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The Bamberg Herald. | ?* ?-? - ? ' ESTABLISHED 1S91. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL 17.1902. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. mm - ' ??? ?-? ?^ m ALL SECTIONAL Declares Presiden Address at The speech of President Roosevelt it the Charleston exposition was as follows: "It is to me a peculiar privilege to speak here in your beautiful city. My mothers people were from Georgia; but before they came to Georgia, before the revolution, in the days of colonial rule, they dwelt for nearly a century in South Carolina; and, therefore, i can claim your scate as mine by inheritance no less than by the stronger and nobler right which makes each foot of American soil, in a sense, the property of al! Americans. "Charleston is not only a typical southern city; it is also a city where history teems with events which link themselves to American history as a whole. In the early colonial days Charleston was the outpost of our people against the Spaniards in the south. In the days of the revolution there occurred here some of the events which vitally affected the outcome of the struggle for independence, and which impressed themselves most deeply upon the popular mind. It was here that the tremendous, terrible drama of civil war opened. A United People. "With delicate and thoughtful cour tesy, you originally asked me to come to this exposition on the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. The invitation not only showed a fine generosity and manliness in you, my hosts, but it also emphasized how completely we are now a united people. The wounds left by the great civil war, incomparably the greatest war of modern times, have healed, and its memories are-now a priceless heritage of honor alike to the north and to the south. The devotion, the self-sacrifice, the steadfast resolution nnn lnftv dariner the hieh devotion " to the right as each man saw it, whether northerner or southerner, all these qualities of men and women of the early sixties now shine luminously and brilliantly before our eyes, while the mists of anger and hatred that once dimmed chem have passed away forever. "All of us, north and south, can glory alike in the valor of the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the , gray. Those were iron times, and only j iron men could fight to its terrible fin-! lsh the giant struggle between the hosts of Grant and lie. To us of the present day and to our children and children's children the valiant deeds, the high endeavor and abnegation cf . self shown in that struggle by those who took part therein will remain forevermore to mark the level in which % we in our turn must rise whenever our nation's need may come. "TT7V.O? vft<ire o <rrv th?c n.ltirsn ' 1UU1 JVUIO ?*&vr was compelled to face a foreign foe, the completeness of the reunion became instantly and strikingly evident. The war was not one which called for the exercises of more than an insignificant fraction of our strength and the strain put upon us was slight indeed, compared with the results. But it was a satisfactory thing to see the way in which the sons of the soldier of the Union and the soldier of the Confed-1 eracy leap eagerly forward, emulous to i show in brotherly rivalry the qualities which had won renown for their fathers, the men of the great war. It was my good fortune to serve under an exConfederate general, gallant old Joe Wheeler, who commanded the cavalry men at Santiago. In my regiment there were certainly as many men whose fathers had served in the southern as there were men whose fathers had served in the northern army. Among the captains there was opportunity to promote but one to u field rank. Xhe man who was singled out Tor tms promoxiun uaau&c ui wuo?/i<.uous gallantry in Die field was the son of a Confederate general and was himself a citizen of this, the Palmetto State; and no American officer could wish to march to battle beside a more t loyal, gallant and absolutely fearless comrade than my former captain and major, your fellow citizen, M'oah Jenkins. REWARDS FOR ASSASSINS. Governor Candler Supplements Offer j of Chatham County Grand Jury. Governor Candler, of Georgia, offered rewards for the unknown mur- i derers of Mik6 Shrenke, Jake Carter j and Dower Fountain, of the Ogechee 1 district of Chatham county. These men were killed by assassins several j days ago, and Chatham county is out-! raged over the affair. j The grand jury has offered rewards of $250 for the arrect of each murder- j er, and Governor Candler has also of-! fered rewards of $250 each for the ar- j rest of each criminal. j Sugar Trust Roasted. In the house, speaking on the Cuban ; reciprocity bill, Messrs. Smith and Morris, republicans, attacked the sugar I trust, likening Havemeyer to a buccaneer. Machinists' Strike at an End. Third Vice President Gannon, of the Southern, announces that the machinists' strike on the Southern is at an end. SIXTY THOUSAND VISITORS. I More People in Charleston Wednesday I than Ever Before in City's History, i Sixty thousand