Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CAUSED MUOH TALK Ejection of Woman From the White House a Sensation, INDIGNATION EXPRESSED U)nder Pressure Scoretary Darnes 0AKes a ait..ment widera Ditfore fiadicaniy From 6tory Told dy Mrs. Mor ia. The forcible ejct.on of Mrs. Minor 4irr,1a-1r tau nite house in \Va.-,a i. gua ast. Tiiursbay, slas ;Aince. uv.s J-%! uar, Ullit. JetL oceCL dLann Au the city. In ::,LctL society the atalur la Ocon talked aboeut. and al .u:Ost without excephon extremo ci-t ic!sim is expressou of the whole af fair. ueretary Barnes, who seeme to have been reponsiblo for at least the comnlnuacenmelt ot the proccedings, is -sued a statement Friday regarding the affair. His statoraent difters ina tarially from the story told by Mrs. .Morris and some of the eye-witnsses. Grouping the stories, however, to .somue extent, the facts seem to bo that Mrs. Morris, a respectable woman, :not insane, whose husband had been an. officer in the army medical corp, and who had been dismised, went to the white houie In an effort to lay her case before t'e president. Shc saw ccrctary Barnes, who to!d her the presidenAt could not see her, -und, then, after some conversation, do scribed by Secretary Barnes as disor derly, he ordered the policemen to ro move her. This ejection was carried out with great vigor. Mrs. Morris, being car orid and dragged from the white house acro.;s the asphalt walks and finally bundled into a cab and taken to the house of etention, two policenio and a colored man taking lpart in the re moval. General opinten expressed was that the )president would order an invostigat-cn of the affair which would be thorough and ser!ous. Mr. Barnes' statement, in part, is as fol - 'lows: "Mrs. Morris called at the executive fiice Thursday at about 1 o'clock and asked to be allowed to see the prCsi <ent. At the time Secretary Loeb was engaged with the president. and Mr. Barnes saw her. Upon inquiry as to the nature of her business she stated with considerable reluctance that her ~husbanrd had bon unjustly dismissed] from a branch of the war department; A that she did not propose to have c.ny thing to (10 with the secretary of w.r concerning it, but that she want ed the president to take it up and -*aec that justice was done. "She was informed that the presli dent could not give personal attention to such a matter and that the doIom lon of the secretary of war would he filnal. She insisted that she must see 4 the p re-sident, and was told that that wasi out of the question. '.'She r-eplied in a low voice that she would see him and that she would stay ther-e until she did. She was then !IdviCOed to dirop) the matter and go a way quietly. Tlhis, in still louder tones, , she r-efusedi to - (do. She was then told that she must either leave the office at once, voluntarily, or it wOuld be neces;sary to have her put out of the huilding. A t this she 'shied at the top of her vcice: 'I will not he nut out.' r-ushed to a chair', thre-w herself into it, and sahouted, 'Don't you have any hands laid on me; I am going to stay her-e until I see the president.' "Tlhe ofllcects repeatedly aked her to standl up and walk quietly with S them so that they would not have to force her-, but she r-efused to (10 so, and defled themi ini shichs that we're lienr id throughout the white house. "There is no truth whatcvu- in the statement made by matny of the Fri day morning pap~ers that a negro laid hold of Mr's. Morruhu, and1( assisted in carrying her. One of the colored mie s-engoers of the office followved the po licemnii, and gathered up small arti * les much ias were driopped in the wo man's struiggles, but there was no ther- foundation whatever for the statement." WIRECK TAKES TWO LIVES. Engineer and Firemen on Southern Engine Crushed to Death. A thr-ough freight on the Southern railhroad was wvrecked near Fair For e st, S. C., Wednesday morning. The engine left the track, turned over, and the cars piled on top of one an other. Engineor J. A. Lucas of Greenville and a negro fireman were killed. Oth er's of the crew~ wore fatally injur-ed. A washout apparently caused the wreck. WEDDING DATE I8 SET. Nuptlis of Miss Roosevelt' and Nick Longworth to Occur February 17. A Wdshington special- Rays: The president and Mrs. Rloosovelt hav an nouncedl that the wedding of Miss Al 4ice Rloosevelt to Representative Nich olas Longworth of Cincinnati, will occur on Saturday, Frebruary 17, at 12 o'clock roon in the east room of the white house. SIXTEEN ACRES TO PLO% Is Pledge of Georgia Farmera Made at Annual Meeting