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GAFFNEY, S. C M FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1901.
SI.50 A YEAB,
EXPLODING BOILERS
CAUSE MANX DEATHS
Awful Accident to Steamer
City of Trenton.
E^fG
INEER’S PREMONITION
Cutaslroplit* Occurred on Delaware
liivcr lictween I’liliadelitliia and
Trenton—Kleven Persons Dead, Nine
and 32 Injured.
PiIii.ADF.U’EUA, AuK t 29. — Eleven
known dead, nine missing and 32 in
jured, is the record made by tli* explo
sion of the holier* of the steamboat City
of Trenton on the Delaware river yes
terday afternoon.
All night long city firemen, police-
meu^ffid officials ami employes of tha
Wilmington Steamboat company, which
owut-d the ill fated vessel, worked in
and around me burned amt blackened
hull, searching for bodies of victims of
the disaster, believed to be either in the
vessel or in the water. Hundreds of
men are dragging the river bottom with
grappling irons today and they will con
tinue to do so until every person that
was on the boat is accounted for. Of
the 11 bodies that have been recovered
10 have been identified as follows:
The Identified Dead.
John P. Chew of Camden, assistant
engineer of the City of Trenton.
Miss Elizabeth Green of Philadel
phia crushed to death.
William Dunn of Philadelphia, a pas
senger.
Arthur Lansing, 14 years old, Tren
ton, N. J.
James O’Connell, fireman, Philadel
phia.
Mott Mahlo, fireman, Philadelphia.
August Mablc, deck hand, Philadel
phia.
James Graham, engineer, Trenton,
N. J.
James McCormick, Wilmington, Del,
passenger.
William II. King, Philadelphia, pas
senger. '
The unidentified body is so badly
burned mat its sex cannot be determ
ined.
Among the missing arc:
Miss Ethel Stokes of Trenton.
MisS Helen Priest, daughter of former
Mayor John Priest of Trenton,
^vccordiug to the statement of the
willow of the dead assistant engineer,
John P. Chew, the man had a presenti
ment of death. Mrs. Chew says that
before leaving homo for work on Tues
day night her husband said:
“Lizzie, I may never see you n{:ain.
I have a j resentimeut that there will bo
an explosion on the beat. If there is
there will be no escape for me. They
are running at too high a steam pres
sure, ami if an accident should occur, I
and many others will be killed.”
Of the 32 injured persons taken to the
hospital attached to tho Philadelphia
House of Correction, all are reported as
doing well today and it is not uow be
lieved that any of them will die.
Cause of the Explosion.
August Reinhart, an expert machinist
employed by tho Neafie & Levy Co.,
builders of the City of Trenton, recently
overhauled the boat’s boilers. He said
today that there is no doubt that tho ac
cident was due to mo exhaustion of the
water in the boilers He gave it as his
opituon that the boat was being run too
fastaud this exhausted the water. The
boat was late when she left her wharf
yesterday afternoon, and it is stated
that much of this lost time had been
made up when the explosion occurred.
The captain and other officers of the
boat and the oilicmls of tiio company
deny emphatically the statement that tho
City of Trenton was racing with the
steamer Twilight of the opposition lino
when the explosion occurred. The Twi
light and the Ciiy of Trenton were close
together at tho moment of the explo
sion, tho former being in the lead.
Those on board the Twilight did not
hear the explosion or know of tho mis-
Imj) to the. rival boat until too late to be
of assistance.
Never in the history of the Delaware
river has there been such keen rivalry
between lines of river steamers as dur
ing this season. On both the upper and
lower parts of the river races have been
of daily occurrence. Only a few wenks
ago the crow of the Trenton steamey
Poconoket was censured by Coroner Du-
gau for failing to go to tho assistance of
some people who were drowning. At
the time tho Poconoket was racing with
the Twilight, the boat that led tho City
of Trenton yesterday when the explos
ion occurred.
Superintendent of Police Park de
cided today tiiat tho matter will be fully
j ^investigated by his department. If tho
xtcharges of racing is sustained tho offi-
; cers and crow of the wrecked stoamor
ydll he arrested.
|-lit of Missing Persons.
In response to a request tho Depart?
meat of Public Safety today receive4
the following list of missing from per
sons who had relatives aud frieinls oq
tho Trenton:
Irepe Wild, 1(1 years.
Clara B. Wild, 13 years,
Dora Wild, I) years.
