer, was on his way to Tutwiier, under .orders to take out a locomotive near there. He was sleeping on a seat in the sleeper when the passenrv.oio^ />?vf frnm T ^]5}"nf 1 At uaiu puutu vut AiwwM that point Cocke and his friends boarded the car. Cocke had a revolver and Lauderdale and Blackman had winChester rifles. Phipps was not armed. 1^ Walking up the aisle Phipps was in advance of the party, when he came - ^ in contact with Rhea's legs, which k were extended out into the aisle as he slept. Rhea was awakened ana inquired what was the matter. Tfce members of the party stood there ana discussed the situation angrily for awhile and then the quartet went to the end of the car and out on the > - platform. Very soon they returned and going up to Rhea told him that they could not all stay in the same car, and that he would have to get out. Rhea remarked that in order to pre vent trouble he would have to do as they'told him. Thereupon he started out of the car. He had just reached the door when it is claimed the men opened fire upon him. He fell where he stood. k Conductor George McLaughlin order ed the train back to Leland, there to leave the corpse. As soon as Leland . was reached the conductor went in search of the sheriff and peace ofilcers. In the meantime the quartet had not been idle. They had driven everybody - .out of the smoker and the adjacent car during the run back to Leland, and when they arrived at that place they went to the engine, aboard of which was Engineer Delaney. They covered him with guns and told h:m , if he did not obey their commands they would kill him. He was compelled to uncouple his engine and when the men mounted into the cab he was ordered to open the throttle and send the engine down the track toward Shelby. In the excitement of the moment Phipps became separated from his companions and did not get away from Leland. When the sheriff arrived at the railroad he arrested phipps. The others were carried on to Shelby. Arrived there, thev made no effort to coajcaai 1 themselv&s; -toftT"still carrying their Papons,they waited for the next train, on which they traveled to Cleveland, where they were arrested without trouble. They were taken to Shelby and placed in jail, Cocke, the man who seemed to be the leader of the quartet, has, it Is said, killed a number of men. He i? charged with the killing of a negro last Friday night In Shelby. There is much excitement and Indignation among the people of the Leland and Shelby neighborhoods over Monday's tragedy, but no violenee is anticipated. DEATH CLAIMS SEWELL. New Jersey Senator Succumbs to Complication of Diseases. United States Senator William J. Sewell died at his home in Camden, N. J., Friday morning." He suffered with diabetes, compli cated with stomach and heart trouble Senator Sewell's sickness had extended over a period of two years v..*. J:*: ? UUl Hid cuiiuiiiuu was uut Luuoiuci? serious until about a year ago. His constant attention to the duties devolving upon him in his political capacity resulted, in 1899, in a collapse, 1 POWDER MILL WRECKED. Concussion Was Felt Fourteen Miles Away?Four Men Injured. A dispatch from Scranton, Pa., says: An explosion of the barrel mill of the Moosic Powder Company, at the Jer myn works Friday blew the mill and some adjoining buildings to pieces. The shock was plainly felt in Scranton a distance of 14 miles. Four work men were injured by, flying debris. T SOLDIERS START A RIOT. HH One Thousand Engage in a Bloody MB Fracas at San Francisco. j^H During a row in a saloon near the ^^B Presido, at San Francisco. Christmar B^B night, William Ross, of the coast artillery, was stabbed by an unknown sol |^B dier. A riot followed. Stones and ; bricks were thrown and two shot.- j H were fired. About 1,000 soldiers, it is ! estimated, gathered. The provost flM guard and police had to be called out ; ? to restore order, y SOUTHERN PROGRESS. > The New^fndustries Reported In the South During the Past Week. Among the more important of the , jrew industries reported for the past ' week are agricultural implement works at Harrison, Ark.; bottling works at Chattanooga, Tenn.; a box factory at Tuscaloosa, Ala.; a $30,000 building ] and manufacturing company at Vicksburg, Miss.; a company at Frog Level, N. C., to manufacture builders' supplies, coffins, furniture, etc.; a $150,000 canning factory at Pascagoula, Miss., n ooo roal eomDanv at Madison ville, Ky.; a $25,000 coal company at Huntington, W. Va.; a $300,000 coal company at Wheeling, W. Va.; a $60,- . 