The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, April 08, 1903, Image 1
The Batesburg Advocate.
YOL III. BATESBURG, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8,1903. NO 10.
REMARKABLE SCENE.'
Senator Ben. Til man's Rctact to
Senator Redfleld Proctor
ON THE FLOOR OF THE ?EN. TF.!
I
The SpriiiutU-Ul, Mums., It? |iiili]icnii j
StrettMOM the Incident lo ilic
lMtotdvantage ut'tlie Mew
Knglunder.
A remarkable episode Is embedded
in the Congressional ltecord of January
29. Let us observe the scene it
presents. The senator from Vermont,
Mr. Proctor, had the Hour, lie is a
fair representative of New England.
Debating with him was the senator
from South Carolina, Mr. Tillman,
who happens to be more associated in
the public mind with the defense of
lynch law than any other senator.
Senator Tillman has often justified
violent acts toward the negro race.
These facts tend to make the encounter
between New England and South
Carolina on the Hoor of the sen ite
impressive, for the subject under discussion
was peculiarly an issue of lawlessness
and even savagery.
The senator from New England bad
read to the senate the statement by
Capt. Cornelius M. Hrownell. late captain
of Co. K. 2t?th volunteer infantry,
confessing and justifying his act in
torturing to death the insurgent Filipino
priest known as Father Augustin.
The statement was read in full, and
the remarks that followed were made
with full knowledge of Capt. Hmwuell's
declarations. Hrownell gave a
detailed description <>f the torture
which is absolutely forbidden by the
articles of war under which lite Hit ted
States army is governed during
hostilities, and which the world regards
as a crime against civilization.
Some extracts may serve to show the
character of Capt. Hrowiull's operations:
Knowing that there was on deposit i
in the city of Iloiloa large sum of
f money awaiting Ins order at the mercantile
house of lloskv 11 Co., the
banking houses of c.ie Ilong-kong and
Shanghai banking corporation, and
the Iianquo Kspanol, 1 insisted that lie
would be obliged to deliver orders for
this money to me.
The time given him having expired
without result, he was brought into
my presence and that of other officers
and enlisted men and told that he
nuum uiiuuiuiut'u aim me water
cure administered until he aceedcd to
my request.
The water cure was administered
for a short time.
lie still insisted that it belonged to
the pope at Home The cure
was continued.
Under this physical torture, which
was applied three times, the priest linally
signed the orders lor the payment
of the money which was in the various
hanks. Hut Capt. Hrownell was not
satisfied. He then demanded that the
priest disclose the hiding place of one
ljuintin Salas. Now came the final
tragedy, which under any possible interpretation
of military law was murder:
He (the priest) was in a dejected I
mood, despondent, thoroughly discouraged.
He told me that lie hud better
be dead, and wished lie might die. . . .
1 give him until a certain hour to consider
whether he would disclose this
hiding place or not. At tlie expiration
of this time lie declined to disclose
Salas' whereabouts.
1 finally ordered that the cure lie ;
again administered to him and stepped
into an adjoining room.
In a very short time ... I was
warned by a disturbance in the room
where the prisoner was that some-!
tiling wasj wrong and upon entering j
the room the man was dead.
Never, of course, was there a clearer
case for a physician in determining
the cause of a death. Father Augustin
died under torture. Yet, according
to Capt. Hrownell's statement, the!
post surgeon immediately came in. :
looked at the corpse, and decided that
the priest had died from "fatty degeneration
of the heart, and from
complete collapse and mental anguish ;
over the exposure of Ills criminal life." :
That was the surgeon's little joke, l?nt
It was of the sort of humor that may
best be described as mockery.
Now, the Cnited States senate,
having heard all these facts as related
by Jlrownell, was then a listener to
this remarkably prcverted or remarkably
impudent expression of the captain's
views on his own case:
The water cure was administered
by my order several times to different i
natives. ... 1 do not and never
have believed it cruel or barbarous in
any manner, and whenever it became
necessary, hi my judgment, to administer
it, the men chosen tor that duty !
were chosen with a view to having !
only intelligent, careful, humane men
perform the operation.
Senator Kedtleld 1'roc tor when the |
reading had ended, stood on his feet j
and said: "I propose to make a defense
of Capt. Mrownell. In his position
lie was fully justified in taking
any steps he saw proper for the safety
of his command. Father August in
mit;hf have been tried by a drumhead
courtinartial and shot or hun^r." And
tliat was New England speaking in
defense of hideous torture, which resulted
in murder, as a means of warfare.
l'p arose whom? The senator
from South Carolina, and he aimed
at the New Hollander a thrust
that should have cut to his soul:
"Tf the senator will permit me, I ,
have only to say that for the honor of
the American republic unci the honor
of the American army, 1 would to Cod
Father Auguslin had been shot hy older
of a drumliead court martial rather
than be tortured to death to get the
money from him."
