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MAY COLLECT OLD DEBTi Government Loaned 28 Millions to 26 . States in Jackson's Time. Washington, April 3.?The publication to-day over the country of the introduction by Representative Murdoch, of Kansas, of a bill to call upon the twenty-six States to repay to the pnvprnmpnt 3528.000.000. which W8.S distributed during Andrew Jackson's administration, was followed immediately with a flood of telegrams upon members, senators' and newspaper correspondents for more light on the subject. "I introduced that bill two years ago," said Mr. Murdock late to-day, "and no one paid any attention to . it." In 1830 there was a surplus in the Federal treasury of $38,000,000, due ^ largely to the sale of public land in ?the Central West. Congress author;4" ized the distribution among the States upon their promising to repay .it upon demand of the secretary of P?-5. the treasury. After $28,000,000 had been distributed, but before the fourth instalment had been paid, congress t passed another law postponing payment of the final instalment and incorporating as a "joker" a provision that the money distributed should be subject to the demand of congress instead of the secretary of the treasury. It is said the matter of the repayment was called to Mr. Murdoch's & V attention by the claim of Virginia's sip1-: a few years ago to the fourth instal I meat, bun unuisuiuuivu. The twenty-six States received the three instalments in proportion to their representation in congress. The distribution among Southern States was as follows: Maryland, $956,000; Virginia, $2,199,000; North Carolina, $1,444,000; South Carolina, $1,051,000; : Georgia, $1,051,000; Alabama, > 1669,000; Louisiana, $478,000; Mississippi, $382,000; Tennessee, $1,434,000; Kentucky, $1,434,000; i Missouri, $382,000; Arkansas, $287,000. M COOMER ACQUITTED. Negro Accused of Murder of J. E. Gaillard Set Free. v. -r Sumter, April 2.?Jack McCoom1 er, the negro employe of Cole Bros'. , circus, who was convicted of the murder of Former Deputy Sheriff J. E. Gaillard and sentenced to the penitentiary for life hearly two years ago, was to-day set free, the jury in the second trial having fcmd a verdict of not guilty. George Spivens, the white man, who was jointly inij dieted with McCoomer, was granted a second trial last year and was then acquitted. McCoomer was ably defended by L. D. Jennings, Esq., he Ip-p-' having been appointed by the court 6|||-r' at the first trial. The result of the second trial causes no surprise, as those who have followed the case most closely have long been convinced that the murderer of "Ted" Gaillard was never arrested and that a mistake was made in arresting Spivens and McCoomer. SUICIDE AT BLACKVILLE. ^Sl^v'^Yonng Negro Forges Father's Name to Check and Shoots Himself. * Robert Coleman, son of O. R. ColeKpSt man, a negro youth of 18 years, endgp' ed his life by shooting himself in the . left breast with a pistol about one jUl' o'clock Monday. W&mF' The cause of Coleman's rash deed Iwafe as follows: On Saturday he went to Blackville and going to the store of Mr. N. Blatt, presented a check on the Bank of Blackville for $8.00 signed "O. R. ^Coleman." Mr. Blatt was somewhat uncertain what to do, but the negro assured him that the check was good, that it had been written by his father, who ran a bank account with the Bank of Blackville. Mr. Blatt finally cashed the check for him. On Monday when the check was presented for deposit by Mr. Blatt, he was informed that the check was a forgery and would not be accepted.' Mr. Blatt then sent a message to Coleman and his father, both of whom live about two and one-half miles from Blackville, telling them what the bank had done. Young Coleman was in the field at work with his father. He said very little about the matter, but when he stopped work at noon he got on his mule and went by T. Odom's house and asked Odom to lend him his pistol to shoot a rabbit nearby. Odom got his pistol and handed it to Coleman. The boy stepped out in the yard and putting the gun against his left breast fired, killing himself almost instantly. Coleman's father is a highly respected colored man in his section and has the confidence of all who know him.?Barnwell Sentinel. gpy; ' f Wilson May Hold Job. Joshua Wilson, Florence's colored postmaster, came to Washington last week to find out what was going on, oil* nnr>o r?r twipfi nrflHTlli omuvu tuv Uli VUVV Vf* V ?r *vv V the White House, found that apparently he was good for another year in the office and quietly slipped back : home. Indications strongly point to his retaining the office for several mctaths unless some agreement can be reached and no fight made in the senate. Wilson, after remaining here a day or two and taking in the situation, went home, saying that 'everything looked good to him and that as he appeared to be on top he would remain so by staying out of the fight. Howard Cassell, who is trying to land the office, has filed with the president and with the postoffice department papers showing that he has been a citizen of Florence for the last five years, that he is the owner of considerable real estate in surrounding counties, and that, better than all, he is engaged to one of the best young ladies in Florence county. It is believed these recommendations are sufficient to eventually pull him through.?Washington special to News and Courier. , J & Is ' ADMIRAL CERVERA DEAD. ?J Gallant Sailor Who Commanded Spanish Fleet at Santiago. T"> ?? 