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I tie "DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY.POSSESSION HAPPY. OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IK THY CAUSE.' VOLL.)??IX. BENNETTS VI JLL?E, S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL. 15, 1904. NO. 16, MR. WATSON TALKS. The Commissioner of Immigration Tells New York Paper OF NEW STATE DEPARTMENT. Commissioner Watson Maltes a State ment of What Ho Hopes to Accomplish Infringing Whlto Ijabor Hero. By an act of the South Carolina legislature which went into effect on Feb. 26 there was created lu the State a department of agriculture, com merce and Immigration. E J. Wat f01 of Columbia, - a representative of the-jew generation of energetic young business, men who are the impelling force bick of thc recent awakening of southern Industries and commercial activity, has been selected by Gov. Iloyward as the tirst commissioner of the new department. Mr. Watson has been in New York for several days on business counectcd with his ofllce. This summer he will make a trip to Denmark, Norway, Sweeden and Germany, with a view to presenting the advantages ot South Caroliua as a field for the desirable class of immigrante who come from those countries. Speaking -Wednes day of his visit to New York and of the ?circumstances which lcd to the creation of the department of which he is the head Mr. Watson said: "LJy presence In New York at this time is due to the new conditions that have arisen in the middle south, and it is no unmeaning errand considered In the light of the development of the country. The rapid development of southern manufacturing and the con sequent libbing of the fields of the white tenant farmer class, the demon stration given to the world last fall ol' the dependency of its cotton manu facturing interests on the south for raw material, not alone In this coun try but abroad-these and the ten dency o? the negro to move to tue centres of population and thence "to the east are the three essentials to he considered. "It ls perhaps a strange and yet rot unexpected condition that the very rapid development of the manufac turing industry of thcouth-particu larly in my State-should result in in jury to .agricultural Interests. The explanation, however, is easy. When wo went ahead ?and put nearly $40, 000,000 Into cotton nf?ms, which could .only be operated -?d(V '-fte labor for reat?os it is not necesVu^tfj discuss, we simply robbed Our helds of the te tenant farmer class and left --Wiiultnral Interests' in su' \ a c woore-coli^.. ^."..?ra factoring worYd its dependency upon the cotton growing states of ' this country, accentuating the acuteness of a.situatlon already seen and realiz ' 'ed.. Tho farmers fared well and they have profiited. Now they realize their power and their opportunity, but they lind themselves without thc necessary labor, and intelligent labor they must have. They consequently want something and want it quickly. "Another phase of this situation ls the negro question. Our farmers have always had plenty of negro 'abor on their places. Today they are crying for labor with which to work their crops. Having lost the white tenant farmer for the reasons assigned, they have suffered the additional partial loss of the neuro farm laborer. This is due bo the fact that the negro's ten dency, in our State at least, in the last few years has been, tirst, to seek the larger centres of population and commerce. In the cities he linds liim c.SOjf poorly clad, irregularly and ill fed aud a~iV,atural victim of immorality the consequent sufferer from diseases which tjaend to balance the death and birth ??ate. Again, his tendency is to seek rjTailroad construction camps and to moline north and east. The cxempll fication\of this can be most strikingly found li\ Washington and Baltimore, and evei\ here in New York, the in crease in \he negro population in the two first Qname cities having been reached in t\he last two or three years. "AU of tnfjiSC things have combined, together wicVh the appearance of thc boll weevlll i\i Texas, to awaken thc agricultural Interests of thc South to realization of ?I?ie fact that something must be done. iThe great need is white settlers from tibis country and abroad. My State has ?cen the situation, and that is why 1 :rVm here. Our farmers know that thc\boll weevil, unless an insect to desi roi' him is discovered, is likely to crtiss Alie Mississippi at any moment and do\vhat Sully bad done this year, with tl?e additional feature that the effect oiV prices w ill bc per manent. They kno^ that if thc weevil does come prices wi ^remain high, and that the danger of/tno post ?;; an ele ment in the situation. They realize that they want diversified and inten sified farming, an&L knowing this, they lia ve succeeded^ n establishing, near the heart of ttyfe State, diversifi cation farm No. 1 l?y the federal gov ernmanD, under timi boll weevil appro priation, i "Further, knowing the need of in telligent labor, thc .State has estab lished its departmenlVif agriculture, commerce and immigration, at the head e>f which I have bej?n placed for four years, with thc vie^V of inducing desirable investment dud settlers from north Kuropes^UKjrl American points toc?me to Soo {mol i na-the real garden spot of tbi.,oborld, possess ing a soil and climate p,f docing some crop the year round. Wee have thous ands of acres of hind lyin^y idle at this time, and it is the province of the new department to bring about their development. V "Tho department has befen fashion ed upon the best features 'of national and State departments pf. I.i kc nature, and the scope is ter?ScT enough to