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J. m r ' *' ' ' ' * ^g The Batestmrg Advocate. | - ' - j _ ? - _ j ' i< ; *_? 11 1 1 r " ,_***~ . .. 1 _- > _ ' ^ VOL 111 BATE8BURG, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1003, NO. 0. THE NEGRO PROBLEM.!; Roosevelt, "The President of the Bln< k Belt." and Is , NOT AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT. I Tln? Prejudice Attains! the Ni'kimi I ! In Net I,oral. I tit t Prompted | by World* W hie Ituce . i Sentiment. The rare question was again (lis- [ cussed in the United States senate . Wednesday. Mr. Money or Mississip- t pi spoke for two hours, his remarks| hav ng direet reference to the aetitm 1 of tlie nresident, in rlosimr tii<> i noia, Miss., postotlicc. Mr. Money ex- 'I plained at the outset of his remarks that if ho could secure unanimous consent for leave to print he would not take up the time of the senate. The i sentiment of the senate seemed to be j that remarks u<>t delivered should not | be spread in the record, lie thereupon proceeded, and delivered himself of some severe strictures of the president. stating in the course of his remarks that Mr. Uoosevelt was not tIn* president of America, hut the president of the "hlack belt." At times he was closely interrogated by Messrs. Forakcr and Spooncr. It was the inherent and constitutional right of a great community, said Mr. Money, to have their mail handled regularly. Letters, he said, which have been addressed to Heathman, to important county otttcials re-1 siding at lndianola, have been sent to j' Oreenville, and this be declared was! an unwarrantable interference wit!,' the liberty and rights of the people of j lndianola. It was indeed to punish the people of lndianola, and in his| opinion, the punishment had gone far enough. The department has shown j to the world its authority and nobody ] had disputed it. lie declared that t lie ; ^master general should do all he! ado heal the breach and not con i i111! ' si 111 >imirii :iiid vindict i ve. "The i Sl department has made t lie people hate n ilir administralion." !'' Ihrcctiiiu 11i>> remarks to President Xl iiou.se veil, lie said that in the smith]" jt vv;is believed that Mr. I loosevol I. 11' when he sneeeeded Mr. McKinlcv. wiiu 1'! make an American instead ot a " sectional president, bu^^^janue had j s' - > * ! ?> f so much an American president.."" sain Mr. Money, "as lie is the president <>l 'In- hlaek belt,"' and he added with some teelititf, "w<* don't consider liim ^j* a ureal American president." lie div eland i hat ot all the appointments 11 made in Mississippi none have uiven 1 sueli eneral disgust as those made by tins administration and, lie saiil. the '' president had raised the ipiestion ot '' siM-ial equality ot the neuro. hut there . could never possibly he any social " eipialitv between the two races. "There is a race prejudice in the ' ' south," he said, "and I thank Unci u. there is."' The prejudice auailist the ne<;ro, lie 11 asserted, is nut local, hut prompted ' ' hy a universal, world-wide sentiment. ; Answering Mr. I'oraker. lie said that these recent appointments have re- <( vived the race ipiestion and while the people of the south had heretofore tolerated neuro oilicehuldors they did not i> want any more of them. "This is a si white man's country and a white |,j man's government," said he. "It has jv been carved out the wilderness and t;1 conquered from the Indians, not for 0f the African, Init for the white man." pj Mr. Foraker asked Mr. Money if his in objection to colored people holding of- ly lice extended to -?11 niiif>?c <?i -,n i <. and also whether it would include the It enlistment of colored men in the army ; J\ to defend the tlajr and the const it u- in tion. The reply was that lie had no m particular objection to colored men ! va serving in the army, hut declared that j le it would l>e better it no colored men pi held any otlicial position whatever. pi "Would you deeit i/eni/e the ne^'io ai as to veiling?" asked Mr. Foraker, tli "and it so should t hat he taken into ! tli account in fixing the representation in in congress?" "That is another question," said Mr. Money. The part icipat i<>n <>I I hc negro in the atlairsot t he government, he thought, was dangerous. ( "Is it t iie demand of t lie south," in- sj| quired Mr. Spooner, "that the presi- ,|r dent of the I'nited States shall in :io pn case appoint a eolored man to federal tp olllce in the south?" IR. Mr. Money replied that there was op no demand made and no