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gp^ - The Bamberg Herald. 1 _ - jM ? ' - - J ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. G. THURSDAY. MARCH 20.1902. ONE DOLLAE PEE YEAE. v| ^ . 1 ' ^ ? - ? * AV\VH A RAGING BLIZZARD In Northwest Whelms Trains Under Mountains of Snow. ALL TRAFFIC IS PARALYZED Starvation Threatens Passengers Tied Up In North Dakota?Blizzard I Is Worst Experienced In Years. According to Sunday's dispatches from St. Paul, North Dakota and the Canadian northwest has experienced the worst snow storm in many vears. and railroad traffic is practically paralyzed. The Northern Pacific and the Great Northern have not moved a wheel for nearly thirty-six hours in the blizzard-stricken district and have abandoned all efforts to do so until the fury of the storm shall abate. The high wind has'piled the snow in the mountains and packed it in solid masses, many deep cuts being entirely filled. The temperature has been gradully falling and is now at or below the zero mark. Not a transcontinental train has arrived at St. Paul since Friday, and none is expected for several days. The Northern Pacific reports Its westbound coast trains, which left St. Paul Saturday morping, tied up at Fargo, the road beyond there being blocked. It will start a coast-bound train at once, and hopes to be able I to get it through. The eastbound train due in St. Paul Saturday morning is held at Mandan, N. Dak., and no attempt will be made to move it. Every effort is being made by the road to keep its passengers who are snowbound warm and well fed and for this reason trains are being held at stations where the accommodations are good, rather tipn attempt to get them I . through, with a possibility of being ' tied up between stations. The Red Valley division of the Northern Pa cific, between Frankfort and Winnipeg, is entirely abandoned. No trains have attempted to run since Friday night, and the exact conditions on this division are not known by the general officess as most of the telegraph wires have been carried down by the burden of sleet that preceded the heavy snowfall. The situation on the Great Northern is equally bad. The line is tied up entirely between Grand Forks and Williston, N. Dak , a distance of about | 35 miles, and all wires have been lost beyond Fargo. All communication with western Dakota and Montana has been lost So fierce has been the storm that it has been inadvisable to f attempt to reopen the road until it abates. The branch of the Great Northern running to Winnipeg is also tied up. No trains have been started northward since Friday night and those that were caught out on the road by the ssorm have been held at that station near the Dorder. Winnipeg is reported entirely cut off from railroad communication with the outside world. The Canadian Pacific transcontinental trains are snowbound and no prospect of relief is yet in sight. The storm started on Friday, being j j i ii-ui ?:-.r~n preceaeu uy <t laiman auu panied by high winds. The rain soon turned to sleet and then to snow, and this has fallen without cessation for more than thirty-six hours. The terrific gale drifted the snow badly and it is next to impossible to wade through it. So far as known there has been no loss of life, but owing to the demoralized condition of the wires little news has been received from the remote districts. The farmers hail the adized condition of the wires, little news has been received from the remote vent of snow with delight, as the ground has been very dry, and the moisture will put it in excellent shape for the spring seeding. Arsenal Burns; Heavy Loss. Advices from Santiago de Chile state that a section cf the naval arsenal at Valparaiso has been destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $1,000,000. EXPLOSION IN POWDER MILL. Building Wrecked, Causing Death of One Employe and Injuring of Many. An explosion in the powder mixing department of the Fairmont Manufacturing Company at Cleveland, Ohio, pnrlv Saturday resulted in the death of one girl employee, while at least seven others were seriously injured. The cause of the explosion is not known. The front of the two-story frame building was blown completely out and the plant gutted by fire which followed the explosion. The company manufactures railroad torpedoes. The pecuniary loss will not exceed $10,000. EVANS WILL GO OUT. President, However, Will Have New Berth Ready For Him. According to a Washington dispatch, there is no longer any doubt that Pension Commissioner Evans will, within ! the next few months at the latest, sever his connection with the pension bureau to accept from the president a position which will be a substantial promotion, but which has not yet been * definitely selected. PRESIDENT IS DETERMINED. Will Insist cn Securing Reciprocity With Island of Cuba. A Washington special says: The cabinet discussed at length Tuesday the Cuban tariff situation. It is understood that the effort to secure reciprocity with Cuba is an administration measure, that President Roosevelt is carrying