Mrs. Mathilda Gross, all of Phila
delphia.
Marion Asbmead, 17 years.
Anna Horr, ItJ years.
Emma Eastburn, IS years.
MBs Helen Balleutiue, 40 years, all of
Germantown.
Louisa Tillesou, 25 years, Philadel
phia.
In addition, two or more Trenton peo
ple are known to be missing.
Klver Steamer Sinks,
Br. Lot is, Aug. 29.—Tho steamer City
of Clifton, owned by the St. Louis am]
Teiiuessoe River Packet company, sank
at Seventy-Bix landing, about 15 miles
above Grand Tower, Ills. She was
bound for St. Louis and her cargo con
sisted mostly of lumber. Her passen
gers, which were transferred, arrived
hero safely on the steamer Chester. The
boat sank in 9 feet of water aud will be
•aved.
'!> n liras re Postuflleu Itohbod.
(hfATTANOOQA, Aug. att—T^P P0»t.'
office inspector hero was notified of tho
robbery of the postoffloo at Whistler.
Cash and stamps on hand were taken.
;0VER THE STATE.
Newsy It.-iiiH from Otlmr CniinlleH Uroupe.l
Toicether.
Mrs. Elonor Mallory, daughter of
Chief Justice Alclver, died at Cheraw
Hunday.
Tho Mullins .Strawberry Growers’
Association will plant about ono
hundred acres in strawberries this
fall.
A statement has been made by
well informed people that this state
will this year have a million bale cot
ton crop.
Tho graduates of tho South Caroli
na Medical College can practice with
out license. This is the opinion of
the Attorney General, recently ex
pressed.
Joseph Miles, an ‘‘old-time slavery
negro,” committed suicide Sunday
morning by shooting himself in the
nead with a shotgun at his home in
Wahoo township, near Seilers.
A movement is on foot at Green
wood to erect u convention hall. It
will be about the largest of its kind
in the State and is to be used as an
opera house, convention hall, lecture
hall and in general a place of meet
ing for all the large gatherings.
The secretary of State has granted
a charter to the William Hughes com
pany of Lancaster, to deal in general
merchandise on a capital of $20,000.
The officers are George W. Williams,
president and treasurer; T. McL.
Hughes, vice-president, and W. H.
Reed, secretary.
Thomas H. Watson, the young
white man who was the chief witness
for the prosi-cution in the trial of Bar
tow Warren, charged with having
robbed an express messenger on the
Southern Railway, was shot and mor
tally wounded at Branchville Monday
by the man against whom he had tes
tified.
Jerome Blowers and Miss Carrie
Clary, two well known people of Spar
tanburg. w’ere arrested in Charleston
Monday, by Deputy SheritI Holmes
on a warrant issued by Magistrate
McGowan, of Spartapburg, charging
them with adultery. Blowers has a
young wife and child in Spartanburg.
It Is said that he and Miss Clary
came to Charleston about a mouth
ago.
Governor McSweeney says that so
far as there being any political deal
or combination, or anything of the
sort, he wants it understood that he
has not now, nor never has had and
never expects to have, any with Col.
Neal, McLauren or anyone else. He
>8 responsible for bis pardon in the
General Assembly and to the people,
aud to no one else.
On Monday next a Labor Day cele
bration will be held in Columbia.
The speakers will be Governor.M. B.
McSweeney, an honorary member of
the Typographical Union; Adjutant
General J. W. Floyd, orator of tlie
day; Major F. S. Earle, who will de
liver the address of welcome, and
W. W. Lumpkin.
Reports from Marion are that to
bacco is beginning to be marketed
freely and is bringing very high pri
ces. Some say prices are . r >0 per cent
higher than they wore last year. The
number of pounds sold will probably
be less than last year, but this diller-
ence is likely to he made good by the
increased prices, and th'e crop may
be classed as a profitable one. It is
often sold at 40 or TiO cents a pound.
The Rev. A. W. Walker, a veteran
Methodist minister, died at the Ep-
worth Orphanage Saturday. Though
blind, Mr. Walker was a mostearnest
devoted and successful minister. He
was at one time stationed in Colum
bia. Mr. Walker returned here about
six weeks ago, having been to Florida
for the benefit of his health, His
wife died about four years ago and he
leaves no immediate relatives in this
State.
