The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 20, 1897, Image 6
THE COUNTY RECORD!
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LOUS J. BRISTOW, K<L & Prop'r.
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" FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Report of the Proceedings from Day
to Duy.
SENATE.
Monday.?Mr. Morgan's Cuban resolution
was discussed at considerable
length in the Senate. For the first time
Bince the debate began opposition sentiment
expressed itself, Hale, of Maine,
and "White, of California, speuking
against it, while Turpie of Indiana,
supported it. Chauder, Republican,
of New Hampshire, from the committee
on census, reported a bill for taking
the twelfth census. Hale, in his long
argument against Morgan's resolution,
9aid its object was to prevent Spain
from making a loan and thus prevent r
' her from putting down the insurrection.
Tuesday.? The Cuban question occupied
the entire attention of the Seuate,
the debate taking a large range,
and at times becoming spirited, when
comparisons were made between the
attitude of the former administration
and the present on the subject of Cuba.
The debate went over until Wednesday.
During the day Senator Kyle, Populist,
of South Dakota, rising to a question
of privileges, disclaimed having sought
committee places from Republicans.
A. partial conference on the Indian appropriation
bill was agreed to.
Wednesday.?In the Seratethe sugar
investigation of 1894 was resumed bv
the introduction of a resolution of Allen,
of Nebraska. Morgan, of Alabama,
made a statement relative to his resolution
on Cuba, but it went over for further
consideration. A resolution by
Butler, (Pop.) of North Carolina, requesting
the President for information
relative to the sale of the Union Pacific
Railroad was presented and went over.
The Senate then took up the calendar
and passed bills as follows: For the
relief of oertain citizens of Montana,
claiming the benefits of the homestard
laws; fronting to Montana 50,000 acres |
of land in aid of an asylum for the blind; J
appropriating $174,000 to Charles P.
Chouteau, for extra work on the iron
clad Etlah; appropriating $15,000 for
Newberry oollege, Newberry, S. C., for
war losses. The immigration and the
kinetosoope bills were reached, but
went over on objection.
Thursday. ?After a long period of
calm, the Senate was considerably agitated,
first in the discussion of tiie
sugar Senate investigation and then by
a preliminary skirmish on the tariff
! bill. The Allen resolution, to bring
Elverton R. Chapman before the bar of
the Senate, was debated in somewhat
a monotonous sty'e until Tillman, of
So.:th Carolina, gave a present interest
, to the subject, referring to reports that
. Senat rs had within the last week specalated
In sugar stock. Morgan's Cuban
resolution came up and went over until
Monday. Gallinger introduced a resoyf-;
Jution for the appronropriation of $50,000
for the relief of suffering Americans
E* In Cuba. The resolution went to the
y. -committee on foreign relations. Just
before adjournment Aldrich, in charge
v .of the tariff bill, announced that he
would not call up the the tariff bill next
"Tuesday as contemplated, but on the
following Thursday, when a statement
would be made, the regular aebate to
| begin not later b?n ^fgnday, May 24.
HOUSE.
Mospat.?The House resumed the
transaction of public business, and
entered upon the consideration of the
amendments of the civil appropriation
bill. The general debate, aqd most of
the debate under the five minute rule,
was confined to the discussion of the
;i);. Senate amendment to restore the lands
MM . ' reserved as forest reservations under
President Cleveland's order of Fobrub?;
?ry 22, to the public domain. The
W ostern members generally supported
. the Senate proposition.
jet; i'vesdat. ?The most interesting debate
was on the appropriation of $>0,0O>
to improve Pearl Harbor, in the
Hawaiian islands, which was rejected
r \ by a vote of 85 to 58. Hitt, of Illinois,
wanted the government to take steps to
couiirm its title, saying without it as a
coaling station our nation would be
I helpless in case of war. The House
(failed to agree with the b'enate amend'
ment on Cleveland's reservation order,
but wanted another to the same effect.
At 5:30 the House adjourned until
Thursday. *
5 I Thuwda*. ?In tne House the Indian
appropriation bill was disposed of, ex- I
"v , cept the provision for opening the
Utah gilsonite lands, which went over
i until Monday. Nearly two hours were
consumed in a parliamentary squabble
on the point raised by Wheeler, of Ala- I
bama, that the rule for semi-weekly
session was in violation of the Consti- I
tutioa. Simpson (Pop.), of Kansas, I
r* endeavored to renew his attack upon
the speaker for failing to appoint com- I
. mittees, and censured the Republicans
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lor not musiering a quurum. iud
Shaker ruled him out of order, but
finally he was given the floor by a vote
of yo to 57. W hen he proceeded again
' he was called down, and then there was
some filibustering after the House decided
that Simpson could not speak.
