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m VOL. XVI. WILL BE T1UEI). The War Department Orders Wholesale Courtmartial of Officers FOR BARBAROUS CONDUCT. President ltooHOvelt Will Not Take Any Kxcuno iih .) iistll'y inn 11?liuuuiit Coiuluct on I'art ol' Americans. It begins to look as if some of the American officers over in the Philippine Islands will he held to account for cruelties practiced on the natives. As a result of the consideration hy I lie cabinet last week of the charges of cruel treatment of Filipinos by United States soldiers. Secretary Root has made public the following correspondence: War Department, 1 Washington, April 15, 11)02. \ My Dear Senator: 1 beg toaeknowl . ii IV uTfipi 01 your copy oi the testimony of Semi. ('has. S. Hi ley ami Private William Lewis Smit b, late of the Twenty-sixt h infantry, taken before your committee yesterday. I enclose a copy of a dispatch which has been sent today to Maj. (Jen. Chalice, commanding t he division of the Philippines. Directions have boon given to the judge advocate general of the army to take proper steps in accordance with the dispatch. The war department will he glad to receive the earliest possible informat ion of any furt her evidence which may he elicited by the commit tee, tending to lix responsibility upon anyone in 1 he military service of the United States for any violat ion of the laws of war or of the regitlat ions and orders governing the operations of the army of the United States in t lie field. Very respectfully, Klihu Hoot, Secretary of War. lion. II. C. Lodge, United States Senate, Washington, D. (J. TilK OKDKUH CAHLK1>. in accordance with the above the Secretary of war sent the following cablegram to (Jen. ChalVce, who is in command of the American troops in the Philippine Islands: War Department. t Washington, April lf>, 1002. \ On Feb. loth a letter was sent you enclosing for investigation, copy ol charges made by (Jov. (Jardner ol Tayabas province, which contained general allegations of cruelties practiced by troops on natives, and generally of an insolent and brutal attitude of the army towards natives. On April 2d a cablegram was sent you urging action wit h all speed consistent with thorough and searching invest igat ion. ()n t lie it h of March a cable dispal cli was sent you directing disciplinary measures to produce obedience to Hit president's inst met ions, suliot dlnating military olllcers tocivil government it: pacified provinces, and inst met ing yon to relieve Maj. Kdwin U. (Jlenn and Cant. .lames A. Kyan from duty and nriiiT t lioiii in Mniill'i 1a.ii.i..ii ? ..v...* t.w *' <11 ai?t i\/(inau uncMi gat ion into t heir conduct, inaccordanct wit li inst i net Ions to follow by mail. On the "Jit hot' March instructions were mailed you containing statement of charges against those olticers and (Sen. .laeoh 11. Smith as thehasis of the investigation ordered by the cable of March It h. Kurt her inst ruct ions in both matters are required by the following facts: Kress dispatchcsstate that upon tin trial of Ma.j. Waller, of the marine corps, testimony was given by Waller corroborated by other witnesses, t hat (Sen. Jacob 11. Smith instructed him t< killed and burn; t hat t he more he. killed and burned the better pleased (Sen Smith would he: that it was no time to take prisoners, and that when Maj Waller asked (Sen. Smit h to define t h< age limit for killing he replied "everything over ten." Ifsuch t esit imnnv vvios rrlvon mut o.c facts can be established, you will place Gen. Smit h on trial by court martial Yesterday before the senate commit tee on Philippine affairs Sergt. Charles S. Hi ley and Private Win. LcwisSmitl of t he Twonty-sixt h volunteer infantry testified that the form of torture known as the "water cures" was ad ministered to residents of the town e>f Igharras, Hollo province, Island ol Panay. by detachment of Eightecnt) United States infantry under com mand of Lieut. Arthur L. Conger, under orders of Maj. F. Glenn, than cap tain Twenty-fifth infantry, and that Captain and Assistant Surgeon Pal mcr Lyon, at that t line a cont ract stir genu, was present to assist t hem. The otlleers named, or such of them as are found to be responsible for the act will be tried thorefor by court martial Conger and Lyon are in this country. Both the Twenty-sixth volunteer in fantry and Eighteenth infantry having returned to the United States ane most of t he wit nesses being presump lively here, the secretary of war ell rects that Maj. K. E. Gleen, Twenty fiftli infantry, be directed to proccec to San Francisco and report to th< general commanding the depart ment o California with a view lo his trial hi courtmarlial under charges alleging the cruelties practiced by him upoi a native of the Philippine islands al igharras on the 