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f ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 25, 1903. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. *
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PARSON RAISES IRF
Preacher Brou'ghton Scores
5the Georgia Tech.
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PRESIDENT HALL REPLIES
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Professor Turner Also Makes a Tart
Rejoinder?Allegations Were Made
During Sunday Sermon and
t Elicits Much Criticism.
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There has been considerable criticism
expressed over the sermon which
Dr. Len G. Broughton delivered at the
Baptist Tabernacle in Atlanta last Sun
day night, in which he severely castigated
the moral character of the profe.seors
and students of the Georgia j
School of Technology, the leading tech- j
? nical institution in the south.
In the' prelude to his sermon. Dr.
Broughtoii denounced the moral plane
of the Institution in no unmistakable
teams, saying that "as matters now
stand a boy might almost as well go to
tell lor grace as 10 me iuu iui ,
acter."
He then denounced the recent banquet
held by the graduating class, in
which he said that "the students and
the members of- the faculty swigged
wine and " champagne together." He
said the people of the state were indig
nant at this state of affairs.
This attack upon the Tech has
aroused much adverse criticism
President Ha.'I Talks.
In an interview which he gave out
Monday morning, President Lyman
Hall, of the Tech, said:
**1 feel it my duty to reply to the ser
mon of Dr. Broughton as follows:
"No member of the faculty has, in
my knowledge, ever attended a ban
quet with students. The alumni banquets
are annual affairs which have
been given for . the last ten years at
the close of the session in June. The
occasions have not been abused nor
have they ever been the cause of unfavorable
remark. The members of the
faculty and board of trustees, the governor
and visiting dignitaries have always
been invited.
"$he -statement is made that certain
people are "tired of paying their taxes
fcri-mtnratft drunkards, etc. In reply to
this (If It needs reply) I can only point
to'our Hit-of graduates and say it is
the boifct of the institution that net
one of ifcem has ever been known to be
diralpat-ed or unreliable in business.
"The following charge is made:
'There is too much drinking out there.'
Also, 'the faculty sets the pace.' Surely
every friend of the school, familiar
with its personnel and work, must
know this is a slander against the in
Stitution; and to those who are not familiar
with the institution, it becomes
Iny duty to say in reply to such state*
jbents'that I. have never known of any
fnemtier of the faculty being under the
|nflun<? of liquor.
: "As to the student uody, there is no
College dormitory in the United States
^hich is more closely looked after as
regards the habits and hours of students.
In the flfteen years of the
School's existence there has never
ibecn a case made in police court or
pt the city against a stuaent of the institution
for drunkenness or disorderly
conduct. Surely this is a record
^rhich cannot be surpassed. In the hfteen
years of our existence there has
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vccn umy uue ur twu u?scs \jl diuucuis
having heen found under the influnce
cf whisky, and the penalty has been
expulsion.
Professor Turner Talks.
Professor FranJ^ C. Turner, of the
and treasurer of the alumni asibciation,
gave out the following rather
tart interview in regard to the
itatements of Dr. Broughton:
M, "As an alumnus of the school and a
member of the alumni association I
express the sentiment of the association
in saying tnat this villainous attack
is beneath our notice.
^ "Such charges against our school
ap-e false, and the alumni are indignant
that they are brought, though we
feel sure that the people of the country
will consider the source and take
, Ifcese statements at what they are
%orth.
$ "It will probably be recalled that
this reverend gentleman a few years
Since made an attack upon the young
lady stenographers of this city, which
^ . ittack is summed in his statement
that 'it was as well to give a young
lady a straight passport to hell as a
diploma from one of our stenographic
colleges.' These words were thrown
back into his teeth. Not satisfied with
trying to smirch the virtue of some of
the fairest young women of the state;
"he now seems to be anxious to injure
the reputation and character of its
young men, and cast a reflection upon
an institution whose worn and reputation
are conceded to be above re
proach."
RUSSIA IS HEEDING PROTEST.
Czar Takes Action to Ameliorate Condition
of persecuted Jews.
The Russian government has taken
cognizance of the protest against the
Kishinef massacres. Great concessions
have been granted to the Jews, which
will relieve their terribly confined condition
in the large cities, where they
are herded togther and constantly un
der the eye 01 tne government omciais.
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SEEMS TO BE A FAKE.
Widespread Report that 8ultan of Turey
Has Abdicated.
A news agency in New York reported
Friday there had been a revolt at
Constantinople and that the sultan
had abdicated.
The foreign office at London has
heard nothing of any trouble at Constantinople.
The state department at Washing
ton has received no confirmation of
the reported revolt at Constantinople.
REPORTER CALLED DOWN.
Alleged Interview, Widely Published,
Causes Ex-President Cleveland
Worry and Brings Denial.