* whereupon he appealed to the chair to
be informed "where am I at?" "The
chair has never been able to find any
oue who knew that." w as the reply.
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How Large Profits Are Made.
} If firet-cla8s bicycles can be manufactured
in large quantities for twentyfive
dollars etfch, how much less does
it cost to build type-writing machines?
Is there any reason whv such machines
should sell for 8100 each? Is there any
reason why purchasers should pay
even fifty dollars for such? What
makes it possible for the manufacturers
to secure five or six times the original
cost? Persistent and judicious advertising.
Wins Their Suit.
The Bell Telephone Company have
won the case brought against it by the
United States government to annul the
Berliner patent. This continues the
control of the telephone by the Bell
Company for seventeen years from 1P91.
when the last patent was granted.
Cotton Firms Dissolve.
The Inman cotton firms of Atlar is
and Augusta, Ga., Houston, Texas;
New York and Bremen, Germany, are
to expire by limitation on Sept. 1st* by
Mr. S. M. Inman retiring and younger
members stepping in.
MOB LYNCHES TWO GIRLS J
Colored Servants Handed to a Tree
in Alabama.
THEY HAD POiSONED A FAMILY.
One or Them Confessed?IIa<l Killed One
Person and Nearly Killed a Score?
The Lynching Was the Work of About
Twenty Men and Their Identity Has
Not Been Discovered by the Sheriff*
Birmingham. Ala. (Special).?Mollie Smith
and Amanda Franklin, two young colored
women, were found at daybreak Wednesday
morning swinging from a tree on the road
between Jeff and Huntsville, in Madison
County. The twenty men who had lynched
them had disappeared. The girls paid the
penalty of death for poisoning the family
f Joshua 0. Kelly, a prominent citizen of
Jeff. Several attempts have been made to
poison tho Kelly family. The first was made
two months ago. Mr. Kelly and his family,
consisting of eleven persons, arose from the
supper table one night suffering from terrible
pains, and the next day Mr. Kelly died in
great agony. It was ascertained that arsenic
had got into the coffee, but it was
thought then that it was an accident.
Eleven persons set up with the body of Mr. i
Kelly the night after his death. Toward
midnight they partook of some sausage.and
at once became ill. Fortunately there was
a physician in attendance, and no fatality
resulted. Last Friday all the members of
the family arose from the breakfast table
with terrible cramps in the stomach. Although
none has yet died, several are still
in a dangerous condition. This time it developed
that the poison was in the bread.
Suspicion was then directed to Mollie
Smith, a younjj colored girl, who had
zormeriy woricea in xne iamny, aoqaawrcu
of her house was made. Mollie had anticipated
the visit, and had started to Tennessee
on foot. Amanda Franklin, Mollie's
successor in the Kelly home, was also suspected.
Twenty men gathered Wednesday.
Some of them started out to capture
Mollie, whom they overtook some
ten miles away. The Franklin girl was
found at her'home, in bed. She was
told to get up and dress, and go with
the posse, which she did. The Franklin
girl gave way when she was cross-questioned,
and finally made a clean breast of
the whole affair. She confessed to the last
poisoning, but said Mollie Smith had put
the poison in the coffee and sausages, and
had persuaded her to poison the bread,
which she did while carrying the flour of
which it was made from the pantry to the
kitchen.
The Smith girl denied everything, even
when faced with the Franklin girl and the
letter's confession. The posse, satisfied of
the guilt of the two girls, carried them to
the woods, a short distance from Mollie
Smith's house, and, deaf to tears, prayers
and screams, tied ropes about their necks
and hanged them to a tree, waiting quietly
until it was evident they were dead. Without
a word they then stole away in the
darkness. There will probably never be a
clew to their identity.
BOY MURDERER HANGED.
Elmer Clawson the Youngest Person Ever
Executed In New Jersey.
Elmer Clawson, a boy of nineteen years
of age, was hanged Wednesday in the Somerset
County Jail af Somerville, N. J., for
the murder of Harry Hodgett, his former
employer. He was the youngest murderer
executed in the State, and next to the
youngest person convicted of a capital crime
in New Jersey. The drop fell at 10.07
o'clock, a. m., and in nine minutes the
Joung murderer was pronounced dead.
efore the execution he admited his guilt
and expressed contrition for his crime.
He was attended by Rev. J. 0. Wiemer of
the Methodist Episcopal Church of Somerville,
who said that he had baptized the
ondeained youth.
The crime for which Clawson paid the
death penalty was committed at 6 o'clock
on the morning of August 29. 1896. The
victim was his former employer, Harry
Hodgett, an Englishman, thirty years of
.1 J ? ?ann af Pin Air.
