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t V VOL. XVII. / REMARKABLE SCENE. Senator Ben. Til man's Retact to Senator Redlleld Proctor. ON THE FLOOR OF THE SEN TE. The S|?rinylleld, Muhm., Republican Streswew the Incident to tlio l)it*ad vantage nl* <lie New EiiKlandcr. A remarkable episode Is embedded in the Congressional Record of .January 29. Let us observe the scene it presents. The senator from Vermont, Mr. Proctor, had the lloor. He is a fair representalivc of New England. Debating with him was the senator from South Carolina, Mr. Tillman, who happens to he more associated in the public mind with the defense of lynch law than any other senator. Senator Tillman has often justified violent acts toward tin? negro race. These facts tend to make the encounter between New England and South Carolina on the lloor of the senile impressive, for the subject under discussion was peculiarly an issue of lawlessness and even savagery. The senator from New England had read to the senate the statement by Capt. Cornelius M. Drowned, late captain of Co. K. 26th volunteer infantry, confessing and justifying his act in torturing to death the insurgent Filipino priest known as Father Augustin. The statement was read in full, and the remarks that followed were made with full knowledge of Capt. Drownell's declarations. Drowned gave a detailed description of the torture, which is absolutely forbidden by the articles of war under which the United States army is governed during hostilities, and which the world regards as a crime against civilization. Some extracts may serve to show the character of Capt. Brown*, ll's operations: Knowing that there was on deposit in the city of iloiloa large sum of money awaiting his order at the mercantile house of Huskyn & Co., the banking houses of the liong-kong and Shanghai banking corporation, and the Iianquo Espanol, I insisted that lie would be obliged to deliver orders for tills money to me. The time given him having expired without result, lie was brought into my presence and that of other ofllcers and enlisted men and told that he would be blindfolded and the water cure administered until he acceded to my request. The water cure was administered for a short time. lie still insisted that it belonged to the pope at Rome The cure was continued. Under this physical torture, which was applied three times, the priest 11nally signed the orders for the payment of the money which was In the various banks. But Capt. Brownell was not satisfied, lie then demanded that the priest disclose the hiding place of one Quintin Salas. Now came the final tragedy, which under any possible Interpretation of military law was murder: lie (the priest) was In a dejected mood, despondent, thoroughly discouraged. He told me that he had better be dead, and wished he might die. . . . I give him until a certain hour to con sider whether he would disclose this hiding place or not. At the expiration of tills time lie declined to disclose Salas' whereabouts. 1 finally ordered that the cure be again administered to him and stepped into an adjoining room. In a very short time ... 1 was warned by a disturbance in the room where the prisoner was that something wasj wrong and upon entering the room the man was dead. Never, of course, was there a clearer case for a physician in determining the cause of a death. Father Augustin died under torture. Vet, according to Capt. 1 frown ell's statement, the post surgeon immediately came in, looked at the corpse, and decided that the priest had died from "fatty degeneration of the heart, and from complete collapse and mental anguish over the exposure of his criminal life." That was the surgeon's little Joke, but it was of the sort of humor that may best be described as mockery. Now, the United States senate, having heard all these facts as related by Hrowncll, was then a listener to this remarkably prevertcd or remark ably impudent expression of the captain's views on his own case: .. 'Plie water cure was administered ,by my order several times to different natives. ... I do not and never have believed it cruel or barbarous in any manner, and whenever it became necessary, in my judgment, to administer it, the men chosen for that duty were chosen with a view to having only intelligent, careful, humane men perform the operation. Senator Rcdfield Proctor when the reading had ended, stood on his feet and said: "I propose to make a defense of Capt. Hrownell. In his position he was fully justified in baking any~t*teps he snw proper for the safety of hiV^command. Father Augustin might naive been tried by a drumhead ^ court ma ftklal and shot or hung." And that was >?