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The Bamberg Herald. .| ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 11J 902. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. m : ' - ? \ SOUTH CAROLINA I k STATE NEWS ITEMS. i CSKMCMCNJCSJCSHMCM d t To Increase Capital Stock. The stockholders of the Gainesville, Ga., cotton mill will hold a meeting at Spartanburg and increase the capital stock by $350,000. Constable Makes Report. Chief Constable J. R. Fant, of the Spartanburg division, has forwarded his report for the month of December to the proper authorities at Columbia. The report is as follows: Number of gallons of whisky seized, 251 1-2; number of illicit distilleries destroyed, 9; number of gallons of distilled beer de. stroyed, 12,000; number of convictions secured, 6; amount of fines imposed, $700. * i. Big Cotton Mill to be Erected. A niiortor r\f a mi 1 linn flnllai mill will be erected at Lockhart Shoal by the Lockhart Mill Company. Such f was the decision reached at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the v Lockhart Mill Company held in Spartanburg the past week. The directors will be authorized to call a special meeting of#the stockholders for the purpose of increasing the capital stock of the Lockhart mills to $1,000,000. * * Took Overdose of Laudanum. Mr. John W. Morris, a young Newberry man about 30 years of age, took an overdose of laudanum from the effects of which he died. Mr. Morris had" been sick and despondent for several days, but it is not known whether or not the poison was taken with suicidal intent. He has been in the employ of James A. Minnaugh as salesman for several years. He leaves a wife. fc A 'Crossing Victim. ? J. M. Salisbury was run over and killed by the southbound vestibule one day the past week near Mount Sion. Mr. Salisbury was driving in a buggy * with a young son: The buggy, it is said, was across the track and was struck by the full force of the engine, the old man being killed instantly. Mr. Salisbury was affected with deafness, which is supposed to have been the cause of his not getting out of the way. The engineer blew his whistle at a distance of 200 -yards from the crossing, but the signal was unheeded by the old man. Mr. Salisbury was 65 years old. m2- * * Cotton Mil! Men Investigating. A large party, consisting of a number of well known men in cotton mill circles, made a tour of inspection of the coton mills in and around Spartanburg the past week. - The capitalists composing the party were S. M. Millican, S. D. Brewster, G. H. Milliken, of New York; N. W. Rice, of Boston; F. M. Otherman, Peter Reid and T. S. Van Valberry, of New York; C. A. Denny, of Massachusetts, and H. J. Chisholm, of New York city. The party also spent a day at Gainesville, Ga. These gentlemen are stockholders in the Spartan mills, Pocelet Manufacturing Company afid Lockhart mills, and, besides a visit to their several plants, attended the meeting of the stockholders. ' Boy Kills His Grandfather. # Cally Collins, fifteen, shot and killed his grandfather, J. C. Sparks, in the dining room of his father's home near Rock Hill one day the past week. The family had been laughing at young Collins about being refused a birthday cake. For his subsequent conduct his father had threatened to whip him. The grandfather was paying the family a visit. There is some doubt as to whether young Collins intended the bullet for his father or grandfathe. " He says the pistol dropped out of his ,? pocket. Sparks was a gallant confederate soldier. He was severely wounded two or three times, and because of a bullet in one leg, walked with a stick. > y * * A Boost for Aiken. The report in a New York paper that August Belmont and W. C. Whitney expect to build one of the finest race tracks in the United States at Aiken, causes a great deal of interest. While nothing is known positively of * *' - *? + V* /~v fa /-?f fVlOl" Mr. wmtney S 111 lt?ii UUI13, U1C lav.< luub he has his race horses in Aiken for the , winter, and that Mr. Belmont winters his at Garret, on the Savannah river, ' makes it seem probable that such a plan is on foot. Certainly no finer place for winter racing than Aiken could be found. Mr. Whitney has three stables and a private rack track, and f Thos. Hitchcock, Jr., has two stables and a private track also, bolh of these properties being within a short distance of each other. Mr. John Sanford, the millionaire turfman of Saratoga, also winters his horses in Aiken. If this project goes through it will make the town the Saratoga of the south. * * * Over a Century Old. The South Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, met in Newberry the past week for its 117th annual session, being the first held in Newberry since 1S78. There were about 200 delegates presl ?nt. One of the most important questions before th conference was the removal of the Columbia Female college 'from Columbia. Propositions from Greenwood, Brookland, Sumter, Columbia and Laurens htive been submitted to the board of trustees, who reported favorably on Greenwood. The offers of the different cities were as follows: Greenwood, $42,960 in guaranteed subscriptions; Brookland. twenty-five acres of l&nd; Sum f ter, any sit? within