The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, May 06, 1904, Image 2
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BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 6,1904.
NO. 19.
TRANSPORTS SUNK.
About Two Hundred Japanese Soldiers
Find a Watery Grave.
WAS THE ACT LEGITIMATE?
The Czar Salli io Bo Indignant at thc
I Possible Barbarous ConUuot
Ills Admiral lu DeHtroy
iliK tho Warship.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says
Russian torpedo boats belonging to
the Vladivostok squadron sank a Ja
panese military transport, the Kin
shiu-Maru, of 4,000 tons, during the
night of April 20, with all on board
with the exception of 17 officers, 20
sbldiers, t3f> of the crew and 85 Coolie
carriers. The others, who refuted to
surrender, were sent to the bottom
with the ship.
The otlioial report of lliar Admiral
Yeszen to the emperor is as follow?:
"During the night of April 20 two
Russian torpedo boats met at sea the
Japanese military transport Kinshiu
Moru of 4,000 tous, laden with rice
and military stores and about 1,500
tons of eoal. The transport was
armed with four Hotehklss guns of
.47 millimetres. The Russians cap
tured on board 17 otllcers, 20 soldiers,
85 military carriers, or coolies, and 05
of the crew, who surrendered. The
remainder of the men, who were to
form a landing party and who were
left without otllcers obstinately re
fused to surrender or go on board a
a Russian cruiser. Furthermore tlrey
offered armed resist euee to the Rus
sians. In the end they were sent to
the bottom with the transport."
Admiral Yeszen reports that be
sides thc sinking of tho Japanese
stornier Goyo-Maru at Won San
(Qeosan) April 25. the Russians sank
at sea the same evening the Japanese
stesfmer Nakamura-Maru. of 220 tons,
whvjso crew wore saved.
rihe satisfaction of the people of St.
Petersburg at thc expb Its of the
Vladivostok squadron i: tempered
witlh admiration for tin bravery of
the/ Japanese soldiers w io were on
, hpjArd the sunken trausptrt Kinshiu
\Maru aud who prefcrrei to drown
rather than surrender.
Rear Admiral Yiszan's full report
says that 200 men went down with
the ship.
The admiralty admits t tat the men
acted heroically but holds that Admi
ral Yeszen had no other alternative
than to sink the transpi rt, since he
could not spare a prize crew or
hampes his swift squad-on with a j
.slower' steamer. lt is minted out
that tho otllcers on board tiie Kinshiu
Maru appreciated the situation by ac
cepting imprisonment lather than
"J " 'Ml.. , .-a
In tho case bf the smaller Japanese
transports sunk by thc torpedo boats
at Won San, the crew were sent ashore
because there was no accommodations
for them on the torpedo baals.
The crew of the Jr.pat ?se steamer
Nakamura-Maru, as well ; s the Japa
nese of the Klnsbiu-Maru who sur
rendered, have beeti taken to the Rus
sian cruisers.
Thc admiralty here professes igno
rance as to the future plans of Admi
ral Yeszen, but it ls believed he is in
communication with Vladivostok by
/wireless telegraphy and it, is not likely
(to be surprised by the Japanese squad
I ron sent to prevent his return.
AN AWFUL ACCIDENT.
A Mule Child Killed hy u Train on
thc Southern.
The Lancaster Ledger says the lit
tle 18 months old son of Mr. Lucius
f^ell, who lives at the Foster place
Jar Riverside, was run over by thc
.'iipun(l freight on th?' Southern
last Sauilfday afternoonand died from
its injurleslan hour or so later. The.
little fcllovt I ii ? slipped from the
house and sfciaye i of while his mother
had gone oui tend to something
about the j lot. Returning to the
house she n^iss lie child aud think
ing it might have followed her un
noticed tin -'?"i she made search of the
lot for it. and had . mc to the front of
the hon-.'' wltci ? .spied it, several
hundred yards av iy about the rail
road track, .'i i rd au approach
train and ran l< . ? lier child and had
it been po ?ii cru? have made
tlic distance a ni unto sooner she
would ha.ve rescued her precious buy.
?But before she could reach him thc
train was upon h ui and Ins little life
was crushed out.
As soon as the cngin? er noticed the
child on the track he made every et
fort to stop bis t rain ;bllt being on a
downgrade the momentum of the t rain
carried it beyond. The little body
was badly mangled, one arm being eut
otl. a foot crushed lo a p. lp and thc
skull fractured.
Mr. hell was in town at tho t ime of
tho accident and haslem d home on
receiving the distressing news by
phone. Mr. and Mrs. lie I have the
deepest sympathy of every one in the
loss of their only child under such sad
and distressing circumstances. The
burial took place Simd,ty at Salem
burying ground.
Insane Mu i Convicted.
At, mullion. ltM., John W. Terrell,
a weall hy man. who sever il years ago
murdered his son in-law, Melvin
VVol ft was sent eiiced toi m prison mont.
Terrell has become insane since tile
crime. The killing was sensational.
Woli taunted his mother-in-law and
Terrell shot, him in the log. While
the leg, which bad been shattered hy
the bullet, was being amputated,
Terrell entered the surgon's oftice and
killed Wolf. Terrell, ail bough In
sane, will have to serve, in prison, as
t here is not bing in I be law as to tho
disposition of a prisoner vs bo becomes
insane aft er c? nv iel ion.
Judge Shnoiiton's Successor.
The president Wednesday sent, to
the senate the name ot J inigo Jeter C.
Pritchard, Of tho supreme court, of
the district, of Columbia, as judge of
the fourth circuit, to lill tho vacancy
caused by tho death of Judge Charles
II. Simouton. Judge Pritchard was a
Republican senator from North Caro
lina until appointed on the bench of
the district court.
