The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, December 27, 1900, Image 3
A BOY ABDUCTED.
Son of MiTIonaire Cudahy Stolen
Away.
FATHER OFFERS HEAVY REWARD.
The Entire Omaha Detective Force
1 and Many Citizens are Hunting tor
J the Boy.
/ \ .
Omaha, Special.?Edward Cudahy,
Jr., 15 years old, son of Edward A.
Cudahy, millionaire packer and head
of the Cudahy Packing Company in
Omaha, is missing from hie home in
this city and his parents believe he
has been kidnapped. The entire police
and detective force of the city and
a half a hundred men employed by Mr.
Cudahy have been scouring the city
and country throughout the day in
hope of locating the young man or
securing a clue >vhich would lead to a
knowlede of his whereabout, but without
success. Business at Mr. Cudahy's
packing plant at South Omaha was
suspended, nearly the entire force joining
in the search. The boy'a parents
are distracted at his disappearance
and the father has offered to pay a
substantial reward and no questions
asked if bis son shall be returned to
hts home. An anonymous letter has
been received at the Cudahy home
substantiating the fears of the family
that he has been kidnapped.
Young Cudahy left home at 8 o'clock
Wednesday night to take some books
to the residence of Capt. Ruskin,
about two blocks distant and that was
the last seen of him. As midnight arrived
and he did not return the police
were notified and two detectives were
detailed to work on the case. It was
not until nearly 9 o'clock Thursday,
however, that the matter began to assume
a really serious aspect. At that
hour a man on horseback rods rapidly
by the Cudahy mansion and as he
passed the front gate threw a letter
Into the yard, in substance reading:
"Mr. Cudahy: Your son is safe. We
have him and will take good care of
him and will return him to you in
consideration of the payment of $25,
000. We mean business.
# "JACK."
The remainder of the note the police
refuse at present to discloeo as
they say it relates to the place where
the money U to be left and where the
kidnappers are to leave the boy in
case Mr. Cudahy complies with their
terms. The servant who saw the man
on horseback was able to give a good
description of him and this is the clue
upon which the police are working U
present
The Boy Recovered.
Omaha, Neb., Special.?There Is rejoicing
In the home of Edward Cudahy,
the wealthy packing house owner and
capitalist, of this city. Edward Cudahy,
Jr., who was kidnapped Tuesday evening,
after being held 36 hours for a
ransom of $25,000 in gold, which the
young man's father unhesitatingly
paid, has been returned to his family
and the boy and his parents are receiving
congratulations from relatives
and friends throughout the country.
Saved by Russian Troopi
Brusesls, By Cable.?The folowing
dispatch, dated Vladivostok, Decern
ber 18, has been received at the headquarters
of the Scheut Missionary
here:
"In the district of Pine all our Interests
have been entirely destroyed, except
the Episcopal residence. The
bishop, 19 Belgian missionaries, four
Chinese priests and 3,000 Christians
were saved by Russian troops, arriving
In haste In five columns. Commander
Eletz, wth a flying column, arrived
first. October 28, and made an heroic
i defense for five days. During the terrible
siege he lost in dead and wounded
one-thir^ of his force. Although twice
wounded, he rfeused to leave his pots
until the arrival of re-enforcements.
May be floved to Charleston.
Washington, D. C., Special.?The
naval general board, headed by Admiral
Dewey,is now holding one of its
regular periodical sessions at the Navy
Department. One of the principal
topics under consideration Ls the pending
proposal relative to the removal of
the naval station at Port Royal to
Charleston, S. C. This matter is in the
hands of a special board, headed by
Rear Admiral Rodgers, but it Is deemed
proper to have the general board
pass upon the stragetical wisdom of
such a move before final action is taken.
)^ To Have a Steel Car Factory.
* Birmingham, Ala., Special.?A con
traci was signed here by President J.
*4 jjmiw nf (th? Southern Car and
Foundry Company, with the Tennessee
Cool and Iron Company by which the
former/company is to erect a pressed
steel <ar works here with an annual
capacity of 6,000 complete cars. Every
portipia of the cars are to be constructed
from the steel and iron products
of the Birmingham district. The
earf plant Is later to be enlarged fee
BKke passenger ears ss mil.
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RE-APPORTIONMENT BILL
lTi2 House Discusses a Ratio for
Kepresenumon.
SENATE.
Fifteenth Day.?The full Senate
committee on military affairs lias
adopted the army reorganization bill,
reported by its sub-committee Wednesday
afternoon. The maximum
strength of the army is to be 100,000
men. The bill is a complete substitute
for the House bill and while much
of the language is the same as that of
the House measure, there are numerous
changes.
Sixteenth Day.?In the open ses3lou
of the Senate little business was transuded.
A spirited debate wae precipitated
over the resolution of Mr. Chandler
to discharge the eommitt? on
contingent expenses from further consideration
of the resolution authorizing
an investigation of the Monatna sentori&l
case. The exchanges bet-ween
the advocates and opponents of the
resolution took a political turn and resulted
in some lively colloquies. No
action upon the insolation was taken.
