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VOL 111 BATESBURG, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12,10O3. NO 28 EATS kEM ALIVE. > Senator Burton trom Kansas No Match for Senator Tillman t SAYS THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE To the GrcHt Force of the Sent'. Carolina Senator thin Prejudiced Neu-Hpaper Pujm a Tribute. Senator Ben Tillman has impressed them out west as a strong one, sure. They have pitted against him in a Joint debate on the race question Senator Burton, of Kansas, who has held some sway as a scholar and an orator of ability. Head herein below | what Senator Tillman has done to lits opponent from Kansas, as interpreted by the Chicago Chronicle: Whatcvef we may think of the ideas and sentiments entertained by Benjamin It. Tillman, we cannot but concede the force and virility of ht character, lie has been called a barbarian, but if he has the barbarian's savagery he has likewise the barbariau's strength, lie is not the sort of man against whom weaklings may be sent. The people who arc managing the hippodroming debate between Senator Tillman and Senator Iturton owe it to their patrons the people who pay money at the I mix otllec to maintain at least a show of a contest. They owe it to the country at large to pit against the man from South Carolina some one who is capable of confuting him some one who can expose the fallacies which Mr. Tillman deals out with the air of an oracle. These be hard facts, and, bearing as they do upon the friend and adviser of the president, they are worthy to challenge the attention of Mr. Roosevelt as well ;is the eountrv .11 large. Having said so iniu : of Tillman, tlie Chicago Chronicle takes occasion to declare the North is no more pro-negro than the South, and adds that Senator Tillman, assuming it is, sets up a man of straw which ^ Burton accepts and seeks to defend. ?1^Inti ^Kl^'en the South Carolinian demolishes IP spite of the Kansas at: tempt to pfdtect It. There is no more. sociareoir8.htv between blacks and whites in Chicago thariliT (rhTP= leston. There is no more mot ion of amalgamating the races by marriage lu New York than there Is in New ()rleans. The managers of the oratorical softglove contest owe it to the north to send a stout and worthy champion against the gentleman from South Carolina. Such a champion will not utter feeble and prefunctory conventionalisms about educating the negro, lie will not use the language of the tea party or church sociable, lie will tell the truth and uumask humbug, and he will not he particular about the exact language he employs in doing so. lie will keep benjamin K. Tillman to the facts and he will make it perfectly clear that while the north is no more 'negrophile' than the south It is -r'eU-rmined that, tin1 south shall not disfranchise t he negro and still continue to count him as a basis of representation. There plent y of such men available. If the rhetori cal circus is to continue t heir rank* .should be drawn upon. Mr. burton has neither the vocabulary nor tin personal standing for the task that hi has assumed." In commenting on the above the Atlanta Journal says: Senator burton is no weakling. The Chronicle has merely made the mistake of judging the man by the .-size and strength of the views he ir iairUtjt" ,>i the race question. The pa(per^.estimate, from which tlie abovi :is taken, dealii too harshly with tlu iKansan forfaiting 1& accomplish what .all others from that section and othei sections liave tailed to accomplish namely, to answer Tillman's arguments. We recall an occasion m the Unitei States senate wherein the stern faced old warrior from South Carolina staler iiis creed on very much the same liner as he has stated them out west. >i that occasion lie cordially invited am gentleman within his hearing to arisi and reply to his statements if the\ dared. None dared or at least noiu replied. No newspaper called then weakling then, because such men at (i. F. Hoar, Henry C. bodge. Milieus A. llanna, John C. Sponner Chauncey M. l>epew and Nelson W Afdrlch were there t o say not hing o I'latt and t^uay ? The Chronicle goes on to say thai Tillman's "fallacies" are his belief: that the north recognized the negro a; social equals and that the north want ed the fourth to submit to negro do mination. It wants some man stron^ enough to show these beliefs up ;e fallacies, a man who can prove. t< quote its own-words, that "there is im l in i r# # ! iu:i I i v lu'twci'ii lihwL'v and whites in Chicago than there i: in Charleston. There is no mor< notion of amalgamating the races by marriages in New York than there i: in New (irleans." lie would he a strong man indeet wlio could prove this in the face o tlie Hooker Washington dinner givei by a New York President; the appointment of negroes over white pen pie by a New York president: the in vitalion given negroes to attend ; white house sociable by a New Yorl president: the expenditure of Chicagi money on educating tlie negro so tlia the laws which require an edueationa qualification of voters shall not dls franchise him In districts where he outnumbers the whites. If such a man can be found we should be glad to pay the price de- j manded at the Kate to hear him. He is not in the United States senate, for Tillman gave everyone there an opportunity to prove these "fallacies" and none grasped jj, jje js not, on the 1 lecture platform, else we had heard him down this way long ago. He is not in the house of national repreren- i tatives, for several of Tillman's way of thinking have offered similar opportunities for replies there. In point of fact, we do not helieve he exists wiio can answer the Tillman argument. It never 1ms been answered. It is our firm conviction that it will never be answered by word ?of mouth. a Certain events now transpiring dai- * ly in the north lead us to believe that ,, it will lie answered in another way? tl i atlirraatively answered, as it were. ^ ( They are beginning to show, in other (] words, a decided disposition to agree ^ with Senator Tillman and the rest of a ' ?'* li WHITE MAN LYNCHED. rl t I , Moll Titkt'H Him From Victim's | 'atIter an?l llanuM llim. ^ Despite t he efforts of the victims father, Sheriff llirhards of Asotin j" i county Wis., \%ho had sworn in 2~? de-! i putics to guard the man, William 1 Hamilton, a well-to do farmer, the self-confessed murderer of a little ' I Maliel Ulehards, was foreihly taken ' ] from the Asotin county Jail shortly <: ! after midnight and lynched by a nmb ?" of more than 1.000 men whieh had 11 | been congregating all day from all ' parts of Asot in county. About 12. IT. o'clock a hand of men. 0 : their faces concealed with handker- f chiefs, marched t<? tlio jail. The :l ollitvrs and guards were swept aside ,J and Hie keys taken from the jailer, t j The liars of the cell had to lie sawed 1 , before the door could he opened. ' ; Hamilton was then dragged fioin the 1 I prison and into the yard. ' Meanwhile another hand of masked * I men had inarched to the jail. They I kept buck the crowd which had wait- f ed all night for the lynching. Guard- 1 ed by several masked men the mol> t i came from the jail with Hamilton ' followed by other members. Then f the man who had lieefi guarding the d jail formed about eaptlve .and captors, v and kept the crowd aWay. When the t lynchers with Hamilton reached First c and Fillmere streets they halted under !l a guy wire connection elecvlc light 1 i poles. Hamilton was asked - If he .1 -4fiTntecl to"- confess. TTe~Titfl? Sitrfr Finally he asked that his jewelry and 1 trinkets lie had he given, his father i and mother and it was promised that ^ lliis would be done. t Then there was another delay. ' i The manner of 1 lamilton's death was ' being discussed. Some wanted to torture him. but it was decided to hang him. A mask was put orer the f man's head, a rope around his neck, ^ thrown over the guv wire and seized by many of the lyncheas. When they ' were certain he was dead the tody. v was left suspended. The crowds then c , left. _ t BEGGED IN VAIN FOR HIS LIFE, t I: (jrcen f'iiTil in ltlooil I'poit tlio j Hying ?l?w l'eililler. 1 v , t A gentleman from Aiken who was 1 in the city Monday states that the i killing of Surasky, the .lew peddler, i i was a more dastardly piece of business , than it litis been reported and the '1 > publiscd statements were shocking i > enough in themselves. It is told in tl Aiken that the peddler was shot down, r , lint not killed immediately, arid that s lie begged pitcously for his life. His r answer was another load of shot, 1 | bringing death to end his agony. j c It is claimed that, eye-witness can t lie produced who will corroborate this! j ' statement. The man, < Jeorge Toole, s , who was placed under arrest, is in dan- i . ger of serious trouble, but it is claim ;i ed in bis liehalf that he had nothing c ! to do with the assassination, that his I only guilt is in not communicating to i the officers of the law the news that 1 lie had found the dead body and it was i i j fear of Green which prevented Toole i j from reporting t he matter. f (Jreen is a desperate man. His . brother is said to have heen a bad t i man, and w is 1ried l >r killing his own 1 \ I not I it.11 in-law, a man named McClean. t . itiiivernor I ley ward has offered a reward tor tlreeifs capture. t . j This ilastardly murder occurred near ! ( the Leorgia line, a long ways from l the < hinquepin section of the county]' which was t he scene of bloodshed but t a few days ago. ! t ? j t Seven Hundred browned. I I ! A dispatch received at London says js ! 