A Princeton, N. J., dispatch says:
Ex-President Grover Cleveland, on being
shqwn the alleged interview reported
by Mr. Bailey, Washington correspondent
of Tne Galveston News,
made the following statement to the
Associated Press correspondent Friday:
"I am very much astonished to see
3uch an outcome from the visit made
to me by one who only gained friendly
access to be my reason of his being a
representative of a paper formerly conducted
and owned by my deceased
friend, Colonel Belo, and now conduct
ed by his son.
"I don't know whether Bailey intended
it or not, but he has given a very
erroneous impression of what occurred
between us.
"If I had dreamed that he would at
tempt to construct an important interview,
dealing with important subjects,
out of'what was saidon the occasion or
out of wh-,t was said in the occasion of
ed, according to my habit, upon its
being then and there reduced to writ
ing and submitted to me. Instead of
gaining the least intimation of such an
intention on his part, his first words
were that he knew an ex-president was
not a person to be interviewed and he
left me without the least hint that I
had been interviewed for publication.
"All I care to add is that the substance
of the interview as published
is. in some respects, grossly inaccurate.
There are statements in it attributed
to me that I certainly would not
have made to a person no nearer to me
and no more in my confidence than Mr.
Bailey."
The Alleged Interview.
Mr. Btil-v, to whom former President
Cleveland alludes, spent Thursday
at Princeton, and when he arrived
In Washington prepared an account of
his conversation with Mr. Cleveland, j
The correspondent believes Mr.
Cleveland deeply in earnest in two
things. The first, that his name shall
not be considered in connection with
the democratic nomination. The second
is his hearty desire for the unity
of the party and success of democratic
principles.
According to Mr. Bailey, Mr. Cleve*
land made the following statement:
"T nornr cnnkpn to ftnvhodv On
A a?io uv t v* - ^ ?v ??
the subject of a fourth candidacy;
have never written to a single political
friend one way or another, nor have 1
been written to or spoken to by them.
There is not a political leader of any
prominence endeavoring to advance
any movement to nominate me in any
state, so far as I have been advised,
nor do I anticipate that any such offei
will be made by any leader, prominent
or obscure, in any locality of the country.
"In this respect the situation is more
than pleasing. In earnestly desiring
the democratic party to become strong
and united as of old, committed to the
3imple traditions and sound principles
which made it aggressive and victorious,
no thought of personal interest
has disturbed me.
"I have on several occasions within
a year undertaken to perform the faTJbr
which usually falls to the private in
the ranks, but there has not lurked
within me the hope of any reward savo
the consciousness of ha7ing made an
effort to assist in bringing about salutary
conditions in the party."
Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Bailey said,
wouH talk no more politics, but in re
spouse 10 a. remain tuai suuiuciu
ple were pleased with what he had recently
said on the race question, the
face of the former president kindled
with interest as he said it was indeed
gratifying to him to know this. He
said he had received hundreds of letters
conveying kindly sentiments from
the southern people since he had spoken
on the race problem, and, believing
he has fairly appreciated the difficulties
with which the southern people
had always to contend, It was all the
more a pleasing reflection that he had
the commendation of people for whom
he had ever entertained respect and
admiration.
NOVEL EVASION OF LAW.
Prize Fight Pulied Off on a Barge in
Middle of Mississippi River.
The first glove contest at Memphis,
for two years was held Wednesday
night on a large barge floating in midstream
on the Mississippi river. The
fight was under the auspices of the
Memphis Athletic Club.
Owing to a prohibitive city law, the
contest was only made possible by the
employment of the barge, which has
been fitted up by the athletic club,
and has a seating capacity of 2,000 persons.
MI8S CAMPBELL UNDER ARREST.
Georgia Woman Nabbed in Baltimore
Charged With Embezzlement.
Miss Dora Campbell, aged 26 years,
and up to early in May last postmistress
at Maysville. Ga., when she resigned,
was arrested at the union station
in Baltimore, Friday afternoon, at
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upon a warrant charging her with the
alleged embezzlement of postal funds
WILL NOT RECALL TROOPS.
Governor Beckham Listens to Appeal
from Citizens of Jackson, Ky.
Governor Beckham Saturday afternoon
received a telegram from Postmaster
Hurst. Mrs. J. B. Marcum and
other residents of Jackson, Ky., asking
for the continuance ot the provost
guard established by the militia. In
response he assured them that he
would continue to do all in his power
to protect the people of Breathitt. Nc
order recalling the troops has been is
sued.
TALK MEANS DEATH
Witnesses 'in Jackson Dare
Not Reveal the Guilty.
TERROR SEIZES UPON ALL
Captain Ewen Lionized by Young Wo*
men in Lexington, Who Designate
Him as "the Bravest
Man in Kentucky."
The Herald, cf Lexington, Ky., lias
received the following letter from Mr.
Haddix, the man who testified in the
arson case at Jackson to seeing certain
named parties leaving Captain
Ewen's home just before the fire broke
out Sunday morning. It is apparently
written in his own handwriting and
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able state of affairs in Jackson:
"Jackson, Ky., June 17, 1903.?To
Tho Morning Herald, Lexington. Ky.?