authority for tli it, hut. it was the feeling in the south pr that no colored mar. no matter w hat of his qualifications may he. shall hold ti? federal ottiee. The whole truth of co history, he deelared. shows the utter 11i: incompetenee of the colored race selt pr government.. as* Mr. Spooner remarked that a president of the I'nited States who would yield to the demand of any section SN1 that the right of fiti/.eiiship slioiild w' he surrendered would show himself unlit to hold the ollice and quite will :|M ing to violate his oath as president. Mr. Foraker commented upon Mr. Money's statements as lieing most remarkable heeause of their far-reuehing A< consequences. ret Mr. Money expressed the convict ion s"' that the amendment I?? the coustitu- " ( tion which made negroc voters was a N*' tremendous mistake, and he said a W( vast number of people of the north ''j1 entertained the same view, lie said tliere has been no object ion in t hesoiit ii ;:i" to a colored man working and none had tiecn killed for so doing as was ' V-1 the caee in Illinois. The feeling |,LM which obtained in the south lie said, was that if a white man did not think himself socially better than the negro lie was not half as good. ' I n the matter of these appointments Mr. Money said the president should onsider conditions in the south. Appointing negroes to ortioe in the south ( >vas most obnoxious and repugnant to that section. It was impossible, lie leclared, for any one raised noith of Mason and Dixon's line to know any diing about the negro. He concluded >y saying that there had been no indention of creating any disturbance viiatever in ludianola, hut the idea of loldimr a public meeting was that it vould apprise the postmistress of t tie \ visiles of the citi/ens and that it | niglit lead to her resignation. The \ ia.sis of all the trouble, he said, was ,? lie referee system as it prevails in J .lie south. CONFEDERATE RECORDS. H t ;i flie I niied Slates <?ovfriiment Want's in Prt'NiM'vo Tin in. J. ; Thf Columbia Record says it was tol Kent'rally known that in tin* up imprint ion act of the recent congress im vision was made for the com pi laion of a complete roster of the olllecrs ml enlisted men of the I'nion and ! 'onfederale armies. Secretary of War J loot has sent a letter to the jfovermrs of all states asking theirco-opeia- 1 ion in this work, which will lie a most , mportant and a sttipenduons one. In J lis letter tie says there will he little r no ditticiilty in preparing a roster of lie I'nion soldiers, for the state's urni.shinu them have already underaken that duty and now have as J-' im plot e records as possible, lie says. 'l rnly, that there will be oitllculty in btaininu Confederate records in his opart merit, and we wish that was he only dillieulty to lie encountered : > tliis ureal work, for the loan of the 11 ecessary documents miuht easily he " btained if they were in existence. I'e fear few of the Southern states T ave ever looked after this matter at II carefully or systemat ically, and we "J now that our own state has no rends that arc at all complete. Time E ml auain the legislature has been | skeil to appropriate a comparatively ! r.all sum in order that (Confederate von is miulit lie preserved, and | louuh at times small sums have been ited for the purpose, the amount has ever liven la rye enough to insure a 1,1 implete and correct list of the names " F all the soldiers of this state who ensted in the war. It is hardly neeestry to show that it is proper to preirve tlic names ut all who fought or I11 It v'r?m?I lie I .HIST?rrj?rrfrr?vrrrrr?nrrTT*" iily heeause such a compilation would ^ e of ureal historical value, hut he- lr mse it is our sacred duty to do so. lie tcclsial uic in looking after the!*"* lattcrs ol present in pressing need 1 as neglected to appreciate I lie Impur- *' nice nl' this work, and the rouse- 111 iienreisth.it wr have not these re- M1 ir<ls for ourselves, and unless Con'derate ramps now lake the matter ' i charge aurl see lo it that our re- l" uds are complete, the government 'li impilation so far as we are concerned ill tie very inaccurate. If the South di arolina soldier is to receive the full n< edit due liiin something must Ik* Ir me to put our records in proper S< lape, tor the government records in tl ie future will lie taken as ullicial and fa rrect. to re Two hoclitrs ihtl'i'rcd. CO A special from Tarboni, N. C\, says: m r. II. T. Mass, who was shot here 0f inday hy Dr. .1. M. Itakrr, died at > , s residence that ni^htbetween