700 persons were drowned in the dis i astrons lloods which occurred at Che 11 I'.m?, China. .Inly 27. The bridgeds ^ within t he city and many houses with I s their occupants were swept away in Is t t lie torrent. Two-thousand of the in-j i " habitants ire left wlfhoirt means of i I subsistence. u i i lest rncl I ve I 'kro. I ( s 1 Fire caused l.y lightning Wedues j s day evening destroyed the Lourhori i ( ' i stock yards and two buildings adjoin- . ( ingat, Louisville, Ky. Kour hundred j " and lifly head of sheep were burned, j 'in... i. ... i.. ? .. ?>.? 1 lit- MISS |.?? illXMIl !P~aU,UllU Willi III1 ; susuranee one-half. CapL. ICherhart L 1 Ilillinan and I'ipemau Kichard Moore ' 1 were injured by falling timbers. j ' Two l.ailN Drowned. j | The dead bodies of Kriiest and Kay- ' i mond Connor, atfed respectively II ji i and 1 .'I years, were found in the creek | i near their home at Harlow, N C., t Wednesday. It is believed that they i 1 had been playing on a raft and fell I - into the stream. ( HE IS A DEMOCRAT. ?; si Jryan Oivos a Full History of His ^ Political Career. ^ u WHY HE VOTED FOR WEAVER, f! ei !< II;im Never Deiiicu Hit* A III lint ion tl With the Democratic Party w t or Permit toil it to he (| Ouentloneil. b The nold democrats, unable to make f( . successful attack upon the prinei- K ?les for which Mr. liryan stood as the ? loiumec or the party, and which he low defends, are attempting to quesion his -right to membership in the lemoeratic party. Three points are irged against him. First, he is quoted |, s saying at some time (the date is not n ixed) prior to lSiMl, that lie was not a o leinocr.it. lint, a bimetallist. Second, p hat he voted for General Weaver in '? S!?2; and, third, that he advocated 1 irineiples which are not democratic. The first charge is entirely without V onndation. Mr. liryan never at any () iine or place denied his political af- ei iliation with t he democratic party or icrmitted it to he questioned. His n a rents were democrats before him, |< nd lie counted himself a democrat in '' lis youth because his parents were, 1 nd after lie was grown, was a demo- J|' rat because oT his belief in demo- t ratio principles and policies. He p nade democratic speeches in IKHO. he- i< ore he was old enough to vote, and ; e tas made democratic speeches in j h very campaign since, lie has at-jJl ended democratic cotiveiilions for : J1 .bout twenty years and has never been j (' . delegate to a convention of any other i arty lie lias favored fusion with the lopulists in Nebraska for t lie reason hat upon the questions immediately . lefore tlie country the populists and (,| lemocrats agree, their diirerenccs hen?r :k t 11 111i<?v! iiitk in it ntiiplbbl In 1890 Mr. Itryan was nominated | (j or congress iiy a democratic eon von- jj ion and was elected, del Mutiny both ; v he republican candidate and the popu-: j ist candidate. He was renominated |. or congress In 1892 and again elected, lefeatiug this time also a populist as n veil as a republican. In 1804 he was f) ,he nominee of the democratic state n invention for the United States sen- (> ite, but was not indorsed by the popu- j ist state convention. While he would irobably have recejved the votes of u top1'Iis; npmh?Ms.oU4teJ<'yhIitftin' if heir votes could have elected him. (j ust as Senator Alien had received the (l lemocratic votes in the legislature wo years before, the republicans bad . majority in the legislature elected y n 1894?the year In which Mr. Cleve- ^ and's administration wassooverwhelningly condemned. Nearly all of the Kipulist.s voted for a member of their j iwn party. j At the close of the 53rd congress, , s n March, 1???"