or near the city; selection left to committee; Laurens, $25,000 in cash and choice of three sites. f * Tampered With the Mails. A. P. Prioleau, colored, who made the race for congress from the Charles{ ton district in the recent general elec| tion, and who subsequently filed a proi test against the election of Hon. Geo. J S. Legare, has been indicted by the grand jury in the United States district court for tampering with the United States mail. When the case was called for trial a motion for a continuance was allowed, and in the meantime Priorleau is out on bond. The defendant in this criminal suit was a postal clerk running on the Atlantic Coast Line. On July 4, last, it is alleged that while in the discharge of his duty he opened a letter addressed to Peter Gailliard, magistrate at Eutawville. Priorleau was arrested, and was bound over to the December term of the federal court. In the election Priorleau got less than sixty votes in Charleston county. He got little more elsewhere in the district, but he has charged wholesale J fraud, and forthwith filed notice of a I contest. It is claimed by some that the ' ? * * -t- ? i- - r? nest ne can nope 10 get is a ice wi making the protest. The record of the federal court may be forwarded to Washington by Mr. Legare, and an examination of it will doubtless bring the contest matter to a quick conclusion. * * * President Moore Reinstated. A Greenville dispatch says: The storm was averted. President Moore, of Furman, was reinstated and the Baptist convention voted its confidence in him. As the result of a conference of President Moore's friends one of them appeared before the trustees and urged them to reconsider thir action concerning Professor Moore. After a prolonged session the board reconsidered the request for More's resignation. In their report to the convention the trustees said it is the sentiment of the board that the matter cannot be "settled so long as Dr. Moore is in the faculty." Inasmuch as the board declared its Inability to settle the controversy, a motion was made that the matter be referred to the convention. Stormy times seemed imminent, but the motion was finally tabled. In a speech before the convention, Dr. Moore said nerhaDS it was the last time he would ever appear before the Baptist convention of South Carolina. He expressed confidence in the trustees. Their action leaves the matter open for him to resign at w ill, and the sequel will show that-he will follow their wishes. 1 ii ' i x.b English in England. One of the differences between the American and English languages is well shown in the following sentence from an article in a London paper describing the actions of a nervous woman who was starting on a railway journey: "She was in a flurry of excitement at King's Cross, and ran hurriedly between the van, where her luggage was being piled in, and the carriage in which she had deposited her rugs and dressing bag." The average American would never suspect from reading this alone that there was a railroad train involved in the proceedings. On the contrary, he would suppose that she was going somewhere in a vehicle drawn by horses, and that her trunks were tc be taken in. a separate conveyance? perhaps a moving van. One may guess at what is meant by the dressing bag, but what in the world was the lady's object in carrying rugs with her? Here, we understand that rugs are articles to be spread upon floors ' - J-1 ?1 ? \T<-\ IO IU.KC lilt! piai'C <JI LOI^ISIS. *1V/ American lady would be likely to start on a journey with-her arms full of these useful and often costly materials. But the English lady's rugs were not to be walked on. They were to put over her knees for. the purpose of keeping her legs warm. In this country they would perhaps be called blankets, if any one ever had occasion to use such things while traveling on an American railway. * It's a grand old tongue when youfind out all about it.?Chicago Record-Herald. Bravery at a Di?connt Then; are times when bravery is at a discount. It is all very well to insist upon it when the small boy is afraid to stay alone in the dark, but when he gets to being brave on his own account there may be trouble. That is what Joel's papa thought when he took his small son down to one of the beaches as a special treat becausj it was his third birthday. Papa does not usually navigate the young man aJone, and when he came home after the visit to the beach he solemnly declared he would never attempt it again. He was going on business himself, and as there was a long stretch of shallow water near shore it occurred to him, remembering the time when he was a boy himself, that Joel would undoubtedly like to wade while he was gone. He removed the youth's shoes and stockings somewhat clumsily, not being accustomed to tne tasK, ana lett bim wetting his small pink toes and with an expression of rapture on his face. It would be all right and the boy would be happy, and he turned to leave him when he was recalled by a shout: "Oh, papa, papa, look, look!" Joel, not a bit afraid, had thrown himself on his small stomach in th9 water, with the little waves rippling happily around him as they were around another small boy in the water, but one who was wearing