%iw England speaking in defense of hidteous torture, which resulted in munfltar, as a means of warfare. Up arose/"whom? The senator from South Carolina, and he aimed at the ftewV Knglander a thrust that should havJcut to his soul: ^ "If the senalty" wil1 permit me, I have only to say iJhat for the honor of the American ri^publlc and the honor J I of the American army, I would to (iod Father August in had been shot by order of a drumhead courtmartial rather ' than be tortured to death to #et the : money from him." It may be repeated that this was a reinarKaoie scene in the i nlted Suites senate. A New Euglander Justifying both torture and lawlessness in the army; a South Carolinian, who often defends lynch law at home, rebuking with withering irony and crushing force tlie New England "conscience." i Mr. l'roctor'sbold defense ol lirownell was an abomination which assails the whole structure of law and order, not to say simple humanity, in ills own count ry; and it seems like an inspiration that of all senators Mr. Tillman should have faced the Vermonter with that terrilic retort. -Springtleld (Mass.) Republican. A BIO FEE. ! \ Young Kentucky Lawyer Who Kli-uck It llicli. A young Kentucky lawyer, Captain C. C. Calhoun of Lexington, lias recently grown rich from a single fee. Captain Callioun, as the special attorney for the state of Kentucky, recently delivered to the state authorit ies a certilied check on the United States treasury for $1,323,909.86. The Louisville correspondent of the. Chicago Chronicle says: "lie got tlie money due to the state for equipping union soldiers during the civil war. A year ago Captain Calhoun, a poor, tint bright young lawyer, appeared before Governor Beckham and said that much money was due the state from the government. The governor said: i li /i~n. 1 w 11 iiKui, v .1111<m111, i ii appoint* you to represent the state and if you collect you may get a fee of 10 per cent*. Young Calhoun was without funds, but he set to work at his task : and spent many months in Washington looking through musty records of the civil war claims. After weeks of tedious work he secured facts and guides which proved that the government did owe the commonwealth of Kentucky the amount named. He then set to work to have the claim allowed. Tile proof was so positive that he succeeded in having the claim included in the general deficiency bill, i which was passed by congress and signed by the president last week, and Captain Calhoun's fee, which will be paid to him, amounts to $1112,400. Captain Calhoun has just married and will purchase a big blue grass farm near Lexington, lie will continue to practice law, however ^ . A Now Ittvor Bout. Mr. W. H. Smith Whaley and other oUlcers of the Olymphia, Granby and 1 Richland cotton mills and also eon- * nee ted with the Columbia and George- i town steamboat company, have closed a contract with the Stevens Merrill ' engineering company of Jacksonville, Fla.. for the construction of $10,000. steel-bulled freight boat to bo ready by November 1. The boat will be used for carrying cotton goods to Georgetown for shipment to northern points and 11 Is estimated that freight rates will be reduced from II cents: per hundred to .'10 cents per hundred. The boat will be a double-decker, having a capacity of 200 bales and draw three feet of water. The name will be Wnal>ln..l/.? \ .. . i- - ... 11 >ioi1111^iimj j\. v>iaii\ <11 bur 1,1 h; presi- j dent of the Carolina National bank of tliis city who lias always been prominently identified with Columbia's progress. Uho of I n.j unet Ioiih. I). F. Mradly, president of the Iowa college, submits to an Iowa paper two questions, as follows: J. If a Judge may enjoin union labor from ordering a strike, why may he not upon application enjoin capitalists against reduction of wages, or other acts alleged to be oppressive to labor? 