of State got ton Associtalon in Atlanta. District organizers will be sent intc each congressional district of the state to more strongly organize the Geor gia division of the Southern Cottoii Asociation in every county of Geor gia during 1906, and the work will bc pushed as it has not been bofor since the association was organized. This important stel) was deternine l upon by the Georgia division, which met in annual convention at the stata capitoi in Atlanta Wednesday. Among other resolutions passed by the convention was one prescribing a pledge for the Georgia niemibers that they will not, during 1906, plant more& than 16 acres of cotton to the plow. and that they will besides raise at home a full supply of provisiotis for home consuimflton. Pi esident M. L. Johnson and prac tically all of the old officers of the Georgia division were re-eleted to serve during the new year. Every speaker had something to say about the prosperous conditions prevalent in the state, and alluded to the fact that there is more money In the country now than there has been since 1860. This was particularly noticeable in the strong address of President Jor dan, who also warned the association against the danger of allowing poli tics to enter its deliberations, because the history of other associations of a like character showed their wreck had been due to this very fact. A resolution endorsing President Jordan for re-election to the presi dency of the Southern Cotton Asso cIation at the coming meeting in New Orleans; endorsing Richard Cheat ham for re election as secretary of the central associaticn and Indorsing John D. Walker of Hancock, troas urer of the Georgia division for .he position of treasurer of the national association, was unanimously adopt ed. This resolution will be transmit ted to the New Orleans convention. DEMANDS DEPEW'S RESIGNATION This is Purport of Resolution Before New York Legislature. The New York state lbgislaturc started off at Albany with. a rush Wednesday. .Aside from the reading in both houses of the annual message of the governor, the most important develop ments were the election of Speake James W. Wadsworth; a long debate in the senate' over a resolution re questing the resignation of Unite States Senator Chal-vicey M. Depew on( the ground of disclosures in con nection with the Eiquitable Life In surance Society, which ended in th< withdrawal of the resolution for thc time being. BIG ORDER FROM SOUTHERN. Contract Given Out for Total of 8,72f Cars for Freight Service. One of the first steps taken by the Southern railway for the year 1906 was the placing of an order for 8,72f cars for the freight service. This o deor has been necessitated by the tre nmendous growth of freight traffic in the large portion of the south fed by the Southern railway. While the exact figures could not be learned, it is known that the contract exceeds $5, 000,000. ORR GETS MCCALL'S PLACE. New Head of Insurance Company Will Get Only $50,000 Per Year. John A. McCall officialy resigned the presidency of the Now York Life Insurance company Wednesday, and Alexander E. Orr was applointedi in his place at the salary of $50,000 a year. Mr. McCall's salary was $100, 000. The board of trustees also cut dowvn the nuimber of vice presidents, so that hereafter there will be two of those oflicers instead of three. PAYNE PLEADS FOR FILIPINOS. New York Representative Makes Ex tended Speech In HPUSO. The house resumed its sessions on 'hursday after the holiday recess. The cause of the Filipinos was advo cated( on the floer b~y the republican leadler, Mr. Payne of New York, for nearly four hours. He presented the viewvs of the majority of the wvays and means committee on the Philip pine tariff 1)111 reducing the duties on sugar and1( tobacco t~o 25 per cent of the Dingley tariff rates and admitting other products of the islands to the U~nited 'States free of duty. LANDSLIDE CAUSES FATALITiES. Three Men, Killed and Others May Die of injuries. A dispatch from Richmond, says: On account of recent heavy rains a landlslide occuirrod WVednesday on the South and WVestern ril roadl, in process of construction, near Pine Ridge, N. C., hilling three mn and fatally injuring two others. The bed les of the dead men have been re ISLAVS' CHRISTMAS Proved to Be a Quot Day Throughout All Russia, TROUBLESAREFORGOTTEN Reds Seen to Have Quietcd Down. Witte Deplores Exaggerated Press kcRorts-American Property Cama ged. Fin s:ow sifting (lown from a cold sky furjiished ideal wu:thir for the IRu.,sian Chri-timas, which was usher d in :uiuday, January 