Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The bandits then robbed the car of its contents, but it is not known liow much they obtained. After robbing the express car the men cut the car loose, anJ, getting on the engine compelled Engineer Joesink to go ahead. When near Keswick the men dropped off the engine and dis appeared with their plunder. " Engineer B. F. Joesink then ran his engine to Redding to take bark Sheriff Richardson and a posse of eight men. Joesink says that after stopping at Copley the noise of draw ing water drowned the noise of shots that must have been fired in the ex press car, as W. J. O'Neil, the mes senger, was killed by bullets. Pre \ sumably the three masked men at tem^td to rob the express car and the messenger made a fight. The first that Joesink knew of of the hold up was after O'Neil was killed. He and his fireman, J. F. Stury, were com pelled to dismount. They, with E. A. Bissell, engineer of the second en fine; A. A. Raymond, a flretnan; ohn Depanger, conductor of the train and a brakeman, were compelled to march back to the express car, where they saw O'Neil dead. The robbers tried to force O'Neill's helper, who was in the baggage car when O'Neil) was killed, to open the safe, but the helper showed that he could not do sc. The robbers com pelled the party of seven to place six sticks of giant powder on top of the safe. Then they had a heavy box set ?n the dynamite, to which a fuse was ordered attached. All but one of the robbers then left the car. He lighted the fuse. The party had just reached the locomotive when the explosion oc curred. It wrecked the entire car. Engineer Joesink is not certain that the robbers got any plunder. He was made to get upon his engine and stay there until further orders came for him to carry the highwaymen south. The robbers stood at his back on tlu- trip down, their rifles pressing against him. and he dared not look around. If they had any plunder he did not sec it. They told him they wanted to he carried to Keswick Station, five miles south, but as they nearcd that station they told the engineer to run right on by that station to a point 200 yards south of there, where a bridge spans the river. When he stopped they alighted on the river side. The officers believe they made straight for Kes wick. COINED lit TONS OF GOLD. Mat Breaks All kecords State the Use e| M?wy Beg an. ? San Francisco, (Special).- -The coin age of gold that lias taken place at ?lie mint in this city sincc last February is finished. Superintendent I .each said regarding the coinage: , "The mint has undoubtedly broken all records for gold coinage sincc the use of money began in civilization. .The amount coincd this month lia.t reached the enormous sum of $.13, 1 M, 500, an average of more than $1,000,000 a day; in fact the deliveries to the su perintendent from the coining depart ment during the last four days aver aged $1,550,000 a day. This, with the aum of $31,580,000 coincd in February, makes a total of $54,693,500. In weight this amount would make more than no tons, or a little more than four big corloads of 35 tons each. "A research of books and records I pertaining to coinage matter fails to ahow any account .of a coinage exe cuted in the same length of time equal to this in any of the other nations of the world." WMtClMKk* Destroy Graves. Middletown, N. Y? (Special).? Thrown ovt J/f their graves by ground hogs ,the bones of many heroes ori the Revolutionary War and the War j of 1812 arc often exposed to sight and l plowed under by farmers 111 the town | of Wawayanda, Orange county. In this town there are burying places, many of them dating back years be fore the Revolutionary War. Only eight of the graveyards are eared for. I the rest being mainly the homes ?