it cut in pursuance not merely of the policy, but of the promise ot President McKinley, and with the most hearty bolief in it as being morally called for. __ _. ft I TWENTY OF CREW CLOWNED.; j Mississippi River Steamer Upset By Sudden Squall and Goes to Bottom With Many Souls. The steamer Providdkce, plying bebtween Vicksburg, Miss., and Lake Palmyra, was overturned at 2 o'clock I Wednesday morning by a sudden squall at lone Landing and twenty of her passengers and crew were drowned. The whites who lost their lives were: Captain William Cassidy, of Vicks- j burg, master; Charles Roup, of Vicks- J burg, chief engineer; Clyde Scott, cf j Vicksburg, cotton seed buyer; Dr. N. I A. Lancaster, a prominent physician I and planter of the Palmyra neighbor- j hood. The negro victims are: George : Lamb, cook, Harrison Gelber, cabin j boy; Bettie Hunter, chambermaid; Joe ( Neal, Ike Lewis, Tom Scott, Whit j Burns, six unknown roustabouts, Min- j i nie Taylor, Joe Christian, passenger; j Ben Richardson, passenger. The following were rescued: J. B. ! Robinson, pilot; Walter Kain, clerk; 1 J. M. Wilkinson, mate, and eight negroes. The survivors reached Vicksburg late Wednesday afternoon, coming over land a distance of about forty miles. Vessel Lifted Out of Water. The ill-fated boat left Vicksburg Tuesday on her regular trip, carrying a large miscellaneous cargo of freight and a number of passengers. At 2 o'clock Tuesday morning, just as the steamer was entering Lake Palmyra, a sudden wind and rain stenhn of cyclonic proportion came out of the west, catching the Providence broad side on. The little vessel was lifted almost entirely out of the water her upper works being blown away and the hull turned bottom up in forty lcet of water. Most cf the crew and passengers were asleep at the time and were drowned like rats in a trap. Messrs. Cassidy, Scott, Roup and Lancaster were all married men and '-! */. lorcro /amiltPS T ^ iHl C)V MUST RETRACT, SAYS 8ERNER. Candidate Guerry Arouses the Ire cf Motiroe County Man. Robert L. Berner, of Forsyth, Ga., who was a candidate for governor in 1598, and who was president of the state senate in 1596 and 1897, has written a letter to Dupont Guerry, candidate for governor, asking him to correct the statement made by Mr. Guerry, which statement was that Mr. Berner and Mr. Terrell, who is also a can- j didate for governor, engineered, by signing the name of F. M .Potts, of Atlanta, to a telegram, the nomination cf Berner as senator from the 22d district at the senatorial convention in session at Forsyth. Mr. Berner, so it is said, is angry at the manner in which Mr. Guerry has been putting his name in his campaign speeches and wants a correction of it at once. He says in his letter to Mr .Ouerry that unless he makes the correction immediately he will seek the proper channels to make the correction himself. Mr. Berner was in Atlanta Tuesday night and confided to several of his friends what hp had done. To his friends and in the letter to Mr. Guerry, Mr. Berner stated that he knew nothing of such a telegram, and had never heard before that he and Terrell had engineered his nomination until Mr. Guerry made the charge, and he wanted a correction made, as the charges were not true. A "CANNED" BABY. Washington Physician is Doubly Surprised in Unique Episode. Dr. Charles T. Hagner, for thirty years a well known practicing physician in Washington, is held under $3.000 bond on a charge of manslaughter to appear before the coroner's jury, which will fix the responsibility for the death of a prematurely born child to Mrs. Peter Blair. Dr. Hagner attended the mother. Later the infant was found in a garbage can in an alley near the Blair home. The child is at the hospital. When confronted with the facts. Dr. Hagner admitted putting the child in the can, but said it was dead at birth. He was astounded to hear that the child was alive when found. ROUSTED BY FLAMES. Twentv-Fcur Families. OccuDvincj ! Flats, Are Made Homeless. Twenty-four families occupying the St. Catherine flats at Fortieth street and Grand boulevard, .Chicago, were driven from the building by fire early Monday. A frigid wind was blowing and the firemen had to work vigorously to confine the flames to St. Catherines. The tenants had barely time to escape and shivered in their night clothes until neighbors were aroused and gave them shelter. Nearly all the household goods and personal effects were lost. MILITARY NOT NEEDED. Cars In Norfolk Now Running Without Guards. The Norfolk, Va., board of trade Tuesday night adopted resolutions upholding the decision of the arbitration board in the street car strike, and declaring that both parties to the ! culty should at once come to an I An + onH tV>o cfrilrr* off I j aau vm>i* wv* v**. All day Tuesday the regular quota of cars were run on schedule timf without a military guard. FACED BY ARMED GUARDS. | Striking Coal Miners In Virginia Are Kept In Check. A special from Bristol says reports ! from the southwest Virginia coal fields I Friday night indicated practically