Dear Sir: A will call your attention to
the fact about the matter about me
burning of B. J. Ewen's house on the
14th of June, 1903. I left the house
next door to B. J. Ewen's hotel, and I
saw one of the party come out of the
gate in front of the Ewen building a
"few minutes before the alarm of fire.
He walked away from the gate, went
down the railway and ever since I
have l^een afraid to stay at home. The
second night after the burning two
men came to my house carrying something
in their hands. Their friends
say if I tell on the guilty party I will
go the same way Ewen or Marcum did.
I lived in the miners' camp, and every
other miner knows the same that I
know if they would ten. But they are
afraid their houses will be burned up
by?friends. I remain yours,
"GRAY HADDIX."
That Bribe Offered to Ewen.
From a staff correspondent sent to
Jackson to learn definitely the facts
as to the offer of $5,000 made to Captain
B. J. Ewen to alter his testimony
as to seeing Jett in tne corridor with
pistol in hand when Marcum was assassinated.
The Herald has received
a sensational dispatch. It says:
"From a source that is reliable and
authentic, it has been learned that the
full details of the offer of $5,000 to
Captain Ewen to perjure himself, was
communicated to State Inspector
Hines upon his last visit here, and
that he reported those facts to Governor
Beckham last week. The facts, in
substance, are mat a man went to Captain
Ewen, made him the proposition
to pay him the bam stated if he would
either leave the county, or would
swear on the witness stand that he did
not recognize the assassin of Marcum.
Captain Ewen told him that he
would have to think the matter over,
and made an appointment for the man
to come to his house and told him to
bring the money. Arrangements were
made that when tae emissary returned
everything he said or did could be
heard and seen by witnesses. He returned
at the appointed hour and
brought five $1,000 notes. ' He repeatwith
him five $1,000 note3. He repeated
his offer. Captain Ewen refused it*
and told the man to take the money
back and that he could not uso It.
Upon his refusal, the emissary lost his
temper and said It was. the worst mistake
Ewen ever made; that he would
be burned out, destroyed and absolutely
wiped out of existence."
Captain Ewen Lionized. j
Captain B. J. Ewen was escorted to I
the Elks' ball in Lexington- Wednesday
night and given an ovation. He
was brought into the room by a Knight
Templar, whose lodge was giving a reception
in honor of the sponsors and
?frnm oil nvor th<a staff*.
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The dance was stopped short and a
rush made for the feud refugee.
Scores of young women clasped
hands with him and declared him the j
bravest man in Kentucky.
"You are right, everybody is for
you," was the chorus.
Captain Ewen was asked to go
where the wines were flowing freely.
He went, but would not drink. He
has never tasted intoxicating liquor
nor used tobacco.
Captain Ewen announces that on the
advice of friends he would go to Frankfort
as soon as the Jackson Jury returned
a verdict and lay all the facts
before Governor Beckham. Ewen
would not give out what he would tell j
Governor Beckham. Men close to him
say it will reflect on men high in official
life in Breathitt county, and may
form the basis of warrants for bribery.
Big Oil Company Bankrupt.
The Adams & Sarber Oil Company,
of Cleveland, Ohio, filed involuntary
bankruptcy proceedings in the United
States court in that city Thursday.
The assets are placed at $171,000; liabilities,
$331,000.
L3I1ST PUNISH ASSASSINS
Czar Recognizes King Peter, Cut Says
He Must Avenge Murders.
An official note was published in
The Gazette at St. Petersburg, Russia,
recognizing Prince Peter Karageorgeovitch
as king of Servia, and welcoming
his accession. The note declares that
it is incumbent upon King Peter U
avenge the assassinations of King
Alexander and Queen Draga.
RESUMES FREE DELIVERY PLAN.
Postoffice Department to Establish
Many Routes on First of July.
The postoffice department has resumed
the establishment of rural free
delivery routes which were held up
on account of the deficit in the appropriation
for that service and a large
number of routes will be put into operation
on July 1, the oeginning of the
new fiscal year.
The policy of the department hereafter
will be to establish routes as rap1
idly as possible.
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| Cream of News.*
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Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each "Day.
?The Gainesville, Ga., cotton mill is
to be rebuilt at once, the Contract having
been let to a Worcester firm.
?A. L. Tanksley, of Nashville,
Tenn. ,was drowned near Savannah
Sunday. Miss Dupont, of Savannah,
who tried to save him, came near
drowning.
?S. B. Wilder, of Phenix City., Ala.,
died Sunday from hydrophobia, caused
by the bite of a mad dog.
?No street cars were run in Richmond,
Va., Sunday. During the afternoon
the strikers held a big meeting.
?Attorneys for J. H. Tillman,
charged with the murder of N. G. Gonzales
at Columbia, S. C., on Monday
-rrtvod for n nlinnp'p of vpnnp.