000 coal and coke company at Charleston, W. Va.; coal mines at Fairmont, ( W. Va.; a cold storage plant at New Orleans, La.; a $50,000 cotton bagging and tie factory at Norfolk, a.; a cot- j ton gin at Boyce, La.; an excelsior factory at Vigor, Va.; a $200,000 fertilizer , factory at Atlanta, Ga.; a $40,000 fer- j tilizer factory at Nashville, Tenn.; $10,000 fence works at Knoxville, Tenn.; , flouring mills at High Point and Lytch, N. C., Pomaria, S. C., and Bentonville, ( Va.; a $35,000 flouring mill at Blue- ] field, W. Va.; a foundry at Henderson, Ky.; a gas plant at Raleigh, N. C.; a j grist mill at Danville, Va.; a $10,u0jD , hardware company at Columbus, , Miss.; a hardware company at Weston, W. Va.; a $25,000 ice factory at Jack- , sonville, Fla.; a knitting mill at Gadsdon, Ala.; a $50,000 land company at Appalachia, N. C.; a lumber company at Cordele, Ga.; a $30,000 lumber company at Columbia, Miss.; a $20,000 lumber company at Dallas, Texas; : , $100,000 lumber company at Houston, . Texas; a $25,000 lumber company as Richmond, Va.; a $25,000 mining com- ( pan-y at Princeton, Ky.; a $150,000 oil company at Beaumont, Texas; an Oil mill at Cleveland, Tenn.; a $50,000 ( planing mill and lumber company at ( Charleston, W. Va.; a $3,000,000 rail* way and electric company at Atlanta, , Ga.; a $25,000 roofing and supply company at Wheeling. W. Va.; a sash and ( blind factory at Bagdad, Fla.; a saw mill at Jimps, Ga.; a shoe an3 harness factory at Birmingham, Ala; a $24,000 tar and turpentine company at .Pensacola, Fla.; a tobacco factory at Bedford City, Va., and a zinc mining company at Chattanooga to develop zinc mines in Tennessee.?Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) ARMY JOURNALS PROTEST. I J Roosevelt and Root Are Scored For , Brutal Treatment of Miles. ( , The service papers, the Army and , Navy Journal and the Army and Navy Register, are strongly of the opinion that the president and the secretary of war went too far in rebuking Gen eral Miles for his Cincinnati interview The Journal says in part: "We grehtly regret to learn that 1 there is a substance of truth in the statement appearing in the dispatches from Washington to the effect that the president openly rebuked the lieu tenant general commander in the pres? ence of others during the visit of Gen eral Miles to the white house. The army regulations forbid such a show- ! ing of disrespect toward even a noncommissioned officer by his superior ' in rank." The Army and Navy Register says: 'The impression prevails that the tons of the Root letter is unnecessarily se , vere?out of all proportion to the of fense. There are even those who think , the language employed is brutal and that the publicity given the corre- , spondence was ^a cruel advertisement of the president'sjtjs pleasure. The at -tempt has been make to publicly dis- i grace Miles, an effectN^hich may not i have been fully realized lfctview of the ( opinion on the matter entelteined by | the majority of the people, ^^grever much people may differ in opiH^p** the justice or necessity of a fierce rebuke of Miles and its publication in semi-official form, there can be no doubt on that other Incident, said to have occurred at the white house, where General Miles was personally ciiticised by the president in the presence of other visitors. If this is so, General Miles' friends may very well find their patience exhausted." EDUCATORS IN COLUMBIA. Southern Association Holds Annual Meeting at Carolina Capital. The eleventh annual session of the Southern Educational Association be5an in Columbia, S. C., Thursday. The gathering is composed of the most distinguished educators in the south, men from all the states from Maryland to Texas and Florida. Dr. Curry And United States Commissioner of Educa tion Harris are present, and there are a number of prominent men from Mas sachusetts and other eastern states. A number of college presidents are on hand, representing almost every southem state. "PEG LEG" PAYS FINE. Negro Exodus Promoter Arrested By Tarheel Authorities. "Peg Leg" Williams, so well known as the promoter of the great negro exodus here in 1890 and 1891, was arrested at Maxton, N. C., Monday for having no license. He paid the $50 for license and was discharged. He is not this time having much success in inducing negroes to leave the state. SAMPSON GROWING DAFT. Admiral's Mind Is Affected Beyond Recovery, Says His Wife. John B. Weeks, of Champaign, 111., a personal friend of Admiral Sampson, has received a letter from Mrs. Sampson in which she says that the mental condition if the admiral is beyond re covery. The letter was written in reply to a note expressing sympathy with the rear admiral in the personal annoyance he has suffered in the controversy with Rear Admiral Schley. FLOATING IN RIVER Body of Long Missing Nellie Cropsey Found By Fisherman. DEEP MYSTERY FINALLY SOLVED James Wilcox, a Former Lover of the Girl, Is Held By Authorities Under Suspicion of Being Her Murderer. Five weeks of mystery and speculaion as to the fate of Miss Nell Cropsey terminated at Elizabeth City, N. 3., Friday at 10 o'clock when the body 3f the missing girl was found noanng a the river opposite her father's lome. The body was discovered by J. D. Stillman, a fisherman, who was returnng from his night"s fishing trip. Upon iiscovering that the floating object was the body of a young girl, he immediately