no change in the situation. Private aclj vices are to the effect that about 1.000 miners are now out. These men areface to face with armed guards and ; the situation is liable to become criti- j cal at any moment. immmmmmammmmmrmmmmmtmommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammammmmmmtmmmmmmmm GIFT TO SHIPOW.NERS So Declares Spooner In Discnssing the Subsidy Biil. DEMOCRATS' MINORITY REPORT Difference of Opinion Regarding the Measure Appear in Senate During Debates?Some Quotations. Senator Berry, representing the minority of the Senate committee on commerce at Saturday's session, presented their report in opposition to thp nendinsr shiD subsidy bill. Most of the points have been covered in speeches in the senate. The minority deny the accuracy of both the predictions and the facts in the majority report. They urge that the bill is wrong in principle, and declare that it will utterly fail in its accomplishment of its professed objects. They also say while it is not so complicated as the ship subsidy bill of the fifty-sixth congress, it is in some respects even j more objectionable. The minority report continues: "The bill proposes to tax the whole people to the extent of several million dollars for the benefit of one single industry. Besides, the statistics of the last two years prove that shipbuilding industry does not need such special assistance, but is rapidly increasing under natural conditions." They criticise the feature of the bill which carries the subsidy for foreign mails. They further urge that the bill makes no provision against a shipping trust and claim it encourages a combination leading to such a trust. They also say: "The lines might also merge with foreign lines to control freight and j passenger rates. Thereby our subsidy would be aiding the foreign partners of our subsidy vessels." The report closes by saying: "We know that there are hundreds and thousands of industries in our country doing a losing business, but we deny that congress for this reason call go into me puunc treasury auu j save them from bankruptcy. We ; sympathize with all men in the hard ! struggles of life, but it is not the duty of our government to interfere in the private business affairs of the citizen. We believe that all men should have on equal and fair chance in the race for wealth and happiness?every citizen should bear his share of the burdens of the government, one class should never be the recipient of benefits not given to others. Absolute equality of rights is a doctrine we snculd never abandon. The bill is wrong in principle, unjust, vicious, pure class legis^tion." Republicans Differ. Differences of opinion on the republican side appeared in the senate de- ' bate on the subsidy bill Saturday. Mr. Allison, of Iowa, indicated that he was not quite satisfied with the measure as it stands Qow, and gave notice of amendments he proposed to offer to it limiting the time of its operatioc and limiting also the amount o<* money annually to be paid from the treasury on account of it. He was followed by Mr. Spooner, of Wiscionsin, who took exception to Sfme propositions of the measure. He was not at all centain that the bill would accomplish the great results which its advocates claimed for it, and he urged that before its enactment into law, definite information upon that point ought to be furnished to congress. The only thing absolutely certain about the measure, declared Mr. I Spooner,, was that ships now in exj ir.ence would recive a large amount of money until the subsidy was repealed. "In my opinion," said he, "that subsidy is a gift." I Mr. Bacon, of Georgia, gave notice of an amendment which he proposes | to after to the subsidy bill providing that no conaract under the bill shall be binding upon the government until it should have been approved by congress. TRIBUTES PAID TO ALTGELD. At Funeral His Sincerity and Courage Was Subject of Two Orations. Funeral services over the body of the late John P. Altgeld, former governor of Illinois, were held at the Altgeld home in Sheridan Park, Chicago, Friday. Rev. Frank Crane, of the People's church, preached the funeral sermon, and Clarence S. Darrow, the ex-governor's law partner, delivered an address. Both speakers paid tributes to the sincerity and courage of Mr. Altgeld. The Boer envoys, Wolmarans and Wessels, and Montague White were present at the funeral. NINETEEN BODIES RECOVERED. All But One of the Victims of Steamer Disaster Accounted For. A special from Vicksburg, Miss., savs: The bodies of nineteen of the twenty victims of the steamer Providence disaster have been recovered from the waters of Lake Palmyra. The body missing is that of Dr. N. A. Lancaster. WIRELESS TELEPHONE TEST. Will Be Made By Kentucky Inventor at National Capital. The inventor of wireless telephony, Nathan Stubblefield, of Lexington. Kv., has gene to Washington, where he will give a public demonstration of his invention on the Potomac river. The first demonstration given by Stubblefield was six weeks ago at Murray. If successful, Mr. Stubblefield will attempt a longer distance at > sea. * 11111111118 tWtWfHW % % | Cream of News.