27th of'.lunc, 1900. I you can discover any witnesses stll in the service of the Philippine island; who can testify in support of tlx charges, or if Maj. Glenn desires tin at tention of any persons now serving in the islands as witnesses for the de fense, you will direct them to proceed to San Francisco for that purpose. A? the two years allowed for the prose cut ion by the statute of limitations i< nearly at an end no time is to lie lost. You will take such course in advancing or postponing the investigations pre viouslv ordered into the conduct o Gen. Smith and Maj. Glenn as shal l>c required to enable you to cxecut< these instructions. It is believed that the violations 01 law and humanity, of which th^s* cases, if true, are cxamaples, will prov< to be few and occasional and not t< characterize the conduct of the army generally in the Philippines; hut the fact that any such acts of cruelty and barbarity appear to have been done indicates the necessity of a most thorough, searching and exhaustive invest igat ion under t he general charges preferred by (iov. (lardener and you will spare no elTort. in the investigat ion already ordered under t hese charges, to uncover every such case which may have occurred and bring the offenders to just ice. The president desires to know in the fullest and most eircumstinitial manner ill 1 the facts, nothing being concealed, and no man being for any reason favored or shielded. For the very reason that the president intends to back up the army in the heartiest fashion in every lawful and legitimate method of doing its work, he also intends to see that the most rigorous care exercised to detect and prevent any cruelty or brutality, and that men who arc guilty thereof arc punished. (Ileal as the provocation has been in dealing with foes who habitually resort to treachery, murder and torture against our men, nothing can justify or will be held to Justify the use of torture or inhuman conduct of any kind on the part of the American army. Klilni Pool, Secretary of War. WADE HAMPTON S Farewell to II is < >I< 1 Soldiers From Ills l'ia/./.a I.nst May. When the Confederate Reunion wa> held in Columbia last May the old sol diers called on (Jeneral Hampton at litis home in a body. On that occasion lie made the following speech: My Coinifhlcs: I have indeed, as Maj. Hart has said, heard t hat Rebel yell often* before and when 1 heard it from my own men. from t he men whom I had t he honor to command. I knew that we were safe. I think it is oiu ! of the Rritish poets who said: "The kites know well The long league's swell That bids t he Roman's close.'' I might paraphrase this by saying: The Yanks knew well The Rebel yell That hade t he .lohnnics close. My old heroes, I hope it never will he forgot ten. I hope it will be trans. mitted to your children and to youi 1 children's children if not for them t( use to tell how it used-to ring from th< ' forests of Virginia, how it rang from (let tysburg to t he west, and how it always told of men who were willing t.c die for t heir sunt bland, to die for t rut h for honor, for manhood, for chivalrj l and for a great truth. 1 want you U ' try and teach to yonrehildren and U your children's children that ours was not a lost cause. 1 want you to tell . them that we were lighting for tin . right. (leorge Washington was a rebel . hut Lee was not. When Ureal Ih itaii recognized the independence of this country she did not recognize the independence of t ho United States, hut r of each sovereign State as independent and sovereign. There were Id inde , pendent and sovereign States. They founded tlds union and they had tin . right to withdraw from it whenevei r they el lose so to do. We were not sue| eessful it is not given to mortals t< i coniiimnd sueeess. Vou have dont I more you have deserved it. I And now in your decliningyears and . when mine have extended long be, yondthe period allot ted to man. you my old comrades, whom I loved, whom ; I trusted and with whom I felt as sah as I do now, I want to say to you all I that all the love you h;i\e given me has been more than reciprocated; that . all that I have ever been able to d< for you, for any one of you, or for Sout It j Carolina, has been more than repaid by the honors you have unsolicited , conferred upon me and by this tlx . crowning honor of my life. I may not see you again. I remember a story oi an old bishop who, when ready to re , t ire from public life, went to t he abliol I and said: "Father abbot, an old man whose . heart is broken by the storms of state is come to lay his weary bones amom ! you." That is a 11 I shall ask of South Car olina a few feet of earth where mj > kindred for six general ionsare rest ing . And I am proud to say that one 01 more of each generation, since tliej ! were known in South