KILLING IN SALUDA COUNTY.
Fight .Grew Out ol' tho Disputed
Ownership ol' a Pistol.
A dispatch from Batesburg to Thc
State says Hen. Hurton, a merchant of
Monetta, was shot and instantly killed
Wednesday morning by Morgan Th rail
kill, a prominent farmer of "thc same
section, and Lecky Burton, a brother
of the dead man, was shot and seri
ously wounded by ClarenceThrailkill,
a son of the other.
The shooting grew out. of a dispute
concerning thc ownership of a revol
ver. Karly Wednesday r.orning the
two Thrailkills drove up to the Hur
ton store in a buggy and demanded a
pistol that young Burton had in his
possession. The latter refused to
give it up, saying tiiat it had been
left with him by Iiis brother and that
he had no right to give it up without
ids, Hen Burton's, consent.
Old man Thrailkill raised a gun to
tin: but young Harton caught it be
fore he could tire. While this strug
gle was going on yoong Thrailkill, a
boy of 1!) years, tired upon Hurton
with a revolver, indicting a serious
wound in the grain. The mulo that
the Thrailkills were driving became
frightened and ran away; tin's, it is
conjectured, preventing them from 1
killing Lecky Hurton outright.
Soon afterwards lien Hurton came i
up and was immediately shot down by ?
Morgan Thrailkill.
The only remark that Hen Hurton i
uttered was "What have I done to I
you?" being made after he was shot. <
lt is said that the Thrailkills were I
Miraged and fora limo alter the shoot
ing were perfectly wild.
Ben Huit?n married the elder <
L'hrailkill's niece. He leaves a wife I
md two children. All thc parties I
ire respectable and well to do people. I
The elder Thrailkill was one of the !
inest farmers in Lois section of the '
?ountry. Ile is a mau of about 45 f
?reara of agc, while his .sou ls only IS).
Young Hurton, the wounded man, f
s li l and the dead man was about 33. '
The two Thrailkills have gone, to 1
?"aluda and surrendered. Solicitor *
Thurmond ison thc scene to look af- '
"er the interest of the State.
The county line between Aiken and 1
Saluda counties runs through
Monetta. between the stores of the ?
Hurton and bf Stevens & (Jato, where 1
Lecky Hurton was aller he was sh?t, 1
ind it is said that Lecky Hutton was 1
shot In Saluda county, while Hen was
iil??d in Aiken. .
CLIMATE AND CROP REPORT. ?
Four Frosts nu tl Ice Twice hot ards
and Injures Crops ol All Kinds. '
Following is Sect ion hi rector Hailer's
Meekly crop and climate bulletin is- 1
?ned last week :
The weel? ending R a. m., April 25,
?ad a mean temperature of f>7 de
crees, which is nearly 1) degrees be- j
OW normal, doc to extremely low |
em pera t ure.- at the hc-j inning of the ,
iveek with gradually increasing ,
.vaunt h to about .normal at its close. ,
Krosti occurred on the loth, "J 1st . i?2d ?
md 2 3d, generally light, hut hcavj to v
{Illing in the northern sections, where i
regltatioh was no sulllcientiy ad- *
.'anrod to suiter un.cb injury. The (
rost ol' the 22d was quite general and
mered the State nearly to the coast. "
Ice was observed on t he tilth and 20fh, j
md on I he latter date the ground was ,
ro/.en in York county. This temper
itu rc was unfavorable for germinal ion
md growth, but, did little damage (
it lier wise. j
There was very lighl precipitation (
ll nearly all parts, but beneficial v
inion nts in only a lew. The prccipi- <
ation on the 20th was in the form of
aili, sleet and snow in the western .
nullit ies. The ground is very dry, L
md has insuilicicnt moisture for tb?' ,
termination <>f recently planted seeds, <
md for the growl h of grain crops, and 1
' r plowing io many places.
Planting o pe rat ions made rapid pro
gress, and are nearing c mplction in k
tie eastern and central portions, but j,
he pr?par?t ion nf lands is rendered /
argcly impracticable ny t he drought,
?xcept on light, sandy soils. Some .
lottom lands are ticing prepared for j
joni. The season is about lo das s (
ate in the western counties.
Corn planting is progressing slowly j
ii the west, although uplands are (
learly linlshed. In the eastern part?, L
ill but, bottom lands have been plant
sd, and considerable replanting has ,
jenn done. Stands are from fair to
rood, but tire being broken by birds
md worms. The cool weather is in
imical to the growth of corn, and bas
.aused some to turn yellow. Cultiva
tion is active in many places.
Cotton planting is nearly finished Iii
Hie eastern parts, ard about, half fin
ished in the western oms. Germina
tion is slow ami poor, and only a small
part of thc crop is up tb poor stands,
Some that was up was killed by frost,
and is being replanted. Seed for re
planting is scarce. 'n the western
parts only a small port KUI is up. Sea
island cotton is hot doing well, owing
to the prevailing low temp?rature.
Tobacco transplanting is well ad
vanced towards c>mplction in Marl
boro and Marion count ies. and made
good progress in other sections, with
the. plants- tine and plentiful
Most of tho Carly rice crop has been
planted. Much is up lo good si ands,
but the cool weather has stopped its
growth and made if turo yellow.
Wheat continues to improve slowly,
except in sandy lands where it is not
stooling well. The condition Of oats
is variable, lint they are wry promis
ing on moist lands itnd generally poor I
on sandy lands, where rain is needed.
Holli grains need rain. Melon seeds
are germinating poorly and some arel
rotting in the ground. Peaches ap
pear to be safe on high grounds, but
arc badly damaged by frost in low
places. Othei fruits are more prom
ising. The weather was too dry and
cool for truck, although shipments
continue heavy. Gardens are gener
ally poor.
epidemic ot' Measles.