Tuesday, about a week ago, the
governor received a rather unusual
letter of resignation. It came from
Magistrate W. M. Venters, of Venters,
in Williamsburg county. Mr. Ven
ters tendered his resignation us mag
istrate upon the ground that no hon
est man could work for a salary of
$2 28 a month. The resignation was
of course promptly accepted and the
governor has requested Senator Wil
liams to nominate a successor in case
one can be found to take the job.
For a day or two past the “Rock
Hill racing committee”’ a self-con
stituted, but very efl|cient and pat
riotic organisation, has been furnish
ing the cltisens of that enterprising
town some good sport iq the shape of
watermelon races. Tho course is the
street in the center of the business
block. A melon, that acme of coon
inspiration, is placed at the goal, the
word is given and away goes the
straining bunch of little darkies,
every man for the melon and devil
take the hindmost. "The one who
gits it gits it.”
A terrible accident occurred Mon
day morning at fi o’clock at the work
on the Congaree Bridge for the South
ern Railway at Columbia. One white
man. K. Castleberry, and three ne
groes, Ruben Alston, Joe Tobias and
John Reese, were killed. Satr An
derson, colowifl> waH mortally wiund-
ed. Two oilers were hurt, Dave
Style, colorqtf keg and arm broken;
Henry Coler colored, head mash
ed. All of fui killed and injured
belong to Columbia. All of these
were in tho service of the Phoe
nix Bridge Company, which cor
poration had (the cqntruct for the
erection of tho now bridge A V tho
Congaree lliver for theSoutke/u 'nil-
way,
PHILIPPINES OFFER
GREAT INDUCEMENTS
Possibilities of New Ameri
can Possessions.
MR. HULL OF IOWA TALKS
“If I Were a Young Mail,” Ho Says,
“1 Don’t Know Where 1 Would Bath
er Go Thau to the 1‘hlllppliici-; tho
Islands Open a Vast Prospect.”
San Francisco, Aug. 20.—Congress
man Hull of Iowa, chairman of the
house committee on military affairs,
who has arrived here on the transport
Hancock from a five months’ tour of
China, Japan and the Pnilippines, is
deeply impressed with tho possibilities
of the new American possessions in tho
Orient. He says:
•‘It I wore a young man, I don’t
know where I should rather go than to
the Philippines. For a mau of braius
aud industry the islands open a vast
prospect in almost every lino of business
for one who has decided to go aud stick
to it.
“The mineral and agricultural re
sources of these islauds coustitute a
field for commercial enterprise that is
practically unlimited. Of course, the
present conditions of brigandage make
it exceedingly unsafe for people to set
tle in tho islauds away from tho protec
tion of the military posts; but the peo
ple, that is a great majority, desire
peace aud safety, and are doing all they
can to help the troops attain this end.
"Of course, it is impossible to make an
Anglo-Saxon out of an Oriental. There
fore, tho Filipino probably never will
be an American citizen in the broad
sense that is understood by all that term
conveys to the man born in the United
States of white parents, but as soon as
he gets a sufficient education and be-
c nnos a little more impregnated with
our ideas and loses some of the ideas ac
quired by a 300 years’ association with
the Soauiard, the Filipino will be a citi
zen in spirit, patriotism, iudusiry aud
education and will be worthy of partici
pating to the fullest extent in all the
benefits of this government.
"Of course, we shall have to govern
them with firmness as well as with kind
ness. I think 40,000 soldiers is about
tho right number to keep there for some
years to come.”
WILL NOT PAY REWARD.
Selby Smelting Company Give* Rea
sons For Not Doing So.
San Francisco, Aug. 29.—President
Ralston of the Selby smelting works an
nounces that the reward of $25,000 which
was offered for the arrest aud couvictiou
of the thief or thieves, who stole over
$300,000 worth of gold bullion ou the
night of Aug. 6, will not be paid as such,
though tho detectives and others who
were instrumental in recovering the
treasure ami sending the robber, John
Winters, to jail, will bo liberally com
pensated for their services.
Winters was under arrest when the
reward offer was made aud President
Ralston says his conviction was expect
ed. Tho company, however, thought
he had accomplices, ami feared also that
the gold hud been taken out of the
country, and for these reasons the offer
of the big reward was made. It is
stated that several of tho officers who
worked on the case have been settled
with, but the amount paid them is not
known.
COUNTERFEITERS^AUGHT.
Secret Service Agents Make Important
Haul In Oregon.
