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erBt ewbeRR 1 ernlb jEA tis. BRIGADIER 6ENERAL IN REGULAR ARMY. S EWAtD GIVEN GEN. FUNSTON volt 6ERVICES. Wheaton Made Major General and Col. Jacob U. Snith of 17th Infantry Promoted to 31rigadier Ganoral. [The State.] Washington, March 3.-The fol lowing important army appointments were announced at the White Hoose tonight: To be major general United States army, BrigadierGeneral Loyd Wheat on, vice Miles, promoted to lieutenant general. To be brigadier generals in the reg. ular army, Col.JacobH.Smith, Seven teenth infantry. brigadier general vol unteers vice Daggett., retired; Brig. Gen. Frederick Fuiston, U. S. volun teers, vice Wheaton, promoted. The announcement of these ap pointments was made after a confer ence between the president, Secre tary Root and Adjt. Gen. Corbin, and at the same time the long expected list of appointments of majors and captains in the quartermaster's and commisary departments and of chap lains was made known. All of these appointees are in the regular army, under the recent act of congress en larging and reorganizing the army, and without exception the staff ap pointees are from volunteer officers. The chief interpqj, however, center ed in the three high appointments of a major general and two brigadiers and more particularly in the selection of Gen. Funston after his gallant ex ploit in capturing Aguinaldo. Fol lowing the announcement Gen. Cor bin sent the following to Gen. Mac Arthur: Washington, March 30. MacArthur, Manila. The folllowing appointments made: Wheaton, major general; Smith and Funston, brigadier generals. Secret ary of war joins me iu congratula tions to all. Corbin. Among the other appointments were the following: To be captains and assistant quar termasters: Wm. Coulling, Virginia; W. B. Baker, Mississippi; A.W. Butt, Georgia; H.L. Pettus, Alabama; L.F. Garrad, Jr., Georgia; K. J. Hampton, Kentucky; B. Frank Cheatham, Ten nessee; Fredk. W. Cole, Florida; Chas T. Baker, South Carolina. To be captain and assistant com mi*sary of subsistance: H. G. Cole Georgia; T. 1. Hacker, Tennessee. To be chaplains: John M. Moose, Mississippi; Charles T. Wright, lb Georgia; A. A. Pruden, North Caro S lina. Funston Tells Thrilling Story of the Cap ture of Aguinalde. [Atlanta Journal, March 29.) The United States gunboat Vicks burg nailed from Manila on the night of March 8t,h with General Funston, accomrpanied, by his party of scouts and a native company of soldiers on board. On March 14th at 2 o'clock in the morning the Vicksburg, with her lights covered ran in shore twenty= five miles south of Casiguran in the province of Principe. A knding was effected and the party marched over land to Casiguran. It was explained ~\to the natives of this town tht the 4Americans had been surprised. and d.j~ and as prisoners of the in captut,s > ere being carried to snrrectionr we this treachery all Aguinaldo. 133- 1\ggd. suspicion was detN Eg~inaldo's The further details of ~ captre were planned at this pib Letters were sent the rebel chieftain, explaining that General is'nston and other prominent Americans were prisoners and would be brought by hasty marches to his headqnarters at Palanan. For three days at Casigni ran General Funston and his com panions were kept in prison closely guarded, in order to deceive the na tives. On the morning 17th the Ameri cans under an apparent strong guard were taken from their temporary prison and the natives set off with -them in the dir'ection of Palanan, ninety miles. The route lay through flooding rivers and dangerous mouv tains. Tho party suffered great hard ships en route and after seven days hard marching camp was struck with in oght miles of Palanan. Because of the impoverished condition of the men it was necessary to send to Aguinaldo's iamp for food. The men had subsisted for the whole week upon a limited quantity of crushed corn, shell fish and herbs. Aguinaldo received the couriers hos pitably, dispatched supplies and di rected that the American prisoners be treated with every consideration due their rank. On the morning of March 23 Fun ston, surrounded by his native troops, began to march to Palanan. A short distance from the t.wn the coluinn was met by the staff officers of Agui naldo and the detachment of his body guard which was ordered to take charge of the Americans. While one of the ex-insurgent