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The Bamberg Herald. 1 ? -' u ... ESTABLISHED ISM. BAxMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. MARCH 13.1902. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. . A| *? ' ? ? ? -x ? ? ? - A - ? 1 ? tnnm-m umiannnn mmwiFltWW m FllNSTON TALKS WAR In Banquet Speech Kansan Fires Some Sizzling Shot. GUEST NEW YORK LOTUS CLUB Goes Into Details Regarding the Cause of Hostilities In the Philippines.?Raps "Traitors" In America. ft ? Brigadier General Frederick Funston was the guest of honor at a dinner given Saturday night at the Lotus Club in New York City. More than 300 members- of the club were present General Funston made a speech, in which he said: "When Manila was surrendered to Dtwey and Merritt some thousands of Spaniards were in the city. In the eyes cf the world these people looked to us for protection, and to have turned them over to the uncontrollable mob known as 'Aguinaldo's army' would have been the blackest page of American history; one that a thousand years of repentance and restitution would not have satisfied. General Funston then told in minute detail of the instances that led to war fare between the American army and the insurgents, and during the narrative told of the shooting of several s-entries by Filippino scouts who had passed the lines. He said that on the opening of the battle between the army and the insurgents, Major Metcalf, of the First Nebraska regiment. had come to his quarters, and said: "The dance has begun." "What dance?" I asked, and Major Metcalf replied: "Go out and hear it," and I went out and heard the puttering of rifle balls, and that was the beginning of the war over there." General Funston then said: "All sorts of men get into the army. There are good, bad and indifferent, but I believe that 95 per nect. of the ' American soldiers are a brave and humane lot of men. The other 5 per cent, who have been writing letters to newspapers, have ornamented the inside of a grog house for a longer time than they have distinguished themselves in the field." "All of those men who have fallen since December, 19u0, have been the victime of a lot of misinformed and misguided people here in the United States. It is perfectly proyer for us a nil af aa^aia.'.o qp f a tt? K q f tu ua t c an O?JI 10 ui vpiuiwuo ao iv n uav, we should do with the Philippine islands, hut for heaven's sake, let us keep them to ourselves until every square inch of territory recognizes the sovereignty of the United States." General Funston then gave many examples to show that the Pilipino leaders were not patriots. He mentioned the slaying of Antonio Luna, who was ordered slain by Aguinaldo. j General Funston said that Aguinaldo j had told him in regard to Luna's death: "I had him killed simply because he would have been dictator instead of myself." "Would you imagine George Washington doing anything like that?" asked General Funston. The general said there was not one of the so-called Filipino patriot who could not be convicted of murder if he was tried by a jury. He declared that there had never been a war in the world's history where the soldiers had shown such humanity as had the American troops in the Philippine islands. Traitors Fn America. He then told of twenty-four American soldiers who had joined the Filipinos and who were afterward capt urea ana execuiea as irauors, ana then said: "There are many men in the United States who did more with their mouths and minds to aid the insurgents than did these poor men with their KragJorgensen rifles. I would rather see those men hanged for treason than to see '.ne of the soldiers dead on the field of battle." The general then declared that the Filipinos could not be classed with the Cubans, and he said that if the United States could now leave the Philippine islands there would be half a dozen different kinds of civil wars there, and that the world would hold the United States responsible for them. The general said he talked with Aguinaldo on their way back to Manila on the Vicksburg, and that Aguinaldo told him that neither Dewey nor any one else had promised-him anything, but that he and his people had faith 5n the Americans. The textile workers in the King mill, of Augusta, Ga., have demanded a 10 per cent increase in all depart- j ments and ask for a reply on March j 17. The mill management declares a I raise impossioie, ana a sinae may : follow. NEW IS TOO BUSY. Refuses Honor of Being First Assistant Postmaster General. A Washington special says: H. S. New, of Indianapolis, has declinjed I the proffer of the offer of first assist- i ant postmaster general tendered him ! some days ago by President Roosevelt. I Mr. New informed the president that j his business will not permit him to ac-1 , cept. MEETING OF METHODISTS. Workers' Conference Will Be Held In Chattanooga March 11-13. , The Workers Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, will meet in Chattanooga March 11, 12 and 13. All officers of Sunday schools and j Epworth league boards, mission i boards, officers of same and annual ! conference Epworth leagues and central missionary committees east of the Mississippi river are members of the conference. , SOUTHERN