Carolina, hue . tilled a hlooeiy grave* for Soul h Carolina , (Applause.) I claim no e:redit foi . that. Kvery South Carolinian wlie . was t rue was willing to give his blewe I and his life for t lie old State. I an i sure that I was willing to elo so. I f think lean say so toyou,iny men , that I never turned my back nponarp . of you when your faces were turned to . ward theenemv. The greatest hOtlOl I f,k 1* uikii i n u iiuiiii^ lilt" Will WilS OIIC'l when I came upon a poor private wlic . was dying. I stopped beside him and . he said: " I am happy to die lighting . and I am proud to die lighting undei ? you." I pray (rod will bless you and wil ] give you peace and prosperity, give it to the old State, give it to each one oi . you and t hat you will go home and tel r your kindred that you have seen youi j old comrade and that he thanks tlien t 1 > I'iiliirh ir/\i i A Hominy Trust. 1 Details as to the organization of tin * American Hominy company has beer " made public. The company has i ! capitalization of $1,250,000 preferret ^ stock and $2,500,000 common stock I Kight big companies, mostly in th< f West, have Joined in the combination 1 Among the objects of tills corporatioi * are: To manufacture, produce, adap and pacpare, and to buy, sell and oth * erwisc deal or tralllo in liominy, lirew ' ers' grits, corn meal, feeds, sugar, oil: *1 and otlicr similar substances, and anj . and all products and by-products dc ! rived from corn and other grains anc * vegetable products and any mixture; . and compounds thereof, etc. ? liOCUHtH Coming. f John Klfroth Watklns, Jr., of Wash j ington says In the News and Courici that the 17 year locusts will reappeai f this year In 23 states of the union > coming as far south as North Carolina ? They haye appeared the last week it ) May every 17tli year since 1716. i,t ^i o CONWAY, S. C. A MONUMENT TO HAMPTON. Call Made on l lie Ci 11 zoiih of (lie ^ State for Subscript ion. The movement for the erection of a splendid monument to (Jen. Wade Hampton, to tie surmounted by an ^ equestrian statue' lias now been launched, and it is in good hands, m Camp Hampton, of Columbia, last week adopted the following resolution, which will be read with interest. Resolved, That for the purpose of erecting in tile city of Columbia an equestrian statue of the illustrousciti; /en and soldier Gen. Wade Hampton, Camp Hampton, U. C. V., invites sub- ' scriptions from all of the citizens of ' South Carolina, such subscriptions to v be sent to all of the daily papers of the (] State, to be by them acknowledged , from time to time as received and then flll'VVM Pfloil til t lio t rmiLUiein* 1?I Ira I committee herein provided for. e That the following named, survivors of I lie Confederate States army, are requested to act as "The Hampton Statue Central Committee," who shall 1 lie clothed with power t? receive the v funds subscribed for said statue, select i t he site for it in the city of Columbia, appoint sub-committee's and do till such other business as may he neces- ^ sary for the furtherance of the end in ' t view: | , First Congressional District Theo- j; doreC. Darker. i Second Col. .1. W Moore. u Third?D. II. Kussell. ' Fourth Col. .las. A. Iloyt. i Fifth?Col, .las. S. Hart. Sixth?Con. W. 10. .lames. Seventh?Col. A. C. Haskell. 1 That the I daughters of the ('onfed- o . cracy and all other organizations of y ladies in sympathy with the movement n througout the State, he and they are ' hereby requested to appoint auxiliary 1 i committees to co-operate in this sacred work of raising a titling memorial to our illlust riousand lamented cliieftain. M The resolutions were unanimously (. adopted. t v I The I'rONident'N \ isil. || [ A dispatch from Washington says r ) the president himself has declared to V . ids closest and best friends since his j' , return to Washington that the south- M . cm trip was of greater value to him n > from any standpoint from which it ji , may he viewed than lie can estimate, d Senator Lodge Is equally entiiuasiastic f< ' on the subject and 11 it? Massachusetts I ' senator declares that the whole nation ' j should be grateful to the State of j . tsouth Carolina Tor inviting the prsi- ,( dent to go to Charleston, so that tlie a i whole world might see the love, rcspcet r > and affection which the president of e the I'nited States encounters in any section of country lie may visit. Re- s< publican senators and representatives . of high standing in the party ranks do . not believe with the South Carolina republican organization that *thc president suffered political or personal s >! contamination while in Charleston, u ; On the contrary, the high minded men n of the republican and demotratic !' parties here in Washington agree t hat 11 President Roosevelt's visit to South .. | Carolina was a benefit to the whole ?. > nation, and it will go down in history ,, I as an undying example of what the <j ' pat riots of t his country mean when we ti say to the world that we arc a united y ' people. I1 i 1 Our Monument Injured. j| ' The Chat tanooga Times a few days V ago contained the following: "The !' i* recent storms have caused much dam. age to t he handsome South Carolina | monument at Chickamauga park. The monument erected to the South s J Carolinians who participated in the y ' battle of Chickamauga consists of a a ? huge bronze palmetto tree on a marhie base. The winds and storms have 11 xt Pinned 1 tie l?rr?nvr? ln'i nn,l u,./.!,,... ' r I' I' ^ v.