?Tho cotton mill strike at Lowell,
Mass., has been declared off. Tho
strikers lost out.
?Major James B. Pond, well known
manager of lecturers and singers at
Boston, is dead.
?Among the graduates at Yale were
seven young men from Georgia, Alabama,
South Carolina and Florida.
?Mine operators now claim that the
union men interfered with the nonunion
men, which is in violation of the
award of the commission.
?White Eagle, chief of the Poncas
Indians, resigns in favor of his son. In
honor of the event, seven hundred
ponies were given away as presents.
?In several cities of France Sunday
there were conflicts between the clericals
and anti-clericals.
?Italian parliament is to assemble
by decree of the king. The new cabinet
has not been completed.
?King Peter received Servian deputation
at Geneva Sunday and express-1
ed himself as pleased with the program
arranged at Belgrade for his reception.
?By a collision of passenger and
freight trains on the Illinois Central in
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?The cabinet has decided to disregard
the action of the Virginia state
in the regard to the cruisers Galvestcil
and Chattanooga.
'?A mistrial was declared in the case
of Jett and White, accused of the murder
of Attorney Marcum at Jackson,
Ky. Eleven jurors favored the conviction
of Jett.
?Former president Cleveland states
he has been misrepresented in interview
procured by a representative of
The Galveston News. Mr. Cleveland
says he did not talk for publication.
?Miss Dora Campbell, the Maysville,
Ga., postmistress, charged with
a shortage.was arrested in Baltimore
Friday.
?The meeting of the Georgia
Federation of Labor at Macon closed
Friday with the re-election of President
Kilburn.
?Lieutenant Colonel Grayson, of the
military advisory board, denies that
therd was any secrecy in drawing the
new military bill.
?At Clarksville, Ark., Friday, two
men were hanged for the murder
of Sheriff Powers.
?Mrs. James Lovely, of Lafeyette,
Tenn., a bride of three weeks, is charged
with poisoning her husband.
?Before the Alabama Bar Association,
Friday, Edward M. Shepard, of
New York, declared the south able to
settle the negro question.
?Leading Columbians are publishing
strong articles in favor of the ratification
of the canal treaty.
?Lord Grey, of the South African
Company, regrets that Booker Washington
has refused to go to Rhodesia.
Lord Grey says Washington has found
the key to the race problem.
?Lord Lansdowe, foreign minister,
has announced that Great Britain will
not recognize the new government of
Servia because of the butchery of
King Alexander and Queen Draga.
?S. B. Brown, of Albany, elected
president of the Georgia Bankers' Association
at its twelfth annual session
in Atlanta Thursday.
?Announcement made by Governor
Terrell at closing exercises of the
Georgia Technological school of the
gift of $5,000 to the Tech by William
R. Hearst, of New York; commencement
address delivered by Congressman
James M. Griggs, and diplomas
awarded.
?In a charge to the federal grand
jury at Macon, Ga., Thursday, Judge
Emory Speer urged tae investigation
of charges of involuntary servitude.
?The cotton mill merger meeting at
Charlotte, N. C., was very lightly attended.
?Two county officers were wounded
in a fight on an excursion train in
east Tennessee Thursday.
?Street cars were rocked at Richmond,
Va., Thursday by strikers. The
disorder followed the arrival of strike
breakers.
?The postcffice department has decided
to resume the establishment of
rural free delivery routes.
?Booker Washington has been
?Charles Hedges, superintendent of
the Washington city delivery service
of the postal department, must answer
charges of wrong-doing which have
Deen preierreu.
?The United States and the Virginia
courts have clashed over the removal
of the cruiser Galveston from
the Trigg ship yard in Richmond.
?It is alleged that a day was named
for the massacre of Jews at Novgorod,
but butchery was prevented by prompt
action of the police.
?An explosion of lyddite in an ordnance
factory in England killed fourteen
men and injured thirteen others.
?Judge Kimsey, in nail county, Ga..
refuses to grant b3il to Mrs. Onio Tanner,
charged with poisoning her hus
band.
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Negro Made Idiot by Lightning.
During the heavy thunderstorm in
the lower part of Richland county last
Friday afternoon lightning struck the
dairy of L. C. Campbell. A negro
farm hand was struck and stunned
and has since been completely idiotic,
although his physical condition shows
no permanent injury.
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Bl^w His Head Off.
A news item from Belton says: Preston
B. Mitchell, whose mind has been
unbalanced for several years, disap- j
peared from his home and no trace |
was found of him until several days 1
afterward, when his body was found
about 200 yards from his house, With
the top of his head blown off and an
empty shotgun by his side.
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Board of Army Engineers.
The United States board of engineers,
composed of Major H. C. Hodges,
Captain C. H, McKintry and Captain
W. V. Judson, of the United States J
army, met at the custom house in 1
Charleston the past week for the pur- j
pose of considering plans to further j
deepen Charleston harbor and make
this a harbor of refuge. Mayor Smyth
and members of the commercial bodies
appeared before the board and deliv-1
ered addresses upon the subject under j
consideration. I
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Byards Released from Prison.
