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THE LARGEST Circulatioii of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional district of S. C. 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. S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1901. S 1.50 A YEAR. WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK The Tug of War is Sure to Come. TILLMAN AND M’LAURIN. Senator Tillman Score. Senator McLanrlo on ill. Speech at Charlotte- Mcl^urin Says Public I’riutN nre not the Place to Reply. Trenton, E lgefidd County, April IS).—Speaking this evening of Sena tor McL&urin’s speech before the Manufacturers’ Club at Charlotte, Senator Tillman said: “Senator McLaurin’s speech at Charlotte la contradictory, full of paradoxes and seems intended to pave the way for the Senator’s passage into the Re publican camp. It may excite sur prise outside of tbe State, but the only thing which astonishes us here is l.is continued effort to pose as a Democrat. Democracy has a broad or general meaning, and a special or local meaning as applied to one of the great national parties. My col league says: 'My definition of Dem ocracy is liberty for man, formulated into a theory of government; it means man’s inalienable ownership of him self. It means free thought and free speech.’ This is not the definition given in any dictionary, nor is it the definition given by Jefferson, and^is only intended to justify the Senator’s desertion of his party, his treachery to its principles and his betrayal of the people of South Carolina who have trust.d him. The Kansas City platform is the only embodiment of Democratic principles that can now be recognized, sod no man can be considered a Democrat who ignores the principles and policies laid down in that platform and votes with the Republican Administration <on both its foreign and domestic policies. Senator McLaurin iterates and reiter ates the charge that the ‘New Democ racy’ is a sectional party, and then truthfully claims that the South, which in the last campaign was alone Democratic, 'is the American end of America;’ strange that, because of this fact, and our veneration and love for the principles upon which our Government rests, that this ‘Broad American statesman’ and uew/-borQ Democrat of a hitherto unknown typo should couuci! our people to ac cept conditions as they are aud make the most of them.’ “Senator McLaurin declared in 1898 that: ‘McKinley should be re nominated by acclamation,’ and If his speech means anything it means that the Democratic party ought to surrender all of its traditions, which, he claims, are ‘long since dead,’ be come an echo to the Republican par ty, endorse its foreign policy, as well as its domestic policy, ship subsidy, large standing army and everything, and subside absolutely as a Demo cratic party. If the Administration policy is right, what need is there for a political factor? “I have never believed that my colleague would dare face the people of South Carolina in any political campaign again, knowing what I do about him, but as he indicates his purpose to still masquerade as a Democrat, and while attacking me covertly as one of the ‘leaders’ of the so-called new Democracy, it is bis purpose to lead our people into tbe Republican camp, duty compels me to speak out and tell certain things. Mr. McLaurin made in tbe Senate January, 1899, a speech, which was as ultra, and as pronounced in its denunciation of the acquisition of the Philippines, and portrayed the many dangers which threatened our coun try in consequence, as any ever de livered in that body. Up to Satur day night before we voted on the treaty with Spain, on Monday, Feb ruary 7, 1899, he repeatedly told me and other Senators be was bitterly opposed to the ratification and would not vote for it. Between adjourn ment Saturday evening and the vote on Monday the mantle of “broad American state^mansbip” descended upon him, and a few minutes before the Senate went into executive ses sion to consider tbe treaty, and take tbe vote as agreed, be gave a halting and lame explanation of bis intended change of front. His vote secured the ratification because on the first- roll-call Mr. Jones, of Nevada, who had also told us he would vote against the treaty, “passed” when his name was called, and I feel certain that if Senator McLaurin had stood by his party and by bimself, Mr. Jones would not at the end have voted for ratification. Conscious, as he Is, that his vote was tbe governing fac tor in the train of momentous conse quences, so far reaching and terrible, involving the war of subjugation in the Philippines, the expenditure of hundreds of millions dollars, tbe loss