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F. O. Stai'Y, President. J. G. Wardi.aw. Vico Prosiden THE NATIONAL BANK OP GSFFNET. Capital $50,000.00. Wit.L buy conuty claims, receive deposit and make liberal loans on approved paper I>. C. KO88, Cashier. The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY CITY. S. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 3 O. 1900. *1.00 A YEAR, AMENDMENT TO THE PUERTO RICAN BILL It Is Presented to the Senate by Mr. Beveridge. ALL DUTIES ABOLISHED It Provides For Free Trade lietweeu the Island and the United States. Measure Is In Ldne With President's Original Suggestion. Washington, March 19. — Senator Beveridge today offered the following substitute for the Puerto Rican bill: “All articles coming into the United States from Puerto Rico or going into Puerto Rico from the United States shall ho admitted free of duty, but this act shall not bo coustrued as extending the legislation of the United States or any part thereof over Puerto Rico, and it is hereby declared that the legisla tion of the United States is not ex tended over Puerto Rico.” Speaking of the amendment offered today, Senator Baveridge said: “Wo have followed the president’s suggestion appropriating $.2,000,000 for the immediate relief of Puerto Rico, which is more than the house bill would have given the island in the entire two years of its life. “This removes the reason which each member had for voting for the bill and restores us to the position first an nounced by the president. On the great principles involved we are in en tire narmony with the president The object of my amendment is the same as that of of Senator Davis’ amendment, but the latter extends all of the taxa tion and revenue provisions of the con stitution over Puerto Rico, and when any part of the constitution is extended it is there forever. It may be that ex perience will demonstrate that we shall want to change the laws of taxation of Puerto Rico, and if so, I fear that the extension of the taxing provisions of the constitution would prevent us. On all questions of power congress should be left witli an absolutely free aud un shackled hand.” A QUESTION OF AUTHORITY. Tli<> Our d’Alfiie InvcsiIgittlou Ue- c.*1111-8 .More Oiiiipiicateri. Washington, March 19.—The Cenr d’Alene investigation was resumed to day by the committee on military affairs, with J. A. Fornoy, special prosecutor on tno stand. Mr. Hay of Virginia, di rected the examination with a view to disclosing how far the United States troops were under the control and di rection of Governor Stonenburg and his executive oflicers in Shoshone county, Bartlett Sinclair. Mr. Hay asked if General Merriam was the responsible commander, not only of the troops, but also the affairs in the district in gen eral. The witness said General Mer riam was uot the responsible com mander, as the governor and Mr. Sin clair directed affairs. To a certain ex tent they controlled the United States forces. Mr. Forney said the troops were sent there to aid in suppressing the insur rection, aud they dm this by co-operat ing with, and assisting the state offi cials. Mr. Hay stated that whilo he did not question the right of the governor to control troops or the right of the presi dent to send them, he maintained that the president had no authority to place the United States troops under the con trol of state authorities. Questions by Mr. Lentz brought out that Bartlett Sinclair was a civil officer under the law, but that he exercised certain military authority, in order to make effective his civil authority. SESSION OF THE SENATE. 31 r. llevi-i idgf- to Sp**uk on the Puerto Kicuii Hill. Washington, March 19.—Mr. Bev eridge of Indiana gave notice at the opening of today’s session of the senate that, in connection with an amendment to the Puerto Rican bill, which he offered, that he would address the sen ate next Thursday on the amendment and pending measure. A bill authorizing the secretary of the navy to loan naval equipments to cer tain military schools was passed. The senate then proceeded to the con sideration of the legislative, bAecntive and judicial appropriation bill, Mr. Cul- loin of Illinois being in charge of the measure. As reported to the senate the bill carried $24,It’S,H00. The reading of the bill was completed at 1:40 o’clock this afternoon, the com mittee amendments having been agreed to as the reading