notified the committee and Coroner Fearing had the body brought to the shore. When the body was found it was :ace downward. All the wearing apparel was intact with the exception of the rubber which Nell wore cn th6 night of her disappearance, and that was missing. Body Little Decomposed. "With the exception of some slight discoloration of the face the body was in a good state of preservation and little decomposed. The body was easily identified as that of Nell Cropsey by all who had known her in life. The spot where the body was found had been dragged "several times since her disappearance, but with no resultCoroner Fearing summoned a jury of prominent men from among the crowd that had assembled on the spot where the body had been brought ashore, and called in three of the best physicians of the city to make a thorough and exhaustive autopsy to learn if there were any signs of violence on the body. James Wilcox, a former lover, was last with her. He is under $1,000 bail for investigation by the grand jury. He is suspected as the murderer of the girl. LI I B lldVd] ncsci vcs nuk?v>ki Anticipating that trouble may be brewing for young Wilcox, the naval reserves have been ordered out> to maintain order and peace and to see that no violence is offered Wilcox. By order of the mayor all barrooms in the city were closed. Wilcox has been removed from the mayor's office, where* he had been since his arrest Friday afternoon, to the county jail for his own protection, and a strong guard has placed around the jail. The family of the dead girl refuse to express an opinion as to the cause of the death of Nell Cropsey, but an uncle of the girl is reported as having said: "I never have yet heard of a drowned person floating face downward." The mother of the girl is completely prostrated, and little can be done on the part of relatives and friends to comfort her. She has watched daily, hoping for the return of her daughter alive, and the sad ending of the disappearance has oompletely broken her down. Verdict of Coroner's Jury. The verdict of the coroner's jury was as follows: "We, the coroner's jury, having been duly summoned and sworn by Dr. I Fearing to inquire what caused the death of Ella M. Cropsey, do hereby report that from the investigation made by three physicians of Elizabeth City, and from their opinion and also from our personal observation, Ella M. Cropsey came to her death by being stricken a blow on the left temple and by being drowned in the Pasquotank river. We have not yet investigated nor heard any testimony as to who inflicted the blow and did the drowning. We are informed that one James Wilcox Is charged with same and is now in custody. We recommend that investigation as to his or any one else's probable guilt be had by one or more magistrates in Elizabeth City township and that said Wilcox be held to await saiJ investigation." MILITIA GOES FOR OUTLAW. Alabama Governor Asked to Assist In capturing unan roricr. The reign of terror which has existed in the Crawford community in Alabama since the killing of Joseph Fincher by Uriah Porter came to a climax Saturday afternoon when the situation became so acute that the governor of Alabama was appealed to for aid. Governor Jelks ordered the Twin City Guard to proceed to the scene and capture Porter, who has been at large in the community heavily armed and threatening death to any who dared to try to arrest him. CASUALTIES IN KENTUCKY. Four Men Are Killed In Fights in the Vicinity cf Middlesboro. In a free fight at Middlesboro, Ky., Christmas night Samuel Wells and Henry Bass were mortally wounded. At Four Mile, Will Henderson was * " 1 ~ V a f V. % n T-T nnrl K1II6Q Uy HIS L'UUSIll, J.N ci tJia.ii iiciuii *vuson. On Taggarts creek. Thomas Haynes was beated to death with a club by Henry Bowman. URIAH DEFIES ARREST. Fincher's Slayer Mocks Authorities of Whole Alabama County. The Crawford community in Russell county, Alabama, has been in a state of the greatest excitement since the killing of Joseph Fincker by Uriah Porter a few nights age. The latest advices from Crawford are that Porter wis still at large, armed with a shotgun .\nd Winchester rifle, terrorizing the community and defying arrest. IGNORE MIGHTS OF THE CITY. Owners of Atlanta Public Utilities i Make Sensational and Surprising Move Toward Consolidation. The first move in what is believed to be the contemplated consolidation of the street railway, electric lighting and steam heat properties of Atlanta, Ga., was announced Thursday morning by the application to the secretary of state fcr a new charter for an entirely new corporation, to be called the Georgia Railway and Electric Company, with a capitalization of $3,000,000. Failing to come to any agreement with the city in regard to terms of consolidation, after public hearings and negotiations which extended over a pe rioc. of several weens, ice owueis ul the street railway properties of Atlanta, the Georgia electric lighting p'ant