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!|S? " i $ . } _ ^ - -^B **gH Sir ';-^b9 The Bamberg Herald. 1 ^11 - ? ' 1 -? 'M ? " - ' ? ? ? ~ ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. MAY 28, 1903. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. j DEADLY TORNADOES Cut a Frightfully Fatal Swath ! Through Western States. OKLAHOMA A SUFFERER i Towns Almost Wiped Off the Map and Damage Through Country Districts Will Reach Enormous Figure. A Kansas City special says: In the ; storm that struck -en miles southeast j of Dodge City, a herder, name un- ; known, was killed and Mrs. Tibb I Shane was fatally injured. Many i small buildings were wrecked and ] score's of cattle killed. The report ! that Mulvanc, Kans, had been swept j away by a tornado proves to have boon j exaggerated. Moro or less damage was caused at that place but as far as j, oaa be learned there was no serious Joss and no casualties are reportod. the northwestern corner of Dickinson county eight dwellings were blown down and several injured, but all will lecover, the t>-ack of the storm in his county was a quarter of a mile wide and twenty miles in length, and it is estimated that $30,000 damages was done to crops. Hundreds Homeless. Hundreds of persons were rendered homeless and property damages to the extent of $300,000 was done in the Enid, Oklahoma, bottoms alone by a cloudburst that struck west cf the city at midnight Saturday night. The aggregate damage probably will be much higher on account cf losses sustained between Enid and the seat of the storm. A bank of water three feet high and 200 feet wide, swept down through the bottoms at midnight, carrying houses and everything before it. It came upon Enid without warnirg, while most of its inhabitants were asleep. Within a few mlnu'es a hundred houses ws?re completely submerged. Many persons lost everything they possessed. The means for relieving distress are inadequate. The rainfall for ten days was the heaviest In the history or usianoma and indications are that more will follow. Reports of losses in the country west of Enid are meager, but it is believed that heavy damage was done. Additional advices state that about 7: SO .o'clock Saturday night the tornado struck Carden, Oklahoma, and destroyed about one-'bird of the town, including the principal business houses and postoffico. p. F. Brown, of Wichita representing a machinery company, was killed instantly by flying timbers, his brains being found 30 feet from the body. Mm Wismiller was fatally injured. Among the building destroyed were the Merrill furniture store, the Carmen dreg store, the Halstead meat market, The Headlight printing office and Wismiller's hardware store. The Methodist church was set on top of the parsonage, where it remains and can be seen for miles. The tornado also struck Foss, a town of 200 inhabitants on the Choctaw. Oklahoma and Gulf railway in western Oklahoma, early Sunday morning, destroying thirteen residences and wrecking many outhouses. Three persons were killed and a number injured, one R. P. Hall seriously. ^ AftT71 \f Qlncrol V?ic U*lfp JL jjc ucau cue x- iu k/ii- **?? ?? and daughter. Storm Sweeps Illinois. A tornado swept ncror/ central Illinois Sunday, causing much damage, although no fives were lost. The store; was accompanied by torrents of rain and by lightning. Two grain elevators were blown over at Carlock and many barns and structures were destroyed. .Thousands of shade trees were uprooted ^and electric wires were blown down. Great Blow In Nebraska. A tornado struck near Randolph, Nebr., late Saturday night and caused heavy loss. The home of William Fredericks wa3 demolished. Fredericks and his wife were carried some distance, but had a miraculous escape from death. Many barns were blown down and horses and other stock injured. The home of K. Helms Js in ruins. PULLMAN COMPANY LIBERAL. Makes Most Satisfactory Franchise Return to Georgia Comptroller. The new franchise tax law of Geor- x gia scored a most substantial victory Thursday when the return of the Pali man Palace Car Company was received by Comptroller General Wright anu promptly accepted. The Pullman company, by its legal authorities, acknowledges the justice of the Georgia law, complies fully with its spirit, and makes what is considered by the comptroller general a most equitable franchise return. HANNA WONT INDORSE. Senator is Emphatic in Opposition tr Roosevelt's Candidacy. According to a Cleveland, Ohio, dis patch. Senator F lr.a has taken mucr pains to prevent the least doubt as tc his wishes relative to the indorse ment of President Roosevelt's candl dacy by the approaching republicar state convention. He is unequivocally opposed to such action anc brands the attempt of Senator Fora ker to obtain the indorsement as ma licious. PAYNE DESERTS ALLGOOD. Postmaster General Refuses to Back Up Colored Mail Carrier. Postmaster General Payne has ordered the immediate resumption of service on the suspended rural free delivery mail route at Gallatin, Tenn. The resignation