Bge, tun unuci vi a ouiau nuiu > . ..v_
amin. Clawson demanded work and a
quarrel followed, Hodgett accusing the
young man of having robbed him while in
his employ a year before. During a quarrel
the youth shot Hodgett. The murderer
then rode away on his bicytfld, but was
overtaken by two men in a buggy. ^
TRANSVAAL'S REPLY DEFIANT.
Insists Upon Its Bights and Suggests Arbitration
With England.
A dispatch from Cape Town, South Africa,
says that the reply of the Transvaal
Government to the .strong note, said to
amount to an ultimatum^ from the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, Joseph
Chamberlain, insisting upon observance of
the London Convention, is defiant In tone.
It Insists, the dispatch adds, upon the right
of the Transvaal to demand arbitration of
the questions in dispute, and also upon its
right to pass the Allen Immigration law,
and asserts that, if the right is disputed,
arbitration is the best means of arriving at
a settlement of the question.
Japanese Cruiser at Honolulu.
f On May 5 the Japanese cruiser Naniwa
arrived at Honolulu, Hawaii, from Yokohama
with Japanese Commissioner Abiyama,
who is to investigate the cases of the
rejected immigrants. Commissioner Abivama
states that his mission is friendly. If
ne finds the Hawaii Government has erred
a claim for damages will be made. He denies
that Japan seeks war, and says negotiations
will be conducted diplomatically.
Elected a New Speaker.
Speaker Charles BlAndford, of the Kentucky
House of Representatives, is in Washington
in pursuit of n Federal office. He
has been there so iong, ana uas giveu uv
sign of returning, that his fellow legislators
moved that a new Speaker be elected. The
motion was adopted, and M. T. Flippin, of
Monroe County, was chosen to succeed Mr.
Blandford. Wintry
Weather tin Great Britain.
Heavy snowstorms prevailed on May 12
over the English counties of Berkshire,
Lincolnshire and Herefordshire. In Scotland
there have been heavy snow and hail
storms, and the weather has been as cold
as during the month of November. There
was a sharp frost in London and in the inland
counties.
Wild Dear a Pest.
Wild deer have multiplied^ immensely on
Long Island dnringthe closed season. They
are not only eating the crops, but are destroying
plants and flowers.
Getting Beady for War.
A commission of British cavalry officers
and veterinary surgeons is in the Argentine
Republic buying horses for the British ; avalry
service.
Spain the Arbitrator.
Peru and Bolivia have submitted their
territorial dispute to the arbitration of
boain.
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OUR BUTTER FOR EUROPE.
yir?t Step in an Effort to Extend the Market
for the American Product.
The first experimental exportation of
butter from this country has Just been made
from New York City, when the government,
through an agent sent by the Agricultural
Department, shipped three quarters
of a ton of selected butter for sale in
Europe. The result of this experiment 1s
of great iirportr.nce to the agricultural interests,
as it is the first step in an effort of
the Government to extend materially the
market for Amedean butter and gain some
of the trade with Great Britain in particular
which Denmark practioally controls
with considerable profit. An incidental
object is to determine wnat improvements
are needed in transportation facilities.
Some butter Is now being sent abroad by
private firms, but it is alleged to be of inferior
grades. Unsatisfactory storage in
crossing the ocean and carelessness in leaving
the shipments on uncovered piers at
Southampton before being loaded into
freight cars, thus making the butter soft,
have further deteriorated its value In the
English market.
The butter sent comes from the Iowa
Agricultural College and a creamery at
Windsor, Vt. Subsequent shipments which
will be made during the summer at intervals
will be of butter from other places. To
build up a high standard only the best
grades will be shipped, and the butter wlb
be sold at the prevailing market prices.
The present shipment went on the stsamex
St. Paul, and will be kept at a low temperature.
The cargo is maae up of packages oi
different sizes to determine which is most
satisfactory. A Department agent will
meet the ship at Southampton, England,
and take proper care of the produot aad attend
to its sale. The appointment of butter
agents by the Department at New York
and Southampton to take care of then* interests
is possible.
r NEW MOTIVE POWER USED.
Electricity Tested on the new England
Rail rood.
The directors of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, In
conjunction with the directors of the New
York and New England Railroad Company,
have begun the most important experiment
ever undertaken by those who believe In
the ultimate supremacy of electricity over
steam as a motive power. A train moved
and controlled by electricity developed at
a central power-house was run from Berlin,
Conn., to Hartford, on a regular schedule
between two trains drawn by steam
locomotives, in the ordinary way. The
electrically equipped train did not in any
way interfere with the passage of the train
drawn by looomotives. This is important
as showing that railroads on whioh there
is a large and constant volume of passenger
trafflo may be gradually changed from
steam to electricity without any interference
with the oomfort of passengers.