>r ! woodchuck*. There have been no | burials in these cemetories for over 50 years. Apparently there is no one who cares wliat becomes of the bones of those who fought for the inde pendence of their country. CMMtks Killed 18 Bandits Xiao Yang, (My ('able). ? There is ?n enormous movement of troops in progress and trains are arriving several times daily. l)i the rear of Didzevo 50 Cossacks encountered a strong band of Chinese bapdits and charged upon them, killing and capturing 6. Three Cossacks ?rtf$ killed and six were wounded. ' Qiftsral Linevitch has received a tele r from General Kuropatlun ex i mmkm satisfaction that so well rm0m a soldier is with the army. HEWS II SMT WflL % Nearly five and one-half million dol lars was set apart bjr the board of estimates in New York to be expended in installing an auxiliary system of salt-water mains to be used in con nection with fire-fighting in the Boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The united States Steel Corporation filed a demurrer in Trenton, N. J.. to the suit of Alfred Stevens, who asked that the corporation be required to pay a dividend. The Iowa coal miners and operators have been unable to adjust their dif ferences and a shutdown is likely to follow, throwing 13,500 miners out of employment. Edward Reglar, who is something of a White House crank, was arrested in Pittsburg and held, pending an in vestigation of his mental condition. The appointment of Col. Edmund Rice, U. S. A., retired, as military sec retary of the ceremonies committee of the World's Fair is announced. The cruiser Denver was given a Cape Ann course and again failed to meet contract speed requirements. Judge Gager, in New Haven, ex cluded the sealed letter in the Ben net will case, which made a bequest of $50,000 to Mr. Bryan. Rear Admiral Sigsbee, and Captain Wainwright and other officers of the North Atlantic Squadron paid an of ficial visit to President Amador, at the palace, in Panama. MDr." Dewing ws arrested in Chica go for buying railroad tickets at cler gymen's rates and selling them to tick et brokers. A Sabine Pass and Northwestern passenegr train was wrecked in Texas and several passengers were injured. Further sensational incidents mark ed the second day's hearnig in the Bennett will case a* New Haven. A petition in bankruptcy was filed against the Pcttingill Advertising Agency, of Boston. Mrs. Cauncey Marian, known as the fattest woman in the world, died in New York. The Great Belgrade levee broke at Vitlccnnes, Ind., causing much dam age. Fire in the Quincy Mine, near Houghton, Mich., did considerable damage. The schooner Joseph W. Hawthorne arrived at Vineyard Haven, Mass., after a voyage from Jacksonville lasting nearly four months. A succession of storms was encountered and the ves sel was badly damaged. Flood conditions in Michigan are very grave. The inhabitants of flood ed houses are suffering greatly from cold and lack of food. The property loss at Grand Rapids will exceed $2, 000,000. Mr. John D. Rockfellow has placed Starr J. Murphy, a young New Yoi4c lawyer, at the head of his bureau for the distribution of money for philan thropic purpose. Fwdfa. The First Civil Tribunal of tlic Seine has decided that the Republic of Co I luiubi'i. having lost its sovereignty over Panama, has no standing in eourt ??> preVrut the sale of tlie canal property. Fmperor Francis Joseph performed the ancient foot- washing ceremonial in the Crystal Hall of the Ilofburg, in Vienna. At a meeting of Americans and Japanese held in Tokio on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Perry Treaty between Japan and the United States an American war charity called the Perry Memorial Relief Fund was organized, and $.17,500 was immediate ly -ftubscribcd. Takahira. the Japanese minister, and Secretary Hay had a conference upon the war. The conviction is general ;tmong State Department officials that for the present intervention by the j powers is <Vut of the question. 1 For sinking Japanese merchant ves sels in Suugari Straits at the beginning of the war $75,000 lias been distributed in prize money to the crews of the four cruisers of the Russian Vladi vostok Squadron. Detailed reports received at Seoul of the engagement between Japanese and Russians at Chengjn state that the fighting lasted two hours and the Japanese forced the Russians to retire. . The British military authorities have arranged for the distribution of 10 regiments of troops in Canada, so as to be available for speedy dispatch in ca-c of complications in the Last. In Japanese official circles in Tokio the action of Russian warships in sink ing the Japanese coasting steamer is deeply resented. The Alien Immigration Bill requir ing that the immigration of certain classes of aliens into the United King dom be subjected to state control passed its first reading in th: British House of Commons. The French Chamber of Deputies began a debate upon Marine Minister Pelletan's administration of the navy, which promises to be a test of the strength of the entire French