admit of Its handling ?any conditions that may arise affectlnig industrial develop ment. Y "1 am here now to set tho ball In motion toward getting that which we so greatly needrv intelligent white labor of Saxon prigjLin. The work, so far ls of oiistruotnsvtf character, but 1 trust lt will be prolific of genuine results. I am dealing w,Vthall having > I ll .i 11 Olivine any Interest io the situation that ls attracting attention to tbe middle south-tbe southern France ot Amer ica-and thus far effectively. I am trying to see all wbo are interested In any way, for I feel that those who invest or settle in South Carolina have -a bright future awaiting thom. Wben tbe waste places have been populated the act under which wo are operating ls so constructed that we can turn our attention to other plans of develop ment as the necessity for them ar rives. "There is no part of the country that offers so many inducements as does the middele south just now to the native and foreign settler and luvestor. Our State department has just been launched, but 1 believe it ls constructed upon better and broader i lines than any similar State depart , ment in thc country, and 1 expect noteworthy results. We arc now in a position to offe. ,u thc desirable farm er from across the water lands upon which he can raise something the year round, and with due considera tion to all conditions 1 cannot sec wherein the element of failure enters. I know we have obstacles to sur mount, but obstacles aro ever an clement in the success of any import ant undertaking which is of itself a departure from the beaten tracks. "All the Southern States are begin ning to awaken to thc value of their owu resources, and it is safe to pre dict that in the next few years this part of the United States will lejome a considerable factor in thc produc tion of the wealth of the country at large, Fish rn capital is at this time paving more attention to southern land and other Investments than'ever before, and the spirit of progress is today ruuulng strong in places where a few years ago the people seemed to he ignorant of their opportunities." Eew York Sun. Five Were Sull'ociiteil. Five persons are dead and another is dying as the result of a lire that oc curred Wednesday in the Columbia hall building, a metal sheathed three story structure located in Wilson Place at Mount Vernon. N. Y. Tho dead: Nathan Frey, (Ki years old. Isidore Frey, 12 years. Stephen Frey, U years. Henry Frey, 3 years. Gussie Doiiring, H> years, a cousin of Mrs. Rebecca Frey. Mrs. Frey ls dying in a hospital. The lirst lloor of the building was occupied by the Columbia Piano com pany. On the second lloor was Co lumbia hall, with ante-rooms and on the third lloor were apartments oe oupied by the Frey, Barry and Lavigue famille*. Fire'spread through out the toop lloor with great rapidity. )rhe inmates were aroused by the smoke and heat and r>tl endeavored tc ?nak"- Ui'-ir C!>"CM>-. bu, ' Ajo membarf bo . *_t> .i-m- a v..*uv - xiii .-4in? i>irs. iiarry and Mr. an? Mrs. Lavlgne managed to read] windows on the third lloor and were brought down ladders by the Bremen. All **he dead are more or less burn ed, but their deaths probably resulted, directly from sulfucation. The prop erty loss is estimated about $:i0,000. Students Shout a Mun. At Lexington, Ky., Coley Hayden, M) years bid, was shot at the State college baseball park Friday by Lee Andersen, a State college student who was acting as guard at the park The bullet entered Hayden's lcfl shoulder and Indicted a.serious wound Police Capt. Brown went to the pari to arrest Anders in. As soon as Auder son learned his mission, he pulled hi: revolver and declared he would not submit to airest. A crowd of 20( Slate college students backed him U| in Iiis refusal. Capt. ll row n rusher lu before be could shoot, however, am after a tussle, disarmed Anderson, ll was placed under arrest am the students made no furthc attempt lo keep bim from tin police. Later he was release? on bond. The State college um Central university were engaged in game of baseball, and Hayden wa looking on through a crack in til fence. Anderson ordered him awa when, it is .?-aid, Hayden cursed birr Anderson there upon shot him will: out further words._ Gavo lille (Vu- Friend. Four men lost their lives in an es pk sion Friday at the Pi nt sch Ga Compressing company's plant in soutl west Washington. The dead art Stephen Henson, Charles W. GrigSbj Joseph Cumberland and an uuknow negro. Henson, Cumberland and th negro were instantly killed. G ri gs b was seriously burned and died at th hospital. His injuries were the rt Milt of an heroic attempt to reset: Iiis comrades. He rushed into tl: engine room and catching the arm e Cumberland, who was buried in th debris, tried to drag him out. Ti: llames rapidly enveloped Grlgsby bi he released Iiis hold on Cumberlar only after the ai ri val of the liremei He told the hospital physicians th thc disaster was caused by thc gas b coming loo high and the inability tho men to lind the leak. "Tl room,'" said bc, "must have been lu the gas kept, rising and the roof w blown off."