PROGRESS. The New Industries Reported in the South During a Week. Among the more important of the new industries reported for the past week are $500,000 iron works at Knoxville, Tenn.; a cigar factory at Tampa, Fla.; a $12,500 cotton gin at Celeste, Tex.; marble works at Raleigh, N. C.; a $50,000 plant for the manufacture of oil burners at San Antonio, Texas; a $50,000 oil company at Austin, Texas; a $25,000 oil and gas company at Lexington, Kv.; a $25,000 oil mill at Albertville, Ala.; a $50,000 telephone company at Greenville, Texas; a $50,000 lumber company at Jacksonville, Fla.; a $50,000 brick plant at Lovick Station. Ala.; car works at Waycross, Ga.; a $500,000 water and electric power plant at Atlanta. Ga.; a $15,000 electric and power plant at Bentonville, Ark.; ice factories at Montevallo, Ala., and Wharton. Texas; a $300,000 irriga ticn company at San Felipe. Texas; a $25,000 lime company at Richmond, Va.; a $250,000 land and coal company at Charleston, W. Va.; a $25,000 copper manufacturing company at Dallas, Texas;.a $25,000 quarrying company at 'Iorgantown, W. Va.; a cotton seed delinting plant at Natchez, Miss.; a $350,000 oil company at Austin, Tex.; an $$5,000 oil company at Beaumont. Texas; a $900,000 oil company at Scottsville, Ky.; a $10,000 oil company at Shelbyville, Tenn.; a $25,000 oil and gas company at Sistersville, W. Va.; a cotton mill at Rockingham, N. C.; a $25,000 knitting and spinning company at Norfolk, Va.; a $21,000 lumber company at Bellville, Ark.; a $15,000 lumber company at Morris, Ark.; a stave factory at Dalley, La.; canning factories at Fredericksburg, Va., and Glenvar, Va.; a carriage factory at New Orleans. La.; an electric light plant at New Orleans; a $10,000 electrical company at New Orleans; a $100,000 fertilizer manufacturing company at Atlanta. Ga.; a flouring mill at Waterloo, S. C.; gas works at Ber-. ryville, Va.; a $200,000 coal mining company at Charleston, W. Va.; slate mines at Mena, Ark.; gold mines at Mineral, Va.; a $25,000 plant to manufacture a patent safety check hook at Fairmont, W. Va.; railway shops at Martin, Tenn.; telephone companies at Crewe and Fredericksburg, Va.; a $25,000 water and electric power company at Bristol, Tenn.; a $20,000 lumber company at Tensaw, Ala.; a ccffln factory at Clarksville. Va.; a lumber company at Atlanta, Ga.; saw mills at Anniston, Ala., and Jacksonville, Fla.; a canning factory at Emporia, Va.; a flouring mill at Shelbvville. Tenn.: a $20,000 ice factory at "Wilson, N. C.; a $10,000 coal mining company at Birmingham, Ala.; coal mines at Fort Smith, Ark.; a $50,000 oil and gas company at Rugby, Tenn.; a $100,000 oil company at Knoxville, Tenn.; a large cotton miii at Spartanburg, S. C.; a $15,000 hosiery mill at Chapel Hill, N. C.; a shuttle factory at Charlotte, N. C.; a cotton gin at Falls City, Texas; a $10,000 flouring mill at Pratt City, Ala.; a $10v,000 flouring mill at Shreveport, La.; a $30,000 foundry and machine shop at Lufkin, Texas; a $16,000 land company at Jonesboro, Ark.; copper pines near Ducktown, Tenn.; iron mines at Harvey, Va.; a $50,000 generator manufacturing plant at New Orleans; a $10,000 company to manufacture electric clocks at San Antonio, Texas; three oil companies at Beaumont, Texas, capitalized at $S5,000, $40,000 and $1,000,000 respectively; oil companies at West Liberty, Ky., and Hempstead, Texas; a $25,000 twine mill at Anderson, S. C.; a $25,000 furniture factory at Marion, N. C.; a $100,000 lumber company at Nashville, Tenn.; a lumber mill at Alice,v N. C.; a $10,000 artesian well at First, Texas; a $265,000 oil company at BeaurpAVOO, on ? 4. A 1L. itAM, au. ciCLLiit puvvci piaui O.C ALUens, Ga.; a $25,000 development company at Beaumont, Texas; a $100,000 oil company at Shelbyville, Tenn.; an oil company at El Campo, Texas; a $200,000 oil mill and fertilizer factory at Athens, Ga.; oil mills at Linden, Ala., and Comer, Ga.; a $50,000 rice mill at Bay City, Texas; telephone companies at Decatur, Ala.. Paducah, Ky., St Augustine, Fla., Washington, Ga., and West Point, Ky.; a $20,000 lumber and implement company at Stowell, Texas; a saw mill at McKenzie, Tenn.; a wagon factory at Madison, Ga., and a cotton mill at Linden, Ala.-Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) MOTHER AND BABES CREMATED. Mrs. Bouchard and Her Nine Children Lose Lives' In Flames. News comes from Matane, Quebec, that fire, which originated in the kitchen of the residence of Arthur Bouchard, caused the death of Mrs. Bouchard and nine children. The fire "was discovered by a servant, who immediately gave an alarm. Mr. Bouchard jumped fro man upper window, and was about to be followed by his wife, but she failed in her attempt and perished, together with her nine children, six boys and three girls, the eldest being a boy of 14 years. ROBBERS LOOT BANK. By Aid of Dynamite They Secure $10,. ] 000 In Cash and Bonds. The First National bank of Montgomery, lnd., was burglarized Tuesday night, the vault blown by dynamite, and $10,000 in cash and bonds stolen. The loss is covered by insurance. Citizens heard five distinct explosions, but failed to attack the robbers, who had each approached under guard. The robbers escaped on a hand car. COLONEL VAN