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e.." ^ j t\JC\5r\3roror\3rotNt'j | ] J SOUTH CAROLINA I STATE NEWS ITEMS. ? IfSJCNJCMCNICSJrNJCMCVJv M. V. Richards Speaks. 5 The address of M. V. Richards, land j . w and industrial agent ot the Southern railway, was the feature of a recent . ? Jlmoker given by the Charleston commercial club. It was the first of a se! ries of entertainments which have tr been planned. P* ' f; Uv- * * ^ Road Started at Greenville. Work has begun on the Saluda Valley railway, the project being financed by Messrs. Patterson, of Atlanta. Ga., and Pierce of Greenville. * i Twenty-five miles will be built at ; once, and eventually the road will ^reach Knoxville. k Charleston to Have Silk Mill. A silk mill of Passaic, X. J., has written to Charleston, to inquire of the facilities and concessions which may be made here to secure a branch Itoctorv in Charleston. The matter L" will be considered by the commercial people, preliminary to the coming of a representative of the mills, who is to present the matter to the business interests. / v Ugly Rumors Cause Shooting. * As a sequel to ugly rumors current on the streets at Aiken for several days. Victor B. Cheshire was shot ..through the cheek by L. B. King. Cheshire's injuries are not considered se i nuns. It is stated that Cheshire, who is a rural carrier, had agreed in consequence of certain charges against him. Mr to leave the state. Failing to do so, King, it is said, seeing him on the street, came upon him from behind and fired. The affair is deeply deplored as the parties are prominently connected. / * * City Hospital at Union Started. Work on the city hospital at Union will begin soon, as the result of a meeting of the association with the city council, when $330 was subscribed. Mayor McXally giving $50 and lumber at actual cost. Committees ^consisting of Mr. R. L. McXally, Rev. j " v?rL. M. Rice and Dr. J. G. Going and Dr. Crown Torrence, Rev. D. M. McLeod and Dr. R. B. Berry were appointed to solicit subscriptions and confer with the ladies' committee. ^ * ** Thought t.o be Murderer. The police authorities of Savannah, L '. Ga., a few days ago arrested a negro for attempting to pass a worthless I check, who is thought to be Sam & Brown ,the slayer of young Allan Heathington, of Meggetts, this state. The negro seems to answer the de!scription of the man who is wanted <v and an investigation is being made. r?f S^OO are offered t A^itatuo v* Yvvv v?uu T.v ? m for the apprehension of the murderer, i ffee first by the relatives of the murdered man and the second by the govemor of South Carolina. Brown de- I ^ nies all knowledge of the crime, but he j is being held. >. \ *% ! Young Woman Kills Man. : . ^ Sunday afternoon there was a dis? turbance at the Long residence, two miles from Donalds. Several men visitors became boisterous and were ejected by the women. As they left, Ben Kaynes pulled Rena Long, an old woman, with him. She hit him with a stick of wood. .He reached for a piece 4 cf scantling and hit her. She called for help and Claude Addison, a young woman, shot at Haynes three times with an American bulldog pistol. One shot killed him instantly. Claude Addison, as principal, and Rena Long, as i accessory, have been committed to jail in Abbeville. All parties are white. i * ? Cashier Under Indictment. Sam P. Harvey, formerly cashier of : -j the Atlantic Coast Line, was indicted on five counts in the court of genera! L' sessions at Charleston for defalcations aggregating *25,000. The lowest sum which he took, according to the in^ -?J rvtkrtr C-Iimc i dictment, is <mu mc utiicn ouuw were larger. Harvey was connected ,? $ with the Atlantic Coast Line for a period of eighteen years. His arrest , last July caused a big sensation in L Charleston on account of his standing in the community. He is alleged to have lost the money in gambling ^ rooms in the city. S % K \ Columbia Barber Suicides. | * Philip Mai try, the proprietor of Wright's barber shop, in Columbia, j was found dead in his bed in Colum-J bia. with ' a cord around his neck drawn so tight that it almost cut the 1 skin. j I Maltry had been running the barber | shop at the hotel for several years, and , had built up a nice business. He retired early to his bed. and the j ; ^ family was horrified the next morning j 4 t when it was found that he was dead, j A physician was ca-led in at once, and | it was necessary to cut the little cord I ? from around his neck and cut loose >i the stick that he had twisted the j i I t % t 1 