offi cers conversed with Aguinaldo's aid,' another, a Spaniard, sent a courier to warn General Funston and the rest, who, with eleven Macabebes, were about an hour behind. Having received this warning, General Fun ston avoided Aguinaldo's detachment and joined the column, avoiding ob. servation. Tagalogs went ahead to greet Aguinaldo and the column slowly followed, finrily arriving at Palanan. Aguinaldo's household troops, 50 men in neat uniforms of blue and white, and wearing straw hats, lined up to receive the newcomers. Gen eral Feneral Funston's men crossed the river in small boats, formed on the bank and marched to the right and then in front of the insurgent grenadiers. The Tagalogs entered the house where Aguinaldo was. Suddenly the Spanish officer, no ticing that Aguinaldo's aid was watching the Americans suspicious ly, exclaimed: "Now, Macabebes, gor for them!" The Macabebes opened fire, but their aim was rather ineffective and only three insurgents were killed. The rebels returned the fire. On hearing the firing, Aguinaldo, who evidently thought his men were mere ly celebrating the arrival of reit forcements, ran to the window and shouted: "Stop that foolishness! Quit wast ing ammunition!" Hilario Placido, one of the Taga log off&.rs and a former insurgent major, wL&o was wounded in thelung by the fire of the Kansas regiment at the battle of Caloocan, threw his arms around Aguinaldo, exclaiming: "You are a prisoner of the Ameri cans" Col. Simeon Villia, Againaldo's chief staff; Major Alambra and others attacked the mon who were holding Aguinaldo. Placido shot Villia in the shoulder, Alambra jumped out of the window and attempted to cross the river. It is supposed that he was drowned. Five other insurgent officers fought for a few minutes, and then fled, making their escape. When the firing began General Funston assumedacommand and di rected the attack on the house, per sonally assisting in the capture of Aguinaldo. The insurgent body guard fled, leaving 20 rifles, Santiago Barcelona, the insurgent treasurer, surrendered without resistance. When capturgd Aguinaldo was tremendously excited, but he calmed down under General FunstoL's as surance that he would be well treated. General Funston secured all of Agut naldo's corresporndence, showing that he had kept in close touch with the sub-chiefs of the insurrection in all parts of the archipelago. It was also ~covered that Aguinaldo, January 8' proclaimed himself dictator. ehad b en living at Palanan for even mnthe undisturbed, except when a detachme t of the Sixth in fantry visited the own. On that occasion the entire p, pulation took to the mountains and rei~ ained there until the troops retired. Aguinaldo admitted tha he hd come near to being capture before, but be asserted that he ha d never been wounded, adding: "I should never have be~ taken except by a stratagem. I wae\m pletely deceived by Lacuna's forq signature." n.'l He feared ho might be sent to Guam and he was quite glad to come to Manila. Palanan was guarded by numer ous outposts and signal stations. During the light none of the Maca bebes were wounded. Aguinaldo, who talked frooly of past ovonts, said he supposed Gen. eral Trias would proclaim himself dictator, evon not knowing that Trias had surren(lod. He behaved courte ously and gave no trouble. General Funston says Aguinaldo is above the average in intelligonce and has prepossessing manners. Cheap Italen on Houthern. on account of the below specilfled oc casions, the Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets: Meeting 13aptiSts Young People's Union of South Carolina, Charleston, S. C., April 4-7h, from Newberry $7.30. Tickets on sale April 2-4, final limit April, 9th. Annual Meeting South Carolina Medical Association, Florence, S. C., April 17-18, 1901, from Newberry $0.30. Tickets on sale 15-17, final limit April 20th. Meeting of Soutn Carolina Federation of Woman's Clubs, Greenville, S. C., April 23-27, 1901, from Newberry $3.75. Tickets on sale April 22-24, final limit 29th. Annual Meeting Junior Order United American Mechanics, State Council, Sumter, S. C., April 16-18, from New berry $4 45. Tickets on sale 15--16, fi nal limit 20th. Great Council of South Carolina Im proved Order of Red Men, Spartanburg, S. C., April 9--13, 1901, from Newberry $3.75. Tickets on sale April 8-10, final limit April 15th. Grand Lodge Meeting 1. 0. 