It may ??e repeated that this was a
remarkable scene in the United States
senate. A New Etiglanrier justifying
both torture and lawlessness in the
army; a South Carolinian, who often
defends lynch law at home, rebuking
with withering irony and crushing
f.-rce the New England "conscience.*'
Mr. Proctor'shold defense ol Hrownell
was an abomination which assails the
whole structure of law and order, not
to say simple humanity, in his own
country; and it seems like an inspiration
that of all senators Mr. Tillman
should have faced the Vermonter
with thai terrilic retort. Sprlugticld
(Mass.) Republican.
A BIO FES.
A Voting Kentucky lutwycr Who
Sii-iick It Itich.
A young Kentucky lawyer, Captain
C. C. Calhoun of Lexington, has recently
grown rich from a single fee.
Captain Calhoun, as the special at tor
ney for the stale of Kent ucky, recently
delivered to the slate authorities a
eertilied check on the United States
treasury for The Louisville
correspondent of the Chicago
Chronicle says: "lie got the money
due to the state for equipping union
soldiers during the civil war. A year
ago Captain Calhoun, a poor, but
bright yoking lawyer, appeared before
Coventor lteckham and said that
much money was due the state from
the government. The governor said:
'All right. Calhoun, I'll appoint you
to represent the state and if toi
collect you may get a fee of 10 per
cent. Young Calhoun was without
fun Is. hut he set to work at his ti?k
and spent, many months in Wash.ngton
looking through musty records of
the civil war claims. After weeks of
tedi us v ork he secured facts and
guides which proved that the government
did owe the commonwealth of
Kentucky the amount named. He
then set to woik to have the claim allowed.
The proof was so positive
tint he succeeded in having t lie claim
included in the general deficiency bill,
which was passed by congress and
signed by the president last week, and
Captain Calhoun's fee, which will be
paid to him, amounts to $K12,400.
Captain Calhoun has just married and
will purchase a big blue grass farm
near Lexington. He will continue to
practice law, however "
Torn Stumps Not UihkI.
The postofllee department l)as under
preparation a small book, to be issued
to patrons of the postotllecs
throughout the country, which will
contain a great amountof information
regarding the business of the postotlice
whleh is not generally known. The
book will he, in a measure, a hook of
instruction as to hitw to transact business
with the p tstortice. One of the
things to he treated will lie the use of
mutilated stamps on letters. It is
not generally known to users of postage
stamps that a torn or defaced
stamp cannot he used. Persons who
have torn stamps in their possession
have been in the habit of pasting the
two pieces together and thus placing
it on a letter. Phis is prohibited in
the postal regulations, and the person
who uses such a stamp runs the risk
of not having his or her letter delivered.
Sometimes the stamps are so
well repaired tiiat the tear escapes detection,
hut should the rent in the
stamp lie found by tlie postal otlleials
it is of no value. The hook will also
contain information regarding tlie
registry and money order systems.
A New lltver HohI.
Mr. \Y It. Smith Whaley and other
ottiecrs of the Olymphia, (iranhy and
Itichland cotton mills and also connected
with the Columbia and Gecrgetown
steamboat company, have closed
a contract with the Stevens Merrill
engineering company of Jacksonville,
Fla.. for the construction of $4U,00U.
steel-hulled freight l>oat to be ready
by November 1. The boat will lie
used for carrying cotton goods to
Georgetown for shipment to northern
points and it is estimated that freight
rates will lie reduced from II cents
per hundred to :iu cents per hundred.
The tniat will l?t* ;t double-decker, having
a capacity of 200 bales and draw
three fed of water. The name will be
Washington A. Clark after the president
of the Carolina National hank of
this city who has always been prominently
identified with Columbia's
progress.
A Cruel I'raclice.
Docking horses, cutting their tails
otl?, is an ahominnl habit anions
fashionable people in the large cities.
The Societies for the prevention of
Cruelty to Animals often cause the
arrest of poor men dependent upon
their daily labor for a living, who are
found driving a bruised or sore horse
or witli too heavy a load on the wagon,
but we have never heard of their
causing the arrest of a fashionable
man or woman for driving a bobtailed
horse, deprived of his best, defense
against pestiferous dies.
'I'liey ('an Strike.