An Olllcial of thc New York health
departmchl reports an alarming spread
of measles, many cases proving fatal
being followed hy pneumonia. The
weekly report shows for Greater New
York 1,030 cases of measles with '17
deaths arr. flue directly thereto and
135 deaths of pneumonia.
A SPICY DEBATE.
Dalzell and Cockran Lock in the
House of Representatives.
THE IRISHMAN TURNS TABLES.
-y.
l'oints Out Charges Against Ulm
Were Confession of Corrupt
Methods on tho Part of
Republicans.
The heavyweights had another bout
in the bouse on Tuesday of last week
with Messrs. Dalzell and Cockran as
combatants. The speeches were a
renewal of last Saturday's debate but
wera more personal in their charac
ters. As ou Saturday thc speakers
were greeted with vociferous applause
hy their respective colleagues aud the
bitterness of party feeling ran high.
Mr. Dalzell repeated his charge that
Mr. Cockran had received money for
his support of McKinley. The charge
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ran.
The climax came when Mr. Cock
ran offered a resolution providing for
the appointment of a select committee
!>f live members of the house to in
vestigate the charge which had been
made against him by Mr. Dalzell. He
md other Democrats, including Mr.
Williams, the minority leader, de
manded immediate consideration, but
the speaker declined to pass on a point
jf order against thc resolution until
ie had examined precedents.
To support Iiis charges Mr. Dalzell
<aid he would mcution some facts and
circumstances connected with the his
xiry of Mr. Cockran. Ile then read
rom a number of documents to show
.hat Mr. Cockran started as a green
acker, and in 1896 stood with Hie
McKinley side because he was for
lound money.
"For sound money in IS'.:;;," he
taid, amid Republican applause, "trav
dlug allover tho continent; in 1000
n support of bryan, greenbacker
iouud money man, iree siller man.
Ie has been a II ryan I to and antl-Bry
m-lte. He was for bryan in 1900.
is ho for Bryan now?"
Booking Mr. Cockran in the face.
Mr. Dalzell, speaking in derision, said
hal Mr, Cockran "has been a Tam
nanyitc and as such has been a room
ier d' congress: he has been an anti
Pammanyite and as sucli ceased to be
i member of congress. Toe gentle
nan from New York is a Tammany
le now again and now again he is a
oem ber of congress."
The Republicans were roused to a
ligh pitch of enthusiasm and ap
plause when Mr. Dalzell said softly:
Would not that make one suspicious
.Bab it was moro than a matter of
?oriscieiice with a gentleman having
ucli a harlequin career?"
UUMOUS il? TlllS A1U.
The Democratic side of the house,
ic said, had gotten hysterical when
ie would not on Saturday disclose the
larne of his informant. Ile ,heu read
he New York Journal pub ?shed by
dr. Cocktail's colleague, W. B. Hearst,
ii August, is.Hi, which the s catement
ras made that Mr. Cockran was for
ilclvinley "a position which to those
vbo rea ember his career in congress,
Iocs not .seem to involve such a strain
m his feelings as might be supposed
specially with rumors in the air of
1250,000 checks out of Hanna's educa
tional fund."
Mr. Dalzell closed amid wild Re
niblican applause; with a most bitter
lenunciation of Mr. Cockran. He re- i15
erred to that gentleman's speech be- ^
ore thc Democractiu convention j
vlii-j'i sent him to congress in whick : w
W r. Cockran said: '*
'We have reached a ooint where e
Be country is regarded asan interna- jCl
.ional hoodlum.-' Facing thc Demo-j
?ratio side and looking directly- at i;
dr. Cockran, Mr. Dalzell declared: -sl
'if lhere beany hoodlums amongst
is they are not the producto!' Amer!
;an Institutions or American civillza
ion." ile was interrupted with loud
md prolonged Republican applause.
Joni inning, be said:
"They are to lie found rather
tmongst those adventurers who hav
ng left their own country for their
iountry's good, lind in the field of
American politics pro? i tic source of
lotoricty and pelf, men who without 1
inscience and without conviction lind ;l
i,i opportunity now with one party,
tow with another lind a market for c
heir peculiar wares, among which is "
lot respectability."
lb- took I ils scat amid another storm
if Republican applause.
(JOCK lt AN IN KK1M.Y.
Mr. Cockran had sat through the
mllre speech of Mr. Dalzell unmoved
ind waited for him to li nish when,
dsing from bis seat lie was greeted
ivith tumultuous applause by the fj
Democrats. Dj
Mr. Dalzell he. declared, had L
.bought it proper to justify v. charge ,
ii infamy against a fellow member I e
iy searching the various channels c
t brough which anonymous c ilumina- ! <
.1
ion circulates ina political campaign
md with hands no cleaner than those
with which it deals, hurls it over a
o .dy of deliberative men."
Mr. Cockran denied the charge that
lie had received $15,000 from the Pal
mer arid Buckner campaign commit
tee. He also denied in the most post- 1 .
Live maimer I bat be bad ever received L
money for supporting President Mc-'t
Kinley's election in 181)H, He denied L
thc charge that he ever was a green- j,
backer. .
lt Mr. Dalzell believed the charges t
lie bad brought against bim, Mr. <
fj ck ran said, it showed him (Mr. Dal-1 i
?ill) in a pitiable state. Ile was in t
nefamy ami did not know it. He had':
.iiift:,M il to his own party's corrup-U
lion. Ile hail proved, it he had proved
anything, that the presidential elec
tion had been purchased, lt had been
charged that sixteen minion dollars
nad been spent by the Republican
Campaign committee in that cam
paign. Mr. Cockran said he had never I(
believed I. li ese charges himself.