1 Ani.il 9 Vino jruertu xveai, opaiu, o.? ?, Admiral Pascaul Cervera, who com-1 manded tne Spanish neet in the hat- I * tie of Santiago de Cuba, died here j this afternoon. Admiral Cervera was retired from j the active list of the Spanish navy on j December 14, last, at his own request; j on account of tailing health. He suf-j, fered from an affection of the heart, i j Admiral Cervera was born on Febru-1, ary 18, 1839. On the outbreak of > f the war with the United States he; sailed from Cape Verde islands with 11 four cruisers and three torpedo boat destroyers in April 1898, entered the harbor of Santiago de Cuba May 19, and lost his entire fleet off that port i July 3, in an attempt to force his way j through Admiral Sampson's blockading squadron. ( Portsmouth, N. H., April 3.?News 1 of the death of Admiral Cervera was received with great regret in Portsmouth because of his bravery and courtesy. He and other Spanish prisoners of war arrived in Ports- . mouth on the steamers Yale and Har- : J Of T Anio anH St, varu, iuimciij cue uv. uvu.s Paul, in July, 1898. The admiral and his surviving officers came on the Harvard July 15. After remaining a week they were sent to Annapolis, where they were quartered until arrangements were made to send them to Spain at the close of the war. The admiral" returned to Portsmouth early in September and rejoined the sailors who had been hfid here. All the Spaniards except 15 who died in camp and were buried on Seavey's Island, sailed for home on the steamer City of Rome on September 12. CONTRAST IN CEREMONIES. Japanese and Russians Commemorate the Battle at Chemulpo. The dismal city of Chemulpo, on the west coast of Corea, recently witnessed two strangely contrasting ceremonies, each conducted by aliens in the land, and each commemorating the historical event which served to make the name of the town known around the world. The occasion of the demonstration was the anniversary on February 9 of the battle between the Russian and Japanese na val detachments ouisiae me uaruui. j Hundreds of Japanese came down \ from Seoul,, the capital city, sixty ] miles away, to join with the large \ Japanese colony at Chemulpo in mak- j ing the day a typical holiday of their < home land. All of the Japanese quar- i ter in the town blossomed with bunt- ( ing, flags and lanterns, day fireworks , banged off the new stone quay at the waterfront and every sendo and . 'rickishaw man in town was out be- , hind a brass band, trailing his enthusiasm through the narrow streets } of the mongrel town. j There were long speeches in the , high sounding formal oratory of the j Japanese, a parade drill of some of ] the Japanese soldiers still retained in ] Corea, for the good of the Coreans, < and a long night afterward of saki ( drinking and dancing by the geisha. 1 The Russians, who- came v down from Seoul, had no part in the Japanese festivities. With M. de Somow, the Russian consul general, there j were M. Birukoff, the archimandrite 1 of the Orthodox church in the dio- 1 cese of Corea; a few attaches from 1 the consulate and a half dozen Rus- * sian merchants and travelers. ( They went out to the little foreign J burying ground on one of the bleak, I treeless hills back of the town and J * % ? oil nf thf? dead that had IUC1C, nuci v uti been recovered from the Variag and * Korietz after the battle were buried, the archimandrite conducted the orthodox service for the repose of the dead. The responses were sung by Corean converts. Among some of the foreigners who stood in the cemetery with uncovered heads while the priest offered up prayers for the brave dead were those who remembered the day when the Variag and Korietz came limping back into harbor, after having stood off for more than an hour the overwhelming squadron under Admiral Uriu. The Variag, her unprotected sides punctured like a sieve, was listing to such an extent that the blackened snouts of some of her starboard guns were dipping in the waves. The Korietz, little gunboat, hardly bigger than an American revenue cutter, had been under the protection of her bigger sister and was practically unhurt. Then it was that, as the foreigners who ranged the hillsides back of the town and the knobs of the harbor islands saw the conquering Japanese squadron coming in to take its prizes, the roar of fired magazine smote the 1? ori/^ th<=> two RUS- ? Ugly 11U1C tUITU ?uu ?- ? - sian ships dropped to the mud of the r harbor. Even as the smoke of the c explosions mushroomed out in the ? higher air strata, and the bay's wa- I ters were peppered with the falling 1 fragments of the fighting ships, the band on the Italian cruiser lying at ? anchor in the inner harbor struck up ? the heavy cadences of the Russian c national hymn in a requiem. ? m c ' $100 Reward, $100. 1 The readers of this paper will be ] pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. 