of Aligcod, the negro carrier who was intimidated and who refused to resume v ork. has been accepted and the civil service has been called upon to certify a carrier J ************************* I Cream of News. I tiinuiiiniiiiiinnmf Brief Summary of Most Important Events of Each "Day. ?The Kiue and Gray Association of Fitzgerald, composed of union and confederate veterans, is arranging for a big Fourth of July celebration, to which prominent men will be invited. ?Six people were billed by the explosion of a boiler in a saw mill at Maringain Station, La. ?Coal companies of the Lehigh region have commence 1 the enforcement of the new age limit regulating the employment of boys. ?On Saturday night hundreds of pedsons at Enid, Okla., were rendered homeless by a cloudburst, which caused the water to rush down the bottoms, sweeping away a hundred houses. ?A man sitting in an open car on Brooklyn bridge suddenly alighted from the car in the middle of a span and running to the side of the bridge jumped into East River. His body was carried away by the current. ?Two persons killed, two fatally hurt and others injured in motor accident in England. ?Paul Blouet (Mam O'Rell), died Sunday night at Paris. He had been ailing several months and had never entirely recovered from the effects of an operation performed some time ago in New York. ?So many fatalities wero caused by the automobile races in France that Premier Combes has forbidden the continuance of the races. About ten lives were lost and many persons injured in Sunday's race. ?The murder trial of Mrs. Effie L. Careon for the murder of young Rigsby began in Macon, Ga., Friday and ended Saturday in a verdict of acquittal. ?Mr3. Lizzie McCormick will be tried in Memphis. The Ohio warrant was dismissed by Governor Frazier. ?President Roosevelt will not speak at the laying of the corner stone oi Mississippi's new capitol. ?The Confederate Veterans' reun ion at New Orleans closed Friday with the greatest parade ever known to ..he veterans. ?Suit has been entered at Orangeburg, S. C., to break the lease under which the Southern operates the old South Carolina and Georgia. ?Senator Hanna will oppose the indorsement of the candidacy of Roosevelt at the Ohio republican convention. ?Postmaster General Payne has accepted the resignation of the negro Allgood, the Tennessee carrier. Payne will not abolish the route. ?Abusive letters are being received by Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador, at Washington, because of his statement regarding the Jews. ?Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, has sent troops to Jackson to guard the court while the grand jury is investigating the Marrtum assassination. ?The riots in Agram, Hungary, continue. It is said that thirty-eight rebels were hanged and forty shot in one day. ?Interviewed in London, Mr. McCormick, American ambassador to Russia, states that the czar has given assurances that Manchurian ports will not be closed to the United States. ?Barney Brown, aged 50, was shot from ambush and killed near Bartow, Fla., Monday night. ?Henry E. Fries, who attempted to float the southern cotton mill merger, now states that the merger is off. ?Mrs. Lizzie McCormick will be tried in Tennessee acording to orders issued by Governor Frazier. ?Broker Brown, of New Orleans, made about $40 a second during the advance in cotton at New York Monday. ?The United States is determined not to allow Russia to close Manchuria to the commerce of the world. ?Deep interest is felt in Washington in the LaGrange, Ga., rate decision, as it marks a difference between the courts and the interstate commerce commission. ?The United States court of appeals holcls that the Pennsylvania railroad has the right to remove from its right of way the poles of the Western Union Telegraph Company. ?Lieutenant Walker and two privates have been killed in the Philippines by fanatics. ?The fine piggery at Vanderbilt's ' ' * J ir 1 ^ Biltmore esiaie was uuruwu immuajr, but the blooded pigs were saved. ?Jefferson B. Browne, president of the Florida railroad commission, talks of lobbying charge. ?Clay Knobloc, a former lieutenant governor of Louisiana, was shot down in the streets at Thibadeaux, bis home. Monday morring. ?The United States supreme court has decided that the Southern railway has no citizenship in North Carolina. ?Russia has received no protest from the United States in regard to the Jewish massacre, nor is likely to. Secretary Hay does not see how he can interfere. ?Citizens of New Orleans have sen; $1,000 to Miss Hadley. the Indianapolis chambermaid who refused to make up a bed which Booker Washington had slept in. ?Twenty Filipino fanatics have been killed and many wounded by the force under Colonel Taylor. ?Advices received by the state department indicate that Russia's course in Manchuria is ruining the American cotton trade in that, province. ? Referring to the statement of Mr. Tulloch regarding the postal scandals. Senator Piatt, of New York, says those portions relating to himself