Baker City, Or., Aug. 29.—The most
important haul of couutorfeitiug appa
ratus ever made in eastern Oregon was
the capture on Snake river, by Deputy
Uuited States Marshal A. A. Roberts of
Portland aud a special agent of the se
cret service of the treasury department,
of a complete outfit for making counter
feit money.
K. E. Coon was captured while in the
act of refaciug his tools. Au accomplice,
a youug mau named Bud Bqtts, was
also taken, Coou is a jeweler by trade
am] a fiue machinist, liis dies, milling
and reeding machine are made for $3
gold pieces, which would pass any
where.
Coou has served two years in the pen
itentiary for passing counterfeit money
in Wasco county, Oregon. Ho has made
a confession.
Stolen Money Found.
Omaha, Aug. 29.—Tho package of
money found yesterday hy boys hag
been partially idoutiljed. A letter car?
rier picked up a baud which had been
used tp bold money, ft was marked
$3,000, and contained other marks by
which the bauk officials think they caq
identify the package of stolen money,
taken from Qeorgo Archibald, the Pa
cific Express company’s driver,
New Gold Urlck Swindle.
Ban Francisco, Aug. 29.—The very
latest phase of the gold brick swindle
bas been developed in Alaska and the
Klondike, according to Tho Chronicle,
which says that bogus gold dust and
nuggets have been sent north in large
quantities and disposed of as the pro
ducts of many claims, ^vyosepret sori
yioe agents are uow at pavysou investi
gating the matter.
Roof Collapses; Workmen Hqrt.
Washington, Aug. 29.—Ry the opl?
lapse of of a false rqqf over the United
Stqtes supreme court room qt the eapi-
tdl shortly after noon today thre«
workmen were badly Injured. It is not
believed that anybody was killed, but
it is feared that some workmen may be
buried beneath the debris.
Steamer Destroyed by Fire.
Wiiitkiiall, N. Y., Aug. 20.—The
steamer Ticomleroga, belonging tp thq
Champlain Transportation company,
plying between Baldwin aqd Caldwell,
pu Lake George, was destroyed by firq
today at Rogers Hock dock. No Uvei
VW lost.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
!la|i|>t’iiliiKs anil tin- Dnini-s of Our NcIkIi-
Imii-k AeroHK tlu- l.lne.
Mr. Eugene Lamar, of Kernersville,
who fell into a well at the Winston
Furniture Factory, on December 21th
last, and sustained serious injuries,
has brought suit against the com
pany for $2,000 damages.
Mr. L. I). Bass, a carpenter of Char
lotte, tried to end his existence yes
terday morning by taking morphine, i
Had it not been for the timely inter- ! A Orra't Deal of UanmRO Done to Houses
ence of Mr. Owens, of tho Mansion
House, ho would in all probability
bud succeeded.
A portion of the machinery of the
Gold Crown Hosiery Mill of Charlotte
has been sold to a Wilmington mill.
Mr. R. M. Oats who has been at the
head of the hosiery mill since its es
tablishment, has decided to abandon
the plant, ut least for the present.
Morven, N. C., was honored with
the first bale of new cotton in the State
Tuesday. It was sold by Mr. Preston
Ratcliffe, It weighed 589 pounds and
sold for 9.j cents. It was strict mid
dling. The town generally receives
the first bale of the season,
At Hester’s brickyard, at High
Point, Monday, Arlhur Turner, col
ored, shot Will Matthews, colored, in
the leg in two places, one of the balls
entering close to the thigh. The pis
tol used was a 38-calibre. The shoot
ing arose from a difficulty Saturday
night, when Matthews struck Turner
over the head with aguu stock.
William Mills, of Polk county, his
daughter-in-law and two of her chil
dren were drown in a small stream
near the center of Kutherfurdton
about 9 o’clock Monday night. The
stream was about five feet deep,
owing to heavy rains, and in attempt
ing to cross it in a covered wagon, all
the occupants save two children were
drowned by the wagon turning over.
Mr. Karl Kethel, of Germany,
bought yesterday, from Mrs. Mary
Martin, mother of Sheriff Martin, of
Rutherfordton county, 353 acres of
lanu six miles north of Ellenboro. The
price paid was $5,000. The property
was bought for the purpose of open
ing up a monazite mine, for getting
out and cleaning the stuff. Then it
will be shipped to Germany.
