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Booker Washington and Richard
Cajrroll to Make Speeches.
Washington, Dec. 9.?Booker T.
Washington will make a tour of
South Carolina, in company with
Richard Carroll, during the last week
in January, making addresses to the
negroes on the subject of their industrial,
social and moral development.
Meetings will be held in Columbia,
probably in the opera house, in Or-angeburg,
Sumter, Darlington, Camden,
Aiken, Charleston and either
Anderson or Greenville.
There will be a conference on the
betterment of the negro in Charleston
the first week in February, at
which Washington will be present.
Richard Carroll and Booker Washington
dined together tonight at a
prominent hotel for colored people
-and the programme was arranged.
Carroll visited the president today
by appointment and the president invited
him into his back office for a
private audience. Carroll says he
was very cordially received and that
he and the president discussed the
condition of the negro in South Carolina
with special allusion to Carroll's
work, "but," says Carroll, "I
made it very plain to him that I was
not seeking any, office and didn't
want to discuss politics."
Posse Kills Negro.
Statesville, Ga., Dec. 11.?Breaking
into the home of Fisher Belote,
a negro desperado, crying out that
' he wanted old Belote, fired two
shots from his pistol into the head of
the bed where the daughter of Belote
was lying ill, seized her by the
foot and dragged her from the bed,
fired three other shots and then
fled.
Harper Belote, a little boy, fired at
him as he ran, but missed. Tracking
hounds followed the negro with a
posse into a swamp several miles
away. The posse disappeared for
two hours and then reappeared.
"The negro will make no more midnight
raids on white people." Their
statement at once stopped all further
pursuit.
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Chains Wife to Wall.
Denver, Dec. 10.?Miguel Tortoni,
a Mexican, who had fled to Denver,
was arrested by B. P. Hbdges,
deputy sheriff of Yuma, Ariz., and
will be taken back to Arizona to answer
for torturing hi swife.
Because he was jealous Tortoni
since last July had kept his wife
chained to the wall of their home.
Despite the iron chain around her
thighs and a long chain that held
ber to the wall, Tortoni's wife had
to care for her two infant children
and do all the work of the house.
Tortoni chained his wife every
morning when he left the house to
go to work. When he came home
lie unchained her. This state of affairs
had continued for five months
before the officials learned of it and
took action.
BRYAN ARRESTED.
Game Warden Stopped His Party's
Duck Hunt.
'o Galveston, Tex., Dec. 11.?William
Jennings Bryan fell into the
s bands of a game warden yesterday,
when he and three other hunters
were arrested at Lake Surprise, the
famous game preserve of Banker
Moody, of Galveston, in Chambers
county.
Bryan, Moody and two friends
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the State game law by killing more
, than 25 fowls each The law limits
N the number of ducks to be killed by
one person to 25 in 24 hours.
More than 1.50 dead ducks testified
to the work of the four men up
to the time the game warden appeared.
Then it was sworn xthat
Bryan had really killed but a few
canvasbacks. Moody and the other
two Nimrods pleaded guilty and accepted
the penalty, the fine being
$25 each.
Negro Performs Operation.
Dr. Lewis M. Dunton, president of
Claffin university, Orangeburg, S. C., ,
has had thirty-five years of hand- (
to-hand contact with the negro. (
This long-termed acquaintance gives
him first-hand knowledge of the negro's
ability. It became necessary .
recently for Dr. Dunton to undergo
a very difficult and delicate surgical
operation. There were open to him
the best hospitals of this country
and the world, with far-famed surgeons
in charge. These he did not 1
accept. In this hour when he must 1
place his life in a man's hand Dr.
Dunton turned toward the negro. He 1
was admitted in the Provident hos- '
pkal, of Chicago, and the operation
was performed by Dr. Daniel H.
Williams, the most noted negro sur?
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geon U1 lliiB WUUUJ. yji. tv iinauuo
was assisted by Dr. William H. Mar- ;
shall, a former student of Dr. Dunton's.
The operation was in every 1
way successful and the distinguished '
patient is doing well. Is it a wonder
that Dr. Dunton should trust these ;
s negro surgeons? He knows the negro
and has confidence in him.?
Southwestern Christian Advocate.
\ Harriman Case Decided.
Washington, December 14.?In
deciding to-day the cases of Edward
H. Harriman and Otto H. Kahn vs.
Inter-state Commerce Commission
the Supreme Court of the United
States held that the commission is
not entitled under the inter state
commerce law to press questions of
relative private transactions, even
though they involve dealing in se- ,
curities of inter state railroads, when
investigation of such questions are
part of an action which has been
begun upon the commission's initiative.
The opinion dealt with the refusal
of Harriman and Kahn to reply to ;
questions of the commission concerning
the dealings of Harriman as <
president of the Union Pacific rail- :
way in the stock of other railroad
companies, many of which were com
peting lines.