A dispatch from St. Louis says the
injunction issued March :t, by Judge
Kliner It. Adams of the United States
district court, at the instance of the
Wabash Uuilro.nl company otlieials to
restrain the Itrolhcrho ids of liuilway
Trainmen and firemen from ordering
a strike on ttiat system, was dissolved
Wednesday in a decision handed down
by Judge Adams, a week after the
hearing of arguments for and against
the removal of the legal obstacle.
WARMLY WELCOMED
The Charleston People Receive Sen
tor Tillman With Open Arms
A BATCH OF YOUNG DOCTORS.
Tlii' Senator Itellveiw (tie Annual Ai
tlroHM at tint ( militating Kxcrclues
In a liiirui; nnil 10 rilliunaKtic
Audience.
Senator Tillman had a bit; t ime I
Charleston last week, lie nrrivi
there Wednesday having tf.?nc for tl
purpose of delivering I tie address ;
the e Hnineneetuent exereises of tl
South Carolina Medical college Thur
day night at the academy of must
lie was met at the depot by Dr. K. I
Darker, 1 he dean of the faculty
Mayoi Smyth and Mr. Henry 1*. Wi
liams, cashier of the Carolina Savin*
bank, who entertained him at h
handsome home on Hist Mattery. Th
senator was driven directly to M
Williams' home, lie received a nun
of callers during llie day and w,i
taken for a drive over the city an
suburbs by Mayor Smyth Widncsda
afternoon.
1 le was asked for a statement on tli
issues of the day, especially the a|
pointment of the neg o collector of tli
port and other matters on which li
would be expected to talk, but li
turned the newspaper men down con
pletely, saying that he would have t
he excused from being interviewer
lie explained that lie had come I
Charleston in resp ?nse to the invita
! tlou of the college, and tli attentio
I which was being shown him was a
j very much appreciated, but lie pr?
I ferred not to make any public state
1 ments at this time. Senator Tilltna
; was t be guest of Mayor Smyth at
private dinner Wednesday evening ?i
the Charleston hotel. Only a fe
i specially invited friends and the men
' hers of city council were present.
Senator Tillman was taken in
special trolley Thursday to the Chat
lesion navy yards, being accotnpanie
1 by the park commissioners and ;i nimi
i her of the aldermen and the mayo.
He manifested much interest in tli
work. He expressed the opinioi
| however, that he did not think tha
' tlie contractors were making the pre
per progress but l*e added that the
| probably knew their business bette
I than himself. The senator refuse
! all other invitations for entertain
ments Thursday exnlainimr that n
j needed rest to have him in lit rood
I tion to speak.
On Thursday night the annual con
meneement exercises of tjie Medic:
j College of South Carolina were hek
, when the degree of doctor of medicin
; was conferred upon twenty men an
two women, doctor of pharmacy o
one candidate and diplomas of gradu;
tion in pharmacy on twenty-tw
young men. The exercises were t
, more than the usual interesting chai
J acter on account of Senator Tilhna
delivering the annual address.
The Academy of Music seats 1,00
people, hut the building was inadc
(plate to accommodate the crowd an
many people were turned away fror
the doors. The graduating classc
were not only very large this year, hi,
were also noted for their excellcr
I scholarship. The exercises were or
cned with an invocation liy llev. I)
.1. A. 11. Schcrcr of St. Andrew
Lutheran church. The annual repoi
I of the dean, Dr. F. L. Darker, wj
then read, after which Maj. Theodor
it. Darker of the hoard of trustee;
conferred the degrees, presenting tii
certificates to the following graduate;
firaduates in medicine: Drs. t?. 1
Ackerman, Cottagcville; J. W. Duri
Charleston; E. 1'. Carter, Ehrhardl
11. M. Carter, Smoaks; F. C. Clark.C<
lumliia City, Ind.; J. 1*. Dul're, M
l'leasant: F. M. Duram. Hlackstocl
W. 10. lOhrich, (ieorgetown; T. 1
Hogg, Thomas F. Johnson, Cliarle:
tori; J. C. Lawson, Darlington; M. I
>ic.miitan, cnarlesion: M. i?. Mauldii
l'lckens: F. .1. Mckinley, Mount lMea
ant:.I. (1. McMaster, Winnshoro; A
K l'rentiss, Charleston: 1>. L. Sinitl
Anderson; T. C. Stone, Greenville; .
F. Townsend, Jr., lid is to Island; .s
. M. Wyle. Chester.
(Graduates In pharmacy: Ralph II
Haer, Anthony 1\ Keckman, Franc
I!. Hold, David J. Burns and K. .