are lies. ? Hebrews in Macon. Ga.. Sunday night passed a resolution asking the United States to intervene for Hebrews in Russia. CUBANS CELEBRATE Salvos and Fireworks Commemorate Freedom, DAY OF GREAT REJOICING Cablegrams of Well Wishes and Fellcitation are Exchanged Between President Palrna and Secretary Root. A dispatch from Havana says: The celebration of Cuba'3 independence, the fir^t anniversary of the establishment of the Cuban republic, began at midnight Tuesday night with the illuminating of the fronts of the principal clubs, the sending up of rockets and the screeching of steam TT-Mctioa ThA weather Wednesday was ideally clear even for Cuba. Business was completely suspended and the streets were thronged with people. President Palma, accompanied by the cabinet officers and city and provincial officials, drove to the punta, where he reviewed the members of the police and fire departments, and then accompanied by Secretary of State ZaMo he was driven up the Prado to the palace, continually acknowledging the salutations of the crowds which lined that* thoroughfare. At noon the guns of Cabanas fortress announced that exactly a year had elapsed since the birth of the Cuban republic, and immediately thereafter the rural guards and artillery paraded on the plaza in front of the palace and were reviewed by the president. Root Cables to Palma. Secretary Root, at Washington, sent President Palma, of Cuba, the following telegram of congratulation: "Accept hearty congratulations upon the first anniversary of the establishment of the in-dependent government of Cuba, and upon the strength and wisdom with which you have conducted your great office. The year of successful administration and respect for law has confounded the enemies of Cuba and strengthened the courage and hope of her friends. You have my sincere and earnest wishes for rontinued nrosc-eritv." Secretary Root received the following reply from President Palraa: "The government and people of the United States are entitled to the everlasting gratitude of the people of Cuba who amidst the happiness they enjoy today do not forget how much they are obliged to the American people for the share they took in helping to gain independence and freedom, and send them, through me, their slncerest wishes for the uninterrupted prosperity of the great republic and the personal welfare of President Roosevelt and the members of his cabinet. At the same time, I send you and family the warmest testimony of my sincere friendship." FOUND $10,000 BILL. Bootblack Returned it to Owner, However, and Got Only $10 Reward. At Philadelnhia. Tuesday Carmine Cammorata, a boot black, found a $10.000-bill on the sidewalk at Twelfth and Market streets. He returned it to the loser and received $10 as a reward. A few minutes later Policeman Volner picked up at the same corner a pocket book containing $850. He also restored it to the owner and his recompense was "Thank you!" As no one saw Cammorata find the $10,000 bill, he might have kept it. A moment or two after he had picked it up a young man, shaking from nervous fright, hurriod up to tne bootblack's stand and asked if the note had been found. When it was given to him he gasped and fainted dead away. Costly Blaze in Chicago. Fire that for a time Wednesday night threatened the wholesale clothing district at Jackson and Franklin streets, Chicago, did $500,000 damage before it was gotten under control. FARM THAT SIMS STOLE Sold at Auction and Brings Insignificant Sum of $5.41 an Acre. "Richland farm,' in Greeno county, Ga., the magnificent plantation once owned by G. H. Sims, the defaulting collection clerk of the Capital City UcillUIlcii Uplift, Ui Aiiauca, was ouiu at auction Friday. The entire farm, consisting of 1,936 acres, brought only $5.41 an acre, or a total of $10,500. The sale authorized by the directors ol the bank included, In addition to the land, the horses and mules formerly used on *be farm. These brought an aggregate of $2,100. OBJECTS TO LEE STATUE. Resolution of Protest Adopted by the G. A. R. of Kansas. The Grand Army of the Republic, department of Kansas, the twentysecond encampment of which was beg*M in McPhersori Wednesday, passed a resolution protesting against rwrrkru-\coU n/>t inn r>f flip fitnfp nf V|/VW\,\4 \y . VMV w vr. Virginia to place a statue of General Robert E. Lee in the rotunda of the capitol at Washington. RATE CASE IS SETTLED. Urvited States Supreme Court Decides Against LaGrange, Georgia. The United States supreme court. Monday, reversed the finding of the United States interstate commerce commission in the case of the proceedings of that commission in the case oi the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company and other railroad companies whose lines constitute a contln uous line to the cities of New Orleans and Atlanta. WHOLE TOWNS WRECKED,; i Two More Tornadoes Get in Their ' Work of Death and Destruction in West and Northwest. A scries of heavy storms, two of which developed into the worst tornadoes that have visited southern