The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 22, 1900, Image 2
THE COUNTY RECORD.
Published Every Thursday
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^INQSTBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
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C. W. WOLFE .
Editor and Proprietor.
RAILROAD lillLEAGfc AND TAXcS.
Annual Report of the Comptroller
General.
The comptroller general has received
from the several counties the statement
as to the railroad taxation and earnings
for the past year, and tha state
ment showing the mileage in the State
and the total taxation is presented is
fellows:
Mileage. Total taxes.
Abbeville 85.67 ?3S?2.11
Aiken 10S.23 11425-23
Anderson 71.7C 7.853.48
Bamberg 52.61 8.t3l.i#
Barnwell 129.31 15.010. SI
Beaufort 13. SC 6,426.01
Berkeley 81.47 12 766.7s
Charles-ton 34.24 7 1)3.S"
Cherokee 47.29 8.8'3.6 J
Chester S2.62 SS16.S2
Chesterfield 57.31 3.405.82
Clarendon 62.31 4.591.49
Colleton 52.22 11.110.20
Darlington 68.21 4.S03.04
Dorchester 41.58 S.0CS. '-3
EdgefloM 50.32 5.462.09
Fairfieid 64. S3 9.233.58
Florence 51.09 8.0?3.73
Georgetown -0. CG.Sj
Greenville 49.51 8.S26.01
Greenwood 79.59 9.478. v6
Hampton 84.30 9.768.21
Horry 30.42 3,0'8.23
Kershaw 72.60 5,601.01
Lancaster 43.29 4.79.>.49
Laurens 93.30 11,145.48
Lexington 125.81 12,2>1.94
Marion 59.75 8.?i2.1?
Marlboro 49.C3 4.299.44
Newberry 72.33 7.529.9S
Oconee 43.75 S.175.34
Orangeburg 1-3.15 17.973 47
Pickens 93.93 6 22S.06
Richland 1*2.12 13.G39..1
Saluda 14.33 2,090.99
Spartanburg .. .. ln1.78 15.822.9i
Sumter 153.01 11,324.8.
1'yicn 49.23 7.513.99
Williamsburg .. . 06.39 S.D4G.19
York S3.89 9.703. G.
Total 2,$30.44 $341,010.sw
Only One Contest.
Columbia. Special. ? Election returns
from nearly all of the counties
have been received, and
all that is to be done is for them to bj
tabulated by the State board of canvasser?.
So far there has keen only
one notice of contest filed with the secretary
of state. This is in the case if
the congressional election in the First
district. Congressman Elliott was opposed
in that district by W. W. Beeket,
colored, who received comparatively
few votes in any county in the district.
Nevertheless, he makes a general protest
against the counting of the vote
for Col. Elliott on the f ollowing
grounds: "That the said ballots which
were cast and returned for William
i Ia^I
Elliott at said election, were qui icgui
ballots under the laws of the State of
South Carolina. Because said ballots
were not of proper color and did not
show for what office the said William
Elliott was intended to be chosen.'*
This protest was filed with the election
canvassers of Charleston. After
reading it the board declared that they
found "the ballot; erst for William Elliott,
for representative in Congress
from the First district of South Carolina,
were 'two and one-half inches
wide by five inches long, clear and even
cut. without ornament, designation,
mutilation, symbol or mark of any kind
whatever, except the came of William
Elliott representative i n Congress.
First district, and that the ballot was
properly printed and according to the
laws governing elections in this State.'*
The board, therefore, declared Col. Elliott
duly entitled to receive the vote;
cast for him. Becket p-.oposos to make
a similar contest before the State canvassing
hoard, and presumably this is
but the first step towards taking the
contest up to the national house of representatives.
n Two More Governors Respond. V
r.nv MfSweenev has received a lei
ter lrom the Governor of Maryland expressing
regret that he can be of no
service in the matter cf the Charleston
Exposition. The Governor of Colorado
has. on the other hand, written that
he will present the matter to the legislature
of his State and do what he
can to have his State make a suitable
exhibit. So far most of the Governors
heard from are heartily in sympathy
with the exposition and its purposes.
Life Valued at Five Cent?.
Greenville. Special.?John Adams, a
white man. shot a negro named Henry
Jones at Turner's stables, on Washington
street. The negro was shot in the
head, side and arm, and immediately
after the shooting he was taken to his
home in the suburbs. His wounds are
thought to be dangerous. No arrest
has yet been mada The difficulty was
over a nickel. Henry Jones' father was
killed a year or two ago by another
negro.
The mosquito is always ready to
present a bill for damages.