a bathing suit. History does not relate what papa said.?New York Times. STILL FRIENDS. Bill?I see, he's a very close friend. jill?Well, I dont know about his being a close friend. "Oh, yes, he is. If he wasn't close 1 you'd have borrowed money of him. and if you'd borrowed money of him he wouldn't have been a friend.?Yonk 3T$ Statesman. SIX DEAD AND SCORE INJURED I Canadian Pacific Express Train Plunges Down an Embankment, j Causing Frightful Wreck. The worst train wreck in the his- j tory of the Inter-Colonial, the Cana- j dian government railway, happened at . noon Sunday at Belmont Station, 70 miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia, when i the Canadian Pacific express for Montreal rolled down an embankment. I killing at least six persons, injuring a score of others, and completely wrecking the locomotive, the postal, express and baggage cars, and several passenger coaches. The train, which was a Canadian Pacific express, left Halifax at 8:45 j for Montreal, to connect at Adam j Junction with the Maine Central rail- j road for Bangor and Boston. A num- j ber of the passengers were destined ; for American points. The accident occurred at 1 o'clock and was caused by the pilot becoming j loose and falling in front of the engine, j which was thrown from the rails. The train plowed ahead for fifty feet and j then turned over and rolled down an \ embankment. The engine was completely wrecked and the cars next in the make-up were telescoped by those in the rear. Engineer Trider was j killed at his post, the only member of the train crew to lose his life. The colonist car ran under the bag- i gage car and the top was cut off the ; full length down to the windows. Every passenger in this car was either killed or injured. To add to the suffering of the injured, the weath- i er was" bitterly cold and it was hours before help arrived. THOMAS NAST DIES AT POST. Father of Caricaturists Succumbs to Yellow Fever at Ecuador. Consul General Thomas Nast died at Guayaquil, Ecuador, Sunday at j noon, after a three days' illness from i yellow fever. He was interred at 5 ! o'clock Sunday afternoon. The funer- j al was attended by the governor, the ; consular corps, the Americon colony : and by many friends. The coffin was wrapped m the Stars and Stripes. The British consul recited a prayer in the cemetery. The death of Mr. Nast is deeply la- i mented by the natives, who held him in high esteem. Thomas Nast, the "Father of Ameri- 1 can Caricature," who was appointed consul at Guayaquil in May of this year, was the son of a musician and was born at Landau, Bavaria, September 25, 1840. "When he was six years of age the family came to this country and settled in New York. At an early age young Nast displayed great aptitude for art, and finally acquired an international reputation as a caricaturist. Many of Nast's creations are securely established in American politics. Chief of these are the j republican elephant, the Tammany ti- j ger and the democratic donkey. i BOSTON NEGROES COMPLAIN. Inaugurate Move Toward Separate Schools for Their Children. It has just been proposed in Boston, Mass., in all seriousness to establish a separate public school for negro children. Strange as it may seem, this project started with the negroes themselves, and it has met with much favor by the whites who have children attending the public schools. The rapid increase in the negro population has resulted in two large negro colonies, one in the west end and the other in the south end. The negroes desire separate schools because in the colored districts many white children attend schools where negro children ! are pupils. The negro children say that they are treated as inferiors by the white children, hence the desire of the parents of the negroes to have schools where their children shall have . no social or racial superiors. Knitting Mills Burned. The Williams knititng mills, one of the largest in western North Carolina, were destroyed by fire Saturday morning. There was little insurance and the loss falls heavily on the stockholders. Remains Go to Portland. The remains of Hon. Thomas B. Reed left Washington Sunday afternoon for Portland, Me., his former home, where the interment will take place. They were accompanied by Mrs. Reed, the widow; Miss Catherine Reed, the former speaker's daughter, and a < few close friends. At Mrs. Reed's re quest, there were 110 ceremonies 01 any kind in Washington. Martha Washington Stamps. I The postoffice department Saturday j began to issue the stamps bearing the i Martha Washington portrait. These stamps will replace the present 8 cent stamps. TEXAS MAYOR FIRED. Chief Executive of Waco Bounced for Irregularities in Office. The Waco, Texas, city council, after an all night session in impeach- [ ment proceedings against Mayor J. W. | Riggins, charged with irregularities in j office, found Riggins guilty and de- j clared the office of mayor vacant. Rig- I gins will appeal. AN EXECUTION POSTPONED. Supreme Court of Georgia to Pass j Upon thb Case of Henry Bryant. John Henry Bryant, the negro sen- ! tenced to hang in Moultrie, Ga., did not pay the penalty on the gallows } Friday. His case was carried to the supreme j court by his attorneys