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TRIES TO BURN JAIL.
Aiken Negro Makes Attempt to
Escape.
Aiken, Dec. 10.?Will Blackwell,
colored, was placed in the county
jail Monday afternoon, charged with
larceny of live stock. The case is a
rather peculiar one. It is charged
that last Thursday night Blackwell
went to the place of Mrs. Alice Lamar,
near Langiey, and stole a milk
cow. The cow was tracked for several
miles the following day, but
when the trail was lost Magistrate
David Bush was telephoned to and
asked to be on the lookout for the
cow and the thief. A few minutes
after the telephone message was received
Mr. Bush saw the cow and the
negro was leading her. He deputized
a constable to arrest him.
Blackwell explained that he had
come across the cow in the road and
that she had followed him off. He
was placed in the Ellenton jail and
Saturday night, Magistrate Bush
says, he tried to burn the jail and
escape, and a large hole was burned
in the house, but fortunately the fire
did not get any headway. ^
A fatalist.
Commander Peary was talking in
New York about the luck he would
have in reaching the pole with the
Roosevelt.
"They say you are a fatalist," said
a reporter. "They say that you believe
you are fated to find the pole
before you die."
The explorer laughed.
"If I am a fatalist," he said, "I assure
you my fatalism is of the working
and strenuous kind?like that of
old Abe Cruger.
"Old Abe lived in New England in
the days of Indian warfare. He was
a fatalist of a pronounced type; nevertheless,
he would not venture forth
without his blunderbuss.
"One day he had an important er- .
rand, but the blunderbuss, when he
came to get it, was missing from the
rack made of antlers where it always
hung. Some one of his family had
taken it Abe sat down to" wait till
it was brought back.
" 'But, Abe, I thought you were a
fatalist?' said a friend.
" 'So I am,' the old man answered.
" 'Then why bother about your
blunderbuss?' taunted the friend.
.'You are in no danger from the Indians,
since you can't possibly die till
your time comes.'
"'Yes,' said the old man. 'But
suppose I was to meet an Indian and
his time had come. It wouldn't do
for me not to have any blunderbuss,
would it?' "?Philadelphia Record.
GEORGE MENTZ ARRESTED.
Went to Home of Mrs. Sallie Green?
Beat and Robbed Her.
Piedmont, December 14.?George
Mentz, a white man, who has worked
in the picker room here for a
short time,, several days ago asked
for a short vacation, and went to the
Green homestead near Campobello
last Thursday, where he assaulted
Mrs. Sallie Green, a lady with whom
h6 had formerly boarded.
After beating the woman into insensibility
with a club he robbed the
premises, securing $85 in cash. He
then walked to Greenville from
Campobello, boarding the evening
train for Piedmont.
Upon arriving here he was identified,
and turned over to Deputy Sheriff
Sam Hayey otf Spartanburg, who
was here looking for him. A greater
part of the money taken from Mrs.
Green was found on Mentz's person
when arrested. He later made a full
confession of the crime. He was
taken to Spartanburg county jail.
Mentz, sometime ago worked at
the Samson mill in ureenvine in a
department which was under charge
of Mrs. Green's son.
Seaboard Air Line Improvements.
Richmond, Va., December 14.?
On motion of S. Davis Warfield, R.
Lancaster Williams and Edward C.
Duncan, receivers of the S. A. L.
railway, Judge Pritchard of the
United States Circuit Court to-day
authorized an issue of $4,250,000
in receivers' certificates, payable
Bemi-annually at 5 per cent. The
certificates are issued to pay the
debts of the corporation under the
receivership and to make improve^ments
in its facilities. The order
will be entered to-morrow.
Entire Issue Sold.
Baltimore, December 15.?Receiver
S. Davis Warfield, who conducted
the negotiations for the sale ,
of the Seaboard Air Line receivers'
certificates on behalf of the receivers,
to-night stated that the entire
issue has been sold, subject to the
signing of the decree, to a syndicate
formed by the National City bank of
New York. Mr. Warfield further
stated that the subscriptions to the
syndicate were double the amount i
of the issue and that the receivers
of the Seaboard were able to fix the
rate of interest at 5 per cent., where- ;
as, in the former issue the rate of
interest was 6 Der cent.
Knights of Pythias Win.
The Knights of Pythias have
scored another victory against the
colored Knights of Pythias in the
matter of the injunction against the
negroes from using the title
"Knights of Pythias."
The action to prevent the nefcroes
from using this title for their order
was begun at the annual meeting of
the Knights in Macon about two 1
years ago. The Knights objected to
the negroes using the title and gave
good grounds to the court for sustaining
their opinion. An injunction
was granted in the lower courts 1
and a case was made and the injunction
was sustained. A few days
ago, a motion for a new trial was
heard, and the colored Knights were
again repulsed.