J. P. Byards, one time a .Holiness
minister, but more recently an inmate
of the county jail at Spartanburg, in
default of a $100 bond to keep the
peace, was released from prison a few
days ago, his father making the required
bond, j j
The career of this man would fill a
.novel, so many characters did. he assume.
It was alleged that he was
first a religious reformer, next a Lothario,
having eloped with Mrs. Harrall,
another man's wife; third, a penitent
in the walls of the county jail, anil
last of all a poser as one who had suffered
unjustly.
It is learned that Mrs. Harrall has
returned from Tennessee, where she
went with Byards, and is now living
with her father, near Cannon's camp
ground.
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New President of Furman.
At the annual meeting of the Alumni
Association of Furman university held
in Greenville a few days ago, Dr. Lewis
M. Roper was elected orator to deliver
the next alumni addres3, and
! Sidney C. Tapp, of the Atlanta, Ga.,
bar, was elected alternate.
Both Dr. Roper and Mr. Tapp graduated
in the class of 1892. Dr. Roper
won the highest; class honors. Mr.
Tapp, although one of the youngest
members of his class, was a leader
among the student body, being one pf
the junior debaters, editor of the University
Magazine and historian of his
class.
Dr. Porter, of Philadelphia, was
elected president of the university by
the board of trustees to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Efr.
Montague.
Furman is one of the oldest Baptist
colleges in the south, and the board of
trustees at their meeting this year de+<->
/>nntinn(? thp ramnaian to
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raise another hundred thousand endowment,
so that the institutibn may
enlarge its work.
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Big Dam Causes Uneasiness.
It is learned in Greenville that the
Southern railway, the Blue Ridge railroad
and 'the Anderson Light and Water
Company, which would suffer tremendous
damage in event of any break
in the Toxaway dam, will send engineers
to the Sapphire country to make
a careful examination of the structure.
Conflicting reports have been received
about the dam, and it is impossible
to form any adequate idea-as
to its strength and holding powers
without an investigation by experts.
For this reason, the companies whose
property would be at the mercy of the
floods are determined to secure an
official report on the subject.
Texaway dam is 27 miles in circumference
and in many places is 50 feet
deep. Should this volume escape, it
would crush the Seneca river trestles
on the Southern and Blue Ridge,
sweep away the dam at Portman
shoals, near Anderson, and, finding an
outlet in the Savannah river, would
flood the city of Augusta.
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Tillman Seeks Change of Venue.
In the circuit court at Columbia,
Monday, Judge D. A. Townsend presiding,
the case of James H. Tillman,
charged with murder, was taken up,
and a motion for a change of venue
heard.
On January 15th, last, Tillman, then
lieutenant governor, shot and killed
N. G. Gonzales, editor of The State,
who had repeatedly denounced him
when Tillman was a candidate for governor
last year.
The defense at Monday's hearing,
produced about three hundred affidavits
to show that a fair trial could not
be had in Richland county, because of
the prejudice against the defendant.
The principal affidavits were made by
the defendant's counsel and friends
who asserted that the Columbia newspapers
and preachers had incited feelings
against Tillman by their references
to the case.
The prosecution presented about
four hundred affidavits in reply. PracJ*
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ucaiiy an me ministers uj. vuiumuia
asserted that they have made no reference
to the case from their pulpits,
newspaper men, including W. E. and
A. E. Gonzales, respectively editor and
publisher of The State, stated in affidavits
that the Columbia papers had
conspicuously and carefully refrained
from inflammatory denunciations of
the defendant. These assertions were
backed by statements from bank presidents,
lawyers, physicians, college pro
fessors. merchants and men in all
lines of business, including many citizens
of the county outside of Columbia.
The counsel on each side contest
ed very heartily every point, and several
eloquent speeches were made, j
The prosecution is conducted by Solici- j
tor J. William Thurmond, assisted by j
G. Duncan Bellinger, formerly attor- j
ney general, Andrew Crawford and \
William Elliott, Jr. The , defense is j
represented by George W. Croft, of
Aiken, the prisoner's law partner; ex
Judge O. W. Buchanan, the prisoner's
brother in law; P. H. Nelson, of Columbia,
formerly solicitor; George
Johnstone, ex-member of congress, and
George R. Rembert, of Columbia.
Tillman's mother, wife and child
were in court part of the time, as was
his uncle, Senator B. R. Tillman.
LIGHTNING AND DYNAMITE
Six Men Who Took Refuqe in a Hut
During Storm are Horribly
Mangled.