of thousands of lives and other dire results, which no man can foreaee, It la natural for Senator McLaurin to make a desperate effort to vindicate the President's policy In his own Action. Tbe Declaration of Independence is, of course, a “dead tradition” to a man who behaves as he haa done. Such a man has no conscience or principles. The eloquent speech which be delivered In the Senate was largely stolen from a sermon deliv ered by the Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, on Thanksgiving Day, Novem ber, in the Brick Church of l»* York city, two mootbi before Senator McLaurin delivered It in the Senate. I have not only had to blush be cause Mr. McLaurin had deserted his party in a great crisis under suspi cious circumstances, and contrary to his avowed purpose, but have bad the mortification of having other Senators, Northern gentlemen, apeak of the degradation to which South Carolina had come In being repre sented by a man who would boldly steal the brain work of another by whole sentences and paragraphs, and have tbe effrontery to deliver it in the Senate. Tbe people of South Carolina can not be further deceived or misled by this man, and I speak now in order that they may fully inform them selves on all of these matters, and I stand ready to furnish the proofs of everything I say, and if necessary will meet Mr. McLaurin face to face in any forum he may choose. If his proposed scheme of broad statesman ship is Democracy, then I am not and have never been a Democrat, and as the people of South Carolina have recently re-elected mo as a Democrat without opposition I feel warranted in letting the people outside of tbe State, as well as those inside, know just what manner of man this is, I have kept silent hitherto because I was ashamed to let the world know how our people had been deceived in him.” Senator McLaurln’g Reply. Charleston. April 20.—Senator McLanrin came back at Senator Tillman this afternoon in a hot inter view, defending bis course in the senate and explaining bis vote on tbe ratification of the Paris treaty and also bis seeming plagiarism of the Rev. Van Dyke’s sermon. He re fuses to meet Senator Tillman on the stump. Tbe interview speaks for itself and is as follows: I have only this to say in reference to Senator Tillmac’s Interview. So far as his personal attack on me is concerned, the public prints are not the place to reply. I neither court nor desire his friendship or good opinion. Nor do I propose for the benefit of some one else to be drawn into a controversy with him. I am ready to do my own fighting and want other people to do the same. Concerning his vote on the Paris treaty, Senator McLaurin said: “I did intend to vote with tbe ma jority of the Democrats against the ratification of the treaty, for reasons purely of party consideration. I never said anything to Senator Till man or any one else to give him tbe right to truthfully say that I was bitterly opposed’ to its ratification. It is aud has been intensely unpleas ant for me to differ from so many of my party associates. I bad just been through a campaign full of bitterness and desired, if possible, to avoid fur ther differences. The appeal was made to me to defeat the treaty and secure the tactical advantage of de feating the administration and forc ing them to call an extra session. It is a pretty low plane of action, but for the sake of peace and to avoid just what has occurred since, con cluded to vote for the rejection of tbe treaty. It was with this idea that I went home Saturday night. Sunday afternoon, sitting in my dining room, I heard a newsboy calling extras and sent out and got one. I saw that tbe natives had opened fire on our troops and when I read the account made up my mind at once that the treaty should be ratified so as to fix the status of the United States in a for eign war already on. It made the people on our troops rebels, and not us intruders. The thirty days lack ing before an extra session could be called might be productive of untold harm. I have never seen the day since when I was not glad that I did have the strength to vote as I thought right. I did so freely and with no promise or pledge from any man. “Immediately it was published to the world that I had been promised Judge Slmontou’s place. A more in famously false and cruel slander was never perpetrated. “There hasn’t been a time in five years when I haven’t wished that I could decently and honorably get out of public life. When President Mc Kinley offered me the place intended for a Democrat on tbe Philippine commission I declined and told bim that I never wanted anything for my self at his bands, but that if through