<w ./twiimy 1VI1TU1 (UIU IllUnUH o(T three limbs of tlie tree. Part of ( r the bronze is lying on the ground by (. ' the monument, while the restof it has | > evidently l?een carried away. The e marble esplanade around the monu- i1 ' ment has also been cracked 1 | and seriously damaged. Unless re- I1 , pairs arc made at once the handsome I monument erected only a short time y , ago will be ruined." The governor's j r attention has been called to the mat- , ter, and has taken it up with (Jen. h Walker and other members of the coin- a 1 mission. h > ii A Fatal Fire. P 1 Mrs. Wallace E. King, her niece and 11 two children were burned to death at 1 their home in Wallin a village near (.( t. Frankfort, Mich., Wednesday night. | f Those who perished were: Mrs. King, l 1 Vida King, aged 8 years, Verna King, a 1 aged (I, and Miss Anna King, a niece, ' 1 aged 18. Beulah; the 3-year-old a. daughter, was thrown from an upper ^ window bv her mot her and saved The , four bodies were recovered Thursday s , morning burned to a crisp. The lire t t originated in Kind's general store, li j over wldch his family lived. It had v obtained such a start when discovered j that the bucket brigade, which quick- (* ly formed, could do nothing to check j \ it. Mr. King, wlio was township t] I treasurer, was not at home Wednesday a night, lie had gone to Copemlsh to \\ . deposit the township funds that he v s had collected. Misfortune pursued a . him even 4m the trip for he lost his e coat with $175 In the pocket. (l i !' An Old Man. * 1 (ieorge Gwinn, of Huntington, Tex., a negro, 102 years old, has o founded a numerous family. He is c - the father of 17 children, all of whom v r arc living. lie has 140grandchildren, v p 10 greatgrandchildren and :t great- * , great-grandchildren living, making \ . the total membership of his family a l 200. Several grandchildren have a died. a WU I , THURSDAY, AIM HISTORIC LETTERS Vhich Passed Between Oen. Sherman and Gen. Hampton fUST BEFORE THE WAR CLOSED. Phut I?r Ci'tK'ial Hampton Cut-rod9 ly Volot'H I lu? Spirit of Its Author iiimI In Now of I llll'I't'Ht. The following corrcs|R)ndence bewcon Hampton and Shonnan passed nto history years ago, hut. the letters till he read with peculiar interest to lay, when the people of South Carte ina and the entire South arc mourn ng the death of one of their greatest hieftains and defenders. Union for- j gers had heen shot for dastardly outages u pon defenceless women, and the neidents called fort h Sherman's let t er k hieli was as follows: IIcadqiiarters in t he Field, February 21. isii.'i. Lieut. (Jen. Wade Hampton. Coniilanding ('avalry Forces, Confederal e i.i i?i . mil,) \ ii'iii'i ii i: 11 is < >iii(*i?| 11\ cported to medial our foraging par- ! ies are murdered after capture and Kindled "l>eat I) to all to ragcrs." < )iie list a uce of a lieut enant and seven men icar ('liest ervi lie, and a not her of t weny "near a ravine eighty rods from I lie uain road." about three miles from i Vast erville. I have ordered a similai iiiiuher of prisoners in our hands to he Is posed of in like manner. I hold bout 1,000 prisoners, eant tired in variiis ways, and can si alio it lis long as on. and would suggest that you give lot ice to I he people at large that e\er\ ife t aken by I hem simply results in lie death of one of your Confederates, i >f course, you cannot quest ion my ight to "forage on the country." it ( ; a w;ir right as old as history. The nanner of exorcising it varies \\ it li cirumstances, and if the civil author!les will supply my requisitions l /ill forbid all foraging. I'.ut I can ind no civil authorities who can espond to my calls for forage f provisions; therefore, I must eol ct directly of the people. I i nive no doubt this is the occasion of : nu ll misbehavior on thcpuit of our icii; inn i camioi permn iu? enemy lO udge or punish w it h wholesale miner. Personally I regret the hitter cling engendered by this war, hnt hey were to he expected, and I simp-I allege that those who struck I lie j rst blow and made war inevitable ngld not in fairness t". reproach ns; or the natural consequences. I merely j ssert onr war