persons attended the I Charleston exposition Wednesday, the j greatest crowd the city has known in her history. The reception to the president was ! even more than enthusiastic. Thou- j sands shouted themselves hoarse. His ! trip from the city to the grounds was 1 a continual ovation from the moment' the journey began until he left the zrounds. ' WOUNDS HEALED | t Roosevelt in His Charleston. Honors for the South. "A few months ago, owing to the ! enforced absence of the governor of the Philippines, it became necessary i to nominate a vice-governor to take j his place?one of the most important j ! places in our government at this time, j I I nominated as vice-governor an ex- I ! Confederate, General Luke Wright, of j j Tennessee. It Is therefore an ex-Ccn- j ; federate who now stands as the expo- j | nent of this government and this peo- j j pie in that great group of Islands in the | eastern seas over which the American | flag floats. Only One Flag. i "If ever the need comes in the future I i the past has made abundantly evident i the fact that from this time on north; erner and southerner will in war know ; only the generous desire to strive how each can do more effective service for ; the flag of our common country. The I same thing is true in endless work of I peace, and never-ending work of buildi ing and keeping the marvellous fabric j of our industrial prosperity. "You have made a particular effort | in your exhibition to get Into touch with the West Indies. This is wise. The events of the last four years have shown us that the West Indies and the ; Isthmus in the future will cccuply a far I larger place in our national policy j than in the past. This is proved by I the negotiations for the purchase of ! the Danish islands, the acquisition of | Porto Rico, the preparation for buiid! ing an isthmian canal and finally by the changed relations which these years have produced between us and Cuba. As a nation we have an especial right to take honest pride in what we have done for Cuba. Our critics abroad and at home have insisted that we never Intended to leave the island. But on the 20th of next month Cuba becomes a free republic, and we turn over to the islanders the control of their own government. We have kept our word and done our duty just as an honest individual in private life keeps his word and does his duty. Cuba's New Destiny. "Be it remembered, however, that afier over three years' occupation of the Island, we turn it over to the Cuoans in a better condition than it ever has been in the centuries of Spanish rule. Cuba's position manes it necessary that her political relations with us should differ from her political relations with other powers. This fact has been formulated by us and accepted by the Cubans in the Piatt amendments. It follows as corollary that where the Cubans have thus assumed a position of relationship to our political system they must similarly stand in a peculiar reiations-hip to our economic system. Everv industrial exposition of thi<? type necessarily calls up the thought cf the complex social and economic questions which are involved in our present Industrial system. Our astounding material prosperity, the sweep and rush rather than the mere march of our progressive material development have brought grave troubles in their train. We cannot afford to blink at these troubles any more than because of them we can afford to accept as true the gloomy forebodings of the prophets of evil. There are great problems before us. They are not insoluble, but they can be solved only if we approach them in a spirit of resolute fearlessness, of common sense and cf honest Intention to do fair and equal justice to all men alike. "This is an era of great combinations, both of labor and of capital. In ; may ways these combinations have wonted for good; but they must work' under the law and the laws concerning them must be just and wise, or they will inevitably do evil; and this applies as much to the richest corporation as to the most powerful labor union. Our laws must be wise, sane, healthy, conceived in the spirit of those who scorn the mere agitator; the i mere inciter of class or sectional ha- : tredt* who wish justice for all men. . BIG HARDWARE COMBINE. Trust In Course of Formation to Have $120,000,000 Capital. Authoritative announcement of a consolidation of the great hardware jobbing interests of the country in a combination capitalized at $120,000,000 is made by The Iron Age in its current issue. ' So far the consolidation embraces some fifty or more houses, representing nearly every important trade center of the country. Negotiations are still pending with other houses, and it is expected there will be further accessions to the number already named in the combination. Railroad Stock in Great Demand. There was a great demand for Southern and Louisville and Nashville stock on the New York exchange Wednesday. It is reported that the activity -in Southern was due to the fact that the syste mhas acquired the property of the Brunswick Terminal Company and will make the Georgia city the