., Mr. Itryan joined N% vitli Mr. Hlsnd in preparing and cir- '' ulating an appeal to the democratic ; n lelievers in bimetallism to org.rni/o nd secure control of tin- democratic 1 J rganiziition. From t hat, date on to J be meeting of the Chicago convention te visit oil all parts of the country, at-1 ,( ending democratic meetings and con- 1' ent ions and giving whatever assis- i ance ho could to the democratic be- j l&vers in liimctaliism. There was j icvcr any question raised as 11is ?arty relations. In 1M94 a few democrats left the J lumocratic state convention and noinilated what, they called "a straight Icmocratic ticket." This ticket re-I eived about live thousand votes in the j tatc. Tlie bolt ing organization was | oaiutained.until after the election of slMi. In I'sa;, the organization so- i , mod fur tills ticket an unfair advan- 1 age by collusion with tlie republican i udges. In isiiii both organizations ent delegates to Chicago, and the lalional committee, by a strict gold md silver vote, gave temporary crelentials committee of the convention, j lowevcr, after a full hearing, decided u favor of the regular delegation, ! leaded by Mr. Itryan, and the testi- i nony before tliis committee was so learand convincing that the minority lid not present a report. ; During all tliis period it will be seen ,hat Mr. Itryan was active in party ' York and gave no excuse for any one ,o doubt Ids party connections. Congressman oTarrall, afterward! rosenior of Virginia, has stated that Mr. Itryan in the fall of 1894 intended ,o speak in favor of the populist candi- N late for governor in Virginia, hut was 1 MTsuadcd not to do so Uy Mr. O'Far- 1 all, then the democratic candidate * 'or governor. Mr, (>'Far rail may have I icon so Informed, hut if so his inform- P nit was in er.ror, for Mr.|ltryan never P ontemplatedany such thing. The i h criticism, however, crimes with poor t fracc from Mr. O'Karrall, for while as-1 n lerting that he prevented Mr. Uryan's! t peaking against him when he was a v andidate for governor, he bolted t he t lational ticket when Mr. Iiryan was a c andidat*' for the presidency. Cer- ! alnly his tight against a nat ional can- f< lidate nominated hy the aid of Yir-jt finia's votes was a more serious breach a ban the failure tosupporta guU-rna- o jorJal candidate, even if Mr. Itryau j tad'opposed Mr. < t'Karrall, which he p lid not do. ! p The charge that Mr. Itryan voted M 'or Mr. Weaver has already been ex- t Maincd and the faets have been pre t iented so often that one must confess o limseir misinformed it he circulates p lie charge as an evidence ??f Mr. I try- v m's abandonment of the democratic jarty. | n An the election of 1892 approached v t became evident that it was impossl- b ile'for the democrats to carry several t if the, western states, but that it was a ossible for the democrats U? assist lie populists in carrying them. This ituatiou having bten fully discussed, tie democratic national committee, of 'hich Mr. llarrity was chairman and ir. Whitney the controlling spirit, f the word "spirit" can properly be sed of the Whitney type), instructed j urge the democrats of Kansas, olorado and a number of <rt,hcr westrn states, to support the Wearer lectors for the purpose of taking Ivexe states out of the republican jlumn and throwing the election into lie house of representatives where the etnoerats had a majority. The evience of this is conclusive,'and has een published time and again. The allowing letter from James E. Boyd, hen the governor of Nebraska and lie Nebraska member of the national omruittee, ought to set this fact at rvit, Lincoln, Xpl?.t Oct. IT. (Personal nd continent,ial.)- Dear Sir: I have ist returned from the east where I onored I?y a consultation with the at ional committee and leading men of ur party, wit It regard to the lx?st olicy to Ik' pursued in Nebraska t his ill in dealing witli the electorial ie.ket: and they agreed with me that he wisest course would lie for demo-1 rats to support the Weaver electors: he object being to take Nebraska out f her accustomed place in t he republicolumn. Informal ion lias reached me that a umber of independents who were jrmerly republicans contemplate * ot ig for the Harrison electors. With he republican st relict h t husuugmeut il it would he impossible for the [ emoarats to carry their own electors' j icket to victory. It is therefore the! art of good judgment and wise act ion j >r democrats to support t he Weaver I lectors in as large numbers as possile. Kor democrats to do this is no] handonment of principle: on the con-1 rary, it is a definite step toward vie- j wry, and the ultimate triumph of Icveland and Stevenson, and the rineiples they represent. Iamks K. HOYD. Mr. Itryan was then a member of ingress xs well as a candidate for re- i lection, and announced that if the leotiou was thrown into the house he j ould vote for Mr. Cleveland, the I etnocratic nominee, as against Mr. 1 larrison. the republican nominee. I Ir. Itryan may lie justly criticised for aving known so lit tle of Mr. Cleve- j iiul as to prefer him to Mr. Harrison, ut t'rtim the standpoint of democratic ;gularity he cannot he criticised for j beying t he democratic national com- i littce, and voting for General Wcavr in order tohelpclect Mr. Cleveland. a the election of I8Ut> Mr. Veaver as one of the mast active supi?orters f Mr. Bryan, while Mr. Cleveland 11 rile-1 tTnVfUittiic&n^dvTTk'i'ago^lie liiucuce which the demodfatlc party ad given him. When M a me personally acquainted with the wo men, he found that General leaver was infinitely more democratic lian M>r. Cleveland in environment, rinciples, purpose and method. As Lei the policies which Mr. Bryan j as supported, only a word need lie I lid. On the larilT question no one. 