0. F. of South Carolina, Greenville, S. C., A pril 24--20, 1901, from Newberry $3.75. Tick ets on sale April 23--24, final limit April 27th. United Confederate Veterans Reun ion, Memphis, Tenn., May 28--30, 1901, rate one-cent mile. Tickets on sale May 25--27, limit June 4, with extension final limit June 19 by depositing tickets with Joint Agent and paying fee of fifty cents at time of deposit. They will also arrange as to permit a stop-over either on the going or return trip of one day at Chattanooga, to enable the South Carolina Veterans to visit Chickamau ga Park. Reduced Rates via C. & W. C. Hailway. The Charleston and Western Caro lia Railway beg to announce reduced rates from their stations on occasions named below. Baptist young peoples union, Char leston S. C.-Round trip tickets for this occasion will be sold April 2-4, final limit April 9, 1901. Meeting S. C. Medical Association, Florence S. C.-Round trip tickets for this occasion will bc.sold April 15-17, final return limit April 20, 1901. Grand Lodge Knights Honor, Colum bia S. C.-Rlound trip tickets for this occasion will be on sale April 16, 17-18, final return limit AprIl 22. Grand Lodge I. 0. F. Greenville S. C. -Round trip tickets will be sold to Greenville for this occasion from all stations April 23-241 final return limit April 27, 1901. S. C. Federation Women. Clubs, Greenville S. C.--Tickets on sale from all stations to Greenville for this oc casion will be sold April 22, 28, and 24 final return limit April 29, 1901. Grand Council Improved Order fled Men-Round trip tickets will be sold all stations to Spartanburg for this occasIon, April 8, 9, and 10, final return lImit 15, 1901. W. J. CnAra. General Passenger Agent. The Port Royal station Will Not Bo Abandoned. Washington, March 80-It is un likely that the Port Royal naval ita tion will be abandoned by the gov ernment, for it is the intention of Rear Admiral (Jrowningshield, chief of the bureau of navigation, to use the place as a winter station for the training squadron. Dredging op orations, when completed, will make the st ation more convenient for large vessels to approach. Bears thes Khoind You Havo Alway eought SIgnature of The lRev. John Jasper Dead. Richmond, Va., March 30.-Xhe R1ev. John Jasper, the famous col ored advocate of "the sun do move" theory, died at his home here today, aged 90 years. He had for many years been pastor of the Sixth Mt. Zion church and was held in high esteem by the mass of the people of h is race. He was once taken on a tout of the North, delivering his 'nni TDn Moven lecntne, or sermon. Richmond's Pride Burned to Ground, THE MAONIFICEPNTLY EQUIPP11ED JEF FECHSON HO0TEL DEsTicoyEm). Scones of Wilt Confuslon-nut All Guests Seei to Have Escaped-Hotel Cost 81,OO,Oo--Jefferson statue Lost. [The State.] Richmond, Va., March 29.-Rich mond tonight suffered her greatest disautor by fire since the burning of the Spottswood hotel on Christmas eve 1870. The Jefferson hotel, the magnifi cent structure built and furnished by the late Lewis Ginter at a cost of about $1,000,000 is in ashes. No lives were lost. The hotel was constructed of buff brick and granite foundation and was regarded as semi fireproof. It burned like tinder. The building covered half a block in the ultra fashionablo part of the city, fronting on West Main and Franklin streets. The flames broke out in the upper part of Main streetsido, spread with a tremenduus rush, and soon that part of the building was a seething mass of fire. Prompt measures were taken to awaken and alarm the guests, and soon these were rushing through the corridors in wild confusion. As far as can be learned no lives were lost, though there was great difficulty in getting out some of the guests. There were in the hotel many line works of art, including Valentine's marble statuo of Jofferson in the Franklin street court. Although the hour was late when the fire broke out, an immense crowd was attracted. The guests who were driven out of the Main street portion and those in the Franklin street part took refuge in the lobbies of the latter, and there the scenes of distress and excitement beggared description. There are wild rumors of five fire men having been cut off in one of the corridors and suffocated, but this cannot be verified. At 1 o'clock this morning all hope of saving any part of the hotel had been abandoned. The report of suffocation