2 If it is good law for Foiled States courts to intervene in behalf of interstate railroads why is it not good law for tlie same courts to redress grievan ;cs of employes engaged in interstate commerce? The Sioux City Journal in reply to these questions says that "the obvious answer in both queries Is that an injunction in one case would be just as logical as in the other." And yet we do not recall an instance where a federal judge lias applied the writ of injunction in this way to corporations. A Cruel Practice. Docking horses, cutting their tails off, is an abominal habit among fashionable people in the large cities. The Societies for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals often cause the i arrest of poor men dependent upon their dally labor for a living, who are found driving a bruised or sore horse or with too heavy a load on the wagon, but we have never heard of their causing the arrest of a fashionable man or woman for driving a bobtailcd s horse, deprived of his iKist defense against pestiferous files. They Can Htrlke. A dispatch from St. Louis says the ( injunction issued March 3, by Judge Elmer It. Adams of the United States , district court, at the instance of the Wabash Railroad company officials to MAflf ?Al.. L~ I ? * I ?- -1 - " ? * M milai i uuu orutiifriiouas 01 itauway Trainmen and Firemen from ordering a strike on that system, was dissolved Wednesday in a decision handed down ' by Judge Adams, a week after tin1 hearing of arguments for and against ! the removal of the legal obstacle. A IIIk Strike. I Ten thousand bituminous coal < miners in Indiana are on strike Wed- < nesday but the operators and the i miners' leaders believe a settlement will be readied before many hours ? through the inlluence of John < Mitchell, who will confer with the ( operators. The operators contend i that the miners should accept last c year's contract. fa J ; ' ' fai ' CONWA1 WARMLY WELCOMED. I The Charleston People Receive Senator Tillrnan With Open Arms A BATCH OF YOUNG DOCTORS. The Senulor DoIIvci'n the Annual AtltlrcMM >it tlie CiradnatiiiK Hsi'i" cIhom to a liiti'KO ami Ciiiliuvasiic Audience. Senator Tillman had a hi# time in Charleston last week, lit; arrived there Wednesday having gone for the purpose of delivering the address at the commencement exercises of the South Carolina Medical college Thursday night at the academy of music, lie was met at the depot hy 1 >r. 1?\ L. Parker, tlie dean of the faculty, Mayor Smyth and Mr. Henry 1*. Williams, cashier of the Carolina Savings ; hank, who entertained him at Ids j handsome home on JOast Mattery. Tlie senator was driven directly to Mr. Williams' home, lie received a numof callers during the dav and was taken for a drive over the city and suburbs hy Mayor Smvth Wednesday 1 .1 ft Ilo was asked for a statement on the Issues of the day, especially the appointment of the licitio collector of t lie j port and other matters on which lie would lie expected to talk, but he turned the newspaper men down completely, saying that, lie would have to be excused from being interviewed, lie explained that ho had come to Charleston in response to the invitation of the college, and the attention which was being shown him was all very much appreciated, but be preferred not to make any public state- J moots at this time. Senator Tillman was the guest of Mayor Smyth at a private dinner Wednesday evening at t tie Charleston hotel. Only a few specially invited friends and the members of city council were present. i Senator Tillman was taken in a ; special trolley Thursday to the Charleston navy yards, being accompanied , by the park commissioners and a number of the aldermen and the mayor, lie manifested much interest in the . work. He expressed the opinion, however, that he did not think that ( the contractors were making the pro- , per progress but he added that they probably knew their business better , than himself. The senator refused ' all other invitations for entertain- ( mcnts Thursday explaining that lie , needed rest to have him in lit condi- ( tion to speak. ' On Thursday night the annual com- ; moneement exercises of the Medical } College of South Carolina were held, , when the degree of doctor of medicine .. was conferred upon twenty men and \ two women, doctor of pharmacy on j one candidate and diplomas of gradua- ( tion in pharmacy on twenty-two | young men. i ne exorcises were of , more than the usual interesting char- ( acter on account of Senator Tillman , delivering the annual address. ( The Academy of Music seats 1,000 j people, but the building was inade- I , piate to accommodate the crowd and | many people were