The army i-e-organization bill was reported
by the committee on military
affairs.
In the discussion of the Chandler
resolution, Mr. Jones, of Arkansas,
protested that the resolution was a
rebuke to the committee. Mr. Chandler
said no politics hai entered into
the commltioe's consideration of the
case. Both Mr. Clark and Mr. Maginnis
were Democrats and the question
involved was seating of one Democrat
or another.
"If this is purely Democratic quarrel,"
suggested Mr. Tillman, of South
Carolina, "then the senators 1 meres*
in the matter is rather extraordinary."
Seventeenth Day.?No business
was transactor toy the
Senate. The news of the
death of Mrs. We P. Frye, wife the
President pro tern, of the Senate, v\ig
conveyed officially to the body, and
out of respeot to her memory, it immediately
adjourned until January 3,
1901.
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, then
called the body to order. Rev. Mr. Milburn
pronounced a beautiful invocation
in which he feelingly referred to
the the demise i
The secretary then read a letter from
Senator Frye appointing Senator Fairbanks
pro tex. during his absence from
the Senatefl. The reading of the jour- i
nal was suspended, and at 12.03 the
Sentate adjourned.
HOUSE. i
Fifteenth Day?The House devoted
the day to District of Columbia busi- :
ness. The whole time was occupied i
in the cossideration of a bill to change |
the terminal facilities of the Pennsylvania
Railroad in this city and to ,
provide for the elevation of its tracks
across the Mall, south of Pennsylvania .
avenue. The opposition was persistent,
but after much filibustering the ,
friends of the bill succeeaeo in securing
a reces3 until 11 o'clock to-morrow
to continue consideration of the
bill.
Sixteenth Day.?Representative Hop- i
kins, chairman of the committee on (
census, filed In the House the majority
report "on the re-apportionment bill re- (
ported by his committee, fixing the
membership of the House for the next
decade at 357. Representative Burleigh,
of Maine, filed a majority report
signed by six members in favor of a
House to be composed of 386 members,
and Representative Crumpacker, of
Ind ana, who signed the Burleigh report,
also submitted an Independent
report in favor of reducing the repre- 1
rentation in the Southern States to the
extent of the abridgement of the suf- '
frage. His independent report favors 1
a House to be composed of 374 members.
Mr.- Hopkins, in the majority 1
report, cites many instances to show
thai the lo=s of soats by States under
to-orvnr.rtlAnmcnt hills was not un
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oommon. Massachusetts, for instance,
which, under Ihe third census had 20
members, was reduced to 10 under the
sixth, seventh and eighth, and Virginit,
whih had twenty-three in the third,
had but nine trade* the ninth. The
report says the committee followed the
plan adopted under the sixth census
and followed continuously since. It
has the sanction and approval of 60
yeare of national existence. The p'an
is to divide the constitutional population
by 357, the proposed membership.
The quotient 208,868, is the ratio of
representatives to population. Thi3
applied to the rate of population each
State will yield in the aggregate a
number somewhat less than 357, the
number determined upon as the membership
of the House. The difference
is trade up by assigning to the States
having the largest major fractions additional
representatives, until a suffl.
* * ? 1 a
dent numoer naving oeen aasiguwu iu
bring the totAI up to 357. A membership
of more than 357. the report says,
would make the House unwieldly.
Seventeenth Day.?The House was
In session only 25 minutes, when It adjourned
out ot respect to the memory
of Representative Wise, of Virinia. Mr.
Jones, of Virginia, who announ *ed t he
death to the house, offered the customary
resolutions, which were adopted,
and the Speaker appointed the follow<??
? nnmmlltoo l\t 17 tl~* a t+P fl/t th? fllU
eral: Messrs. Weeks, of Michigan;
Aldrich, of Alabama; Kahn, of California;
Roberts, of Massachusetts;
Minor, of Wisconsin; Brock of Indiana,;
Jones, of Virginia; Swanson, of
Virginia; Otey, of Virginia; Rixey, of
Virginia; Lamb, of Virginia; Quarles
of Virginia; Rhea, of Virginia; Lassiter,
of Virginia; Lloyd, of Missouri,
and Gaines, of Tennessee.
Then, at 12:25 p. m., aa a further
mark of respect to the memory of the
deceased, the house adjourned until
January I, 1901.
JOINT NOTE SIGNER
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Final Agreement ot the Powers Concerning
Chinese Question,
o ?
FULL TEXT OF tHE AGREEMENT.
It Demands That China Make Restitution
for Wrongs Inflicted on Foreigners
or Take the Consequences,
Pekin, By Cable.?The last obstacle
having been removed, the joint note
was signed Saturday by all the foreign
ministers, including the envoy
from the Netherlands, who arrived
only recently. The note will be delivered
to Li Hung Chang and Prince
Chang, the Chinese plenipotentiaries,
as soon as the former ehaJl have sufficiently
recovered from his indisposition.