and the power plant, from all indications, abandoned all idea of an open consolidation and have flung down the gauntlet. The last move of the street railway people is the most surprising and sensational that has yet been made. The city is practically ignored, from, all outward indications, and it would seem tha.t Mr. Atkinson and his associates feel certan that they can consolidate without coming under the ordinance, placing the city in the attitude of collecting its taxes as best it may. Mr. Atkinson and others whose names appear among the list of incorporators were asked for a statement regarding the effect of the charter that has been advertised, but they declined to make any statement, saying that Ihe advertisement spoke for itself and that 1 " ^ - J J It* they naa notning iuriaer iu huu tu contents. The application for charter is for 101 years, and includes all the streets and roads in Fulton and DeKalb counties on which lines cf both the Atlanta Railway and Power Company and the Atlanta Rapid Transit" Company are now operating. The charter applied for also gives the right to own and operate electric plants, furnish electric power and steam heat. The applicants for the charter are H. M. Atkinson, F. M. Sisk, P. S. Arkwright, G. W. Brine, R. E. Cullinane, J. G. Rossman, S. J. Bradley, J. R. Hunter, M. B. Lipscomb and W. B. Stovall, all of whom are connected as officers oi' employees with the companies in question. TRAGEDY OVER CRAP GAME. ?V:- - t White Men Acting as Peacemaker! Are Shot Down By Negroes. In a general fight between white men and negroes at Childersburg, Ala. "r'1 J o tt7V>ito man anri 1 XI LCI uuuu, a, nui^v, v.? his^son were killed, while a white boy and one negro were wounded. Witi great difficulty a genera: outbreak vta* prevented. . The negroes are now ir jail-at Talladega. The trouble grew out of a crai game, the negroes having quarreled over the winnings. Tom Holley shol at one of the party when J. Bird, a white man came up and advised the negroes to stop fighting. Holley, be coming angered at the interference fired on Bird, mortally wounding him Bird's two sons, George and Reuben were with their father and saw wher he was shot. Reuben rushed tc his side, while George shot the negro, Hoi ley, inflicting a fatal wound. By this time the negroes T)egan fir ing on both boys, and then began tc seek shelter. Reuben went to his fa ther, who was dying, and was ordered by George Woods, a negro, to run. Th< boy begged to remain by his father but on failure to move, was shot dead Charner Woods, father of George Woods, then shot the ender Bird again George Bird was shot in the legs while escaping. ONE DEAD AND FIVE HURT. Fast Express Vcajn Dashen Into a Light Freigmj^ngine. The local express which runs~"b^ tween the Canadian Soo and Webb wood, Ontario, on the Canadian Pacifie collided with a light freight engine e few miles east of Thessalon, Mich. Thursday. Engineer McDavit, of ITortt Bay, of the freight engine, was killec and several others were badly injured WILCOX IS RETICENT. Excitement Over Nellie Cropsey Trag edy Is Gradually Subsiding. The excitement over the Cropsej J case at Elizabeth City, N. C., is dyini out, and business is being resumed. The talk of lynching James Wilco: | is heard no longer, the people havinf decided to permit the law to take its course. The citizens' committee an collecting evidence against Wilcox l< present to the grand jury when i meets in March next. Wilcox is still in jail and refuses ab solutely to make any statement re garding his conduct on the night o Miss Cropsey's disappearance. ASSAULTER GETS RESPITE. Hanging of Bill Collier at Dalton, Ga. Was Postponed. Counsel for Bill Collier the negn sentenced to die on the gallows in Dal ton, Ga., last Friday for an assaull on Mrs. McPherson^succeeded in get ting a stay of execution by an amend ment to the motion for new trial and Judge Fite granted a rule nisi and sei the hearing for next week. MUST MAKE CHANGES. Chile-Argentine Protocol Is Unsatis factory In Some Respects. Ac.vices received Sunday by Seno: Infante, the Chilean ekarge at Wash ington, confirmed the news alread] published that the Argentina ministe: at Santiago had informed the Chileai minister of foreign affairs that Argen tina could not accept all the terms o the protocol heretofore signed by tin settlement of the dispute and tha :.omo changes would ba necessary ii ihe instrument. : MEET BAND-TO-BAND Americans and Filipinos Come Together in a Gorge. CONFLICT FIERCE AND BLOODY Twenty-Two Filipinos Were Left Dead in the Ditch, While Several Americans Were Frightfully Wounded By Bolos. A Manila special says: Captain Schoeffel, with a detachment of eighteen men oi! Company E,' Ninth infan Rebel Chief Yields. The war department has been advised by cable from Manila of the surrender of the insurgent chieftain, Samson, at Matasaron, with all his officers and men, twenty-elgh cannon and forty-five rifles. Matasaron does not appear