NO CHANGES
President's Official F
Rem
GIVES CABINET GREAT CREDIT
For the Achievements of His Administration?Cordial
Relations Between
the President and his Advisers.
Washington, D. C., Special.?l^esi- I
d.m.t lleKinley has announced clear- !
Iy and forcefully to the members of
his cabinet his desire that they should
all remain with him during the .four
years of his cccning administration. '
Hia wishes were made known in an i
extended speech at the cabinet meet- j
ing in tbe White House Tuesday. !
Responses were made by all the members
i -esent, and while there was no
definite pledge from any of them that
they would accept the portfolios thus
tendered afresh, there wa9, on the
other hand, no definite declination. j
The day's proceedings set forth the
wishes of the President in the matter
and relieves the members of the cabi- '
net of the customary obligation of ten- j
dering their resignations at the end of
the terms, unless tney have made au
irrevokiibh- decision that it will be improper
fcr them to continue in office.
It also sets at rest all speculation and
slate-makir.g of the country's political '
J prophet?, for It is understood goner- i
I ally that there is but one doubtful fnc;
tor in the homogeneity of the present
' cabinet, '[hat factor is Attorney G?ni
eral Griggs, as ho holds his present
' position at a great financial sacrifi e.
1 Still Mr. Griggs replied in terms of
: warm appreciation to the complimentary
remarks of the President and
I voiced no intention of retiring from
I his present po ition.
This is not the first tlnn that the
} President has expressed to the mem- .
I hers of the cabinet his p'ereure at the
j support they had given him. He said
i as much in a general way at the last
; cabinet meeting, when the member-,
I several cf whom had been scattered by ;
! tbo pol t;cl eairnrvgn. got toge'her for ;
1 - ? >!.?
til" Jirsi Time MMgiaiuiaigu ......
upon the outrode of the election. Tuesday
the President evidently had prepared
for the occasion and in his addrees
reviewed the work cf the administration
in the past four years?four ,
of the most exciting vear3 the country i
, has known in three decades. It was '
1 rather a surprise even to the cabinet
; mo?hers themselves to note how ac- ;
! curately the President had fixed in his
I memory the sequence of events and
how calmly he relinquished the per!
sonal credit for successful strokes of ,
| policy or prudence and attributed the i
honor to the member oJ his official
* 11 ? ?? ?Imma.Uafo denart- i
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ment the matter in question had arisen.
He said that if the result of the recent
election wns tin endorsement of
his administration, it was no less an
endorsement of the men who had stood i
i by him in the time of streps and ne- J
j cessity. The credit for success, he
| said, lay with the heads of his various
departments and he should shrink from
entering upon another four years of
ofTice without the men who formed hTs
prfsent official household. He said he
; knew that in asking them to remain
with him there was scarcely or.e who
I cou'd do so without some sacrifice :
! either in money, le'sure or personal
inclination. At the seme time he said
he should feel happ:er if all of them
could gratify his wish.
Secretary Hay was the first to respond.
He said that for his part he I
deeply appreciated the complimentary |
I references made by his chief and that
! he thought there was not a member of
! the cabinet who yould sever sucn
' pleasant official relations without re,
gret, and even then only in case of the
most urgent reasons for retirement.
Secretaries Gage. Long, Hitchcock, j
Wilson. Attorney General Griggs and
' Postmaser General Smith each spoke
: In turn and in much the same vein.
25 Imlgrants Barred.
j Philadelphia. Special.?Twenty-five j
| Immigrants, who came here as saloon '
J passengers on the American tin steam- j
j er Sweasland, were denied admission
to this country by a board of inquiry
, of the United States immigration com
missioner?, on tne grouna tnui mey naa
violated the contract labor law. It wa?
proved that a first class passage had
been paid for them by John Alexander
Dowie, the "Divine Healer of Chicago,"
who is about to found a city called
Zion, near Waukegan, 111., where he
intends to e?tablish a lace-producing !
pant.
Engineers flay Win S'.rlke.
Torre Haute, Ind., Special.?The
etrika of the hoisting engineeis in the ;
Indiana coal fields, which was declared
Monday, may be settled by the end
of the week. Ten of the Indiana opft"ators
signed the Illinais scai? and will j
pay the wages demanded by the engin- j
ecrs for one year. The sign ng oi the
scale means an eight-hour day and a
20 per cent, increase in wages for the j
strikers.
IN CABINET?
amily All Asked to
ain.
PARIS SHOW ENDS.
The Great Exposition Closes With
Erilliant Scenes.