proceeded. The bill as amended was passed without di vision. llullvlan lt< volution. New York, March 19 —A dispatch to The Herald from Port of Spain stye it is reported that the Hernandei revolu tion is progressing. It is said that he effected an important strategic move- moat Saturday, compelling the govern ment troops to retire. He Is now march ing on Cuidad, Bolivia. General Miles at Charleston. Chableston, March 19. — General Miles, who arrived in a private car last night from Washington with his party, enronte to Savannah, inspected the harbor defenses today. He will re main here to meet Secretary Root, who is expected tonight on the transport Sedgwick. Shot Down by a Negro. Birmingham, Ala., March 19. — A special to The News from Meridian, Miss., says that Howard Culpepper, a prominet young farmer, residing near TooinHnbak, was shot and killed last night by an unknown negro, whom be had gone to arrest. Illg Fire at Prattville. Prattville, Ala., Mar 1 ' 1, 19.—Pratt ville was practicaliy destroyed by fire this morning, 19 stores being burned. INTEREST CENTERS IN POWELL'S FORCE Lord Muthune Holds the Pas sage to the Vaal. THE RELIEF OF MAFEKING No News Received of Colonel Plum met'd Advance on the Iteleaguered City—Specnlation Rife as to the Con templated 3Iovemeiit of Uritish. London, March 19.—Neither the ad vance by way of Fourteen Streams nor Colonel Plummer’s movement have yet resulted in bringing uews of Mafeking’s relief. From Bloemfontein and Natal there are apparently no developments and public interests remained centered in Powell’s force, uudistracted by the events of greater military importance. However, it appears likely that the movement of troops toward Mafeking indicates much more serious purpose than merely its relief, judging from Lord Methane’s presence at Warrentown and the capture of the nearby passage of the Vaal at Fourteen Streams. Keen observers believe Lord Methune has made an advance in force by way of Rustenbnrg. This might start either from Fourteen Streams or Klerksdorp, and wonld probably coincide with an advance via Bloemfontein aud Natal. Thus Lord Methune may be given the cbauce to retrieve his repntation. Gen eral Olivett has accomplished another step in his retreat, evacuating Roux- ville and going toward Kronstadt, where President Steyn is. Colonel Schel Removed. Cape Town, March 19.—Owing to the quarelousness of Colonel Schel, the German officer in charge of the Boer artillery who was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Elaudslaate, he has been removed from the prison ers’ camp to a transport. WERE UNABLE TO AGREE. A General Strike of .Machinists 3Iay He Ordered. Chicago, March 19.—Another meet ing probably will be held here this af ternoon or evening between the execu tive committee of the council of Inter national Association of Machinists and the administrative council of the Na tional Metal Trades association and a last effort made for an adjustment of the differences between them. If no agreement is reached the members of the machinists' executive committee will at once leave the city to superin tend the calling of strikes of machinists in various parts of the country in pur suance of the plan to make the strike a general one. There seems to be little prospect of an agreement being reached, as the ma chinists insist that the scheme for arbi tration shall not be based npon the re turn to work of the Chicago strikers pending the settlement of their difficul ties, on which point the meeting of Saturday night was unable to agree. MET IN SPECIAL CONVENTION Polish Society of America Are In Session at Chicago. Chicago. March 19. —Delegates from a dozen cities and many towns, repre senting societies in the Polish National Society of America, gathered in Chi cago to attend the special convention of the central organization, which began here today and will continue through out the week. Among the more important snbjects for consideration is the new legislation which it is said will nnite the life in surance feature in the educational and patriotic feature of the old legislature. For the first time iu its history women will bo admitted to membership. They will bo on an equal footing with the men. RAILROAD SOLD AT AUCTION. Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Is Knock (I I/own For $12,.TOO,000. Joplin, Mo, March 19.