of five firemen proves unfounded, but sove ral persons were hurt by falling down stairs, etc. One man has his hip broken. No one perished in the flames. The fire started in the linen room, from a defective flue. Insur. ance is about $050,000. There was in the hotel a party from Montreal, Canada. None of these were hurt but all lost their baggage. All the surrounding houses are filled with property taken from the hotel. There has been some looting and several arrests have been made. At 2 o'clock this (Saturday) morn ing it is certain that not a vestige of the hotel will be left. Ineffectual efforts were adopted to save the stat ute of Jefferson. The Pee-Woes. All day they twittered, all (lay they sang, As out anud in they flew. WVith a fallen leaf or a bit of nm oss, And a straw and a twig or two, They deftly fashioned their cczy nezt, Shaping it bit b)y bit. And as they wvorked they twittered and sang "Pee-wee! pee-wee-pee-wit!" They build just under a rocky ledge, Secure from rain or dew;' Where a suniner brook went babbling ,by, As summiiier brooks will do. They gathered the velvety woodlatid nioss, And linedl their nests with it, And still they twitteredl and gayly sang: "Pee-wee! pee-wee-p)ee-wit!" At last the cozy nest was doue, And filled with a little broodl; And the old birds worked from miorn till night To bring the young ones food; Rut at last the nest had grown too small, Or the birds too large for it; For away they fluttered and gayly sang: "Pee-wee! pee-wee-pee-wit!" But every year the pee-wees come, And line their niest anew, And freshen it up with a bit of moss, And a twig and a straw or two; And every year they raise their brood, And watch the young birds flit, And still-they twitter and gayly sing: "Pee-wee! pee-wee-pee-with" -Helen Whit ene Clr,In Golden Days MOVING AHEAD, 3OUTIl HAS IIAL.FTiE FAIMS OF TI l'NITED STATES. % Wonderful (*in1 in Everything lut Live Stock-Our Vart of the Country ias 11vatent ths, entiro Nation III Its Advanco. (Greenvillo Daily Nows.) Baltimore, March 29.-"For the Southern portion of the 'UnitOd States ho last docado waui in some respects lho most noteworthy of any in the iinotoonth contury. Its progress in )opulation and mateiial resources, when coipared with the correspond Lg advanco of the other States and lorritories, merits special considera ion." These statements are introductory '0 anl olaborato present-ation of fig ires and facts showing the agricultu Il )rogress of the South prepared 'or The Manufacturers' Record by Ir. L. G. Powers, chief statistician n chargo of agriculture for the velfth consus. He shows that in ho past ten years, whilo nearly 80 :or cont. of the increased population a Northern States was in cities, vil ages and hamlots, in the I.I South )rn States tho n-ovoment of popula ion was of an opposite character. 'ho gain in rural population in the South was 015 por cent. of the tot al nerease there, the relation being more han twice that in the North and West. TOTAL NUMBjEl 0F FARMS. The estimato of the total number >f farms in the country is something ilightly in excess of 5,700,000 of which nearly if not quite 2,400,000 ire in the 1.1 Southern States, and the ro.ative gain in number is greater in the South than that in the remain Aor of the country. "The marked increase in the rural population of the South, taken in connection with the facts of the in creased use of improved farm ma chinery, makes it certain that there has been an unprecedented gain in acres of land under cultivation, and hence of socalled improved lands in the South. The increase in the num ber of farms as shown by the ro. ported farm schedules and the in eroase in rural population makes it certain that the increase in the lasi decade in improved land is greater than in either of the two preceding decades." soUTiEiriN FARM RESOURCES. Mr. Powers presents several tablew as a basis for his study, and in con clusion ventures the prediction thai the South in 1900 will show, as in other decades, a perentage of gain in all farm valnes, with the oxcep Lion of live stock, greater than foi the nation as a whole. He says: "WVith the op)ening up of new landn the subdivision of 01(d plantationm into smaller holdings and the conse queni, appreciation of farm valves, ii becomnet evident that the southern farm resources have increased in the last 10 years with a percentage great. or even than in the dlecado from 187( to 1880, and that the census iigurei when published, will show for Lh< year 1900 a total exceeding $4,500,. 