Paris, By Cable.?The exposition
closed Monday with the evening illumination.
Five tickets were charged
for one admission. There were fewvisitors
in the daytime, tickets lacking
purchasers ait a sou -fach. The booming
of a cannon from the first story of
the EifTel tower announced that the
exposition of 1000 had ceased to exist.
It ended in a blaze of illumination, the
final evening being celebrated by a
night fete. The attendance however,
was small, visitors being kept away
by a cold, drizzling rainfall. Official
statistics show that the exposition was
a zisrantic success from the point of
view of attendance, which was double
that of the exposition of 1889, when
23,121.975 passed the gates. When the
gates of the exposition of 1900 closed
this evening, more than 50.000,000 persons
had pa.-?ed through. The British
and Belgians headed the list in 1SS9. in
point of number, but this year the
Germans were first and the Belgians
second whh the British far behind.
Americans also formed a very noticeable
contingent. Indeed they were immeasurably
more numerous than at the
previous exposition. The record paying
day this year brought out more
than 600,000 visitors, as compared with
a maximum of 335.377 in 1889. This
evening tickets which had brought a
sou in the afternoon, were so.- at the
rate of five for a son.
A curious scene was witnessed at the
exposition gates shortly before 6
o'clock, when the authorized ticket
booths which earlieT in the day had
been selling tickets for two sous, re- J
ducci the price to one. The street
hawkers, indignant at this, attache!
cards to their coats lnscnoea: uive
you a ticket for nothing."
The work of removing the exhibits
can begin after midnight. No vestige
will be left of the great exposition but
the art palaces. The prefect of the
Seine submitted to the municipal conncil
a sehemo to demolish all the buildings
on the Champs do Mars and Trocadero.
The centre of tne grcund3 will
be maintained in the form of gardens
for the embelishment of the city,
while the wide border will be sold for
building lots for the erection of mansions
and hotels. The State Is at-ked to
abandon Its right to use the site for
future expositions.
The closing days of the exposition
have been marked by wholesale bailiff
seizures of the properties ot z number
of concession holders, chiefly reetaurant-keepers
and proprietors of
side shows, who have failed to meet
their financial obligations.
Fatal Fire.
Popular Bluff, Mo., Special.?Fire,
accompanied by a terrible fatality occurred
Monday morning, resulting in
tbo total destruction of the Gifford
house, a large three-story frarje building.
The known dead are a3 follows:
Heck Clark, Rebecca Owens, Helby
Dehart, Curly Berry. Fatally injured:
Etta Hargrove, Wins low Stowe. Missing:
Eugene Dalton. Injured: T. A.
Smith, Barney Pernaud, Charles
Stradley, Mrs. Benjamin Shelby, Pink
'Berry, Elmer Freshear and James Upchurch.
An unknown woman is also
thought to be fatally injured, and
about a dozen more are 6lightly \burned
or received bruises in escaping
from the building. The fire originated
at 12:30 in the morning In the rear of
the hotel and in a few minutes the
building was a mass of flames. There
were in the neighborhood of fortyfive
guests in the building.
I
Alaskan Report.
The report of Gei. Randall, of the
department of Alaska, conveys connf
tVm rfnr>rrB which have I
II ; IIIU Ci cria w* v?*v,
come from that region, from time to
time, concerning the decimation cf the
Indian and Eskimo inhabitants. Gen.
Randall makes it clear the advent of
the white man from the States is responsible
for the difficulties of the
aborigines and appeals for prompt
succor. The gold hunter has taken
from the Indian his means of subsistence
and communicated to the Eskimo
his dL-e^scs without giving to the
one new resources, or to the other the
knowledge and remedies necessary to
ccmbat the imported ailments.
Death of flarcus Da'y.
Nerw York, Special.?Marcus Dalv,
of Montana, one of the wealthiest
mine owners of the world and the man
who put up such a bitter fight against
W. A. Clajlr when the latter ran for
the United States Senate, died at the
Hotel Netherlands. Bright's disease
complicated with heart weakness was
the cause od death. His wife and children
were at Jiis bedside, and the end
I
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
The South.
After spending ne.irly two months in
relief work among the sufferers at Galveston
and other places on the Texas
coast. Miss Clara Barton feels there is
1.0 longer a necessity for her to remain
In the field. The work of relief will be
/?nntiniio<T hniriivdr dtirinc thp entire
winter, but the local Red Cross in Galveston.
organized at Miss Barton's suggestion.
and the local committees at
the various points on the mainland
will be amply able to distribute the
supplies now on hand and the large
quantity that will continue to be sent
without thp aid of Miss Barton's staff.
