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The Batesbt^ Advocate. _ : _ " . . ; VOL II. BATESEUIK; WKDN1WAV, I )K('KM llKlt 2!. 1!K>2. NO. 41). IT WON'T WORK. What Senator Tillman Says About Senator Morgan's Scheme TO COLONIZE THE NEGItOZS. It Would CoM Too MiicIi Money and Would Not Solve the Negro truest Ion in the S..??t h. A dispatch irotn Washington savs Senator .lolin T. Morgan. <?t" Alabama, has succeeded after two veras of endeavor in interesting the war department and incidentally President Roosevelt in a plan to use the Philippine islands in colonizing the negroes of the United States. The war department has made arrangements to test the practical possibilities of the plan and the president has sent a special envoy, T. Thomas fortune, a negro leader, to the Philippine islands to make investigation and report or. the conditions t here. It is the Alabama senator's purpose in the lntlire to start legislation i*i eongress tor the movement to coloni/. the negroes in the Philippines, lie has not pushed this part of his work because he believes the time is not ripe yet for legislation: the farmers of the south, he says, think they need the negro now and until conditions arc more favorable, he will withhold the proposed legislation. lie believes, however, that the move now un'ri way will }<-Milt eventually in millions of the negroes emigrating to the i iiwippme i s 1,1 m is iimi wurKiii^ iii'ii own salvation out. This. h<* says, is the solution of the prave nopm oucstion which now eon fronts the American people. Senator Morgan's plan is to incorporate for the negroes, steamship transportation companies: to ve _ them homesteads of about twenty acres each in the island and to piv them the best possible commercial a 1vatitapes. The plan would not deprive them of their protection undei the llajj of the United States: it would not deprive the in of citizenship, of which they are pr< tid, and it would enable them to become a self-sustaining and ^ prosperous race of people, because t he fcialid iu-lhe. 1'Julinline island Is ex" ^ tremely rich and fertile .Theellmatc is exactly suited to t he neprTr. -V physicial and industrial character, he sajsT Under this plan Senator Morgan believes pp'eat numbers of the negroes, ibut not all of them, ol course, would vro to t he islands. WHAT TILLMAN SAYS. A dispatch from Washington to The State says Senator Tillman is politically and emphatically opposed toSenator Morgan's plan of utilizing the Philippines as a colony for neprot s Commenting on the scheme the South Carolina senator said: "It seems we never pu b yond the penetrating stink of this iily-while-andblack-and-tan business. It is continually popping up in one form or another. First it is c?i\ i11the nepro Ins rights then it is eliminatinp him from polities, with the educational question and colonization schemes following close in the rear. "I tell you none of these plans will ever succeed, that is. from the humanitarian point Of view and tile American people will insist upon that Ireing taken under c? insider.it ion. Now. say that the negroes are taken to the Philippines, there w ill he the cost of transportation to the Pacilie ocean, of the ocean voyage, of the preparation of some temporary habitation until they are able to provide for themselves. and feeding them until they raise, harvest and market their lirst crops. "If this is all the government intends to do for them, why the item of expense would he somet hing en unions. It would be necessary to tax the- pen pie to the point of oppression. Suppose such a plan is put into practice by the government possibly with hurrahs, camp meeting fervor, and ptomisesot paradise, if,000,000 people might !? .induced to go to the islands, hut then yoa would have T.ono.ooo left. Till' removal of if.ot 0.000 negroes is not going to solve the problem. The race breeds so fast that the if.000.000 gap would he tilled in no time and you still have that great expense on the , other side of the Pacific ocean. "It is too much like the 40-acre .and-mule scheme that was suggeste.il .at tit'- close of the war. Most of tin plans are suggested. I believe, as th result of speeches by negroes win have acquired some cducat ion and tin gift of gab, like Thotna.s Port tine tor i 1 isl .'i iici' 1 I ill ivv h:i > 11 i\ tin i'iiis in! 5 lecturing in a