7. All the the m-'crs and othir places of public aiucemint, even the reatau:rants,were closed in St. Petersburg, and the day Was given uip to tie -proverbial Rus sian hiospitaity. . '1 he whiseions which have torn and distracted the country seened to have disappeared lor the moment, and even the radical newspapers, ani mated by the sentiment or peace and good will to all, silenced their guns. The day passed quietly and without untoward incident. The religious ser vices i the churches were largely at tended. At the palace of Tsarskoe-Selo, the emperor hiniself presided at the Christmas tree. Later, accmpanied by tile imperial children, his majesty visited the quarters of his imperial Cossack escort to the mnemnlbers of which lie distributed presents. According to the Novoe Vrenya, the revised budget as submitted to the emperor makes the revenues for 1906 $1,011,000,000, as against $1,027,0.0, 000 for last yenr. Tle expendit ures a.e s-tiliated at $1u,;5,000,000 as against $1.2000.600,00o for last year. -Ir. Meyer, tne American aibassa dor at St. Petersblurg, received fromt con-sils at loscow and Odessa do tailed relorts of the injuries suffered by American propuerty during the re cent riots. A statement of the dam ages claimed will be forwarder by Mr. Moyer to the state department for in striletions. Interviewed by the Official Tele graph agcncy Sunday, referring to the situation in Russia, Count Witte protested against what he character ized its the unfounded and sensational reports spread in the foreign press and expresised the conviction that Rus sia would emerge from the preseal crisis rejuvenated. lie concluded bj declaring that France continued t( display towards Russia sentiments o: friendship and good will, which Rus sia reciprocated. BATTLESHIP IN COLLISION. Alabama Crashed Into Kentucky Whil Latter Was Aground. While the battleship squadron ur der econmandl of Rear Admiral Roble; D). Evans, wvas lproceeding to sea fron New York Sunday, the battleship Kearsarge'and Kentucky i-an agroun< in the lowver harbor off the west ban] light. Trhe Alabama and Illinois wep following next in hine and b~efor they could alter their course the Ala bama collided with the Kentucky striking her- a glancing blowv. Th<l1 Illinois just got clear of the tanglx and proceeded dlown the bay anchor lng outsideo the bar with the flagshij Maine. The accident occur-red short ly after- 1 ip.'m.l The Alabama remained by to rendei imislsance to the Kentucky and Kear rarge and wireless messages were sent to the -Drooklyn navy yard for tugs. At 2:45 o'clock the Kearsarge and Kentincky both were floated and start ed for sea accompamnletl by the Ala l'ama. Tlhe Kentucky, however, wvas Crriered baxck, andl rctuarned to Tomp kir.,sville. A wireless message was. received at the Brooklyn navy yard Sunday mugnt fr-om the batt leship Kentucky, stat ing that the star-board side of the vessel, ablove the water-line, had been1 qute badly dlamagedl in the collision with the Alabama. LIVED SIX SCORE YEARS. Negro Woman Dies In PhiladelphIa at Alleged A ge of 135 Years. Mary McDonald, a negro woman, who claimed to be 135 yearrs of age, Is dead at the H onme for the Aged, an lnflrmaruy for colored persons in Philadelphha. According to the wo man and lher surv' ving relatives, she was horn November 14, 1770, near Val Icy Forge, Pa. She often told of the scenes in ablouit the camp of \Vash lngton's soldiers at Valley Forge diur lng t he winter of 1 777-78. DECATUR IS EXONERATED. Acquitted by Courtmartial, Restored tc Duty and Re-Arrested. Tile developments Saturdlay at thc naval academy in Annapolis, wer-e im portant. Stephon Decatur, Jr., f1rs' of the members of the fir-st class tC be put on trial, wvas declared acquit ted andl restored to duty, but was i arrested shor-tly after and wvlli he trico undier other'i charges of hazing. 10fDAN RILES SPINNERS, Manufacturers Take Exception to the Remaks of President Jordan of Southern Cotton Association. In an interview at Boston, Mass., rhursday night on the proposed pro liminary conference between cotton growers and manufacturers in New York, January 24, J. R. MacColl, pres Ident of the New England Manufac turers' Association, took exception to remarks said to have been made by President Jordan of the Southern Cot ton Association at Atlanta Wednes day. President MacColl said: "Tho remarks attributed to Prosi dont Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association, in a speech at Atlanta, are misstatements of fact, and I trust he has been incorrectly reported by the newspapers. He