Conner, Charleston: Alex Clyde K
lerhe, Conway; J. Leonard llogai
Hid^eway; Benjamin Franklin M
Lend, Clio; Crocket II. Mc.Murraj
Lancaster; George I>. Merritt and >
B. Monsen, Charleston: Hughes A
j Moorcr, St.Georges; Manning L.Ne
son and O. L. Owens, Charlestoi
Dan L. Shielder, St.Georges; Andre
M. Smith and Lrnest K. Smith. Cha
lesion: J. Henry Stonecypher, Wes
j minster; J. (!. Wannainaker, J r
(frangeburg; II. L. Wecker, Cha
lesion, and IF Sumter William
j Sumter.
Doctor of pharmacy; .1. 1 lerhe
' Burnam,Charleston.
The college cup was then present*
I to Dr. W.J. Smith hy l'rof. For re:
and the medal for pharmacy to Mr. (
1 M. McMurray hy l'rof. Allard Men
' mincer. The medal for practical woi
in pharmacy was presented to Mr I
II. Baer. The valedictories wen* pa
j tieularly pleasing elTorts, hcing deli
ered hy Messrs. Mckinley and Luc:
of the medicine and pharmacy classe
i respectively.
Senator Tillman then delivered tl
annual address, speaking on Hie nice
cal profession. II i^ address was i
; especially line one and he was givt
. interested and close attention lliroug
out. lie was well received and w
generously applauded.
I The tirst six honor men in medicine
* aire L>rs. \V. J. Smith. Clark, Ackerman.
Khrich, McMillan and Prentiss.
The last two are women. The honor
a" graduates in pharmacy are Messers.
McMurray, Williams and Haer.
T1I.LMAN IIANQUKTTED.
Senator Tillman was entertained in
Charleston Friday uijflit- at one of the
most elaborate banquets ever given
in Charleston, at wiilcli he received a
.1- tremendous ovation. He was most
ihierally appla* d d throughout his
s'leech, which like all ids utterances,
was right to the point. As The News
and Courier puts it lie tore t|;u hark
ulT. He went back into recent political
history and told of the conditions,
In which lie considered grave that it
fj was necessary to organize a farmt rs'
ie movement: o that men who p ild the expenses
of I he State should operate it,
" and then lie turned to Ids experiences,
ie political an 1 otherwise, with tiie peos
pie of Charleston,
c. Expressing great love and admiration
for the town, lie said it was neees
sury ior me younger element to pull
^' together to regain the commerce
which is now going to other ports.
Is He took oil the gloves in speifeing of
's t lie sclfwhorship of i he city and de1C
clarcd that if Charleston ever adr
vanced it would be through the effort
'* of the men with whom he was dining
IS Friday night. Touching on the Crum
app lintinent he said that it had been
y made, that the negro was put into
one of the most important Federal
" * otllces and that it was best to keep
harping 0:1 the matter and wait until
ie the next session of tlie Senate, when
1C every power would lie used to have
,e him rejected.
A DREADFUL ACCIDENT.
I.
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| II) \\ Site! Two .Men Are Hilled liy un
ti
A11tnmnl.U0.
..I /
Count Fallot Zlmrowski of New York
.. t was killed Wednesav in an automobile
11
n i liill climbing race between Nice and
it La Turbie in France. Ills chaffeur,
vv j Huron de I'allange, was seriously ini
jurcd. The accident occurred during
one of lite trials along what is known\
| as the cor niche stretch. .Just at the
, moment the vehicle reached an abrupt
d I angle the car struck a small rock in
L" the pathway, causing a sudden swerve
>' which precipitated the two men
ie against a wall. Zborowski appears to
i. have struck headtLrst, as his skull was
t smashed in by the violence of the
>- shock. Although the baron was also
y ; hurled against the wall he did not
f i strike on his head. The body of Count
d ( ZborowsWS was brought to the chapel
- of his chateau here and his wife was
e ! notified. When she arrived at the
I chapel an affecting scene took place.
! The trip Wednesday was the tirst
t- Zborowski had made over tlie route
d and lie was not acquainted with its
1> dangers. His machine was going at
|l! a speed of ho kilometres an hour at
d the time of the accident.