* * X Brief Summary of Most Important Events of Each Bay. ?Mrs. Christina Blake, 75 years old, the victim of assault, was found dead in her home near Gainesville, Ga., Monday. J. C. Stover and Charles. Pirkle, two white men, were found beside the body in a drunken stupor and were charged with the crime. ?Miss Olie Cropsey, sister of the dead girl, was placed on the stand Monday in Elizabeth City, N. C., in the trial of James Wilcox. She declared the dead girl was seen last when called from her home by Wilcox. ?The ship subsidy bill was passed in the senate Monday by a vote of 42 to 31. ?Seven life savers and five sailors were drowned off Cape Cod Monday. The men clung to a capsized boat until exhausted and dropped into the sea one by one. ?A test case involving the right to employ little children in the factories of North Carolina will go to the supreme ccurt. A mill was found guilty of working a 9-year-old child. ?The death of Mrs. Annie M. Long, of Memphis, Tenn., who is supposed to have died of pneumonia, it is said, may be followed by a startling sensation. ?The burial of ex-Governor Altgeld, of Chicago, Sunday, was largely attended. Hon. W. J. Bryan was one of the honorary pallbearers. ?Geronimo, the Apache chief who has been in captivity fourteen years, asks president for pardon. ?Cecil Rhodes, the South African magnate, is reported as being weaker. During the day Sunday he took some nourishment. ?Emperor Bill has ordered warships to meet the Deutschland, on whicn is Prince Henry, when it arrives. ?Lord Kitchener sends communication to British war office, London, describing the defeat of his troops and capture of General Methuen. ?Kruger has sent a message to the Boers by a special agent. ?Heavy rains which fell Saturday night and Sunday in various parts of Georgia caused an alarming rise o 1 streams, the damage to considerable property and delay on railroads from washouts. ?The Georgia fruit growers and en tomologists met at Macon Friday. The San Jose scale and its extermination was the principal question discussed. ?The body of Engineer Matthews was recovered Friday at the scene of the recent wreck near Williamson, Ga., and sent on to Talbotton for in terment. ?Edward Field, representative ol the governor of Rhode Island, was iE Savannah Friday making inquiries re garding the remains of General Na thaniel Greene, which are to be in terred at Savannah. ?Admiral Schley, in reply to invi tation of citizens of Jackson, Miss. answers that ne win probably visn that city during his trip to the south west. ?In the trial of James Wilcox charged with murder of Nellie Crop sey, at Elizabeth City, N. C., Friday doctors testified that the girl was pul into the river while she was uncon scious. ?The republicans have not agreec on the Cuban question. The feeling between the two factions is bitter. ?Twenty thousand strikers rushec for their old places at Boston Friday but didn't get them. There was tall of a renewal of the strike. ?The banks of the United States propose to combine and enter the mon ey order field in competition with the express companies and the govern ment. ?The first details of the destructior of Shamaka, Russia, by earthquakt have been received at St. Petersburg Twenty thousand people are witthou: shelter or food. ?It is said that the compromise pro posed by republicans on the Cubar question will inure to the benefit of th< sugar trust, which, it is said, has bought the crop for two years. ?Governor McSweeney, of SoutI Carolina, has ordered an investigatior of a charge against a Spartanburj magistrate who is alleged to have sen three orphans to jail because their pa rents' death left them no means o; support, ?King Edward held his first cour Friday night. It was t&e most daz zling function since the early days o the regin of Queen Victoria. ?It is believed that the Texas Bend ers may have murdered fifty men The bodies were pitched into bayous t< be eaten by alligators. ?Lord Methuen, who was capturec by the Boers in the recent battle, ha: been released. ?Because the Irish members of th< English parliament applauded th< news of Methuen's defeat King Ed ward has boycotted the island. ?The electric cars were run in Nor folk, Va., Wednesday without militar; guard. The street railway compan; has declined to treat further with th< strikers, accepting committee repor as final. ?A party of men armed witn rme left Bristol, Tenn., Tuesday :?or th southwest Virginia coal fields, wher an outbreak is feared on account o the demands of union labor agitators. ?The great strike at Boston, Mass, has been settled by the influence o Governor Crane, Major Collins am business men. Twenty thousand raei will return to work. ?Senator Nelson has sent a com munication to the state department li which it is charged that Powell Clay ton, United States minister to Mexicc is using his position for private gair ?It is announced in Berlin the Tm kegee negroes in German West A rica have grown a grade of cotton