is stated to have said: 'Now these spinners have to come to us for a conference with the view of arriving at a satisfactory price for cotton.' "At the Atlantic City meeting of our association, held in September, Richard Cheatham, secretary of the Southern Cotton Association, said: "'The policy of the Southern Cot ton Association has been since its in ception to cultivate friondship and better trade relations and understand tng with the manufacturers of our great staple crop. "'To that end, the association has appointed a committee from among its most intelligent and competent mem bers, to confer with you at such a time as may be convegient to a sim ilar representative committee from your body to take under consideration such matters as vitally affect the in terests of both. I feel that much last ing good will result from such a coil ference.' "As a result of this and other sug gestions a preliminary conference of delegates from manufacturing and cotton growing associations have been arranged for January 24 in New York. "The purpose is, if deemed advisa ble, to formulate plans for a joint conference of cotton manufacturers and growers to be held in April, at which there will be present a repre sentative from the international fed eration of Europe. Fixing the prier of cotton is, in my opinion, not like ly to receive much attention. This will continue to be determinod as it al ways has been by the old economic law of supply and demand, but apart from this, there are many matters that can well be discussed nt such a gath ering, and with benoficial results tc all the interests represented." SCHIFF PREDICTS A PANIC. Well Known Banker Declares Curren, cy Reform is Imperative. Unless there L; irrency reform, panic, beside wl.ch former panic, will seem insignific.ant was predicte by Jacob Schiff, head of the bank ing firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company in a speech before the New Yori chamber of commerce Thursday. Mr. Schiff said he did( not rogarm such a panic immediately imminent but belIeved it wvill come unless some Sfthing is done to remedy the lack o elasticity of the present currency sym ,tem. EXPRESS POUCH WAS LOOTEC Sum of $18,000 Swiped In Transmim sion from Augusta to New York. It developed in Washington Thur's day that about $1S,000 was taken fron an express p~ouchl between Augusta Ga., and New York. Thelu Southor'm Express company received the pack age at Augusta, from there it w to Columbia, S. C., and it arrived i. W'ashlington early .Sunday morn ing Tile Adams Express company ther seat it to Newv York, and there th< loss was discovered. Oflcials of thn express companies a~re making an in vestigat ion. Philippine Conditions Deplorable. A telegram setting forth thec alleg ed dellorable condlition of the sugal planters in the Philippine Islands was transmitted to the senafeo Thumrsay~ by President Roosevelt. EXPRECS F''ANKS ARE OFF. Companies Will Follow the Lead Set I by the Railroads. The express companies have dlecd ed to join with the raIlroads in re Cusir,g~ to issuei passes(' for- the carry lng of husiuess free of charge. An nouncement to this effect was madlo tn New Yorik Friday at the office of the Adams E~xpress company. The action of the railroadls in cut ting off free business has made it practically necessary for the express companies to do likowise. WA R MIONEY FOR GEORGIANS. Cash Ready for Troops Engaged in Spanish-American Fracas. Announcement is made by treasury omfiis at Washington that the claims cf the Georgia treoops serving in the war with Spain will 1)0 paidl within a short time. Tho money will be sent to Governor Terreli for distribution. The total amount claimed is $62, 824.02, of wvhich $19,764.95 is for the first regiment, $24,704.09 for the see end regIment, $l,200.82 for battery A, nnd $l992 0 for iunttco n3 A PAVEMENT OF WHALES' BONES BY ART)IUR INKEltSLEYs One of the most picturesque towirs in California or on the Pacific Slope is Monterey. IIstorically, it Is the most Interesting town in the Western States. It was the capital of Alta. In A V Call fornia, where the Spa ush held sway itI the days "before the Gringo enine." FPather JTmipero Scrra ianded at lon terey, which is on the bl.y of the siune naie, on June 3, 1770, more than six years before the signing of the )ee laration ot' Independence. The inis siontary priest preached to the Indians and founided the mission church of San Carlos, which is still In excellent pres erva t ion. Many relies of Spanish rule are to be seen at Nlonterey, sich as the old custom house, the jail, ete. Besiles being the eapital of the Span ish province, Monterey was nll impor tanat wht alilng station, many of thos' great inninni1) big found in Monl terey 141ay. The walk lending from the street to the i in door of San Carilos mission (chu.r1ch is paved with the Ver tebra e andl ot her ime i's of whales. 