on any of the maps in the possession of the department, but it is assumed that the surrender took place in the Island of Bohol, as it was there that Samson of late has been operating with his followers, having crossed over from the former scene of his depredation, the island of Cebu. The war department is in receipt of a cablegram from General Chaffee, reporting- that Odus Reeder, second lieutenant Philippine scouts, commit( ted suicide on the morning of December 23 by shooting himself with a carbine on board the Lawtcn. He wis * int-anlfv HllP suuenus 11 UILL ICUiJJVI Q.L J iuouuiS,J , WMV ' to illness. Lieutenant Reeder was a native of Beverly, W. Va. 1. J Root on the War. 1 In reference to a claim of the treas1 ury department, Secretary Root, of the war department, has rendered the fol1 lowing opinion: 1 'The insurrection in the Philippines : against the sovereignty of the United 1 States and the authority of the gov! ernment is of such character and extent as requires the United States to ' prosecute its rights by military force and, therefore, creates the condition of ' war in said archipelago." t . ' Philippine Financial Problem, It was publicly announced in Manila Thursday that the ratio for the first quarter of 1902 will be $2.10 Mexican 1 silver to one American gold dollar. General Wright, the acting civil gover1 nor, says that, though uncatisfactory, ! this Is the only solution of the"matter > the Philippine commission thought pos sible. He hopes for early action by congress on this subject General Wright considers that the ' situation In those parts or tne rnmppines where military operations are being carried on is daily improving. He has the greatest confidence in General Chaffee's ability to end the insurrec1 tion in the islands and says perfect harmony prevails between the civil - --and military authorities. : Italians Killed and Cremated. i The finding of three bodies, of Ital, ians in the ruins of a cabin in the Itali ian settlement at Millinockct, Me., has I led the authorities to begin an investi gation of the case. BANK OFFICIALS SUED. Depositors In Defunct Barnesville Institution Take Action. f Suit has been filed against the presi, dent, directors and stockholders of the Barnesville, Ga., Savings bank for the ? full amount of indebtedness. This inr eludes former President W. S. Witham. ! The charter of the bank provides 3 that each stockholder is liable for the 3 full indebtedness in proportion to the t amount of stock held. Suit has also been entered against the officers and directors of the bank for loaning the Barnesville Manufac2 turing Company more than 10 per cent of the bank's capital without security II LPRAL JOINT DEMOLISHED. Citizens of Erin, Tenn., Adopt Methods of Aunt Carrie Nation. The people of Erin, in Houston county, Tennessee, went into the joint smashing business Friday morning and t completely wrecked a saloon which had been running in open violation and defiance of the law. [ The men who smashed the joint were t leading business and professional men of the place. URIAH PORTER SURRENDERS. - fires of Playing the Role of Desperado and Calls on Sheriff. r After more than a week of terror, - bloodshed, and disorder, the people of J Crawford and Russell county, Alar bama, can now rest safe, for Uriah i Porter, who, it is said, killed Joseph Fincher and carriod terror into many i homes in Russell county, is now safe e in the Lee county jail in Opelika. 11 Porter arrived in Opelika Monday i ' morning about 3 o'clock' and surrendered tc? Deputy Sheriff John L. Moon. . > try, at Dapday, island of Samar, was attacked by a large force of bolomen. severe handt-o-hand fight ensued in 'A severe hand-to-hand fight ensued in privates were killed. Captain Scboeffel was wounded, but not seriously. Five privates were dangerously and one slightly woundeu. No property was lo3t. The enemy was finally repulsed with heavy loss. Fought In a Gorge. The war department in a dispatch received Thursday is advised by General Chaffee at Manila that Company F, Twenty-first infantry, had a desperate hand-to-hand encounter in a gorge six miles south of San Jose, Batangas, on December 23. Twenty-two of the enemy were killed. Patrick A. Connolly received a:a ugly bolo wound in the left cheek; Private Carney received six bolo cuts in the neck and shoulders. WAS DISASTROUS TO BRITONS. Lonc^^rt^r Office Issues List of CasZeefontein Battle h ri m a s The London war office Saturday afternoon issued 'a list of the British casualties at Zeefontein December 24, when Colonel Firman's camp, consisting of three companies of yeomanry and two guns was successfully rushed by a Boer force under the command of General DeWet. The length of the list demonstrates the entire success of DeWet's attack. Six officers and fifty men were killed, eight officers were wounded and four are missing. It is presumed that the missing officers were taken along with the captured guns. The Boers, who apparently