Lightning struck a hut in which was
stored 3,000 pounds of dynamite at the
new mines now being opened near
Senecaville, Ohio, twelve miles from
Cambridge, Saturday afternoon during
a storm, and killed six men and injured
a score of otheis, besides ruining
the mine shaft and breaking nearly
all the windows in Senecaville, a mining
town of 300 people, half a mile
from the mine.
| The men killed and injured were
! carpenters and others employed in
opening the mines and building the
shafting. When the storm came up
the men took refuge in John Saltzgaber's
barn, seme distance from the
mine, and suddenly a blinding flash
came and in an instant the barn was
demolished and the men scattered
( within a radius of 100 feet,
j The dead are: William Mahoney,
Samuel Hartup, Russell Hartup, Hiram
j Wilson, Hayes Hutchison, Robert Wil.
son. *
Among the injured are: Richard
I Davis, two sons of Richard Bassford,
j Burton Burton, John Green, Wjlliam
j Nelson, James Lowery, John Shears,!
. Charles Read.
DERBY WON BY THE PICKET.
Stake Worth $32,275 Gross Taken by
an Outsider at Chicago.
The Picket, a horse that never before
flashed first past the post, won
the American derby at Chicago Saturday.
He ran the distance, 1 1-2 miles,
footer than waa run before in
1<U?*M AW * w* ? _
the race. Ills time was 2:33. Claude,
the winner of three derbies was second.
Bernays, the Cincinnati" candidate,
was third. A crowd of 70,000
people witnessed the event
The derby was a record-breaking affair
in more than the fast time that
was made. Nineteen horses went to
the post, the largest previous field being
fifteen. The largest crowd that
ever gathered on a wes.tern race track
covered the Washington park grounds.
The race was worth $32,275 gross
value, the richest in the history of the
J race, with one exception.
i
i TO REBUILD GAINESVILLE MILL.
I '
Contract Let to Massachusetts Firm
and Work Will* Be Pushed.
The firm of G. H. Cutting & Co.,
Worcester, Mass., has been awarded
the contract for the rebuilding of the
Gainesville, Ga.. cotton mills which
j were demolished by a tornado several
weens ago.
Thompson & Co., an engineering
firm of Birmingham, Ala., was awarded
the contract for tne rebuilding of Clifton
mills Nos. 1 and 2, in South Caro|
lina.
A large wrecking force of hands will
' at once begin the work of clearing the
way for the permanent construction,
! and every means will be employed to
I push the work to completion.
SHERIFF SEIZES BATTLESHIP.
Uncle Sam, However, Is Prompt to
Give Bond for Release.
Secretary Moody Saturday received
a dispatch from Elizabethport, N. J.,
. announcing the seizure, by the sheriff,
' of the cruiser Chattanooga, now build|
ing at the yard of the New-York Ship
( juilding Company, one of the compa|
nies of the United States Shipbuilding
Company.
The government will promptly give
bond for reiease of the vessel.
MANY INDICTED FOR PEONAGE.
Grand Jury at Montgomery, Ala., Returns
Seventeen True Bills.
The United States grand jury at
Montgomery investigating - peonage
cases in Alabama, reported seventeen
Indictments Saturday, maKing iw m
all thus far found.
Troops to Quell Strikers.
Governor Cummings, of Iowa, upon
receipt of advices that a crisis was approaching
in the street railway strike
! at Dubuque Issued orders Saturday
morning to mobilize three companies
of militia at that point.
DEATH CLAIMS GEN. WHEATON.
Prominent Retired Army Officer Dies
in Washington at Age of Seventy.
Major General Frank Wheaton, U.
S. A., retired, died in Washington
Thursday, aged 70 years. A widow
and two daughters survive him.
General Wheaton had an active military
career and in the civil war participated
in many battles, notably those in
various Virginia, Maryland and Penneylvania
campaigns. He was promoted
m tho rank of maior eeneral April 2
1897, and retired a month later.
IMMORAL JUDGE FIRED.
' Daniel McMillan, of New Mexico Supreme
Court, is Out of a Job.
A Washington dispatch says: President
Roosevelt, after a conference
with Attorney General Knox, signed an
order Monday removing Judge Daniel
H. McMillan, of the supreme court oi
New Mexico, on charges of general im
morality.
Judge McMillan originally was ap
pointed to the position from Buffalo
COLUMBIA JUHY t-tAittu.
Motion for a Change of Venue in Case
of Ex-Lieutenant Governor Tillman
Heard in Carolina Court.
In the circuit court at Columbia, S.
C., Monday, Judge D. A. Townsend
presiding, the case of James H. Tillman,
charged with murder, was taken
up, and a motion for a change of venue
heard.
On January 25, last, Tillman, then
lieutenant governor, shot and killed
N. G. Gonzales, editor of The State<
who had repeatedly denounced him
when Tillman was" a candidate for governor
last year.
The defense at Monday's hearing
produced about three hundred affidavits
to show that a fair trial could not
be had in Richland county, because of
the prejudice against the defendant.