bel ter than American middling. | AflED WIDOW SLAIN Horrible Crime of Two Brutes in Unman Form. MURDERERS LANDED IN JAIL Mrs. Blake, Verging on Seventy-Five Years and Living Near Gainesville, Ga., the Victim?Body Horribly Outraged. Mrs. Christina Blake, an aged widow, probably seventy-five years old, living 5 miles south of Gainesville, Ga., was outraged Monday and afterwards brutallv murdered by two white men, both well known in Gainesville. The men held for the double crime are J. C. Stover and Charley Pirkle, his brother in law. When Mrs. Blake's dead body was found in her house, her clothing torn and disarranged, the two men held for murdering her were lying stupefied with whiskey within a few feet of the corpse, which was scarcely cold. They had committed the crime and had made to effort no escape. They were carried at once to Gainesville and placed in jail. The body of Mrs. Blake was beaten up horribly, and from scratches on the hands of the two men she met death only after resistance. Stover and Pirkle had gone to Flowery Branch in the morning and received a case of eleven bottles of whisky. They started fir home in a wagon. The men drank heavily. On the way home they stopped at the house of Mrs. Blake and entered, for what reason is not known. They were quarrelsome and soon raised a row. Mrs. Jack Evans, the adopted daughter of Mrs. Blake, became frightened and ran to the field to get her husband. '* * ' * * - 5 ?k 'it, /v /r#* vvnen sne returned wnn ueip iuc ucau body of tile aged woman lay prostrate on the floor. On either side of her were the murderers too drunk to move. They were tied hand and foot, and Judge Estes, of Gainesville, immedi1 ately telephone. He acted promptly. In addition to the bruises found on the body, the neck showed signs that ! death had been caused by choking, ' finger marks being plainly visible. Evii dences of another crime were also api parent. Stover is a man between twenty-five . and thirty. Pirkle is a boy of about i eighteen. Stover has a wife and fami ily. The prompt action of Judge Estes . in ordering the men incarcerated as ? soon as he learned of the murder is doubtless responsible for preventing [ the swift administration of lynch law. The people Id the vicinity of Flowery , Branch, which is near the scene of the crime, are worked up to a high pitch of ei:citement, and violence seemed imminent. LIFE SAVERS GO DOWN. In Heroic Effort to Rescue Others They Find Watery Graves. Seven life savers?practically the entire crew of the Monomoy station on the southern end of Cape Cod?met - death Monday at their post of duty ana wun tnem went aowu me ucu from the stranded barge Wadena, whom they tried to bring in safety to the shore. All of the life savers came from ' Cuxhaven and Harwich. The names > of the life savers are as follows: Marshal N. Eldridge, keeper; Edgar [ Small, Elijah Kendrick, Osborne , Charles. Arthur Rogers, Isaac Thomas : F.Foye, Valentine Nickerson. Those lost from the barge are as fol5 lows: William H. Mack, Captain . Christian Olsen, Robert Molineaux, : Walter A. Zeved, Manuel Enos. NELLIE'S SISTER TESTIFIES. l ? Olte Cropsey Tells of Quarrels Between Wilcox and the Dead Girl. t At Elizabeth City Monday Miss Olie Cropsey, a sister of the dead girl, testified in the Wilcox trial. She said t that Wilcox had been very attentive to > Nellie since June of 1898. They were * on friendly terms until September of last year, when they began to quarrel. Wilcox called after they quarreled l in September, but Nellie would hardly j speak to him. The night Nellie disappeared, wit[ ness said. Wilcox called and sat in the parlor till It o'clock, when he asked xr^n;^ r-TiooV TL'it-h him in thp hall. f X^ClllC CU O pv?uii IIAWM She was never again seen alive by any member of the family. Wilcox, according to the witness, f said he left her on the porch crying. ?President Pollock, of Mercer university, wants the bequest of the late James A. Gray, of Jones county, Ga., 5 for the education of indigent students of that county, changed in wording * from "gift" to "loan." The Jones coun3 ty people oppose the change. COMPROMISE PROPOSITION. May Be Accepted to Straighten- Out Cuban Tariff Wrangle. ' A Washington dispatch says: Over\ tures have been made for the comproI mise of the conflict over tariff concessions to Cuba, and there'are evidences * '1 -1 fe, will <->nm a tn tna.t me mu eicmcuui <nn gether. probably oil a proposition to ? have the 20 per cent reciprocal reducc tion apply for one year from next December and covering one sugar crop. GERONIMO WANTS FREEDOM. f Captive Apache Indian Chief Petitions :1 President For Pardon. :i Geronimo, the Apache Indian chiel at Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory, has ' petitioned the authorities at Wash .. ington to be released from captivity. >, For the past fourteen years Gero ' nimo has been a military prisoner at > Fort Sill. Now, at the age cf 80, he [ has signified his wish to become a t* docile subject of the great father at Washington. X SOUTH CAROLINA ! \ STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ ics>fsir\ir>jrsirsifsKsii Burglars Are Plentiful. There seems to be more than one | gang of burglars working in South Carolina. Every night for the last ten days they have blown open some safe in a small town. There are a number of white tramps in the state. * * State Medical Association. The South Carolina State Medical Association will meet in convention at Spartanburg on April 17th and 18th. j The County Medical Association will I entertain the visiting members and I are now engaged in active preparaj tions for their reception. * Will Nat Enlarge Mills. President Turtchell, of the D. E. Converse Manufacturing Company, has given out that the proposed plan i for a $300,000 enlargement of the GlenI dale plant has been, for the present, abandoned. Why the. decision was made was not stated. * * * Magistrate Removed. A few days ago, upon what was regarded as a proper presentation of the facts of the case, Governor McSweeney removed Charles H. German as magistrate at Langley, in Aiken county. He was removed for alleged failure to turn over to the county funds he had collected in his court during the last two months. New Railroad Projected. Boston capitalists have a plan on foot to construct a railroad which will pass through the upper counties of the state. The terminals of the proposed road will be South Point, N. C., and Knoxville, Tenn., making northern and western connections. The state railroad commission has been requested for information, which has been given. * * * Pension Lists Coming In. The new pension clerk at Columbia states that thus far the new county pension lists have been received from all of the counties save nine. The lists show a decided increase in the number of pensioners whose claims have been approved Dy uie uuaius uclow. There is twice as much to be divided among them this year as last ?$200,000. * * Puzzling Point of Law. A nice point of law has been raised by Judge Buchanan at the Edgefield court. James Borden, charged wit1^ selling crop under lien, interposed a demurrer to the indictment. This the judge overruled, then proceeded to sentence the defendant to one year on the chaingang. Borden demanded trial by jury. The judge refused it, holding that by his demurrer he admitted the truth of the charge. * * Whitney Aids Fire Sufferers. W. C. Whitney has left with Mayor Emanuel, of Aiken, $1,000 to be distributed among the sufferers from the recent disastrous fire. Mr. Whitney has purchased several tracts of land, amounting to 58 acres, adjoining the new Whitney road. Mr. Whitney has made these purchases "* - * ?^ o. tVi Q rnaH I with tne 1QG3. ui I'Aicuuiug i,u? iv>?. built by him iast year and dedicated to the public use. * * * Tots Sent to Jail. The governor received information recently that a magistrate of Spartanburg county had sent three helpless children ttf jail for the crime of being orphans. One of these children is 6 years of age, another 7 and the third 10. The commitment states that the cause for which they were committed to a felon's cell was that they were left orphans and had no one to care for them or provide a support. The governor has requested Solicitor Sease to investigate the matter and report the I facts. * I * * j Will Entertain the President. I From The New York Journal: When President Roosevelt goes to Charleston to visit the exposition there he I will be entertained by Mrs. Andrew Symonds, one of the beautiful and so I cial leaders of South Carolina. She was Miss Daisy Breux, of New Orleans, a brilliant type of her own city's social charm and culture. She is now at the head of the con I servative and aristocratic element in the old South Carolina social center. She is not only a fashionable woman, but a "progressive" on literary, educational and philanthropic matters. I In her handsome old residence in! the South Battery in Charleston Senator Depew and other distinguished vis- J I itors to Charleston have been royally I entertained. The rooms are hung in rare tapestry, and the colonial furniture is the envy of all northern guests. r * * * Another Mill For Spartanburg. Spartanburg is to have still another cotton mill. Mayor A. B. Calvert is at +hp hpad of the movement and a num ber of northern capitalists are interested. The matter is not one of mere probability, but an assured fact. The mill will be one of large proportions and means much to the city's business interests. The site will be in the city or near the electric car line. According to the latest census sta( tistic returns, South Carolina ranks as the second state in the union in num' ber of cotton mill products and Spartanburg county, the first in this state. This last move will put her still higher along this line. * * Illinois Governor at Expo. 11 Governor Richard Yates, of Illinois, / J 1 ' -- - : : accompanied by sixteen colonels of his staff, Mayor Bryan, of Peoria; State Auditor McCullough, over twenty leading citizens from all parts of the state and a large number of ladies, swooped down upon Charleston and the exposiiton