_ A Trust "Buster." Congressman John W. Gaines. Tennessee, in a speccli against an a propriation for building a road Alaska, said that his constitu?e needed good roads and besides we opprcsscfl by trusts, hut the oppn sion of Hie ice trust had been reliev by Chief Justice Allon 15. Parker ai others in New York, when the Dem era ts applauded the. name of Parkt and Mr. Gainas again provoked ii plauso on the minority side by Bay in "We are going to put him in the Whi House. Ile is going Lo crush the b ance of tho trusts in this couiiti which tlie Republicans will never d< Sha Played The llocos. Tho story is circulating in ollie circles and exclusive society, tl Miss Alice Koosevclt has been ban 1st to New York for thc rest of I Washington racing season because i made le ts on races and was pho graphed in the act by some pho grapher on the grounds. The n who took the snap shots tried to ? tile pictures to newspapers, but i president and friends suppressed i /pictures. WANT TO COME HERE. Views of^a Aew Englander Who Wants His People TO SETTLE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Ono Amonff Many Who Wi nh to Settle tn a Moro Temperate Climate A Slnocro Yankee Dec laration. To the Editor of The State: I have received two letters from my friend, Mr. Howard, who is.deeply io terested in getting Massachusetts men to settle in South Carolina. In his letter of March 23d Mr. How ard says: Ware, Mass., March 23, 190-1. Col. John P. Tilomas, Charleson, S. C. Dear Sir: The Columbia State at hand. Your editorial O. K. I am inclined to think Mr. Watson thinks you and I have too much to say. At any rate he don't condescend to ac knowledge our good intentions. I see M. V. Richards has sent a man to Columbia in thc interest of Southern railroad. We no doubt will sec the workln?s of the bureau of immigra tion in good time if we only will have patience. Mr. Watson is no doubt working his brains. Thc class of peo ple this very State of Massachusetts has allowed to come in last year are a curse to any country, and are contin ually dumped over here-to the bene tit of the country they leave, and a curse to the one they come to. If you don't believe it visit any of the manufacturing cities of Massachu setts. 1 am, Very truly yours, W. V. How AUD. _ In his letter of March 24th Mr. Howard says: My Dear Colonel: I sent you a few clippings yesterday and 1 see one in last night's paper 1 thought 1 would send you today, with my views of it. 1 have advertised my property for the. last three weeks in IO papers, viz.: Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Wor- j cester Gazette, Springtield Republi can, Springfield Union, Springtield Homestead, Hartford Courant, Ware River News and Barre Gazette. Yes. to papers, and 1 have had but one man to call to look at my farm and some six letters of inquiry. The trouble in New England is the cold winter for me; that is the one great reason I want a change and I can't see why thc west part of South Caro lina is not an ideal place for me, a full blood, dyed-in-the-wool Yankee, and lots more of us who have always been workers, and are williug to let our arm out if we can como with the right hand of fellowship extended. wvth^,the>e .are ?r?"**?. people ki. OOUJ? Carolina"WL*,-loos upon ene pew England Yankee as tricky, sharp and always looking lor the almighty dollar. This may be so to an extent, hut these yarns as to the Yankee be ing a. "negro lover" is all bosh; the class of people I would like to see have a chance to better themselves want none of it. There may be in and around Harvard college and Bea con street a few so-called "nigger lovers," but they want them at arms length. Now iu my town of 0,000 people there has never been in the past r<D years but one colored family. Our people outside of the cities know nothing of them and want nothing of them, only they would like to see the colored man, as long as the Croat Creator has put him on the earth, given a chance to have a home and country and some of (rod's blessings that are given to others; and the most of ttie people, that is, tile class 1 have requested you to present? to the chief of the bureau of immigration for his consideration, would much prefer this government (instead of tho millions that have boen blown in foolis dy and i needlessly in the Philippines on a lot of people who want no part of us, and DO per cent, of the people of this country want no part of them) would : give to the head of every colored fam- : Hy a home of 2f> or ?o acres of land in, we will say, Central America, . Culia or Jamaica, (?ive the colored1 man a country of his own and a Hag: establish him on his land with proper looking after and advice lill his chil dren can have the benelit of schools. That the colored people can live in this part of the world and a white man would have a hard time of it, is well known; that is the way the Yan kee who works for a living would solve the negro problem. My (Uar colonel, I starled to tell you how 1 was trying to sell out here and don't have the success 1 could wish; the fact is there are 1,000 farms for sale to one buyer: farms are a drug in New longland. 1 intend ti I write you from time to time anyway , in order to keep posted as to immi gration, etc. 1 am, Very truly, etc., W. V. 1 low A u o. This is one clipping Mr. Howard sends: "The Hartford Post lightly says: 'Four Waterbury hotels were plum full the other night when a colored clergyman applied for a room in one after another ol them.' lt. is for tins reason that so many northerner.'- see flt to protest against thu introduction of Jim Crow cars in the .south. Th- y have an easier method here.-' Spring field Republican. This is another: "Tables of ligurcs showing thc hn migration of foreigners into Niiw England during 1903 have just buen completed by Rev. Joel S. Ives ot Hartford, who lor the past fourydirs has conducted a census of the fordern population of the six States in bdialf of the Congregational Home Mission ary society. According lo his figures, thc Influx of foreigners last year was ! as follows: Maine, 1,997; New Ila tn p ! shire, 1,801; Vermont, 1,0.11; flassa chusetts, ??fi,T?T; Rhode Island 0,407, and C nnectlcut, 21,813, a Kital of 102,?"