hinlifalut in way. Why lie has even made talks about advisinu the negroes in arm and assert tin inselves." (icllinK TOKI'IIK'I1. For the lirst time in the history < ! the Methodist Kpiseopal elmreli iner the Civil War, enmmissioiis from ill north and sutilh have arranged l< hold a joint meeting on interests of lik importance to hoth hranches. Tin? will occur on the 10th of next month, when a commission of the church north of eleven members, who have in process of preparation a new hymnal for the denomination, will meet with a similar commission of eleven men from the church south at Nashville. Term., for the pur pise of considering the adoption of the same book foi THE BUBONIC PLAGUE. i This lirt'iidoii Disease lias .\|i|>ruretl in New York. A dispatch from New York says Mircc cases of bubonic plague are under i reatment in (lie Swineburn Island hospital at Quarantine. The sutTerers J are the first and second cooks and t lie second steward of the Prince line steamer Saxon Prince which arrived j from Durban. South Africa, at New : York Wednesday, when on inspection of the crew three were found to t>e ill. ;A thorough examination of the paitients convinced Health Officer Doty I that they all had the symptoms of the 1 plairur and they were taken to Swineburn Island where cultures were made, j The result of the examinat ion there (confirmed the diagnosis made at the f inspection. The history of the cases makes a 1 complete chain of infection from the i time of tlu* exposure of the first man at Durban to the time of the arrival. ! The crew were ashore at Durban, and it is undoubtedly there that the disp'Kii u-'ic jvint r*n*t.ri,I I lint n*atir?nt k I - h... ... j convalescent, hut the other two are still under treatment. All three men slept toget her in a small compartment. The tot.tl numtier of the crew ) is :t|. There arc live passengers 011 t>o ird, a woman and '"our children. I The steamer will he sent to sea to ; discharge the water and sand ha I last j taken on hoard at Durban. She will then return to (juaratitine, when the passengers and crew will he transferred to lloll'man Island, where they will he held for ten days for observation. The elVeets of all will he thoroughly disinTeeted and the steamer will tie washed and disinfected in every part before heinir released. Dr. Doty says thai there is no danger < t a spread of the plague as the whole mat tor is well in hand. OUR RAILROADS. Tin* OJIieiai figures otitic Present Year's business. The Slate raiiroad iotnmission is now hard at work on the preparation of its annual report. All of the tigores are in troni the various railroads lines and the synopsis of the earnings have been made up for the introductory portion of the report. This; synopsis sho.vs a handsome increase in the gross earnings for the year ending June JOLh lasi T'-yp t-IJ ti.e prceeuintf year, aiHl ao average ; net income fer mile of 91..141.To as. against 91 ,'iJ\ .on Tor lnoi and $1! The summary for the year ending | June Joth last is as follows: Kurnings from all sources $11,783.t> hi. .*>2. Total expenses, less taxes: maintenance of way of structures: maintenance of equipment: conduct ing I runs portation: general expenses $7.(174,130.95. learnings from operation $1,111,S90.57. Taxes $172. 171.il. lneonx . I<ss lived charges and taxes ; 40,f>Mtl. 24. Increase in moss earnings over earnings of 1001, 9048,507.04. dross earnings per mile $3,815. 1 Operating expenses per mile $2.-i 7.01. 1 Average income all lines, less cx- I penses per mile, 1902. $1,041.70 Average income all lines, less expenses per mile. 1001. $1,327.00. This showing is a good one and indicates thai the roads nave enjoyed an excellent business notwithstanding then* were practically no unusual events to run the volume of business up. The tabulated statement showing the growth of the railroad mileage from I >33 when 137 miles were in operation io this year when the mileage reaches the handsome total of 3.0(11.oo miles, is also complete. There were 37.AO miles of new steam railway line Ixii 11 during the year, against 39 i miles the proceeding year. iWunis Damages. Alon/o II. (ilore. of Marietta. <?a.. wing through his tat her as his next friend, lias tiled suit in Colib superior court against the Southern Itell Telephone and Telegraph company for damages. Mis lather, .1. A. It. (.lore, lias