numbered about 1,200, under General DeWet, behaved well, leaving men to look after the younded. The Imperial light horse were 14 miles away. They heard of the fight at 4:30 and arrived on the scene at 6:30. After breathing thefr horses, they galloped 4 after the Boers, who, however, succeeded in reaching the broken country, where the light horse was useless against superior numbers. Simultaneously with the above the war office gave out a dispatch from Lord Kitchener chronicling a minor success of the South African constabulary, who raided Bothaville and captured thirty-six Boers. OVER TWELVE THOUSAND WORDS Written on Ordinary Postal Card?Al( Records Smashed. T. F. Glenn, credit man for the Atlanta, Ga., branch S. S. White Dental Manufactyring Company, has Just broken the world's record for the greatest number of words written on a postal card. Mr. Glenn, after seventy hours of labor and the wearing out of two dozen pens has written the immense number cf 12,097 words on a postal. The record before this feat of Mr. Glenn was 5,200 words, and when it was made It was considered to be one that would never be broken. W. T. Hicks, winner J of the second prize, also smashed the j old record, though he was behind Mr Glenn. The contest that caused Mr. Glenn to make this record was inaugurated by the Mower-Hobart Company, of Atlanta, office supply dealers. This firm offered a number of prizes for the contestants. The Interest that it created was surprising even to the promoters. Mr. Glenn is a well known and tfDpular young Atlanta man and his feat is one that will doubtless make his name known throughout the civilized world. The contest consisted in writing on an ordinary postal card (3 1-4 by 5 1-2 inches) the greatest number of times the sentence, "Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pens, sold by Mower-Hobart Co., 61 Peachtree St." The rules stipulated that the writing must be in ink. only blanK side of postal card can be used. No lines must cross each other. Sentences must be written on postal as printed above. Every postal must contain senders' name and address. The first prize was Waterman's very finest Ideal "Pen American" Fountain Pen, with new spoon feed, elegantly and heavily mounted with solid silver, value $10. Second prize, a $5 Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen; third prize, a $4 Ideal Fountain Pen; fourth prize, a $3.50 Ideal Fountain Pen; fifth prize, a $2.50 Ideal Fountain Pen. BRAVE CAPTAIN LEARY DEAD. Was First Governor of Guam and Once Bluffed Germans. The navy department has received a telegram from Admiral Mortimer L. Johnson, commanding the Boston naty yard, stating that Captain Richard P. Leary, United States navy, died Friday morning at Marine hospital, Chelsea. uapiam l^eary was uie urai jjuvcriiur of Guam after thaLJfiland came Into the :nos*^?'5Wlf'of"the Unfted^States. gard by his fellow-sailors bec5il5fc--e the nerve he showed in the presence of two German war ships in the harbor of Apia, Samoa, during the stirring times which wound up in the tremendous hurricane that wiped out the German and American navies In those waters in 1S99.ANARCHIST UNDER ARREST. Wife of Grossman Gives Him Away to the Authorities. Rudolph Grossman, editor of The Austro-Hungarian Gazette, in New York, was arrested Friday, charged with assaulting his wife with a knife. Mrs. Grossman declared her husband to be an anarchist and said that he renpatedlv told he' he would consider himself highly honored if he could but do to President Roosevelt what Czob gosz did to President McKinley. She alleged that her husband oq December 9 last addressed a meeting of anarchists in the city, where he was introduced by Emma Goldman. PERKINS SPURNS PORTFOLIO. California Man Is Offered Long's Place, But Declines. As an evidence that Secretary or the Navy Long will drop out of the president's official family at the first opportunity, it has been intimated to Senator Perkins, of California, that he ? - TT. ?? could nave tne navy poruonu. ne ?unounced, however, that he had nc taste for a cabinet position and would not consider the suggestion. CHAUNCEY IS "SPLICED. "*? Senator Depew Weds Miss May Pal Mer at Nice, France. The civil ceremony of the marriag< of Senator Chauncey M. Depew and Miss May Palmer took place at Nice, France, at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon in the United States consulate. The bride's witnesses were Baron Von Andre and Baron de Cantalause. The bridegroom's were James Gordon Bennett and Count de Sots. : | ? STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ Merchandise Store Dynamited. The general merchandise store of G. W. Ragsdale, at Richburg, Chester county, was blown up with dynamite one night the past week. The destruction was complete. Several young men who had sleeping rooms above the store were out visiting and so escaped. There is no clew to the miscreant Bloodhounds' followed the trail for some distance,but were baffled. Cotton