ministry. The Dowager Queen Marghcrita, of I Italy, on a battleship, and Emperor William, on his yacht, met at sea and exchanged visits, the Queen lunch ing with the German ruler. For the week just ended there were 40,5^7 deaths from the bubonic plague in India, an increase of 7,000 over the number of the preceding week. Strikers against the new Socialist law in France have had several clashes with the military at Roubatx and other manufacturing towns. It is officially announced that Baron Cur/on of Kcdleston, viceroy of In dia has been appointed lord warden of the Cinque Ports in succession to the late Marquis of Salisbury. Admiral Wise has informed the Navy Department that the Morales government in Santo Domingo is making considerable headway against the revolutionists. ? Rev. John Potts, of Toronto. Out., preached on the Hill of Mars at Ath ens to the delegates to the World's School Conventions. United States Ambassador Meyer dined with Fmperor William on board the German imperial yacht Hohenzol lern, at Naplet. Father Boniface Krug. formerly of the Benedictine Abbey, at Beatty, Pa., and now abbot at Monte Cassino. wa* also ? euest. CHINAMAN SiPWLEP fnm WMe Secrtte* k a lefrif wa fer Car. W PAD Tf BAN Wit KKBKI. ' * *? fcwm Break* Up M ?l?*n OMK Nr the SfrtiMilc S?llN * CHmm fart* the UaNrt Stalea by Way <ta>flllj|l M?-Aa AmcH cm Ik WqlMlii ?f the hai Chicago, (Special). ? An organized gang for the systematic smuggling of Chinese into the United States by Way of the Canadian border is be arrest here of three Chinamen, who, lieved to have been disrupted by the it is said, were active agents of the organization. The arrest of an Ameri can, the ringleader of the gang, is all that is lacking to make the breaking up of the smugglers complete, accord ing to agents of the Department of Commerce and Labor, of Washington, who have been working secretly in Chicago for several weeks. Those already arrested arc Lam Chee, a prominent Chinese merchant of Chicago; Lcong Man, of Joliet. 111., who admits paying Lam Chcc $150 to arrange for the smuggling of a countryman into the United States, and Leong Dock, 'of St. Louis, cousin ] of .Lcong Man and a patron of Lam Chcc. ^ I For several months the United States authorities have been aware of the existence of an organized gang which has been smuggling Chinese across the Canadian border line, I principally between Windsor, Canada, and Detroit, Mich, Kvery effort was made to discover the ringleaders of the band until last January, when the dead body of Lcong Dick was found in a refrigera tor car at St. Louis, and Chinese In spector C. O. Cowley, who had charge of the investigation, found a clue which led to important discoveries. Cowley tracked the car in which the Chinaman had met death to Windsor, Canada. There Cowley learned that l.eonk Man and Lcong Dick, cousins of the victim, had paid Lam Chee $300 to smuggle Leong Dick across the Ca nadian border. Leong Dick was secrcted in the refrigerator compartment of a freight car in Canada and a week later his body was found frozen stiff at St. Louis. The white agent of Lam Chee, who is believed to have started Leong Dick to his fate, is now being sought. CARTRIDGE FACTOaY BLOWN UP. Fht Japaaese WtriuMt Were Killed at Suck*. Paris, (By Cable). ? The Matin's correspondent says that a cartridge factory at Sasebo, Japan, was blown up Sunday last and four workmen were killed. A Ilarbin correspondent of the Matin says that General Volkaff has issued a ukase informing the inhabitants of Manchuria and trans-Baik.ilia that all persons co?ivicted of circulat.*?g false news will be punished with the utmost rigor according to military law. This ukase, the correspondent says, is espe cially directed against handbills pro mulgating false news issued by the Chinese. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo Jc Paris says: "I learn that the Czar intends to send Vicc- Armiral Chouknin, director of the Naval School, to Port Arthur as Jissistant to Vice-Admiral Maka roff." TORNADO IN MISSOURI. A Niakcr of Lives Were Lost and Great Daa* age Wat Done. Carrnthersville, Mo., (Spccial). ? A tornado swept tHc country 20 miles North of here Saturday night, caus ing a great lo*s of life and destroy ing thousands of dollars' worth of property. It is known that six lives have been lost and thousands of dollars' worth of property destroyed. Th? fives of the Shuemakcr family, living near Portagevillc, four in num ber, were blotted out and their home demolished. Wesley Miller and wife, living two miles north of Mount Pleasant, were killed and their home* demolished. Their bodies were found 200 yards away, badly mutilated. Mr. Miller was a wealthy mill owner and planter. Fifteen hundred dollars in money be longing to him was found scattered over the ground. Much stock was killed and wounded. It is feared a full report will reveal greater loss of life. BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE. Careless Workman Strike* Cartridge With Pick, KilHof Three. Ilrownville, Pa., (Spccial). ? Cedar Hill tunnel, from the Connellsvillc Cei - tral railroad, two miles Southeast of this place, was the scene of an ex t?losion, in which four workmen were tilled outright and six were seriously injured. Three of the injured, it is feared, will die. The workmen were all foreigners, and went by numbers instead of names. The tunnel is being constructed by Kellar & Crossan, contractors. The explosion was caused by one of the workmen striking a charge of dyna mite with his pick. The dead workmen were terribly mangled. The injured were taken across the country to the Uniontown Hospital. Operators' Offer Refected. Altoona, Pa. (Special). ? The miners' delegates unanimously voted to reject the 'iterators' offei of 58.82 cents for a pick-mined ton, but agreed to accept 62 t-.i cents a ton, with a 5.55 per cent, reduction on other classes of la bor inside the mines. This action was reported to the joint scale committee. The operators were given half an hour to talk over the situation, and they asked the miners to consent to let the scale go to a board of arbitration, which proposition the miners are dis cussing. , UTEW1SHWUTAB& MMtfCaMbtt. The Senate Conwhtt on Inter oceanic Canals heard Senator Mor gan explain the merits of his bill pro viding for the government of the canal zone. His bill would make a mili tary reservation of the csnal strip. The Kittredge bill *was before the committee also and it is believed it will be reported to the Senate with a few changes.* The provision for the government of the canal by two commissions, one of which was to make the laws, will be eliminated and the control Of the xone left to the existing commission. It is believed that for the present only one judge will be provided for, but with a. provision that others may be named if found to oe necessary. The committee has agreed to insert in the bill a provision authorizing the President to designate an officer of the army or navy or any other of ficer, who shall have charge of all sanitary matters, the official to be under the Canal Commission. Waits News ft**?. Representative DeArmond, of Mis souri, introduced a resolution provid ing "that the Speaker appoint five members of the House to fully in vestigate the Postoflice Department and report to the House at as early a date as may be practicable ; that said committee shall be authorized to sit during the sessions of the House, and, if necessary, during the vacation, when Congress is not in session; that the committee shall have full power to send for persons? and papers, and the investigation hereby provided for shall be directed especially to clear ing the' innocent from a shadow of unmerited suspicion, to uncovering the inefficient, careless and offending and to the recommendations tor the cor rection of abuses, to the end that justice may be done to individuals and that the service may be improved for the benefit of the public/' Aaerkaas la Trestle la Alrka. The Consul-General at Cape Town in a report to the State Department says that business in the Cape of Good Hope is in very depressed condition and that there are thousands of Ameri cans in the country who arc in un fortunate circumstances. Fhpli?iJ| Afaia, It now seems pfobable that the Niuchwang incident will be settled to the satisfaction ofgie United States and Great BriUiOhibithout any pro test on the part of either Government. Count Cassini, the. Russian Ambassa dor called upon Secretary o? State Hay and. it understood, informed him that the American flag would be raised over the American Consulate in Niuchwang with full military honors. The greatest reticence was shown at the State Department in discussing the action taken by the Russian Authori ties in Niuchwang in directing United States Consul Henry B. Miller and other