Nebraska in years, passed over portions of Clay, Franklin and Kearney counties Sunday evening. Fifteen persons aro known to have lost their lives and over a score of persons were more or less seriously injured Near Norman the following were | killed: Daniel McCurdy, Robert Mc- j Curdy, Mrs. John V/chlever, Mrs. Earl ' Bacon, Mrs. C. A. T:iple. Near Upland the dfad are: Luther- j an minister, name unknown; Mrs. John Peters, farmer's wife; Mrs. Lamers and mother. At Pauline the dead arc as follows: _ Mr. and Mrs. James Mum aw and child, j Frank Quigg, Flora Paffilmer, John j Palmer. Near Norman, at the homo of Daniel McCurdy, a number of relatives and friends were spending the day and not one in the house escaped death or 30rious injury. Two miles south of Upland, German Lutheran services were being held in a school when the storm struck and demolished it, kiling four of the occupants, including the minister, and injuring a number of others. The storm was equally destructive at Fairfield, but ihc people were warned of its coming and sought cellars for safety. Six dwellings were blown to pieces at that place, but their occupants escaped injury with a few exceptions. Every dwelling and outbuilding in the path of the tornado was blown to pieces and the financial lo>s thus far accounted for will reach about $60,000. .There Were Two Tornadoes. There were two tornadoes, both originating within a mile of Fairfield. The first one moved to the northwest and the second off to the southwest. The one to the notrhwest did the greater damage and all the fatalities seem to havo been in its pa:h. The list of injure 1 is small, in comparison to the fatalities, as only about twenty peaplo in the stricken section are reported as beiag more or less seriously hurt. The greatest loss of property was sustained by farmers. The heaviest Individual loss reported is that suffered by Charles Taylor, who places the damage to his sto-k farm, including cattle and horses kilkd, at $21,000. Worst Storm in Years. The worst storm in twenty years raged in Rochester. Minn., Sunday night from 11 to 2:30. The afreets were flooded. The Sumbro river rose 5 feet in two hours and many houses and yards were soon under water. A cloudburst is reported at Rockwell, and some stock was drowned. The Chicago and Northwestern railway track near Dover was washed out ior 300 yards. Iowa Town Wrecked. A tornado struck the town of Rolfe, Iowa, seventy miles west of Des Moines, late Sunday, killing Fong Foo. a laundry man, fatally injuring a child and wrecking the State bank building. Crayon's general store, the Hotel de Main and one other building. Several residences were damaged. Missouri Town Demolished. A tornado struck the town of Elmo, Mo., unroofing stores and littering ;he town with debris. No lives were lost. DUY BREAD WITH TOTS. Bad State of Affairs in Famine Stricken Section cf China. United States Consul General McWade, at Canton, trader date of April 7, sent to the state department a detailed report of the fnmine in Hwang Si in support of his cabled appeal lor help. Pie produced a mass of information which he declares tc be reliable from American missionary and native sources in Kwang Ting. Wu Chow and other places, showing the destitution and the consequent suffering which the consul general says is absolutely appalling. Ho says that the heads of families in their desperation were selling their children from $2 to $5 each, yet so many were the offerings and j so few the purchases that not all j could be sold even at this price. POISONED BY PTOMAINES. i Stomach Pump Saves Eighteen Board ing House Quests in Porto Rico. j Eighteen people living at a boarding house in San Juan, Porto Rico, were poisoned Thursday by milk containing ptomaines. Eleven doctors responded to the j alarm and the use of stomach pump? saved the lives of all the sufferers. The Americans affected were Messrs. Kellogg, Sisson, Gordon, Schultz and Hallen and Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick. Tho incident has caused alarm throughout San Juan. CASTLE AND TRACEWELL REPLY. Postmaster General Payne Gives Out , More Scandal News. Postmaster General Payne Saturday I made public the answers of Henry A. j Castle, the auditor cf the treasury for | the postofficc department, and Comptroller Traeewell, of the treasury, ro j garding the Tulloeh charges of irregu larities in the postal administration. Tho answers specifically denv allegations Ol wrongful procedure. DENVER STRIKE IS ENDED. i lr> Concessions Made Victory Seems to Be With Union Men. The strike which for several clays i practically paralyzed the business or . Denver, Colorado, involving nearly ten thousand men and women, was settled Thursday through the efforts of a committee of the cham'ber of coni. merce and one from the local typo. graphical union. Though both sides i made concessions, the victory seems >o be with the laboring men. ACCEPTED A BRIBE' Attorney Miller, of Postoffice Department, Loses Head, PAYNE ORDERS ARREST! Charge is that Turf Operators Paid Large