NESS GRATIFIED. Octogenarian Millionaire Baptized in ' the River Jordan. Word has reached Middletown, N. c J., that Colonel Van Ness, the octo- a genarian millionaire of Port Jcrvis, t formerly of New York, has been bap- v tized in the river Jordan by the Rev. b William K. Ilall, of Newburgn. X. y. u Mr. and Mrs. Van Ness sailed on the t steamer Celtic for a trip to the client, 1 his desire being to gratify an ambition s of years to be baptized i nthe Jordan. . n BOERS GET METHUEN Bloody Battle in Which Red= Coats Meet Disastrous Reverse. MANY KILLED AND WOUNDED Outside of the Casualty List Giver\ Over One Hundred Britishers Are Missing?Most Decisive Victory Yet. It was announced in London Monday that General Lord Mcthuen and four guns had been captured by the Boers commanded by General DeLarey. The news came like a thunderbolt to the public. The extra editions cf the evening papers giving an ac count of the disaster were eagerly bought up and their readers hurried through the streets with anxious faces and bitter remarks were passed on the subject of the government's declaration that the war in South Africa was over. The news came too late to affect business on the stock exchange, but excited curb dealings quickly followed tho closing, on which South African slumped heavily. The news was received in the house cf commons amid great excitement. Th ereading of Lord Kitchener's telegram by the war secretary, Mr. Brodrick, was listened to in deep silence, which was broken by loud Irish cheers. Instantly there were cries of "Shame! Shame!" from the government benches. Then the Irish members seemed to think better of their outbreak, and suddenly subsided. The subsequent eulogistic references to General Methuen, were received with cheers. In brief. Lord Kitchener announced that when General Methuen was captured, wounded, with four guns, three British officers and thirty-eight men were killed and five officers and seventy-two men wounded. In addition one officer and two hundred men were reported missing. Story of the Defeat. The text otf Lord Kitchener s dispatch announcing the capture of General Methuen is as follows: "Pretoria, Saturday, March 8.?I greatly regret to have to send you bad news of the Methuen. He was movin gwith nine hundred mounted men, under Major Paris, and three hundred infantry, four guns and a pompom, from Wynburg to Lichtenburg, and was to meet Grenfell, with 1,300 I mounted men at Roviraines Fontein | today. Yesterday morning early he J was attacked by DeLarey's forces between Twe-Bosch and Palmeiteknill. The Boers charged on three sides. "Five hundred and fifty men have come in at Maribos and Kraaipan. They were pursued by the Boers four miles from the scene of the action. Thef report that Methuen and Paris, with the guns, baggage, etc., were captured by the Doers. Methuen, when last seen, was a prisoner. I have no details of the casualties, and suggest delaying publication till I cand send definite news. I think this sudden revival of activity on the part of DeLarey is to draw off the troops pressing DeWet." Bosrs on Each Flank. In a second dispatch, dated Sunday, March 9, Lord Kitchener says: "Paris has come in at Kraaipan with the remainder of the men. He rpnnrts that thp rnlumrt was mrwiner in two parties. One, with the ox wagons, left Twe-Bosch at 3 a. m. The other, with the mule wagons, started an hour later. Just before dawn the Boers attacked. Before -reinforcements could reach them the rear guard broke. In the meantime a large number of Boers galloped up on both flanks. These at first were checked by the flank parties, but the panic and stampede of the mules had begun and all the mule wagons, with a terrible mixture of mounted men, rushed past the ox-wagons. All efforts to chpck them were unavailing. Major Paris collected forty men and occupied a position a mile in front of the ox-wagons, which were then halted. After a gallant but useless defense, the enemy rushed into the ox?wagons and Methuen was wounded in the thigh. Paris, being surrounded, surrendered at 10 a. m. Methuen is still in the Boer camp." Then follows the number of the casualties, as already cabled. The killed included Lieutenants G. R. Vinin gand T. P. W. Nesham, of the Roy- , al artillery, who were both killed while serving their guns with case shot. Many Troops Coming Home. It is said at the war department that there will be little or no delay in , the execution of orders recently issued by the secretary of war for the return to the United States of all the regiments which went to the Philippines in 1899, aggregating about 13.500 men. PENNY CAUSED BIG FIRE. | Looking For a Cent, Girl Clerk Starts a $100,000 Blaze In Store. Fire which was started by a young svoman clerk * who. in searching the casement for a lost penny, ignited * some cotton rolls, destroyed the Can- , ion dry goods store at Sedalia, Mo., ( Friday, and damaged several adjoining j luildings. The total loss was less han $100,000. j 1 MORE STUMPS FOR CANAL. i ( Nicaragua and Costa Rican Protocols Now Cut of Date. ] Every fresh turn in the development ] if the isthmian canal project discloses ] i new obstacle. It now appears that \ he protocols negotiated last spring s vith Nicaragua and