'The ac(compa~nny ig pholtographli. mad te ait the end of Auigns Inst. sliows the Composition antd prient codilition of this remila1kable li veint.Seietitle Aierican. 171E ZAMBESI RIVER BlIDGE, VICTOR. IA FALLS, RWIDESIA. flie great steel arch hidge designed to carry the nior'thern extenision of the4. Ithodesia lallways across the gorge of the Ziihes ..i 'ver just below tlt! fa ious V!ctoria Fals in Sonti Afiep. was opeled to trale onl Sept. 2. 115. The .500-foot span of thie Zn ibesi airch ranks it among the larige steel arch brid re's of the world. To this featir'l of interest is udded the novelty tait the bridge was e'eeted thoisaids of miles froi its place of' minufacture . n I andii ini a part of thet wvorl1 whtlehI not man1 ~y yearis aigo had bi een tea chied -only b~y a few 1 ittropi) expilorersi". A PiPE-ARCH BRIDISE. -Anl en1il i eer'lng uios-i ty, sahId to he imlitine ini this otryit', an toi I have but 01ne parall- eXantiplle in Euirope', !s the p)ipe-arebcl bid'ge over thi' Siduhnry the steel idi SiV I ii,01 sevn ad Ioe- liit abhov' tile hiizonltial . theI ( cent re. Thie pre'ssur'e on the abutinents when the pipe is filled withi wiatr ci's very~ grea, Ian iis rei"sistedl by3 a nuiiss of' ('oncr'ete forty fee tl hiek bel I.I enach abhut menit. Across the (curvied :op runls a land.. railed foot- bridge. TheI steecl of' the pipeW inl the archelI(d por'tion)1 i-s lve eigh ths of an aInchl in thIick ness. Lha~ssa, the l'orbliden City of TI'ibet, has 10,000) pe'ople. Hu nting and kest. Cure. Re'ver'al young miarried women, tick eted as "smart," have adopted a sinm pie form of rest cure, wvhleh they lprae tiee when settled in their winter hunt ing quarters. After a hard dlay's run (and they often hunt ive times a weeks they ride home, have ten anud ai ba1th, go straight to hedi, and eat their diin nor's safely tucked upi in their "dowvnies." Tihis means rest anid sleep for perhaps fourteen hiours.--London L~aine' ljmad WORKS OF ART THIRTY-FIVE GEN. TURIES LD,. In 1807 the French Government ei tdblished a special archeologicail mis sion at Susa, In Persia. The mission was under the control of M. de Mor ga:n, the former director general of anl. t 4. tititles inl Egypt, and the Governiment has allowed $26,000 per year for ex Plnses. Itecetly the results so far ob tained were placed onl exhibition InI thll, ~~V.1 V01 i* tyJI TUM tloillE AT 'rT:: UIPIT IS 1 QI EN N APIR ASOYS lItENTijY FOUND IN T1 InUINK OF SUSA. Louivre, aItd a writ er inl thi lustra tion, of lirls, deseribIes them' as fol lows: "The chief at'u ure of tll, collee. lilI)GEL ~ I ~l lECTION. ion is a bronzie st a tue of Niaplr Asoin. 1the wife of lKing Ounitacht ( hil, who liv441 soieI .'1500( yea'~rs agoi. This stat buied' a t a thtI of sixty feet ini the4 Sinsll (if thei aerolOihs of' Susa, luring lihi xcalviat 111ionbought thie state to.'14 light. Thei iguire was itr, lutL the head( wats issingIL. IIlowever, as5 onily some1( 2S(0,00 I ub Ci 1e inwteirs hav e been e'xcaivaited upi to 1te lpresen't of thei lhe area'i ofi the aer'iopolls, It is onily rea evintul lyv bei foundic. Onl the' batse of i'e liiIIionI s wh~ichi went thlrough t he tire of1 t~'he kilnt at least 21)110 yeart s be'fore4 Chr iist. "'In shl(1ition41 to theI. sta Itue the Iitami bii ('ode wats found carved ini grain it'. Th'ils stone( is of' great v'alute since' il gives us the ('IvIl code of thie (hat deans 11 2000 yeairs4 be(fore 0our owni eral. Futh ter, t he~(01 commisslin has founid 'K.~(t~Oud toos' or pr'opet'y deeds(i ('n gra ved on stone wvhi.:h a1r(' SQ00 years old, br)tonz'e vases', miagnlilteen t1(liihsed and1( (ditIng bateck 5000i yearts bef'ore thet Ch ristitan erat, and1( ot her rolle of~ a1 patst age whilehi areI of immeal'isuriale v'alue." (iliass Umbrellaut. Thfle latest atdjunct to glass niovelties la the glatss umibreilia, whieh i3 cove'red( withI "sil k" 51)un1 from ghtiss. 'lThese tiubre(llats, of course, will aftford no prot'ection from the ratys of thec sunl; butt they po084sses 0one OoIu advatafge naely'3, that they can itbe held it front of the face whei(n mieeting the w~'ind and1( raIn, and at the same tIme the user will b)e able to see that hie does not runi into unotfentding iniiduItals or larnm-nnsts..-Chlcniga Jomrnal.