Colonel H. H. Heft, the ohief electrial engineer
of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad, demonstrated that k
direct current of electricity can be sent
without serious loss from leakage for a distance
of nearly thirteen miles from
the oentral power station. Taking in
this case, Berlin, Conn., as the oentre, it
will be possible to replaoe steam locomotives
ana cars for Hartford, New Britain,
Meridan, Waterbury, Mlddletown, Walling
zoru ana oiner ciuee 01 me nutmeg mate,
comprising a population of oyer 200,000 Inhabitants.
KENTUCKY a A. R. ENCAMPMENT.
Ex-Confcder?toi Take Prominent Parts In
the Ceremonies. ^
The State Encampment, Grand Army of
the Republic, at Lexington, was the most
remarkable eyer held In Kentucky, from
the fact that ex-Confederates took the
leading part In the exercises, and only one
Union soldier made a set speech.
Captain Stephen G. Sharp, an ex-Confederate.
was the Chief Marshal of the day.
Colonel William C. P. Breckinridge, an exConfederate,
made the address of welcome.
Judge Jerre B. Morton, an ex-Confederate,
presented the encampment in a neat
speech with a gavel made from wood grown
on the battlefield of Chickamauga.
The only Federal soldier to make an address
was General Samuel E. Hill, AdjutantGeneral
of Kentuoky under Governor Buoknex.
He accepted the gavel on behalf of
the Grand Army of the Republic. He made
wuBi woo uuusiuorou mo uoav opoouu ui mo
afternoon, and when he spoke of how the
old sojdiexs had barled the hatchet he asked
Judge Morton to rise. They clasped hands,
and in this position General Hill finished
his address amid deafening and prolonged
applause. Then five hundred school children
sang "Dixie."
About 12,000 persons were in attendanoe.
The parade was participated in by all of the
larger Southern military organizations.
The encampment was held at the Chautauqua
grounds.
* MBILLH STRONG SHOT DEAD.
The Famous Kentucky Mountain Fighter
Assassinated.
Captain William Strong, the greatest
mountain fighter in eastern Kentucky, died
with his boots on a few days ago, after having
successfully dodged rifle bullets for
twenty-five years. He had left his home,
which is about ten miles east of
Jackson, to go to the house of a
neighbor, and had been gone only a
few minutes when his family was startled
by shooting, whioh appeared to be not more
tnan half a mile away. Members of the
family ran toward the place where the
sound of shooting was and found Strong
dead on the roadside, seven bullets having
penetrated his body.
Strong was lying on his back with his
revolver in his right hand. The revolver
had barely been drawn from his pocket
when a bullet broke the arm. Not a shot
had been fired from the revolver.
Investigation showed that a blind had
been constructed in a place immediately
above the road commanding a full view of
the thoroughfare for a distance of several
hundred yards. Scraps of bread and meat
were found behind the blind, and other
signs which showed that several men had
been hiding there for Strong.
TERRIBLE CRIME IN RUSSIA.
A Hermit Walls Up Alive Seventeen to Receive
the Martyr's Crown.
A terrible crime, the result of superstition,
has been committed at Tireepol, in
the government of Kherson, Russia, where
are a number of hermitages inhabited by
sectarians. Recently seventeen of the hermits
disappeared, and it was believed that
they had emigrated in fear of the impending
day of Judgment, but a hermit named
Kowalind has' confessed that he walled
them up alive in response to their earnest
entreaties that they might receive the
martyr's crown. The police examined the
spot and verified the confession.
United States nave 50,000,000 co.^
'Mexico is the rlohest mineral country, i
Ohio has Just witnessed its first electros
eution.
There are more than 900 golf clubs in tbp
United States and Canada.
Sixty-live million dollars is the ye?rly
value or the potato crop of the United Kingdom.
A large increase in tobacco aereage ove?
that of last year is predicted in l'ennsyi
vania.
Earl Gray Wilson, the ncwiy-elecjcba
Mayor of Morrow, Ohio, is said to be /Only
v.e?j -one years old.
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IN THE QUIET HOUKS.
PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
V/ORLD'S GREATEST AUTHORS,
Be Always Prepared?A Protest-A Prayer
?Seed Growing?Work for All at the
Master's Bidding-God's Ways are the
Best?The Secret of Love for Christ.
Said Mark to Martin. "Wherefors spend
Such constant care thy vines to tend?
It may be months, it may be years,
Before the vineyard's Lord appears."
Said Martin, "Though it may be long
Before 1 hear His harvest-song,
If of that hour can no man say,
It may be that He comes today."
?Julia Wood.
A Protest Against Morbidness.