Costa Rica, where y those countries outlines the terms :pon which they were prepared to oner into permanent treaties with the Jnited States, conveying the^neces- fj ary rights for canal construction, are b to longer of effect. I SOUTH CAROLINA 21 ] STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ CSJCMCM<MCMC\>CS>CS>J New Mill For Glendale. The U. E. Converse Company, of Spartanburg, has decided to build another $300,000 cotton mill at Glendale out of surplus funds on hand. ? A More Costly Sword. A Columbia special says: Instead cf getting a $06 sword, from perhaps twenty-five contributors, Major Micaii Jenkins will get a blade that will be not only of great intrinsic value, but will be really contributed by the people of the state. Sword funds are now open in several towns and it is probable that as much as $750 or $1,000 will be raised. *"* To Utilize Cotton Waste. President R. T. Fewell, of the Arcade cotton mill, at Rock Hill, has completed a plant for the consumption of "mill waste." As the name implies, it will be put into marketable shape that which is lost from -ho ordinary cotton mill. The output of this mill consists of "felt" and commercial "bats." The plant is located near the arcade, of which Mr. Fewell is the individual owner. * * ? Educational Week at Exposition. The first week in April has been set aside at the Charleston exposition as "educational week." An effort will be made to have all the pupils of colleges and schools in the state attend during that time. The board of directors has granted a special rate of 25 ce%its to student bodies of twenty or more and this rate will prevail from April 1 to 25. Railroad rates will be as low as usual. * < * Mob Failed to Get Gibbes. Solicitor Wilson is preparing for a special term of court at Florence to try the negro Gibbes, for criminal assault. It will be the first special term under the new law. A party of fifty masked men attempted to get the negro out cf jail last Friday night, but Sheriff Burch and deputies, armed with Winchester rifles, successfully resisted the mob's efforts. * * * Information has been sent out of a j sensational shooting a few days ago. ! in Edgefield. It is to the effect that George Whatley, of Edgefield, a student at the Edgefield county institute, of that town, shot Crawford Clink scales, a fellow-student. The school 1 room was crowded and for a time intense excitement prevailed, it being supposed that Clinkscales was dead, j He, however, is not mortally hurt. De- ! tails as to the cause of the shooting are lacking. * * * Atlan ta Day at Charleston. Atlanta day at the Charleston exposition is now an assured success, according to news from the Georgia capital. Atlantians have entered into the spirit of the occasion with a rare degree of enthusiasm and the day will be made one of the biggtst of the entire list of big days at the exposition. Each day some fresh feature is added, and by the time April 4th approaches j it is expected that fuly 500 people will make up the party. An effort is now on foot to charter a train and run a special train to Charleston. * * Charleston to Bid For Bout. A1 McMurray, matchmaker for the Southern Athletic Club of Charleston, announces that that club will make a bid for the Jeffries-Fitzsimmons fight to be pulled off at Charleston. McMurray and a Savannah capitalist who is backing the Southern Athletic Club, will discuss with one of the leading officials of the exposition the arrangements for bringing off the fight. The exposition official referred to is quoted as saying that there will be no legal objections interposed to the big mill being held in Charleston. * * * Five Stills Smashed. Revenue officers destroyed five illicit distilleries one night the past week in the upper section of Greenville county, known as the Dark Corner. Of the number, three were standard copper stills, the others wooden. They also destroyed forty-three fermenters and about 4,000 gallons of 1 beer and mash. The raiding party consisted of Reve- 1 nue Collector Aiken and Deputies Jones, Bell and Whitmire. Notwithstanding the frequent raids of the revenue officers, the mountaineers continue to make blockade liquor in that section, always having a sup llULld^li. IV 1UU1 VUiViVl-Vttu M4W | , lead fell into a saturated handkerchief. His young wife was on a visit to . .dampton, Va., at the time. The local Slks took charge of the remains. Dr. Ferguson was regarded as one of the irightest men in his profession in the ;outh. / * * / Many Candidates In Columbia. At noon last Friday, the time for iling pledges and paying assessments iy candidates for the various munici- ; offices of Columbia to be filed in ( j the coming democratic primary, exI pired. F Before that hour all of the candi! dates whose announcements had been made had complied with the requirements of the party rule. The list goes forth to the people with a number of candidates sufficient to make each a race an interesting one. J The candidates are: F. S. Earle, M. b C. Wallace, A. F. Funderburk and W. j J. Cathart. Mr. Earle is the incum- a bent. Mr. Wallace, while not running as a labor candidate, will be generally supported by members of the unions. He is president of the South Carolina Federation of Labor and foreman of 11 The State's job office. " FOR SOUTHERN EDUCATION. Association Is Organized In New York ^ City?A Million Dollars Available. | ^ Announcement was maue rnaay f, that there had been organized in New E York city an association to promote southern education, to be known as n the general education board, and that more than a million dollars had been placed at the disposal of the board of ^ trustees. The underlying principle of the association is stated ?.o be the rec ^ ognition of the fact that the people of the southern states are earnestly engaged in the promotion of public ed- ^ ucation, and that in this effort they should receive generous aid; and to this end, and in pursuance of this and kindred objects, the association will ^ seek gifts, large and small, from those in sympathy with its plans. The board of trustees is as follows: W. H. Baldwin, Jr., president of the Long Island Railway Company; Dr. J. J ^ L. M. Curry, executive officer of the j ,. Peabody and Slater funds, former j minister to Spain and ex-member of j congress; F. T. Gates, formerly sec- | retary of the National Education So j ^ ciety; Dr. Daniel C. Gilman, formerly ; president Johns Hopkins university, ! . now president Carnegie- institute, ! . Washington; Morris K. Jesup, trustee and treasurer of the Slater board; 1 Robert C. Ogden, president of the board of trustees of Hampton institute 0< and president of the Southern Educa- ( ticn Board; Walter H. Page. George ^ Foster Peabody and Albert Shaw. j ; lii SHAME ON YOU, EDDiE! [ I 1 ai Preacher in London Scores King For t Setting Bad Example. i A London dispatch says: There n( was a striking s-cene in the City Temple Friday when, during the course of in his sermon, the Rev. Joseph Parker cc administered a pointed rebuke to King Edward, which was loudly ap- g( plauded by the congregation. Having ja allimnr? +/-? r>nhlin-li/viicoe o c "Iron fln.ivs VV/ gl cf hell/' Dr. Parker referred to the tr king's secret brewing of beer while m visiting Lord Burton. n( "Pray for me," said the divine, "that pi I may speak delicately, loyally. If th the king brews beer what can be tr wrong in the subject drinking it? The ct king is likely to be imitated by others. cc "If the king goes to a Sunday con- f0 cert, as he did recently, he deals a at deadly blow to the Englishman's Sun- cc clay. The king cannot a! tend a ncn- th conformist place of worship, but he ij? can go to a Sunday concert." ' bj This remark called forth cries of XJ: "Shame!" and Dr. Parker continued: ! "If the king, who is the head of ai the church and defender of the faith, can violate the English Sunday, what th can the people do but follow in his th steps? I would rather give a great ra sum in gold than appear to be disloy- 1 cu al; but I cannot be disloyal to Christ, ! f0 and it is better that these things shall ex be said." j th i * i?r- A A* urtmr ply o? stills on hand to begin opera- ' tion shortly after their outfits are destroyed. * * * Doctor Dies Suddenly. Dr. Richard Ferguson, Jr., 28 years Did, formerly of Richmond, Va., who I ocated in Columbia eighteen months i igo and achieved great success as an jye and ear specialist, was found dead n his house the past week. He had been highly nervous and it ' I s supposed while attempting to put | i J >-? o i-k 1 f +r\ oloon n'ltV* r> V> 1 n rn fnrm hlQ I ( MLIUC 3 I MIC Ml nuivit. i | m; President Decides That His Daughter ne i Cannot Attend Coronation. j ha Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of ur the president, will not attend the coro-! th nation of King Edward. While the white house officials decline to discuss the matter, it was stated by those in position to kn^w that the president . Ss had decided that the reason why Miss ! Roosevelt will not attend the corona- | tion is because it has been found prac- 1 na tically impossible for her to go sim- ! jnj ply as a young American girl travel- ! sij ing privately in the household of Spe- ' ag cial Ambassador Reid. ta! When Miss Roosevelt's status became a matter of international discuscus&ion the president first considered the advisability of cancelling the visit, but not until it was found that an invi- Ti tation to visit the emperor and empress of Germany was on the way to i America was it decided that, in view Le of the extreme youth of Miss- Roose- Su velt and the international conditions as hi; well as courtesies she would be called cd on to meet, the English visit and all tal its delights would have to be relin- foi quished. th fu: Charlottesville Public Building. sp The senate committee on public go buildings and grounds has authorized a favorable report on a new public building at Charlottesville, Va., to cost $100,000. PRESIDENT'S NOMINATIONS. sa List of New Postmasters In Georgia, ni Alabama and Louisiana. wi The president, Thursday, sent the flj following postoffice nominations to the Ci senate: M Georgia?Lula M. Farmer. Thomson. af Alabama?S. E. York, Athens; John to A.. Bingham, Talladega; Robert Cloud, di Tuscumbia. in Louisiana?B. M. Young, Morgan wi City; Elwyn Barrow, St. Francisville. ANOTHER ONE FROM SHANGHAI, p, Merchants of China City Expect Immediate War With Japan. ce In a dispatch dated Shanghai, China, the