exporting point for lumber and naval stores. CADETS ASSAULT OFFICER. With Water and Overripe Eggs Commandant McKce Was Done Up. Insubordination at the Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical college at Lexington came to a climax Tuesday night when, in the dormitory. Commandant Robert A. McKce was knocked down, deluged in water and egged by a division of cadets. Wednesday morning he resigned, and in chape! President J. K. Patterson announced that he would take I charge of the military department GEN. HAMPTON'S WAR RECORD. As a Soldier He Is Accredited With Being the Most oted Cavalry Leader of Modern Times. One of the grandest, most honored and respected men in South Carolina was Wade Hampton, who passed away at his home in Columbia last Friday. He was born in Columbia, S. C., in 1S18. He graduated from the University of South Carolina and took up the study of law, but with no idea of practicing. In his early life he served in the South Carolina legislature, but the greater portion of his time was devoted to his plantation interests in South Carolina and Mississippi. When the civil war opened, he en tcred the service of his native stateas a private, but soon raised a command of infantry, cavalry and artillery, which was known as Hampton's Legion, and which achieved great distinction. At Bull Run 600 of his infantry held for some time the Warronton road against Key's whole corps, and were sustaining Lee, when Jack son came to their aid. In the peninsular campaign they were again distinguished, and at Sev~ T~> ?-? o L o If nnmhor l_H X lUCJ 1U3I/ UJUU-UClil. Ul mvit uuun/vi, Hampton himself receiving a painfulwound in the foot. Soon after he was made a brigadier general of cavalry and assigned to General J. E. B. Stuart's command. In the Maryland and Pennsylvania campaigns of 1862 and 1863 he took a very active part, and at Gettysburg was thrice wounded. It is stated that 21 out of 23 field officers and more than half the men of Hampton's command were killed or wounded in this battle. On August 3. 1863, Hampton was made major general. In 1864, after several days he gave Sheridan a check at Trevillian's station, that broke up a plan of campaign which included a junction with Hun:er. and the capture ( of Lynchburg. In twenty-three days he captured over 3,000 prisoners and large quantities of war material, with a loss of nineteen men. He was made ( commander of Lee's cavalry in August, . with the rank of lieutenant general and in September, struck the rear of the , Federal army at City Point, bringing , away 400 prisoners and 2,486 beeves. , Soon after, in another action, he cap- ; tured 500 prisoners. In one of these 1 attacks he lost his son. ; Hampton was t>en placed in com- : mand of General Joseph E. Johnston's ( cavalry, and did good service in re tarding the advance of Sherman. j After the close of the war he engaged in farming. In 1876 he was ] nominated for governor against Dan- : iel H. Chamberlain, and was re-elected , in 1878. j J GORDON HONORS HAMPTON. { _ i Commander of United Confederate j Veterans issues General Order. j A New Orleans special says: By di- 1 rection of General John B. Gordon, 1 commanding United Confederate Veterans, Adjutant General Moorman has 1 issued a general order on the death of ' General Hampton, saying in part: "Overwhelmed with grief, the gen- ^ eral commanding announces to his 1 comrades and countrymen that the great spirit of the chivalrous Lieutenant General Wade Hampton today took its flight to join the hosts of his com- * rades encamped upon the other shore. ' i "Truly can it be said of nim tnat the b,ood of heroes coursed in his veins, as he was the third bearing the name of Wade Hampton, his grandfather having fought under Marion and Sumpter, and was a major general in the revolutionary war, and by his illustrious career he has proudly sustained the high character of his heroic sires, as he was one of our greatest soldiers, a statesman without blemish, a peerless citizen and a pure man. "The general.commanding directs that all possible honors be paid to his memory by the United Confederate Veterans." The appointment of United States Marshal Edgar S. Wilson by the president, as dispenser of patronage in Mississippi has caused disaffection in the ranks of the republicans of that state. POOR OLD BELGIUM'. ( > In Riots at Brussels Soldiers are Forced to Finally Use Guns. Advices from Brussels state that the ( bloody repression of the disorders of < Saturday evening has created a painful ( impression among all classes, although t it is appreciated that the majority of j the victims of the encounters do not tVifl hotter olncc of workmen. r UC1VU5 tv CUC W-. .. For the first time, the police really i fired their rifles loaded with ball car- f tridges. Previous to Saturday they t had used their swords and their re- } volvers, the latter being usually loaded i with blank cartridges. YARN MILLS OCTOPUS. J Gigantic Combine is Being Engineered By Southern Cotton Spinners. Plans are on foot for the formation * of a gigantic trust of all the cotton yarn mills of the