turned away from | the doors. The graduating classes ( were not only very large tills year, but ( were also noted for their excellent ( scholarship. The exercises were op- , cued with an invocation by Rev. Dr. .1. A. R. Scherer of St. Andrew's f Lutheran church. The annual report | of the dean, Dr. F. L. Parker, was ^ then read, after which MaJ. Theodore | G. Darker of the board of trustees, j conferred the degrees, presenting the ccrflllcatcs to the following graduates: ; Graduates in medicine: Drs. G. I'. ( Ackerman, Cottagevllle; .1. W. Durn. . Charleston; JO. 1'. Carter, Ehrhardt; ( II. M. Carter, Smoaks; F. C. Clark,Co- \ lumbia City, Ind.; J. 1'. DuPre, Mt. . Pleasant; F. M. Duram, Dlackstock: < W. 10. Eh rich, Georgetown; T. F. ( Hogg, Thomas F. Johnson, Charleston; J. C. Lawson, Darlington; M. It. McMillan, Charleston: M. O. Mauldln, IMckens; F. J. McKinley, Mount Pleasant: J. G. McMaster, Wlnnsboro; A. K. l'rentiss, Charleston; D. L. Smith, ' Anderson; 'P. C. Stone, Greenville; J. ' F. Townsend, Jr., Edisto island; A. 1 M. W vle. Chester. 1 Graduates in pharmacy: Ralph II, N Daer, Anthony P. Deck man, Francis ' II. Hold, David .1. Purns and 10. J. 1 Conner, Charleston: Alex Clyde 101- :l lerlie, Conway; J. Leonard Hogan, Rldgeway; Denjamln Franklin Mc- ' Lend, Clio; Crocket II. McMurray, J ijunuiovi/ii u^ui^u i.?, .?ierrii>i< unn ivi, 1 It. Monscn, Charleston; Hughes A. ( Moorcr, St.Oeorges; Manning L.Ncl ' son and (). L. Owens, Charleston; Dan L. Hhiclder, St.Oeorges; Andrew {l M. Smith and Km est E. Smith, Char- ( lesion;.!. Henry Stonecypher, West- J minster; J. G. Wannamakcr, .Jr., ' Orangeburg; II. L. Wecker, Char- v leston, and It. Sumter Williams. ( Sumter. Doctor of pharmacy; .!. Herbert I Uirnam, Charleston. The college cup was then presented s bo Dr. W. J. Smith by J'rof. Forrest ' vnd the medal for pharmacy to Mr. C. 1 M. McMurray by Prof. A Hard Mem- r mingcr. The medal for practical work * n pharmacy was presented to Mr.lt. v II. Hacr. The valedictories were par e blcularly pleasing efforts, being dellv- u jred by Messrs. MoKlnlcy and Lucas b >f the medicine and pharmacy classes, s respectively. g Senator Tillman then delivered the 'J mnual address, speaking on the modi- v jal profession. His address was an 'J specially line one and he was given v ntciested and close attention through- d )ut. lie was well received and was 1< fenerously applauded. b OVVII i\ 8. C., THURSDAY The tlrsb six honor men in medicine are Drs. \V. J. SmitIt. Clark. Ackerman, Ehrieh, McMillan and Prentiss. The last two are women. The. honor , graduates in pharmacy are M esse is. McMurruv, Williams and lluer. Tl I.I..M AN U.VNqU KTTK 1?. Senator Tillman was entertained in Charleston Friday night at one of the j most elaborate banquets ever given in Charleston, at which he received a ; tremendous ovation, lie was most liberally applauded throughout his speech, which like all his utterances, was right to the point. As The News and Courier puts it he tore the bark oil", lie went back into recent politi- ; eal history and told of the conditions. I which he considered so grave that II was necessary to organize a farmers' movement so that men who paid the ex- t peuses of i lie State should operate it. . and then lie turned to his experiences, political and otherwise, with the peo* 1 pie of Charleston. j ' Impressing great love and admlra- 1 tion for the town, he said it was ncocs- i sary for the younger element to pull . together to regain the commerce , which is now going to other ports, j. lie took off the gloves in speaking of , t he selfw horship of the city and de- , dared that if Charleston ever ad- ( vaiuvd it would lie through the elTort j of the men with whom he was dining | Friday night. Touching on the Crtim appointment lie said tliat. it had heen , made, that the negro was put into t one of the most important Federal , oil loos and that it was best to keep , harping on the matter and wait until ' the next session of the Senate, when ( every power would he used to have ' him rejected. s A DREADFUL ACCIDENT. \ Ily Whlcli Two Men Arc Killed by an ( A utoniubllo. t Count Elliot Zborowskl of New York 1 was killed Wednosay in an automobile J hill climbing race between Nice and | La Tnrbin in France. Ills ehalTeur, i Haroti do I'allange, was seriously in- ;i Jured. Tiio accident occurred during \ one of the I rials along what is