String around his neck with, forming a sort of tourniquet. Maltry was 51 years of age, and leaves a wife and seven children. * ? Old Board Re-Elected. At the annual meeting of the Charleston and Western Carolina railroad in Charleston the old board and officers were re-elected. J. B. Cleveland, president; Henry Walters, vice president; *R. D. Cronlev. secretary; J. F. Post, treasurer; J. R. Kenly, general manager; T. M. Emerson, traffic manager; H. C. Prince, general auditor. BREC KEN RIDGE LAID TO REST. Sensational Incident Marred Solemnity of Day's Obsequies. The funeral of Colonel W. C. P. Breckenridge, held in Lexington, Ky.t Monday, was the largest since the fun erals of Henry Clay and Senator James B. Beck. Leading citizens from all over the blue grass region and lawyers and profesional men cl other citias were present All the local civic bodies, confederate comrades, Fayette county and civic bod ies to whch he belonged, attended n a body, and formed into the procesion which escorted the body to the ceme. tery. Tlio cari'!f>oc tl-ord VlplH in the FirSl Presbyterian church, of which he had been a member for over a quarter of a century. City offices and all business? houses suspended business during the funeral hours. One of the most attractive and cost "ly floral designs was sent by Caleb Powers, charged with the Goebel murder, who is in jail in Louisville. Colonel Breckenrdge had made a vigorous fight in Powers' behalf and did much in editorial utterances to procure for him an unbiased jury. A sensatonal incident of the occa sion occurred when General John B Castleman, of Louisville, and Captain James B. Clay, ot Lexington, came near to blows in the lobby of the Phoe nix hotel before the funeral services, and had not friends interfered and ejected the irate grandson of the great commoner from the place there might have been serious trouble.- General Castleman was present to atend the funeral and met Captain Clay in the hotel.. The captain, who has recently been appointed a brigadier general by the Confederate Veterans of Kentucky, admonished General Castleman that he had failed to salute as an officer of superion rank. General Castlemain said he recognized no rank in private life or thfl cnmo timp smiled sarcas tically at Captain C!ay, saying that he thought the war was over. Captain Clay had raised his cane and was in the act of striking General Castleman when the hotel officer pushed up and took Captain Clay out of the hotel. IN RACE FOR GOVERNOR. Hon. Ciark Howell, Editor of Atlanta Constitution, Makes Announcement. Positive announcement of his intenI iion to run for governor of *the state ! of Georgia two years hence was made | Monday by Hon. Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, and state j senator from-the Fifth district. This declaration of Mr. Howell's intention I at this time is due to the virtual anj nouncement of their candidacy for gov! ernorship by Hon. J. H. Estill, of Savannah, and Hon. Boykin Wright, of Augusta. It has been reported for some time past that Mr. Howell would run, but [ he has remained silent as to his intentions until Monday. In response to the question whether or not he woulJ be a candidate, Mr. Howell said: "The fact that two other announcements have already been made perhaps j justifies me in saying, even thus earj ly, that I will be in the race, thai my j friends may know of my intentions. "The people are just out of one cam| paign, and it is rather early to precipi itate another; indeed, I will not do so further than to say to my friends and well wishers in all parts of the state that at the proper time I shall make j formal announcement presenting my candidacy to the consideration of the voters of the state. The statement 1 make now -and any formal announcement that may afterwards be made, will perhaps not be received as a matter of news, for without any word from me, or any effort to build up a sentiment favorable to my cnadidacy, I the idea seems to have been prevalent for some time that I would be in the race, and many of my friends have been moving accordingly. I suppose this grew out of the thought that as president of the senate the sugg^tion was logical and the promotion net unreasonable. At any rate, whatever may be the cause of it, I am in a position whene, in justice to myself and to those whose friendly interests has been so earnestly manifested in my y?iyioif ?r mflv hp said that I will at the I proper time go before the people, take the matter up with them, and abide by j the result of the primary." [Half