11 Karon de Fallange. who acted as
i- Count Ziborowski's chaffeur, died
'?? Wednesday night of tlie injuries he re>f
I ?i?i ...?? -
n ivni \> i! 1*11 iic was inrnwn imm inc
r* car. The witnesses of the start of
11 the race say that Zborowski showed
considerable nervousness while await'0
! Inn his turn. Imprudently, he wore j
- 1 white kid gloves, which prevented
d him from having a linn grasp of tlie
n j break. At the signal to go, he start's
ed at half speed, which was soon iTilt
creased to full speed. The accident
't occurred at the first turning of the
>- road. The shock was teiritie and
r- Zborowski was shot from his car and
s struck the wall beside the road with
"t j his head about six feet from tlie
i-s ground, lie fell to the ground dead
c ins arms outstretched. Baron de
t I'allange was thrown t? the left.
10 j At the same instant that Count
: Zborowski and Baron de Pallenge met
' their death, another accident occurred
' at another point on the road. The
1 chain of Baton (lastcux's automobile
J- broke and the car was overturned
C ; against the rocks. The baron and bis
i: cliatTcur were thrown out. but both
" escaped with severe bruises.
s- 1
> ! l we of* 1 i?J unci inn*.
j. | 1>. F. Bradly, president of tlie Iowa
s-! college, submits to an Iowa paper two
k. questions, as follows: 1. If a Judge
may enjoin union labor from ordering
I. a strike, why may lie not upon appli^
cation enjoin capitalists against reduction
of wages, or oilier acts alleged to
[t j be oppressive to labor? 2 If it is good
is law for Fuitcd States courts to inter
I. vene in behalf of interstate railroads
II- why is it not good law for the same
courts to redress grievan *es of employL-.
es engaged in interstate commerce?
, The Sioux City Journal in reply to
1. these questions says that "the obvious
answer in both queries is that an in1
j junction in one ease would hi* just as
i; I logical as in the ot her." And yet we
w do not recall an instance where a fedr
eral Judge has applied the writ of in
j. | junction in this way to corporations.
? ' The Militia.
f.
Adjutant and Inspector-General
j Frost Wednesday issued instructions
1 to the captains of all the military
rl companies to have their uniforms and
I supplies ready for the inspection of
,('1 the army olllcer who is expected here
s' shortly, lie also instructed them to
recruit the companies uo to tlieir full
^ ; strength. 05 men, which is thought
| hy the adjutant generals of many
iv' | states to lie too large.
y_ I A Big strike.
as j Ten thousand hituminous coal
s. miners in Indiana are 011 strike Wednesday
hut the operators and the
ie miners' leaders believe a settlement
li- will be reached before many hours
1111 through the intluence of John
;n Mitchell, who will confer with the
h- operators. The operators contend
as that the miners should accept last
year's contract.
*
A BIO ST BIKE.
Seventeen Thousand Cotton Mi
Hands Quit Work.
WANT5P * TEN ?E2, CSS7 iEIii
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Wllicll WllH I t?'l*llM(*(l 1111(1 til
Strike Followed. Tin; Cotton
Industry of Lowell is
I'arallzed.
A hi^ cotton mill strike is on a
, Lowell. Mass. A dispatch from llui
j city to the Augusta Herald says Wet
i in iMiaj iiioi iiiiik, mr i/iio ursi lime )
many, many yours, on working days
the bells of the mills have failed t
ring out their morning; call. Street
which are usually marked by tlie rus
and bustle of thousands of people Inn
rying to their work, are almost dt
sorted and a stillness pervades th
mill district. Of the seven mill
which have shut down four had prae
tieally no help with which to operat
their plants Wednesday if their bell
j had pealed foi the call of labor.
Seven cotton mills closed by strik
j of 17,000 operatives, who demand
{ten percent increase in wages. Kou
of the mills are in good condition 11
| naneially. while the others are not
These mills arc in a combine with tli
others outside to keep down the wage.'
I The operatives are proffered generou
j aid from the other mills in oilier citie
i and the A tuerican Federation cj
Labor.
The progressive citizen would h
glad if the mills would no south an
never reopen here. They are th
curse of the city. The tion-residen
owners keep out the other Industrie
by controlling the sites and lite man
uiticvnl water power. The prospcc
is for a loon struggle. Tlte stat
j hoard of atbilration lias tried in vaii
j to etreet a settlement and will mak
another eifort to compromise on tiv
! per cent increase if possible.
' In preference to linhtinn Llie textil
j unions the agents of seven i?in cottoi
mills ordered an entire suspension o
, work for an indefinite period. Thes
l anents have olllcially announced tha
j a canvass of tlie help showed that up
I ward of so percent, were non-union
and were opposed to a strike. Thi
| sentiment changed Saturday, an
j when a second canvass was taken t
| the loom tixers, spinners, carders
1 nappcrs. weavers and beamers it wa
| seen that the textile council was abl
I to fulfill its threat and strike in th
j mills.