The Apostle's injunction, "Let every one
of us please his neighbor for his good to
ecllllcation, Dnngs out me sunny siue 01 tno
ideal Christian life. It is a protest against
the morbidness and the mournfulness which
are too commonly associated with Christian
discipleship. It helps u:i to draw a distinction
between seriousness and dullness,
between earnestness o'- purpose and frigidity
of soul. It remimls us that whatever
throes and pains may a'tend the germination
and growth of the ideal life, that life
should present to the world the rich
blossom and fragrance which minister
pleasure to mankind. 1 here is, therefore,
some flaw in the piety which is repellent,
and in the zeal to ao good which succeeds
only in hiding the beauty of holiness. If
there were any doubt on this point, it would
only be necessary to brii g it to the test of
the one Ideal Life lived among men. No
life can compare with His in the sense of
solemnity and seriousness. Upon Him lay
the burden of the heaviest task over imposed
upon man. Through sorrows unspeakable,
yet with unfaltering step, He
pressed on to the goal of sacrifice. Yet,
from first to last, He exercised upon men
the charm of an attractive spirit, which
made them feel it was happy to be good.and
scattered around Him influences which
added to the joys and delights of life. And
in this matter of winsomeness, His disciples
have great need to learn of Him. It is
their duty to cultivate His charm, to discipline
themselves into His power to make
the world brighter and men happier. A
crotchety Christian is a monstrosity. The
man who fails to spread peace, joy, hope,
In this world of real and countless sorrows,
is an enemy of the race and a criminal before
God. For foremost among the marks
of the ide.il life is the faculty of enjoying
and dispensing the gladness of the Creator.
?Charles A Beiry, D.D.
A l*rayer for Larger Growth.
Christ, who dost bid me not to let my
hear: be troubled, I believe in God and in
thee. Let thy joy be in me, and let it be
fulfilled. Fulfilled in the presence of fail*
ure if thou didst send the failure, and my
own folly did not invite it: fulfilled in sickness,If
the great Physician bestows the sickness
in order to beat me fulfilled in loneliness,
if the solitude is crowded with tbee; fulfilled
even in death, when death is the shadow of
thy light. Wherever I turn my weeping eyes
thy loving face is a tender reproach. I mourn
over my sins in such wise that the mourning
is an added sin. I grieve at my poor
service of God and of man, and that grief
hinders my service. I sorrow at my paltry
growth?a growth that sorrow dwarfs and
joy enlarges. Blessed Lord, who dost die in
my deaths, take me into thy resurrection
life. I will forget failure and gloom; I will
forge t duty, even the duty of joy; and I will
learn privilege. Speed me on thy errands
so s sviftly that 1 shall have no time for
moodiness. Take me into thy joy so compete
v that I shall not even consider whether
1 am joyful. And all through no grace of
my own, but out of thy love which hs? promised
and never failed. Amen.
Only the Seed Orowing.
Let. it not bo a group of ash trees, but a
group of men, ... a thought of God en- |
trusted to the earth for its embodiment and
execution. What are those dreams and
visions.tbese upward reaching*, these certainities
of infinite belongings?what are
they, O thought of Ood, but the unbroken
tension of the chain which binds the thinker
to His thought forever? And what are t
all these earthlinesses, these tender clinglngs
to the things our senses understand,
.... these calls of present duties, this
fear of dying, this love of the present,
warm, domestic earth?what are they all
but the pressure of the warm ground upon
the seed entrusted to It ? The man who
does not somehow hold the complete truth
about his life?both of these truths combined
in one?does not live worthily. The
man who has and holds them both, look,
what a life he lives! Look how substantially
his roots are fastened in the earth. Look
bow aspiringly he lifts his branches to the
sky.?Phillips Brooks.
God's Ways Are Best.
Sometimes rain comes in storms, with
black clouds and fierce lightnings and thunders.
People tremble and are afraid as they
look on. But the storm passes, pouring out
rich blessing of rain, which make all the
fields rejoice. God sometimes sends His
word to us in dark, portentous forms?sickness,
loss, disappointment, sorrow, trial. At
first we are terrified; but in the end, when
the storms have cleared away, we find that
the dark clouds we so dreaded were but
God's messengers to bring to us rich blessings
of grace.
"God bends from out the deep, and says,
'I gave thee of My seed to sow ;
Bringest thou Me my hundredfold?'
Can I look up with face aglow,
And answer, 'Father here is gold?'"
-J. B. Miller, D. D.
The Master ttlds Us Work.