southern states. Investigation has been made by a 1 committee named at a recent meeting of the southern yarn spinners, and * they will report favorably to the forma- * tion of the trust at a meeting to be ( held in Charlotte, N. C? on April 23. RACES CLASH IN GOTHAM. , Shooting of Negro By a Policeman Causes Small-Sized Riot. Negroes and whites clashed in the 1 heart of the tenderloi ndistrict of New i York Friday night and as a result , some twelve or fifteen of the former ( wore badly beaten up. ( The cause of this small-sized race f riot was the shooting of Holmes Eas- < , ley. a young negro, by a bicycle police- j s man. ? DIR. TALMAGE DEAD Life Work Ended, Great Preacher Goes to His Reward. UNEQUALED AS PULPIT ORATOR Famed the World Over as Deeply Learned Theologian, Lecturer and Contributor to the Religious Press. Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage, noted Presbyterian divine, died at nine o'clock Saturday night at his residence in Washington city. It had been evident for some days that there was no hope cf recovery, and the attending physicians so informed the family. The patient gradually grew weaker until life passed away so quietly that even the members of the family, all cf whom were watching at the bedside hardly knew that he had gone. The immediate cause of death was inflamation of the brain. Dr. Talmage was in poor health when he started away from "Washingten for Mexico for a vacation and rest some six weeks ago. He was then suffering from influenza and serious catarrhal conditions. Since his return to Washington, a week or two ago, his health failed rapidly. The body will be conveyed to Brooklyn, N. Y., where interment will be made in the family plot in Greenwood cemetery. Sketch of Dr. Talmage. Thomas DeWitt Talmage was born at Bound Brook, Somerset county, N. J., January 7, 1832. He was the youngest of twelve children. His father, David T. Talmage, was a farmer. His entrance into the church was undoubtedly on account of the fact that he had two uncles, one brother in. law and three brothers who had become ministers of the gospel. At the age of 18 he joined the church, and the following year entered the University of the City of New York. At the close~of his college studies he became a ?rnr5pnf in a law office, where he remained for three years. But he then conceived that he had made a mistake, and prepared himself for the ministry at the Reformed Church Theological seminary in New Brunswick, N. J. He was ordained by the Reformed Dutch classic of Bergen. While preaching at Syracuse, N. Y., tie was called to the Central Presbyterian church of Brooklyn. He induced the trustees to sell that and erect a new edifice to be kruown as the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The church was be?un in 1870, and while it was being erected Dr. Talmage made a visit to Europe, staying chiefly in England, Scotland and Ireland. The Tabernacle was completed the , same year. On the morning of Sunday, December 22, LS72, the building was burned. It was rebuilt immediately. In this new tabernacle. Dr. Talmage's individuality most prominently manifested Itself, ais dramatic capacities and peculiar methods of driving home the forcible words of hij sermons giving rather a iheatrical character to his preaching. In the autumn of 1889 the second tabftoln ri'o c r? /o c t rr\tr P r? hv firO T t WA.A ^l *? ao u^ouwj vu j m* v? ?.v igain rebuilt. Scarcely had Dr. Tallage commenced to preach In his new :abernac!e when It was again destroyed by fire in 1894 and this time it was lot rebuilt. Shortly after this third visitation Dr. Talmage accepted a call :o the pastorate of the First Presbyte"ian church of Washington, D. C. At Washington, as at Brooklyn, Dr. Tallage preached to immense congrega:icns. As an orator it is doubtful if :he American pulpit has ever produced lis equal. In addition to his pulpit work, Dr. Talmage has also been an editor, first )n The Christian at Work, from 1873 :o 1S7(>, then with The Chicago Advance from 1877 to 1878, and more recently with Rrank Leslie's Sunday nagazine and The Christian Herald. Dr. Talmage was twice married, his irst wife being drowned. He is survived by a widow and several children. WU IN BAD BUSINESS. Chines? Minister Roasted For Protesting Against Exclusion Bill. A feature of the Chinese exclusion lebate in the senate Saturday was the sharp criticism of Minister Wu, of 2hina, because of his protest made to he secretary of state against the enictmer.t of the pending bill. Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, and Mr. - " - ~ ' J- -1 1.. -4.