Million Dollar Fire in Cincinnati. I Fire in Cincinnati Monday caused a loss in the central part of the city on the south side of Fourth between Walnut and Main streets, and also on Main street, near Fourth, approximating $700,000. > WOMAN GETS PARDON. ! Mam he DeCris, Notorious "Diamond Queen," Liberated from Georgia Prison at MiliedgeviHe. Mamie DeCris, the white woman who has been serving a two-year sentence in the Georgia state penitentiary for ' obtaining diamonds and jewelry undet j false pretenses in Savannah, and who ! was kown as the "Diamond Queen/' j was granted a pardon Thursday by the ; prison commission on me eve of the | expiration of her sentence. J The pardon when recommended by j the commission was promptly granted ! by Governor Terrell. The reasons j given in the order granting the pardon ! are as follows: "Defendant's term will expire No! vember 21, 1904, and expressing a ' profound repentance for her crime and her intention of leading a useful life after her discharge, it is thought that this clemency may be of assistance to her." The expressions from Mamie DeCris j here referred to, of her repentance and ! her intention to lead a useful life, were conveyed in a ltter written by her to the commission several days ago. In that letter she practically asked for a pardon for the reasons stated. Mamie DeCris was released from the state prison farm at Milledgeville Friday, only a couple of days before ! the expiration of her sentence. The commission was confronted by I the possibility that she might make use of a pardon to her own advantages should she return to her criminal ways, but after full consideration decided to risk all this in the hope that it might aid in making a better ! woman of her. Mamie DeCris is the woman who j created such a stir in the penitentiary | department in the summer of 1903, I when she was whipped for a breach of j discipline by Warden Allagood. The i legislature, which was in session when : the matter came out, took the matter j up and many sensational newspaper ! articles were written about the case. ' Subsequently the warden who admin{ istered the whipping and other officials at the state farm were dismissed and i others put in their places. Mamie DeCris obtained several hun! dred dollars'^ worth of diamonds and j jewelry from Savannah merchants by j using the name of a well known and wealthy woman of that city. . # HECKER BALKS AT CLIMATE. | I Member of Canal Commission Sends in His Resgnation. i A Washington special says: Frank ! J. Hecker has resigned as a member ! of the Panama canal commission. His | letter of resignation follows: j "Isthmian Commission, Washington, ! November 11, 1904.?Mr. President: A study of fifteen weeks on the isth* mus during the past summer has con| vinced me that the effect, of the climate j of the canal zone is so unfavorable to ! my health that a continued residence ! there, such as the duties of the isth| mian canal make desirable, if not im! perative, would be at the ris*: of a gen' eral breakdown, both physically and ; in efficiency of service. Therefore, i with sincerest regrets I feel constrainI ed to tender my resignation, to take effect at such date as it may please you to accept it. "Thanking you for the honor done me, in having appointed me a member ; of the commission to carry out this great and important wDrk, and assuring you of my appreciation thereof, I am respectfully, your obedient serj vant, FRANK J. HECKER." I The president's replj' is as follows: ! "White House, Washington, Novemj ber 16, 1904.?My Deai Colonel Heokj er: I accept your resignation with exj treme reluctance; and I wish now to j thank you for the courtesy you have j shown me In deferring it so long as ! you have. I appointee you because I j believed you were exactly the type of business man we needed on the comj mission, and the ability with which ! you have served has amply justified j this belief. I am sorry that you feel j that your health will not permit you i to serve longer. "With best wishes, believe me, sincerely yours, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." ATD1NG FALL RIVER STRIKERS. Federation of Labor Votes an Assess ment of One Per Cent. The delegates to American Federation of Labor, in session at San Francisco, unanimously voted to levy an assessment of one per cent per week for three weeks in aid of the textile workers now out on strike at Fall River, Mass., and to confer on the execu! tive council of the federation authority ! to levy additional assessments. This | will