known us the cornichc stretch. .1 list at t he i ir.'olwOIit the vehicle readied ab Iibrupl' t angle the car struck a small rock in v the pathway, causing a sudden swerve a which precipitated the two men a against a wall. Zborowski appears to v have struck headfirst, as his skull was a smashed in by the violence of the s shock. Although the baron was also v hurled against the wall lie did not t strike on his head. The body of Count 11 Zborowski was brought to the chapel s of Lis chateau here and his wile was t untitled. When she arrived at the ti diapel an affecting scene took place. Hie trip Wednesday was the llrst d Zborowski had made over the route p ind lie was not acquainted with its c Id turiirc I I i u ? ??%*? -"I" - ? * ........... a 1,-f IIIUVIIIIIi; >1 U.-? K'""K ill I i speed of 00 kilometres an hour at Lin; time of the accident. Huron de l'allange, who acted as Jount Ziborowski's chafTcur, died Wednesday night of tlie injuries lie received when lie was thrown from the car. The witnesses of the start of [he race say that Zborowskl showed considerable nervousness while awaitng his turn. Imprudently, he wore white kid gloves, which prevented dm from having a firm grasp of the ireak. At the signal to go, iie started at half speed, which was soon increased to lull speed. The accident xccurred at the first turning of the ( oad. The shock was terrific and Zborowskl was shot from Iris car and truck the wall beside the road with ds head about six feet from the ground. He fell to the ground dead 11s arms outstretched. Haron de Hallange was thrown to the left. At the same instant that Count Zborowskl and Haron de Pallcngc met jheir death, another accident occurred it another point on the road. The chain of Haron Gasteux's automobile irokc and the car was overturned igalnst the rocks. The baron and his chatTeur were thrown out, but both escaped with severe bruises. A MarvelousChild. " The London Daily News tells about lie most precocious child that ever Ived. His name was Christian Iclncckcr and lie was born atLubeck, 182 years ago. At the age of ten nontlis he could repeat any word that vassaid to him: when twelve months lid lie. know lii/ linnrt. t.li? m-lnolrxil pi.l<UI|>UI ivents narrated in the Pentateuch, s ind In ids second year lie learned to '' ep'*at the greater part of the Old and 11 S'ew Testaments. In his third year n ic seems to have known rather more r 11 story and geography than an average ' cabinet minister and before lie was K our lie was well read in church liistory a ind theology. It was at tills tender 1] ige that Christian went to the Court c >f Denmark, wiiere lie was hailed as a (' vonder. On his return home writing ? essons commenced, but tills ordeal s vas too much for him and at tlio age & >f four and a half years lie died. K 0 A Kteuincr Iiost. A telegram was received at Jackonville, T'la., Friday night from Capt. ohns of the ill-fated steamer John J. p (ill, who, with six of his crew were s( cscued hy the steamer Excelsior, ^ 'critics the report that the steamer ;l vas lost together with live of her y rew o(T the coast of North Carolina r; in the night of April 1. The steamer a iclonged to the Cook-Cummee Steamhip company and carried a crew to- i :ether with oflicers numbering 1*>. i Che engineer and two of the crew, verc picked up by the hark Lillian. Che captain of the Hill says the ship vas broken up and abandoned, but Oes not state the cause. She was uaded with dressed pine lumber and ' ?oth steamer and cargo were Insured. I T. APRIL 9, 1908. A BIG STRIKE. Seventeen Tluusiuid Cotton Mill Hands Quit Work. WANTED A TEN TER CENT RAISE * ii I I Which \V?n Ki I'ihi'i! ami (lie | Strike Followed. The Cotton I Industry ol' Lowell In i i l'ltrnlized. A hlj; cotton mill strike is on at Lowell. Mass. A dispatch from that | ity to the Augusta Herald says Wed- t lesday morning, for the lirst time in 1 lyiny, many years, on working days, the hells of the milts have failed to rlnvr out their morning call. Streets vhieh are usually marked by the rush I md hustle of thousands of people liur yliiK to their work, are almost tie- ' ierted and a stillness pervades the nill district, of the seven mills j .vhlch have shut down four had praeically no help with which to operate heir plants Wednesday if their bells lad pealed for the call oT labor. Seven cotton mills closed by strike >f 17,000 operatives, who demand a ! en per cent increase in wa^es. Four : if the mills are in nood condition II-j laneially, while the others are not. !' These mills arc in a combine with the >t hers outside to keep down the waces. j The operatives are prolfered generous! dd from th?