right to forage and my esolve to protect my foragers to the' xtent of life for life. I am, with respect, your obedient rvant. \V. T. Sherman, fajorGeneral United States Army, 'o t his (Jen. Hampton replied: Headquarters In t lie Field, February lid, IHtifi. Major (Jen. W.T.Sherman, United > lat.es Army (ieneral: Your com-! uinicat ion of t he li It h instant reached 10 today. In it you state that it has ecu otllcially reported that your forag-1 ig parties are "murdered after cap-1 lire.'' You goon to say that you have ordered a similar number of prisoners i our hands to be. disposed of in like winner," that is to say, you have orered a number of i lonfederat e soldiers a tic "murdered." You characterize our order in proper terms, for the ublic voice, even in your own coiinry, where it seldom (lares to express Iself in vindicat ion of 1 rut h, honor, r just ice, will surely agree with you a pronouncing you guilty of murder f your order is carried out. before ismissing t his port ion of your let ter beg to assure you that for every solier of mine "murdered" by you I hall have executed at once two of ours, giving in all cases preference 1o nyotlicers who may tie in my hands. In reference to the statement yon nake regarding the death of your formers, 1 have only to say that. 1 know lOthing about it; that no orders given iy me ant horizes t lie killing of prisonrs after capture, and t hat I do not brieve t hat my men killed any of yours, xeept under circumstances in which I was perfectly legitimate and proper hat, they should kill them. It. is a art of the system of the thieves, /horn you designate us your foragers, o lire the dwellings of those cit izens .horn they have robbed. To check his inhuman system, which is justly xecrated by every civilized nation, I ave directed my men to shoot down II of your men who are caught, burnig houses. This order shall remain ti force as long as you disgrace the rofession of arms i>y allowing your ion to (lest roy private dwellings. Vou say that I cannot, of course, nest ion your right to forage on t he ountry "it is a right as old history." do not, sir, quest ion t his right. Ihit here is a right older even than this, nd one more Inalienable the right, hat every man has t.o defend his home nd to protect those who are deponent, upon him; and from my heart I fish that cverv old man and l?nv in iy country who can lire a gun would hoot down as lie would a wild beast., lie men who aredesolat ing t heir land, urning t heir homes and insult ing t. hell /onion. You are particular in delining and laimlng "war rights." May I ask if on enumerate among these the right o lire upon a defenceless city wit hout lOticc; to burn that city to the ground fter it had been surrendered by the rihahitants, who claimed, though in aln, that protect ion which Is always' ccordod in civili/ed warfare to nonohatants; to lire the dwelling houses f fiti/ens after robbing them; and to icrpetrate even darker crimes than hese crimes too black to be mcnioned. You have permitted, If you have not rdered, the commission of t hese ofTcnes against humanity and the rules of rar; you ft red on the city of Columbia without a word of warning; after its urrender by the mayor, who demandd protection to private property, you aio the whole city in ashes, leaving .midst Its ruins thousands of old men ,nd helpless women and children, who ,re likely to perish of starvation and k 1 y. m Ueval ill. 24, 11M>2. exposure*. Your line of march can l>< traced by tho lurkl light of burning houses, and in more t han one household there is now an agony worse than that of death. Tho Indian scalped his vlct iin regardless <*1 ago or sox, but willi all his barbarity lie always respected I tie persons of his female cap lives. Your soldiers, more savage than l lie I ndian, insult those whost out uraI protectors are absent. I n conclusion I have only to re.iiiest that whenever you have any of m\ men "murdered" or "disposer! of," fot the terms appear synonymous with you, you will let mo lionrof it, that I may know what action to take in I tic matter. In t he meant hue I shall hold r>(> of your men its hostages for those you have ordered to he executed. I am yours, etc, NVitdo Hampton, Lieutenant General. >1 ost tic < 'rn/.j . from IviiMierford county, N. ( (uiics a report or one or the most unusual a Hails. A man lias made all pro| nations to commit suicide, and intends to make of it a gala occasion. Allen Cngsdoll is an aired, wealthy and very eccentric farmer of that section. It is said he has sent out Invitations to all of Ills numerous rela t Ives to at lend a Wig dinner which he intends to gi ve at his home on June to. The unique feature of the invitation, it Is said, is that it contains I he announcement that at the noon hour, sharp, those present are to have