correspondent of The London ur Standard says that Chinese merchants coming from Port Arthur declare they have been ordered to remove their mi families from Port Arthur because I Pi preparations were being mads there ' gb for a war with Japan. kii iAYNOR AND GREEN SKIP OUT.! rail to Show Up In Court and Their Bonds Are Forfeited?Hot Roast By Judge Speer. . In the United States district court ,t Savannah, Ga., Friday morning udge Emory Speer estreated the >onds of Benjamin D. Greene and ohn F. Gaynor, charged with conspircy against the United States and ench warrants have been issued for heir arrest. William T. and Ed B. Gaynor were a court and were arraigned on the ew indictment recently found against liem and the others. A plea of abatement was presented y their attorneys. The bonds of Greene and John F. 'ovnnr o rr* frir <10000 Orppnp's I MJUUi U1 V. 1U1 y iWtVVW V/WVU. VV#*V U ond is signed by James D. Leary, of Jew York, and Gaynor's by William I. Kirk, of Syracuse. Judge Speer took occasion to anounce from the bench his disapproval f the manner in which the missing efendants have treated the case gainst them. He said they had been rifling with justice. In estreating the Greene-Gaynor ond Judge Speer said: "This is a case which calls for the rompt and unremitting exercise of tie executive powers of the governlent until these recalcitrant defendnts, D. B. Greene and John F. Gaynor re brought to the bar of this court )r trial. "They have been indicted by two nccessive grand juries for alleged -auds upon the public treasuy of the lost stupendous character. If the barges in the indictment are true, icir speculations amount to hundreds f thousand?, perhaps millions, of dolirs. "They were first indicted more than vo years ago, and after successfully claying the execution of the process [ a court of the United States and lacing an enormous cost upon the Dvernment in the attempt to enforce s authority, they were finally corndied to appear for trial at this term : court. The term has lasted for early a month. It has been almost itirely devoted to the laborious and ireful disposition of dilatory or preminary objections interposed by their )unsel, and when finally ordered to ppear and plead, as they were bound i do by their bond, in apparent disreird of authority of the law, they are >w fugitives. "They are both, I learn, men of fine telligence. They, as well as do their tn ^ a1 V* on/1 nlcfi itt V? nm fnlltr nn. IUUOC1 UC1 ^ auu giocn utig, lull; UUirstand their duty to be present. The )vernment officers have been at great bor and the government itself at eat expense in preparing for their ial. Indeed, the conduct of these en, unexplained with regards to their )n-appearaace, is an outrage upon iblic justice. From the inception of eir efforts to delay or defeat the ial upon indictment for the serious large preferred against them, this i'urt has done all in its po^ver to enrce its regular process to bring sout the speedy and impartial trial mtemplated by the constitution in e usual and orderly manner estab hed, not only by the statutes, but r the time honored precedents of the nited States courts. "The case dragged its slow length ong before the commissioner and strict jury in New York and was ence carried to the supreme court of e United States and, after final judgent of that high tribunal, the acised were compelled to come here r trial. Its most baneful efrect is the ample it offered of the paralysis of e law. "These men are presumed to be Inicent of the crime charged. My rearks exclusively relate to the manr in which the process of this court ls been held up and arrested and the [explained contempt on the part of ese persons of its orders." EXPLOSION KILLS THREE. iw Mill Boiler Bursts, Employes Meet Death and Building Burns. The boiler of Oakes' sawmill in Ferndina, Fla., exploded" Friday morng killing three negro employes and ghtly injuring Gordon Hall, the man er. The mill and contents were to- | lly destroyed by fire. "CANT DO IT," SAYS LEE. cket Agent Refuses to Make Goo<' Money Secured By Robbers. Southern Railway Ticket Agent Same. at Durham, N. C., claims that last * mday he was attacked, sandbagged, ] 5 office key taken and the safe open- ( and $400 of the company's money ken. The company makes demand 1*1 a A -if 1. : 1 1 1.- Al.im I.nnn 1 r $13U UI I11LL1, UUMlig I LZj L iaiui upuu e fact.that he ought to have put the 1 nds in another safe. Lee denies re- ( onsibility and says he will not make ] od what the robbers secured. ( , < SCHOONER PREY OF FLAMES. i iree-Masted Vessel Caught In Ice Floes and Burned. A dispatch from Cape May, N. J., ,ys: A three-masted schooner, the ime of which has not been learned, as burned at sea Monday night. The e ,which was plainly visible from ' ipe May, started about 5 o'clock onday afternoon and burned until * ter 9 o'clock. The schooner came 5 a point about six miles off shore irlpg Saturday night, and was caught ^ the ice field flowing out of Dela- 1 are bay. ' ELLIOTT WIRES WILLIAM. esident of Harvard Enthused Over Visit of Prince Henry. Emperor William at Berlin has reived the following dispatch from esident Elliott, president of Harvard ' liversity: "Harvard . university thanks your aesty for your inspiring