^ ot her mills in ot her cities ' ind the American Federation of /ibor. 'The progressive citizen would he {lad if the mills would go south and lever reopen here. They are the | urso ol tno city. The non-resident iwners keep out lhe other industries >y controlling tire sites and Hie magllticent water power. The prospect s for a long struggle. The state )oard of arbitration lias tried in vain ,o elTccfc a sett lement and will make j mother elTort to compromise on live | >cr cent increase if possible. In preference to lighting the textile minus the agents of seven big cotton nllls ordered an CtlHre suspension ol 11 vork for an indetinite period. Tliosf 'J[ gents have otlicially announced that ,| canvass of the help showed that upvard of 80 percent, were non-union. ,nd were opposed to a st rike. This |! entlmcnt changed Saturday, and vhen a second canvass was taken of he loom fixers, spinners, carders, ^ nippers, weavers and bcamers it was eeri that the textile council was able o fulfill its threat und strike In the ^ II ills. Without delay notices of a shut- * lown, to take etTect at once, were * losted on gates, and as piece hands ^ omplcted their work they were told 0 leave. When speed went down at oon Saturday fully 17,000 operatives ind been forced into idleness. The jngt li of the shutdown is problematic ,x a I, but Is likely to last many weeks, ' s the unions have been promised ll- j lancial support from the United Tex- j ile Workers of America, the National ^ lule Spinners' Association, the imericau Federation of Labor, and M| rom the loeal trades and lalior conn- j( ii, composed of 4f> unions. Agent W. S. Southwortli, of the j lassachusetts mills, secretary of the . Ianufactorers' Association, says that f the mill people t hink that the shutown will lie for a fortnight they are . rcatly mistaken, it, will last, lie ays, until the agents arc positively <>iu Liiiit an Liu* operatives want to jj /oik, and when this time comes the (| gents will consider the matter of ' csumption. President Conroy, of lie Textile Council, who stands as he m rike leader, says: "The action of the mill agents simlilies matters. They have simply nticipatcd us. If they had not dclared a shut-down we would have h led them up, any way, and they si now it. This makes it easier for us oi o handle the men. I can't say what h /ill happen. There may be trouble s^ et.'' nc The shut-down will affect primarily n lie 10,000 and more operatives. In a li lonth many hundreds of operatives f< a small industries supplying material t< o the big mills will Join the army of u he unemployed, and the longer the s< nforced Idleness the greater the par- o< lysis of industry here. r< Tiie area covered by the Massaehu- h ctts, Hoott, Merrimac, Tremont, Suf- l> oik and Lawrence mills is al>out one h aile in lengtii by tiiree-elghths of a tl alle in breadth, bordering on the Mer- st Imao river. The Applcton and lamilton mills are nearer tiie georaphical center and arc embraced in n area atiout half a mile square. The roductof these mills ranges from the r< oarsest of gray cotton to the finest of < '> ress goods, going through all grades '< f print cloths, sheeting, shirting, S ateens, nainsooks, dimities, blankets, a oweling, table linen and silk-warp c< oods. The weekly payroll is $138,- ai 00. ol a< Too True. jf The Columbia State says: "The c< resident, the preident's wife, the tl resident's daughter, the president's tl ?n - all of them must Ik; followed by b lie newspaper men and their every tl ct reported to an anxious country, b /hat a delightful inconsistent democ- e< icy of royalty-lovers we Americans '1 re!" b To Cur Take Laxative Brom Seven Million boxes sold in past 12 moi [ y* SHOT THE TEACIIET,. \ Striking Ob|eet lesson on CurryInn Coiict'iilcii Weapon*. A few weeks ago a teacher in a chooi in Spartanburg County sliot ind killed i n * of his pupils, and on asl Thursday a pupil in a school at jawdesville in Anderson County shot irid dangerously wounded the pritici- | );d of the school. A dispatch from \nderson to The States gives the Kirtieulars of the unfortunate alTalr. I'lie teacher, Mr. .1. F. Harper, who s tiie principal of the school at jawdesville, was shot twice by a uipil named .lames Latimer It seems hat the teacher had notice that some (I the large hoys were going to absent hemsclves from school Wednesday on ceountof it being All Fool's day and varned t hem not to do so. The boys stayed away from school s they had threatened and Thursday flernoou the teacher kept them in Iter school to punish them, lie bean on James Latimer, a boy of 17 ears, and Latimer produced a rod of ron from his clothing and began to eslst. This was taken away from lim, when lie pulled a Smith A NVeson pistol and opened tire on the earlier. 