the past week. They there formally opened the Illinois state building and celebrated Illinois day at the exposition. The entire party, on the revenue cutter Forward, took a harbor excursion, visited Fort Sumter and other forts in the harbor, made a short run through the jetties to the bar and Inspected the site of the naval station on Cooper river. Later there was a street parade to the exposition grounds and Governor Yates and others spoke in the Auditorium. Thp weathpr was ideal and there was no dearth of social entertainments in honor of the governor of Illinois and his distinguished party. * * To Uplift Negroes of South. John C. Martin, of New York, has his own ideas about improving the condition of the southern negro and he is putting them into effect Mr. Martin says he does not believe in attempting to educate the pupils before educating their teachers. For this reason he is opposed to contributing to schools and colleges for ne groes while their natural teachers, the preachers, are unfit to teach. He is the head of what is known as the John C. Martin educational fund, which is devoted to the education, in the field, of the negro preachers. Mr. Martin was in Columbia the past week for the first time studying the negro. He says he finds that whisky and tobacco are the chief impediments to his moral and intellectual advancement. South Carolina is to be thoroughly organized, and Mr. Martin hopes to give every preacher in the state a moral and intellectual uplift. Then th^ system is to spread over the rest cf the south where there are 20,000 colored preachers. Rev. W. B. Rankin, D. D., late district superintendent of the American Bible Society, is the general secretary of this work. His headquarters have for the present been moved from New York to Columbia. Dr. Rankin is assisted in the field by experienced theological lecturers and teachers. Negro preachers are collected from all parts of the county at a convenient locality and there they are taught Bible lessons and instructed in the best methods of constructing sermons. These meetings continue a week in each county and will then probably be repeated. Several have already been held. They are largely attended and the greatet Interest is manifested by the preachers. All the expenses of the meeting^ lectures, ets., are defrayed by Mr. Martin. That gentleman takes the practical view that the negro preacher is the leader and, to a large degree, the governor of his people, and that the better the preacher the better the people under his influence. Not only Bible history and sermon-making are lectured upon, but "how to promote peace and co-operation among rival churches," and "Christian life, purity, economy, usefulness," receive considerable attention in the program. SAVANNAH SURE OF HOSPITAL. Bill Appropriating $125,000 For Purpose Passes House. Savannah, Ga., will get her marine hospital. A bill appropriating $125,000 for the project passed the house under the skillful guidance of Representative Adamson. The only doubt felt for its success was thereby removed. The senate will have to pass 1 *- : ? An the bill, but mere is uu uuuut this point, as Senator'Clay has already put the bill through unanimously for this project and the house bill is practically the same as the one he got through. It is only a question of a short time when the bill goes to the president for aDDroval. TRAIN ALMOST OBLITERATED. Four cf the Crew Were Badly Hurt, But no One Was Killed. \ The west bound Nickel Plate passes I ger train, due at Knox, Ind., at 2:50 j p. m. Friday, ran into an open switch, resulting in a disastrous wreck. The following persons were seriously injured: M. A. Schwind, engineer; Jim Dalton, fireman; C. L. Alexander, j baggagemaster; William Browne, mail clerk. j No one was killed, although many passengers were slightly injured. NEW BANK NOTES. Series of 1902 Will Only Go to Banks Organized This Year. The comptroller of the currency received from the bureau of engraving and printing and issued Monday the first delivery of the new national bank notes known as the series of 1902. - - ? 1? J. - These noes will he issuea omy tu new banks organized since January 1, 1902. and thos extending or re-extendlrg their charters. COMPROMISE PROPOSITION. May Be Accepted to Straighten. Out Cuban Tariff Wrangle. A Washington dispatch says: Overtures have been made for the compro? A1 :-->+ nrroT +ori ft PDTICeS mise UI Lilt; luuuiv.1 uivi sions to Cuba, and there are evidences that the two elements will come together, probably on a proposition to have the 20 per cent reciprocal reduction apply for one year from next December and covering one sugar crop. COMMON LAW MARRIAGES. * Declared Invalid By Virginia State Court of Appeals. A dispatch from Richmond, Va. says: In the case of Field versus Davis, appealed from the circuit courl of Greene county, the state supreme court of appeals last Wednesday hand ed down an opinion affirming the lowei I court's decision and holding that s common law marriage in Virginia if invalid. . - . -.z t .. s . ... ALTGELI) 