also tiled suit against the same company, the two suits aggregating . $50,000. Alon/o (ilore. while on his , i way home, from the Marietta Chair i company, a few weeks ago. came in emit id will) two t'dcohone wires on Keiitiesuw avenue, which were euiineeted willi the arc light wires leading I'roin ll?e eleet riot plant to the eiiy and sulVored the misfortune lit lost- I .nil i of his hands by having them , burned ott at the wrists. The Crew I M ow ue<l. Sixteen men, otllcers and crew, of the Itritish coal steamer Marl.ly are believed to have been drowned as a result of the foundering of their vessel. The Mariay lel'l Liverpool for luiblin. loaded with coal. She experienced heavy weather in midehan nid. A lifeboat was lowi red. but was washed away wit It one man in it. The I sailor was rescued: he doelares he saw 1 lie Mar! i \ sink. I '??i- NilH* Kcepingr. .Folin llai ey and Kd and Hid l>an( iels, I lie three ih-^1 is chained with I tin- brutal inurdiT of tin* voting white mail. Sain Li^htsey. wen taken to i Columbia hist week f??r safe keeping, i it was fe;ired that if they were kept, j in jail at Ham well a mob ini^ht lynch . tliein. The murder uceurred near Sycamore, in Hani well County. A SAD STORY. A Stranger Dies in the County Alms- j house at Columbia. KIS HOME WAS IN CHESTER. PA I I lie Mysteriously l>lsu|?|M*!iro .1 on His Way IYoiii His Homo to Wiuiisboro, Where He Was to Work. John Dougherty, who left his home i in Chester, l'a., on the 2(>th of last An;.list, (lied in t lie almshouse in Co lumbia, on the .'Slst of that month, and it appears that his relatives have , been unaware of his demise. The disappearance of the expert, stone cutter was the subject of some concern to , those who were interested in him, j and the following appeared in the Winnslioro correspondence in The State of Wednesday: "August 2t>th John Dougherty left his home in Chester, l'a., to come to work in one of the quarries of Fair- ' Held county, and that is the last that has been heard of Inm. His baggage was cheeked to Columbia ami a few {days ago was delivered over by the railroad authorities to he returned to his relatives. The railroad company j ! has in its possession his ticket, which was bought hy l he owner of t lie quarry who remembered the number, and his disappearance w as after lie reached Charlotte, for the ticket was punched for the whole trip. How lie disappeared is a mystery, and ids friends, who have begun a trace of him, are ap-j preliensi\e that lie will never tie seen again, lie was about no years old." The St ate says Hie attention ol the! 1 lev. T. J. liegarty of St. IVtcr's ( ath.iiic church was aft racted hy this ' item and he called at The Statu otlicci 1 Wednesday morning and gave the in-! ' ; formation that Dougherty had died 1 I ii the almshouse. Father liegarty 1 gave the unknown the burial of the j Cat holic church. C.ipt. c. M. Douglass, clerk of the county board of commissioners, was asked for information in regard to the sad case. He called up Mr. .1. D. 1 urn. supeirnnenueni 01 me almshouse, and the latter told all that lit- 1 know of the ease. Mr. Dougherty j' was sent to the county home on tlm!,! Owen Daly, chief of police. The old i gentleman was waited on by Dr.'s Karle. county physician (now deeea** I'' ed.) Mr. Dougherty's collapse and ,' death was unexpected and I lie oil leers |' and inmates of the institution knew * nothing of his antecedents or of his I1 employment. It was known that his name was . I oh n Dougherty and thatj 1 he was a stonecutter by trade. The l, deceased had a watcli and Sl.l.l in'* cliange when lie was taken to the J' almshouse. Mr. Dial did not remcm-1' ber wliat was the speeitic cause of 1 death. j' L'apt. Douglass added to the above information that the almshouse is a county institution, but is placed at the disposal of the city in cases of1, emergency and that commitment pa- t pcrs from tlte otlicc of the chief of j ^ police do not pass through the hands , of the county officials. The cottages j at the almshouse are clean and com- , fortable, but litis is not a hospital '| with a stall of physicians and with! trained nurses. It is the county's home for those who are worn nut and j unable to light the battle of life. Mr. Dial ministers to the sulTering as best, he can, and the inmates of the institution attend their sick