Without delay notices of a shut
(down, to take effect at once, wer
posted on gates, and as piece band
| completed their work they were toll
to leave. When speed went down a
noon Saturday fully 17,000 operative
I had been forced into idleness. Th
length of the shutdown is problemati
eal, but is likely to last many weeks
(as the unions Iriv.i l....m n
nancial support from the United Tex
tile Workers of America, the Nations
Mule Spinners' Association, tli
American Federation of Labor, am
j from the local trades and laltor coui
oil, < omposed of 45 unions.
A Kent W. S. South worth, of th
Massachusetts mills, secretary of th
Manufacturers' Association, says tha
if the mill people think that the shut
I down will be for a fortnight they ar
! greatly mistaken. It will last, h
says, until the agents are positive!
; told that all the operatives want t
work, and when this time comes th
agents will consider t lie matter <
| resumption. President Conroy, c
the Textile Council, who stands ;i
the strike leader, says:
"The action of the mill agents sin
plities matters. They have simpl
| anticipated us. If they had not dt
dared a shut down we would hav
tied them up, any way, and the
know it. This makes it easier for i
to handle the men. 1 can't say wha
j will happen. There may be truubl
>et."
The shut-down will affect pritnaril
the lt5,ooo and more operatives. In
month many hundreds of operatic*
i in small industries supplying materi;
to the big mills will join the army i
the unemployed, and the longer tl
enforced idleness the greater the pa
alvsis of industry here.
The area covered by the Massac In
setts, I toot t, Merriinac, Tremont, Su
folk and Lawrence mills is about <>i
mile in length by three-elghths of
mile in breadth, bordering on the Me
rimae river. The Appleton an
Hamilton mills are nearer the ge<
graphical center and are embraced i
an area about half a mile square. Tl
1 product of these mills ranges from tl
: coarsest of gray cotton to the finest <
! dress goods, going through all gradi
of print cloths, sheeting, shirtiiij
I sateens, nainsooks,dimities, blanket
. toweling, table linen and silk-wai
A.r. mi. i t ? ---
h'khin. nit; weesiy payroll is *i;fs
j uou.
A Tangled Twine.
In the court of common pleas ;
Charleston Monday week Judge Wat
issued an order requiring a negro la%
; yer named Tw ine to show cause wl
; lie should not be debarred from pra
lice in the courts for un profession
conduct. The attention of the eou
i was called to Twine s methods in ll
recent presentment of the grand jur
It was charged that Twine had c
deavored to get a number of ncgroi
who were aceuseii of stealing terrap
i to swear that the overseer of the te
rapin farm had stolen the turtle
Twine will have to show cause at tl
opening of the next term or the cou
and if he cannot satisfactorily defei
himself there w ill he one colored la>
i yer less at the Charleston bar.
A
SHOT THE TEACHER
A Striking <)l>|cct L(ttson on Curry- ^
Ing t'oncvnled Weapons.
A few weeks ago a teacher hi a
^ I school it) Spartanburg County shot
* J and killed 11): of his pupils, and on
j last Thursday a pupil in a school at
ie Lawdcsviile in Anderson County shot
' and dangerously' wounded tl)e primti|
pal of tlie school. A dispatch lrt.m
1 Anderson to The States gives the
| particulars of the unfold un;He affair.
The teacher, Mr. .1. F. Hamper, who
; Is the principal of the school a'
Lawdesville, was shot twice by a' t
A ' pupil named James Latimer, it sccnis
1- that the teacher had notice thai soiiio th
,, | of tlie large l?oys were going to absent i th
; themselves from school Wednesday on j fcf
s | account of it !?eing All Fool's day and sei
10 ; warned them not lo do so. lit]
?s I The boys stayed away from school tu
I] , as they had threatened and Thursday ov
aiicnioou me lencnur Kept thorn in ; l>y
alter school to punish them. lie be- j F?