me be could help Sooth Carolina I wanted him to do it. This is all I ever desire or expect, and If I did not feel that I was helping and could help my State nothing oh earth could in duce me to submit one hour longer to such vituperation aod abuse, “It is no new ro.'e,” continued the senator, “for Senator Tillman. He began his career by abusing and slandering better men. I have naught but contempt for an intel lectual bully aud shameless preten der masquerading as a statesman, a moral pigmy posing as tbe champion of honesty.” Concerning tbe charge of plagiarism McLaurin said: “So far as plagiarizing Dr. Van Dyke’s sermon is concerned, it was largely due to accident. I was much struck with its beauty of thought and diction. I had a borrowed copy and dictated from it.three or four sentences to my stenographer, and in tbe original, which any one can see, are the words ‘paraphrasing the recent utterances of a distinguished divine,’ etc., there were left out of the copy. After making tbe speech I went south on tbs next train and never saw tbe speech again until It was Id print. My secretary did pot aotlos it, sod M dli^lbotod several thousand before my attention was called to it.” In conclusion Senator McLaurin made this caustic comment: “I sincerely regret the mortifica tion to the sensitive, delicate and re fined nature of my colleague. Honors are easy, however, for l can assure him that 1 have experienced similar pangs at some of the ‘pitchfork tones’ which he plays to tbe digust of the senate and the delectation of the gallery loafers.” Midway Meftmtue*. (CorreaponSenca of The Ledger.) Midway, April 19.—The farmers are getting along nicely. Some com plain of too much rain while others rejoice over it. Some have already planted enough corn to do them and yet they are not half through. Mr. Will Doggett, of your city, and his brother, Going Doggett, of Char lotte, N. 0., were in this section this week looking over their farm. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. L. Turner and daughter, Miss Hattie, accompanied by Dr. S. B. Crawley, visited Dr. Wakefield’s eye hospital in Charlotte last week to have an operation per formed on one of Mrs. Turner’s eyes, but after an examination by Dr. Wakefield they decided to treat the eye with medicine. We are glad to learn that Mrs. Preston Wood is much better. Mrs. Will Young is also improving. Rev. Junius Ellis preaches every fourth Sunday at Midway at 11 o'clock. Homo. Neven Yearn In lied. “Will wonders ever cease?” Inquire tbe friends of Mrs. L. Pease, of Law rence, Kan. They knew she had been unable to leave her bed In seven years on account of kidney aud liver trouble, nervous prostration and general debility; but, “Three bottles of Electric Bitters enabled me to walk,” she writes, “and in three months I felt like a nsw person.” Women suffer ng from Headache, Backache. Nervousness, Sleepless ness, Melancholy, Fainting and Dizzy Spells will find it a priceless blessing. Try it. Satisfaction is guaranteed. Only 50c. Cherokee Drug Oo. Tbe oil of tobacco found in the stems of long-used pipes, or obtained by distillation at a red boat, is one of the most active and powerful poisons known to the chemist. A single drop will often canse death in the case of a dog or cat. You will waste time if you try to cure indigestion or dyspepsia by starving yourself. That only makes it worse when yon do eat heartily. You always need plenty of good food properly digested. Kodol Dyspepsia Care is the result of years of scien tific research for something that would digest not only some elements of food but every kind. And it is the one remedy that will do it. Cherokee Drug Co. Tbe Duke of Westminster’s wed ding-cake was adorned with reprodne- tions of tbe ancestral homes of the bride and bridegoom, and with their coat of arms emblazond on silken banners. It was 7 feet in height and weighed over 200 pounds. “Last winter I was confined to my bed with a very bad cold on the lungs. Nothing gave me relief. Fi nally my wife boogbt a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure that effected a speedy cure. I cannot speak too highly of that excellent remedy.”— Mr. T. K. Houseman, Manatawney, Pa. Cherokee Drug Co. An Illinois man has Invented an incandescent lamp that may be regu lated. It can be turned up or down as may be desired. “I bad piles so bad I could get no rest nor find a core nntil I tried De- Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve. After using it once, I forgot I ever had anything like Plies.” E. C. Boice, N. Y Look out for imitations. Be sure you ask for DeWitt’s. Chero kee Drug Company. A leading Cincinnati minister re cently prayed for those in his congre gation who were too proud to kneel and too lazy to stand. You cannot enjoy perfect health, rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes if your liver is sluggish and your bowels clogged. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers cleanse tbe whole system. They never gripe. Cherokee Drug Company. Life is too fhort to nurse one’s misery. Harry across the lowlands, that you may spend more time on the mountain-tops. Skin troubles, cats, burns, scalds and chafing quickly heal by the use of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It is imitated. Be sure you get De Witt’s. Oberokse Drug Company. The queen’s funeral cost $180,000, nearly one-third of which was for the housing and entertainment of the foreign guests. Those famous little pills, DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, will remove all Impurities from your system, cleanse yonr bowels, make them regular. Cherokee Drug Company. The Island of Chios, in the Egean ■ea, has an oak, the age of which is believed to be 29 centuries. Putnam Fadeless Dye, Pink, Is the only dye that produces clear, bright shades of pink that are fait to light and washing. 10c. per package, fold by Df, 6. B. Qravlay 4 Oo. RISING OF RIVERS IS PUTING HAVOC Danger Line Has Been Beach ed at Cincinnati. OHIO 18 STILL ON A BOOM Duck Water on Kentucky Side Has Inundated Portions of Covington, Newport and Other Suburbs—li'car* ed Worst Is Yet to Come. Cincinnati, April 2).—The danger line was reached here today iu the Ohio river flood which started at the head waters last week aud did sonic damage at Pittsburg and intermediate points. The back water along the Licking on the Kentucky side has inundated parts of Covington, Newport and other sub- orbs. The Mill Creek valley is full of water and debug damage iu the west end of Cincinnati. A similar condition exists in tbe east end aud along the Lit tle Miami bottom. But the Worst con dition is aloug the public lauding audio the lower part of this city, where sewers are blocked and cellars tilled with back water. A stage of 46 feet causes damage in this section, aud that stage was reach ed last evening. At 53 feet trains can not enter the Grand Central station. At 50 feet the baseball park is flooded and at 53 feet the races at the track in Newport, Ky., must stop. All of these limits are iu sight and most of them will come today. The crest of the Pitts burg rise Is not duo here till tomorrow, but Ike extent of it has been closely an ticipated and preparations have been made accordingly. At 10 o’clock the Ohio river here reached 49 feet, just 1 foot from what is called the danger line, although dam age was incurred last night and today at other stages. The rise is 4 inches per hour, so that by 1 o’clock there will be 50 feet. The Grand Central depot can at this rate be used till 10 o’clock to night, but the railways entering it are already arranging for stopping at the Eighth street station. Reports from up the river iudieate rain at most peiuts and the river rising as the Pittsburg crest meets the floods of the lower river tributaries. The situation here and in the lower Ohio valley is uow serious. Relief Will Be Provided. Mayor Fleischmann aud city officials today made a tour of inspection in pa trol wagons around the flooded districts and afterwards took a boat. Relief will be provided for all who are iu need of it. Tbo Chicago ball club arrived., today, but the water lacks only Id inches of flooding the ball park, and there will not likely be any games this week. The races on the Newport track will proceed this afternoon, although the course Is very sloppy. While some of the railways may be unable to reach thoir depots, none will be shut out of the city, and traffic between suburban Etatione|is about as usual Situation in Suburbs. At Newport, Ky., there was 53 feet at noon, the gauge there being deeper than ou the Cincinnati side. A groat portion of Dayton, Ky., is submerged. At Lawreuceburg, lud., the 50-foot dan ne was reached at noon and a general inundation followed. At Parkersburg, W. Va., Ann, Julian and Market streets are under water and the first floors of the business houses are filled with water. In the Riverside and Southside suburbs tbe water is in the second stories and hundreds are home less. Mayor Vandervert has appointed relief committees aud appealed to the public tot funds. At Portsmouth. O., merchants in the lower districts are submerged and hun dreds of residences have been abandoned iu that vicinity. Public schools were dismissed so as to use- buildings fot sheltering the homeless. The schools were dismissed at Iron ton for the purpose. WATERS SLOWLY RECEDING Situation In Western Pennsylvania* Heavy Losses. Pittsburg, April 23.