in Moultrie, ! and will be given a hearing some time within the next thirty days. For this reason the execution will not take place until passed upon by the supreme court. BARRETT TO SUCCEED BUCK. Oregon Man is Authoritatively Said to be Slated by Roosevelt for Va^ cancy at Tokio, Japan. When President Roosevelt comes to take up the question of a succession of the vacancy caused by the deatn of Minister Buck at Tokio, Japan, it is understood he will name John Barrett, of Oregon, at present commissioner general of the St. Louis exposition to Asia and Australia, to be minister. Mr. Barrett is now somewhere in the neighborhood of the Straits settlements. He has been working to secure a good Asiatic representation at the St. Louis exposition, and his efforts have been attended with success, for he has induced both China and Japan to embark upon large governmental exhibits when they had decided not to be represented that way. He is now bound for Australia, where it is his hope to change the mind of the premiers in Australia and New Zealand and cause them to reconsider their purpose to allow the exposition to go on without exhibits from their colonies. Barrett has been an insistent candidate for the place or any other good diplomatic place in the far east and has succeeded in getting together some strong endorsements. Interment May Be at Arlington. A few details of the untimely death of Minister Buck are furnished in the following cablegram received at the state department Friday from Secretary J. M. Ferguson, who is in charge of the legation: "Tokio, December 5.?Minister Buck's death was caused by paralysis of the heart. It occurred on an imperial hunting preserve near Togio. The funeral takes place here on the 8th and full official honors will be extended by the Japanese government as in case of Minister Swift. The widow will probably leave Yokohama on the 24th with the body for burial at Arlington. I respectfully recommend that the military attache be granted authority by telegraph to accompany the remains to Washington, and to re turn as soon as possible to ms post.' No action has been taken on the last request. STORM OFF HATTERAS Wrecks Schooner and Sends Whole Crew to Their Doorr.. The observer of the weather bureau reports that the four-masted schooner Wesley M. Oler, went ashore at Hatteras inlet life saving station early Friday morning during the storm. She was pounding in the surf about a mile off shore until 7:30, when the foremast went over, carrying probably the last man. Almost immediately the vessel went to pieces. The life saving crew could do nothing to save the crew. Reports received in Norfolk Friday night were to the effect that not a soul of the ill-fated Wesley M. Oler's crew escaped the disaster which wrecked that schooner near Hatteras Friday morning. Only one chance of a rescue is known, and that was urought to light by the German steamer Koln, from Bremen to Baltimore, reporting the crew of an abandoned schooner aboard. The hurricane blew sixty miles an hour at Norfolk. The three-masted schooner William D. Hiicon and Melville Phillips, together with several smaller craft, were blown ashore in the harbor and lower bay. The tug Underwriter, which was towing the Oler from Nassau, has not been heard from, and fears are entertained that she also foundered in the gale. The crew of the schooner Ida Lawrence abandoned that vessel in a rudderless condition off Hatteras early in the day and were rescued with greatest difficulty by life savers. A WOULD!EE CENSOR. Jenkins Introduces Bill to Suppress Suicide Stories. A Washington dispatch says: A bill was introduced by Representative Jenkins, by request, makes newspauers and other periodicals unmailable which contain any pictures of suicides or details relating to suicides beyond a simple statement of death by suicide and imposing a penalty. FATAL ENDING OF JOKE,, Boy's Stomach "Blown Up" With a Strong Pneumatic Pump. Harry Ruit, an employee of a locomotive works in Paterson, N. J., is dead as a result of a practical joke played on him by five of his fellowworkmen. They were arrested, charged with having caused his death. It is alleged that they "blew up" Ruit with a pneumatic pump, having a pressure of 110 pounds to the inch. The boy's stomach became greatly distended, and after several hours of great suffering he died. CATTLE QUARANTINE COSTLY. ? ? - 5?* m?iu CnnlanH Mav NeceS Uisicrnpci mi i^w.. ? y sltate Spending a Million. Something like 75 herds of cattle, aggregating about 1,500 animals, are now under quarantine in Massachusetts, Many others in Vermont and Rhode Island are likewise under official care. It is estimated that the national government may have to spend $1,000,000 before the distemper is eradicated. Aged Slugger Seeks Protection. John L. Sullivan, former champion pugilist of the world, sought protection of the federal court at Boston Monday. The petitioner wished to avoid the possibility of being arrested for debt, and Judge Lowell granted the request. 