Kan on James .Latimer, a boy of 17 tit
I? years, and Latimer produced a rod of wa
iron from his clothing and began to set
" resist. This was taken away from
? him, when he pulled a Smith \ Wes- of
lS son pistol and c?pened lire on the exi
toucher. of
I' The lirst sh it hit a button on Mr. M;
,l Harper's coat and the bullet and but- toi
r ton both penetrated the flesh. Tnen wi
a second shot, was tired which struck th;
a rib inflicting a flesh wound, it was kei
e thought that Harper was rnortallyhurt un
' but the physicians say that his wounds del
ls are not serious. Latimer fled. Young St;
-1j Latimer is a son Mr. J. T. Latimer,
a prominent merchant of Lawdesvillt ert
and nephew of Senator Latimer. Four Mi
1 or tive hoys of about the same age spi
were implicated in the affair. cot
G
t BOUND TO A RASCAL. "J.
r? ss i
. Tlic SiiiI IMiglii ul'a Young tail} in
^ arl
Xew York. till
" bu
c The escapades of Nelson Foster tin
e alias "Capt." A. N. Freeland of Sum- hq
.. tor created quite a sensation a few 's 1
tio
ii months ago when it was reported that
f he had married and subsequently had fe(
0 deserted a wealthy New York young agi
1 woman. The sequel to that affair ap- of
pears in the following in the New York St;
'' Sun of Tuesday: thi
* "Supreme Court Justice MacLean to
'J, refused Thursday to annul the mar- vai
riage of Miss Kliza Herriman Wlckes. rei
a niece of Augustus Van Wyck and in
s ex-Mayor Van Wyck, to 'Capt.' A. ke
e N. Freeland, otherwise known as Nel- shl
e son Foster. on
"Mrs. Freeland met the man on a agi
" transatlantic liner and afterwards at e\|
e her home. She was impressed by his liq
* appearance of wealth and respectabili- tin
(1 ty and Ids own representations con- tin
1 corning his antecedents. They were i to
s married in (irace church a few months |
^ alter meeting. Mayor Van Wyek fev
was at the we lding. Rumors concern- va
" inK Freeland's past reached Mrs. Free- tin
land's brother, and on investigation bu
lie found them all well founded. An th<
interview followed and Freeland disap- tin
^ pea red. It developed that he had ne,
l' been a railway roadmastcr for years, cla
was a widower with children and had tal
i become a chevalier dlindustrie in oil
e ! default of better employment. sic
l' : "Justice Mac Lean says that he can- bu
I j not tind grounds on the evidence ad- en
' duced which would warrant an annul- pa
e ! ment. Freeiand's actions, *he says,
e 1 may have been those of a scamp and a
y j hypocrite, but do not come within
? | the provisions of the law under which na
0 marriagas may be annulled, l'crmis- sl>
sion is granted to renew tlic suit on
^ additional evidence." Co
us at
t^uick JiiNticc. ye
l" Cable dispatches told not long ago lo<
>' how the Ameer of Afghanistan by a st<
stroke of his pen cut down the harems av
-t' of his subjects t<? four wives each. He fo
>' h;us lieen administering some very sp
ls | swift justice, too. Not long ago a na
II : meat-seller in Kabul abused another na
: man and taunted him altout his re- sh
! ligion. The otTender was brought be- It
'-v j fore the ameer who straightway sen- uli
a teneed him to be blown from the sti
's mouth of a cannon, which was done as pc
l' soon as a nearby cannon could be load- th
'led. The same day four well-known Mi
,e robbers were brought before him. He ly
r* had them put into iron cages and ac
hung up in four prominent thorough- pi<
tares a-, a warning and at l ist account ha
r* t hev -or what is left of them -were wl
Ie still there.
a
Kccnrtl <>l' liirttis and l>catliM.
The Stale says the governor has v':
"* , received a persanul letter from ex- 1"
" Governor Merriam, director of the
11 census, in which it is urged that
j South Carolina should aid the nation- 1,1
' al government in the endeavor to keep
s e >rrect and complete records of births
k'- and deaths The mortality statistics
of the government are shamefully in- ,v|
accurate and the census department
in compliance with a recent act of
congress has written t lie governors of
the States to aid in the otTurt to get ,
the data kept properly. The State 'J
ts hoard of health has been working on I j
v. this line for some time and the local j
,y hoards of health are said to have aet - . \
c. ed in a very reprehensible manner. 'J1
al The collection of these st itisiics may ' '
rl he of great value in the years to come. ^
^ ItiotoiiM Striker.-:. Pl
n- A strike among the factory workers
s at Cohuar, Germany, Wednesday took
in a serious aspect. The strikers formed pi
r- a procession and marched through the pi
s. streets. Soon a riot was rampant and st
ie before the demonstrators could be tl
rt quieted the police were forced to at
id charge with swords and revolvers.
v- Many of the strikers were wounded and ra
three lalxir leaders were arrested. ai
A SERIOUS M ATTER
9 The Dispensary Regarding Seizures
of Contraband Liquor.