immediately realize $75,000 for the aid of strikers. DEATH CLAIMS THOMPSON. One Time Governor of South Carolina Dies in New York City. Hugh S. Thompson, former rovernor of South Carolina, died at his residence in New York city Sunday night. J Ke was born in Charleston, S. C., in | 1S36. In recent years he was compJ troller of the New York Life Insurance I Lhwnpaay. Hi CAN HOLD THE FORT ; Until Baltic Fleet Arrives, Says General Stoessel, HIS MESSAGE TO CZAR Notwithstanding, the Situation at Port Arthur is Reported Critical?Jap Army of 30,000 Landed at Niuchwang. I ! A St. Petersburg special says: As i a result of the dispatches -eceived ; from Lieutenant General Stoessel, the i ' j war office expresses entire confidence ! that Port Arthur will be able to hold out until the arrival of the Russian second Pacific squadron. I i General Stoessel in his dispatches to Emperor Nicholas reports the repulse % of a Japanese attack October 26, on i the north front of Port Arthur. The j Russian losses were 480 killed or wounded. All the attacks of Novem. ber 3, the day of the anniversary of the emperor's accession to the throne ( was celebrated, were repulsed, j General Stoessel was slightly ; wounded in the head during one of the latest assaults on Port Arthur, j General Kuropatkin reports that in ! an ambuscade November 15, near Sin- ; chinpu, thirty-two Japanese dragoons . were killed or wounded. The text of i General Stoessel's dispatch of October ; 28 is as follows: "We have the honor to report to your majesty that the Japanese bom barded very vigorously October 25 our entrenchments north and northeast. The following day they also attacked one of the forts on the north side, but , our heavy artillery and shrapnel fire dispersed their reserves and the assault was repulsed. Our losses were one officer and about sever/y men kill- j ed and four hundred wounded. "Engineer Captain Sakharoff, for- ' merly governor of Port Dalny, died ; October 27 of typhus fever. "It is difficult to single out individuals for special mention among the heroic defenders." In a telegram dated October 30 Gen. eral Stoessel says: "Since my dispatch of October 28 j the bombardment continues with great fterceness." Under date of November 3 General Si;oessei telegraphed: "We greet the emperor; this day, a solemn one for all our country, we offer prayers to God and send to our emperor felicitations in the shape of reverberating hurrars. On bended knee we pray to God to give health to your majesty and also to the empress ! and the Grand Duke Czarevitch. . Our joy is all the greater because the assaults, which lasted nine days, have been repulsed up to this great, day, tha i anniversary of your accession to the throne, the same day that our Japanese enemies celebrate the anniversary of the birth of their mikado and , whereupon they had sworn to ta*e isc fortress. God. is with us." Japs Land at Nluchwajig. A Mukden dispatch, under date^of ' November 17th, says: It is reported that 30,000 Japanese troops have been landed at Niuchwang and 30,000 otners at Pitsewo and that a turning movement on the Russian rifjit is expected. 1 Critical at Port Arthur. A Washington special says: Consul j General Fbwler cabled the- state department Thursday from (Ji^efoo that the situation at Port Arthur is ex- j tremely critical, the outer forts having fallfcn into the possession of the Japanese. He also states that three Japanese torpedo boat destroyers are ly- ; ing outside of Chefoo harbor and fhat ; ! the Russian crew of the torpedo boat ; i destroyer destroyed Wednesday are j j transferring their arms and supplies to a Chinese cruiser which is posted in i front of the Russian consulate. Bomb-Throwing at Barcelona. By the explosion of a bomb in Bar- j cejona, Spain, Thursday evening, six J I people were injured, one of them fa- J ; tally. Appointmetns for Parker. j Former Judge Alton B. Parker has been appointed a member of two com- J missions to acquire dock and wharfage ! ' ' "? ? -,4? rVT*MTr VnT-lr nn tho i rignts iur uie ci^jr , Bast river. The appointment was j' made by Justice O'Gorman, in the supreme court. Big Blaze in Missouri Town. Eight of the principal business houses of the town of DeY/itt, Mo., were burned Thursday with the contents, causing a loss aggregating $50,- ; 000. The insurance partially covers I i the loss. FOUR MEN ASPHYJUATED. I ! A Broken Valve in Gas Works Results in Fatal Accident. Four men employed in the plant of ; the Dover Rockaway and Port Oram ; Gas Company at East Dover, N. J., ; were