9 New Georgia Postmasters. The president Monday sent to the senate for confirmation the names of H. F. Brimberry as postmaster at Albany and Mamie F. Autrey as postmistress at LaGrange. DEATH CLAIMS REED j ! * Ex-Speaker of House of Representatives Crosses Bark River. j ; NOTIONAL CHARACTER GONE His Notable Career as Speaker Gained for Him the Sobriquet of "Czar." Brief Sketch of I i His Life. I Thomas Brackett Reed, former speaker of the house of representaj tives, and for many years prominent in | public life, died in Washington Sun day morning at 12:10 o'clock, in his j apartments in the Arlington hotel. , The immediate cause of death was | uraemia. It was stated that Mr. Reed had Jaeen suffering from Bright's disease for some time. Mr. Heed was in Wasnington 10 aitend some matters in the United States supreme court. He was at the capitol on Monday, December 1st, visj iting with friends and former associates in congress and witnessed the i convening of the fifty-seventh congress. Apparently he was enjoying ! good health, but later in the day he called a physician and complained of illness. He grew worse as the week advanced, and the end came peacej fully. Sketch cf His Life. Thomas Brackett Reed, thirty-first speaker of the house of representatives, was born October 18, 1839. in Portland, Me., in the common schools of which city he received his early education. In 1SGO he was graduated from Bowden, winning one of the highi est honors of the college, the prize for excellence in English composition. The i next four years were spent by Mr. Reed in teaching and in the study of ' law. Before his admission to the bar, ; however, he was appointed acting : assistant paymaster of the United I States navy, serving on the"tin-clad" i Sybil, which patrolled uneventfully on ; the Tennessee, Cumberland and Misj sissippi rivers. After his discharge in ; 18G5 Mr. Reed returned to Portland, I passed the bar, and entered on the i practice of his profession, i Three years later he was elected as j a republican in the legislature <ai the state of Maine. In 1869 he was reelected to the house, and in 1870 made state senator, from which position he passed to that of attorney general of the state the same year. In September, 1876, he was elected to the fortyfifth congress of the United States, ; Mr. Reed was elected to congress ; continuously until he finally declined re-election. In the forty-sixth con gress his skill as a debater was recognized, and at this period he made also a set speech in defense of the presence of United States marshals at elecj tions in the south. His influence finally becoming more strongly marked, the leadership of his party was finally conceded to him, and in the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses the complimentary nomination to the speakership was tendered him by the republicans. In the fifty-first, that party having attained the ascendancy, he was elected speaker on the first ballot. In the first days of his administration of the office much opposition was made by the minority to the enforcement of what Mr. Reed believ: ed his constitutional power to count members present in the house as to participating in a vote despite their refusal to use their privilege. The question of silence constituting legal absence and the destruction thereby of a legal quorum was, however, set at rest by the adoption of new rules by the house February 14, 1890. In September of me same year Mr. Reed was re-elected to the fifty-second congress by a large majority. While Mr. Reed was serving his first term as speaker he figured in some of the stormiest scenes ever enacted in congress, the democrats, under the leadership of the late Charles F. Crisp, of Georgia, fighting the enforcement of the Reed rules at every * ** - 1 x it - A I stage. It was during tms ngnc unu Mr. Reed was given the soubriquet of "czar." BLACKLISTING INVESTIGATED. Strikers Who Failed of Reinstatement on Witness Stand. The lawyers of the mine workers continued to call witnesses at Scrani ton, Pa., Friday, before the strike i commission to testify to the alleged I blacklisting methods pursued by sev| eral companies in refusing to re em; ploy strikers who took a more or less ' prominent part in the affairs of the ! mine workers' union during the recent ! suspension. All of them said they had | been employed before the strike, but j refused their old places after the I strike was ended. CUBAN KIDS RELEASED. Mrs. Tingley Will Get the Eleven for Brotherhood School. oiovon Pnhan children who 1UC W1VT VU, j have been detained at New York durJ ing the past several weeks by the im! migration authorities, were ordered j released Saturday by the treasury de| partment and they will immediately i proceed to Point Lema university J brotherhood school in California. ESTILL SUCCEEDS GARRARD As Member of Board of Trustees of Georgia Soldiers' Home. Colonel J. H. Estill, of Savannah, | has succeeded Hon. William Garrard I as a member of the board of trustees | of the Georgia Soldiers' home. Both ' the resignation and the appointment are effective at once. ; j The resignation of Mr. Garrard will j be learned of with some surprise and regret throughout the state and especially by those who are interested in the affairs of the Soldiers' home. PRESIDED MUST BE REFEREE Between Blacks and Lily Whites in the Carolinas?Pritchard Writes Roosevelt. | The special correspondent of The Atlanta Constitution in Washington Aires his paper as follows: i The war between the coal black and the lily white factions of repuDI ILanism still wajces hot in the two | Carolinas. Senator Pritchard, of j North Carolina, has been mailing a : strong effort to create the impression that the negroes who aspire to office I are now receiving their chief support | : from the democratic politicians of the state, and to that end made public ! this evening a letter he has written to President Roosevelt. In this he charges that Vick, the j negro postmaster at Wilson, whose case is being made a test, secures his ' ' 1 ?