Sum to Induce Him to Declare Their Busl? nCss Legal. Postmaster General Payne, Monday, summarily dismissed Daniel V. MilI i. 1 ^ ior, assistant ttiiuuiey jjcuciai ii_?i m*> postoffice department, for accepting a bribe in connoctioh with the case of John J. Ryan & Co., charged with fraudulent use of the mails. A warrant was at once issued for Millor's arrest. Another warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man who is charged with being the partner or go-between in the transaction. The bribe is alleged to have been accepted at Cincinnati last December. Miller is from Terra Haute, Ind., and was appointed by former Assistant Attorney General Jamos X. Tyner about two years ago. The charge against Miller has been under investigation for three months. The Ryan company was a turf investment concern wlil'h operated at St. Louis and Covington, Ky. Its methods and working operations arc said to ce similar to these of the Arnold company, which has figured conspicuously in the postoffice investigation. The inspectors have been quietly at work on the case and action was delayed so they might get together all the papers and evidence which, in their opinion, was necessary. The Ryan company was the beneficiary under a decision of the assistant attorney general of the postoffice department made several months ago, subsequent to the derision in the Arnold case and couched in practically the same terms as that decision. Those decisions declared the concerns named to be free to use the mails. The Arnoid decision, it is stated, was signed by Assistant Attorney General Tyncr and the Ryan decision by George A. C. Christians, the law clerk of the department, who was then acting assistant, attorney general on account of Mr. Tyner's protracted illness. Mr. Christiancy was at the postofhcc department on a summons from the department and was closely examined regarding the case. It is stated that ike amount offered Miller as a, bribe aggregated several thousand dollars and was in the form of a cash payment, followed by a check". MARK HANNA HOLDS ALOOF. Scouts the Idea cf Indorsing the Candidacy of Roosevelt. Senator Hanna, in an interview at Cleveland, Ohio, concerning widely circulated reports as to his position in connection with proposed resolution to be introduced at the coming state republican convention indorsing President Roosevelt for a second term, made the following statement to the representative of the Associared Press: "I have seen the reported interview with Senator Foraker with reference to the proposed indorsement of the nomination of President Roosevelt by the next Ohio republican 'state convention. At the outset I want to deny that Mr. Dover, my private secretary, or so far as I lrnow, any of my friends, had anything to do with raising this question. "The first I knew of it was when I read in the papers a previous interview with Senator Foraker, which I construed as an oxpressicn of his own personal views. This was followed by a:t interview with General Grosvenor along the same line. These made it apparent that there was a disposition on til? part 01 some j.eopie iu auggcoi such action by the convention. . "I certainly have no criticism to make of any individual as to his rights to entertain or to ?>xpress such vie .vs. but I certainly do criticise the propriety of action along that line by the delegates to the state convention who are chosen for the purpose of nominating a state ticket. It dees not appear to me to be entirely pre per for this convention to assume the prerogative of the one to be chosen in 1904 and upon which one will rest the responsibility of representing and expressing the sentiment in our state for any candidate. "It would seem unnecessary for me to say that these conclusions are in no way influenced by any personal desires or ambitions of my own. "I have often stated !ioth privately and publicly that i rm not and will not be a candidate for the presidential nomination." LIST OF AUTO VICTIMS. Complete Returns Show Six Killed; Two Fatally, Ten Seriously Hurt. A special from Paris says: It is now possible to assemble trom the many reports from along the route of the first stage of the Paris-Madrid automobile race a complete list of the casualties. This shows six persons | killed, two so dangerously injured that i they may die end ten seriously i:i! jured. I I i ANOTHER LINE FOR SOUTHERN. ! Report that Merger With Mobile and Ohio Will Occur in July. i The Atlanta Constitution states that j the Southern railway and the Mobile ! and Ohio railway wili consolidate July 1, if there is no hitch in the present plans of the management of those reads. This information has not yet. been officially announce 1. but it is learned J on good authority that such is the ini tention of the controlling interests oi j the two railways. 