As to defending himself, he said:
"1 can always protect myself from
thi! gentleman from Pennsylvania by
choosing my own side of Hie street.
"Before 1 sit down, 1 shall ask tills
house to agree with me on this, that
if what Hie gentleman has said la
true, 1 am unworthy of its member
ship; if what he said be false, bc ls un
worthy of membership."
Mr. Cockran was interrupted with
loud cheers from his Democratic col
leagues. Ile continued: "This will
take a wider range than our personal
virtues. 1 shall ask for a committee
to investigate this charge, and shall
ask for power to send for persons and
papers."
THE KBPUBL1CAMS SCOKKD.
Mr. Cockran then read his resolution
reciting that Dalzell had charged that
Cockran had been paid money to a po
litical party for support of a candidate
for the presidency; that if the charge
was true it established such conduct
is should unlit any man for member
diip in the house and providing for a
Bommitt??of live members appointed
by the speaker with power to compel
Attendance of witnesses for the in
vestigation of sucli charge." Loud
Democratic applause followed Mr.
Jockran's reading ol the resolution.
Ile then resumed and said that when
t/hat resolution was adopted In all its
.erins something more Important than
ds conduct or the action of the mem
ber from Pennsylvania would be made
;le; r.
"We will see," he said, "just how
ihc election in 18lJtj was conducted,
ind wc will see. whether in fact the
presidency was bought or purchased,
>r whether it was wou In honorable
political conflict or whether it repre
lentcd as the gentleman from Penn
sylvania would have us believe, the
kill in corruption which was pos
essed by the managers of thc Ile
millican organization." If it he true,
ie said, "that that campaign result
d in such uso of money as had been
lescribed, there was but one possible
afRty for the republic."
The gentleman from Pennsylvania,
>Ir. Cockran said had asked him whom
I was wc would choose fer our stan
ard hearer. I said there was a man
ut in Missouri whom we might ciioose
o nominate as our standard bearer,
ccause the main issue of this cam
algn will uot bc "how wc are to col
>ct revenue," hut lie said amid wild
lamocratic cheers, "how we arc to
eep thc thieves from stealing its pro
eeds."
Mr. Cockran denied having referred
o the United States as "an interna
lonal hoodlum."
T:ie Democrats went wild as Mr.
Cockran sat down and the. speaker
sund difficulty in resorting order.
Mr. Cockran then asked immediate
ction on his resolution as a matter of
ri vi lege, as did also Mr. Williams,
ut Mr. Grosvenor objected, the
peaker refused to rule on the point
f order and the house adjourned until
leven o'clock tomorrow.
SAYS TEE EARTH 18 FLAT
.ud Offers llewurd to Anyone AV ho
Can Prove lt.
lt is asserted that on the; "Niagara
enir.Liuhu, I ho fruit b..??t-o?( ..Vu .
f which this city is the centre, ti ve
ut of six persons believe that the
ai th we live on is (lat and not globu
ir, says the St. Catherine (Ont. ) Dis
ateh. The chief exponent of this
beery is John S. McClelland, city
lerk of St. Catherines, formerly edi
or of a daily newspaper here.
Mr. McClelland is well educated and
as made an extensive study of as
ronomy. After much investigation
e concluded that t he earth is flat,
nd rests on water instead of air: that
he sun is no bigger than it looks to
he naked eye, and is only a few
bonsai id miles obove the earth.
The earth, Mr. McClelland thinks,
j stationary, while the sun ti. veis
ack and forth above it. Thc sun's
density is not sufficient to light the
hole earth at once, and thus when
i is at. one end of tho world thc other
nd is in darkness and night is ac
quited for.
Mr. McClelland points to the fact
li?t the sun and moon are botli seen
lining at the saine time, as unassail
ble evidence that tho earth is not
all-like shape. Ile scouts tho gravi
ltion theory. There ls no such
liing as gravitation, he contends,
nd lie further asserts that the
heory is merely an invention of as
ro nome rs to bolster up the superstit
ion, as he calls it, that the earth isa
lobe. How could there be sufficient
ravi tat ion or attraction, lie asks
cornfully, to hold on all the water
here is in thu world with it revolving
I the rate they say it docs?
As for the moon, Mr. McClelland is
outillent that it is no more than 5U0
niles away. Thc. theory thal, the
tars are as big as thc earth is pro
louuced altogether ridiculous. Thc
noon's light he points out, is of a
ihosphoric character, not at all like
hat of t he sun.
The Hat earth theory has gained
'.rei ig th about here in view of the
act that recently Mr. McClelland is
ned a challenge to members of the.
loyal Astronomical Society, living in
Doronto and Hamilton, t i meet him
m the public platform and public!)
liscuss with liiin thc question whethj
ir tile earth is rund or Mat , and not
?ne of the ast ronomers has seen lit' tx
espond. Then Mr. McClelland post,
(1 an oller, and it s'ands today, h
.ay $100 l'or a single proof that th
art li is round like a bi ll.
Tried in I'oisou .Many.
A mere accident, Wednesday aver
il l he poisoning ofktio students (
he military school Vat Solia. Tl'
:ook and one officer Of the inst il ul io,
m euteriiur the kiteh'Mion theschoi,
laught a young student of the Son
ml versify in the ad ol' put tinga
?ackagc of eyanide/if potassium ho
,lic food bein,' prepared. Tho Si
lent was arrested, and later sulcled
ii his cell, lt han)been learned tat.
he st udent was>- a, member of an
uiarchist society Jwhicb had apptnt
.d him to use wtis means of ling
iway with all $00. .students lilllie
nllltary school.;'
SlnilRlltrf by thc Trolley.