asphyxiated in the meter room j of the company Thursday. The acci; dent was caused by a broken valve in | the drip pipe tinder the floor of the meI ter room. ? ! EQUALITY NOT SOUGHT, f Booker Washington Reiterates His.Ad* vice to the Race in an Address at Montgomery, Alabama. J In an address delivered at Montgomery, Ala., on the opening of a colored club and reading room, Booker Wash- 0 ington reiterated the advice he has ? given to his negro hearers in all his public lectures, to make every effort . I I to increase the value of their service in every department of manual toil, to seek to own their homes and buy small pieces of land to cultivate, to rofrain from shielding the criminal, and to co.operate with the good white people in preserving the law. He de- ^ clared his belief that the negro did eg not seek social equality with the whites. w He sounded a note of warning ei against the extravagance and excesses $3 to which his people might be tempted by the unusual success and financial prosperity that many of them now enjoy. Said he: w "Referring to the opportunities that ui are at hand, recently I have been n< studying into the condition of the six or eight million of our people in South ge Africa, and I find that the opportunity afforded the American negroes in the southern states is far beyond those existine in South Africa. The field for s development is far beyond any that ex- 0? ists fcr the Mexican peons. And, again, if we are inclined to become discouraged, let us compare our condition with that of the Russian serfs or Rus. ni sian Jews who, in industrial, educa- | tional and professional opportunities, ^ are almost centuries behind the Amer- . ican black man. More and more in our moVal life w we must* learn to draw the line between the good and the bad, the vie- { 11 ious and the virtuous. We must set j r< our seal of approval upon right living j a] and create a pub^'c sentiment that j p: shall condemn wrong living. We J ^ should see to it that oy no word or act we shield the crimina. element of b our race. We should let the world un- ^ derstanc that we are just as anxious to seek out and see that our criminals 11 are brought to proper punishment a3 any other race. a "Right here I want to repeat what I i G have often said in the past, in the di- j 0: rection of freeing, if I can, the minds n of our friends from apprehension of ; danger in two directions. It bas been j b my privilege tor mingle freely with the i b leaders of the race in every part of b: the country, and I say without hesita- tl tion that the negro dees not consider ^ social intermingling with any other b race as one of- the essentials for his n development. Neither is the negro seeking in any part of this country as I Q a race, to control the white race in | P matters of government. In purely so- I ci cial matters the negro finds all the t( satisfaction that he wishes among the s< members of his own race, and in proportion as education increases the. ? number of intelligent negroes, in the same proportion will he find such satisfaction increased because of the enlarged number of men and women with F whom he can find association with satisfaction. READY TO SERVE SENTENCES. 5 . n Doctor and Jeweler Must Go to Pris- I on Camps for Four Years. q Thomas Sullivan, accompanied by ^ one of his attorneys, left Americus, Ga., Wednesday, for Atlanta, to appear ^ before the prison commission for as_ P signment to one of the state camps to serve his sentence of four years. Sul_ P livan was convicted at the recent session of Sumter superior court for as- E sault with intent to murder, growing h out of a criminal operation performed upon a young woman. ' * Dr. George W. Barrow, a practicing ^ physician, was convicted of perform- 8 ing the criminal operation, and like- a wise sentenced to four years in the I penitentiary. r Three Killed; Nine Hurt. A Detroit special says: Three pas sengers were killed and nine or more r< passengers and trainmen were injured In a rear-end passenger train coL ir lislon Wednesday at Elmdale division n on the Pere 3\orquette railroad. u NAN PATTERSON ON TRIAL. M Woman Arraigned in New York Court q for Murder of Caesar Young. After more than five months in the Tombs prison awaiting trial on a | charge of murder, the case of Nan ' Patterson, the alleged slayer of Caesar Si Young, was brought to trial In the ej criminal branch of the supreme court bs in New York Wednesday. In anticipation of the beginning of 0| the trial the court room was crowded with spectators. There was only a o? slight delay before It was announced UJ that everything for the opening of the j f0 trial was in readiness. j pj I two murderers swung up. i Neill Sellers and Dave Brown, Col- j g( ored, Hanged at Elizabsthtown. 