the plearure and experience the novel sensation of seelng Idm lake his own life. Mr Cogsdell is a Confederate veteran. In his invitation lie does not announce the method lie will employ in dispatching himself; hut lie is still the proud possessor of Ids old army revolver, and those who know him well are impressed with the belief that he will attempt to use the weapon upon himself. This Ik a <>oihI < Inc. A dispatch from St. Joseph Mo., says in the stomach of a steer slaughtered in a packing house there was found a diamond brooch worth *.">00 that was lost by Miss Margaret Carroll, of italtimorc, Md., I wo years ago. The steer was grown on the plains near Dodge City. Kan, Miss Carroll happened to he detained for a few hours at Kinsley, Kail., thirty miles from I lodge City while traveling wit.li a party of friends in a private car. Miss Carroll had taken a fancy to a baby on the train, and she had it with her in 1 lie observation end of the car. She bought the child a toy balloon to which the baby playfully attached the woman's diamond brooch. A gust of wind caused the ha loon to wrench 1.lie pin from its fasteing and il was ral l ied on, disappearing in I he western sky. A reward was olTered fur the re.eovery of t lie ornament, hut there was no trace of it until if was taken from the stomach of t he steer. Swallowed a I'ro^. A laitfc fro# was removed from a woman's stomach in St. Catherine's Hospital in Williamsburg N. V., the other day. The woman is Mrs. Charles Ihirtis of IIopwell Junction, near Mat.teawan; N. V. She had been suffering from a trouble which halllcd her physicians for some time. If was finally decided that an operation for appendicitis would i)e advisable, and siie was taken to the Williamsburg liospital. A Fishkill, N. V., doctor performed the operation, wldcli revealed that she was not suffering from appendicitis, but the doctors did discover and remove from her stomach a live frotf, said to have I teen live indies lontf. It. is supposed that she swallowed Hie fro# when it was very small, while she was drinking water. I'iinhIiik .Away. The Columbia Stiite says the pension clerk is busy making out the revised pension rolls fur the further act ion of the State board of pensions next week, it was announced Thursday that while there would be a considerable increase in the total number of pensioners on t his year's rolls, t.ho ilWH'/thUh \A/ill to d l.n ne VIIV 1IIVI viiiiv "III II' '\J MO Id I m; expect I'd. Many names have been dropped by the Slate board from tin; lists sent in, and there are about 2">0 that will Ik-taken olT by reason of the deat h of the pensioners. This is a much larger annual death rate than has heretofore been prevailing, and shows in cold figures how rapidly those who helped to light the south's battles are passing away. \ < Moho < 'all. Four assistants to an undertaker suddenly dropped a colli 11 t licy were carrying out of the Patterson, N. J., Jail door, when the supposed corpse broken open the lid and sat up and in vociferous Italian said he was not dead, lie was Alexander Sca/.ellet, imprisoned for some slight offense. He had been called in the morning, but did not respond and could not lie aroused. The jail otllcials wore informed and sent for a physician who i>i < mi mi i ii'cu tin* man ueau. I lie undertaker was sent, for, 1 ut was finally not needed. ' < an'l l!i- Itemnvcd. .lud^c Buchanan has declined to Kraut the petition for the removal of the case brought hy the State against the Virginia-Carolina, Chemical company for violation of the State antitrust act from the State to the t'nlted States court, and other moves of interest in tiie now famous proceeding are expected in short order. The case was heard hy Jud^e Buchanan in ('olutnhia on Thursday. (tol II In Pay. Lieutenant Commander l'otts, whe testified that Schley showed the white feather at the battle of Santiago, am who Is the only man alive that evei saw Schley scared, has been rewardet for his loyalty to the navy clique hj the appointment of naval attache at Berlin, Borne and Vienna. This i: one of the softest snaps in the tflft o the department. WEATHER AND CROPS. : 1 i lie (iriMMTil Hack witriliii'nn of tin1 Si'iison Suvcn lli<* Crop*. The second weekly bulletin of the season of t he condit ion of t lie weather and crops in Sout h Carolina was Issued last week by 1Mrector bailer of the | Sont li ('arolina sect ion of t be climate and crop service of the 1'idled States weather bureau. It is as follows: The early part of the week ending Monday, April It, was unseasonably cold, with heavy frost and thin ice in exposed places to within about MO miles of tlie coast, on the tub. The close of t be week had about normal temperature. Light frosts occurred in t lie nort It west ern port ions on the l(tb land I ltli. The frosts of the week nipped some corn, yellowed some oats, 'probably injured peaches slightly in places, hut otherwise did no material damage, owing to the backwardness j of the season. On the Ttb. there was a benetlclal rain that covered the entire State, laud ranged In amounts from one-t hird to iivrr an Inch. In places it was accompanied by hall. There was a snow tinny hi Newberry county on the Nth. The sunshine was about normal. 