From fcgypx. Comment has been caused among cotton men by the consignment of one hundred bales of cotton to the mills of the Clover Cotton- Company, of Clover, S. C., from Alexandria, Egypt. The consignment was of high grade and it could not be learned whether there was a shortage at the South Carolina mills or whether the cotton will be used in making up some special grade of goods. * Charleston Cattle Show. More than one hundred entries have been made in the live stock show which will open at the Charleston ex; position January 6, and will continue until January 20th. One of the largest sections of the live stock exhibit will be the sheep section, in ..which 400 head, embracing every known breed, have been entered. One of the chief exhibits in the cat I tie division will be the champion beet bull of the world, weighing 3,000 pounds and valued at $12,000. The ape1 cial object of the live stock exhibit Is, to encourage the development of the cattle growing industry in the south, the ranges in this section- being especially adapted to the growing of beef cattle. % Exhibitors Organizing. The exhibitors and concessionaires at the Charleston exposition hare organized a club for the double purpose of forwarding the interests of the exposition and that of the firms which they represent. The president of the club is H. C. Bliss, the rice president, Wallace H. Shaw and the secretary and treasurer, L. C. Good. The exhibitors have made splendid progress in the last week in the installation of their exhibits. The attendance on the -exposition is steadily Increasing. The races are proving a splendid attraction; thfe buildings and grounds present a most charming appearance and the railroads are doing a heavy pas senger business. Arrangements are Deing made for the International League of Press Clubs and the Pen and Pencil Clubs of Philadelphia, which .will spend two days at the exposition this month, and an elaborate program will be made for the reception of the Lib1 erty bell, which will arrive on January 10th. Refused to Publish Apology. A Columbia special says: The court house town of Saluda has pc railroad or telegraph. The Sentinel, edited by H. S. Cunningham, is the dis<seminator of civilization. Some, two weeks ago there was a rumor reflecting on Mr. Cunningham or his family, and he printed the following editorial: "There are some of the lowest, gossipy women in Saloda that ever infested a town. They sneak around and lie and slander the innocent The worst part is that decent people listen to and give credence to these lies.. If one or two could be made examples of their lying tongues would be silenced. The female liar is stalking abroad-in Saluda, but sooner or later she will be run down." A mass meeting of citizens held in the court house resolved that Editor Cunningham's card was slanderous J-and a committee of three was appoint ed to prepare an apology and retrac* tion which Cunningham was to si? and publish. ~ ??^ The apology, according to Editor Cunningham, did not allow him a word of explanation or defense. They told him if he published his statement he would do so on peril of his life. He decided not to print their apology and not to give the name of those ladies through whom the report had come. The editor says: "As I could not go on with the publication without bloodshed, fearing for the lives of my innocent daughters in the office, there being a turbulent crowd in the street I suspended publication and took my girlf home." Mr. Cunningham says he has sub< mitted his charges and retraction to Governor McSweeney and two of the best lawyers in the state and all think he has done all that could reasonably be expected. The outcome of the afTair is awaited with intense interest in Saluda. The town is divided for and against the editor. A conflict may occur any moment To Fight Alleged Trust. The state of South Carolina, through her attorney general, G. Duncan Bellinger, has begun suit against the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, charging it with being a "trust" and monopoly. Under the same 'act that this suit is brought, six of the large South Carolina phosphate companies that have been purchased by the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company are sued in the same action. The attorney general in his complaint sets forth that the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company has purchas ed or obtained absolute control oi phosphate factories and cotton seed oil mills in every county in the state and as it owns all except three or four minor concerns, .already has a com plete monopoly of the fertilize!* trade in South Carolina. He further alleges that the same companj, to further se cure its monopoly, and shut off compe tition, has obtained control of most ol ',r * / >.'1* > 1 * * ' " V*: ; qfe/lag i\ ^ . ?-?.