It is her purpose to leare Texas within
a few days.
lln the basement of the chapel of
Washington and Lee University, at
Lexington, Va., the office of the late
Robert E. Lee. formerly president of
that institution, is preserved exactly
as he left it. Not a book, a letter or
a paper has ever been disturbed. Once
or twice a year the room is carefully
dusted, but at all times the windows
are kept closed and the shutters
drawn. Letters that he received the
last morning that he was able to work
lie on his writing table under a paper
weight. The morning papers of the
different members of tne faculty lie
untouched. Tney were never examined.
Rev. C. A. Langston, formerly of
Boston. Mass., was istalled as pastor
of the Church of Our Father, a new
Unitarian structure, in Atlanta Mondoy
night. Among the officiating ministers
were Rev. Maxion F. Ham, of Chattanooga.
Term.; Rev. Fred V. Hawley,
of Louisville, Ky.; Rev. Ceorge A.
Thayer, of Cincinnati, 0.; Rev, SamurU
a nt Rnsron- Hon. Fred
erick G. Eomberg, oi .Voblle, Ala., and
C. Breckinridge Wilmer, of Atlanta,
Ga..
It is announced that the North Atlantic
squadron will winter in Gulf
waten and that Pensacola, F.a., ha3
been designated as their coaling station.
Large quantities of coad is now
being received at tee Pensacola navy
yard. The fleet is expected there early
next month, and will manoeuvre in
Pensacola harbor.
The North.
Mrs. Lizzie Doty, of Mexico, Mo., has
Just won a curious l2w suit brought
against her by a firm which manufactures
bronze monuments. Some time
ago she ordered from the plaintiffs a
$3S4 bronze monument, to be erected
on the grave of her parents, with this
inscription: "The Lord is my Shepherd;
I shall not want." The engraver
made it read "fear" instead of "want.r
and Mrs. Doty refused to pay the bill
The lawsuit followed. The judge instmcted
the jury that if they consiu
ered the inscription to be a material
variance from the words of the Psalmist
they should find for the defendant,
and they did so.
Divorces have grown to such an alarming
extent in Indianapolis, Ind., that
the Judges have agreed to suppress
the record of divorces granted. Th?-v
place this action upon moral grounds.
Judge Carter, of the supreme court,
said, in explaining their action, that it
is believed women are impressed with
ihp Mac of cerurins divorces when thcv
read the long lists of eases. The judges
believe eight hundred divorces are entirely
too many for the county In one
yc2r and will do all they can to sunpress
the evil.
At the recent meeting of the West
Pennsylvania Lutheran Synod the pre?dent
stated that the Rev. Dr. Daniel
Hauer. of Hanover, had entered the
75th year of active service in the ministry,
being now 95 years old. and perhaps
the oldest living minister in the
world in point of service. He was pastor
of some Lutheran churches in Virginia
in the arly years of his ministry.
President MeKinley has sent a lifesaving
medal to the sailor, Olsson .at
Copenhagen. Denmark, who saved 20
members of the crew of an American
schooner.
A St. Paul. Minn., dispatch says:
a;-: <? n V Flavio
"I ne runmuuu ui acuowi v. n.
took a decided turn for the worse today,
inflammation of the kidneys having
developed."
Governor Jomes A. Mount, of Indiana,
has been suggested as Secretary
of Agriculture. The Governor ia not
seeking the place.
Foreign.
Sen. Biden-Powell. according to the
London Mail, has contracted enteric
fever, but his condition is not serious.
The Russian minister of agriculture,
M. Yerloff. after visiting the coal de"
nn tho RlarV
posus receimy uioiuicicu %/?.
Sea ccast In the government of Kutais.
estimates that they will yield 1.640,000
tons annually for CO years. He considers
the quality excellent.
Sunday laws are strictly enforced in
Honolulu. Not only are all saloons
and bars kept tightly closed and stores
forbidden to sell, but any one who attempts
to plry ball or indulge in any
other sport on Sunday is carried before
a magistrate to pay a fine or go to
jail.
A Berlin dispatch says that Mgr.
Stabewski, archbishop of Posen, in
Prussian Poland, Issued a manifesto
against the German Centrist candidate
and in favor of a Polish candidate. His
course has attracted much attention
and the government will probably take
notice of it
A London dispatch says that Earl
Cadogan has consented to continue to
retain the office of Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland.
A COLLEGE BURNED.
Many Young Ladies Haye a Fearfully
Close Call.