11 igh winds ptcvailcd on the Nth and nth. The week was generally favorable for farm work, and rapid progress was made in preparing lands for spring planting, except on iKittom lands, which are still too wet to plow. In the southeast ern and east-cent ral counties corn planting is nearly tinished and much is up to poor stands, while some has been replanted. IilrtIs and cut worms have Injured stands. In the central counties upland corn planting is well under way, while over the western It has only begun. Not much cot,ton has been planted anywhere, scarcely any in the western portions of the Slate, hut over the eastern portions the hulk of the crop will he planted during the present week. Uicc is being planted, in all the regions where grown, under favorable oondit ions. Tohacco plants are plentiful hut small; transplanting will not hex in for some time. Truck had favorable weather, the rainfall bavin# been particularly beneficial along t lie coast. Wheat is generally promising, although small, with, however, numerous exceptions, where the crop Is poor. Oats are exceedingly variable in condition, with only a few localities, where the crop is entirely satisfactory. (Jardens arc backward. Pastures tilTord grazing over the eastern portions of the State only. Fruits are late In blooming, and the majority of correspondents regard It as safe to date, hut in Lexington county and a few other localities peaches have been materially injured hut not all killed. li. i 11<-11 I?y an Aiiui'cliiMt. The I Russian minister of tlie interior, M. Sipiaguinc, was shot and fatally wounded at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in the lobby of the ministerial otllces at St. Petersburg by a man who held a pistol close to the minister's person. The wounded man died at p. in. The assassin of M. Sipiaguinc is a student, who gained access to the building disguised in the uniform of an aide do camp. Me met the minister on the main staircase and emptied a revolver into his hody at close range. The assassin was immediately arrested. The assassin did not resist arrest, lie said ids name was Halsahanstt, that lie was a student at KieiT, where he had been sentenced to compulsory military service for participating in the riots of Itutl. lie said lie had subsequently heen pardoned, but that he had not been reinstated at the university and that he therefore revenged himself upon M. Sipiagulne. A Georgia Yarn. According to the Augusta Herald I'.ett le Chancey, an old white woman who lives near Athens, (Ja., Is the owner of an old mule of the genuine l!.......-I I..?~ ... uu;i^ia v.nifty. A It'W (lays since she went out to curry the animal, whose hair had remained undipped for some time and was probably three inches long. While currying tlio old inul?> site noticed that about half the hair on his tail had been clipped oil close to I lie skin. Tlie mule kept switching his t ail towards Ids back as ,! if something bothered him. The old woman began to make, a close inspection of the animal, and discovered the | trouble. A small rat has gnawed the hair oil' the mule's tail and had carried it on top of his back near the , hips. There is a little hollow on the : mule's back; the Industrious rat bad , woven t he hair into a neat nest and was resting in tlie snug homo pleasantly and securely when the old wo! man ran him out. Too Scnuillve. It is reported from Toklo that the ollleer, Yamow (iowsky, who was in charge of the battalion of .Iapaoe.se troops, 200 of whom lost their lives in a snowstorm, has committed suicide hy poisoning himself. The cause Is stated to he that Ills father, a very ' old and respected soldier, wrote re: proaching Ids son with having lost 200 brave men and being saved himself. llrnrtiiK Fruit. ) The Washington correspondent ol | the Columbia State says because of inI formation gained on his Charlestor r trip President Roosevelt will renoml I nate Miss Maggie M. Moore to tin r j postortlce at Yorkvllle, S. C. Miss , Moore was originally appointed bj ? President Cleveland in 1893. She wai f j not endorsed by the State llepublicai J machine. NO. 539. WILL BENEFIT I S. That Is What Is Said of the Presidents Visit to THE CHARLESTON EXPOSITION President ItooNCvell Will Not t'orKCt IIIm Visit, ami the Wlmlc South Will Im? Benefitted by It. Of course President Roosevelt's trip to Charleston, says the Washington correspondent of