lland i w| ! o'clock, lie was on the operating I p:| ible, and as he hcnan to show si^ns tj,, sinking the operation was not com- I a,( et.ed. lvirly in the nijjht he hecame iconsrious and thereafter sank rapidThc funeral took place from ilvary church this afternoon, ltev. w| r. (Iambic conducting the services. ju lie church could not seated the im- |1;, use crowd that attended. The re- j a ins wen interred in Calvary church- uj ud. I)r. llaker. who is out on bond, j)t, ft here Wednesday for Kichmoud on ! sei ofessioual liusiness. The coroner's ^ ry went to the house of the deceased ! ja] id viewed the remains this morning, j ieii adjourned until the 2.'tr*l. when w| icy will hear testimony. The prel- tj, 1 ilia I V hearillir will I.? <m \l.. >?! "> " '""'".I pll til >1 an > \\ a it I >1 olis. * Tlin News and Courier says the wl nsf important fart v. Iiieh has come j (Ja t in connection with (.'rum j pr Illation is that more, than one liun- j f,,i edred white men have applied tor ch sit ions in tlie Custom House under at e neyjro eolleetor. It this list could p,. secured for publication it vould w? en the eyes of the city, or, at least , at was the statement made by a foi oiniuent Kepublican. The name j no a well-know citizen lias been men- p<, uied in connection with the deputy { ru ll"ctorship and tlie chances favor j no s appointment, ('rum has made no j no onuses, so far as tlie polit icians can Jal\ certain, although it has leaked out co t lie ipiiet otlice-seekin^ circles that j tit e list of candidates is resplendent { m< til the names of men. some of w hom I of mid naturally he regarded as opposto the nomination of a inym to j , y import ant, Federal ollice. I SII'iiiik*' Cuni*. | VVI Twenty years uk<? last August Mrs. st>, lain Winenarner of Zanesville, < )hio, |,n eived a bite from a copperhead ike. Annually thereafter, with the nj, urrenee of do^ days, the wound I (jei mid hecome swollen and her liinh (j<M add assume the peculiar mottled j? p* a ranee of a copperhead snake. rU) I' health became broken in time | rja d recently she dieu with all the see inptoms of a snake bite just reved. I'hysicians say there are hut a^; v similar cases on record. t.a, V 1 J \ BRIGHT OUTLOOK. The Governor Tells of the Day of Industrial Prcsperity. [ GREAT FUTURE FOR THE STATE n?e IVo|ilf ol' South Carolina Aie ItriiiK llroiiK'it Into Touch Willi TIhiho ??l* Oilier States. <iov. Hey ward attended the anniversary dinner of the Hibernian Society in CharlAcliin 1-ict 'PiI.... v......vuw>> * ucmiit V IIIKHt /vcek. lit' responded to the toast of I1 h>uth Carolina and spoke as follows: 11 dr. Toastmaster and Members of the ll Hibernian Society: lie fore addressing myself to the a object of the toast which has Just a' ieen announced a toast which strikes s' i responsive chord in every heart "t .round this board and finds it echo in he hearts of every true Carolinian ^1 rom the restless wave of the Atlantic o the range of blue mountains on the M lorthern liorder of our State I must ^ ay a word of thanks for the invitaion which brings ine here tonight. To tell you tliat 1 appreciate most '' ilghly the honor you have done me mold not Ik'expressing all that 1 feel. w t is not only an honor but a privilege o commemorate with the members of w Ids historic society the birthday of ai im who is the patron saint of the iincrald Isle. ol Today with fonder memories, the carts of Irishmen the world over are a' timing back to Krin. Today they sjolce tiecause that liberty which has ,K Iways had a home in Irish hearts is m Unit to find a lodgment on Irish soil. 'oday the prophetic words of your . mi poet, tho' we of America and of 'a tie south can claim him too, are tie- <!0 lg realized, when he said: ca Look aloft! look aloft! the clouds j^i drifting by, tu 'here's a gleam through the gloom ^ there's a light in the sky, tl, 1'is tlie sunburst resplendent far en flashing on high! rin's dark night is waning, her daydawn is nigh!" . it cannot, my friends, come too soon ' ' From our hearts we all should say: ^ , (Sod speed the coming of that day. Nevermind how poor an Irishman na ay Ik* when lie comes to our shores 's lere is one thing which lie always f,ri "ings with him, and t hat is his love ! country; but loving and reniemtier- mi K the land from whence he came 001 akea him none the less loyal to the mi ml in i i....i|n .ii.i I.I . i mi.. rfl irolinians Irish Americans, are 111 ue South Carolinians, they are true th id patriotic Americans. Thcv love m; uith Carolina and they love