—While western Pennsylvania was fairly out of the cinches of the flood this morning, fears of a quick repetition of the disaster, and perhaps on an increased scale, seemed to haunt the people. Weather condi tions are not reassuring. It is again raining iu Pittsburg aud advices from the headwaters of the Alleghany showed a renewed rise, with a continued down pour. Warmer temperature acting on tbe snow was a factor that also caused some apprehension. Tbe waters at this point have been steadily receding since 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, but this has been very slow. At 9 o’clock this moruing the Allegheny marks showed 31 feet and falling about 3 inches an hour. Brooms aud scrubbing brushes were manipulated vigorously in Allegheny and Pittsburg today aud the post flood cleaning was carried on in earnest. It is impossible to fairly approximate tbe loss resulting from the high waters. Estimates vary from $1,000,000 to ♦3,000,000, but the first figures will probably come nearer the correct amount. A sketch of the situation would place in the foreground 25,000 idle employes, who iu two days of enforced idleness will lose ISOO.OOO in wages. Damages to plants along Pennsylvania avenue and to tbe vast Westinghouse manufac tory iu Wilmerding, with the shutdown of other big establishments at Rankin and Boroughs iu the Turtle Creek val ley, easily amounts up to 1530,000 more. The aggregate loss to railroads is esti mated at $100.^00. Property iu Alle- ghauy has suffered iu July to an equal extent Marshalling with these manifold items of damage to other adjacent oom- muni ties, the total of $1,000,000 can easi ly be reached. The mills and factories aloug the r.vcr fronts will not be able to resame before tomorrow. The rail- roads arc rapidly getting iuto shape again, and by evening it is expected that all trains will be running ou sched ule time. The source of greatest trouble is at Dray villo, a short distance from the state line. * SitflVrlnjr iiml I).image. Huntington, W. Va., April 33.—The Ohio river is 53 feet ami rising 1.5iuch« an hour. All tributaries iu the ccutn. and southern portion, of the state are falling at headwaters, but Guyau- dotte, Twelve Pole aud Big Sandy are rising within 40 miles of the mouth. News of suffering and great damage continues to come from many points along the streams. No loss of life has been reported this morning. The Ohio will likely uot exceed 55 feet here. Nu merous neighboring towns are flooded. Arctic Weather In Tennessee. Huntsville, Tenn., April 33.—There are from 4 to 6 inches of snow ou the groand here and it is still snowing. Enough suow has fallen since Friday to make it 12 inches deep if none has melted. Long idicles hang from the roofs of houses. It is very cold and tbe fruit is killed. A full grown dow was frozen to death in the streets yesterday. Coldest Point South. Knoxville, April 23. — The cold weather continues here today, though the indications for warm weather pre vail. This is tbe coldest point south of of St. Paul, Minn., according to the weather bureau reports, the tempera ture being 86 this moruing at 7 o’clock. Kentucky River Rising. Frankfort, Ky., April 23.—The Ken tucky river is rising at this polut 2>* inches an hour aud a heavy rain which began Sunday morning is stlU falling. The danger point is uot yet reached. tillmapTand^mmlaurin out The Two South Carolina Senators Ex change Compliments. Columbia. S. C., April 23 —Senator Tillman has given out an interview in reply to Senator McLaurin’s speech de livered last Thursday night before the Manufacturers’ club of Charlotte. N. C. When asked his opinion of the ju nior senator’s address, Senator Tillman said: “It is contradictory, full of paradoxes and seems intended to pave the way for the senator’s passage into the Republi can camp. It may excite surprise out of the $tate, but the only thing which astonishes us here is his continued effort to pose as a Democrat. * * * “The people of South Carolina cannot be further deceived or misled by this man, and I speak now in order that they may fully inform themselves ou all of these matters and stand ready to fur nish the proof of everything I say, and if necessary will meet Mr. McLaurin face to face in any forum he ma#4^^oe. If bis'proposed scheme of broad ffilH- mauship is Democracy, then I am act and have never bpeu a Democrat, and as the people of Sduth Carolina have re cently re elected me as a Democrat without opposition, I feel warranted iu letting the people outside of the state as well as those inside kuow just what manner of mau this is. I have kept si lent heretofore because I was ashamed to let the world kuow how our people had been deceived m him. ” Senator McLanriu declares be will not be drawn into a controversy with Tillman. “This is no new role for Sen ator Tillman,” he exclaimed. “He be gan his oareer abusing and slandering better men. I have contempt for an in tellectual bully aud shameless pretender masquerading as a statesman, a moral posing as a champion of houepty. (her court nor desire his friendship or good opinion.” VERY MUCH LIKE FICTION Dime Novel Writers Have Missed a Rich Chance. Macon, April 33.