"Roll ye away the stone," said Jesus to
His disciples,not because He could not have
Himself attended to that small task, but He
would enl ist their service. "Loose him and
" 11** ooiH TTa funnlH Himself
in liiui UO UUiVI , MV v? W.v.
bare unwound the bandages, but that is not
His way of doing things. He is saving the
world through us. There are multitudes
of souls awakening to the glory of
the better life?moving, like Lazarus, with
slow, uncertain, tottering steps from
darkness to light. His word to every one
of His followers is : "Lead a hand. Loose
them and let them go." Why stand we idle
at the grave's mouth ? We cannot regenerate,
we cannot quicken from the dead, but
we can suffer the Master to use us. The
great Emancipator speaks. Unbind the
cerements! This is practical "Altruism."
This is the work of all true believers. So
may we help our Master in accomplishing
the restoration of the race to the glory of
God.?Rev. D. J. Burred, D. D., in "For
Christ's Crown."
The Secret of Love for Christ.
Wherein lies the personal power of the
Lord Jesus to bind human hearts to Him in
devoted lore and heroic service ? He was
indeed perfect as God is perfect, and in
being this He left all His disciples.even such
an one as St. Paul hopel essly behind. But
the divine loftiness of His character does
not remove Him beyond reach of our sympathy.
We do not loose interest in Him because
he is so much better than we are.
On the contrary, it is by His excellence that
He draws us. He is to our hearts the imitablo
inimitable, holding us at once by aspiration
and by admiration.?A. B. Bruce.
Ft ith is n grasping of almighty power;
The hana ruan laid Dnthe arm of God?
The grand sad blessed hour
In which th. things impossible to me
Become the i sible,0 Lord.through Thee.
-A. E. Hamilton. (
.THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Washington Items.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Theodore
Roosevelt will investigate charges
that have been made against various departments
in the New York Navy Yard.
The President nominated BrigadierGeneral
James W. Forsyth to be MajorGeneral.
Senator Allen introduced a resolution requiring
Broker Chapman, of New York, to
appear before the bar and purge himself of
contumacy as a preliminary to Executive
clemency. 8enatorHoar thought the resolution
would let the case go out of the
Senate's jurisdiction. He favored punishing
Chapman and also probing the Issue to
the bottom.
General Wesley Merritt has Issued an order
refusing to appoint a court-martial to
try charges against Lieutenants O'Brien
and Bamford, preferred by Captain Romeyn.
In dismissing the charges against O'Brien
he says that the charges grew out of a
feeling of personal spite, and that military
tribunals could not be made vehicles of
private revenge.
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JL UC7 OCUOtO UUUUfUICU IUO uwmiuawtvu v*
Cornelius Van Cott to be Postmaster of
New York. ~
Members of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee inspeoted reports on Cuban affairs
at the State Department, which are
said to strengthen the cause of the Insurgents.
President McKinley decided to accept no
invitations to take part in Memorial Day
exercises outside of Washington.
The House refused to concur in a Senate
amendment to the Sundry Civil bill approEriating
$50,000 to improve Pearl Harbor,
1 the Hawaiian Islands.
President McKinley appointed Albion W.
Tourgee Consul at Bordeaux. Sidney B.
Everett, of Massachusetts, was named to
be United States Consul of the United
8tates at Batavia, Java. Henry P. Cheatham,
of North Carolina, was named to be
Recorder of Deeds, District of Columbia.
The Secretary of State and Mrs. Sherman
held a large reoeption In honor of the.
seventy-fourth birthday of the former. Six;
hundred invitations were sent out, and the
guests included the President and Mrs. McKinley,
Vice-President and Mrs. Hobart,
members of the Cabinet and the Diplomatic
Corps, with ladies and other friends.
President Gordon, of Leland Stanford
University, has been appointed eommission3r
to investigate the condition of the Bering
Sea seal herd the present season.
Th? report that seoret negotiations of
great importance are being carried on be;ween
Spain and the United States in regard
to Cuba Is denied at the State Department.
W. L. Scruggs, formerly United States
Minister to Venezuela and now senior counsel
of th8t republic, arrived with the approved
boundary treaty with Great Britain.1
the ratifications will be exchanged In
Washington.
United States Senators signed a petition
isking the President to pardon E. B. Chapnan,
convicted of refusing to answer questions
before the Senate sugar scandal oqiunlttee.
Domestic.
Cbanf Ten Hoon, head of the Chinese
Imperial Treasury and special Ambassador
:o the Queen's jubilee celebration, arrived
m New York on Ms way to England.
Edward E. Dodge, aged fifty years, com-,
nltted suicide at Worcester, Mass. He went
to Dr. Bice's house, where he met Dr. Bice,
%nd presented a pistol to the letter's head,;
rhe doctor Induced him to lie down In an
ftdjolnlng room. No sooner bad the doctor
turned his back than Dodge fired a bullet
Into his head.
Gerald Peters, a West Indian oolored
?per, stole a boat and escaped from North
Brother Island, New York City.