foreign consuls to lower their respective flags during the continu ancc of martial law. Count Cassini was an early caller and spent some time with Secretary Hay discussing the matter. It is generally understood ! that he told Secretary Hay that the action of the Russian commander in Niuchwang had been repudiated in St. Petersburg, and that every amend pos sible would be made. Further, this country, it is believed, has been as sured that its Consul in Niuchwang will be allowed to proceed in the ex ercise of his official functions. Knowing the character of United States Consul Henry B. Miller in Niuchwang, there is a general belief! that he made an energetic protest against the order of the Russians, and that in this way the reversing of the I order was accomplished. Mr. Miller has always been particularly active since he has been stationed in Niu chwang, and through his policy of never recognizing the sovereignty or control of the Russians in Manchuria i he has managed to make himself both feared and disliked by the Russian Government, as represented there. His official actions have, however, nearly uniformly been in accordance with the policy, of the State Department. The Navy Department has received from one of its agents in Tokio official confirmation of the attempt made by the Japanese on March 27 to obstruct the Port Arthur channel. The infor-' mation is as follows: "The Japanese fleet has been suc cessful in an attempt partially to close channel of Port Arthur. ? Four Japan ese merchant vessels, escorted by 12 destroyers and 6 first-class torpedo boats, arrived at 3 A. M. March 27. The Japanese fieet was later sighted at the range of 4,000 yards. The Japan ese merchant vessel# successfully en tered the channel inside of lighthouse. Two were sunk by the Russian de stroyers and two by their own explo sives. Japanese loss in killed, two of ficers and two men; loss in wounded, one officer and eight men. No casual ties to Japanese torpedo vessels. Very small gap in channel. It appears that it will he difficult for the Russian bat tleships to leave Port Arthur." It is stated* on good authority that battleships will find it difficult, if not impossible, to leave the harbor. Coafresttoaal and Dep arliaeatt. The conferees of the two Houses agreed on the Agricultural Appropria tion Hill, which now carrics $5,902,040 and provides for investigation of im ported foods suspected of being adul terated or falsely labeled. Hoth representatives of capital and labor opposed the arbitration bill be fore the House Committee. An additional minority report op posing the impeachment of Judge Swayne, of the Florida district, was filed in tlx; House by Representative Parker, of New Jersey. During the debate in the House on the Sundry Civil Bill attacks were made on the Coast and Geodetic Sur vey and State Homes for Volunteer Soldiers. A Chicago lawyer filed a bill in the District Supreme Court for an in junction to prevent the payment of any money for the construction of the Panama Canal. SIX miED EY EXPLOSION S*? Fad mj Hear Sirtu Pa, Wnckai aal (ami. FITE SIBLS AK FATALLT MJUtEft WMk Oat Exriplaa AN af fbe Mil Han ???aTafctafraai tiae Mfh-Tk liiu ?I ttt DcW Efliym Were Sa Bail) BaftNi Tkalll Was Wttk Or*at Dtffkaltj Tkat Tfcejr CinM Be R?c*faisc4. Scranton, Pa., (Special). ? Six per sons are known to have been killec and 'five fatally injured by an explo sion in the factory of the Dickson Squib Company at Priceburg, neai here. The dead are: Lizzie Bray, Priceburg. Beckie Lewis, North Scranton. Lizzie Matthews, Olyphant. Geofge Callahan, Priceburg. Teresa Callahan, Priceburg. Lillian Mahon, Priceburg. Those fatally injured are: Mamie Gilgallon. Martha Haybrown. Cassic Foultz. Mettic Ilevron. Oscar Ayser. Twenty girls were employed in the factory. What caused the explosion is not known, but it is said that one of the girls threw a squib in the stove and that the force of the explosion was so great that it wrecked the buildinp and set it on fire. The squibs are used in coal mining. The Dickson Squib Company oc cupied only the first floor of the struct ure, the Callahan family having rooms on the second flood. It was here that the two Callahar children lost their lives. Thomas Cal lahan, the father, was at work, and Mrs. Callahan had just left the room when the explosion occurred. The children, aged j years and 6 months, respectively, were playing on the