[.11X3 OF REYE2UE OFFICERfcr
ircr Half of the Cunt!seated Props
?rty is Tukcn hy tho IteprflM-ntutives
of the Federal
Govortmeni.
The Columbia State says dispensary
ioials are wondering what will be
e result of Llie contention between
> State of South Carolina and the
leral government in regard to the
7.1 re of packages of contraband
uor. If the matter Is allowed to
11 on as !t is now, the State will lo.->e
er 50 per cent, of the liquor seized
the cons'a hies. In the month of
bruary, out of the seizures made hv
u constables, $?100 worth of liquor
us aflerwurds taken by the repreilalives
or the federal government.
Mr. II. 11. Crum, the commissioner
the State dispensary, Wednesday
l>laiucd the situation to a reporter
The State. Up to the time when
ij. Jenkins became collector of cusns,
Mr. Crum iiad h: d an agreement
Hi t lie federal officials to the effect
it tile State was to be allowed to
i'P all liquor seiz (1 by the constables
less the liquors so seized were evititly
sold in violation of the United
ites revenue laws.
Hut under a recent ruling the govlment's
gauger at the dispensary,
. A. S. Trumbo, is ordered to in?ct
every package shipped in by the
istahles and to seize all such as have
l the names of well known and repible
dealers as the parties from
mm the stuff had been obtained.
. Crum thinks this has been a very
>itrary position for the federal auarities
to take?for it throws the
rden of proof on the State, when
? State is not interested in forsterC
violators of the revenue laws, bub
endeavoring to break up the operates
of law breakers.
During the month of January the ?;
leral government, through its
ents. relieved the State dispensary
*.joo worth of contraband, for the
ite could not, under the rulling of
s department, prove its own right
the packages. In February the
luc of stuff turned over to the
renue otlleers was even more than
the month preceding. If this is
pt up it will become a great hardIp
on the dispensary system, for not
ly does the dispensary lose the pack- v
us, but is not reimbursed for the
press charges paid on the seized
uorg from the point of seizure to
b State dispensary; and furthermore
i State is hut hlr ng constabulary
work for the government.
The constabulary has for the past
v years paid its expenses out of the
lue of the contraband turned into
big vats at the State dispensary,
t the proportion of stuff taken by
_ federal otlicers is 50 per cent, of
a whole amount seized. Theattory
general's ottice is urging Crum's
iitn for the return of the liquors
ken from the State by the revenue
iclals. The dispensary commis>ner
does not censure Maj. Jenkins,
t says the latter is doing right to
forec the urders of the treasury dertraent.
Ate Any Old Thing.
At Kalamazoo, Mich., six pounds of
ils, screws, lead, iron, cartridge
ells and other foreign substances
're taken from the stomach of Fred
rrow, a Michigan asylum patient,
post mortem examination. For
ars Cerrow had walked about swalwing
metal, lumps of coal, small
ines and brick dust with great
idity. The stomach contained the
Mowing articles: One twenty penny
ike, 4 inches long; 22 ten penny
ils: T'J eight penny nails; 23 shingle
ils. iso lient nails of various assorted
:es, 2:? pieces of wire, 1 iron washer,
inches in diameter; 4 suspender
isps; IT assorted buttons; 120 small
>ncs: 12 pieces of tin, 8 screws, upr
halves of 3 twenty penny spikes,
ree 32 caliber cartridges and 28 pins,
my of the larger nails were partialdestroyed
by the acids of tiie stomh.
One large 4 inch nail, which
'reed tiie stomach, is believed to
ve caused an abscess on his liver,
lieli resulted in death.
A Great t'hungo.
In speaking of Senator Tillman's
>n io < nariesion The 1'ost or that
Ly says: "A year ago we were lookg
for Roosevelt and making ready to
* him honor, and all the time
uttering curses upon Tillman for his
imannerliness which threatened to
leat us of our high guest. Now we
e openly and loudly damning Rooselt
and are cooking tine dinners for
illman. So wags tlie world."
Six Men Killed.
A territlc explosion of gas occurred
te Tuesday at the coal mine of L. P,
urslial at Sandova Co. 111., resulting
the death of six men and the terrie
injury of live others. The dead
e Prank Deroe, Joseph Trioshco,
>hn Giacino, Jo.Bianco, Lafayette
my, William Newhouse. One of
ic wouned, Henry Wheeler, is not ex cted
to recover.
Too True.
The Columbia State says: "The
resident, the preident's wife, the
resident's daughter, the president's
m all of them must l>e followed by
ic newspaper men and their every
it reported to an anxious country.
That a delightful inconsistent democtcy
of royalty-lovers we Americans