* L'eiier, 01 coioraao, suaxpiy auauAcu lim, declaring that he deserved to lave teen given his passports, and hat no self-respecting nation would lave permitted such interference in ts legislative affairs. GOVERNOR APPROVES PLANS. Architect Gilbert Submits Drawings of Proposed Atlanta Depot. Architect Gilbert has submitted Atanta depot plans which are entirely ipproved by Governor Candler and Major .T W. Thomas, of the lessee oad. Governor Candler said: "Architect Bradford L. Gilbert has solved the depot problem to my entire satisfaction and to that of the lessee 3f the Western and Atlantic railroad." RHODE'S BODY ENTOMBED. Remains Committed to Rock SepuN chre in Matoppo Hills. A dispatch from Buluwayo, Matabeand, South Africa, says: Amid an imnense throng of soldiers, civilians and latives the body of Cecil Rhodes was committed to its rock tomb in the Ma;oppo hills Thursday. The coffin was shrouded in a union jack and the .vreatli sent by Queen Alexandria was aid upon it a/i it was lowered into the trave, TERMS OF PEACE ARRANGED. London Papers Publish Report that War in Africa Has Been Brought to and End. The Financier and Bullionist (London) publishes a dispatch from Pretoria Friday morning declaring that the Boer leaders have accepted the British terms; that peace has been arranged and that the terms of peace have been cabled to the Boer agents in Europe. Other unconfirmed statements of a siml'ar character and import are in circulation in London. It is said that Frederic Rutherford Harris, former secretary of the British Chartered South Africa Company, has received a telegram to the same effect, but nothing of any official or really reliable nature concerning the matter is known. Boer Leaders In Conference. A special from Pretoria says: President Steyn, of the Orange Free States; Secretary of State Reitz, of the Transvaal; Acting President Schalkburger, of the Transvaal, and General Lucas Meyer, commander in chief of the Orange Free State forces, passed through Kroonstad, Orange Free States, Sunday, April 6, on their way to Klerksdorp, southwestern Transvaal, where General Botha, the Transvaal commander in chief, arrived Monday, April 7. It was expected that Generals DeWet and Delary would attend the conference to take place there. It is understood that the 3ccr leaders are fully possessed of the British peace terms and that the conference then assembling was to enable the leaders to thoroughly discuss these terms. It is expected that the final decision of the burghers will shortly be made. A London special says: The Central News is informed that a telegram was received in London Friday from Pretoria, saying that Mr. Steyn and Generals DeWet and Botha had agreed upon terms of peace. The telegram indicates that the British terms have been accepted and that peace has been arranged. OUTLAWS SLAY FIVE OFFICERS. ' In Scott County, Virginia, All Members of a Sheriff's Posse Fall in Desperate Conflict. ! Meager details of a bloody battle between a sheriff's posse and outlaws in Scott county, Virginia, reached Knoxville, Tenn., Thursday afternoon a long distance telephone -message from Jonesboro, Tenn. iFve men, all members of the sheriff's posse, were killed, two other persons. wounded and Jim Wright, an escaped Hancock county, Tennessee, murderer, shot and captured. Wright was under a life sentence in the penitentiary for murder and escaped from the state prison at Brushy mountain two years ago. He leturned to his haunts in Hancock county and there defied the officers, although there was a reward of $500 for his arrest. Not long after his return home Sheriff Lagere, of Hancock county, was shot from ambush and killed. The crime was charged to Jim Wright, John Templeton, another alleged murderer, and the latter's brothers. The motive was that Lagere had killed the father of the Templetons. Recently officers have been planning to trap Wright in- his home, and he, together with John Templeton and other members of his gang, crossed the state line into Virginia. They have been in Scott county about a month. Thursday the sheriff organized a strong posse and attempted to arrest the gang. The outlaws had been notified and a pitched battle resulted. Five of the sheriff's posse were killed and two ethers, Deputy Sheriffs Joe Moss and Sam Wax, wounded. Wright was wounded and captured, but all the other members of his gang escaped. They are being pursued, but the mountains of the county afford them all possible chance of escape. Georgia Experiment Station. The board of directors of the Georgia experiment station at Griffin held their regular quarterly meeting Wednesday. Only routine business was transacted, but the directors expressed perfect satisfaction with the work being done on the station. Dole Arrives in Washington. Governor Dole, of Hawaii, arrived in Washington Thursday to confer with the president, at the latter's request, regarding conditions in Hawaii pending legislation affecting the territory and other matters. NEW PENSION COMMISSIONER. Kansas Man Is Slated to Succeed H. Uiay cvans. A Washington dispatch says: Eugene F. Ware, of Kansas, has been selected by the president to succeed H. Clay Evans as commissioner of pensions. Mr. Ware is from Topeka, and is a member of the law firm of Gleed, Ware and Gleed. ROOT FURNISHES INFORMATION. Advises Congress as to How Money for Transports was Expended. Secretary Root Tuesday sent an answer to the house resolution adopted on March 15. calling upon him for all facts that have come to his knowledge as to the conduct of *he transport service between San Francisco and the