floor. Both were instantly killed. The build ing caught fire, and the flames com municated to two adjoining buildings one occupied as a hotel and the othei as a butcher shop. Both were de stroyed. The bodies of the dead employees were so badly burned that it was with great difficulty that they could be recognized. JAPS REPORT FIVE KILLED. OfHdal Statearcat Fna Takta af the Cfeaaf JaRgtL . London, (By Cable).? The Japanese Legation liere has received the fol lowing official report from Tokio of the lighting between Japanese and Russian forces at Chong-Ju, Korea: "On March 28, a portion of out cavalry and infantry forces occupied Chong-Ju, after defeating the enemy*. The enemy, who numbered about 600 men, retreated in the direction of Wiju. Our casualties were Lieuten ant Kano and four others killed. Cap to 11 i Kurokawa and 12 others wounded, of the cavalry force. There were no casualties among our infantry. "Two dead bodies were ieft by the enemy on the field, but it is reported that some seven or eight were killed inside the town. These were promptly carried off by the cnemv on horse back or by ambulance. The Russians were seen conveying in an ambulancc two dead men, apparently officers ana blood-stained bandages wcr< found scattered around. The eneni) must have sustained losses at least equal to our own." CYCLONE SENT HIM TO JAIL. Wife Saw Ner Desertion Noikiirf'i Name Ir List of Injured. Chicago, (Special). ? The same cy clone that made James Mclnery home less in Indiana Harbor last week found him a new home in the Indian? Penitentiary. Justice, moving almost as fast as the cyclone itself, has de creed that he serve five years at hard labor tor bigamy. Had i1 not been for the storm which destroyed Mclnery's house and left him with slight injuries his where abouts might have never been known to the wife who has just brought about his conviction. Mrs. Olvine Anglais Mclnery, of Chicago, who claims that Mclnery de serted her in Hamilton, Ontario, 15 years ago cluncd to sec his name published in the list of injured by the storm. The result was t'.ie indcntifica tion and arrest of Mclnery, who two years ago was married to a girl in the suburbs. Jailer's Daughter Oave Key?. Mauch Chunk, Pa., (Special). --Mar tin I.avitski a convicted murderer, es caped from the Carbon county prison In the absence of Si?erifi' Rothermel his daughter Stella was in charge of the prison. Since his conviction Lavitski has been given the freedom of a corridor, and learning that the Sheriff was away he called Miss Rothermel to bring him some oil. As she handed him the oil Lavitski seized the prison keys from her and made his escape from the place. Lavitski was convicted of killing the woman who kept his hoarding house p.t Lansford last July. Stabbed With Hatpla. New York, (Special). ? Detective McNally. who has been a member of the Jersey City police force for 22 years, is dying at his home of blood poisoning. He was arresting a woman shoplifter a week ago, when she stabbed him in the right leg with a hatpin. McNal'y treated the wound with home remedies, but three days ago blood-poisoning set in. Four doctors -<one from the Pasteur Insti tute?are laboring to save his Hfa News of Merest AFRO-AMERICANS Maryland Delegate Boycotted. Delegate William O. Kerbln. of Wor reeter county, Maryland, who cham pioned the Jim Crow bill in the atate legislature,, has been boycotted by Ne groes. Kerbln boards at a hotel in tinow Hill. When he returned from Annapolis and entered the dining room he was informed that the colored cook had refused tp prepare another meal for him. Hungry and angry, he trav eled to Baltimore before obtaining food. His colored laundress also Joined the movement. ? ? ? ? Ruining German South Africa. A dispatch from Berlin says: The tact that the Germans do not know how to colonise is dally more apparent In the news from the German posses sions In Africa. By brutal methods and no end of red tape the kaiser's offl cere succeeded in embroiling them selves with every tribe formerly un der German rule, and now a campaign of extermination against the natives is talked of. Particularly it Is argued that the natives must be deprived of their land and cattle, these to be used to pay damages to the German settlers. m ? ? ? Maryland's "Jim Crow" Law." Governor Warfleld has approved the two so-called "Jim Crow" bills relating to railroad and steamboat travel in the state