1 DEATH-DEALING AUTOS. ' I Great Race in France is Called Off After Many Frightful and Fatal Accidents Result. i A dispatch from Faris states that, in view of the number of accidents, some fatal, in the first stage of the Paris-Madrid automobile race, from Versailles to Bordeaux, Premier Combes has forbidden the continuance of the contest on French territory. The second stage of the race, which was to have been continued Tuesday, included a run over French territory from Bordeaux to the Spanish frontier. Premier Combes' action probably will lead to the race being abandoned. It is reported that the Spanish government has also forbidden the continuance of the race on Spanish territory. tv./-. fl-r-cf ofoffo r\f t)io roop frmn Versaile* to Bordeaux, 343 miles, finished at noon Sundav, when Louis Renault -dashed at a furious pace Into Bordeaux, having made a record run of eight hours and twenty-seven minutes for the distance named. An hour later M. Gabriel arrived with a still better record of eight hours and seven minutes. It is estimated from the time made that these automobiles covered 62 miles an hour on the road outside the cities. In some Instances eighty-nine tpiles veie recorded. Dispatches arriving from points along the course added to the list of fatalities and accidents. The most terrible occurred near Bonneval, nineteen miles from Chartres, where a machine was overturned at a railroad crossing and took fire. The chauffeur was caught underneath the automobile and burned to death, while two soldiers and a child were killed. A woman crossing the road in the neighborhood of Ab'.'s was run over by one of the competing cars and killed. The illumination fixed for Sunday night In Bordeaux in honor of the automobile race, was countermanded as a sign of mourning for the persons killed during the contest. Most of the London papers of Monday morning comment with satisfaction on the stoppage cf the Paris-Madrid automobile races. They dilate on the dangers of racing, but offer no suggestions as to the prohibition or regulation of such racing in general. CUBANS SIGN TREATY. After Months cf Delay, Compact With vlnited States Favorably Acted Upon by Island Congress. A special from Havanna says: The permanent treaty between the United States and Cube, in which are all the provisions of the Piatt amendment was signed Friday afternoon. The act of signing the treaty occurred at half-past four o'clock in the office of the secretary of state. The signers were Secretary of State Zaldo and United St3tes Minisier Squiers, who were constituted special plenipotentiaries for that purpose. The permanent treaty contains no ^ nviVInn fnr tfre alimontlfiTl JUld nf> OX traneous conditions of any kind. It seemly incorporated the entire Piatt amendment into the form of a treaty. The lengt'j of time consumed by the negotiations was principally due to the fact that the Cuban government desired to include in the treaty various extraneous conditions, especially one to the effect that there should be no intervention in Cuban affairs by the United States except through the initiative of the president of Cuba. All these conditions were rejected. The Associated Press correspondent saw a number of senators with reference to the prospects of the ratification of both the permanent and naval stations treaties duiing this session of congress, but they were not inclined to be communicative. It remains evident that there is an inclination to allow the treaties to go over this session. It is believed that an urgent message from President Palma which will accompany the sending of this treaty to the senate will have a strong influence in the direction of ratification. It is now expected that an agreement covering the details of the United States naval stations will be reached by President Palma and United States Minister Sqaiers wJthin three weeks. CURTIS JETT 18 HELD. Alleged Slayer of Marcum Falls In Habeas Corpus Proceedings. Curtis Jett, charged with the murder of J. B. Marcum, was brought into nourt at Winchester, Ky., Tuesday on a motion to dismiss the habeas corpus proceedings. The county attorney was not present, but Jailer Boone, against whom the relief measure v/as directed, conducted his own case. The court decided to hold Jett and made the statement that to return him to Jackson, Ky., would be in effect to release him. He will await the action of the Breathitt grand jury. LITTLE CHARLIE WON SUIT. Boy Claiming to Be 8on of Broadway Rou?s Given Big Verdict. A Chicago dispatch says: The jury In the suit of Charles Broadway Rouss, who was suing the Charies Broadway Rouss estate for $100,000 for maintenance and support, returned a verdict for the full amount Thursday, with $5,766 interest. The boy in suing claimed to be the son of Charles Broadway Rouss. CRANK LETTERS GALORE Being Received by Russian Ambassador and by Secretary Hay. A Washington dispatch says: Crank letters are now appearing in the mail of the Russian ambassador, Count Cassini. Tnc-y criticise his utterances and attack his arguments concerning the character of the Russian Jews Secretary Hay is also getting hir. share of such letters. The letters, however, give no serious concern tc either secretary or the ambassador. v MRS. CARSON FREE - Macon Woman Who