* .1 amr\. principal indorsement. nvu uvmvcrats. He asserts that what he calls | the democratic machine is back of i the negro. i In order to meet these charges in. j the most effective way possible, the j democratic members of the North Carolina delegation in congress went to the postoffice department and the ! white house Monday and put themselves on record as opposing the ap; pointment of the negro as postmaster. In his letter to the president, Senai tor Pritchard charges Vick with being a traitor to his party. Among other j things, the senator says: "Vick has, during the past three ; years, done everything he could to obi struct those who have been endeavoring to cafry out what I conceive to i be the best policy for the republican party in eastern Carolina. "At the Weldon congressional conj venticn two years ago, Hon. D. W. Patton, a gentleman of high character, tfas a candidate for congress, i Mr. Patrick is a gentleman of large means, and stands exceedingly well I with the best element of the people of his district. He has never, in so far as I know, held any federal position. I was of the opinion that the | very best thing that could have been done at that time for the republican I party was to nominate Mr. Patrick. : Vick was a delega'te to the weiaon convention, and the convention was evenly decided between Patrick on one hand, who was not a federal officeholder, and Colonel J. j. Martin, I on the other, who was postmaster at | Tarbo^o. j "Under the leadership of those who have done all they could to disrupt the republican party in North Carolina, I am informed that Vick gave the casting vote in the Weldon coni vention in favor of Martin, thereby i securing the defeat of Mr. Patrick. "During the last campaign I am informed that he did everything in Ijis power to prevent the success of the republican state and legislative tickets in North Carolina in his county. |It is a notable fact that the republi! can state ticket did not receive a single vote in the precinct in which i Vick voted, and the legislative tick| et only received two votes in his prej cinct, and I am informed that Loth of ; these votes were cast by white men." j Senator Pritchard further calls tne | president's attention to the fact that j while the democrats of Wilson have given the negro testimonials as to his ! character, they have not asked his : appointment to this particular office, and suggests that the white citizens w of the place be sounded as to whether they will indorse Vick for the postoffice. Pritchard stands by his origi| nal recommendation of a white man i named Boykin. I CIVIC FEDERATION MEETS. Senator Hanna Called Body to Order and Made Welcoming Speech.' The first annual meeting of the industrial deDartment of the National Civic Federation was begun at New York Monday. Senator Hanna called 1 the session to order, and made an address of welcome, in which he said: i "In extending welcome to you, I also wish to extend congratulations. I am glad to be able to say that our ; experiences \n the last year have j proved to those who are charged witn ; the responsibilities of this work the , j fact that the great mass of the Amer!: ican people are in sympathy with the ! organization and its work." AGAINST EIGHT-HOUR LAW ' 18 Decision Rendered by Supreme Court of the State of Ohio. The Ohio supreme court Tuesday handed down a decision in the case of i the city of Cleveland vs. Clement I Bros., in which it declared the contest! ed eight-hour law unconstitutional. The case was carried up to the su: preme court by the city. It had let I sewer contracts to Clement Bros., and J stipulated that the eight-hour law ! should tre respected under penalty of j $10 for each violation. The city atI tempted to hold out $300 in fines on : settling with the contractors and the | latter sued. ANOTHER BOODLER CONVICTED. i Millionaire Brewer at St. Louis Sentenced to Pen. At St. Louis Friday, after two days of trial, Charles J .Denny, millionaire j brewer and director of the Suburban r*s\m Tionir V p DirtftJU IlcUlwajr v_,u.i_upa.ii j, ? member of the house of delegates, I charged with perjury in connection | with the suburban bill boodle deal, was I found guilty, and his punishment fixea at two years in the penitentiary. PENSION BILL PASSED. Goes Through Lower Branch of Con gress Without a Word of Debate. A Washington dispatch says: The | house Saturday passed the pension ap propriation bill carrying $139,000,00C without a word of debate. Bills were also passed to construct a steam revenue cutter for service in Albemarle and Pamlico sounds, North ! Carolina, and to authorize a bridge ! across the Savannah