Porty deaf j a month fron tho
iperatlon of fr&eet railway lim and
)f railroads et r ring a cit" is aeavy
,oll upon huu'^ii life. Virtual .->00
lersons a ye lind death umr the
?vlieels in Cl ! igo. Such an ggre
jato killed In-^* day would stale the
vorld, even v f*e the other .'1 days
,0 bc ImmuncJ This hacrilieef life,
,-ear In and y'?'?.rout should boppall
ng. but lt Kw'CS on seeminglas one
if the Inevitable cons;quence,'of life
11 a great cit\
I A SAD CASE.
? _
Twp White Women Shoplifters Con
vi ted in an Atlanta Court.
MAKE A PATHETIC APPEAL.
Aira. Kihi ltivcrs and Firs. Edith
RifTKts Aro tho Names of tho
f.
i Two Union mint t H. Who
j Hail from Charleston.
The Atlanta Journal says Mrs.
Edith Riggs and Mrs. Ella Rivers,
of Charleston, S. C., rcc-ntly arrested
for .shoplifting, after having robbed
many department stores in Atlanta,
under live indictments charging
'.arfeeny from the house, were convict
ed'.in the Fulton criminal superior
court Wednesday morning. Judge L.
S. Roan imposed a tine of 8500, cash
on each of the women, in lieu of the
payment of which they will serve a
sentence twelve montos on thc county
public-works. The 8500 aggregates a
linc of $100 in cadi of the cases against
the women, their counsel having
agreed to abide by tho anding and
sentence in one case. The charges
against the women were felonies, but
on the recomendatiou of,the jury in
the one case all were treated as raisie
meanors by Judge Roan, whose heart j
was touched by thc pathetic scene
which was enacted in the court room.
The lines have not been paid, hut
it is understood that a movement is
on foot in Atlanta among certain
charitable people to raise the $1,000
hy public subscription, several good
ladies having interested themselves in
t hecase.
Attorneys Harvey Hill and Van
Astir batchelor, representing the
woijen, elected to h.ave the prisoners
i riel together. To save time they
entered into an agreement with the
solicitor that the result in one case
should hold good in thc live.
Alter the jury had been drawn and
thejevidouee for the state introduced,
theattorneys representing the women,
to the surprise, of the court, thc solici
tor 'and everyone else in thc room,
Stated they had a couple of witnesses
to introduce, lt bad been thought
that'no testimony for tie defense
wcu? be offered, the counsel depend
ing mtirely upon the statements of
theirclients.
tl N KO KT U N AT 12 CU I LD lt EN.
Tra nineteen-year-old daughter cf
Mrs. 'Riggs, wlio arrived, with her
broiler, from Charleston Tuesday
uighl, was called The girl is an idiot
and if paralytic. She was assited to
the "stand, hut her feeble mind was
H'.-.iable of grasping. The sight was
e most pitiable ever seen in
j?.. u... J room.' J. oe gtirl p.i?.I lio
attention whatever to the queries of
the attorneys, she disregarded the re
makes }f the judge and made no sign i t
of recot- nizlng lier mother, who sat
v.'oiping. She could give DO informa
tica or testimony regarding her
maher.
'hie I rother was next called. He
is lixtC'ili years of age, and, like his
sist-r, is also an idiot. Hut the boy
cjild talk. Occasionally a ray of
indulgence would break thc raono
toiy of his gasping. When Harvey
Hil asked the lad wily he had came
ti L thin ta, the hoy mumbled feebly,
"t'see mania.-' Not once-, however
di ethe witness display any sign of rc
c igiizhjg lits mother, who was Still J f
wt -.ping. s
Irs. Riga's was placed on the stand i h
to oake her statement. Sue said: t
A Mot IIKU'S A pr KAL.
'Gentlemen of the jur> : I am
heb to aimer the charge of a dis
grceful act. 1 feel mortally ashamed.
1 h pe to be able under ibis terrible j w
oroal to give you a true .ketch ol' my jc
s it.life. I want to appeal to your ?'?
teller hearts fur whatever considera-1 0
Dot you think 1 d ese rv \ Winn 10 v
yea's of age, 1 married the father ol
tb two unfortunate children you fl
hap seen, lie drank very hard, nog
iced his home and family. After j'1
a Jw years he was taken lo the insane I
aslum. 1 was penniless and almost!01
friodlcss. 'lo tell ail of my sillier- e<
ins would take all day. The sad j11
slat you have seen hist tells the ^s
stry. Whatever mistakes 1 havel''
mile in the past was done fort?n- sal- ui
Villon of my poor, crippled children. *
Fr lu long years 1 have struggled 0
h. them. There is no home in South j
Coolina for unfortunates so alllicted. 0
1 tnt them north, but tiley were rc
fted because 1 liad nu funds willi "
will which to keep them. Tiley can '
n/ther walk nor talk. No one can jvv
u.derstand their wants but me,
'livy need my care. 1 have never
hen away from them before. In con- S!
sleration of these helpless children I d
aid what my freedom is worth to
Cern, I humbly beg for mercy. 1 ara
t cir only support and nothing hut!"
ai overpowering desire to relieve their J*
wints would have persuaded me to do
voat I have done. 1 read of the
pickage with which 1 did un work in
a New York paper, lt was my li rsl.
ai tc m pt. lt will he my last. Remcm
l?r that mercy is ail 1 ask. My life
las been a living death Bravo men
lave fallen. 1 am only a weak and
overburdened woman. If you feel
that 1 deserve no pity, theil, for
leaven's sake, look at the helpless
hildren. They cannot spaak, hut
heir bumble presence isa eying plea
br their mother's freedom."
