The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, December 24, 1902, Image 1
The Batesbt^ Advocate.
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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
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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
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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.
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