—Information has been received iu Macon that Bob Kent, a well known young white man of this city, was killed Saturday evening at Rogers, in Bartow coauty, Ga. He was run over by a locomotive and both legs were cut off and he was otherwise in jured. In January of last year he was sent from Bibb county to the penitentiary under a sentence of two ypara for burg lary. He had served about 15 months of his time. It is not known whether he was killed at a convict camp dr oth erwise. Kent was well connected in Macon, bat for years he had led a disreputable life, costing his father money and trou ble. His escapades wore numerous and black Once, soon after the oommisslou of a crime, be was sent to the lunatic asylnm at Milledgeville, but he ran away and induced a girl employe at the asylnm to come off with him. They went to various points and finally landed in Macon. He was not returned to the asylum, as the authorities did uot con sider him at all crazy. He was sent to the coauty chaingaug several times un der sentences from the recorder’s court. At the time he was sentenced to the penitentiary there was hanging over him a recorder’s fine of $50 or four months on tbe chaingang for city viola tions. An effort was made to send him to the asylum a second time as a means of escaping punishment for one of his misdeeds, but the jury refused to declare him a fit subject for the lunatic asylum. SIX PERISH IN THE~FLAMES Explosion of Uas Causes Burning of Hotel. St. Marts, W. Va., April 33.—By the burning of tha Commercial hotel here last night six persona lost their lives. The dead are: Samuel Cunningham, driller, Roxford, Pa.; John George, oil man, Bitler, Pa.; Harry Robinson, tool dresser, Corning, O.; Bert Smiley, shoot- «r; Smiley’s mate, name nnknown. and John Slater, ion of Mrs. Slater, proprl- stress of the hotel The ^ lire was caused by a gas explo sion and the building was rapidly con sumed. Three Stitches in the Heart. St. Louis, April 33.-Philip Gunn, who was stabbed in the heart Saturday sight and was made the subject of an kwoio operation at the city hospital, where Dr. EL L. Nlettert, the superin tendent, sewed up the wound in that organ, died. Dr. Nlettert took three ■titohes in Gann’s heart. Salt water replaced the lost blood and heart stimu lants kept the man alive until today. No Ball tfor Captain Carter. Wamwoton, April 33.-The United States supreme court today denied the S£‘o2wVuf p * s IS M. R. REESE CAPTURED? Nherlfl Huh u Muu AnHweriDff to IIIh De scription. The Columbia State of Sunday con tained the following concerning M. R. Reese, formerly of Blacksburg: It looks very much as if Marion R. Reese, who was convicted of murder in York county along with Daniel F. Luckie, and was sentenced to hang, afterwards making one of the most daring, ingenious and succssful es capes from jail ever attempted in the State, has, after about four years of liberty, been captured. Reese, though ajman of means, has remained near home it seems all of this time, instead of going to some distant country. How he has managed to avoid capture with vigorous effoiti being made all the while to get him and large rewards offered is a mys tery and shows that both he and Luckie were both men of nnre than ordinary intelligence. The capture has been made in Ox ford, Miss., and tbe letter received by Gov. McSweeney from Sheriff John R. Harkins yesterday morning is the very first thing that has been heard of either of the men since their escape. Sheriff Harkins seems to have no doubt of having the right man. He mentions the woman Ellen Anderson in his letter; she has been supposed to be dead for the last two years, and this presents another very interesting phase of the case. The crime was a brutal one. Wil liams, the victim, was shot down et night in Blacksburg. The trial was a noteworthy one, Gen. Le Roy You- mans of this city and Maj. Jas. F. Hart of \ orkville defending Reese. Here is the letter received by the governor, dated Oxford, Miss., April 18: Dear Sir: I have In my possession a elr- culur iHsued by W. II. Newtwld, chief State