The jury was out only a few ra in
fles before returning a verdict,.lind
lig the women gullly and recom
mending them to the mercy ol' the
?curt.
Judge Roan lined them $ 100lu each
ase.
ll
'rim Cuba Way.
In Cuba, two hours bet?re a paper
s distributed, a copy must bc sent,
ni th the editor's name, to the govern
aentand one to the censor. When the
?aper is returned with the censor's en
lorsemeut de paper may go tj the
molle.
Filly Burned.
The cave-in of a coal mine at Too
na, Seville, Thursday bulled many
liners. Fifty bodies have been ro
overed. The of the miners were Ten
ured, but all of them are bad.'y in
ured.
FUTURE FOE SWEET POTATO.
Department of Agriculture Making
lC.xpcrlmcnts in Georgia.
The Washington correspondent of
The State says the day will, I be
lieve, come when the Bweet potato
will furnish the starch of the world
The possibilities of the potato are far
heyond anything at present realized.
This is the opinion of Dr. Harvey
W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of
chemistry of the agricultural depart
ment, whose attention has recently
heeu directed toward the development
of tile possibilities he indicates, ami
and who is preparing the way for
interesting experiments in that di
rection.
Thc opinion I have quoted was
given lu I he course of a conversation
with Representative Brantly of Geor
gia, who had called to his attention
the advisability of the department o'.'
agriculture following up Its experi
ments upon the sugar cane of Georgia
and South Carolina, Florida and Ala
bama, with a somewhat similar study
of the sweet potato.
lt was largely through the influence
of Representative Brantley that the
experiments now being conducted to
develop the cane syrup Industry of
those southern States were begun.
The successful results obtained at the
government's experiment station near
Waycross suggested the possibilities
in a somewhat similar direction of the
study by the government's experts of
the sweet potato, and he has had sev
eral conferences with Dr. Wiley on
the subject. The experiment station
at Waycross is perhaps thc. most com
plete of its kind in the world, and
could bo utilized for such Investiga
tion as the experts may be able to
jon duct.
Mr. Brantley has made something
if a study of the uses to which the
jrdinary potato which grows so abun
iautly and so k'ouuruliy throughout
.he Southern States could be put, and
s convinced that there arc great pos
sibilities in the manufactura of glucose,
it&rch and alcohol from it. In bis In
vestigation, the facilities i f thc Way
:ross syrup station naturally suggest
:d themselves, and when he broached
,he subject to Dr. Wiley he promptly
igreed that the Influence of the de
triment of agriculture should be ex
ited toward securing thc necessary
ippropriations for the utilization of
ihat plant in the expert s,tidy of po
,at.o possibilities.
i n another year the department ex
leets to complete its work with the ?
ugar cane, or at least carry lt to i
iraelical completion. Dr. Wiley has
igreed to recommend that in the next ,
igricultural appropriation bill there i
>e added to the sum appropriated to ?
he department for experiment pur
>os:ssuch amount as may be regard- ]
d necessary to take up the potato ex- ]
?a'moots a.ud carry them on as th..se (
ipen sugar cane have been conducted, ,
nd he considers the Waycross plant
be ideal place for such experiments,
le is himself quite enthusiastic over |
li? possibilities of making the potato ,
r< ) another great money-crop for ?
hi Soutl ern Slates, and will do
vi ytbing in his power to make it :
hilt. i
A MASKED HIGHWAYMAN.
troves to bo a Well-Known Young
Society Mun. 1
I
At San j ose, Cob, on Wednesday i
/ben the mask was torn from the i
ace of a daring bheif who had been (
hot death In a wild flight to escape |
iis pursuers wore surprised to lind t
hey had killed their friend, Hert t
""burndy kc, one of the most promi- 1
em young men of that city. c
While a hair dozen Of the wealthy
lembers of the Del monte Social Club ;
?ere lounging in the parlor ot the i
luhhouse they were startled by the I
ppearanc of a tall man wearing a
lack mask and carrying a large re- i
olver in c ich hand. 1
"I wau? your money and jewels, i
lld the "hold up'.' artist quietly, t
and you will lind theeasie.it is the i
esl way." >
Following the direction ot* the mask- ?.
I man, the trembling guests unload
1 their money and jewelry on a table, t
nd the thief leisurely examined t
atones and rings before pulling them t
ito bis pocket. Ile lined Hie guests i
gainst the wall, told ihcm he would t
ill them if they stirred, backed out ll
I" the room and disappeared.
A posse ot armed men was speedily \ 1
rganlzed, and alter following the i
rial of the thief for an hour he was j
iscovcrcd and driven to a corner. |
l/hlle he stood at bay thirty shots
ere exchanged and the thief dropped
ead, with a bullet, in bis hean,
"lt's llert Tborndyke; po.>r Hert,"
lid Hie men who had sent him to lii.^
oath.
Tborndyke, with his wife and young
aughter, lived with Mrs. G. M.
nice, bis mother-in-law, a wealthy
(dow, and the exposurer was a terri
le blow to his family.
An ICngiiio i?.vplo?ed.
Wednesday morning engine ><'o.
20 ol the Ballimore and Ohio, east
ound, while passing Tenth street in
Iraddock, l'a., exploded, fatally la
iring three men and seriously Injur
lg titree others. Five buildings were
recked and partially demolished, and
wo of them were set on tire, rcqulr
ig the attention of the tire depart
lent. The train was proceeding at a
lir speed when the explosion occur
ed. This was followed by a cloud Of
Leam, cinders and llames which con
inned to be propelled Into the air nu
il Hie engine reached Eleventh slreet
dock away from the explosion.