companions ! whenever they themselves arc able. The county physician visits the borne I twice a week and responds to all , calls. The need of a large hospital here is emphasized by just such sad cases as that of John Dougherty, al| though there is nothing to indicate ( that constant attention of nurses j, j would have restored him to health. / When Chief Daly was asked about I the case lie remembered very distinctly that Dougherty came to him and asked lobe sent to some place where lit'fiiuM rest ti i> :i i id reeiim-rate. ("ant. Daly described liim ;is an elderly man. perhaps (ill years (?1<I, ami the chiefs impression was that he was not a siek inan hut that lie was broken down j and needed to rest tip. In reply to Ian inquiry why lie had noL sent Dougherty to the Columbia hospital, the chief said thet he did not t Dink Dougherty was ill enough for that, and on account of the crowded condition of the Columbia hospital it is ! custoincry to send such cases to t he almshouse. He had been surprised to hear of Dougherty's death and had tried, hut failed, to lind out whence he had come. lias No Vessels l.efi. The New York I icrald's special cor ! respondent at Caracas calls attention to the pertinence of President Castr >'s reply to the Anvdo-ihuman order that no Venezuelan warship leave the bar hor of La Ciuayra after Decernl?er Is Pi'sident Castro answ red tint a> the vessels of Lo^iatid and Cerrn.my had already either confiscated or sunk all the ships of \ ene/ucla's little ti'vyj and not overlooked the < issuii. Yen?y.uel i's only coinmercial vessel avail able as .1 transport, he he^ed to in form them that \ emzucla had no vessels left in the harbor of La Cuayra or elsewhere, except such as ini^'lit he lislfn# smacks or mwhoats. In view of these facts he regarded the order forbidding vessels of tlic Venezuelan lici t to leave that harbor after December is as superfluous. WllilT? E IN. Leading Citizcns^wlvise* President ?JL? FULL POWER GIVrN MR BOWEN, i The American MiniMer, t?> 1-ItTect a T< niiinatloii ol' the Present IHtticiilties Wjih I.inisi Mai m lo Vi'il'^ilrla, The news from VMu-zuola is more tranquil. 11 lias he?q decided that I lie Venezuelan diili-iltv shall lie arbitrated, and the disu-.sion <?f terms Df settlement is now e tin. n United States Minister Jiowt-r. on i..nbledly will be one of the arbitral Tile government feais tlia coercive measures will follow the.k's'ablisliinent of the blockade. The lead i tig citizetu^H'araeasliavc addressed a joint 1'resideut ('astro asking liitn powers to United States Jtowen Lo j licet a l enninat ion i^^^Bresenl diftieulty. This note v^^^^PsinitM-d to President > at Wedlieslav at i ernonn. 11 liy all the leading merchants, ^^^Ls and agriL'liltural inli is. It Jeets truly the con^^^^phf current ipiuion anions tiie element of bills eity. The niet^^^n signed the lote will meet utra^^^^Ptht to dismiss ways and me^^^Vf obtaining money with whicli ^^ lezuela can met her obli^ations^^^Tw ell as the iirirantee.s which it wd^^ possible to itlVr to creditors. The nof is as folows: Caracas, Dot. iT. lt?02. l"o the President of the i tided States of Venezuela. Sir: The undersigned having met .viih the purpose of ottering their ai< o the tro vein meat of Venezuela in lie present eontlleting . situat ion, .vhich has been created l.BBhe ay live attitude of liennan'BInd (ireat Hi it iin and upon y mr rcifu<V>t. to p'ive jur 01 inions in writtinn. wl address roil in tin following terinV: I In view of the acts of V[Fence already com mi ted and of '1:7 abaolut mpotenoe of Venezuela/ to met i orce with force in res iron se to t.lie tilled forces of Gerinanyi and Great Iritian and in view of t!if fact that ITVUIIO tlj,. 