detective, Chester. S. <J., offering a reward rpf„ Mario.. K. Jtecse who killed Ciias. T. \y ill.unis at Yorkville iu your State some time prior to the year IKiff. I have the said Reese located in Jail at tills place. This morning, Koeso admits Unit he is the party wanted at l orkville, and oilers to return without requisition, provid 'd he can he started hy tomorrow. Reese is a hold, had man, aud evidently conte'mplates making Ills escape, either en route to South Carolina, orhy the assistance of his friends after lie reaches there. Every tiling points to the fact tiiat * * * is friendly to Reese, aud that Reese is expect ing some aid from him. I do not know any thing of tl.e friends and relatives of Die dead man, nor do I know whether Mr. New hold is still alive i r what his postofliee address is. 1 have written him at Chester, ids address at the time of tl.e issuance of the circular: hut tor fear tiiat the letter may uot reael. him, I also write you. .i lt . , ?. the ‘“‘pression of the authorities here that Reese had hotter be carried hack under the requ sition; and perhaps tiiat It will ho necessary to have the requisition or. the governor of tills .State and on the president of the United States, as Reese is now held under a writ from the federal court. 1 ana informed hy tl.e United States district attor- ney here, however, that the federal authori ties will surrender Reese to the authorities of South Carolina upon condition that if punishment is not moled out to him there, he will bo redelivered to the federal authori ties for prosecution here. I wastl cough w satished that 1 had ti.e right man locale t before Reese's admission, hut all doubt is now removed. 1 see from the circular in my possession that the governor of Mouth Carolina has offered a reward of |500, and the sheriff of York county a reward of *m I would he glad if the authorities of South Carolina would prepare at once to have Reese extra- dlted and carried back. I presume there will he no difflculty In the way of obtaining the reward, hut will.ask you to render me .. tttev S r assistance you can in the matter. Mrs. Ellen Anderson, iwho is passing for Reese s wife is in attendance here. DanT F, Luckie has not been located, but it may he tbet developments will lead to his capture. Yours very truly, Jno. R. Harkins. Sheriff. Tha following telegram was at once sent: Jno. R. Harkins Sheriff, 0.\fotd, Miss.: Wire me if identity of Marlo alt Reese Is positive. If so hold him to awa.t requisition. 14. B. McSwernky, Governor. The following was also sent: Clerk of Court, Yorkville,'S. C.: Send certified copy of indictment of Marion R. Reese convicted of murder and certified copy of sentence of court by return mail. M. B. McSwkenky, Governor. Last night the following reply was received from the sheriff; M. B. McSweeney, Governor of South Caro lina, Columbia, S. C.: Prisoner admits being Reese and looks like picture. Only identlhcation wc can give. Jno. R. Harkins. Sheriff. Here tbe matter rests for the pres ent. Ht« pped Into Live Coals. “When a child I burned my foot fr.gbtfully,” writes W. H. Eads, of Johciviile, Va., “which caused hor rible leg sores for 30 years, but Buck- len’s Arnica Salve wholly cured me after everything else failed.” In fallible for Burns, Scalds, Guts, Sores, Bruises and Files. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. Miss Ella Ewing, the Missouri giantess, who is 8 feet 5 Inches in height, recently completed a house for herself at the town of Govin, in that stale. Her new house has doors 10 feet high, ceiling 15 feet high, with chairs, tables, beds and every thing in proportion. “I have been troubled with Indi gestion for ten years, have tried many things and spent mnch money to no purpose until I tried Kodol Dyspepsia Care. I I have taken two bottles and gotten more relief from them than all other medicines taken. I feel more like a boy than I have Mt in twenty years.” Anderson Riggs of Bonny Lane. Tex. Thou sands have testified as did Mr. Riggs. Cherokee Drug Co. The female spider is always larger than tbe male, and if accounts be true, is of a rather peppery dispo sition. When the husband biomes obstinate and will not obey erd^rs, tDe loving wife eats him np to get rid of him, and seeks a more obedient spouse. Spring coughs are specially dan gerous and unless cured at ooce, se rious results often follow. One Minute Cough Cure acts like magic. Jt is not a common mixture but laa r bigh grade remedy. Cherokee Drug Oomjpaoy. BUSINESS RESUMED AT THE GIG STAND Famous Volcano Once More Attracts Attention. VESUVIUS AGAIN ACTIVE Columns of Smoke Issuing Krom Cra ter, While Hains of Cinders Are Sprinkling the Country For 311ies Around—Earthquake Shocks. Paris, April 22.