America it li the same love that they love i 'eland and hence it is that on such i occasions as this, when a toast is ' 'oposed to the "State of South Carina," the Palmetto is greeted hy as loyal hearts and true" as ever hailed te shamrock in an Irish banquet ill. The few words which 1 shall adess to you tonight shall be to you ?t as Irishmen or as descendants of ishuien, but as Charlestonians and as u< uitli Carolinians -as men wlio rejoice lat "over the newly-wedded moun in and seaboard" as expressed in my , >ast, "peace and prosperity" now ; i^n. 1 know, my friends, and my W(i luntrymen, that I voice tlie senti- , cut of every true Charlest uiian and i din every true South Carolinian, when ! cu: say 1 rejoice that the day has come lee lien, fortfettiiitf the tilings of the ' ist we can, hand in had and shonl- ; of :r to shoulder, with renewed com-1 in jo. as brethren, press on to the i she lin^s w I deli lie before. I evi If it has fallen to my lot, as you i to ndly intimate in the sentiment ' liich has just been read, to tiear an tin imhle part in hrin^in^ about this cui ippv conditioii. 1 can only say tliat be! found a fertile tield tn ?i"? - - ? . ?" " '"S II which 1 found ready and willing lea ilpers from the mountains to the jai altoard. In every section of our Wi ate 1 found sturdy South Carol in- ch: us men who loved South Carolina hei men whose warm handclasps and tin lose untiring labor did far more j an anything 1 could do to accom-ioni ish the results upon which we felici- sai to ourselves tonight. ! far The era of peace and good will j wa itch today is prevailing in South ?f rolina means much for us in the | esent and for the future for u.->, f;ir r our children and for our children's n" ildren. Whether or not we shall w:i tain our full measure of good de- ! >s j nds upon us and upon us alone. If j rt^ are to work out successfully the Ine eat future which I believe lies heir* us as a people, we must practice t only in our lives hut also in our litics the principles of the golden I sta le. We should seek to build up and 11-? pull down to understand and |>t. t to misunderstand . remembering j *>? vavs that we are one people with a uii inmon heritage and a common des- Wil 11 ..r t ? - .. ,1.111.1 <> IIIIC HUM,IICI illKI Ulill frj| ithcr the grand old common wealth ||t, South Carolina. ! |ia! A brighter day is breaking over our Wi ate a day of industrial prosperity tin ;li as our forefathers never dreamed ov< It is coining as surely as the sun cor II rise ii|m>ii the morrow. We ran 1 wa its signs on the horizon we eau ; a s atlie it In the very atmosphere. tin When a storm is over, and the light an ig has ceased to Hash and the thun- sea r to sliake the earth, how gladly fal s the traveler behold the rainbow tin the cloud! It ascends from the liii iged mountain top and with its my- on d of colors spanning the sky, it hit ins to sink to rest in the bosom of gol i ocean a holy covenant that never sai tin shall those waters cover the cm *th. am So it is with that prosperity whlc ,oday is gradually spreading it iright bow of promise over Souti Jarolina. From the "everlastlni illls" of the Piedmont to the bar 01 ronder liarbor its light is beginnini ,o radiate. That light is enterini oday the humble home of the Ia)>orer naking iiis lioiue better and happier t is causing the farmer to sing tie lind the plow, it is touching, as witl lie wand of a magician, our sleepini aarts of trade and bidding then wake: it Is making us South Caro iaus realize the fact that truly "<>u uie.s arc iauen m pieasant places" him liat we have "a goodly heritage.' itul even U-yond this. In placing u: ii closest commercial touch with al arts of our country, it is also plat-in* s in closer social touch with our sis lt States it Is making us and oui jllow citizens in distant Slates know nd understand each other better, and gain like that bow in the cloud, il Lands as a pledge, a covenant, thai ever again shall the people of South arolina pass through the struggle* liat they have in days gone by. In the great future which i feel ire lies before us as a State, Charlesin, the chief metropolis of South arolina. must play a conspicuous art. This old city has never lieeii Mind wanting in the past in the ays which tried men's souls, and she ill never Is- found wanting in the ilurc when she is called upon to ork for the upbuilding of the State id the betterment of its people. 