of Maryland, and they will go Into effect. The railroad bill requires companies to provide separate coaches for Negro passengers except on spe clal trains with Pullman coaches at tached. It excludes from its opera tions employees of railroads, nurses and officers in charge of prisoners The provisions do not include electric or street cars. The other measure provides for separate compartments for white and Negro passengers, but there must be no discrimination in the equality of accommodation. Don... Land for Probation Farm. Sam Dally, a Tuscaloosa, Ala.. Ne gro. has made a gift to Judge Feag.n of the police court of Birmingham off a tract of land near Tuscaloosa, to b - used for a farm for the Prob*1^ aro boys, for whose care Judge Fe agin has exercised himself. Judge Feegln. instead of fining and ,nc^ei*tf Ltt? tie Negroes who are guilty of pet J crimes etc.. has farmed them out tc and private homes where they are kept under the eye of the p o batlon officer, a Negro preacher. If the boys behave right a cort*ln le?gb of time, they are manumitted back their parents, or they remain with ther employers and providers. It Is the purpose of Judge Feagin Interest others In his plan, so as to so cure funds with which to inaugurate a probation farm on this tract of Ian i the Institution probably eventuati g Into a state affair. ? ? ? ? Whltecappers Go to At Helena. Ark.. Federal Judge Ja cob Thiester passed sentence upon tho three Polnsette county whltecappers. convicted In the federal court of con spiracy te Intimidate Negro workmen at the sawmill of Davis * Hodges, at Whitehall. In Polnsette county. Reir ben Hodges and William C ampit wer? given a year and a day In the Atlanta Ga.. penitentiary and a fine of >100 each and <tfash McKlnncy was sen tenced to sixty days In the Lee county tail and a fine of $100. Attorney L. C. Going or HarriBburg who represented the defendants, ha. taken an appeal to the supreme court of the United States, which has been granted by Judge Trletser. He proposes to test the const.tu tlonallty of the federal statute enact ing Into law tb efourteenth ment, to the constitution of the United States, claiming that under thf? atat ute the Negro citizen Is granted la i pro tectlon in the federal courts that is not given to white men. ? V ? ? Old Soldier, After Lynchers. An antl-lynchlng crusade has bean inaugurated by the W. R. Barksdale camp United Confederate Veterans, of Grenada. Miss. The foltowlng slgnl^ Acant resolutions were unanimously adopted at a largely attended meeting 0f''lh?ThatPwe are unalterably oppose:! to the lynching of a human being, save perhaps for the one unmentionable crime. "2 That as confederate veterans and law abiding eltlzenB of Mississippi and of the United States, we are vlo lently. vehemently anu etomally op posed to the practice of burnlng a hu. man being for any crime "3 That we appeal. In thundering tones, to all confederate /fterana.tholr wives and daughters, and lothatgreat and glorious organization, the Daugh ters of the Confederacy, one and all. to arise in their might, and by pre cept end example, voice and pen. mo al force and Influence, help put i? "top to this diabolical, barbaric, unlawful. Inhuman and ung<xll7 crime of burn Ing human (beings. ??4 That we heartily approve of and applaud tho action ot aove'nor Varda^ man In his recent successful efforts to Tare a criminal from a mob bent on burning." , , , , a Convert to Blehop Turner'. Hobby. Bishop William Benjamin ncrrlcl. who for the pait fonr raara ha. been the presiding bishop of the New York llocese of the Africa* Metaodist Kpt? x>pal church. and (or the past twenty lve years one of the moot sggressive end active men of the colored rtct, iu declared that ho la tired of Amert :a and yearns for the land of his fore* fathers In Africa. This announcement ?e made In addreesing the members >f the New York conference. Mob attscks, lynching* and the >urnlng of Negroes are too much for aim, he said, snd continued: "Forty-two years ago I stood ankle* leep in blood in the light between the tlerrlmsc snd Monitor and the blood >f my comrades flew upon me ss they; jrere slaughtered in the defense of lis nation, and yet the nation, al >hough we fought to save the Ameri can flag, declares that we are not :ltisens, snd slfords us no protection* We csnnot but help feeling bsdty irer the sltustlon. This Is no* country; lor us. "I do not