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Greenville, April 4.?Blasting a; lole in the rock bottom of their cell it the jail here, Garber Moore,; tnown as "Tennessee Dutch," and Jeorge Barton, alleged yeggmen, ai -; ested in Birmingham and brought j lere on March 10, early this morning ! jroke jail and made their escape. "Tennessee Dutch" has used I nany aliases, among them being fohn Rutherford, John Hinkle, Jake i Vloore and "Gobbler." He is one of ;he most notorious crooks who has jperated in this country. His pal, Jeorge Barton, is equally well known n police circles. The watchman on duty outside the :ell says he does not know how or vhen the prisoners left. At the present term of the federal jourt Moore and Barton were to be :ried for tearing up the safe in the Pelzer postoffice. One year ago they jommitted this daring act and South Carolinians in particular were pecuiarly interested in their capture. The loise made by the explosion which :ore away the front of the safe at the Pelzer government station awoke the jeople of the city, and when Ruther lord and Barton were making their 'get away" in a buggy two pistol jhots were fired at them by a man vho stood on the veranda of a hotel )orch. Neither shot took serious effect. Arrested in Birmingham. They were arrested in Birming1am, Ala., early in March and held lor the robbery at Pelzer. Postoffice Inspector Gregory captured the two nen. He took them to Atlanta, from ;he jail of which they had once escaped, and. United States Marshal Duncan Adams, at Charleston, was lotifled of their arrest. He wrote Sheriff Pool asking that :he men be kept safely here and sayng that he would furnish a guard at ;he jail. E. C. Carter, former arresting officer for the S. P. C. A., was delegated ly the government to guard outside >f the jail, lest the yeggmen get out >f their cells and away from conflnenent. Deputy Sheriff Phillips lives in the luilding, a part of which is used for :he prisoners, and he, his wife and lis children were ignorant until early :his morning that the notorious safeilowers were not ready for their Sunday morning breakfast. Carter vas on the outside, presumably. He lid not know, at any rate, how or tvhen the men left. The two men were in the same cell ?one of the strongest cells in the jail?and while Rutherford, the man vith the numerous aliases, had done most of the talking to the outsiders, it is supposed that Barton was at tvork arming a noie imuugu ioor. It is believed that an umbrella iandle was used for a drill. After slowing the hole the men dropped in:o the basement and made their jscape through the jailer's , apartnents. A Notorious Yegg. Garber Moore, alias John Rutherford, alias John Hinckle, alias "Tenlessee Dutch," etc., is one of the nost notorious "yeggs" in the' history of the operations of professional jafeblowers in America, and his pal, Jeorge Barton, alias "Chicago \rmy," is almost equally notorious. Each has a score of postofflce and sank robberies charged against him. 'Dutch" and Barton were arrested it Birmingham the first of March, md Inspector Gregory, who was in ;hat section on a still hunt for the )air, easily identified them, and he ;ook proceedings before the United A? thoro tn h p vp SlUieS UUIIlLUlSSlVUd VU\/A V W _ ;hem held for the Pelzer job. 'Dutch" employed counsel to fight extradition to South Carolina and >ven had his attorney offer a reward 'or his (Dutch's) return to Missislippi, where he escaped from the iiankin farm of the Mississippi State jenitentiary while serving a fiverear sentence for burglary. His eforis, however, were unavailing, and he postoffice inspectors had no trou)le in holding him for the Pelzer job ilong with Barton. When arrested "Dutch" had in his )ossession $195 in money, a mileage >ook, etc. He denied acquaintance vith Barton at first, but not after Inipector Gregory had flashed his "inerview" with the cracksmen. Inspec:or Gregory was thoroughly familiar vith the operations of "Dutch," and 'Dutch" knew it. "Dutch." is a Hungarian Jew, a native of Tennessee, md his criminal career was begun jarly in life. He has traveled extenlively in the United States and Eu ope, and it is not unlikely that he jperated in the old world. He is ipparently 35 years of age, 5 feet \Vz inches in height, weighs about L62. -n?"William Ward." serv .Dill LUiI, 0.0 irtiiMu .. , id three years in the federal prison it Atlanta for burglary of the post)ffice at Woodbine, Ky. He was afjtjrwards arrested for cracking a post>ffice safe, but escaped from the At-, anta prison while awaiting trial. Barton is an American, about 34 rears of age; height, 5 feet 11 nches; weight, 145; slight built, ight arm off at elbow. Official Charged With Perjury. Frankfort, Ky., April 1.?Upon a varrant sworn out by County Judge 3. H. Davis, of Shelby county, Adjt. Jen. Garnett Ripley was arrested lere to-day charged with perjury. It s alleged he swore falsely in his ;estimony in the sensational $25,000 lamage suit filed by Mrs. Hazlett igainst Walter Duncan, in Shelby iounty. Duncan killed Newt Hazett on the roadway and was parloned by Gov. Willson on the ground ;hat Hazlett was a night rider and vas about to attack Duncan's tobac:o barn. Ripley was on patrol duty vith State militiamen that night and >wore at the trial he had heard ihots. It was claimed by the solliers with him that he was too far )!I to have heard the shots. - J . I MUiMvili x AlUUiSim Trained to Steal by Its Dishonest Owner. A monkey was arrested lor shoplifting in a large jeweler's shop yesterday. Incidentally its owner, a Mexican named Miguel Androval, was also taken into