1 rejoice to see Charleston taking i new life?and in saying this 1 feel ilistied I bespeak the sentiment of I South Carolinians. Asa friend of liarleston I rejoice that from the lfrey of old St. Michael's the watchau can again call out over your ty. as he did in the days gone by: All is well." As a South Carolin11. 1 rejoice that "cry need not innfined to the limits of this city, but n extend far beyond. It can fall, as benediction, upon the ears of the ilor, as from yon quiet harbor he rns his prow to seaward, and then can be caught up by the winds of e ocean and wafted liack across our lire State, even to its mountain ps. Although there is still much to be ne; although there are still great oblems to he solved, and evils to be iidieated, yet the wisdom, under >d. to solve them, and the detcrmit i? ill t.n nrtirllivifo t l?nm ?u that of South Carolina it can be uly said "All is well." We have no cause for discourage* :nt we have every cause for en uragetnent. As oncofyour wat?hia I.: advancing in every way, and at beneath her banner united irch lier sons. )ur union is river, lakr. ocean and sky: an breaks not the medai, when Cod cuts the die: lough darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel, le blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal." SOLD DEATH FOR $100 rrb Iloclor Arreatetl I'or AtlmiiiiHeriiiK I'lifMiii lo Thirty-Pour Men. seventy letters, written mostly by nncn, have been found in the home George llooscy, tlie negro "herb :tor" of rhiladelphia, who is ac%ed of being an accessory to t he aired murder of William (J. Danze. These letters, which are said to be an incriminating nature, vary little their terms, and, it is asserted, >w that lioosey charged $100 for cry case. Some of the letters point payment of the fee installments. The police otllcials have directed opening of .'14 graves, having sered evidence that leads them to ieve that George lioosey, the negro erb doctor," is responsible for at st that many deaths, lioosey is in 1 as accessory to the murder of llliaio G. l?anze, wiiose widow is lrged with having administered to r husband slow poison furnished by negro. ' We do not know how many poising cases ran U? traced to IInosey," (1 a police official today, "hut thus we have secured evidence that has rranted us in directing the opening :t? graves." I'his case is assuming proportions beyond the comprehension of those mectcd with it at the time 11 nosey s arrested. The real investigation just ix'Kinnin^ and lie fore it prods much further startling develop- ] tits will crop out. A Terrible Tragedy. \ horrible t raffedy occurred at lliley .lion, Ky., on the Louiseville and .shville railroad Thursday when puty Sheriff.I. It- Williams with a ise of ttiree men. went to arrest an known era/.y man The maniac j s armed with three pistols and was J ithtenln^ people in that vicinity, imagined a moh was after him to j titf him. When Deputy Sheriff lliams and his posse approached > enraged man and attempted to i rpower him he drew his pistol and nmeticed to lire. Thedeputy sheriff s shot through the hotly, sustaining erious wound: tSahriel Floyd, in hack, Samuel l'ayne, through the n and Samuel Devers received a | lp wound. After Williams had j len he raised and tired a tail let I otigh his antagonist's head killing n instantly. Nothing was found the dead man's person to identify u, hut tie had in money and a d watch. Karly in the. day he had d that his mother llve.y In Nelson mty. The recovery *f Williams I Floyd is doubtful. ( ? FOUND AT LAST. .s ll g ? Thinking Her Husband Dead a Lad) Marries Another Man. - CURIOUS STORY OF WEDLOCK i ? 1 Tin' IIiiMhuiiil My Htorioii^ly l>isa|ir pcnrcMl Throe ycartt Ako, himI lli* ItfiiiitiiiH found in Ihr Wood* I<11 st Work. ' The following dispatch published ed in Tlie State on Tuesday, 17th inr stant, caused considerable comment I in (Columbia and elsewhere: t 'i? J A human skeleton was found in an J isolated spot in a pasture six miles ; from Wilmington, near tlie coast, and idenlltled, as a result of an investigation by the coroner Wednesday, as that of W. W. Young, a white car! penter, .'$2 years old, who disappeared from his home in this city May ,'t, 1900. The came of the man's deat h is unknown and the investigation is being pursued. Members of his family say they advertised for the man and made diligent search, at last giving up hope of finding him. Young I has a wife and two children in Colum-j hia, S. (J.,.Mrs. Young having married a railroad employe named Roberts after the first husband's disappearance.