1 ,.ltJ I*,-x "^^Seytoput an eiul^m the preen t situation, and the Jgovcrnment mil the people of Ycne/iiela having (implied honorably and w in Idly to the lemands of national honJtr, wc collider, with all due respect, that the notncnt to yield to force has arrived. We therefore respectfully recitunend that full powers he given to .lie minister of the United States of s'orlli America, using him t . carry mt proper measures to terminate the 5resent coniliet in the manner least ircjudicial to the interests of \fneaiela. The note is signed by about 200 imminent citizens of Cara'cas. I'KOI'i.K DKSEUT HIM. During the last ten days President .'astro has acted with extraordinary nergy. lie has transformed the enire country into a vast camp, having aiscd more than 10.000 men. whom le has well armed, equipped and raiisported from every direction to La tiuayra and Puerto Cabcllo, in the xpcctalion tliat the allies would atimipt to land at one or both of these joints Put there has been a change it feeling, and the prominent men of Venezuela who were at one time ready o lead the people in tile defense of heir count ry, now consider that justilcation to take the men of the repubic away from their families and their work does not exist 'l'hey have reuil ved to discover a means to bring ibout arbitration, or at least treat with the allies. The means sought is thought to lie through the United states legation and satisfactory results arc on every hand expected to follow. A member of the ministry said to the correspondent of The Associalcd Press: "The United States Ins n??t prevented the allies from as>aililig us. hut it lias obliged them to accept our terins." ITALIAN MIMSTKK I.BAVKS. The Italian minister left Caracas Wednesday morning. At 8 o'clock Minister Itowmen went to the Italian legation in a state carriage, accompanied by Secretary Kussell and look the Italian minister, Signer de Kiva and the Italian consul, Signor i?azzurell. and conducted them to the railroad station, where they wen met by the leading Italian residents ot Caracas. Mr. Itowen then accompanied the minister to his coach shook hands with him and handed him papers and cigars for his journey to La Cuavra. The Venezuelan newspapers ar still ignorant of the fact that the Italian minister presented an ultima 111 in to tie- Venezuelan ^ ?vernmen1 Tuesday afternoon and therefore then were no crowds it t he railroad statioi and 110 Imstil demonstration. Tin city is quiet. A SC1IOONKK I \ITI la-'l). The (ierman cruiser l-'alke. wliiei iias heeti anchored for the past tw? da s a' the entrance ot Lake Mara eaioo. Thursday, captured the Vene /nelan sr . inner Victoria. After cut ting down her mainmast, thus disa bling her. the (rcrmans abandoned tin vessel. This action h caused grea indignation among the Venezuelan and excitement runs high at Maracai ho. where the pcopigHfa^^ heeii par.el ing the streets '' El (JEN. LEE ON CUBA. An Address Before the Patrica Club of New York. I LOWING UP OF THE MAINE. ! Spanish Ouiraci.'N Were Reported to Cleveland, but lie l*uid No Attention to Tliem. Tribute to McKinloy. General Kitzhuirh Lee addressed the members of the Patriea club reeently or New York on "The United ,st ites land Cuba.'' lie said, in part: "Cuba was never so well governed by Spain as she is today, Congress Wi?:i i i i >t I (if ! u i iv In f'ul.i 'in/I . ... ....... - . v?.v, (l i n *11 V?I>/.V uil'l I ed rcsnlutinns recognizing the light of j belligerency of the revolutionists. I \ Then eame the war. "I want to say that I reported to President Cleveland the exact condition of a Hairs that existed there. 1 j reported the rebellion with all its i brutalities and horrors and told him} that it would continue for several] generations if not brought to a speedy ; end. Mr. Cleveland gave no attention j to my reports and It was not until that great man now sleeping his last sleep in Canton. Ohio, took cliurgc of j a Hairs in Washington that these at ro} clous conditions were brought to ati end, "Cuba is well worthy of the attention ol the American people. i< is tlioj richest spot on Cod's green earth. No country can ever rival Cuba in its products. It has been awaiting for i half a century for American energy! and enterprise. If we had not saeriticod wisflom for sentiment, we wou'd own Cuba today. When we did have Cuba we should have held on to it. but some of t lie people wanted to show tie* world that they were acting for humanity's sake, and not fur the pos! session of territory. "Prior to the war with Spain when 1 was consul general in Cuba there \ were repeated attempts to assassinate me. Wherever 1 went 1 had to sit with my back tothc wall and my hand on my six shooter. 1 received twenty i and thirty letters a day in which 1 j was threatened with all manner of deaths. Some threatened to wavlay and strangle me; others to string mc ; i up to the nearest lamp post, and still others to tie me t ? a horse's tail and j lice one afterimon and handed me a | letter from some Spanish ortleers in ; which they threatened to come to mv j olliee, t ie me hand and foot, put me | aboard the Maine and drive me out of the harbor. 