A late break In a Louisiana levee willj
muse some of the richest sugar lands In
that State to-be submerged.
The Grand Jury In New York City ihIfcted
Commander Booth-Tucker, of the
lalvation Army, for maintaining a publio
juisance?the Fourteenth street barracks.
The new Flower telescope andobserra
;ory duu dings or me university 01 .reniisyir&nia
were dedicated at Philadelphia In
:he presence of about fifteen hundred persons.
C. C. Baldwin, Naval Officer of the Port
>f New York, died In Newport, B. I. He
vim born is Anne Arundel County, Maryland,
in 1831, and when the war broke out
mtered the Confederate Army from Baltinore.
Ten-year-old Mamie Cnmmihgs, who was
irreeted at Mount Vernon, N". Y., April IT
.'or stealing-a blcyclfc from Charles MoKen:le,
was sent to the Catholio Protectory at
Westchester.
One of the worst failures known fn Ban
rrancisco, Cal., for several years occurredphen
Williams, Brown A Co., who did a.
keavy trade fn canned salmon, wheat and
fruit with Australia, failed for #600,000:
The firm was established five years agebyi
William Brown, son of Cashier Thomas
Brown, of the Bank of California.
Bnmford Falls, Me., will soon have the'
)iggest paper machine in the world. It<
vas made in Worcester, Mass., and will'
)roduce paper 160 inches wide, beating the
world's record by two inches.
Professor Shaffer, of the Rochester (N.
?.) Theological Seminary, fell out of a'
window and was killed.
Owen Bowie asked Charles Smith, a farm
land, for a chew of tobaoco at Frederlok, j
tfd., and upon being refused shot Smith1
with an old armv musket and made his es
;ape. Smith died. Both are colored, and1
Bowie Is known as a desperate character.!
Frederick Jackson Cunningham, a young
nan of good family and high social post*
Jon, is In prison at Atlanta, Ga., oharged
rlth highway robbery- and with assault
rith intent to kill.
Fifteen students of Grove City College, I
me of the best known schools in Western
Pennsylvania, have been expelled by the
lollege faculty for riotons conduct.
C. H. Damsel, general bookkeeper at the!
National Bank of Columbus, Ohio, is found
o be short $25,000) in his accounts with the
>ank. He fled.
In anticipation of the duty of ten cents
>er pound provided for in the Senate
imendment to the tariff bill the price of]
ea has been advanced in New York markets
!rom three to Ave cents a pound.
The sealed verdict of tho jury In the ease
>f F. A. Rockafellow, the former banker,
rho was oharged with embezzlement, was
>pened in court at Wilkesbarre, Penn. The
lefendant was found guilty with a recomnendatlon
to mercy.
Foreign. ? . _
William J. Calhoun, the special eommftiloner
appointed by President MoKinley to
nvestigate the death of Rlcardo Ruiz and
>ther matters connected with the Cuban inlurrection,
arrived at Havana.
A series of earthquake shocks have 'been
'elt in the mountain districts of the State
)f Jalisco. Mexico. At San Gabriel some
lamage was done. The shocks were, felt
iistinctlv.
New gold mines have been discovered in
;he Province of Carabaya, Department of
Puno, Peru. It i? believed they will yield
largely.
The Ambassadors of the Powers at Constantinople
asked the Porte to suspend hos:ilities
in Greeee pending the oonolusion of
i permanent peace. Turkey at first dedined
the request.
A dispatch from Naples announces that
two large streams of lava have been flowing
down Mount Vesuvius and have united
with the deposits from the eruptions of
1895. The activity in the principal crater
Is normal.
A battle has been fought in Bechuanaland,
South Africa, in which six whites,
have been killed and thirteen wounded.
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The May Returns of the Department
of Agriculture.
PROGRESSOFCOTTON PLANTING V
Percentage of Contemplated Acreage
Thus Far Planted Above the Average
for the Past Seven Years.
The May returns of the Department
of Agriculture, at Washington, show a ^
decline from the April condition of 1.2
points?80.2 against 81.4 last month and $
82.7 May 1st, 1800.
The averages of the winter wheat
States are: Ohio, 82; Michigan, 81;
Indiana, Gl; Illinois, 87; Missouri, 54, ?
Kansas, 78; California, 97: Pennsyl- 'M
vauia, 00. The averages in the a
Southern States are higher, rang- >
ing from 85 in Mississippi to $Sr
98 in Texas, and in the minor
States, New Jersey, Delaware, Mary- >
land and Virginia, from 98 in New Jersey
to 102 in Maryland. As ^ported in JS
April, the worst injuries from freezing <3
and deficient snow are in Illinois, - S
though the bordering States, Indiana,
Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri, report ^
severe winter injury, and States border- ,aj|
ing these, Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska tB
and Kansas, show reduced condition
figures. Over the oountry elsewhere
the condition is unusually good, being 'Sj
practically normal east of the Alleghany.. j
mountains and quite high also ou tba M
Pacific slope.