'Neill Sellers and Dave Brown, negroes, convicted in Bladen, X. C., in October, of the murder of Mrs. George Parker, near Clakton, early in Sep- s'c tember, were hanged on a double gal. b{ lows in the jail yard at Elizabethtov/n f Wednesday. Both pretested their in. nooence. P !IRGUS CASH CONE hirty Thousand Stolen From Forepaugh & Sells. HOW PEOPLE BAFFLED J aul Was Made While Y/agon Wat" on Flat Car En Route to Tarboro, N. C.?Many Arrests Made But No Clue Found. While en route on a flat car bereen Greenville and Tarboro, N. C., .rly Saturday morning, the ticket 'i~} agon of the Forepaugh & Sells Eroth- j| s* circus was entered and robbed of \ % The entrance to the wagon was ef cted by the use of the regular keys, hich had been stolen from the treas er of the circus. The robbery was " >t discovered until after the entire M reus, which was traveling in three ictions over the Atlantic Coast Line, tw id reached Tarboro. > The ticket wagon was on the second ' v|| action and arrived at Tarboro at 1 clock Saturday morning. The first ':>M >ction reached there a half hour earer and the third at 3 o'clock in the' . orning. It was 5 o'clock before the robbery ^j8| ad been discovered, and from that ?|j me on until late Saturday night, hen the last report was received at '/J|l orfolk, a search of the people con->JH ected with the circus was in prog- ;vg| ?ss. The police are holding a man - -agi id a woman, both performers, on sus- j||j icion of having committed the robSeveral theories are held by the po-' ;;/|a ce and circus people. One of these Is fat the robbery was committed while. 'JjM le train was in motkn and that the /J toney was thrown off the train. Searching parties were sent out long the line between Tarboro and reenville in an effort to find any trace . ! f the money or of any person who 'Ml light have left the train with it. Another theory is that the cash hae IgB een hidden in Taiboro by the robers, and innumerable search warrants ' ave been sworn out. Armed witn" .Jjaj iese, the regular police and special $ etectives searched every place in Taroro thought likely to coneeal the There were a score of arrests made :'gj9 uring the day among the circus peo- /Jig le. All apprehended were taken into vgaB as tody on suspicion and while in the ^ JgH )wn lockup their hoggings were ' J|| earched at the show grounds. Absolutely no trace of the money 1||M as been found. WATSON OUTLINES POLICY. JB ror Next Four Years He Will Cow- ;1B duct a Vigorous Campaign. Tl-i orA 9AA nannlo frftm -"Ttal Dei ween iou auu. ww i/vujuv fcDuffle, Columbia, Warren and . eighboring Georgia counties heard Ion. Thomas E. Watson Saturday fit :|jl torn son in a speech of nearly two ||| curs' length in which he outlined' is policy and the policy of the Peo* ie's Party for the next four years. 'ill Mr. Watson declared that he pro- u|| osed to actively campaign in the in- 1^9 erest of the People's Party for the -^^a| iext four years and that those who Jfg iad abused him would learn that ft Jg 3 a fight to the finish. He declared .^|S hat they would stand for the income ax, the initiative and referendum, the overnment ownership of railroad nd telegraph lines and for the reorms advocated by the party in the ecent national campaign. '.|fl Taft Welcomed in New Oriels. *|| Secretary of War Taft and party cached New Orleans Saturday. They ' r'|g| fere received by a committee of promlent citizens, members of the gorer-. or's staff and a military detail of reglars and members of the state guard." IISSOURI LOSES STATE BUILDING | ostly Structure at St. Louis World*# j Fair Reduced to Ashes. The Missouri state building at tho t. Louis fair, was destroyed by fire iturday evening, resulting from the [plosion of a hot water heater in the isement. 1^5? The principal loss is in the contents f the building. The building cost 45,000 and in the building was $75,- i||| >0 worth of furnishings, the most valable of which were portraits of all rmer Missotrri governors and su:eme court judges. TURKEY GIVES BIG ORDER. jltan Wants Hundred New Batteries :i of Artillery. A dispatch to The Fraunkfurter-Zelmg (Berlin) from Constantinople ' tys Turkey is ordering a hundred new itteries of artillery from German /^||| rench and English factories at the ^ Dst of $10,000,000. The Krupp com- . any gets the largest contracts.