000,000. This total may possibl3 closely approximate $5,000,000,000.' MOsnJY FORETELLIJ r UrURE OR Tllf W.Vill)Domninate the Union anid lbe World' licheoat, 'pot--The Ne gro will lbe Abnor bed. [Tihe State A pril 1st.] New York, March 3.-In iti forthcoming issue, ILeslie's Woekla will print a paper b)y CJol. John S Mosby, the famous Confederati raidoer, on "The Dawn of the South,' in which lie says: "The real south is just at its birth The growth of this child of th, nation may be gradual, but in th, end the south will be far richer anm more powerful than the north. Ii the days to come the south will be come the dominant section of th country. "Without the War of Seccessio: he south could never have hoped t attain the fu'ure that is now cortair Slavery was a great incubus, pare lyzing natural energy. By abolist ing this wrong our war banatit every State south of the Mason and Dixon line. The negroes are pro ducing more as freemon than they over did as slaves, and the great mass of the peoplo are better off to day than they were under the old antobollum system. "Socially, as well as industrially, the abolition of slavery was highly beneficial in its results to tho masses for slavery was a great wrong and no community can exist in the high est state of happiness when its sys. tois are based on a wrong. "'Thero are soundest reasons for assorting that the negro's status is bound to improvo. While thwy are not asnear to eqIuality with white people as they were under the sys tom of slavory, they were certain to be absorbed by iimigration and in this ongulfmont they will disappear. Thi is the natural and wisest solu of what we now call 'race problem.' "Richmond is the city most likely to becomo in timo the banking contro and commercial headquarters of this country and thoroforo of the world. The days of that. famious old city as a political capital are past., but its career as the central point of mann. facturo for the whole south, and from there for the world at large, is just beginlning. "While great forcos have been working for the change, industrially and socially the political chango is hardly less marked. It is well nigh folly today to speak of the 'solid south.' That, by the way was a phrise of my own invention. \V hen 1Hayed became the Ropublican candi (late for president, I urged in a ltotr (Aug. 1876) that it was better for semo southern men to support him because, if he were elected, his ad. ministration must necessarily rest on whatever supported it. It was bot ter for the southern people to divido between the parties, so that, no mat ter which side won, there would be men frequently to southern people who would control its southern pol icy. This contention is filly real ized today, and the 'solid south' be longs wholly to the political part." C) A A93 or ..1 AM .J Boaru the 1 tio Kind You 11o0 Always BoupP Signature !O of MRS. DAVIS WON AGAIN. Jury Olven S11,000 Damagen Agalns Southern for Killing tier iusbai. (Special to The Stato.) Greenville, March 30.-The testi mony mn the csO of Mrs. Loula M. Davis against the Charlotte and1( Al. lanta Air Line Railroad company was concluded at noon yesterday, and the argument of council occupied the entire afternoon. Messrs. T. P. and WV. 0. Oath ran represented the railroad, and Messrs. H-. ,J. Hayns worth, J. A. Mooney and L. 0. Pat terson argued in behalf of the plain. tiff, who is claiming $20,000 dam ages on account of the death of her husband, who was an employe of the Southern railway. He wvas acting as fi reman on a local freight train, which had temporarily halted at Westmin ster, and Davis wvas at the street crossing when he was killed by a passing train. The action was brought against the Air Line company, which was chartered in this State, because an action against the Southern rail way would have brought it into the Federal court. The main question involved in the stuit was whether the proper signal had been given by the engineer of the passing train, and as a subsidary question, whether the de ceased was in the line of his duty at the street crossing. Judge Boenet charged the jury this morning, and in two hours afterwards the jury re . turned a verdict in favor of the plain > tiff for $11,000. At the previous > term of the court when this case was I tried the jury gave a verdict for $10, 1 000, which was set aside on techni -cal grounds, ard it would seem that 3 the jury at this term fully agreed with the former verdict, adding an 1 other $1,000 for the delay. An ap a peal will be taken, and the supreme .court will have to pass upon some of -the legal points over which the conn -sel have so ably and earnestly con r1 tnded. F. D. DEAN ARRESTED AT FLORENCE HOTEL. MIAIC(11i)"ll WT1"FA'IC P IETENNES'" IN sPAtrAN1U1t0. son of Prolnllicit CCItgoa-The Young Mari TONt 114 slite of story nnud seelnh Cona1dent, of tho outcome. [Spocial to The State.) Florence, March 29.