'ill dispute his orthodoxy. He helped j > prepare the Wilson hill, which was j tuch more acceptable even to Mr. levelsnd, than the senate hill after; 1 r. Gorman and Mr. Gorman and Mr. I ill got through with it. The free st of the Wilson bill was practically lentical with the free list set forth in , lie platform upon which Mr. Bryan as elected in ls*?n, four years lie fore. J 'lie democrats of the f?*Jnd and ft.'lrd j impress favored tlie election of I nit-1 I States senators by direct vote of lie people, and this was made a part. I tire democratic platform of um?u. 'his demand will lie found in t he emocratic platform upon which Mr. j iryan ran in 1MH). The Wilson bill attained and income tax, and this! us supported by a large majority ofj lie democrats of-the senate and house. 1 'lie income tax was also demanded in ' lr. Bryan's lirst congressional plat-1 irm also contained a plank in favor I f the free coinage of silver, and durlg that |ycar the democrats of tlie ! ousc by an overwhelming majority i oted to recommit the Sherman law ritli instructions to the committee to ring in a free coinage bill tl<*> to 1 be... I lm H.A.. ........1,1.- 1, tuc i iiii" i/ijcn ii'inmuini;. . 'ur twenty years the democrats of the ! mate and house had been voting for | ills embodying exactly the coinage ! rovisions that the platform of lS'.MSj outended for. There was not a plank i the Chicago platform that was in-; (insistent with the record of the party n questions dealt with, and that ' latt'orm was prepared by a committee ' elected from all the states of the j nion and was reported to the condition liefore Mr. ltryan's noininaion was considered probable by any ! onsiderable number of the conven- i ion. The money plank of the Chicago! lat form, while identical with t he lank adopted by t he democrats of Neraska in ls'.it, had been indorsed by I he democrats at the primaries in allost all the states and no one can say hat its adoption was not the free and oluutary act of the rank and tile of lie party. At Kansas City the only1 ontro\ersy was over t he money plank, io other plank of the Chicago plat arm was questioned or opposed, and lie dispute over t he money plank was s to whether it should tie reatlirmed r reiterated. Mr. Hryan has defended the Chicago | lat form and the Kansas City piutarm, and if his democracy can be uestioned because of bis advocacy of | hose platforms, then the same ob.lecion must, he made to the democracy f the millions who believe in those ( latforms as firmly as he and have adocated them as earnestly. Space has lieen tflven to the above it because Mr. 1 try ail's conduct or; iews ou^hl to influence others, hut ccausc the reorganizes are seeking o make the litfht hi personal one gainst Mr. Itryan, whereas it is and THE NEW POPE. Sarto, a Venetion Cardinal Elevate* to the Popal Throne. DID NOT WANT THE HIGH 0FFIC1 lit; Is Said to Ite a Sti-niik Kcprc Ncntutivc of tliu liilicrul Klc Mirnt of tht! Unman Catliollc Church. Cardinal .los Sarto, patriarch ol Venice, w;is elected pope or-the llo man Catholic Church at the Vatlcac at llorac on Tuesday inornim; of lasl week in succession to Leo XIil. Ih was born at ileisc Juno 12, 1*25, and created cardinal June 12, ik'.kt. Tin new pontiIT decided upon the nameol Pius X. When the count showed tin necessary two-t hirds of the total nunc her of votes east had been ohtaine< the doors of the sistlue chapel wen opened hy the secretary of the con clave, Mur. Merry Del Val, and tlx masters of ceremonies were admit tc< from Doyden College. The secretary then asked the suceessful cardinal. "Do you accept the election?" and re eeived a reply in the atlirmative. A1 throne eanopies were then lowerec with the exception of that of the successful candidate. "'lie masters of ceremonies next conducted the new pope to the rob intf closet where he laid aside his ear dinul robes, donned the white stock inirs, red slippers, lonx white tunic white girdle, while cap. and red cap* of the papal otllcc. He returned t< the chapel and was seated on tlx chair placed on the highest step of t lx altar, whwre the cardinals i.pproacher one by one and kissed the foot am then the hand of tlx* prelate and re (eived the lctediction of new pope '1 he new pope was then tfiven the tish < rman's rinn which he immediately returned for the purpose of having hi; name engraved upon it. The crowd around St. l'eter'j Square at 11:50 Tuesday morning watching tlie stove pipe over the sus tint: utia^ri ? 