U re it left the tracks, striking the
ide of the l'olish Lutheran church,
bile the cylinder head blew in the
ppositc direction, striking the wall
r an ice house, breaking it down,
'he debris was widely spread, but
tost of thc damage was done to I
ropcrty in the block which the en
lue traversed.
What Strikes Cost.
In the last twenty years, according
j the ligures of the labor bureau at
Washington, there have been more
lian 22.000 strikes, involving a loss to
mployeesand employers of over $100,
00,000. The loss to the workmen
acmselves has been more than twice
li?t of their employers.
ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH.
It Can Only Be Done Honestly by Giv
ing Value Received.
One uf the cardinal, traits of a gen
uine moral character ls honesty. It
is a bond of social and commercial
confidence. It is the basis of real
prosperity. . We feel like not only en
dorsing the sentiment that an "hon
est man is the noblest work of God,"
but also adding that an honest man
is the bedrock and bulwark of society
and the state.
A dishonest man ls a carbuncle up
on the neck, a felon upon the linger
of thc social body,. Ile causes a sight
of irritation, trouble and inconveni
ence;die works confusion and loss; and
not infrequently communicates poison
to thc eutirc social system.
There is much complaint of a lack
of strict bonesty in the land today,
and there are many evidences to sus
tain the complaint. We can scarcely
pick up a paper without reading of
thefts and defalcations, and the ope
rations of fraudule.it aud swindling
schemes, and the extortions of cor
porate greed.
Coincident with the carnival of dis
honesty is tbe prevalence of the gam
bling mania, and may it not be that
tlie.se two things are somewhat related
as effect and cause?
The speculative spirit is wide
spread. It permeates an 1 infests all
classes of society from the lowest to
the highest. In the lowest it linds
expression in crap shooting and in the
devices of gambling dens. A little
higher up, as men grade society, it
tinds expression In laying a wager on
the ball gam|, and the cock fight and
the horde race, A moog the respecta
ble it hods expression around thc card
table of fashionable parlors and draw
ing rooms, and reaches the climax of
expression in what is commonly known
as "deallog in futures."
There are many men who would
not bet on a horse race or stake money
on a game of cards, but they will put
up money as margins on colton con
tracts and grain futures.
Doubtless Lhere is a lawful dealing
in futures. As things are, it is possi
ble that in no other way could large
dealers in tilts'? products protect
themselves against serious losses in
certain cases in the course of bona
tide transactions.
Hut for the mass of mer. who en
gage in this kind of dealing, it is
uothing but gambling. They arc
protecting uo legitimate interests,
they arc simply and solely indulging
the gambling spirit. Their dealings
imount to nothing-but a wager laid
jpon the future price of a product.
Lt means that one man's gain is an
jther man's loss, and it leads to
risks that are not legitimate aud
''afc. %
Dut without arguing the question,
let us consider the result. The safest
rule by which tu judge of the moral
mareeter of anything 1J thc old
>ne given by the Master Teacher,
'Dy their fruits ye shall know them."
What are the fruits of dealing upon
Uie exchange? lt saps the essentials
)? sterling manhood, honor, patient
industry and economy.
If 1 can make $500 by venturing
3 IUD upon margins, why hesitate to
risk on the "enture the $100 in my
Kinds as a trust. 1 can soon pay lt
back, and have a nice surplus for my
self.
Jf I can make S.">0() on the exchange
ii a day or a week, or even In a
month, why need 1 be plodding along
'or $."10 or $01) a month? And wliy
worry myself with stinting and eeon
imizing at every turn and living
plainly and frugally? And thus the
issentlals of noble, vigorous manhood
:ollapse under the touch of the ma
ign? transactions with their golden
tn tici pattons.
These dealings have unfitted many
i mun fer any employment requiring
.oncent rated and persistent toil; they
tave made thieves of young men in
?tores and banks; they have made dc
aulters and embezzlers of those who
lave bad trust funds in their kcep
ng: they have brought man) a family
.o poverty, and many a good name to
.hame and disgrace, and many a life
vlth bright prospects to a suicide's
jrave and to a dark eternity.
These transactions kindle a desire
o get rich in haste, and he who
oakes haste to be rich will rarely, if
.vcr, be honest. It will ever be true j I
hat "Tiley that will bc rich fall Into
.emptation and a snare and into many r'
oolisli and hurtful lusts." The ls
gambling spirit so prevalent today in h
ow and high circles, in the den and L
n the pit, is a giant foe to honesty. |
lt is subversive of that ancient com- J
mind spoken from heaven, "Thou Iw
?halt not steal." n
If you would be an honest man,
<eep out of tbe Niagara rapids of L]
speculation. There are deadly falls
just ahead. You may never get rich, ! ^
mit there is something better than | j
riches. This is not ii popular doc-l'j
brine at this hour, but that it is be- ?
?ausc tlie popular vision is disordered (
md distorted. Dut believe me, there . o
s something more valuable than |?
money and that is unsullied man- ? i
iood.
I do not condemn money getting.
)u the contrary, I praise it. Make
Ul the money you can and save all
.he money you can, so you use it for
?od and humanity. There is nb vir
ile in poverty. On Hie other hand
/here is a fearful sacrifice of power
ind usefulness.
Dut yourself down to ic: make
noney, but see to it that you need a
dean conscience and Clean hands.
Tun Firemen Killed. t
At New Wuk two fireman were o
tilled abd,-one mortally wounded by a
he collapse of a wall at a lire in John ' a
Stanley's soap factory on West ?
(Thirtieth street We tuesday morning,
rho men in the ruins are .lohn Crean p
md Tlibs. Madigan. Two companies
>f firemen on the adjoining roof had a f
?arrow escape from death from an-Ja
ither falling wall. Men by working ri
inalh got lo the buried men. The
oss is $120,000._
Took I'oinon.