-Quito a son sation was created in the Central hotel at. Florenco last night when Deputy Shoriff E. B. Milan, of Spar tanburg, walked in and presented a warrant for the arrest of F. D. Dean, a traveling salesman who arrived in Floronco Sunday and registored as F. D. Doan, Richmond, Va. The warrant alleges that in January or February that by falso protonses and mtisreprosont at ions Dean obtained the signature of .1. 11. Milster, of Spar tantburg to a conditional note for $1,000--and givos the names of Guy tharris, F. 1). McEowen, S. B. Jones, J. ). Boyd, (loo. Hodges and others as witnesses to prove the same. Doan mado no rosistance, and de clares that lie has done nothing wrong, and exprossed his willingness to return to Spartanburg with the deputy. No ono knows him in this part of the State, but his deportment and general boaring impressed all thoso who caime in contact with him. lio is well drossod, wearing a Prince Albert coat, neat trousers and plug lint, is ipparently about 26 or 28 years old, and has a strong face, full of determination. Whlen asked to give a statement for tho press lie said in substance that his honie is in Chicago; his father is a proinont railroad man in that city. About a year ago he openod up1 a brokorago business in Spartanburg, handling the business of Swift & Co. and W. S. Forbes & Co. of Richmond, Va , and t few minor couceriis. lie did a big busi ness until Septembor, wheni a "large embezzlomont" occurred in Iis offico which natorially crippled his busi ness. About the first of <January W. S. S. Forbes & Co. sont a represon tativo to Spart,anburg to see hin. This represeintativo proposed that if he would arrange his indebtedness with thom thatthey would send a man d]own to tako chargo of the oflice and books, and that Dean could still ro tain a working interest in the busi ness. This necessitated his giving an ondorsed note to raise money, and in the meantime his friends advised him to "play for safety," which he dhid. He says that he wont to 3. H. MIilst.er and told himi all about it and asked him to sign a conditional note, meaning that this note was given Forbes & Co., and they made good the promise made to him through their rep)reslentativo and allo- red him to continue to handle their business, that it would 1)0 binding and he w~ould1 earn the money out of the business, with which he would meet the note at maturity. If Forbes & Co. did not carry out their agree mont th. n the note was null and voidi. Dean did not say whether ho negotiated the note at the bank him.. self or turned it over to Forbes & Co., but it appears that the note is in the bank and Milster is being held for p)ayment. It seems that the Richmond concern concluded not to entrust their business further to Dean's hands, so Dean had to pull up from Spartanburg, and is now on the road selling goods for T. M. Per kins & Co. of Richmond, Va. Of coi,rso there are two sides to every story. Milstor may have a different tale to tell when the matter comes up before Magistrate Kirby in Spartanbu rg. Deani wired his fathier---Mr. J. WV. D)oan of Chicago-today, who in structed the City Bank of Chicago to wire the Commercial and Savings Bank of Florence to issue to J. W. Ragsdalo, Esq., attorney for his son, a certified check for $1,000, to be used as bond. Mr. Ragsdale, upon receipt of the check, wired Sheriff Vernon, of Spartanburg, tendering this certified check, which was re fused with the statement that he de manded the prisoner or $1,000 cash bond. It being after banking hours, the time lock on the safe prevented the cashier from opening the sate, so Mr. Ragsdalo accompanied Deputy Sheriff Milan and his client to Spar tanburg tonight, where the case will be heard before Magitrato Kirby to. morrow.