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' ESTABLISHED 1891. / BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. JANUARY 22.190. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR 7 A
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f CAPTURED A TRAIN
Foot Men Play the Bold-Dp Act
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BRUTALLY SLAY A PASSENGER
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Engineer Is Covered With Guns and
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Be Bandits?All Are
?: Arrested.
Four white mon killed J. M. Rhea,
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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White Men Acting as Peacemaker!
Are Shot Down By Negroes.
In a general fight between white
men and negroes at Childersburg, Ala.
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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
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' 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."
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' 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.
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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
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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.
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? 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.
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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.
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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
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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