message to ] ince Henry and for your munificent 1 ft. May your act draw together two j ndred peoples." ; CLAIMS AKfc KbLLStU No Compensation For Families of Battleship Maine Martyrs. TURNED DOWN BY COMMISSION Barred By Fact That Officers and Sea* men Wer? Injured In Line of Duty?One Commissioner Files Dissenting Opinion. I Thursday the Spanish claims com- . -i K/inrloH AtTTt JllibblUll H l VV luu uauuvu uwt. ~ a decision against the claimants for death and injuries by officers and sea- 1 men in the wreck of the battle 6hip Maine in Havana harbor. The commission holds that: "Individual claims of citizens of one i nation may arise against the government of another nation for redress of injuries to persons or property which such citizens may have sustained from such government, or any of its agents, i But such individual claims do not i arise in favor of the officers and sea- ? men of a ship of war, who receive, in 1 the line of duty, injuries to their per- ' son for which a foreign government i is responsible. The claim against the < foreign government is wholly national, ' and all injuries to such officers and seamen are merged in the national in- 1 jury and can look only to their own < government for such remuneration as ' it may choose to give them. 1 "A seaman injured by the explosion I < which destroyed the battle ship Maine 1 in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on < February 15, 1893, had no individual claim against Spain, even if that gov- 1 ernment was responsible to the United i States for the explosion, and therefore 1 such a seaman is not entitled to an 1 award in his favor from the Spanish ) treaty claims commission, organized 1 by the act of congress of March 2, 1901, to adjudicate the individual 1 claims of citizens erf the United States ' against Spain, which the United States 1 released to. Spain, and agreed to pay 1 by the treaty of peace of December 1 10, 1898." The claims so far filed with the com- i mlceinn urhis?h will h<* nffpotfid hv this < decision, amount to about $2,500,000, which probably would have been increased to $5,000,000 had the decision been favorable to the claimants. Commissioner Chambers filed a dissenting opinion. He said that if the steamer, City of Washington, lying near the Maine at Havana, had been blown up and its sailors killed, "this commission would present the anomal- < ous aspect of investigating for the pur- * pose of adjudicating the claims of all these private citizens who were in- I jured or killed upon the meiyhant ship j while the claims of the equally unfor- ] tunate sailor citizens whose injuries i were received or whose lives were 1 sacrificed while in the line of duty, at < the same time on the battle' ship 1 Maine, are denied a hearing. To my 1 mind no principle of law, divine or human, international or municipal, 1 recognizes or could justify such an in- 1 congruous procedure." 1 FILIPINOS CRUELLY TORTURED. 1 Crazed Americans Adopt New MetRod < of Exterminating Rebels. 1 Advices from Manila state that a courtmartial has been ordered to try 1 Major Waller and Lieutenant Day, of 1 the marine corps, on March 17, on the < charge of executing natives of the is- ] lands of Samar without trial. Some of ' the circumstances in the case are pe- \ culiarly atrocious. i One native was tied to a tree and publicly shot in the thigh. The next < day the man was shot in the arms. The 1 third day he was shot in the body, an^, < the fourth day the native was killed. i Friends of the two officers attribute i their actions to loss of mind, due to ! the privations which^they suffered in the island of Samar. ] i Quarter-Million Blaze. < The most destructive fire that Plain- I field, N. J., has experienced in many years, destroyed the Babcock building, ? * * * J A a live-story DncK, ana iwo aujuimng ( buildings. The total loss was $250,000. i WILL MEAN REVOLUTION. Understood In London that Irish League Will Be "Proclaimed." a A London special says: It is under-., ^ stood that at the cabinet council the ? United Irish League will be "proclaim- ^ 2d," although George Wyndham, chief y secretary for Ireland, .s averse to such c i strong measure. Mr. Wyndham, lowever, is not in the cabinet, and* his opinion is likely to be overruled. The ^ [ris-h leaders declare they will wel:ome such a move, which would re- c suit, they say, in a revolution in the j south of Ireland. _ "I'LL DO THE TALKING." 18 New urocr Wl riwivwn nsyaiumy ! "Stuff" For Newspaper Men. At a cabinet meeting Friday Presiient Roosevelt requested the mem- j; aers not to talk to newspaper corre- A spondents about matters under discus- a ;ion at the semi-weekly meetings. It a vas thought best for the president d aimself to make public such matters t; is he deemed proper to be given out. ii Hereafter the president will do this. y BRYAN GUEST OF PRESS CLUB. Says He Adopted Newspaper Woijf 1 Because Oratory Was Ineffective^ William Jennings Bryan wr'club gnest of the New York Pr*^ wa9 c P.