150 ESCAPE FROM BURNING HOUSE.
Virginia College, at Roanoke, Com^.
pletely Destroyed at an Early Moof
in the Morning.
Roanoke, Va., Special.?Virginia
College, an institution for young ladies,
situated just outside the city
limits of Roanoke, was totally destroyed
by fire at an early hour Wednesday
morning. It was a snort while
after the rising bell had been rung,
when it was discovered the Hallways
of the big building were filled with
smoke. The young ladies were notified
to lose no time in getting out of
the building; to stop for notning.. The
wort was quickly passed a-ound and
the young ladies, 150 in number, made
their way out, many of them thinly
clad, hardly any with anything more
*han the simplest costumes of the
bedroom. There was little confusion
and no great excitement. As soon as
men reached the scene they cheerfully
loaned their overcoats to th gins in ?
lifrht rasfnnips Snmo of the neigh
bora in the meanwhile brought blankets,
and the girls who had the least
clothing went into near-by houses.
The 3re started in the boiler room,
exactly how is not known. It made
quick work and in less than two hours
the buildings were entirely destroyed.
The desks from the business office and
a few articles of ,umiture was about
all that was saved. Ice building was , |
of brick and fitted with all modern
conveniences. The loss is $75,000,
with about $25,000 insurance. The
building belonged to Miss Harris and
Mrs. Boatwright. The students will
be kept together in Roanoke a few
days until it is dec. ed where the
nchcol will resume.
Naval Appropriations.
Washington, D. C.. Special.?The
comparative statement of eslimates
and appropriations for the navy for
the fiscal years of 1901 and 1902,
Dhows that the total appropriations
for the year 1901 were $o5,120,S16, and
the total estimates I"ori902 are $87,.72.621.
The principal items in the estimates
for 19f2 are as follows: Pay
or tuft navy, $10,129,1.a-*, uuicou ui miinance,
$2,601,456; bureau of equipment,
$4,164,802; public works, yards
an * docks, $1^.302,540; public works
at Naval Academy, $3,000,000; suppli*-.
and accounts, $4,S43,849; construct'
inr repair, $88,070,824; steam engineei
ing, $3,772,900; marine corps, $2,918,520;
increase cf the navy, $21,772,917;
armor and armament, $4,000,000;
squipment, $400,000; emergency fund,
$500,000. Among the new items estimated
for are: Traveling crane at
Norfolk, navy yard, $140,000; /.'.rchaee
3f land at Norfolk navy yard, $250,000,
md torpedo beat 6tcrage "plant at same
$100,000; quay wall at Key West naval
nation, $100,000; torpedo boat storage
plant at Penracola navy yard, $100,000,
* Report of Treasurer Roberts.
Washington, D. C., Special.?The
annual report of the Treasurer of tho
I'nited States. Ellas H. Roberta, on
the operations and condition of the
Treasury, was submitted to Secre;ary
o-age, Monday. Mr. Roberts says the
growth and prosperity of the country
and general activity of business are
reflected in the transactions of his of5ce.
The net ordinary revenues of the
government for the fiscal year were
567,340,852 ,the largest in the history o>f
he country, exceeding those of 1866,
:he next highest, by $17,291.28S. The
:ncreas9 of $51,280,232 over the preceding
year was contributed from all the
general sources, but chiefly from cus:oma
and internal revenue. On the side
yt the expenditures there was a net
iecrease of $117,358,388 in comparison
vith 1899, so that the deficiency of
JS9,111,560 for that year was converted
into a aurplus of $79,327,060 in 1900.
Boers Active.
London, By Cable.?Under date of
Johannesburg, November 12, Lor*
Roberta telegraphed to the War Office
is follows: "oRimdle reports skirmishes
with email-parties of Boers in the
Harrlsmith, Roitz and Vredo districts
recently. The commandoes appear to
je acting independently end with no
>bject except to giTe as much annoymco
as possible to the British. Our
ssulties in these skirmishes were two
tilled and eeven wounded. Doughy*
irrived at Vcntersdorp. oNvember 11,
I Jrom Zeerust. capturing during the
march 21 prisoners and a quantity of
rattle and sheep. Venter.^orp, which
bas been a depot of supplies for the
Boera, will now be cleared out."
Telegraphic Briefs.
Rush Medical College, at Chicago, v
111., i3 to have a new $80,000 building,
and Dr. Nicholas Sean has given $;0,)C0
for the purpose.
The gymnasium of the University
Notre Damo, at Notre Dame, Md.,
was destroyed by fire Saturday.
Seven persons were burned to death,
in a fire followirg a train wreck at
DfTenbach Hesse.
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