river at Sand Bar ferry below Augusta, Ga. _ s / s I MINISTER A. E BUCK DEAD, j I Our Representative to Japan ^Expires j Suddenly While on Hunting Trip. Sketch of His Life. j j The Japanese minister called at the department of state at Washington j Thursday to convey to Secretary Hay j a cablegram he had received from To- | I kio, stating that while Alfred E. Buck, ; the United States minister to Japan, | was on a hunting trip during the morn- I ing, he was taken suddenly ill and j expired. The state department will take the j necessary steps to see that the re- j mains are brought to this country ' for interment. Mr. Huntington Wilson, the secretary ro the legation, was designated as charge. The deceased minister was born in Maine, but was appointed to his post from Georgia on April 13, 1897. His service covered a critical and important chapter in Japanese history. A dispatch received from Yokohama was as follows: "United States - - - ' J Minister Buck died mis mormug YY UiiO I at the imperial'duck shoot. The cause of his death is supposed to have been apoplexy." Sketch of His Life. -A. E. Buck, the dead minister to Japan, spent the greater part of his political life in Atlanta, Ga. He was a prominent figure in Republican politics in central Georgia in the late eighties and early nineties, making a big reputation by the masterful manner in which he continually held office after oftice in-spite of the many and heavy fights made against him. Colonel Buck was born in Foxcraft, Me., in 1832. He received a college education in a New England university and settled down to the practice of law. When the civil war began he enlisted in the union army, fighting straight through. In 1864 he was married to Miss Ellen B. Coker, of Hollowell, Me. f At the close of the war Colonel Buck came south and settled in Alabama, where in 1868 he was chosen presidential elector. He was a member of congress from Alabama during the reconstruction period. At the close of his congressional career in Alabama he moved to Atlanta, where, until '97, when he was appointed minister to Japan, he made his home. His first government office in Atlanta was clerk of the United States circuit court. Later on he was maue marshal for Georgia during Harrison's administration. When President -aioa inaugurated he appoint ivi?? ed him minister to Japan in 1897. When Roosevelt came into office he allowed the appointment to stand. His jleath came as a great shock to his friends, as it was entirely unexpected. MINERS KEPT SILENT. Feared Dismissal if They Dared Reveal Dangers of Coal Pits. At Thursday's sessions of the an,thracite strike commission at Scranton the representatives of the mine workers continued to call witnesses, mostly practical miners, who told their story of conditions as they exist in the Hazleton or middle coal fields. Some of the witnesses testified that they were not given their old places and maintained that men prominent in the union in the various localities during the strike were discriminated against. The commission has decided to invite the mine inspectors to appear be* ftCCfipf fore mem, Decause me that thg workmen fear to inform the mine inspectors of dangerous or unhealthy places in the mines, because the inspectors are usually accompa nidti by some representative of the company who may cause the man's dismissal. This is a new point before the commission. . STREET CAR MEN WIN. - Granted Good Increase at Houston, Texas, and Strike Ends. The street car strike at Houston, Texas, was settled late Thursday afternoon and the cars at once began running. The men get a scale calling for 18 cents per hour for the first year, 19 cents the second year and 20 cents thereafter, which is an increase of about 6 per cent over the old scale. BIG BRIDGES GONE. Trains on Atlantic and Birmingham Forced to Stop Temporarily. The long trestle and bridge of me Atlantic and Birmingham railroad over Satilla river, near "Waltertown, Ga., seven miles from Waycross, was washed away and completely destroyed Thursday night, as was also the county bridge which crossed the river about fifty yards above the trestle. All the Atlantic and Birmingham trains were annulled and it will uncovoral Hnvs before the UUU UICU1J UV OV I VI v>i regular schedule can again be resumed. / TWO "WIFELESS" BROTHERS File Suit Together in Common Pleas Court at Urbana, Ohio. Alva C. and Alvina A. Buckles, grocers at Urbana, Ohio, have filed a suit In the court of common pleas for divorces. Both brothers reside in the same township, and both were married seven years ago and only four days apart. Both wives ran away after being married only two years and their whereabouts is unknown. GRAND DUKE IN DISGRACE. Uncle of Czar Cut Out Because of 8en? sational Marriage. The dismissal from tbe Russian ar' my of the Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovltch, uncle of tne czar, which was ofi ficially announced at St. Petersburg Monday, was due to his recent mar: riage to the Baroness Pistolkoff, who i got a divorce from her husband in order to marry the grand duke. It is said that the grand duke has ' also been banished from the Russian igrt tof ten yeart, % m . m - > ro UNCOVER TRUSTS v-V " littlefield's Bill Providing