4ir> LIIL* iiir^CSl there slr.cc the conclave began. It is estimated that 15,000 people wen around the square. Cardinal ehi, secrflor^-of-apTRVriTc^tulefs, ap pearjej on the inside balcony of the Vatican at 11:40 and maue the an noiiiifceiaen! of t,l election. Latci he i^ave it to the crowd outside anf the people shouted "Who Who?" the name having not been heard by tin greater part of the throng. Mac chi repeated the words in Italian in i louder voice saying "Cardinal Sarto, who calls himself l'ius X." Following the announcement tin throng rapidly increased,'the pcopli jamming through the doorways t? await the pope's blessing. Five min utcs after the announcement the nev pontitf appeared on the inside baleonj <?f the Vatican and blessed the people The new pope is one of the mos learned of tlie cardinals and is noter for his liberal views. I lis eharitie: have ga'ned him the atTeetion o multitudes in Ins see. The electioi at tli is moment looks like a com pro misc as the pope, asCardina Sarto, Inu taken little part in the politics of tin Vatican. I'pon certain occasions, hut thesi were very few, lie has opposed tin plans of Cardinal Kampolla l.co'i secretary of state. Like Leo the nev pope has promise of long life. Hi: aged mother is still alive and lives a lteise, Sarto's birthplace. The de tails of the voting are nut yet known It is learned, however, that Cardinal: llerrera, Cretoni Langenicux Cnuilie Moccnni and Svampa were too ill t< go to the voting chamber. A Colored Captain of Industry. 11 affords us pleasure to note tlia there is one colored man in the North in Pennsylvania State, who does nol need for Mr. Roosevelt to open door; of opportunity for him, hut open them for himself. It is a short stor; and is told hy the Philadelphia Ue cord, in a dispatch from l'ittsburp, a follows: "Henry Vaunt, colored, wa. ordered to forfeit $."?(> Wednesday morning, charged with beinp a sus picious person, lie was arreste< Tuesday eveninp and had a hap am billhook in his possession. The police man said that Vaunt was the chain pion chicken thief of the world. 1 was allepcd that some time apo In was sent to the work house tor eiph teen months, where he admitted that in Homestead alone, lie had Ktolci from f>,000 to lu.uoo chickens." A Itoilrr Kxploilen. The. boiler of the Tuscaloosa, Liph and Power company exploded Wednes day eveninp, instantly killing A lolpl Johnston and N. Johnston, neproe.s severely bruisinp Manupcr McHhei and Knpincer Craw ford and wreckinj the plant. The city is in darkness tc nlpht. The boiler was carried tw< blocks on its way, passiop throupl hiick \valis and landing in a depart incut store, *?oo feet away. Severn stores were badly damaged. I a is $.">o,ooo, Insured partial. ought to be made upon principles, i principle Is neither good nor bad be cause it is advocated by any man; ili good or I Kid in itself. and this discus sion of Mr. ifryau's personal connct tion wftli these questions would no appear here but for the fact that tli friends ef the Kansas City platforr are continually annoyed by the mis representations that are made by th gold democrats and by the republic* papers which take great delight in as slating the gold democrats. SLEEPS IN TWO STATES. And NeltlterCan Make a Otial SpIiihj 1 IMrcctor Kelliiijiilnli Olllcc. Nebraska school authorities are en dea coring to jret rid of a school Pooh Hah out in Siox county, but so fai S without success. The state superin i tendent lias tried to demand or com pel him to take ouc of two otllces, but the incumbent doesn't really see how lie can. District :tl> of Sioux county borders on the state line lictween Nebraska and South Dakota. The director ot No. 30 owns laud in each state, anii the state line runs through his house. r leaving atiout half of it in each state. - Ills sleeping apartment runs the full i widtli of the house, and his bed is s< t situated that no matter wlneli way J his head points part of him is asleep I in Nebraska and part in South Das kota. M lie is a director in both the South ' Dakota and tiie Nebraska districts. and although his Nebraska neighbors 1 have been trying to get him to choose ' which job he wishes to hold and which .state be desires to claim as his resi' ilenco, lie declines to do either, lie 1 {says that inasmuch as he owns pro' \ perty in each state and