The principal affidavits were made by
defendant's counsel and friends, who
asserted that the Columbia newspapers
and preachers had incited feeling
asainst Tillman by their references to
the case.
The prosecution presented about
four hundred affidavits in reply. Prac
tically all the ministers of Columbia
asserted that they have made no ret
erence to the case frcm their pulpits
newspaper men, including W. E. anc
A. E. Gonzales, respectively editor anc
publisher of The State, stated in affi
davits that the Columbia papers hac
conspicuously and carefully refrained
| from inflammatory denunciations o]
j the defendant. These assertions were
backed by s-tatements from bank pres
idents, lawyers, physicians, college pro
fessors, merchants and men in all
lines of business, including many citi
zens of the county outside of Columbia
The reading of these was not con
eluded when court adjourned until
Tuesday morning.
Tillman's mother, wife and child
were in court part of the time, as was
his uncle, Senator B. R. Tillman.
BRAVERY BRINGS REWARD.
Former Georgia Sheriff Given Gooc
Berth by Uncle Sam,
The news comes from Washingtoi
that Joseph L. Merrell has received
the appointment of keeper of the re
servation at the federal prison near At
lanta, Ga.
Mr. Merrell, who took up the worl
of his office Monday, will be remem
a -i < <* - ? /~t?
Derea as me suenu. ui vauuii tuuu^
who, by his remarkable coolness anc
unyielding bravery held off a mob ii
Carrollton a few months ago and savec
the life of a negro who was about to b<
lynched.
When the mob charged the jai
where the negro was confined the sher
iff ordered them back, and when hii
order was disregarded, he and his dep
uties fired into the crowd of enrag<
citizens, killing one man and woundinj
several others. The man who wai
killed was a very prominent yoimj
lian of Carrollton.
Quite a deep feeling was arouse<
against the sheriff for his action, an<
when the election for sheriff cam*
again he was defeated. He was not
however, condemned by all, for man:
commended him for upholding the law
LOUD'S NAME IS MENTIONED.
Another Postal Graft is Under Inves
tigation by Bristow.
The Washington Post of Tuesda:
says that among the matters whicl
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Genera
Bristow is investigating Is' the pur
chase from a California company, th<
Postal Device and Improvement Com
pany, of some 17,000 devices for indi
eating the hours of collection of mail
It is also said that 7,000 of thes<
devices originally were ordered at !
cost of $4 or more each, or a profit o
100 per cent on the cost, and the alle
gation is made that a further orde
for 10,000 was placed, notwithstanding
the original 7,000 devices were no
used, but were reposing in a stor<
house.
The company controlling the deviei
was largely made up of Calffornii
postal employees and The Post say:
that it is informed that former Repre
sentative Loud, formerly chairman o
tho house postoffice committee, tool
an active part in their behalf an<
wrote several letters urging the devic*
in the department.
FIGHT ON CONSUL MILLS.
Americans in Chihauhua, Mexico, P?
tition Hay for His Removal.
Two hundred and six American resi
dents of Chihuahua, Mexico, hav
signed a petition directed to Secretar;
of State Hay asking for the remova
of United States Consul M. W. Mills
The controversy started when Ger
oral Mills failed to attend the Amer;
can demonstration at the inauguratio:
of Governor Terrazas. The editor c
The Chihuahua Enterprise criticise
this and Consul Mills preferre
charges of libel against him. Th
Americans then circulated a petitio
for his removal.
HOTEL STRIrvE SETTLED.
Chicago Waiters and Cooks Return t<
\A/nrU Drnriinn Arbitration.
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An amicable adjustment of the hote
and restaurant strike in Chicago wai
reached Wednesday night and th<
strikers will return to work immedi
ately after two weeks' idleness. A1
differences between employers an<
employes are to be settle by arbitra
tfon.
WORK OF MOB IN DELAWARE.
Negro Forcibly Taken from Jail an
Burned at the Stake.
A special from Wilmington, Dek
ware, says: A mob, led by a Virgil
ian, burned a negro at the stake Mor
day night within a few miles of Maso
and Dixon's line. The victim was Gee
F. White, a negro, just out of th
work house, who was accused of ha\
ing feloniously assaulted and stabbe
to death Miss Helen S. Bishop. Hie 1'
year-old daughter 01 the Rev. Dr. E. A
Bishop.
{METCAIiAUKAMtK |
Another Employe of Post- - |
office Department Gets Ax. M
BRISTOW MAKES REPORT JfS
( Second Indictment Against Machen Is . Jjg
Probable?Charge is Forgery.
Groat Scandal Still
A Washington special says: As .
result of alleged indiscretion in mat!
ters pertaining to the award of contracts
for printing the money order
forms of the government, James T,
Metcalf, for many years superintendent
of the money order system of the
postoffice department, was removed
, from office Wednesday by the post- " *|;
master general.
a fni! Investigation of the case ^Hl
. be made later. .The dismissal Is the
, j result of acts of Mr. Metcalf in opposi.