sdvocate retaliation, but we should stand up manfully and pro* test, snd sppee.1 to the few friends that we hsve left to see to it thst we get Justice, since we sre here. They tell me this is a land of Chrlstlsnity; and of civilization, when those who are supposed to be the leaders of re ligion and civilisation will take a wo man and burn her at the stake and 'hen murder her husband. We csa aot win by presching too much of this spirit, the white man says he is a toward. The manly msn strikes back. We demsnd manhood tights, aot black manhood rights nor white manhood rights. I do not ask for so cial equality or amalgamation, but for our own choice of selection as to taste and fitness. I want everythng that any other man may have. But the white man cannot be Just to ut because he has in him none of I* spirit of Christ" ? ? ? ? Decides Against Dantzler. A Washington dispstch says: In making Its report in favor of Le ver, in the Dantzlcr-Lever contest from the Seventh South Carolina district, bouse committee on elections No. 1 takes the ground that the Investiga tion shows that Dantzler, a colored man, was not elected. At the same time the committee re fuses to say that Lever was elected, and the report leaves him in the posi tion as if no contest had been made. The committee draws the conclusion that if it advanced a ruling on the dis franchisement of the colored vote and declared Lever not elected on that ground, the decision would be a prece dent for unseating nearly every mem ber in the house from several southern state which it names. The basis of Dantsler's claim was that the constitution of South Carolina adopted in 1895 was contrary to the reconstruction act of June 25, 1868, re admitting South Csrolina and other states to representation In congress, which contained no provision as to ed ucational and property qualifications as fixed In present state constitution and laws passed under it. He averred that if certain citizens of his district had been allowed to vote under the provisons of the act of 1868. he would have been elected. ? ? ? ? Columbus Mayor is Thanked. Mayor I* H. Chappell. of Columbus. Ga., received the following letter from Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial school, for Negroes, referring to the act of the city of Columbus in erect ing a monument to Bragg Smith, col* ored, who, on September 30, last, lost his life in a heroic though fruitless effort to save City Engineeer Johnson from a caving excavation: "Tuskegee, Ala.. March 12, 1904. ? To the Mayor of Columbus, Ga. ? Dear Sir: As a member of the Negro race. I want to use this ^^portunity for thanking you and n^Jprs of your -Ity government lo{ <SPting a monu ment over the grafe,?f Bragg Smith, who lost his life in a heroic effort to save that of an official of your city. Such recognition of the merits of worthy colored people goes further than you can realize In the cncourage oient of my race to put forth worthy offorts in the direction of living strong ?nd useful lives, and at the same tim? ?uch action convinces the world that here In the south there are white men who recognize merit flhd will seo that iustlce is meted out to any m^n who leserves encouragement aud reward. "Your truly, "BOOKER T. WASHINGTON." Mayor Chappell replied an follows to Booker Washington's letter: "President Booker T. Washington. Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In Jtltute, Tuskegee, Ala. ? Your favor of '.he 12th inst., is at hand and duly lotod. In erecting a simple ^jut appro priate monument over the grave of Bragg Smith, the Negro who lost his !lfe in the efTort to rescue our city engineer from a caving excavatiou ?.he city of Columbus only showed offl* ?ially what our citizens are In the labit of doing personally, a due appre ciation of heroic self-sacrifice, regard* ' ess of the color or condition of the In llvldual. "It Is very gratifying to our people o 8e?t that this simple act meet* with 'ery general approval, and It is hoped .hat the tendency will be to demon Urate to those who do not understand hat cordial good feelings exists in he south between good white people tnd good Negroes. "Yours truly, "L. P CHAPPELU Mayor." Goo <2 Way to Fatten Steers. A Kr\ns?s man bought a carload ?# steers last spring, turned them out to graze atl summer, and then fed them ?jn corn for a month or so befor# selling them. And ha made 2S cent? V the transaction. )