*' ()n last Thursday morning the State published the following sequel to the above dispatch: The Mrs. Young referred to is the I widow of the late Mr. Win. J. Roberts, a car inspector in the employ of the Southern railway, who was killed a few weeks ago by being run over in the Atlantic Coast Line yards. She married Mr. Roberts, believing her! first, husband was dead, no word liav- j ing been heard of him since May. 1900. The dispatch from Willington was the first information she has had concerning him since that time. Mrs. Young,or rather Mrs. Roberts, lives at 929 < tak street in the Shannon district, and when seen Wednesday by a State reporter gave the details of her first husband's strange disappearance. In the year 1890 Young, a carpenter by trade and a native of Camden, married a Miss Kairby, the daughter They made their home in this city ! lor a short period of time, leaving it: to go to l'arksville, and thence to Augusta. After two years'residence the couple went to Wilmington N. C. During the period of their life in that latter city Young's health broke down and he was able to work at his urtut- (iiuy at intervals. Me grew no better and gradually his mind became affected. At the end of seven years Mr?-. Young decided to leave Wilmington with her two children and return I to this city to make her home with her ; father. The little family was then in ' very reduced circumstances and the I plan was practically forced to a conclusion hy this dire necessity. Young, who was then almost totally incapacitated for work, was left with his sisters in Wilmington in the hope that he might recover. Mrs. Young was in constant communication witli his sisters from time she left North Carolina in November, 181MI, hut her husband's mental condition did not improve, lie grew moody and took long walks alone if not watched. At times far out in the forests he would fall to t he ground in the rigors of an epileptic tit and in his paroxysms indict personal injuries upon himself. Once or twice he was - found lying across his mother's grave j j in Itelievue cemetry. Finally it was decided that he I should l>e sent to the North Carolina State Hospital for the Insane and a j medical board" was apponted l?y the | authorities to examine him as to his sanity. Hut on the day previous to the examination Young mysteriously disappeared and nothing has ever <een I heard of him until the gruesome dis- j covery on Monday last of his grinning skeleton lying in the dark woods near the mouth of the Cape Fear river. After Young was lost to sight every attempt was made to ascertain his I wherealmuts. o.r >.ii..^ | around Wilmington was searched and : udvertlsenu nts ottering rewards in- i sorted in the newspapers of the State. I His fate remained a mystery, through it was practically concluded that he had fallen, in one of his perambulations. into the Cape Fear river and hud been drowned. Ills life was insured and his widow kept up the premiums for many months, expecting , that his Uidy would be recovered. For this purpose she used in part the re- I ceipts from the sale of his tool chest. When all hope had I wen abandoned the policy was allowed to lapse. Mrs. Voting has now two children and It years old respectively. born to I her by her first husband, tin February i?, 15KI2, she married Mr. Huberts, firmly believing at the time that her lirst husband was dead. It is a question as to whether his death ; had occurred at the time, but 11 it* proliabilities are that it had. Torn l?y a llcni. t). It. Sanders, an ayjed resident oft Houston 'l'ex., was attacked and almost torn to pieces Wednesday night by a savage tiear. lie was thrown to the ground and horribly mamrled by the frenzied animal's tusks. Two hull dogs and three men came to Ids assistance and rescued him. His injuries are frightful. GOES UP FOR LIFE. \V. C King Convicted of Murdering r Juiiii'h und Samuel Hodgcm. William C. king, the white man who murdered James and Suinuel Itodgers In Florence County on January 31, was found guilty with recommendation to mercy Friday by the jury in the court of general sessions at Florence. His attorney. Walter Wells, Esq., made a motion for a new trial, but when court reconvened Friday afternoon he announced Ids abandonment of the motion, but nave no.Ice of an appeal to the supreme court. Judge Gag6 then sentenced King to the penitentiary at hard labor for his natural life. A dispatch from Florence to The State says verdict has given unusual ! satisfaction, and groups of men can be seen on the streets discussing the (case. Then general concensus of opinion is that it marks the beginning of a new era in South Carolina, ! especially this part of the State. It I | is asserted that this is t he iirvt I viclion of a white man for the killing v of another in this Judicial circuit 1 since Lockhart was convicted of man- s slighter in Williamsburg county years 1 ago under the late Judge I. I). 