George Lee Warren and Frank
Warren were sentenced at Yorkville
)n Tuesday to ten and live years" re
spectively for shooting into a train
ast January and wounding Conductor
Koss. George died thc first night ho
was on tho chaingang and Frank
jame unary dying. It ls suspected
Lhoy took poison.
Y
EXCITING RUNAWAY
Of a Pullman Coach Over Two Milet
loto Car of Whiskey.
WOBK'OF AN UNKNOWN NEURO.
Men, Women, HoyN and Girls, Whit?
and Black, Scramble to
Catob the Spilling
Corn Whiskey.
The Columbia State says the people
of the mill distirct of that city wit
nessed an exciting runaway "Wednes
day afternoon. A Pullman couch,
whose brakes had been released by au
unknown negro on mischief bent, as
tlie car stood on an incline at tho
Seaboard's Gervias street yard, dash
ed at a high rate of speed over the
long trestle south of the city. lu
the coach at the time were a Penn
sylvania railroad porter, P. C. Mur
ray, who says be lives In Jersey City, .
and his helper, Joe Roberston, a
small negro boy who says he lives
with ids mother, Frauces Robertson,
at 913 Pendleton street. Both were
asleep at the time the coach started
out, but were aroused before the
coach reached the Seaboard's main
line trestle, which starts at the south
ern end of the yards and extends
til rough the mill district to the rear
of the Olympia and Grauby mills, a
distance of nearly two miles.
Over tlds elevated track the coach
sped at a rate of about 40 miles an
hour. Murray tugged at the brakes,
but without apparent result, his
failure being due, lie thinks, to his
excitement and fear. Ab the end of
the trestle behind the mills stood a
Seaboard box car loaded with 30 bar
rels of Wateree corn whiskey cousign
?d to Commissioner Tatum wdiich had
seen temporarily switched on to the
'nam lu.c by a train busy in tbs mill
liding. Murry at?d the boy retreated
LO the end of the co ich furthest from
jlie approaching danger. The box
jar was telescoped and reducid to
ipi inters by the. heavy Pullman,
which was hurt but little. Neither
X?cupantof the coach was injured. Ike
Dreher, a yard brakeman, who was on
:be top of the box car as he saw the
runaway coach rounding the curve
award him, did not hesitate long to
vonder. He had just made ids way
lown the embankment wlieu the
:ollision occurred.
Thirty-six barrels of whiskey rolled
lown the embankment unbroken.
Tour were smashed and the contents
treamed out of the werck and collect
id in the shape of a little lake,
?uickly a collection about 50 men,
romeo and boys, white and colored,
rere on the scene with bottle, pans,
'lasses and buckets scrambling for
lositions under the various little
treams of whiskey pouring forthsjj
rom the wrecked boxcar. When tho
rbite boys and girls began to dip.up
lie whiskey in their caps and what
essels they were able to muster into
ervice on short notice, a white man
>dth a deep-seated look of disgust on
is face found a shovel and began
browing dirt into the lake. The
hildren who were uning off to
rink the whiskey as rapidly as'they
?ooped it up raised a protest and
Dme men who were also dipping into
lie mine made remark* about the
ian with the shovel being smart and
liicious, but he heeded not and did
ot stop until ho had obliterated the
ike.
A wrecking train working from the
i iclgo end and a freight engino from
lie other cleared the track in less
han an hour, and no trains were
eiayed. The Pullman coach, which
as due to go north with the Sea
oard's tl..'?0 train, was hauled back to
he yards for repairs, lt was slightly
philtered and broken in at the col
sion end, but it is remarkable how
ittle it was damaged in view of the
omplete way in which the box car
ad Leen wrecked.
THE WEATHER FOR MAY.
Vbattho Conditions Muy Boas In
dicated by i'ast Kcoortls.
The following data, covering a
eriod of thirty-three years, have
eeo compiled from the weather bu
eau iccords at Charleston. They are
?sued to show the conditions that
ave prevailed during May for the
hove period of years, but must not
e construed as a forecast of the
feather conditions for the coming
louth:
Moan or normal temperature, 73
eg rees; the warmest month was that
t 1800, with an average of 77 de
Tees; the coldest month was that, of
887, with an average of 00 degrees.
L'he highest temperature was 08 de
rees, on May 30, 1808; the lowest
em pe ra tu re was 45 degrees, on May
?0, 18!M. The earliest date on which
hst '?killing'' frost occurred in au
umn, November i), 18S0; average
ate on which lirsi, "killing" frost
ccurrcd In autumn, November 30;
verago (lite on which last "killing"
rost occurred in spiing March 1; the
itest date on which last "killing"
rost occurred in spring, April 2,
881.
Average, precipitation for the
louth, 3.?s inches. Average mim
er of days with .01 of an inch or
lor.-, nine: the greatest monthly
reclpltation was 8.iii! inches in 1883;
be least monthly precipitation was
.Is inch in 1881. The greatest
mount of precipitation recorded in
ny twenty-four consecutive hours
fas 0 inches, on May 1 and 2, 1883.
Average number of clear days, 12;
artly cloudy days, l t; cloudy days, 5.
The prevailing winds have been
rom the southwest, 20 per cect. The
vcrage velocity of the wind is 11.2.
?ho highest velocity of the wind was
3 miles, from the northeast, on May
, l!)U3.
Big Potatoes.
Five hundred Greeley potatoes,
diieh will weigh ono ton, will be one
? tho Colorado exhibits at tho World's
'air. Another tine collection of tub
rs, four of which, placed lengthwise,
over a space tho length of a yard
Lick will be sent- from the Centen
ial State to St. Louis.,