—The Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf railroad was sold at public auction at the depot iu this ciiy at 10:30 o’clock this morning by E. Hostless, master in chancery, to satisfy a $23,000,000 mortgage, with one year’s accrued interest, held by the State Trust company of New York. But one bid was made, that by Silas W. Pettit, chief counsel of the Phila delphia reorganization committee of $12,600,000, the upset price. Yale Students to He Vaccinated. New Haven, March IP.—At Chapel today President Hadley told the stu dents of Yale university that the ex citement concerning the smallpox was uot warranted by the facts. From the hrst, he said, there had been no con cealment of the troth. In view of all the circumstances, however, President Hadley advised that all the students be vaccinated. T< xas Anti-Trust Law Valid. Washington, March 19.—The su preme coart of the United States today rendered an opinion is the case of the Waters-Pierce Oil company against the state of Texas, affirming the decision of the court of civil appeal of the state of Texas. The case involved the constitn- tionality of the anti-trnst law of Texas, which was sustained by today’s opinion. Fire at Athens. Athens, Ala., March 19.—A fire broke out this afternoon near the pnblio square in a lot of frame buildings and promised for a short time to become diastrous. After a boroic struggle, the tire was subdued without serious loss. The oiigin is a mystery. Will Increase Its Capital. Macon, March 19.—The American National bank of Macon will increase its circulation under the new currency law from $-15,000 to $130,000. ONE LIVES IN GAFFNEY. Mrs. Klmbrel a Daughter of a Revolution ary Soldier "There are now living but five women who are daughters of men who fought for the colonies in the war of the Revolution. Only one of them lives west of Pennyslvania. She is Mrs. JMary Gano Bryan Cobb, of Kokomo, Indiana. She is a daugh ter of Capt. Daniel Gano, one of five brothers who followed their father, Rev. John Gano, the famous “Fight ing Captain” of Revolutionary times, into the region of Kentucky in 1803. In 1822 she married Louis Bryan, a veteran of the war of 1812 and the great-grandfather of the silver leader. This is the only woman now alive who is at once the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier and the widow of a soldier of the war of 1812. There still 2700 widows of soldiers of the are latter war alive.” We have seen the above published in both the News and Courier and the Spartanburg Herald but it errs when it states that “Mrs. Mary Gano Bryan Cobb of Kokomo Indiana” is the only woman living west of Pennsylvannia, who is a daughter of a man who fought for the colonies in the war of the Revolution.” Mrs. Elizebeth Eoloe Kimbrel, wife of Javous Kimbrel, is living with her aged husband in Gaffney. Mrs. Kim brel is a daughter of Potter Enlo who enlisted when he was fourteen years old in the State of Virginia and served through the war of the Revolution part of the time under Gen. Nathaniel Green. Potter Enlo after the war moved to this state and settled near Wood ruff where Mrs. Kimbrel was born and where her father died in 1833. Mrs. Kimbrel is now seventy-eight years old and she and her husband, who is eighty, are living alone in this city and have only one child, a daughter, Mrs Williams who lives in the city of Spartanburg. Mrs. Kimbrel and her husband are of our most highly respected people. She has no relatives distinguished for wanting to be president of the United States, nor was her husband a soldier of the war of 1812. But she has a prouder distinctinon ;she is the daugh ter of a soldier of the Revolution and the wife of a Confederate soldier who fought for the same principals her father did. School Closing. Afler a few month’s session Mrs. J. It. Dye’s school at Midway closed with an enjoyable impromptue enter tainment last Friday evening. The school room was filled with trustees, patrons and children. The young folks had the inside of the building decorated for the occasion. Inter esting and instructive addresses were made by Prof. McArthur a.id Col. Butler. Mr. W. S. Hail presided, and Prof. J. R. Dye delivered the prize. This is a good school in a good community, and Mr. W. N. Turner, who is a trustee in that district, de serves to be commended for the un usual interest he takes in educational matters. The teacher expresses her self as being well pleased on account of the progress of the