1 received rennrts tliat ever, the Cubans wanted to kill me be-i I eause tlicy belie ved that by so rioinn war with the I'nitod States would surely result." "When some of these reports were current, a man came into iuv other one day with the purpose, as 1 i thought, of killing me. lie moved toward me inch by inch, and just as be came within reach I bad him covered with my nun. 1 asked him what he ; wanted, and to my surprise, he said; in Kunlish. '1 have just conic from General Gomo/.'s camp sutferinn from I a wound in the tliinh. 1 want to leave Cuba. 1 want to no back to the Unite:! States." I asked him where he came from and be said, in the drawliest kind of a way. 'From Kansas." I That man was Frederick A. Fnnston. So you see I bad much to do with the later capture of Anuinaldo." General Fee then related the incidents that followed the hlowiun up of the battleship Maine and told of Gen. Itlanco's action after the catastrophe. "I want to say here and tor all time," he continued, "that General: bianco and bis othcers had no more to I do with the blow inn up of the Maine | than had the people <>f New York City. It is my belief that some of the younn officers left in the arsenal by General Weyler blew up the Maine." In conclusion Gen. Fee advocated an increase of the navv owinn to the I n row inn interests of the Failed States j and because,"in view of recent events we may be in deep water before we know." Dentil or n Veteran. tJen. (Jeorge Moorman, adjutant general of the t'nited Confederate Veterans, died suddenly at his home in New Orleans Wednesday, aged '1 years, lie was on the stall' of (Jen. N. It. Forrest and other Confederate leaders during the war. earning many speeial mentions, and was commander of Moorman's Cavalry battalion. Me Ins been adjutant general of the I'.C. V. since its organization, lie expired while at his desk in his New 1 Orleans office. A Kail Iteiiiovetl. A southbound train from Cincinnati to New Orleans on the Alabama Creat .southern was wrecked To miles sou' h of Itirminghum, \la.. Wednesday. a rail having 1 en removed from a trestle which spans a small creek. The locomotive left the track and ' toppled over into the crck. The mail, baggage and express cars and t w coaches followed. Kxprcsx Messenger Colson was killed. Mail Clerks 1 Kelly and Kiggs and ! in man Ihicrr 1 were seriously hurt. There were few " passengers and they were not injured. I'owiollice llobhol. Ihirglars bit w open the safe in the i! postotllcc at Itig Stone (Jap. Va., t Wednesday morning, taking about s *spo in stamps and $100 in money. - They entered the room by boring out - a panel in the door. The same gang t a little later entered a hardware store ; and got $loo in money. A, BANK OF MULLIN S LOOTED 1'Uvo Thousand DoIIui-m Stolon by A (-.specie need (Tacksman. A special dispatch from Mullins to The State says a bold and daring robbery occurred in that town 011 Wed- p nesday night, when the Hank of Mullins was burglarized, the daring robbers securing the fat sum of *." .OOO. T For the past few months the bank carried cash on hand of about $20,000 in order to meet the demands of the tobacco interests, hut just now the season for selling the weed is nearly over, and lucky for the bank they were only trying to carry enough cash to transact the nominal business. \\ From all reports that can he gathered ol the robbery occurred a bout o'clock ti a. in., as the night watch man for the , 1> Mullins Lumber and 1 trick company ji at stated that lie heard the report just; Si as the o'clock watch was punched. | tl rn>o ......I.