the Columbia State, I was a success, the occasion for the heartiest demonstrations from South I Carolina wherever lie went, and a genuine pleasure to the distinguished : visitor himself. There doubtless were some people in Washington who douhted that this would he the ease. Rut the number did not include any of the South Carolina colony. No one who knew anythingaliout South Carolinians douhted for an instant that as the Sliest of Charleston and South I Carolina the president could have received other than the treatment he did, and certainly no heartier welcome could have heen tendered him | than that which marked his entire I stay within the borders of the State. However, so much has heen said and i written about the president's visit in ! I lie elTort to L'ive some ndeiomt of t he absolute success of every detail that there Is imminent danger of "slopping over" in attempting any other effusions along tliis line. What Is perhaps the most ^ratifying result of the whole affair was the opportunity given the people of South Carolina to show themselves to the president and thereby to the nation, not as have for a number of years been "misrepresented" to Ik;, but as they really are.. The happy result is that a number, a very largo numiier, of people here are waking up to tlie fact that they have been led ast ray in their estimate of the State by a series of unfortunate incidents within the past few years which were inevitably saddled on the people of South Carolina as a whole. The way in which Charleston and the people of the State generally opened their hearts and wanted to open their hands to tiie president has completely revolutionized public opinion, as it is retleeted in the mirror of the nation, as Washington undoubtedly is, in regard to South Carolina. And no one Is more directly responsible for thischango of sentiment than Is the president himself. Since returning to tiie White House President Roosevelt has taken occasion to express to unite a number of senators and representatives his personal gratification at the warm welcome given him at Charleston. It is understood, too, that tiie president lias alluded with especial pleasure to the crowds that greeted him at the various places along the route, notably the tremendous crowd at Columbia, and their demonstrations as evidencing how general and representative of the entire State was tlie heart ly refront.inn toiuior<ut v,.- ?*,?,. c. wlmviih linn. ?-,,u nan LIIU president at all misinterpreted the true meaning of the cordiality shown 1 him. Indeed, it is understood, that to a number of Republicans who have been to White House to talk over his 1 trip to Charleston the president em1 phasized the fact that ho appreciated all the more the demonstrations , called forth by his appearance all along the line because of the vast difference politically which he realized existed between himself and the people whose guest lie was. Hut while the president has taken as it was meant that he should take the demonstrations in his honor as being utterly devoid of any political significance, it is generally admitted that ids visit to Charleston will not lie without its effect on him in the political dealings he will have with the south during the remainder of his administration as the chief executive of the nation. Not only has South Carolina been the gainer by becoming personally acquainted with Mi. Roosevelt, ' but, as he said In one of his speeches, and as he repeated many times since returning to the White House, "1 am a lietter American for my visjt." It is of course rather early to point to any tangible results of the president's | visit to South Carolina, but as a prominent Republican senator put it today, one who is a close friend to the president, "President Roosevelt during his trip to South Carolina has learned to know her people as he had never known them before, and lie may iutniHo/1 /v?* # WIIIIIVH ??II III11/ III Mil-gut 1 111' III. What a Hqtiasli Llttcri. A WO 11 I/h/tU/h of ii/lrtiif /vtf , .. ..V.I .........I OIUUVIII/ U1 Hill II I'l* I once tried tiie growing force of a squash. When it was 18 days old and measured 27 inches in circumference lie fixed a sort of harness around it, with a long lever attached. The pow; er of the squash was measured by the weight It lifted; the weight j being Mxed to the lever. When It was 20 days old, two days after the i harness was fixed on it, it lifted 00 pounds. On the nineteenth day it lifted 5,000 pounds. Five at a llirth. Isaiah Rhodes, of bailey's Gap, i Ulster county, N. Y., amnion need Wednesday that his daughter, Mrs. 5 James McCowan, aged 28, of Tucker's i corners, a hamlet In Ulster county, / recently gave birth to five children, ? all girls, and that all are doing well, i Mrs. McCowan's other children area | son and a pair of twins.