pupils, and the kind treatment she received at the hands of the good people in the com munity. Saturday. Saturday was a bright crisp day with tlie ground too wet to plough all over Cherokee county. Little work could be done at home, defered busi ness matters were needing attmtion and our Cherokeeanscame to Gaffney to look after them. They came from all quarters and were surely an ac tive, good humored and business like looking crowd—each one looking after his own job. The business men were all stiriug in the stores, every one apparently as busy as he could be, selling goods to their customers, and all looked happy. While our farmers are behind with their farm work such days arc inspir ing. The commingling of determined kindred spirits give more confidence and moves the whole throng forward to duty with strengthened efforts. Mrs. Calvin Zimmerman, Miles- burg, Pa., says, “As a speedy cure for coughs, colds, croup and sore throat One Minute Cough Cure is un- cqualed. It is pleasant for children to take. I heartily recommend it to mothers.” It is the only harmless remedy that produces immediate re sults. It cures bronchitis, pneumo nia, grippe and throat and lung dis eases. It will prevent consumption. Cherokee Drug Co. Senator Turley, of Tennessee, will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for vice president Rev. VV. E. Sitzer, W. Canton, N. Y., writes, “I had dyspepsia over twenty years, and tried doctors and medicines without benefit. I was persuaded to use Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and it helped from the start. I believe it to be a panacea for all forms of indigestion.” It digests what you eat. Cherokee Drug Co. The Chinese, Japanese, Malays, Siamese, New Zealanders and North American Indians are beardless. Wm.Orr, Newark, O., says, “We never feel safe without One Minute Cough Cure in the house. It saved my little boy’s life when he had the pneumonia. We think it is the best medicine made.” It cures coughs and all lung diseases. Pleas ant to take, harmless and gives im mediate results. Cherokee Drug Co. DOES NOT WANT TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD J. L. S. States His Position Plainly. COMPULSORY EDUCATION Our CorrespoiMleut Is >>€»t Happy Over the Report of the Shooting of a White 3Ian and a Negro for Violation of the Internal Keven uc Lavs. .Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jake, March 18.—We do not wish to be misunderstood when in speaking of “luster” we say: “We like him and his style of writing and hope to see him push forward his ar gument.” First, we like him because he comes from the ranks of the com mon people, wearing the insignia of humility, yet that of a gentleman who has worked his way through the weriu under considerable disadvan tages. Second, for his style of boldly defending his countrymen against the incursions of autocratic rule. Third, for his argument against compulsory education, from which we quote the following: “We are free and independent Americans and have a grand republic. There is no anarchy in it and we never expect to have gny compulsary educational law. We don’t mean to force our people to send to school where, as is the case now many times, their chil dren are learning more devilment than anything else. This is one rea son why our teachers should be paid more and keep our best teachers in school.” Then again we say, wo. as parents, are compelled by responsibility, which is no donbt more powerful than our laws, to “bring our children up in the way they should go,” and there are no parents who do not wish their children to be well equipped on all the necessities and among the greatest of these is education. This we deem a necessary compulsatory educational law. All who do not wish the welfare of their children are not worthy to be called parents. We recommend better common schools, for without them how are our children ever to be educated? We have colleges, of course, but with them tuition is attached and that means cash. Those of us that haven’t the money may just as well be^l.000 miles from a college as to live next door to one. Abuse is not argument. Argument brings things hidden and obscure to the light of reason, and readers see them clear. In every argument, more respect is to be had to reason than to authority. To whom “Buster” applies the ap- probrious epithet “liar” “libertine,” "scallawag,” etc, or his reasons therefor, we