—Mount Vesuvius is again iu a state of active eruption, and many people, scientists, students aud the serious, including American tour ists, are leaving Paris by every train for Naples. The first signs of disturbance were ob served a week ago, when for three days columns of smoke issuing rapidly from the crater in great volume towered high above the volcano. Then came oc casional rains of the cinders, sometimes sprinkling the coautry for several miles around. Now lava is beginning to run. The fire at the crater is very intense at night, illuminating the surrounding re gion beautifully. Only two sUght trem ors of earthquake have beou teit so far, BITTER ROAD WAR NOW ON In Hull County, Cu., Two Factious Arc Heady to Fight. Gaixesvillf., Ga., April 22—There is what might be termed a “road war” ou iu Roberts’ district iu Hall county. Two factions there are at outs over a new road, an order to establish which was recently granted by the board of county commissioners, and serious trou ble may result before tbe matter is set tled. One faction is led by G. L. White aud the other by M. E. Pass, both of whom are prominent citizens and laud owners in Roberts’ district, which ad joins the Gwinnett county line near Buford. A few days ago J. A. Higgins, the road commissioner for Roberts "district, ordered the road hands to cut out the new road, which is to ruu from Sha- bum’s ferry road to Bu/urd. It appears that most of tho men complied with the order, but after the work was done and tho commissioner instructed the men to grade the uew road, the faction led by M. E. Pass rebelled aud refused to do another lick of work. The commissioner was powerless to make the men do the grading, and has appealed to the county board of com missioners to help him. Chairman John A. Smith will go to Roberts’ district aud see if he can get the people together. He states that if they do uot agree among themselves about the new road, the county board will let them and the road, too, alone. This identical road question has been before the county board iu one shape or another for seven years, and it can readily bo understood from this that there is great feeling back of it, aud if not settled soon may cause serious e rsemal encounters between the two stions of Roberts’ district. DECISION IN A LIQUOR CASE Hailroad Should Surrender When Warrant Is Presented. Little Rock, April 22.—The Arkan sas supreme court has delivered an opin ion in a liquor seizure case under the met passed iu 1899 to suppress the illegal sale of liquor and to destroy the same when found iu prohibited districts. The marshal of Jonesboro seized ond de stroyed a quantity of whisky under this act. The liquor was in tbo St T^ni« Southwestern niilrokd depot when it was seized. The consignors sued the railroad company for the value of the goods. The supreme court declares that it was the duty of the railroad to surrend er the whisky to the marshal under the warrant ho had, and that the law pro tects tbe railroad company. The de cision affects a large number of coun ties where license was defeated in the last election. THE WAR IN~SOUTH AFRICA Kitchener Reports Recent Operations of British Forces. London, April 23.—Lord Kitchener in a dispatch to tbe war office, under date of Pretoria, April 21, says: “Since my last report the British col umns have captnred 242 prisoners, 248 rifles, some ammunition, wagons and carts. A few men have also surren dered.” Editor Gets One Year. Cape Town, April 22.—Albert Cart wright, editor of The South African News, who was arrested in February ou a charge of seditious articles published in bis statement that Lord Kitchener had secretly instructed his treops not to take prisoners, has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. Sponsor and Chief Maid. Montgomery, Ala., April 32.—Gen eral George P. Harrison of Opelika, oommander-in-chief of the Alabama Confederate Veterans, has appointed Mias Lucy Randal of Union Springe sponsor for the state and MieeMary Kirkpatrick chief maid of honor, to act at the reunion of Confederate Veterans to be held on May 3§ln Memphla There two young ladies will go to Memphis Monday, May 37, in General Harrison’s private ear; Mine Workers Oo Oat. Columbus, O., April 33.—Twenty-five hundred mine workers of the lower part of sub-district No. 5 of Ohio and West Virginia went on a strike this morning. The strike was caused by a disagree ment In regard to the dead work teulsi Case of Patrick. New York, April 32.—The considera tion of the case of Albert T. Patrick, ac cused of the murder of William Marsh Rico, wu resumed today by the grand Jury.