custody. Androval, who is described as a traveling mountebank, has long been under suspicion by the police, who were informed that valuable articles had disappeared in a most mysterious manner irom shops which Androval had visited. For some days the man has been carefully watched by detectives, but although his actions were apparently auuve susyiuiuu, mc iuchs continued. Yesterday morning the Mexican visited a fashionable jeweler's aun asked to be shown some rings. A tray was placed in front of him, and after pretending to examine its contents, Androval indicated another tray and asked to examine it also. The shop attendant turned to pick up the second tray, while Androval stood a couple of feet from the counter, in such a position that the slightest movement would have been detected. The man did not move, but a detective, who was watching through the plate glass window, saw a tiny head peep furtively out of Androval's overcoat pocket. Then, in a flash, a small brown monkey sprang out, deftly seized two diamond rings, and disappeared again into the pocket before the shop attendant could turn round with the second tray of jewels. The monkey fought furiously when arrested by the detective. It was removed to the Fourriere, a depot where lost or strayed animals are detained, and its owner was taken to the police station. In the latter's pockets were found many pieces of valuable lace and jewelry which had been stolen by the monkey. Androval is said to have trained the animal so cleverly that it would pick up articles which its owner had previously touched with his fingers.?Paris correspondent London Express. Dates for Press Meeting. Greenville, April 3.?Col. E. H. Aull, editor of the Newberry Herald and News and president of the State Press Association, was in the city to night in conference with Editors Brunson and McGhee and Secretary Wood of the board of trade. It was decided to hold the press association meeting on July 6 and 8 in the Ottaray, Greenville's handsome new hotel. The programme will be announced by the executive committee in a few days. A trip will be arranged as is usual after the meeting. Negroes Sustain President. Washington, April 1.?A delegation of negroes from Mississippi, comprising bankers, business men, lawyers and educators, called at the White House to-day to tender to President Taft whatever asisstance they could render in helping him to work out the policies outlined by him in his inaugural address. The visit had to do solely with the so-called negro problem in the South. In his address to the president the chairman of the delegation said: "Like you, we do not believe that any satisfactory and lasting results can be reached without the co-operation of the representatives of the more than 10,000,000 negroes who are the bone of contention; like you, we do not believe that any satisfactory and lasting results can be obtained without the approval and cooperation of the dominant race, the whites, in our section, and any policy that makes for peace between us, that means to bring us more closely together so far as the public good is concerned and the general uplift of our section, and in that uplift the uplift of the nation as well, is much desired by us, and our presence here is to assure you 'that the negroes of Mississippi will do their part in bringing about the desired ends, and' hope not to so conduct ourselves at any time as to embarrass your well begun administration." FIRE IN HARTSVILLE. Store of J. L. Coker & Co. Completely rtest.ro ved. "V V Hartsville, April 2.?The large department store of J. L. Coker & Co., a frame building worth $20,000 and stock worth $70,000, were totally destroyed by fire this morning. The loss is practically covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown. It was discovered about 6 o'clock to be burning fiercely on the m-1 side. The local fire company, assist- j ed by the damp weather, did splendid work and saved nearby buildings. A brick warehouse will be fitted up as a temporary storehouse. Plans for a new store will be drawn up at1 once. ! The losses to nearby stores, to glass fronts, etc., from heat and water is as follows: Harris Music Co., damage to building,* including offices on the second floor, about $500; Stewart's pharmacy, damage to building and stoclj, several hundred dollars; damage to stock of L. Z. Hicks, dry goods and millinery, damage to * ' - 1? --A ? 1 A A om nil nt nf glass irunl <iuuui ^1 w> auivuuv %** insurance of each unknown. The destruction is the largest ever known here. Hundreds of employes of the various Coker industries will necessarily suffer some inconvenience, but systematic plans are now being provided and the general business of the concern within a few days will move on uninterruptedly. The buyers for the firm will leave at once for the Northern markets to purchase a complete stock of goods. The company's brick fertilizer warehouse will be converted into a temporary store soon, and after a few days business will be resumed. The new store, soon to be erected, will be a brick structure of modern style and appointments, of sufficient size to accommodate the demand of a large business and will be a substantial improvement to the town. / v.\ a.'. !.. *1 ' "* ' . ' y ) ' f HEADQUARTERS 1 1 I ....FOP.... I M I ? . 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