Deputy Marshal A. O. Griffin, of
Winston, who arrested John Perry
man, at Jerusalem, Davis county,
last week, on the charge of passing
counterfeit money, attended the trial
before United States Commissioner
Chalin, in Mocksville, Monday. Per
ryman was bound over to the Feder
al Court at Statesville, his bond be
ing fixed at $1,000. Perryman has a
wife and five children living at Lex
ington.
John Ware, a young white man,
living six miles east of Kuidville, shot
and probably fatally wounded his
father, David Ware, about 1 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon. He also fired 2
bullets into a colored man, who was
trying to prevent a difficulty between
the twfl. The negro is not seriously
hurt. Young Ware immediately left
home and has not yet been appre
hended. Jt is said the son became
enraged at some remarks his father
made about his wife, whom ho hud
only recently married.
The Shelby mountain party return
ed Tuesday from Chimney Rock.
They left Shelby last Thursday and
had to spend the night in Ruther
fordton, the streams being so high
that it was impossible to cross.
There were seventeen young people
in the party, but five returned from
Rutherfordton rather than risk the
danger in crossing the swoolen
streams. The party had a most
pleasant time, excepting the wet
weather.
Little Pauline, the 9 year old daugh
ter of Uev. C. J. Woodson, of Shelby,
died Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock
and was buried on the following af
ternoon at 5 o’clock, the funeral be
ing conducted from the house by
Rev. R. F. Treadway. The sweet lit-,
tie girl had suffered severely for
many days and was critically ill for
nearly three weeks. The fond par
ents have the tender sympathy of
their tqany friends in the loss of their
precious child, whose pure soul has
been garnered for Christ’s kingdom.
Mr. Charles Ayers, who attends to
the stock at the Standard Ice and
Fuel Company, was violently assault
ed at Charlotte, Sunday morning by
a negro named John Cunningham.
Ayers and the negro had some troub
le several days ago. Yesterday morn
ing Cunningham, who had been dis
charged by the company, went to the
stable where Ayers was feeding the
stock. Trouble soon ensued. Ayers
was stricken with and o]d piece of
pipe and for a time was rendered un
conscious. While in this condition,
Cunningham pounced on the piQs-
trate map and dolt him several se
vere blows with tho pipe.
Fred McNeill was arrested at Max-
ton, Monday afternoon on the charge
of breaking the front window of Mr.
J. W. Carter's store and stealing two
pistols. He was taken before Mag
istrate E. McRea, and bound over to
the next term of court. During the
trial McNeill was very Impudent and
Insulting in bis manner, toward the
court and made some threat about
‘•doing” the town whenever be got
out of jail. Some time during the
night a crowd of men, presumably
from the country, forced the door of
the guard bouse and today Fred feels
anything else but comfortable, from
the effect* of ft buggy trace.
LOWER CHEROKEE
LOCAL PULLINGS.
A Protracted Meeting Going
on at Abingdon Creek.
COTTON IS OPENING FAST.
ami Trceit During tlieStorniM One of thr
IleavleMt Knins Thin V. nr IUiiih of
IntercMt Nemi Note*.
(Correspondence of The Ledger >
Etta Jane, Aug, 27.—Mr. Lemuel i
K. Brown died with pneumonia at
his home near this place last Sabbath
evening at 5:15 o’clock, in the 73 1
year of his age. He had been com
plaining for some weeks but was not
confined to his bed until a few days
before he died. Mr. Brown was a
Confederate soldier and belonged to j
Capt. J. Felix Walker’s Company F. ;
18th S. C. Regiment Evans’ Brigade,
and was wounded at the second bat
tle of Manassas from which he never
recovered. He was unmarried. He
was a man of a powerfully retentive
memory and withal a good, obliging,
peaceful citizen. He was buried at
Elbethel church beside his father and
mother.
Mr. P. S. Webber, of Wilklnsville,
has been working on Mt. Tabor
church which was blown down by the
storm of two weeks ago. Tho frame
work is pretty well all replaced aud
the house will soon be ready for occu-
pency. The timbers' were pretty
badly damaged by the fall. There
are quite a number of reminders of
that storm s^en as even hardtrees
uprooted and houses wrecked.
A great deal of the corn is "firing
up” on account of the continuous
wet weather.