15 MU MUKfc * Ex-fiorernor of Illinois Victim of Apoplectic Stroke r-'g WHILE APPEALING FOR BOERS | At Close of Impassioned Philippic Against Wrongs of Struggling . Patriots, He Sinks Down I ;i|i and 8oon Passes Away. . ! < ' A special from Joliet, 111., says: For- ' ^ mer Governor John P. Altgeld, died in room 58, Hotel Monrcr Wednesday . morning at 7:09 o'clock. He had beea r.";j unconscious since midnight. Mr. Altgeld was the principal speak er at a pro-uuer mass mccuug x uwutv. . -v< night in the Joliet theater. Just at the close of his speech a sudden dizziness seized him and ho was assisted from the stage. The, meeting proceeded, the audience not realizing what had happened. Mr. Altgeld was taken to the door of the 'Jg theater where several vomiting spells' seized him. It continued for nearly an hour and was so pronounced he could not bo removed to the hotel. Physicians were hastily summoned and Mr. Altgeld was - , j3w carried to the hotel across the street. He retained consciousness and urged :?| the newspaper men to keep the affair quiet for fear of alarming bis wifet Shortly before midnight he became unconscious. He remained in this condition until death, the cause of which is given aa cerebral homorrhage. there havingbeen an opoplectic seizure of the brain. The vomiting at first was taken ta indicate ptomaine poisoning, but it waa determined that this was due to dif- ^ ferent manifestations of the brain trouble. Mr. Altgeld reached Joliet Tuesday ^|1 afternoon, having been widely advertlsed as the principal orator for the . big Will county pro-Boer meeting. He complained of not feeling well, hayingbeen troubled with some apparent?, simple stomach ailment. He was not willing to allow that to interfere with his speech, however, his great interest in the South African struggle having been heightened by the announcement of the Boer successes of a day or so ago. It was noted during the address that the ex-govern- VlB or threw an unusual amount of energy and feeling into his words, and the collapse, the physicians think, re- ??|i suited from overstraining his already ' weakened physical powers. It is said that the governor died as he had lived, pleading for the cause of the lowly. M- * <n fho snPPfh which ?jO Wll. Angviu, 1U W.V ~w ~ Xia^m. was fated to be his last, declared that all friends of humanity owed a debt of gratitude to Governor Yates for Issuing a proclamation soliciting assistance for the Boer women and children in the concentralion camps which, the British are maintaining in South Africa There were eighteen counts and cific charges in Governor Altgeld'a , * indictment. Ee said in substance: . "Juse before the beginnjj^ o^the 1 Spanish American war, Lord Paunce- I fote, representing the aristocracy, | meddled in our affairs and tried to unite the governments of Europe in <$ making a joint protest against Amer* lean Interference in behalf of Cuba. ' *p. But when the American people assert- sjl ed themselves and our government | was compelled to go to the rescue of Cuba, England issued a strong neutrality proclamation, forbidding all her subjects everywhere from furnishing us any aid or in doing anything J that would in any way be a violation of the strictest neutrality." It was a speech characteristic of. ?1 v ? J "I.?? :.79 the old governor wuo uau I 11 VIM ^ the towpath to the chiefest office of the state. Death was at hand, bet his voice had all the old lire and all ^ the old sympathy which had won him ^ the hearts of many people. It was ^ governor Altgeld who pardoned the sp three Chicago anarchists and whose views were frequently called anarchistic, yet his sincerity was questioned by few. LABOR WINS AT FALL RIVER. t4 Employers Agree to Raise Wages and Forestall Big Strike. At a meeting of Fall River (Mass.) Manufacturers' Association held Sat* * urday afternoon it was voted to increase wages in Fall River mills 10 per cent. ^JpMI The street in front of the association rooms was crowded with people. who anxiously awaited the result of their deliberations. The meeting ended shortly before 5 o'clock, and when ' the announcement that the increase . ; had been granted was made known a cheer went up and the news spread rapidly. Many Pension Bills Passed. The house devoted Saturday to prl* vate pension bills, passing 229 bills and clearing the calendar. This is the largest number of pension bills ever passed by the house at one session. ?_ . Admiral Schley Goes to Boston. Admiral W. S. Schley left Washing* ton Sunday for Boston, where he is to attend the celebration incident to the . Evacuation day ceremonies. RECIPROCITY KNOCKED OUT. Rebate Plan Will Be Only Concession ? to Cubans. ' A Washington dispatch says: The ^5 meeting of republican members oppos* ing the ways and means committee on ' 5 t Cuban reciprocity Monday lasted an ; hour and resulted in agreement not to accept any compromise involving a re* (faction of tariff duties. This is, in ef* l feet, an instruction to insist upon the i rebate plan, as against the reciprocity Av * -C * "* ''r* 1- J*y .