&y smoker. lid not go into s V of his own I ,to it after he J iat his oratory ; ,r to convince l that his ideas i ; - lABINfcl MtMBfcKi JMUUV. * --? President's Orders Forbidding Thenl to Give Out News to Reporters j Creates Consternation. . jy A Washington special says: Th?! announcement from i^.e white house that hereafter all news concerning cabinet meetings must be given out b(> the secretary to the president and " * that members of the cabinet must not ^ discuss cabinet meetings with representatives of the press is generally regarded as the hardelst slam that any; president has ever given the member# . || of his cabinet. It is, in effect, notice to members of the cabinet that the president does not consider them the possessors of judg- Jjk ment or discretion. The heads of the -?fagi different executive departments do not take at all kindly to this reflection! /. upon them, especially as their friends in the senate and house are inclined! to poke fun at them concerning the position In which they have been placed* No previous president has ever gone to these lengths. There have bees times when, before cabinet meetings broke up, there would be & general |gj agreement that certain matters should ' ^ aot be discussed with outsiders, but'. even Mr. Cleveland, who was criticised for keeping members of his cabinet itt, V;$jj the background and dominating them, never went to to the length of forbidding them to discuss such cabinet mat* :i;3j ters as in their judgment they saw fit. . President McKinley had the happy; faculty of impressing all those wltioi ^ conferred with him with the feeling .r? that he reposed absolute confidence is them, and on. important matters this '4 confidence was not misplaced, either in the case of members of the cabinet Dr of others. There are one or two members of the present cabinet who seeme to be- ^ lieve that the newspapers of the conntry have no right whatsoever to know ~ what is going on. These are men who tiave never before figured in public ^ ^ life and whose heads have suffered de- cided enlargement since their selection to high place in this administraton. ^ These men are understood to indorse the mystery which the president seeks '^3 to throw around his conferences witk his official advisers. But the men of widest political experience in the cab*. J! inet and out of it construe this action the president as not only an nnpoU* tic move, but one which is a distinct reflection upon the members of the ;; president's official household who are told, in effect, that they are mereKde? partment chiefs whose judgment can* Zyjm not be relied upon. ROOSEVELT STEALS MARCH. Outwits Congress by Securing Import# ant Section in Census BUI. A Washington dispatch says: Pre$fdent Roosevelt has outwitted Con?ress. Both house and senate : passed the bill for a permanent cen- . ^ sus bureau with the understanding' . th*>i all of the twent-ICiree hundred | jlerks now In the bereau should, upon! | '^j ;he bill becoming a law, be placed in :he classified service. But Presides t Roosevelt would not lave it that way. He sent for Sena* :or Quarles and Representative Hop-: dns, members of the conference comnittee, and directed them to put a secLion in the hill providing that only . such clerks as are in the census office luly 1st shall go into the classified ser* ; -; rice without examination. The clause was inserted. Then Hop-. sins and Queries reported back to the louse and senate that the conference jjjja committee had agreed upon the bill vijj practically as it had been adopted.% rhereupon it was passed without fopLher question. It was not the original bill, but a gold brick. Under the Roosevelt clause, Direct- ^ ir Merrlam wiM fire all clerks in the. - bureau before July first, except the. ,.-|ag jight hundred he needs for the perma- 7 lent bureau. He Is a republican and will of course, pick out eight hundred 7^ epublicans for retention. Between now and July first, fifteen 7 lundred democrats and republicans V i will get the axe. Congress knows to- I lay the trick has been turned and Jiere is general dismay. ?Prince Henry dined with the Van- -^?| lerbilts Sunday night Monday he ^ went to Philadelphia. Bank and Dispensary Robbed. V"* The St Matthews, S. C., saving ban# .nd the dispensary were robbed Tuea[ay night. The burglars used nitro> ;lycerin. The extent of the robbery s not known, as the officials could not ;et into the Inside vault Mechanics were secured from Columbia to Pool Rooms Win Victory. In an opinion handed down Wednesay the Texas court of criminal apleals decided that the state law It ;;i enses pool rooms and that municipal? . ties may not prevent them doing busl? ^ less within their limits. BALM FOR BROKEN TROTH. $ diss Roberts Awarded $13,250 m|.-M Breach of Promise Suit. vfie \ At Zanesviile, Ohio, Wednesdj^Qj ury in the breach of promisj>^er liss Loretta Roberts, the^? county , wealthy farmer ofc county gainst James B. SJg^ for the pIslB. g iter, returned ajfclI( was on heuw ; ,V| iff of $13,o00. and tile testimony, ng about oofctj^, oature. fas of a 8f j&S >jUTHERN FLOUR MILLS. = Census Summary Shows Extent Of . Business and Capital Used. The census preliminary summary >f statistics of flouring and grist nills of the United States in 1900 ihows a total of 25,258 such establishnents, with an aggregate capital of 1218,714,104; wage earners averaging ||g 17,073, drawing $17,713,418 In wages; ' ^ nlscellaneous expenses $10,325,588, ind cost of materials used $475,826,- ? ' j