Slew j Rigsby Acquitted by Jury. | HER STORY OF KILLING ^ She Tells How and Why She Used Pistol?Great Demonstration In Court Room When Verdict Was Announced. I In the trial of Mrs. Carson, in Macon, Ga., for the murder of the stuttent, Rigsby, the jury returned a verdict of "Not Guilty." Instantly a dozen strong men were leaning over the chair in which Mrs. Carson was sitj ting, each extending a hand and all ex[ pressing congratulations, while she sat mute with joy and with tears streaming from her eyes. From all sections of the room men stepped forward to have a word with the woman who had gone through such trying ordeal, and for a second it looted as though a stampede in that direction was sure, but Judge Felton's gavel quickly brought the crowd to order and within a half minute Mrs. Carson and her husband, accompanied by her father and Judge Ross, were leaving the court room. For half an hour Friday afternoon, Mrs. Carson, charged with murdering J. C. Rigsby In Attorney Bayne's office in Macon, Ga., last January, held the undivided and almost breathless attention of a packed court room. Men, young and old, strained every faculty to hear her every word, watch her every jesture, and tc miss nothing of the look of mental agony shown in the defendant's face. From a note book Mrs. Carson gave her version of the killing and of the conversation leading up to it and to this she made frequent reference, though at no time was her delivery in the slightest halting or her manner the least confused. The defendant referred to the dam aging remarKs maie ny riigsoy auuui ber and told how this information came to her. She told how she had attempted to secure a retraction from bim and related the conferences held in Lawyer Bayne's office at which others were preseut, telling minutely what had occurred. She told of the meetings Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon, and when she described the scene in which Rigsby declined to right the wrong he had done her there was a deep si lonce throughout the court room. Of the purchase of the pistol Monday morning just before the killing she told, saying that she made the purchase because she frequently drove tc ber farm and had always carried a pistol with her. Immediately after buying the pistol r.he went to Mr. Bayne's office, where the trouble was discussed with him. as her attorney. The appearance of Rigsby in the office after Mr. Bayne had been to see him was described, as was the withdrawal of the attorney and his stenograph leaving her and Rieshv alone in the office. "It was then," sa.d Mrs. Carson, "that Rigsby start-?! to lock the door, I did not like tha:, and advancing from the rear of tin office, where 1 had been sitting, I asked him not tc lock the door. To my request he paid no attention. Thin he went to the desk and spoke of drawing an agree ment or a paper for me to sign, say ing that one of us would have to beai the shame of this i rouble,, and that ii could not be him." Here Mrs. Carson ijrew absorbinglj interesting. "When Rigsby closed the door," she said, "he had one hand behind him When he demanded that I sign the pa per and I refused, he shoved me bach against the window. The second time he pushed me. The pistol was still ir the window, where I had put it when i first entered the room and I grabbed it and went to shooting." Mrs. Carson recited the opening ol the door and her remark to Lawyei Bayne, who was in :he hallway. She told of her inquiry as to the locatior of the sheriff's office, and of her sur render to that official. r:~ - ( ? .">rtr Montreal People are 'walking. The employees of the Montreal, Canada, street railway went on strike again at an early hour Saturday and the road is completely tied up. When a ballot was taken on the quegtion, only about half a dozen of some 1,500 voted against strike. Soldiers Sent to Frankfort. Governor Beckham ordered that two companies of state troops leave Lexington, Ky., for Jackson to preserve order during the special term of court there, to look into the Marcum assassination. ANDREWS REVERSES HIMSELF. Chancellor No Longrer .Favors the Free Coinage of Silver. A special from L.ncoln, Neb., says: Free silver has lost an advocate in Dr. Benjamin Andrews, the chancellor of the University of Nebraska. in an address before the ciass in ethics, the largest 111 the university, he practically announced that he nc longer entertained the views he nad once held concerning silver coinage. This change in views had been gratl "al in its development. ! CLEVELAND GETS INVITATION. Ex-President is Wanted by Hebrews to Address Monste- Mass Meeting. Former President Cleveland was visited at Princeton. Friday by a par ty from Philadelphia, which presentee him with an invitat;on to speak at the Jewish mass meeting to be held ir Philadelphia at an early date for th< purpose of discussing the present Jew ish troubles in Russia. Mr. Clevelanc took the invitation under advisement *->' - .. "*.