?uti. Southern Europe supplied a great number of these Inmigrants, for of thc total 28, lol were Italians and 11,877 Poles."-Sprlngflcld Re publican. The third clipping I glvl is from the same paper, the Spriniiield Re publican: "The south wants wbltj immigra tion, but IB denied lt; and why that / / section in vain seeks to attract such immigration is thus stated by the Wilmington (N. C.) Star: " 'As long as we lynch In the south, and furthermore draw our guns and shoot each other to death on the streets, wc are wasting time in estab lishing Immigration bureaus. People will be deterred from immigrating to a State where a blj? murder record is made year tu and year out.' "The Charleston News and Courier says of this that 'that is thc plain truth plainly spoken. Only the des perately advent-'"*us and most unde sirable would seek residence in a com munity or State where a citizen's .abil ity to draw a pistol and shoot Urst ls his greatest security.' Such talk from southern newspapers ls very en eucouraging. No situation, however bad, ls hopeless where the truth hods outspoken and fearless utterance." Whereupon Mr. Howard comments as follows: "There are knifing, cutting, shoot ing and crimes of all sorts f>0 percent, more in New England than In the south." 1 wish to add that Mr. E. J. Wat son, the Stale commissioner, has In formed me that it is bis purpose to communicate with Mr. Howard with the view nf ascertaining how bc can advance thc cause of immigration to thc south in New England/ It is such men" as Mr. Mattheson and Mr. Howard and such railroads as the Southern that advance in a prac tical way the main purposes of the bureau of immigration. Let them be encouraged aud sustained for the public good. JNO. P. THOMAS. March 30, 1904._ CONVICTS REVOLT. An Uprising of Prisoners In tho Mis aouri State Penitentiary. A desperate attempt was made by about fifty convicts at the Missouri penitentiary to blow up that institu tion carly Wednesday morning, killing all the guards who interfered with them and to turn loose on Jefferson <.aty some three hundred criminals. At 10 o'clock Huck Williams, a guard in charge of the jail, heard some one call., "hold up your hauds" which was immediately followed by a shot. Williams grabbed a poker and yelled at a convict, "tire awaj." Yardmaster Lebugh heard the shot and sounded a general alarm. John H runner assistant yardmaster arrived, and breaking a window lev elled his gun at a convict who dodged into a cell after tiring another shot. Several guards with guns appeared but Hrunner was the only one "who had nerve to go into the cell building. Taking an extra gun Williams and Hrunner entered the building and with Williams proceeded to a coll, where the convicts had been seen. up your bands!" Hut later brought their guns into play and the convicts submitted. A search of the cell was made and twenty pounds of dynamite, besides a bottle of nitro-glycerine, two revolv ers anda box of cartridges, were found and a number of skeleton keys, lt is not known how the weapeons or ex plosives were obtained. Rioting Kollows Striko. Although it was announced Tues day night that the strike at the American Can company's plant In Chicago had been settled tue rioting around the place was liercer Wednes day than it has been at any time and one man, .lohn Nichols, lost his life hv a bullet tired, lt is said, from a train on which were a numher of non union men being taken back to thc city after thc conclusion of tile day's work. The lighting beagn early in the morning, when 300 (?reeks who have been employed during the strike at tempted to come to the factory. They j were met at the gates by a large nura- j ber ol union pickets who attacked ; them with stones and clubs. A large detachment ot the police had their hands full in protecting the Greeks when a shot tired from the crowd aroused the Greeks to fury. Those who had entered thc factory came pouring out armed with knives and revolvers and attempted to attack the union men and their sympathizer who were assaulting those Greeks who had not yet reached the gateway. Thc police after a desperate struggle managed to keep the two bodies of men apart. In this belita number of men were haltered up. At night when the 300 Gi eeks left the plant they were attacked hy a mob fully io.inn) strong that pelted them with stones, sticks and bottles. Thc NiiW Stumps. The new series Of stamps commem orative of thc Louisiana purchase ex pt sition will he placed on sale hy the post?nico department April 30 and will bs continued till December 1st. The designs are as follows: One cent, willi portrait of Hobt. R. Livingston, United Slates minister to France, who conducted the purchase negotia tions; two cont, red, portrait of Thos. J effets m, president ?it the time the purchase was made; three cent, put pi', portrait >>f .las. Monroe, special ambassadt r to Prance; live cents, blue, portrait William McKinley, whoas president approved the. act of con gress i llicially connected with the exposition; ten ct nt, brown, bealing ('oiled Slates map, showing the ter ritory of the purchase. Had None to Cut. The House, of Representativos in Washington was considering a bill to' prohibit the docking of horses' tails. Congressman Perkins was speaking in favor of Hie measure when he was in terrupted by Mr. Cooper of Wiscon sin, wht) asked: "Why dot s anybody dock a horse's tall?" Mr. Perkins re plied: "Cblelly because it looks a great deal better. Why do you cut your hair instead nf having it down over your sholders?" Tue humor of this reply if any, lies hi the fact that Mr. Cooper is about as bald as a turnip. A Foolish Denver Man. In order that she may get photo