'Plie lirst shot hit a button on Mr. larper's coat and the bullet and huton both penetrated the Mesh. Then second shot was lired which struck rih inllictinn a llesh wound. If was bought t hat Harper was moi t allyhurt ut t he physicians say that his wounds re not serious. Latimer lied. Young jatimer Is a son Mr. .1. T. Latimer, prominent mercluint of Lawdesville ml nephew of Senator Latimer. Four r live hoys or about the same i?kc i'cre implicated In I lie atl'air. HOUND TO A RASCAL. 'he Sad IMiulit ol' u \ oiiiik laid)' hi Now York. The escapades of Nelson Foster lias "('apt.." A. N. Freeland of.Sinner created quite a sensation a few moths a#o when it was reported that t? hirtj ried and subsequently bad escrtcd a weailll^ New York younn oinan. The sequel to 1 i'.; ' alTair apears in the following in I lie New no of Tuesday: "Supreme Court Justice MacLean 2fused Thursday to annul the inarlatfe of Miss Lli/.a Herri man Wlckes, niece of Augustus Van Wyek and x-Mayor Van Wyek, to '('apt.' A. I. Freeland, otherwise known as Nelin Foster. "Mrs. Freeland met the man on a ransatlantic liner and afterwards at er home. She was impressed by his ppearanceof wealth and rcspectabiliy and Ids own representations con rnlntf bis antecedents. Tliey were mrried in Grace ehurcli a few months ftcr meeting. Mayor Van Wyek as at the wedding. Humors conccrnivt Freeland's past reached Mrs. Freenid's lirother, and on investigation e found them all well founded. An iterview followed and Frccland disapcared. It developed that he had een a railway roadmaster for years, as a widower with children and had ccome a chevalier dlindustrlc in efault of better i>mnl(ii/mi.ni "Justice MacLcan says that ho canot find grounds on the evidence aduced which would warrant an annul>ont. Frccland's actions, he says, lay have been those of a scamp and a ypocrite, but do not come within le provisions of the law under which tarrlagas may be annulled. Permlson Is granted to renew the suit on dditional evidence." (Juick *1 lint ico. Cable dispatches told not long ago ow the Ameer of Afghanistan by a roke of his pen cut down the harems I' his subjects to four wives each. He as been administering some very ivlft justice, too. Not long ago a icat-seller in Kabul abused another inn and taunted him about 11is region. The olTcnder was brought be>re tlie ameer who straightway senmeed him to be blown from the louth of a cannon, which was done as ion as a nearby cannon could be loadI. The same day four well-known ibbcrs we ?. ' ought before him. lie ad them put into Iron cages and ung up in four prominent thoroughires as a warning and at last account icy or what is left of them were all there. Itccurd ol" lllrths and Deaths. The State savs the i/overnor has icclved a persanal letter from exovernor Mcrriam, director of the 2!isus, in which It Is ur^ed that nuth Carolina should aid the nation1 government in the endeavor to keep trrecl and complete records of births nd deaths. The mortality statistics r the government arc shamefully Indurate and the census department i compliance with a recent act of ingress has written the governors of ic States to aid In the elTort to tfet ic data kept properly. The State oard of health has been working ou lily line for some time and the local oards of health are said to have act:1 in a very reprehensible manner, 'he collection of these statistics may c of Kreat value in the years to come. e a Cold in On o Quinine Tablets. ith?. This signature, ^ no. m a serious mvttkii To The Dispensary Regarding Seiz. ures of Contraband Liquor. CLAIMS OF REVENUE OFFICERS. Over Hall' of the Conllxcated Property is Taken liy the lleprenentut Ives of the Federal tiovcrt ment. The Columbia State says dispensary ollleials are wondering what will be the