- ..K ?i > - - 1 ? ..Vi nmn ?! I.UC lUllljri.S SI III WS I! 1,1 I I pi they were fully up to their business. A ;is ihev knew the location of the rivets :n that. I ml ted the combination on to the in vault and alter getting into the vault ra they then had to break open anojicr w safe of the Hall make, whieh was ap- so parently entered without the least of trouble, as great pieces of plate steel ul was found lying on the floor in the gi vault, and the big door was lying al 11 the foot of the safe in a demolished 11; condition. Kvldently some great ex- in plosive was used. Kvery effort liaslse been puf forward to secure t he where- j er aboutsof the robbers, by sending dis- fu patches to all points along the Coast i pi l.ine notifying the town and city as authorities to look out for any suspiei- to uus characters, also messages were living in every direction to secure the to services of bloodhounds. i pt I'inallv the dog of Mr. Wright, er general superintendent of the Butter ' to Lumber company, was secured. The it dog was brought to Mulliiisby private m conveyance and carried to tbe l)laek-; smith shop where some of the tools j er were taken to do the work, hut the ! hi dog seemed to take no novice <>f any II particular trail. He was then carried ti to the hank with the same result. \\ The bank is thoroughly protected by ; er insurance, which will occasion no loss. ; The bank will be ready for business SI again in the morning. Tbe work ; li< seems t >ha\# been done by a profes- j m sional cracksman. I c< five Children Killed. . . I?> tbe explosion of a g :s tank j 0, Wednesday at Fort Lee, N. .) . the 3* residence of John Puglughi was dc-, that her recovery is despaired of. The ! dead:' Ida l'uglughi, aged II years; I h Tilly, 12 years: Irene, 10 veal's; Adeline, 7 years; and George.years. The I ^ mother was found 2oo feet from where i '* the explosion took place, her right! ^ arm almost torn from her body, .lust {[ returned from school, the children were al their lunch table when tbe (| explosion occurred. The roof and (( sides of the house were blown out. 1 ^ All adioinimr cottni/e was also nartlv destroyed. The debris i in mediately t| took tire and the bodies of the dead were badly eharred. Mrs. l'uglughi. ^ who was waiting on the children at ( the table, was blown through the side of the house and was found in the road. The father was away front home. The tank w hich exploded was in the cellar and supplied the illuminating gas for tlie building. Schooner Wrecked. The steamer Allegheny which ar- t rived at New York Thursday from c West Indian ports, reported having'e passed on Decern her 11 the schooner p Maggie (1. Hart, from Jacksonville to a New York, abandoned and in a waterlogged condition. The foremast was standing, the mainmast broken at the deck and hanging by gear from the . foremast. The jib boom was broken and the fore deck was continually under water. A I'raitl to Stay. ' t. A dispatch from South Bend, lnd., t says: "Hour shootings and one inur- \ der in which negroes took part, have \ I teen followed by closing clubs and sa- i loons conducted by negroes and many 1 colored people arc leaving the city. | ji They are afraid to stay here, owing to c a feeling against them among the i white people. The negroes say they > cannot get food and service at the t restaurants although they have the i money to pay for it." 11 , A Duel to the Death. At a dance being given at the i1 Natatorium hotel at Beaumont, .Texas. Thursday night a duel was fought ' But ti'Aitti I < tint I ?p<\tii?l\ el rout m .mnilc. I i *. ii '"miii 1'ii'iivn, nun i i. \ 'iiiniirtsiuner, and Frank Matthews.both men 1 using pistols, lirouch was killed, 11. 1 M. Mat t hows was fatally wounded and Frank Mat thews received a bulletin! his leg. The shooting took place out-' side t he dance hall. Clicrrv Tree Swindle. j In the foiled States District Court ' Wednesday at Charlotte. N. licv. J T. Brii/ht. one of the parties iniplica-j1 ted in the cherry tree swindle, was sentenced to four months in Jail and. to pay a tine of SI,000. Others implicated in the swindle were lined fl.onO. The women who were victimized to; the extent of $10,000. will not recover a dollar of their money. A >1 mister Iv itleil. l?ev. S. Archer, a Baptist minister. | was killed Thursday night by Casey Holland, a young farmer living near Decatur, Ala. The two quarrelied j over a load of wood and Holland struck Archer on the head with a stick of wood, breaking his skull and causing death in a few hours. Hollano made j his escape. ANTI-TRUST LAWS. ____________ * . Special Appropriation Marie by the House for the URPOSE OF ENFORCING THEM. lit' I,urge Sum ol' Kivn Hundred TliouMuntl llullart Madn 1 mmediately Avnlliihli; for that I'urpow. Unexpectedly and without warning ednesday during the consideration ' the legislative appropriation l>iil in ic House, Mr. Llartlett, a Georgia euiocrat, sprang an amendment to ipiopriate $250,000 to enforce the icrman anti- trust law and to direct ie attorney general to proceed to the sedition of all violators of the law. It hough such a provision was plainly nenahle to a point of firder, not a ember on either side of the house immi oojeouon. indeed lx?th sides i ice led into line. All agreed that une such action was advisable. Some the Republicans, however, raised ljection to the looseness of the lanlage of tlie amendment and Mr. epburn of Iowa olTered as a substiite Tor it the language of tlie bill he Produced on the opening day of the ssion to appropriate $."