Philippine islands. The answer includes the reports of Inspector General Chamberlain and Lieutenant Co'cnel Maus. tNHNIfNJfvJCMrvMMCN*'! I SOUTH CAROLINA 1 \ STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ ScslCNJCNMNJCsMSIC^ICVJl Fitz Wires McSweeney. It is not often the governors and prize fighters have correspondence, but the following telegrams passed Monday afternoon: "Bath Beach, N. Y., to Governor McSweeney: "Rumors concerning the precise position of the state of South Carolina in the matter of a glove contest at the exposition confuse me. Is it legally possible for me to box twenty rounds with James Jeffries in your state? "Pardon my addressing you per SOJiauy, UU l 1 am my una mauaogi. "ROBERT FITZSIMMONS." The reply sent by Governor Mc Sweeney was as follows: "To Robert Fitzsimmons, Bath Beach, N. Y.: "South Carolina laws positively prohibit contests of the kind, and I will use all legal machinery to prevent any attempt. M. B. M'SWEENEY, "Governor." + * Oyster Pickers "Drowned. Three negro men, George Lee, Simbo Pope and Sinick Chisolm, oyster pickers, while attempting to cross Morgan river near Edings Point creek, Beaufort county, in the heavy winds that prevailed on Tuesday afternoon, were drowned by their boat sinking. Four men started to cross the river in a row boat that was heavily loaded with oysters. About 200 yards from shore the boat was overturned and its occupants thrown into the water. All were swimmers and attempted to reach shore, but only one succeeded in doing so. * \ Proposed New Trolley Line. It is highly probable that Laurens and Clinton will be' connected by an electric railway. This certainly will be if the scheme being projected by Messrs. H. Y. Simpson and R. A. Cooper materializes. It is estimated that the road would cost about $100,000 for a distance of nine miles. Clinton is on the Se>aboard, and for that reason it would be a great thing for Laurens and for Clinton as well. Of course it is all on paper yet, but the idea will be to build and equip the road and secure or lease the Yarborough shoals on Ennoree river for the purpose of generating the electricity sufficient to operate the road. $ * * Two Carolinas Jubilate. April 10 was North Carolina day at the Charleston exposition, and no other state except South Carolina has made so large and enthusiastic a showing in, its exhibits, both of men and manufactured products. The main features of the celebration were a parade of a regiment of 800 North Carolina troops and a battalion of North Carolina naval re serves, accompameu uy me of the Carolinas and their respective staffs. At the auditorium Director General Averill and Governor McSweeney gave hearty welcome to the visitors. Governor McSweeney expressed the hope that Governor Aycock would go up higher, become a United States senator, a wish in which the large audience approved heartily. Governor Aycock's eloquent response awoke great enthusiasm. ' He referred to the very intimate connection of North Carolina and South Carolina for four years while fighting for the southern confederacy, and the present union or the states four hundred years pledged to promote the arts of peace and to put the Carolinas in the front rank of commercial and industrial prosperity. The assemblage then dispersed. * tr m Strike Draws Attention. The strike and lockout situation in Augusta is attracting considerable attention. The governor received the following letter from the Weavers' Union at Bath, Aiken county, a few days ago: "We, operatives of Aiken Manufacturing Company, have been locked out indefinitely today on account of tne strike at the John P. King mill in Augusta, Ga. We respectfully ask your advice on the matter, as we think it is an unjust cause and ask if there is any law that trouble in one state can cause trouble in another." The following letter was also received from Bath: "As a citizen of South Carolina I beg leave to inform you of our condition at present. We are debarred from work for no cause on earth. A demand was made on the King mill, of Georgia, for a 10 per cent advance in wages, which was refused and as a result about 4,000 operatives in Carolina were lockefi out from their work on April 8 for no cause whatever. We have not made a demand for anything or refused to work. "As the situation now stands there o-roaf differing among the mill Will k/C w _ hands. "Please answer this letter and tell me if it is lawful for us to be treated in this manner." The governor in reply to the above letters said that the matter did not come within the legal province of his office, as it was evidently one of policy. He said he appreciated the gravity of the situation and was willing to do anything in his personal capacity to relieve the situation to the satisfaction of all concerned, if such could be done. * * Fish Station in South Carolina. The United States senate has passed a bill appropriating $25,000 to establish a fish hatchery and fish station in South Carolina. ."