have no means of know ing. But “L. B. D.” very prudently meets and dissipates these imputa tions. We are acquainted with many who are and have been engaged in teaching, and not in a single instance do we know of any who are not first class ladies and gentlemen. Of one thing we feel assured and that is that the teachers who do their full duty are the hardest worked, poorest paid and least thanked of any class of public servants in the land. Many others don’t really earn their salt, so far as any bentfit the children derive from their teaching. It is the money and not the children they are work ing for. We are not feeling very happy over the report that comes from the other side of Broad river that a white man aud a negro were shot down a few days ago by U. S. Revenue officers in the so-called discharge of their duties. We have only a garbled report of the affair, and can’t speak intelligently. But, from what we learn it was a high handed murderous assault upon two outlaws who were obeying the first law of nature in trying to escape from being captured. Nothing is said of their resisting, or in any way endangering the lives of the officers iu pursuit. They were only trying to make their escape from being cap tured. This is nature. We have no sympathy, whatever, with blockadcrs and “blind tigers,” nor the unlawful work in which they engage. They are outlaws, the whole of them, but they are human beings and don’t de serve being shot down like wild beasts simply because they are try ing to escape being captured. The good people of Cherokee township, who are as truly loyal to the govern ment as any people iu the State, will not submit to this work of brutality without a protest and we don’t blame them. Miss Jane Bishop is very unwell. She is confined to her bed with par alysis. She is now in her eighty- sixth year. A Cherokee county teacher gave us this problem: A. and B. buy 200 acres of land for $200, each paying $100. The lower side of the land purchased is valued at 41 2-3 cents more per acre than the upper side. A takes the upper side and B the lower side. How many acres should each receive and what price per acre did each pay? Will some teacher or pupil work it out by arithmetic and give the answer through The Ledger. The State S. S. Association meets at Laurens March, 20-22. Among that noble band of workers we expect B. F. Jacobs, of Chicago, chairman of the international session commit tee. This session will doubtless be an interesting one as some vital ques tions will be discussed. The Cherokee county Interdenomi national S. S. Convention will meet Saturday before the second Sunday in May. It is now in order for those churches or schools who desire it to meet with them to send their invita tions to President R. O. Sams, Gaff ney, S. C., or C. W. Whisonant, chairman executive committee, Wil- kinsville, S. C., in order that the committee may select the place. The executive committee are as fol lows: C. W. Whisonant, Wilkins- ville; M. M. Tate, Webster; Thos. G. Chalk, Ravenna; W. R. Lipscomb, Gaffney, R. E. Porter, Blacksburg.. Our old friend and army comrade, R. W. Davis, who was speaking of moving to Union last fall has de clined that idea. He says he would rather live twenty years in Cherokee than one in Union. Dr. W. J. Douglas v.as called in to see Mrs. Jane Bishop last Wednes day. With the exception of some old people and chronic cases this section was never healthier than at present. Today the streams are overflowing the low lands and most of the oat crop is now under water. j. l. s. Fertilizers for Irish I’otatoes. [Exchange.] The Virginia experiment station has been carrying on some experi ments to determine the influence of commercial fertilizers upon the quality of the Irish potatoes. It has been found that potatoes grown with out fertilizers contain the greatest amount of dry matter. The addition of fertilizer tends to diminish the dry matter and also as the quantity of fertilizer used is increased the amount of dry matter diminished. Potatoes grown where sulphate of potash was used contain more dry matter than those where muriate was used. The ash is not affected to any very ep- preciable extent, fertilizers tending to increase it slightly. Very little ef fect is produced on the starch by either the kind or amount of fer tilizers used; their tendency is to increase rather than to diminish it. Pototoes grown with muriate of potash contain less dry matter, but slightly more starch than those grown with sulphate of potash. Neither the kind nor the amount of fertilizers has any appreciable effect on the percentage of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash contained in pota toes. The percentage of chlorine is considerably increased when muriate of potash is used, and the more muriate used the higher the percent of chlorine. Holly Grove Happcuiiigs. (Correspondence of The Ledger ) Holly Gkove, March 17.