The Augusta Knights will be pleas- j
ed to know that the petition for a ,
new trial was turned down, and all i
future turns the case takes will be ]
watched with much interest locally. 1
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GEORGETOWN MAN SHOT.
Farmer Probably Fatally Wounded
as Result of Mean Whiskey.
Georgetown, December 10.?T.
R. Thompkins, whose home is on
Cedar creek in this county, was shot
and probably fatally wounded in a
row near Rosemary last night with
Lewis and Henry Berrings, and a
Swede named Neal Busk.
Thompkins left his home with the
intention of making a friendly call
on the Berrings at their house, near
Rosemary, and the relations between
the men were friendly until some
mean whiskey was produced, and
swallowed copiously, when a quar-1
rel ensued and all hands drew pis-'
tols and began shooting indiscrimi-i
nately.
Thompkins was shot through the
body, and the physician in charge
declares his case desperate. Thomp-1
kins' horse, which was standing in
the neighborhood, was shot and killed.
Lewis Berring and Busk were ap
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ing was had to-day before Magistrate
Porter. These parties are now
in custody awaiting developments.
Henry Berring disappeared after the
affray, and was supposed to have
gone toward Charleston. Today, however,
he was arrested in Georgetown
by Chief.R. W. Rouse, and admitted
complicity in *the shooting,
but disclaimed any attention of having
maliciously shot anybody. It is
not known who shot Thompkins.
Berring was found heavily armed
when captured by Chief Rouse. A
double-barreled breech-loading shotgun,
two pistols, one a 38 and the
other a 32-calibre, with three empty
cartridges in one of them and a long
bladed knife were upon his person.
He claimed to be going ducking with
the shotgun. He is now in jail.
Brownsville Case Again.
Washington, December 15.?By
virtue of a postponement of the subject
from May 13 last, consideration
of the Brownsville case will again be
taken up by the Senate to-morrow.
Senator Foraker, who is pushing the
bill for the reinstatement in the
army of the negro troops discharged
by President Roosevelt for participation
in the Brownsville riot, believes
that the measure will be passed
at an early date.
It will be recalled that the village
of Brownsville, Tex., was "shot up"
on the night of August 14, 1906^
Responsibility for the affray was at
once charged to the colored soldiers
of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, who
were stationed at Fort Brown, adjoining
the village. An investigation
by the officers of the war de-,
partment failed to connect any particular
soldier or soldiers with the
shooting. It was then charged that
the soldiers of Companies ABC and
D had "entered into a conspiracy
of silence" to protect their guilty
comrades. Accordingly, an. order
was issued by the president dismissing
all. the soldiers of these 3
companies from the service "without
honor."
The debates in the Senate were
directed mainly to a discussion of
the President's power in making this
wholesale dismissal. There was
some discussion, of course, as to
whether the soldiers were or were
not guilty of the shooting, and it
was in one of these cross-fires that
Senators Spooner and Tillman clashed
in their bitter controversy on the
race question.
Late in January, 1907, a resolution
was adopted directing the Com?
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an investigation into the facts connected
with the shooting. In the
committee, as on the Senate floor,
Senator Foraker of Ohio espoused
the cause of the colored men. Senator
Warner, of Missouri, Iwas chosen
to see that the Administration interests
at the hearing were protected.
For four months, with only a
few interruptions, the committee
held almost daily sessions. In all,
156 witnesses were examined. These
witnesses included army officers, gun
experts, colored and white soldiers,'
residents of Brownsville, and others.
On June 14, 1907, the committee
took a recess. Before the committee
and elsewhere the soldiers strenuously
denied thatf they were guilty
of the shooting, or that they had
any knowledge as to who was responsible
for the outrage. No witness
was able to identify any particular
soldier charged with being
involved in the affray. A majority
of the members of the committee
were convinced that the shooting was
the work of the soldiers, and that
the President was within his constitutional
rights in ordering the
dismissal of the three companies.
On May 13 last the measure for
reinstatement of the colored soldiers
came up in the Senate. Senator
Foraker, the champion of the negroes,
moved for a postponement of
the vote until December..; After a
motion by Senator Culberson, of
Texas, to vote on the bill immediately
had been laid on the table, Mr.
Foraker's motion was adopted by
a vote of 62 to 6. The Ohio senator
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out a statement in which he said that
while he could not have passed the
bill at that time, he believed that
its passage was insured by the postponement.
There is nothing to indicate that
Senator Foraker has abated his interest
in the cause of the discharged
men. He is not the kind of man
who quits in the middle of a fight.
There have been frequent reports
that Jie has "something up his
sleeve" in the way of speciic information
as to who is responsible for
the shooting. This may not be so,
but those who are familiar with the
tactics and temperament of the
Ohioan feel certain the session will
be enlivened by a cocntinuation of
the fight for the "Black Hattalion." *
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