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ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. G. THURSDAY. MARCH 20.1902. ONE DOLLAE PEE YEAE. v|
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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
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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. __ _.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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? 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.
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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. \
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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built by him iast year and dedicated
to the public use.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Illinois Governor at Expo.
11 Governor Richard Yates, of Illinois,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ex-fiorernor of Illinois Victim
of Apoplectic Stroke
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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.
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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.
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. 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
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