graphs of the face of a man In thc greatest agony for reproduction in a realistic painting, Mrs. Josephine Level, an artist of Morristown, N. .1., has hired a Denver man who has con sented to have bis hand mutilated while thc camera acts. HORRIBLE DEEDS Told by a Presbyterian Missionary to the Can o Free State. THE CANNAEAL ARMY MURDERS Innocent Women mid Children Who Aro Captured . to Show that Work of KnidiriK Villuires ls Well Oono. Dr. W. M. Morrison, Southern Presbyter) a o missionary to the Congo Free State, in rn address at Louisville, Ky., gave an Impressive recital of alleged baroarities practiced on the natives of Congo by the authorities, and of the obstacles thrown In the way of their correction by the of liclals. He said: "1 lived with those peo ple seveu years, and know what I ara talking about. King Leopold has i there a native cannibal army of j twenty thousand men, ollleercd by j white Belgians and armed with i repeating rides. They are men rc-1 presenting tl- : worst and most savage I type of natives, caught and carried j far from their homes .and forced Into .military service. In turn this soldiery is used to comp il thc natives to bring In enormous tribute of ivory and rub- i ber. It ls woith nothing that the King of Belgium is today is reputed to be the largest dealer in ivory aud rub ber in the world. "As a result of forced military serv ice and labor, great and unspeakable cruelties are practiced on thc natives I have seen live thousand fleeing to the forests to escape the cannibal soldiers of King Leopold. I have ? seen soldiers scouring through the ', forests catching men wanted by the ', government as laborers and taking j the captives away with ropes tied ( around their necks. ''Raids upon villages are constantly , made, some are killed, others sold into ?a nt, vi tu nnrj tithers forced ? ti; labor and military service, tine can buy ' all theslavo wanted for tenor tifteeu | dollars each. In these raids innocent , women and children aro killed or cap } tured. Their hands are cut off to b : ( taken bick to thc Belgian otllcers to , show that Hie work has been well " done. Oa one of these raids near thc mission stations, one of our misi?n aries counted eighty hands out off. drying by a tire to be taken to an < officer and forty-five dead lying near. "The Belgian government make a stereotyped denial ot all charges. 1 have seen personally the Governor Of the Congo Free Slate aud have been in the palace ol the King of Belgium; nether will do anything. The British 1 government ls Interested in the situa-. tU,".i. Consol Roger Casement, as the^ f?iuti A-JVIIUHU ropTreM&tfoi:vft- ? to Congo, has lust made a tour of in vestigation. Ills report ls now in the hands of the government at Washing ton and prcseuts a most deplorable situaci?n." Clearing tx Mystery. The first trace of Mrs. John C. 1 Burns since her disappearance from a Chicago lionel two years ago was found h.-st week when James Taylor, a negro, was arrested at Cincinnati. ! He had in his possession, .Mrs. Burns' ' Daughter of the American Revolution pin, engraved with her name, as well ; as several articles of jewelry which bore initials. The prisoner is said to ! have disclosed the hiding places of ' other jewels, which are alleged to i have been the properly of Mrs. Burns. |! The total value of the property re- 1 covered ls nearly $5,000. About two 1 years ago, Mrs. Bur.is announced that she was going away on a short visit. '< Her husband was believed u, be in j! Ru rope. Taking several trunks, but i leaving rca ny of her belongings in her ? room, Mrs. Burns left thc hotel giv-H lng instructions lo hold mail until I she sent her forwarding address. From I that day to this no word has been re- 1 ceived from her or her husband. Mrs. Burns was prorainent as a member ol the Daughters of the American Revolution, and also was connected with several women's clubs, most ol thc organizations Lo which .sh ! belong ed having been located in the List, where she resided before coming to Chicago. Stole the Mormon's Wives, Prospectors from the lower Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico, south west of Ll Paso, bring the story of a raid made by Guan Colorada, alais "John Bedhead," upon hon Felipo, a newly formed Mormon .colony. Thu noted bandit and his hand pillaged t he set I lenient. carrying away three of Bider Hiram Johnson's wives, one of which is t he favorite of his large household. A posse of Mexican rural police and a squad of Mormons, who asa vigilance committee, .style them selves "avenging angels,'' pursued thc bandits for thirty-six hours and lin?l lysurprised them In the fastness of t he Sierra Mutha Mountains. A light Look pluck in which two ol' tho out laws were wounded. Tho band lied, leaving tho women. They bad been kept two (lays in ii cave, where a edi - sidcrnhlc amount of bullion treasure was found, which, it is believed, was .stolen from a pack train recently. (neat Trust O rower Uuqucsli nably Theodore Roose velt ls thc greatest fri'nd thc t rusts ever had, judging from thc figures. Pinier tr i ^ li t years of Cleveland $2">() . OOO,0()t) worth of industrial trusts were formed, under McKinley about $2,200,000.00, while under Roosevelt the capitalization of these concerns reached the fabuloi.s sum of $3,070, 000,000. Never in thc history bf the world have the trusts flourished in such rank luxuriance as they liav? under the benign influence of Abdul Roosevelt. Served llim Hight, At Savannah, Ga., Henry Olson was found guilty in the United States court. Wednesday morning of shang haiing sailors out of Savannah. A re ceipt, was shown in court indicating that Olson dad received $250 for the shipping of eight negroes who wore subsequently discharged penniless in Bristol, Lng., whence they were re turned to this country by tho Ameri can Council. There are other cases of a similar character against Olsen. SHOT BY CONSTABLES. They Were Assaulted by One White Mau and Two Negroes. A dispatch from Charleston to The State says M.. S. Sullivan, a lineman of the Postal Telegraph company, was shot and seriously, perhaps fatally, wounded In an affray with State Con- j stables J. T. Owens and C. T. Hud son, which occurred Thursday night on the steam launch Hornet, between 11 and 12 o'clock on the cove beach at Mount Pleasant. The shooting grew out of the capture of contraband li quor which Sullivan was conveying from the Clyde wharf to a storehouse on the water front. Two negro men were with Sullivan at the time, one of whom, it ls said, was also wounded by the constables. Their names could not be learned, for neither has been seen since the affair. B >th ne groes lied from the boat, lt ls said, when the shooting commenced. lt is not positively known which constable shot Sullivan. At the St. Francis Xavier intlrmary 1 hurslay, Sullivan, it ls alleged, stated that he was shot by Constable Owens and that the negro was shot by Constable Hudson. Sullivan is thought to be in a critical condition. He was brought to the city Thursday about 3 a. m. and sent to the infirmary. An operation was performed upon him and it was found that the ball had passed through his left arm, entered the side and perforated the intestines in six different places. Tho bullet was not located. Constables Hudson and Owens ar rived in the city this mornlug at 3 30 ?'clock with 10 gallons of whiskey, which they had captured from the Hornet, Sullivan's launch, having l?ired a rev boat at MuuuL Fieasant tnd rowed the goods over to Charles ton. Chief Constable Holmes was immediately notitied of the shooting if Sullivan and the capture of the 11 pior. Chief State Constable Hammet was informed of the shooting early Erlday morning by Constable Holmes ind lie is expected in the city soon Lo make an investigation. Consta bles Owens and Hudson, acting upon Lhe advice of Constable Holmes, sur rendered to Sheriff Martin about ll i'clock Thursuay and were sent to ?all to await further developments. A WOULD-SE SWINDLER. Coughed np the Money When tho Doctor lion i'd Him. At Columbia "Wash Kinsier, a young negro man, will be given a prelimin ary before United States Commission er Vernor shortly on the]charge of at tempting to pass, counterfeit money. The story of Kindler's attempt tq escape nnd.Ws a t com nt to., ??vade the. charge is strange. Kinsier walkin! into the fruit storo'of tho Syrian, C. orge Mack, on upper Main street, Saturday night at l^:.'t0. He purchas ed a pair of cheap earrings and some fruit and carelessly threw down what purported to be a $2 bill. Mack spott ed tho counterfeit at. once. Olllcer Dunning happened to be passing and was called in. The situation was taken in at a glance and the olllcer grabbed Kinsier. He was just a little too late, however, for Kainsler rammed the bill in his mouth and swallowed it, despite the choaking he received. Then Mr. Dunning called for Dr. Pope, the city physician, and Lhe rest was easy. A hy perder m ic injection was given Wash, which icted asan emetic and the bill "came up" in about three minutes. The negro was searched for more counter feit bills. No bills were found, but j i watch he had stolen was recovered md the negro stands a chance of serv ing a tenn for the State for larceny md for the United States for attempt ing to pass counterfeit money, the penalty for the latter, according to libe revised statutes, being from five Lo fifteen years. The bill which Kinsier attempted to pass is an old; Richland Building and Loan certili .at e, this associ?t ion nourishing about 1878. The certificate looks very j much like money and there tue a mun- ; ncr of them floating around. Kinsier : lives on (?ates si reet, near Senate, and nis reputation heretofore has been very good. ^ Knife in the Brain. At New Ha.'an, Con., a port ion of a long thin knife blade, which had been 1 imbedded more than twenty years in his skull, penetrating an Inch into thc brain, was rein ived from the head of Christopher Osborn by Dr. M. .1. Adams. The patient is a negro, 57 years old. He is employed by Prof. J. M. Weir, of Vale. According to Osborn's history of the knife blade, he quarreled with another negro, who struck him in the head with a knife. The blade broke off and the steel close to ( ho skull. Osborn was sent to jail for his share in the light, but recover ed ;uid suffered no inconvenience until i few weeks ago, when ho began to have convulsions. They grew in fre pieucy, until last week he had them avery half hour and paralysis be ljan. Dr. Adams says tho man will recover. Passing of a Pud. The Chicago board of education has' condemned the vertical system of writing. Through its otllclal bulletin Lhe board says: "It is an injustice to Lhe child to impose a system of hand writing upon him and force him to ld here to it through his growing years it thc cost of not only suppressing his individuality In this acquired mode of 3Xpression, but also at the sacrifice of his time anti the mental fluency that tornes with the ease which accompan ies ;i mode of expression Utting the individuals characterise us." New Postal ('aril. A new style of postal card for re turn message will tic issued by the postotll -e department as soon as the stock of the present series ls exhaust ed. Tim card will bear two portraits, one of Gnu. William Tecumseh Sher man for ?.he side bearing the message and one .if Geh. Phil Slit rldan for the return side. Many millions of thc new card will bc ready for distribution at an early date and all ( thees sending requisition for them will receive their quota as vapld'y as they can bc sup plied. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION, Oflicial Programme of the Meeting to Be Held tn Columbia. Mr. William E. Pelham of New berry, secretary of the State Sunday School convention, bas issued the pro gramme for the twenty-seventh an nual State convention which meets in Columbia on May 2nd. The conven tion wih be held in the Washington Street Methodist church and will be atended by a large number of Sun day school workers from all parts of the State, The programme is as follows: Monday evening;- May 2.-8.30, Devotional and song service; 8.45? ad dress by the president, Prof. E. L. Hughes of Greenville; 0.30, address, "The Sunday School's Call for Men," by Rev. B. W. Spilman of North Car olina; enrollment of members; ap pointment of committee on nomina tion of otlicers. Tuesday morning, May 3.-9.00, Devotional and song service by F. F. Whilden; 9.30, primary teachiug by Miss Minnie Macfeat of Winthrop college: 10.15, open conference and questions: 10.30. "Teacher Training," Dr. George B. Cromer, president of Newberry college; 11.30, open confer ence and questions; 12.00, "The Sup erintendent," Rev. B. W. Spilman; 12 30, Conference and questions. Tuesday afternoon, May 3.-3.30, Devotional exercises and song service; 4 0U, practical primary work, Miss Minnie Macfeat, before a class; 4.30, report of ollicers; 5.00, "An Amateur with a Blackboard," Rev. B. W. Spilman of North Carolina. Tuesday evening, May 3.-8.30, Devotional exercises and song service, Rev. F. H. Wardlaw; 8.45, "Christas a Teacher," Rev. Jame> A.B. Soberer, Ph. D., Charleston; 9.45, "A Study of a Bible Character for Sunday School Teachers," Rev. B. W. Spilman. Wednesday morning, May 4.-8.30, Devotional exercises and song service, Kev. J. P. Knox; 9.00, '^Iow to En list and Hold Young Men," Rev. W. B. Duncan, Laurens: 10 00. conference and questions^ 10.30, "A Look Ahead," William E. Pelham, chair man executive committee; 11.00, "The Question as a Factor in Teach ing," Rev. B. W. Spilman; 12.00, business session. Wednesday afternoon, May 4.-3.30, Devotional exercises and song service; 4.00, reports of departments: (a) exe cutive committee, (b) treasurer, (c) superintendent primary department^ (d) home department. Wednesday evening, May 4.-8.30, Devotional exercises and song service; 8.45, "The Teacher Getting Ready for Next Sunday," Rev. B. W. Spil man; 9.30, "Christ the Great Teach er, His Subjects and Methods." Dr. II. N. Snyders, president Woilord col lege; adjournment. Thc Sunday -School aSsr>claaBP " te^cnotrJnat " .:u4^Fl build up tho-isiui5tTay-Bvfc?~ South Carolina. Its present aim ra tu organize every county In South Caro lina. Every wide awake and progres sive Sunday school of South Carolina may send delegates. Pastors^ super intendents, teachers, workers, all are eligible. The otlicers of the organization are the following: Prof. E. L. Hughes, Greenville, President; John F. Tol bert. Laurens, vice president; Prof. B. \V. Getsinger. Spartanburg, secre tary; Rev. W. I. Herbert, Columbia, treasurer: II. E. Revenel, Spartan burg, superintendent home depart ment; Mrs. M. A. Carlisle, Newberry, superintendent primary department; executive committee, William E. Pelham, chairman, Newberry; Rev. T. II. Law, D. D., Spartanburg: J. VJ. Ellerbe, Esq., Sellers; Rev. J. W. Shell, Spartanburg; S. B. Ezell, Esq., Spartanburg; Rev. W. B. Duncan, Laurens; Dr. E. C. Jones, Newberry; Rev. George A. Wright, Newberry; H. E. Ravenel, Esq., Spartanburg. Stoical Dentil ot' White Horne. Sixty-three Indians in a special car en route to Washington to see the President were smashed into by a mail t rain on the Chicago & North western, two miles west, of Haywood. 111., Friday morning duringa heavy fog. Three Indians were killed in stantly, three fatally wounded and 20 ot hers more or less seriously injured. White Horse in charge of the Indians on the train, was fatally injured. The bodies of the Indians who had been killed were laid on the prairie beside the the track. Chief White Horse being carried with them. He said, that he knew t hat death was near and requested that ho be placed near his dead com panions. The chief was propped up and sat stoically while physicians worked on his injuries. He smoked a pipe quietly, and gave no sign of the pain he must have sinter ed. Persons on the train say the v. reek was unquestionably caused by a fog, which stretched many miles from Lake Michigan. The Indians were Iron: the reservat ion at Rush: ville, Nebraska, and on a journey east ward primarily for show purposes at New York._ l-'ivo AVer?; Drowned. Five persons, members of a pleasure party from the Florida Methodist col lege ?it Sutherland, Pia., were ' drowned near Anclote light house Sunday night. Toe dead are: Mrs. Walker, wife of thc president of the college. M ss O'Connor of Atlanta. Miss Slaughter of Sutherland. M i vs McCray of Sutherland. Mr. Rouland of Sutherland. President Walker and Miss Newton reached the beach alive. The bodies of Mrs. Walker and Miss O'Connor have not yet been recovered. The bodies of the other tin ce who lost their lives were washed ashore on the heach and recovered. President Walker had taken the party out for a cruise to thc house, but met with rough weather and the boat was over turned in the gulf. The Florida Methodist college is located at Suther land, on the west coast of the gulf, about :t0 miles from Tampa. lind a Fight. A dispatch from Huntington, W. Va., says