result of the contention between the State of South Carolina and the federal government In regard to the seizure of packages of contraband liquor. If the matter is allowed to run on as it is now, the State will lose over f?0 per cent, of tlie liquor seized by the constables. In the month of February, out of the seizures made by the constables, $000 worth of liquor was afterwards taken by the representatives of the federal government. Mr. II. ll.Crum, the commissioner of the State dispensary, Wednesday explained the situation to a reporter of The State. Up to the time when MaJ. Jenkins became collector of customs, Mr. ('rum had had an agreement with the federal ollleials to the elTect that the State was to be allowed to keep all liquor seized by the constables unless the liquors so seized were evidently sold in violation of the United States revenue laws. Itut under a recent ruling the government's ganger at the dispensary, Mr. A. S. Trumbo, is ordered to Inspect every package shipped In by the constables and to seize all such as have not the nam OA of well known and reputable dealers as the parties from whom the stulT had been obtained. Mr. ('rum thinks this has been a very arbitrary position for the federal authorities to take?for It throws the burden of proof on the. State, when the State Is not interested in forstering violators of the revenue laws, but is endeavoring to break up the operations of law breakers. During the month of January the federal government, through Its agents, relieved the State dispensary of $.">oo worth of contraband, for the State could not, under the rulllng of the department, prove its own right to ill." nckages. In February the value of sin.7 'Hied over to the revenue ollleers was e?C.'I-,nore than in the month preceding. If tin." <u kept up It will become a great hard- ^ ^ ship on the dispensary system, for not only docs the dispensary lose the packages, but is not reimbursed for the express charges paid on the seized liquors from the point of seizure to t he State dispensary; and furthermore the State Is but hlrng constabulary to work for the government. The constabulary has for the past few years paid its expenses out of the value of the contraband turned Into the big vats at the State dispensary, but the proportion of stulT taken by the federal ollleers is 50 per cent, of the whole amount seized. The attorney general's otllcc Is urging Crutn's claim for the return of the liquors taken from the State by the revenue olllelals. The dispensary commissioner docs not censure Maj. Jenkins, but says the latter is doing right to enforce the orders of the treasury department. Ate Any Old Thing. At Kalamazoo, Mich., six pounds of nails, screws, lead, iron, cartridge shells and other foreign substances were taken from the stomach of Fred Ccrrow, a Michigan asylum patient, at post mortem examination. For years Cerrow had walked about swallowing metal, lumps of coal, small stones and brick dust with great avidity. The stomach contained the following articles: One twenty penny spike, I inches long; 22 ten penny nails; 79 eight penny nails; 23 shingle nails, 180 bent nails of various assorted sizes, 29 pieces of wire, 1 iron washer, li inches in diameter; 4 suspender clasps; 17 assorted buttons; 120 small stones; 12 pieces of tin, 8 screws, upper halves of 3 twenty penny spikes, three 32 caliber cartridges and 28 pins. Manv of the lari/er n:?llw worn nartlal. ly destroyed by the acids of the stomach. One large 4 Inch nail, which pierced the stomach, Is believed to have caused an abscess on his liver, which resulted in death. A Great Change. In speaking of Senator Tillman's visit to Charleston The I'ost of that city says: "A year ago we were looking for Roosevelt and making ready to do him honor, and all the time milt mill- i - >u?uvviii>k i/uiacn npuii xiii111<i11 lor uin unmannerliness which threatened to cheat us of our high guest. Now we are openly and loudly damning llooscvelt and arc cooking tine dinners for Tillman. So wags the world." Six Men Killed. A tcrrillc explosion of gas occurred late Tuesday at the coal mine of L. P. Marshal at Sandova Co. III., resulting in the death of six men and the terrible injury of live others. The dead arc Frank Deroe, Joseph Trioshco, John Glacino, Jo.Blanco, Lafayette Amy, William Newhouse. One of the wouned, Henry Wheeler, lsnotexpccted to recover. e Day 1 . ssa | \