The people of Abingdon Creek
church are now enjoying the blessings
of a good meeting. Rev. Mr. Ross is
assisting the pastor, Rev. F. C. Hick
son, and ho has preached line ser
mons. Ho is comparativly a young
man and a forceful speaker. Good
congregations attend tho services
generally considering the condition
of the weather.
Miss Agnes Wylie began her school
yesterday.
There are a great many complaints
about our public roads. The con- !
tinuous rains have washed them into
gullies in many places and the work
done on them is worth very little.
Mr. James Garner says he is glad
his watermelons are about done as ho
is getting too fat eating them. Bend
them off to your friends Mr. G.
Mr. John II. Wood and wife, of
White Plains, attended the meeting
at Abingdon Creek last Sabbath.
They returned home yesterday.
We had tho heaviest storm of rain
and thunder last night we have had
during the year. For several hours
it was almost a continued roar, and
us a consequence much of the fodder
pulled yesterday will ha worthless.
Cotton is beginning to open. It is
feard that the weather being wot so
long will rot the bolls.
Some people try to make fun of
those whose aims and objects arc
high in life, and who are trying to
lead better lives than formerly
They would gladly throw obstacles in
the way of such and hinder the pro-'
cess of reformation, and, to a great
extent they succeed sometimes.
If a man who has been thus com
panion in crime announces his pur
pose to lead a better life he becomes
a target for their invectives. It
requires herculian strength and
lion-like courage to overcome these
seductive influences. We really
know young men whose prospects
not only for time, but for eternity
are being blighted by these aforesaid
influences—worst of moral courages
to stand up for the right—yielding to
the persuasive presence and influence
of the professional blasphmer and
hopeless reprobate because he is a man
of influence in his community. Yes,
that’s what’s wrong—bis influerce.
There are would be good men and
women too, no doubt, who through
a mistaken policy do they causp a
great deal of harm by making this
pcrtioular class of persons the objects
of their attention, because they are
simply, (on account of their wordly
surrounding) more congenial com
panions.
While to another class they never
show any interest in, or sympathy
for them in their poor, fallen, out
cast condition. Tho result is tho
former class are disgusted, the latter
disheartened and the whole of their
work a complete failure. There are
ministers of tho gospel who are not
entirely free from this charge. Either
from Ignorcncp of their work or a
disinclination to perform it accep
tably they fail to secure the best re
sults that should reward their labors.
Solomon says: “He that winneth
souls is wise.” Job says: "Great
men are not always wise. Neither
do the aged understand judgment.”
Last Saturday night was the thirty-
sixth anniversary of the assassination
of Dr. Alexander White, and still the
murderer has never been found.
j l. s.
This is the Army Day at the Ban-
American Exposition at Buffalo.
The laws of health require that the
bowels move ouoe each day and one
of the penalties for violating this
law is piles. Keep your bowels regu
lar by taking a dose of Chamberlain’s
Stomacb and Liver Tablets when
necessary and you will never have
that severe punishment Inllieted
upon you. Price, 25 cents. For sale
by Cherokee Drug Company,
THE ASSOCIATION.
II M«'l at CrxftNy IN,n<| Clinrrli Tlmrmlay
liiat l.i,rK« Attendance.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Stkvv, Aug. 21—I have just
returned from attending the Broad
River Association.
The great body of Christian work
ers representing a constituency of
over six thousand Christians, have
just closed a pleasant and instructive
session with the Grassy Pond church.
It met Thursday, 22nd inst. Uev. A.
M. Ross preached the introductory
sermon. His theme was the "Chris-
tianRace.” This was an able and very
instructive sermon and was most at
tentively heard by a large and well
behaved audience. Delegates were
then enrolled, and the association
was then permanently organized by
re-olecting Rev. J. I). Bailey, mode
rator, W. L. Goudelock, treasurer,
and S. M. Bagwell, clerk. These of
ficers have been re-elected to these of
fices for the past eight or ten years.
Mr. Goudelock however, I believe
has been the treasurer of this body
twenty or more years.
The regular order of business was
now taken up, all subjects fostered
by this body were in their turn most
ably discussed. But it is not our
purpose, especially to notice in this
brief article, more than one of these
subjects, viz: The subject of educa
tion, preeminently above all other
subjects, thisone now stands. There
is no phase of this subject that was
not right strongly emphasized in the
discussion. I shall only notice two
phases. First, it was strongly ar
gued that too great a chasm lies open
between higher education and the
common or public school fields.