For " Publicity," Favored. " * -'"mi COMMITTEE BRINGS IN PEPORT jj Republicans in Congress Agree to Sup* port that Plan for Checking >'$*M Evils of Gigantic : Combines. . i-C A Washington special says: The sub-committee to which was referred ^ the anti-trust bills reported favorably; to the full committee Friday on Mr. Littlefield's bill providing for giving publicity to the affairs of commercial * combinations, with certain amend-' . ments. Acting Chairman Jenkins, of the judiciary committee, appointed a sub-committee Friday consisting of Representatives Littlefield, of Maine; Overstreet, of Indiana; Powers, of Massachusetts; jjeArmona, oj. jsuodwu ri, and Clayton, of Alabama, to which all anti-trust bills, including the pub5- ^ licity bill, have been referred. Provisions of the Bill. The publicity bill, as amended, provides that every corporation, joint # stock company or similar organization jjlBfl engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, and every such corporation which shall be hereafter organized, V&jjjsS shall file with the interstate commerce :.vqB "commission, on or before September 1st each year, are turn, stating among >|j?S other things its name, date of organ** zation, and, if consolidated, the names of the constituent companies, and the same information concerning them. If the concerns have been reorganized,^ the original corporation or corpora-. tions are to be named,- wI?_l informs**> *||S tion concerning them. It is also provided that the amount of authorized capital stock, shares inU> which divided, par value, whether com- . 'rJ| mon or preferred, and distinction be- . tween each, amount issued and outr||H standing, amount paid in, how much, if any, in property, and if paid in property a description and cash' market jjjjj value of the property at the time it ' was received in payment, shall be stated. The indebtedness, its nature and for what purpose incurred, is to be given, also a statement of the aslets at their present cash market value; giving upon which the market value i? It also is required that the total earnings and income, operating ex- ' penses, interest, taxes, permanent improvements, net earnings, dividends ' declared, with rate and date during the year preceding the 1st of the pre- ' ceding July; salaries of officials and wages of employees be disclosed. It is provided further that the treas? ^ urer or other officer of concerns affected by the bill, having the requisite* ^ knowledge, shall answer on oath all inquiries that may be made in writing, under the direction of the interstate commerce commission, relative to its financial condition or to* its capital stock. Such answer is not to be used f$m as evidence against the person making jr it, except in prosecutions under the proposed act A tax of 1 per cent per annum is ?|B| imposed on so much of the capital stock outstanding, which is not fuHr paid in cash or other property at its . full cash market vaiue, ana pruvumus " cm Js made for collecting the tax. ' Penalties Imposed. Any concern contemplated in this v;! bill failing to pay a tax Imposed is to | be restrained on the suit of the United / I States from engaging in Interstate or. foreign commerce. It is made the duty of the attorney general, at the request TiaS ; of the interstate commerce commiS| sion, to enforce the. provisions of the proposed act, and suit may be brought in any district court of the United States at the election of the attorney general where an offending concern has a place of business. Provision is made that the inter* / state commerce commission shall prepare and publish a statement showing a list of corporations and disclosing their condition. The till does not ap- ply to any concern the amount of capi?tal stock of which does not exceed '' ^ $500,000. .4- , VORWAERTS REMAINS FIRM. - _ Berlin Paper Insists that Its Charge Against Krupp are True. According to a Berlin dispatch; . Vorwaerts, the newspaper which some weeks ago attacked the chaceoter of the late Herr Krupp, stating that he was guilty of immoral excesses on his frequent visits to the island of Capri, has sent lawyers to avi/tonnA i^SSSi INapiOS lO uuuuu iicv.c3ocu j ... -v. to fully substantiate the charges. The paper asserts that Its lawyers 1 will produce plenty of evidence toi ? ' prove that its assertions regarding ' Herr Krupp were correct. GOLD 8TANDARD FOR MEXICO. New York Syndicate Stands Ready ta Furnish Necessary Money. It is again reiterated in Mexico City: that a powerful New York syndicate is disposed to furnish the government with sufficient gold to establish firmly a gold standard. The sum named is $50,000,000. | There is a strong sentiment in favor, of retaining the silver dollars, al? though giving them a nominal valuew JOHNSTONE FOLLOWS VICTIM. Murderer of Kate Hassett Dies From Self-Inflicted Wounds. After lingering for nearly a week Jgj Barry Johnstone, the actor, who shot himself after killing Kate Hassett, a member of Keith's Bijou theater stock company, died Sunday at the Hahemann hospital in Philadelphia. Kate Hassett's murder and Johnstone's suicide were the result of the man's insane jealousy. Miss Hassett in private life was the wife of Everett Beckwith, a business man of Chicago