1 Withers poon. All the evidence in the King ease c goes to prove that it was an unpro- e I voked, uncalled for murder of two '' loliscure men, and all about a dog c which King admitted that he had s never seen, it is learned that the jury on the tirst ballot stood eight fur ? for murder with recommendation to c mercy, three for murder outright and n one for manslaughter. On the second ballot eleven were for conviction a with recommendation to mercy and one for manslaughter. The next ? ballot was in conformity witli the " verdict rendered. When King was asked if lie had anything to say why sentence should 1 not Ik* passed upon him, lie shook his j ^ head and said, "I have nothing to | say." 11 Judge Gage did not undertake to I ? give him a lec'ure, neither did lie refer to the heinous crime of which he stood convicted, but simply passed ai the formal legal sentence of life imprisonment in the penitentiary. * William King is a man who per- " haps has seen 53 summers: about six feet tall, weighing about 1U0 pounds, lie has a brutal face, large protrud- ~ ing jaw Iroue, cold steel grey eyes is very small und cxceediugly narrow 11 across the base of the skull. It is staled that the two Rogers men are sl not the only victims of his nimble a pistol. 1 pon what grounds his attorney ol will base Ids appeal to the supreme 111 court is not known, for it is an ad- Cl in it ted fact that the judge charged the jury on every point on which lie was requested and neither directly or indirectly referred to a single fact li connected with the case, nor did lie o touch upon the evidence in the case. p< in AN ELEPHANT DIES AT SEA. ra ill ri Wliole Crew of a Steamer Wmh Kept ti T IliiNy Sly JIiiko. p< SI The elephant Jingo, said to have w lieen larger than J umbo, died at sea i? on the steamer Georgic, which arrived vv at New York Wednesday from Liver- ei pool. The animal's death occurred (i< March 12th and the huge body was t| buried at sea. An animal show brought n Jingo in London. The elephant had ci not traveled since infancy, and from at the time of sailing from Liverpool it tc fretted and pined away, Jingo was 22 ai years old, 12 feet high, weighed six ei ton and was valued at $50,000. iM For oo hours preceeding its death ti tiie mammoth l>east trumpeted with- p, out cessation and twice knocked down tl its keeper. Thomas Lawrence, w ho at- m tempted to pacify it. The cries of the in elephant aroused the leopards and ti- Si gers which were on the ship and they, a too. joined in the cry which for three m days kept the crew of the Georgic on ol its guard. si As each day passed Jingo seemed to t.? grow weaker he squirmed in his narrow cage in an effort to get out. He was securely chained to the cage in such a position in the aft hatchway that escape was impossible. On the C mm nay oui imc animal's condition | al became such that Lawrence nave him en whiskey and kept him under the in- al iluence of liquor for almost three days, tii It was then that Jingo liecame even ti more savage than ever and began the a? trumpeting. j is The entire crew went to Lawrence's in assistances on the 11th day and join- tn ed with him in an etTort to pacify C< Jingo. They all failed, however, and twice the beast got its trunk through the bars of the cage and struck the keeper with such force that he was 1(, thrown to the deck. The other animals k' joined in the great noise until alxnit : u) o'clock on the morning of the 12th, ] j when suddenly Jingo's cries ceased. I *(j. Lawrence ran to the cage to tind the ; cj animal dead. 11 is carcass was examined and after it was decided it could ' not he stalled it was thrown over- i . hoard. Think* IN-niicll l>id It. A ItufTalo preacher has undertaken | to place responsibility for the murder of iturdlck upon the lawyer, Penned, :> who was crushed to death lieneath Ills it automobile ten days after the mysteri- w ous crime had been developed. The tl preacher declares that Penned killed T lturdick and afterwards deliberately o< drove his automobile to a death plunge tl to kill himself and his wife. tl TWO DROWNED . While Asleep on a Steamer, Which Suddenly Sinki While THE PASSENGERS SLUMf NEED. The Water* I'ourcd In Awakenlax *" Men, Women and Children to u Terr I hie Keality or Their Fate. A dispatch from i'aiatka, Fla.. says the steamer Metamora or the Lucas line running up the Ocklawaha river tank Thursday rooming a little after three o'clock four miles above the nouth of tlie river. As the passengers were all asleep and the steamer miik almost without a moment's warning it is almost a miraele that io few were drowned. Uufus King and Walter Watson, Kith colored residents of I'alatka were Irowned. Manual Myers, the well mown pilot, who was at the wheel vhen the boat went down, was. the irst to discover that the boat was inking. He immediately called-Capot? v? ~ ? ?