that John McFarland, chief of police of North Fork, and J. A. Ballard, a lumber merchant, are dead, as the result ot a pistol duel which followed the Republican district con vention at North Fork. They met after thc convention, the lie was pas ed and tho shooting occurred,, BACKEROM NEW YOBK - Commissioner Watson Well ?lecsed With Prospect foi Immigration. GREAT INTEREST IN THE EAST. J Tho South's Opportunities for Set tlers and I n vt-H Muon to Are Attracting Attention in All Classes. The Columbia State says Col. E. J. Watson,, commissioner ot commerce and immigration of South Carolina, returned Wednesday evening after a ten day's trip to. New York in the interest of the new work of which he bas been placed in charge. The commissioner has the faculty of taking up everything he does un dertake with enthusiasm, and this in stance ls no exception. He is highly pleased with the results of his trip and seems fully imbued with a deter mination to accompiish something ia the tiela to which be bas been called. The interview and editorial is re produced from the New York Sun show that Col. Watson "caught on" in New York, as such a paper as The Sun dees not open its columns to a nobody. Soon after reaching the city Wednesday night Cjl. Watson had a talk with Gov. Heyward and tho governor was well please with the In formal report which he made. Wednes day the governor received the follow ing note from Mr. William Williams of the New York department of com merce and labor: "Mr. E. J. Watson, the head of your department of agriculture, com ineros and immigration called at Ellis Island today with your letter of in troduction; lb gave me great pleas ure to see him and I will assist him to the extent of my ability on his present mission to the east." When seen Wednesday night Com missioner Watson talked mest inter estingly of bis trip and the prospects for his work. While all that he had . learned, considered and undertaken could not bc reviewed in the time then at his disposal, be consented to tell of a few things that had come un der lils observation. "1 have been In the east," he said, "for the last ten days giving the most earnest attention to the southern im migration problem, and arranging all the preliminaries for the founding of the work of the new State department upon a substantial basis. I knew at tne outset that the work was one of many rami?cations, and that speedy action and vigorous measures would be necessary. Sincestujjj^ ditions carTBlty^^pSlNtni no easy one. "I am greatly gratified at the lau ner in which I was met by the offiolals of the government and by those who really' control the tide of immigra tion, and feel that the first fortnight of. the new department's career has been well utilized. "What struck me most forcibly in the east was the widespread interest in all circles-whether Wall street or on Ellis Island, or in eastern business' I or otllcial circles, or at the national capRial-in the movement in the south for immigration and emigra tion. The federal government, I gathered, would be glad to see jtho tide turu southward, thus preventing the congestion in large centres of icommeice and the consequent misap plication of intelligent farming classes to trades and callings for which they j are totally unlit, resulting in depor I tations. Never have the eyes of the i east been so thoroughly turned to the j middle south not only in population movements but in Investments. Tho : easterners realize the value of our re sources better than our own people, , and I have received the heartiest as surances of earnest aid and co-opera . tion on all lines. "In Washington the liveliest inter est is manifested on all sides, as has been manifested by the prompt, favor able action taken on Senator Sim mons' immigration information meas ure. I am more than ever convinced of the opportuneness of the move ment launched in this State, and 1 sincerely trust our etTort will be crowned with success. One danger is In the people expecting too great results in a short time. The work is necessarily slow, and when it is based upon a determination to handle only such matters as posses tbo elements of success, patience is an es sential. However, 1 trust results can be shown in certain branches of the work at an early date. Another dan ger is in the possibility of landowners wishing prices for their lands at drat that wi 1 make their utilization difli cult. I trust that this danger will I not materallze. In a few days a call will be issued for information wanted immediately in this olllce concerning available lands, ?pul otllcial blanks calling for the exact information will bo furnished Hie land owners. The department is already receiving scores of inquiries from all parts of the coun try. . "Of what has been accomplished and what balls have been set In mo tion at the country's chief port of en try 1 do not, care to speak just now, as competition In immigration work is so strong 1 can only say that results thus far obtained exceed my expecta tions. "Concise pamphlets of information as to our resources are badly needed and these will be issued at the earliest possible moment. Hriof ones will be Issued in the different north European languages for speedy uso." A Queer Not ion. Mr. C. M. Strader, a Kentuckian, before dying In Philadelphia tho other day, dictated a will requiring his body to be cremated, thc ashrs taken to Louisville and "scattered on the waves of the beautiful Ohio." He concluded: "When this ls done, if the angel Gabriel ci.n collect my ro 1mains for the ju jgment, I will take off my hat to bira, and will be there at the last roll cali." The Instruc tions have been carried out,