resides in IkjIIi i he is eligible to vote in both at each -1 school meeting held. lie lias a son1 | in-iaw in South Dakota ar.d two sons I in Nebraska, and the combination is i able to win out at both th -. Nebraska | and the South Dakota school elections ; and to make the old man a director of j each. - \ Superintendent Fowler has untitled the district authorities that the man must choose in which state he desires ' to make his residence, holding that ?I there can be no construction of the ' I law which will permit a man to vote " twice at elections. The old farmer I lias retorted that hw doesn't vote twice 1 at the election, hut votes at two - different elections, and that so Ion# as South Dakota people do not kick about him lie cannot understand why Nebraska should. ? lie has been suspended by order of the superintendent until he makes his ? choice, but lie insists 011 taking part r in school affairs notwithstanding? and Sioux county is 4U0 miles from the stale capital. > Struck tiy a Storm. T> be of "the hiViVjg5t storms of the year, and wf brief duration, swept OTCCf : St. IjouIh Wednesday afternoon. The furious, wind tore through the world's r Tair grouuds, killing Theodore Itlch1 i ter, a llorlst, Probably fatally injur' i ing A. It. Clark, a carpenter, and 1 seriously Injuring seven other work men, beside causing damage to world's 1 fair buildings and other property , generally throughout t.he city to the extent of $ 10,000. The day had been ; extremely warm, the temperature 2 registering 94 degrees. Suddenly the > sky began to grow dark, and soon af ter the storm broke with the force of t a gale. At the world's fair grounds f the agricultural building was struck . by the gale and six laborers working I on scaffolding were hurled to the 1 | ground. Theodore lliehter, a ilorist s ' from Kirkwood suburks, was 011 the 1 ground running to shelter when a My1 ing plank struck him. The world's - fair lire department turned out and 1 ; hastily dug the injurged from the de2 hris and hurried them to the hospital. A. 1?. Clark was so badly injured that 2 it is believed lie will die. ??????????? No llunk l\vxtiiiincr. S v The Columbia Record says the gov s ernor, secretary of state, attorney L igeneial, comptroller general and stat< . j treasurer have decided that no statx 1 hank examiner mil Id he .mnoint.eri on s (lor the present act, owing to its deficiencies. The hoard was in scssior , for a considerable time on tlie mattei aliout which several letters have l>eer written to the governor. As the Ian was interpreted, however, the boarr t decided that there was no lixec , method by which the banks could be assessed equally and no method o s collecting the assessment by the re s spective county auditors. The act is Y very general in its nature, simply pro viding for the appointment of an ex s aminer, at a salary of $1,500 per an s num, and was passed in I8'.?7. All the ?' other administrations let the mattei - go by and the legislature has nevei 1 taken it up again. The many de 1 ticiencies in the act will be shown by - the attorney general, who is prepar - ing a review of it, and the legislature l will have its attention called to these e to remedy or not. as it sees tit. Cushlcr In (lone. J i >n account of alleged shortage in the accounts of T. W. Dewey, cashlei | of the Farmers' and Merchants' han!< of Newliern, N. C., the hank has been tj compelled to go into liquidation. The - amount of Die alleged shortage h i large, but the sum has not been asecr i, tained. There was no trouble about e paying all depositors and creditors li ( i full. Mr. Dowey, Lbe cashier, left i-1 Newborn last Saturday night week ( stating that he would return elthoi li Monday night or Tuesday morning . lie has not returned and it is not il known where he is. Killed liy II In Sot*. A special to the Augusta Chronlclt from Spread, (Ja., says while in a rov i with his wife. Daniel Rivers, colon* was shot by his son, Morgan Rivers s who stood up for his mother and tire< '* two shots into his father's heart kill ing him instantly. P Killed Fifty Turk*. n A special messenger from Monasti; reports that the ltulgarian insurgent e have dynamited the governor's palac n in the town ot Krushevo, 22 mile i- north of Mouastir. Fifty Turks wer | killed. OUT OP THE NAVY. i Negroes Not Wanted in the Enlisted Naval Service. . THEY WON T BE RECRUITED. t ^ The Black* Make Oood l]nou({li HnilorN, l>ut the White Men L Olject to Their Pieacnce | In the ForccaHtle. The negro, as a part of the enlisted I force of the United States navy, is to \ be eliminated. Hereafter it is to be , the policy of the recruiting, agencies of the navy to discourage the enlistment of black men for service on American war vessels. A system of elimination is to he inaugurated, and, > while it is to lie put into operation 1 uraduallv. il will event,irillv we?