* ? * * am iHciticr, wiik nan just retired. Chgincer Fred l'riest. who was on luty at the lime also noticed the peuliar lurching of tlie vessel and "turod 011 the midship syphons, but fludng no water he started aft and dlsovered tliat the vessel was sinking tern tirst. Engineer ltosignal by this time was n deck and ordered all hands to the ahin top. In an instant the :vessel lade a lurch to port striking the imber on the north bank of the river nd with a crash rebounded to staroard and sank, submerging the seend deck and tilling the state rooms rith water. With an axe Engineer ltosignal roke In the doors and windows, while ther members of the crew under aptain Mcrcier carried out the half rowned passengers, some of whom ad to lie passed to the cabin roof vcr the outer rail. A boat was immediately sent to r'elaka and within an hour row boats ud launches were ai the scene of the isastcr. On these the terror stricken omen and children were taken to felaka, where they were clothed and id. Little or no baggage belonging to ie passengers has been reqpv^fed. t any escaped in their night clothing m iiv 'riio hoat lies at an lonli d??er?H?s. O is thought 4I 111 lie iloated. U is m l known with ;rtainty what caused the boat to 11k, hut it is believed her hul\.struck sunken log, causing iier to spring a >k. There were twenty passengers 1 Uxird and all were saved. The two icn who were drowned were'of the ew. Senator Tillman Out Went. J United Strtes Seualor Tillman de- 1 vered an address on "The Negro ' I in ICr.im n 1 - IVIU u >A;utliClll 014UU)int," l>efore an audience of 1,800 diversity students, citizens and lawlakers at Madison, Wis., Thursday ight. lie was greeted with the stlrng university yell. A rather sensa* onal incident occure<l while Senator illman was discussing the lndianola jstoffloe case. After stating the mthcrn view of the affair, he asked hether the audience approved of resident Itoosevelt's action apd there as applause. Heing uncertain wheth the applause was intended as an injrseraent of the presidentX.action, ic senator asked how it was,meant, te was told that it was meant as an idorseinent of the president. This roused the senator. 1!q> went in) the details of the lndianola affair id when he concluded asked his hearts whether it would not have been itter for the president to have kept le otliee opened and punished the few it-heads that caused the trouble Kin to have punished the entire cornunity by closing the office, requestig those to raise their hands who ipported the president's action. Only few raised their hands. In the airi his address was much like his .her recent utterances on the same ibject. He condemned the negro to crnal inferiority to tiie white man. A Cranky Teacher. \ l'rof. A. T. Weaver, of Ashville, N. ., at the head of a leading education MisuLuuoii nas oeen sent to jail t>euise he refused to be vaccinated and so tiecause of his refusal to pay a ue of for the same. The vaccinaon was ordered as a precaution tainst smallpox, l'rof. Weaver, It said, may Institute le^al proceed* igs against the authorities, and may ike tlie case liefore the Supreme iturt of North Carolina. Shot From Aiiihiiwti. li. (J. Cheatham, Hubert Quattleinm and Ciebe l'enn, there vrelinown farmers of tlie i'iioenix section r Greenwootl county, were seriously lof from ambusli at 2 o'clock Thursi.v mornlnjf. Cheatham received ? lar^e of buckshot in iiis chest and rms and is the most damrerousiv uunded. It is reported that the ssperadoes were negroes and that ven or eight volleys were exchanged. Tliey Will l?e There. Among other novel features of the t. Louis exposition will be the reun>ns of the Smith and Lewis families, hlch all the Smiths and Lewises In ue country will be invited to attend, he Smiths are raising a fund of tlO,DO for the erection of a building on he exposition grounds to be used as heir headquarters during the fair. .