...5^'- - BODY OF HAMPTON AT RESTWeeping Thousands at Most Impressive Private Funerals Ever Held in the Palmetto State. The burial of Gen. Wade Hampton at Columbia Sunday afternoon far surpassed in the magnitude of the demonstration any such occasion in the history of the state. It was a private funeral and the outpouring of the people was spontaneous. The family did all that was pos-' sible to prevent a display, and the notice it was desired to have an unostentatious ceremony probably kept thousands away. Nothing could prevent other thousands, however, from pouring in to the city from all quarters to pay their tribute. Overflowing regular and special trains on nine roads brought their thousands to the city during the moraine Vptprnns ramp from everv town in the state, many from North Carolina and Georgia. There were hundreds of Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Veterans in line. Military schools sent detachments. One girls' institute in Sumpter sent twelve young women in confederate gray uniforms. There were many military companies. For four hours during the day the doors of the Hampton residence ^ereopened and the public allowed to pass through. Militia were on guard without and veterans in uniform within. It is estimated 6,000 persons passed by the coffin, many of them negroes. The leave taking at the coffin by General Hampton's old cook and coachmen was the most pathetic scene of the day. At 4 o'clock the procession moved from the house. There were only four carriages permitted, these being occupied by the family. Hundreds of women, who made shirts for confederate soldiers and were tottering with age, walked three-quarters of a mile behind the coffin. Some men and women who followed had to be supported on each side by friends. One veteran from Kershaw had been bedridden for three years. He had himself placed * a- n "I on tne tram, orougnt to ucueiai Hampton's house and taken bodily to the coffin. The procession, which was two miles long, moved in the following order: Veterans, Camp Hampton, hearse, pallbearers, members of General Hampton's Legion, Daughters of the Confederacy and other organizations of ladies, Sons of Veterans, faculty and students of South Carolina college, governor and staff, state officials' and congressmen, band, military organizations and other uniformed bodies, Columbia city police, city council of Columbia and other municipal and civic organizatons, including fire companies. ^ The procession passed through a wall of humanity to Trinity church. Here there was a mass of humanity filling the hundred foot wide street for blocks, overflowing on the "state house grounds. Twelve hundred persons were given seats in the church, but that was but a fraction of the throng, estimated between twenty and twentyfive thousand. Bishop Ellison Capers, of the South Carolina diocese, a brigadier general in the confederate army, conducted the services, assisted by Reverend Satterlee, Witsell, Thomas and Joyner, the latter also being a confederate veteran. Bishop Capers was deeply affected. The grave was under a huge live oak in Trinity churchyard. Veterans cast in the sod. Then literally hundreds of floral tributes, many from abroad, were piled upon and about the grave. Several men who fought on the union side four years and are now living in the north, telegraphed instructions to put wrjaths on General Hampton's, coffin. A squad of twenty survivors of the original Hampton Legion, bearing the first flag of that famous command and the revolutnonary war Eutaw flag which they also used *in""the civil war, had the position of honor. They held the flags over the grave during the ceremony. General Bradley Johnson, of Baltimore; former Governor Hugh S. ? - * ? v^.r. onr? Pnn. Tfiompson, <31 IX CW luia, auu ~ ? gressman Elliott, from Washington, was among the honorary pallbearers. BAD BLAZE IN COLUMBUS. Fire Starts in Plow Factory and Destroys Two Blocks?Loss $250,000. Early Thursday night fire broke out in the plow shop of the Southern Plow Works, at Columbus, Ga., and by 11 o'clock two whole blocks were in ashes and another building, a warehouse, was burning rapidly. The two blocks burned represent a loss of over $200,000 and the damage to the warehouse will run the amount up to $250,000. By 11:30 p. m. the fire was under control; its origin is unknown. PENSION FOR MRS. McKINLEY. Bill Goes Through Congress Awarding Her Five Thousand a Year. The house, Saturday, passed the bill granting a pension to the widow of President McKinley at $5,000 per year. It had previously passed the senate and now goes to the president for signature. Although favorable action on the measure was unanimous, an inquiry by Mr. Bell, of Colorado, as to the precedents for such action, led to an animated discussion. PRESIDENT SPEEDS HOME. With Huzzahs Sounding in His Ears He Leaves the Palmetto State. The visit of President Roosevelt and party to the south terminated at Summerville, S. C., Thursday. No special program had been arranged for the day. The president was given a warm ; greeting by the people of the state on ' his return journey to Washington. 1 . /.