The average condition of spring paa- *
ture is 93.4, against 98.2 a year ago;
and that of meadows 98.4, against 91.6
in 1890, the wet spring having been
favorable particularly in the region! of %
deficient rainfall.
The per centage of spring plowing ,
finished May 1 is 61.9, the usual per-\
centage being 78, only the extreme $
Northern and Southern States showing
the customary proportion. Everywhere 2g
else delay resulted from the late season .1
and heavy rains.
fiannrtji (rnm F.nrnnfl arfl cpnerallv ;e
favorable as to the condition of crops,
bat in France there is a reduced area of j
winter wheat and the crop is expected 'J
to fall short of last year's at least 16.- 1
000, (XXX bushels. In parts of 'Prussia .M
the spring showings have been retarded ipjl
by rain. The Viceroy of India telegraphs
that there will be no wheat for .
export from that country this year.
The cotton rei>ort for the month of
May, as consolidated by the statistician , jS
of the Department of Agriculture, relates
to the progress of cotton planting
and the contemplated acreage. The ex- ?s
tent of the proposed breadth already &
planted on the first day of May was
61.9 against 87.9 per cent, last year.
This figure is several points below the "rl
amount usually planted at this date.
The estimates for the several States are
as follows: Virginia.81; Florida 90, Ala- "
bam a 85, North Carolina 74, South Car* ;Qj|
olina 80, Georgia 82, Mississippi 80,
Louisiana 86, Texas 88, Arkansas 75, ]
Tennessee 58, Missouri 45.
The returns of correspondents in relation
to contemplated acreage as compared
with the acreage last year, which
are simply indicative of correspondents- -3
views as to intentions ol planters in re- .. ~
speot of area to be planted, are sum- *
marized as follows: General average* |
105.4 per cent of last year's breadth,
apportioned to State a* follows: North. H
Carolina 106. South Carolina 108,.
Georgia 108, Florida 101, Alabama 104*.' Wk
Mississippi 102, Lonisiana 102, Texas- i. t
109, Arkansas 104, Tennesse 105. In 'Xj
the northern part of the cotton belt
planting has been greatly retarded by
the late season and heavy rains. Thie ^
is less the case toward the Gulf, while- vf
in Texas planting is further advanced,
this, year than usual. -TE
Methodist Board of Education.Tha
Board of Education of the Metfo- - 1
odist Episcopal Ghnrch, South, met in I
Nashville, Tenn. W. B. Hill, of Mar
eon, Ga, and T. B. Anderson, of Cali- B
fornia, were the only absentees. Tha u
report of the secretary wss read1 and
adopted. The committee appointed4at ]
the last meeting of the board to fermu- W
late a system for improving the oondi- .
tion of Methodist schools reported. The flj
recommendations refer chiefly to mis- flj
ing the standards of preparatory schools
and colleges. With slignt amendments* S
the report was adopted. Bishop Dun- ' %
can made a successful appeal far ?
help for Paine Institute, at Augusta, %
Ga C. C. Goodrich, of Augusta^ Ga*
WAS elected & member of tne Doarov vice ?j
W. B. Hill, resigned.
The Exposition Now Open. j
According to previous announcement' f
the Women's Exposition of the Caro- b'?fl
linas was opened at Charlotte, N. G.,
on the night of the 11th, and was *' 1
brilliant success in every way. The
attendanoe numbered over 500 and the
building was beautifully decorated for
the occasion. Mrs. Robert Cotten, of - yP
Falkland, N. C., delivered the opening:
address.
A Monument to Southern Women. n
At Richmond, Va., on the 10th, Me- J|
morial Day was the most imposing in fl
recent years. Senator John W. Daniet n
was the orator. He paid a beautiful * \
tribute to the Confederate soldier and
made an earnest plea for a monument .
to the women of the South. The crcwd
va* estimated at 10,000.
Practically Accomplished.
The latest news from Athens, Greeoe,
soys that the surrender of Greece haa
been practically accomplished aid that
the powers are now acting upon the '
formal acceptance of the troops leaving
Crete.
To Be Contested.
A dispatch from Washington says
that Col. Jas. E. Boyd, of Greensboro,
N, C., ia to got the place of Assistant
Attorney-General in the Department of %
Justice, instead of Solicitor of Internal
Revenue. Also tnat ex-iMprsenwur?
Cheatham's nomination as Recorder of,
Deeds for the Distriet of Columbia has
been sent to the Senate, but that there
there will be a contest over hia CQUftruu
atibn by local Republicans.
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