—The farmers got a hustle on themselves the first of the week but were stopped by another big rain. Mr. J. L. Parker is working at Gaffney instead of Cherokee Falls, as was stated in our last letter. Mr. E. R. Sapoch and Mr. P. R. Byars was regular attendants in court this term. Mr. Osro Cooper and sister, Miss Vinnie Cooper visited in this com munity recently. Mr. E. 0. Macomson is in this sec tion attending to business. Mr. Claud Gaffney is spending a while on this side of the Broad. Mr. Rufus Putman was in this sec tion visiting last week. The time has come when almost every thing is done by taxation, so lets have either a free ferry or a bridge across Broad River at the Gaffney ferry. The health of this community is improving some. Last Tuesday while in Gaffney we saw the soda advertisements in the form of caps shining all over the place, and your scribe is the happy possessor of one. School Boy. A Thousand Tongues Could not express the rapture of An nie E. Springer, of 1125 Howard st,, Philadelphia. Pa., when she found that Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption had completely cured her of a hacking cough that for many years had made life a burden. All other remedies and doctors could give her no help, but she says of this Royal Cure—“it soon removed the pain in my chest and I can now sleep soundly, something I can scarcely remember doing before. I feel like sounding its praises throughout the Universe.” So will every one who tries Dr. Ding’s New Discovery for any trouble of the throat, chest or lungs. Prioe 50c. and $1,00. Trial bottles free at Cherokee Drug Store: every bottle guaranteed. Experiments in Ireland have yield ed tobacco twice as strong as any sold, with a net profit of $800 an acre. “I used Kodol Dyspepsia Cure in my family with wonderful results. It gives immediate relief, is pleasant to take and is truly the dyspeptic’s best friend,” says E. Hartgerink, Overisel, Mich. Digests what you eat. Cannot fail to cure. Cherokee Drug Co. Since the close of the Civil war $100,000,000 has been spent in the south for Negro education. To secure the original witch hazel salve, ask for DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve, well known as a certain cure for piles and skin diseases. Beware of worthless counterfeits. They are dangerous. Cherokee Drug Co. The best way to manage a church quarrel, or any other kind of a quar rel, is to stop quarreling. Lewis Ackerman, Goshen, Ind., says, “DeWitt’s Early Risers always bring certain relief, cure my head ache and never gripe.” They gently cleanse and invigorate the bowels aud liver. Cherokee Drug Co. HIGHLY APPKECUTED MANY FAVORABLE . BY THE IRISH NATION Queen Victoria’s Act Lauded by T. P. O’Connor. WEAEINQ OF SHAMROCK Dy the Irish Soldiers Is Itegarded a Concession Uj «I;r ^.njesty aoj Tribute to the Nationality, Wl Has Long Heeu Ignored. New Yokk, March 19.—Mr. T.J O’connor, M. P., in the London dJ Mail writes: “I am asked to state my views w regard to the momentous question ai the approval by the queen of the w< leg of the shamrock by Irish sold aud as to her majesty’s visit to Irela “As to the wearing of the shamre it is the tribute to Irish uationa which will bo greatly appreciated. shamrock materially is a small pie but the wearing of it means to an Ir: man centuries of sacred memories i country, wrongs resisted, hopes mi taiued. The wearing of it by the Ii soldiers, then, is a concession—I almost called tremendous concessiol to Irish sentiment by the British thrq which must have vast consequences., “But, speaking assuredly in no sp of carping objection, but as an illns tiou and a man, I point ont that conduct of English ministers tow this small question is a very remarkt and significant example of theslowi and dumbness of wit, the want imagination and sympathy which characterized all the actions betv England and Ireland. “While the Scotch soldier could the thistle