I tion to the bid of Paul Herman* of
_ j Rutherford, N. J., the lowest bidder
I by $45,000, and in favor of the next '&g
I highest bidder, the Wankoop-Hallen^^p M
beck-Crawford Company, of ' NeW :
I York, cf which Mr. Metcalf's son/fs if
[ Payne Very Much Affected.
; Postmaster General Payne In an- lp
nounclng his action, stated that there Bj
was no charge that Mr. Metcalf had ^ >
I done anything that is amenable to
law, but said that his conduct was a
. serious indiscretion that could not ba ^ ^
overlooked. Mr. Metcalf, he said, alI
ways has been considered a faithful, Jgf
efficient, painstaking and honest em? cggH
i Bristow Report Made Public. '&j
Postmaster General Payne Wednesday
made public the reply of Fomrfli
Assistant Postmaster General Brtstow M
to the charges o^ Seymour W. Tnllofcb, M M
I former cashier of the Washington city
postofflce, regarding the irregularities >
in the postal administration, and also
I reports of Inspection and investigar
tion of the Washington postofflce by |S
inspectors between June 30, 1899, and . -i/
July 31, 1900, together with the trans- ||
c cript of the Tulloch charges made
some years ago, and the conclusions
r thereon then reached by Postmaster H
1 General Charles Emory Smith. Th?*?
i papers constitute by far the most
1 nificant documents yet made public *#?! 'M
2 a result of the sweeping postal investigation.
The reports show the exist- v m
1 ence' of many irregiilaritletf dnring the^
- period involved. The Inspector who 8 pi
3 vestigated the irregularities reports v ? ?
>- tnat the files of the postofflce cashier :||
1 show direct orders from superior an- | M
I thorfty for the disbursement of all the *| ii
3 questionable iteins cited. The inspec- m
I tor urged "that the responsibility .for ?J :
the many illegal appointments, tbd^fn ||
i payments of two salaries to-one and; ^ ;
1 the same person and the dlsbnrsement^^^W
a of thousands of dollars for which prac- ; 'M
:f tically no service was performed, ->J|j J
7 should be placed where it properly be- 33 longs,
and the many abuses corrected.'* /More
Trouble for Machert..
It is believed that the grand jury JgV'J
will shortly be asked by the postofflce ^
authorities to find another indfetrnttot'1%
against A. W. Mfcehen, ^he former srajj9|
7 perintendent of the free delivery serwi^
1 The charge, it is said, will be;for-g
gery based on. the cashing of a check, :, M
s for $359, drawn by the cashier of the ||
" New York postofflce in favor of Henfy :M
' L. Lorenz, of Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Lo^
renz has declared that the signatpresr^
5 both on the check and voucher accom- ;;
1 panying It are forgeries. He declttres ^S
f that he has not received a cent of tho: T
money and has no knowlege of*the
? The forgery with which Mr. Machen vil
t ia ohnrcpH is alleeed to ^ave occurred
5 In 1894, when Henry L Loreni, aa *
commissioner of the court of claims.,' '
5 was engaged In adjusting the* claims*of
1 letter carriers.
Employers Refused Conference.
f The employers at Norfolk, Va., re1
fused to consult with a committee^;
* from the striking marine engineers
3 Monday. The engineers had no defltf
ite proposition to make.
MET DEATH FOR INFORMING.'
M
Murder of Convict Develops Sensation
1/ in Mississippi Official Circles.
Q A sensation was created in Missis* |?S
y sippi state prison circles Monday by , ;
J me pUUUbUCU UCUIOiauuu VI. u QWWU -SFXritm
. named Neill McLeod, that the killing
J of a convict, Dan Crockett, on June 3 -^
by a trusty named Horace WaUacej/^j
Q was wholly unjustifiable. _
(t McLeod states that Crockett was
d killed because he told members of the
^ board of control that the convicts o! %;
G the farms were being horribly treated ;
and that the food they were furnished
was not fit for a human being to eat*
BILL ARP VERY FEEBLE. '
Notwithstanding Physical Ailments,
5 Bartow Philosopher is Cheerful. |
A special from Cartersville, Ga^ '
says: There seems to be no material ... 'i
1 change in the condition of Major C. H* ?|
s Smith (Bill Axp) He is feeble, bill
e still able to be up and about thd
house. His appetite is fairly good and
1 he rests well at night.
< Bill Arp retains his jolly disposition 9
k. and pleasant mood.
SERVIAN TREASURY EMPTY.
Government Has Practically No Means'
d of Raising Money at Present V:xlf|
According to a dispatch from. Bel* J
i grade, the Servian government found
i- the treasury practically empty and ha* gil
t- no means of obtaining money, the
n k banks having refused to float even a
An installment of the recent French r
' loan was due June 15, but a French
d official who arrived with the cash ret
T fused to hand it over until the status x
of the government was properly de :^|
fined, , * ^