*? " " rf -v r~ ' * jzk-''' *? ' , . . ill?NEWS OF A WEEK 'f | IN SOUTH f AROUNA.? i 'H 'f I H I f 1I I Explosion Kills plumber. G. K. Russell, of Walhalla, a plumber, was instantly killed last Monday at Union by the exposion of the drum of a soda fountain, which was being !recharged. More Charleston Navy Yard Bids. Bids were opened at the navy department in Washington for the equip- ':| | ment building at Charleston navy yard* i The lowest bid was that of the Clark ~r||l Construction Company, of Chicago, lor $130,000. '' Sanders is Out on Baif. ! F. Toy Sanders, who killed Willie Lutz, near Barnwell, on the 10th of May, has been granted ball by Chief Justice Pope. In granting nan, justice Pope said: "If I thought his conduct prompted by malice, I would re^ fuse Sanders bail." Farmer Is Killed by Negro. B. F. Blackmon, * well-to-do farmer of Lancaster county, was shot and In- ' stantly killed near bis home, seren miles from Lancaster. Sandy Evan* ; the negro who fired the fatal shot, j went Immediately to Lancaster and r ! gave himself up to the sheriff, stating B j that he shot Blackmon in self-defense, * J and wished protection. Sues to Break Lease. John Cart, of Orangeburg, has filed | suit in the state courts to annul che lease of the old South Carolina and Georgia railroad to the Southern railj It is alleged that the Southern ac- -"J| " quired possession of a competing line, ! whieh is prohibited by the laws of ?|8j South Carolina. - Cart demands about $150,000. or ! $100 a day since the lease was ratified. If a verdict is awarded one-half the * amount will go to the state treasury. v '^|8 Spain Kelley Surrenders. Spain Kelley, who killed W. E. Creech on the road between Camden % and Bishopville, on May 6, has sur- .SM rendered to the sheriff of Sumter. " Only the day before the governor decided to offer a reward for Kelley's arrest, but the sheriff of Sumter county did not know this, a;:d is not entitled to the reward, as the official proclamation had not been made public. Kelley M shot Creech with a double-barreled //~S shotgun, and then pursued his victim ! for three miles, fnally overtaking ^ him, finishing the job by firing several i pistol balls into his body. , Sleep-Walker Badly Injured. Groans just outside the house awoke [ the family of W. T. McFall, at Picki ens, Pickens county, at midnight Sun-, day night, and upon investigation the " 1 unconscious body of Craig. Mauldin, a i college student and nephew of Mr. Mc Fall, who was spending the night with .;*|g him, was found lying on the ground un- : _ |B [ der a window. Being afflicted with 119 somnambulastic tendencies, young , Mauldin walked out a second story , window while asleep on to a shed, and -1| ; from there fell to the ground, a dis[ tance of 20 feet, sustaining serious Ini juries. i * ' Imported Cocaine Habit. "About three years ago," said a well ' known pharmacist at Spartanburg re; cently^ "six negro -girls came here from Atlanta, Ga. Tiiey were users of ||g ' cocaine and began teaching the use of , 5 this drug to other negroes in the town, ) and as a result there are today at least . half a hundred users of this drug in - Spartanburg. '-r/JM : "I am confident that the habit waa 5 introduced here by the Atlanta hel groes," continue the speaks?,1 "for prei vious to their arrival "there were none /?|| I or very few here who made use of the few drug." i Bank at Greenwood Closed. i The sensation at Greenwood the ,. ^ past week was the wholly unexpected Jpsfl suspension of the City Bank. The foi- 3 lowing notice was posted on its doors r * "A combination of circumstances, J|3 coupled with heavy demands against us, absolutely forces the City Bank to suspend. Depositors and creditors will be paid in full, but it requires time. J. F. Davis, president." At a subsequent meeting of the dl- " rectors the information was given out ' that the stockholders alone are losers. ''Spg A meeting of them was called to con- ~ sider a proposition for reorganization and resumption of business, which, It ^ ' is' believed, will be perfected with only a few days' delay and inconvenience to ' ' 38 depositors. No dishonesty is even suspicioned. The offlelals are among the most trusted oitizens and are above reproach. A series of heavy losses, covering a period of several years, is said to be the cause. The Citizens Bank began busi- * ||| , ness about fifteen years ago, on a capital of $60,000, with the late D. A. P. n Jordan as president and J. F. Davis, , cashier. "H I NEGRO CONVENTION CALLED. -Jl ? :W " * > Movement for Purpose of Preventing .-V| i Disfranchisement In South. At a conference of negroes at the Henry Harland Garnet Club, Brooklyn, N. Y., Tuesday, it was decided to is- i| sue a call requesting all the negro voters of New York, New jersey and New England to send representativee to a 1 convention to be held on June 3 in Brooklyn. The object of the call, which is signed by Bishops Derrick and Walters ' and many clergymen, is to take measures to prevent the disfranchisement : of southern negroes and to elect delegates to the national suffrage convention, which will be held in Louisville ||j