without interference, wj the Welsh soldier could wear the the Irish soldier for years has been, some stupid order, deprived of privilege and sent to prison because wore the emblem of his national And when an Irish member, sest after session, called attention to fact, he was howled at by many Eng| members and he received either an rnpt or hostile answer from the ister. “And, now, after all the bitternesj these years, after the imprisonment i insults aud all the rest of the con| versy is ended by the order of the hi est and greatest figure in the reali will not say, as can be said aboni many other cenoessions to the Irj ‘Too late, too late,’ but assuredly! conclnsiou has not come too soon, now, as to the visit of the qneen to I land. If, in this act, if I may ase| word, a statesmanlike aud eloq^ proof, added to the many others, the present sovereign is one of the est that has ever ruled these lands. 1 * REPLIES RECEIVED South American Republics Respond to Our Call. MEET IN CITY OF MEXICO General Congress of Independent tiov> THE SOUTH’S PROGRE1 Many New Industries Reported UuJ the fast Week. Chattanooga, March J9.—Amon* more important of the now icdnsi reported by The Tradesman during week ended March 17 include a ba factory in North Carolina; a $30 bleachery aud cotton mill iu Ni Carolina; brick works and a broom tory in North Carolina; coal mines coke works in West Virginia; two ton mills in Alabama, oue in Arkat two in Georgia—capitalized at $30 and $1,000,000 respectively, two! North Carolina, three in South 0| lina aud two in Texas; a cotton woolen null in North Carolina; co| seed oil mills in South Carolina Texas; electric light and power pld in Georgia and West Virginia; a fel izer factory in South Carolina; flou$ mills iu Kentucky and the Carolina foandry and machine shop in Art sas; gold mines in Georgia; a guano | tory in North Carolina; ice factorieJ North Carolina and Texas; a knitl mill in Alabama, three in North O) lina and one in Virginia; lumber in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky Texas; phosphate mines in Tennei rice mills in Louisiana; a rope millj Georgia; a soap factory in Texa^ $400,000 textile machinery works at wadding and batting mill in Georgi] A LYNCHING IN ALABAI Charles Humphries Shot to Uc on Sunday. Coiumbus, Ga., March 19.—Cht Humphries, a negro who had attemj to ontrage a young white girl, was to death by a mob yesterday. Saturday night Humphries ooncej himself in the bedroom of Miss McC the 16-year-old daughter of Mr. McCoy, a well known farmer, who •ides 10 miles west of Columbus, when the yonng lady went to her rJ to retire he seized her, but her screa bronght assistance and the assaill fled. A posse started out to findT negro, who was recognized by on| the family as Humphries. Yesterday he was sarronnded captured. He confessed to the and was shot Whipped and Ordered to Laavej Athens, Ga., March 19. - Moore, a negro bell boy at theComi cial hotel, while in a drunken condi yesterday entered a lady’s room inj hotel and frightened her badly, was arrested, but was released oi agreement that he would take 80 lashes and leave towu. The Vuuee Statue. Raleigh, March 19.—The unveiling of the Vance statne in the capitol square here cannot take place May 20, as planned, bat will occur July 4, as it will be nearly fonr months before the statue is ready. Death of Major Caskle. Galveston, March 19 —Major Wil liam H. Caskie, a veteran of the civil war. known as the cartoonist of Texas Siftings, when that publication was in the heyday of its prosperity, is dead, aged 64. _ New Itullroud Projected. Sr a kt an burg. S. O., March 10 —F. M. Stearnes of Cleveland, O., is hera interesting the people In & new railroad from here to Colnmbas, N. C. :om was undoubtedly the work of an indent diary. Deaths From Hydrophobia. Columbia, S. O., March 19.—Mad dogs have cansed a panic in several lo calities of the Pee Dee section. Sam uel Nelson of Staiesburg, bitten six weeks ago. has died of hydrophobia, after suffering in the worst forms. An other mao, name unknown, is reported to have died in Somter county. State Baptist Convention. Griffin, Ga., March 19.—Local Bap tists are preparing for the coming of | the delegatee of the state Baptist con- : vention, which convenes here next week. * Committees are canvassing the city and homes have been secured for nearly all the delegates, which will be about 600 iu unuiber.