?00,000 for the iforcement of tlie law. This was irther strengthened to make the apopriation immediately available and amended tlie substitute was agreed without division. Mr. Hart let t wanted Mr. Hepburn incorporate in his amendment a ovision directing the attorney genal to proceed with prosecutions but i tills Mr. Hepburn objected because contained a reflection on the attorry general. Mr. H.irtlett said tlie attorney genal should lie criticised because he id not enforced the anti-trust law* < said there had been no represents- I ve of tlie people's interest in the 1 liite House, cabinet, or on the fed:i 1 bench, in tlie tight against trusts. Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, said the lerinau anti-trust law was a llepub an measure while a Democratic adi n 1st rat ion had cast doubt upon its instilutionality. The legislative bill was passed,praccally as it came from the committee, icept, for tlie amendment. January l at 3 o'clock was tixed as the time ?r holding the exercises in connection i. yeujinc. uf ihe statutes of harles Carroll and John Hansen, ? > WHBH [aryland's contribution to statuary nil. The language of the Hepburn mendment is as follows: "That for tlie' enforcement of the rovisions of the act Of July 2, 1890, le sum of #500,000 is hereby approbated. outside of any money in the easury not heretofore appropriated, i lie expended under tlie direction of le attorney general in the employ11'nt lit niui(>i!il I'linncol unrf niroiitu nf lie department of justice to conduct roceedings, suits and prosecutions ndcr said acts in tlie courts of the nited States: Provided, that no peril! shall be prosecuted or be subject1 to any penalty or forfeiture for or n a'-count "t any transaction, matter r thing concerning which he may , estify or produce evidence, documen- t ary or otherwise, in any proceeding, J uit or prosecution under said acts: 'rovided, further, that no person so estlfylng shall he exempt from proscution or punishment for perjury ommittcd in so testifying. This apiropriation sliall he immediately vailable. 'I'lii'y .\r?- Watching Us. The State says that Italy should 'watch the United States, whose imH-rialism is a political and commerial menance to Europe, and especialy i i Italy, the weakest of the great >.iwers," was the warning given his iountry hy l?eputy Santini during lie debate in the Italian chamtrer vhen the Venezuelan situation was ip. The warning should have even nore riled in the United States than n Europe: for it demonstrates to us, us nothing else that has been said :an do, how our venture into the busness of being a "world power'' is dewed by other "world powers." lieore our essay into the tield of impeialism we p issessed the disinterested riendship of the European nations so ar as general international polities a as concerned, as tliis country was 'ree from any suspicion of rivalry. I'he Italian deputy who spoke so caniidly did not represent his govcrnnent orticially but he undoubtedly Juiced a sentiment which is prevalent ?ot only in Italy but throughout Europe. Woman'** Picture on Stamp. An unusual thing in postotfiee cir* les is the new s-cent Martini Wash Ington stump l>eing placed on sale throughout the country. This stamp is unique in that It is the iirst stamp issued by tlie 1'nited States government bearing the figure or portrait of a woman. Thiri> -Three! Drowned. Consequent on the continued rainfall very great damage lias been done and :ki persons were drowned at Tamis. a village in the Cape lion district which was suddenly inundated last Thursday night. Fro/ert to Death. According to dispatches from Hungary, 03 persons were frozen to deatti there during the last three days. Wolves are devastating the sheep folds and have devoured three shepherds. Jh- . _ A