> ,- > ' the phosphate producing lanas m coast counties. It Is further alleged that having con- , trol of the cotton seed meal, which is | largely used as fertilizers, and the phosphates, the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company now flxes the price of fertilizers that the farmers must buy, and in proportion as it advances them, it reduces the price of cotton seed that the farmers are forced to sell to its oil mills, having no other market The Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company has paid out in South Carolina for the fifty-five or sixty mills and factories that it has acquired upward of $5,000,000. The law provides that it : is illegal for a monopoly to exist and that the acquiring of competing 'coa-.jg?BH cerns for the purpose of getting a monopoly is-ffiegal, null and void. Postoffice Is Dynamited. The postoffice department at Wash* ington has been- advised that the ppst office at Rossville, S. C., was blown up with dynamite and burned one night recently. No details were given. IN W1KE OF FLOODS. High Waters Proved Disastrous In' r Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Virginia. While the intensity of the storm and subsequent flood that have been sweeping over parts of Georgia and Alabama have in a measure subsided, there is reaspn for belief that all danger lis not yet passed. Much colder weather has come in the wake of the unusually heavy downpour ,of rain, accompanied by high winds. The condition of affairs is serious in , many places,. The storm and flood nave to tneir creuii not omy h?bw w v: lives, but damage to property ia various ways. Several places in ,the / southern states are under wat errand ; have had properties of various kinds ^ either damaged or destroyed, while railroads have had traffic impeded by the havoc of the elements. * It cannot yet be announced with any certainty what the total loss of lif e and damage to property are. Nor1a.it believed this will be possible for several days to come?not until the storm's % effects have completely subsided v ^ Special flood warnings" were issued for the lower Tennessee, with stages at least three feet above the danger lines, and for the James river at Richmond Va. Supplemental warnings -19 were also issued as follows: ;JH For Chattanooga, Tenn.; Rome, Ga.; Montgomery'-and Sfelma, Ala^ with stages I rob 40 to 42 feet at Chattanooga, or seven to nine feet above the danger lino*, for Rome, Ga., with stages 33 feet, and Selma 38 feet, three feet above the danger lines, and at Montgomery, Ala., witlr 41 feet, or six feet above the dagger line. The Potomac rttpwr at Harpers Ferry will crest in the 1 neighborhood of 20 feet, at which stage . no damage of consequence ean result S to points below. ROBBERS "TAP" tHE COIN. Hidden Gold of Two Women Secured . .. By Bold Thieves. A most Bhameftrl robbery occurred at Bamett, Ga., Monday morning jn?t beforqdtoylight Two old ladles, maid- -tJ>j en sisters, whose ages will average seventJT years, the Misses Battle, reside in a cottage -by themselves, which * A they have occupied for nearly twentyfive years. Between midnight and day Monday morning three men. one white and two colored, forced. their . \ front door open and as the wonfen I got out of their bed they were covered with a pistol and cursed and commanded not. to speak*. One was pushed on the floor and ordered to lay there while the other Was . riven a severe choking. The robbers then searched the house "carefully and "succeeded. In finding sev; eral thousand dollars. Four hundred ? of It was In twenty-dollar gold pieces J ">hich they had received nearly fifty year^a|*kThe robbers also carried Railroad stock and John -P. King Ac- ^ i many years thaTnSve^J^ififeas-^Bfittle kept a large sum of money in their 'l;A0 I house and have beegwarned of their :;r ^ danger many times and advised to in? vest it, but they never had invested a dollar and did not consider it safe ohtJS^B of their possession. What lnvestniwrta ' they had were inherited. " ^ This is the fourth attempt to seedFe-V. this money, but the robbers never she* ceeded before in entering-tltoir Wd- * i room. The first time they secured > . for the apprehend ^Ihe. parties. . ^r j MRS. ATXIN80N Gp8 8LICE. Wife ?f Ex-Governor Oiyen Big 8harn; ^ of Georgia's Insurance. s.'t Oiie hundred thousand dollars of V?^ ^ Georgia's insurance which is to he " contracted for on January 6, the date /j" the present policies ?tpire, wCC gd-tfiL,? the companies repreS^^ . Y. Atkinson, wife of the late Governor Atkinson. The insurance contracts tteiontered into by Adjutant Genen0j. ^. itohert? ^-:' i son in his capacity as-keeper of lie building! and grounds. '* > OUTLAW HATFIELD KILLED. Arizona. 8heHff Gets Drop on Meniber y . Of Rewuwy Wing, Robert H. Hai^ tme of thejte* I- tacky clan, has been shot and -kitted : at the Troy -Slicing eamp in the P&k| ) mountain* Of Arizona. w I r His ?|aysep rWes Deputy She#* i)e* vine, who bore a Variant for his arrest" i Hatfield sent word to the officer'thai he woaW kill any man who tried to take him. Define was forced to use