>#l nut. every negro servingTieforo the mast, and the enlisted force of the navy will be composed exclusively of white men. Otllccrs of the navy are not willing now to discuss the subject, fur fear of raising protests and criticism, hut it is lielieved the idea of a white navy is > to Ik; realized, notwithstanding any criticism that may be made. At present there are about 29,000 enlisted mon in the navy, it is estimated that al>nut f>00 of these men are black. It is probable that only a few enlistments of negroes will be made during the next three or four years, and as soon as the terms of those now serving expire they will be allowed to go. Thus the number leaving the service will be greater than those entering it, and in time all the negroes will disappear. It is alleged that the white men in the navy are dissatisfied over the present practice of enlisting negroes freely, and arc constantly in a>tate of discontent by reason of unavoidable association with the blacks on shipboard. A striking lllustralkno he feeling of the white sailors against the blacks was furnished a few days ago, when at a Northern port the white men of an American naval vessel committed a series of assaults on negroes serving on the same craft. Both parties were on shore leave, and r the ~Nfrtttt6S<comlng in contact wkh the blackTbei^atiik-l^Ulwaered thom 1 until the negroes were obliged to seek refuge on board the ship, where they were under the protection jif the cum- T mis'dnnpd nlHivrs The white enlisted men object especially to being obliged to mess with the negroes on board ship. They 1 also object to other forms of the service which compel them to regard the negroes as their equals in every respect. From time to time there have ? been grumbliugs and evidences of discontent, and oflicers of the service * have come to the conclusion that it would be in the interest of good order and disciplines on iioard ship and j on shore to organize a white navy and allow the blacks to disappear from the service. it is not denied that in many eases 1 the negroes w ho enter the navy matoe ' good sailors. Their work in ordinary ' capacities, to which they are assigned, is compared favorably with that of the j white men with whom they associate, and from a strictly military standpoint there is very little complaint against their conduct. But the white , men serving with the negroes assert ? that they will force; the blacks out of , the service, and, judging from what is to occur in the system of enlistments, they have already gained their ( j point. There are abeiut 5,000 enlisted ne( groes in the army, but conditions in . the army and navy are not alike. In j the army the negroes do not serve in j the same regiments as the whites. ? They have organizations of their own , in the infantry aud cavalry. Thus, while fighting in battle side by side ^ with the whites, they live, while in ' barracks and in camp, apart and among themselves. There is no opportunity for social equality, and no , complaint has teen made in the army. r j lie question nas oeen occupying r the attention of naval officials for some time. No formal ordej*lias gone forth for the elimination of the negro from the service, but the understanding is clear among the officials. The department wants a "lily white'' navy, and it is to secure one. A Urpni Orator. ( Sam Jones says llryan may be . politically dead, but personally very , much alive, and pays him compliment: j "He is the speaker at a score or , more of the cliautauquas again this year, and th6 crowds who ftick to hear ] him are as great as of yore. He does now Uuch on politics In his lecture on | "The Value of an Ideal," but gives the people a great lecture and throws . into the lecture his charming person! ality and his splendid oratory. He Is not i>fily a drawing card, but lie is one [ of the greatest living orators, if not the greatest." Ille Stole Watches. The Charleston Post says Chief of k Police Iloyle received infurmation j Tuesday afternoon from Fiorenoe, stating that Harry White, the negro j who was arrested recently with seventeen watches in his possession, Is * wanted in Florence, being charged with stealing the watches from a man named Painter, a resident of that a place. Chief Iloyle has communicats ed with the authorities at Florence, <t and an other is expected to arrive s Tuesday morning to carry White back \ i e to answer to the charge of grand larceny.