Nothing was left unsaid that need to
have been said in the interest of all
high schools. Second, the religious
feature ofjthese, as a matter of course,
received tho greater weight of em
phasis along this line of talks. Here
the discussion came down on the
common schools .in this State and
county, and it was strongly advo
cated, by Rev. G. P. Hamrick, and
Dr. I. W. Wingo. These gentlemen
each took strong ground for more
efficient work and greater advantages
to these schools. This gave us the op
portunity to write a few things more
in defense of the summer schools for
common school teachers—the very
purpose for which we began this ar
ticle. Many of our best friends, as
well as myself, have been somewhat in
error in our criticisms upon this insti
tution. 1 us well as others of our
friends have thought that the
amount of money necessary to run
these schools came from the general
levy for educational purposes. This
is a mistake, but while I thought
this, I believed and still believe the
object to be attained fully justified
the outlay made to carry on these
schools. No one can now be in doubt
as to the purpose of these schools :
knowing these then as well as we do,
we could not do otherwise than en
dorse them in our feeble way, every
time we found ao opportunity to do
so. Believing these criticisms arise
from a lack of correct information rel
ative to their introduction and main-
tainance, we have gone to some troub
le to be able to lay before the read
ers of the Ledger some facts along
these linos. They are not as we have
heard charged, gotten up by the State
superintendent or some other facul
ty for the purpose of giving a job to
some favorite who bus been aground
or for the time out of employment.
No, they are tho outgrowth of some of
the ablest and most thoughtful minds
in the field of education, both at
home and abroad, .brought into ac
tion solely for the purpose of giving
help to that branch of education
most in need of help. In the ones
recently closed in this county, Profs.
McArthur and Blake, each one re
ceived $75, and not $100 as has been
claimed by some. Of this amount
the State actually gives a very small
part, for the reason that the great
Philanthropist Mr. Peabody, who
died some time ago left to the Amer
ican states, and I believe wholly to
the Southern states, $3 500,000, es-
specially as an educational fund,
with this conditional proviso: No
state can bo aeqorded a beneficiary
of this amount of money, unless
such state does of her own full will
take most active and decisive steps
to make education complete and at
tainable unto all children within its
domain. In conformity to the spec
ifications of Mr. Peabody's will, the
State appropriated $5,000, and no
one year, wo believe, has tho full $5,-
000 been drawn out by the state super
intendent. This year, loss than $2,.
500 were drawn out for the purpose
of defraying summer school expens
es, the Peabody fund of itself be
ing almost sufficient to settle tho en
tire expenses of all the summer
schools for teaching in the State. It
is especially stipulated in Mr. Pea
body’s donation, that no state will
be helped by this fund that does not
from its own resources make wise
and ample contributions to the cause
of public education. As previously
stated, the religious feature of edu
cation in all fields was most stren
uously urged. Soon it was claimed
no one whose characteristics are
lacking in religious restraint need of
fer themselves as instructors in any
educational Held.
L. B. Day is.
Tho striking steel workers are now
making rapid gains.
What most people want is some
thing mild and gentle, when in need
of n physic Chamberlain’s Btomaoh
and Liver Tablets fill the bill to a
dot. They are easy to take and
pleasant in effect. For sale by Cher
okee Drug Company,
KNIGHTS TEMPUR
ELECT NEW OFFICERS
Mr. Stoddard Succeeds Mr.
Lloyd as Grand Master.
A VERY QUICK ELECTION
Only (.'untest Was ()v<>r Position of
Junior Wurdi-ii, th(> other Officer*
lJei:i£ Advauct;*! One Grade—Con-
clave Will Soon Knd.
Loi isvii.le, Aug. i9.—By an election
said to have been unprecedented for
celerity Frank H. Thomas, past grand
commander of the District of Columbia,
was today elevated by the grand en
campment of the Kuights Templar to
the office of junior grand warden. This
was tho only contest, the other officers
being elected perfunctorily as forecaste<L-
each officer advancing one grade, as
follows:
H. B. Stoddard of Eryan, Texas, dep
uty grand master, to grand master.
George II. Moulton of Chicago, grand
generalissimo to deputy grand master.
llov. H. W. liugg, Providence, R. I,
captain general, to grand generalissimo.
W. B. Melish, Cincinnati, grand se
nior warden to captain general.
Joseph A. Locke, Portlan, Me., ju
nior grand warden to senior grand
warden.