^-W J OEN. HAMPTON DEAD | Distinguished Soldier and States* man Goes'to His Reward. Jfl MOST NOTED CALVARY LEADER J Much Beloved and Honored Son of ;>j South Carolina Crosses Overthe^ Dark River at His Home in Columbia. A special from Columbia, S. C., eay?? General Wade. Hampton died Friday^ morning at 9 o'clock from valvular dls?" ? V>ooi>f Wo hohoon nn] craac Ul tug aval V< **V uwm w? - - ? sclous for several hours. # v| The general had just passed his eighty-fourth birthday. Twice the past winter he has had attacks that gre&ttrSB weakened him, but he rallied wonder- '':i fully on both occasions. M Today every town in South CaroQfl&H is mourning the man who* considering his combined services and . achley#j|g| ments in peace as weji_as--wsi^s--eGii^ -' ' side^e^ffie'Ttat^sgreatest sen. .^*1 The end came somewhat unexpect* i edly, as it was only within the precede ^ ing thirty-six hours he was known to 38 be seriously ill. A few days ago th*^ general, after rallying from an attack J was able to take a drive about the city;. " He Talked of Battles. '.sH || The general's last moments were painless. During the last few days he $S had been talking constantly to long-';; departed friends and had again led to ' victory the noble legion that followed.-* him to battle as a veritable war gdd, Immediately the news spread oyer .:M..C town, schools were dismissed, social'tj ^ functions called off and the bells tolled.^! By noon the state house and confed- J|H erate monument were draped In bUu^L jjfla 4 The secretary of the treasury ordered^ the flag at half mast fl stmne efforts were made to get the^lS 1 family to consent to a state fnneraL <111 but the general's wish was tliat tha last ceremonies should be as unosten tatious as possible. Proclamation by Governor, ; Governor McSweeney issued the fol-, lowing proclamation: "Whereas, The Honorable Wade || Hampton, a former governor of South Jp| Carolina and a United States senator, ?jm died at his home in Columbia t morning, at ten minutes before 9 '% o'clock, full of years and of honor;; therefore I, M. B. McSweeney,jpvec- ' ^ nor of South Carolina, in recondition of his. d 1 a tingurs1red'/ierflcesto his people -* and his country, throughout Ills long N | and honored career, # and in further | recognition of his broad statesmaMdh^^l and true nobility of character and hi* high patriotism and devotion to duty and his state, do request that on to- % ^ morrow, Saturday, all public offices-in. the state of South Carolina be closed, "j;" and, as a further testimonial to hi* ; ?f| worth, that the flags of the state and - Jf of the United States he put at aaiE mast on the state capitoj^xlhli otheT/^ public buildings in the state, and re* . main in that position until the funeral services are held." Hampton c? a Statesman. Few figures that arose in the civil .< 5a war period toy take a large part in that struggle and to act an even more . difficult part in the restoration of home rule in the south challenged and won y so completely the confidence and love , of the people of the south as did Wade He won brilliant and lasting fame H as a commander of the Confederate cavalry and has a permanent place In ' history as one of the great quartet of which J. E. B. Stuart, N. B. Forest and Joseph Wheeler are the other mem- ^ bers. But splendid as was his war rec- / .*% ord, his services to his section and his *V-JI nation in a time that tried men's souls. perhaps more" severely tfian did theJHH armed conflict between the north and ^ the south, were greater. But for his wonderfully cool courage, his admirable judgment and his absolute determination during the compll- 3 cations which occurred during the con- 2? test over the presidency and political rule of South Carolina ensuing upon | the presidential election of 1876 there would surely have been a very serious trouble, if not armed conflict between the people who felt that they had & right to control the domestic concerns IP of the southern states and had re^figgB solved to do so. Great as are the claims ~ of Wade Hampton to fame as a soldier he is surely entitled to a still loftier place as a practical statesman and a preserver of national peace. Because'of his career during the po- ./:{& litical storms of 1876 and 1877, he became a recognized leader of the UnK ted States senate the very moment , that he entered that body. VEST LAUDS HAMPTON, x ; Senator, In Speech, Pays Touching Tribute to Dead Warrior. Senator Vest, in his speech in the senate Saturday, paid a touching and beautiful tribute to the late General' Wade Hampton. The senator's voice . trembled with emotion as he spoke of his old friend and colleague, and more :>| than once he paused, scarcely able to EVANS fOR SPANISH POST. 3 Report Says He is Stated to Succeed Bellamy Storer at Madrid. A special dispatch received in Chattanooga from Washington states that It is announced from a reliable source j? that Hon. H. Clay Evans will be made minister to Spain. Bellamy Storer. the present minister, is at home now and it is said that he does not desire .* to return to Vtadrid. President Roosevelt has decid^go offer the post to Mr. Evans, it Is reported. ; "?g 2