These officers were elected without
material opposition ou the first ballot.
Interest centered in the fight for ju
nior grand wardenship, for which there
were 15 candidates. The office was
much desired, as it means that eventual
ly the holder of it will become the head
of the Templars’ organization.
Cheering inside the ball announced to.
the watchers outside tho eleotioulof tho
officers. /
Mr Thomas had 187 votes out of 208.
A recess till 1:30 n. m. was taken.
Grand Recorder Mayo said ho wonld
not be surprised if all business was com
pleted by tonight, in which case there
would be no session tomorrow.
Grand Master Stoddard during the
afternoon will appoint coimuiueet on
time and place for the next meeting.
SIR KNIGHTS SIGHTSEEING.
riiey Vl-lt Many Places of lateral In
Kentucky and IYiiues.,e«.^ - .
Louisville, Aug. 29.—Today, .for the
first time since the conclave of the
grand encampment of Knights Templar
began here, the visitors were able to
take full advantage of the pleasure and
sightseeing excursions which have been £
ou the program every day.
With no all absorb ng feature to oo-
cupy their time, tho knights and. the
ladies went for rides on the Oaio rive
took excursions into tiio country to at
tne home of Kentucky fanners, thef”
ilt-lields of Teum ssuc, 'Mammoth <
aud Cumberland Gap. Thesec;
to Tennessee were made 3
pleted purses by the low.st ^ -
by the railways, and maj £ j* Sj
advantage of them.
The festivities of th4 ^
reach their climax ton!
Knights Templar granl^jJH^Kl in
the Horse Show UaLkniigT^Athousaud
coup.os w ill dance and it is expected
that there will tie 10,(XX) spectators pres
ent. Many knights left the city today
and nearly all of the visitors who came
to view the spectacles of the conclave
have departed. The conclave ends to
morrow.
That the conclave has already begun
to break up was shown by the departure
of Uio Pittsburg commaudcrios early in
the day. Tuey left on a special train
for Buffalo. The exodus, however, will
uot begin in earnest tiil after the grand
ball tonight.
The business meeting of the grand
encampment was called to order at 9:3t)
a. in., but it was after 10 o’clock before
the last straggler appeared. The re
ports of committees, which only half
completed their work yesterday, took
an considerable time. The election of
officers was scheduled to begin immedi-
etely after these reports were heard.
Before tho session began it was still
taken for granted that the offices will
be filled by promotion from the next
lower grades. This would make Henry
Bates Stoddard of Texas grand master.
The old question of changing the con-
stitutiem to make Washington, D. 0.,
the conclave city, unless otherwise pro
vided for. was discussed in tho corri-.
dors before Grand Master Lloyd called
the sir knights to order.
ZACHELLO ELECTROCUTED.
Put to Death at Mag J»l»g For Mur
der.tig Hitt Mother-In-Law.
Ni:w York, Aug. 29.—Joseph Zach-
olio, who stabbed his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Caroline Muecm to death at
Tbompkiusville, S. I.. Jan. 10, 1900, was
put to ueath today in the electic chair
at Siug Sing. Throe shocks were given
before he was pronounced dead
Zachello married Marie Louise Moc*
cio, according to tho oivil law, but the
bride insisted upon having the religioua
ceremony performed. Zachello thought
she was i u fine need by. her mother aud
other relatives.
On the night of the mordor he met
his brother and they quarreled and
fongiit. Zachello used a knife aud Za
chello was slightly wounded. He after
ward went to die home of bis wife, de
claring he would take her away with
him. lie met Mrs. Mticcio and ttlaHhed
her with a knife, inflicting fuUi wound*.
l-nriner Governor Dead.
Laconia, N. H , Aug. 29.—Ciiarle*
A. Bosial, formerly governor of New
Hampshire, died at his home here to
day. The ex-governor retired lu his
usual health lost Bigot. When Mr*.
Busial culled him tins morning she
found him breathing heavily, death oc
curring a few minutes afterward. He
was r.U years old, lu politics he was a
Republican.
Baldwin 35-rglrr Kxitrdltloiu
OtiitiHTiAMa, Ang. 29.—Thq »<earner
Fntbjof arrived at H-muuerfest today
and reported taut she sucocssfaUj
landed the Baldwin-Zi' gler arctic oxi
diumi at Gamp Ziegler, In latitude 1
north aud longitude M enat,
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