The Chinese close to Li Hung Chang
still prefer to believe, despite tne signing
of th9 note, which they did not believe
would take place, that the prin
clpal negotiations must be carried on
In Europe or America. They resent i
the British modification of the note, j
for. as they say, some power or pow- ^
ers might not be satisfied until the in- s
demnity has been paid in full, which (
would mean the occupation of Pekin (
for an indefinite time, as it cannot be j
expected that China can raise what r
would be required? possibly one bil- ?
lion taels?at once. As a matter of
fact it will take several years.
TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT.
"Washington. D. C., Special.?The e
state department has made public fie i
text of the joint note of the powers to t
China. The official statement after j
reciting China's offenses proceeds as <
follows: <
Inasmuch as China has recognized i
her responsibility, expressed regret, ?
and evinced a desire to see an end put *
to the situation created by the afore- <
said disturbances, tne powers have de- j
termlned to accede t5 her request t
upon tho irrevocable conditions nu- <
umerated below, which they deem in- <
aispensabie to expiate me crimes cuu?mitted
and to prevent their recurrence.
I. (a) The dispatch to Berlin of an f
extraordinary mission, headed by an 1
Imperial prince, in order to express the i
regrets of his majesty the emperor of t
China and of the Chinese government a
for the assassination of his excellency J
the late Baron von Ketteler, minister ^
of German.
(b) The erection on th? spot of the (
assassination Of a co nmemorative J
monument, befitting the rank of the *
deceased, bearing an inscription in the J
Latin, German and Chinese languages (
expressing the regrets of the emperoi 6
of China for the murder.
II. (a) The severest punishment for
the persons designated in the imperial
decree of Sept. 25, 1900, and for those
whom the representatives of the pow- J
era shall subsequently designate.
(b) The suspension for five years of c
all official executions In all the cities \
where foreigners have been massacred
or have been subjected to cruel treat- j
ment. \
III. Honorable reparation to be made t
by the Chinese government to the
Tsrvanp^a envernment for the murder ?
of Mr. Sujyama. j
IV. . n expiatory monument to bo i
erected by the imperial Chinese government
in every foreign international j
cemetery which has been desecrated r
or in which the graves have been destroyed.
V. The maintenance, under conditions
to be determined by the powers f
of the interdiction against the importation
of arms as well as of materials,
employed exclusively for the manufacture
of arms and ammunition.
VI. Equitable indemnity for the gov- *
ernraents, societies, companies and *
individuals, as well as for the Chinese,
who during the late occurrences have 1
oiiffamri in nerson or In property in j i
consequence of their being in the ser- ?
vice of loreigners. China to adopt
financial measures acceptable toi the J
powers for the purpose of guarantee- i
ing the payment otf said indemnities i
and the interest and amortization of t
the loans.
VII. The right for each power to 1
maintain a permanent guard for its 1
legation and to put the ("iploroatic ?
quarter in a defensible condition, the *
Chinese having no right to reside in 1
that quarter.
VIII. The destruction of t^-e forts i
n-hirh mi2.1t obstruct free communi- <
cation between Pckin and the sea. i
XL The right to the military occu- I
patiion of certain points, to be determined
by an understanding 3mongth<j 1
powers, in order to maintain, open 1
communication between the capital
and the sea.
X. The Chinese government to
cause to be published during two years ,
in all the sub-prefoctures an imperial (
decree:
(a) Embodying a perpetual prohibition,
under penalty of death, of membership
in any antl-tforeign society.
(b) Enumerating the punishments
that shall have been inflicted on the '
guilty, together with the suspension '
of all official executions In the cities
where foreigners have been murdered
or have been subjected to cruel treat- 1
ment; and j
(c) Furthermore, an Imperial de- (
cree to be issued and published i
throughout the empire, ordering that ,
the governors general (viceroys), gov- ,
>rnors and all provincial or local of- t
Icials shall be held responsible for }
;be maintenance of order within their
eapectlve Jurisdictions, and thai in
;he event of renewed anti-foreign dis- n
turbances or any other infractions of ?
:reaty occurring and not forthwith
suppressed and the guilty persons
punished, they, the said officials, shall
3e immediately removed and forever
li&qualifled from holding any office of ?
tionor.
XI. The Chinese government to undertake
to negotiate amendments to s
the treaties of commerce and navigation
considered useful by the foreign
powers ,and upon other matters pertaining
to their commercial relations,
with the object of facilitating them.
XII. The Chinese government to determine
in what manner to reform the a
iepartment of foreign affairs and to 8
nodify the court ceremonials concern- r
ing the reception of foreign represen- *
tatives, in the manner to be indicated ~
ay the powers.
Until the Chinese government has d
complied with the above conditions to r
the satisfaction of the powers, the p
undersigned can hold out no cxpecta- v
tion that the occupation of Pekin and 8
the provinces of Chi Li by the general 8
torces can be brought to a conclusion. ,
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A New Light Vessel.
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Washington. .D C., Special.?The e
innual report of the United States e
ighthouse board urgently recommends o
he establishment of a first order light a
Lt Hillsboro Inlet, to complete the sys- *
em of lighting on the South Atlantic v
;oast by filling the long gap between *
rupiter Inlet and Fowyer Rock. A
lew lipht vessel Is asked to be located c
it Cape Lookout Shoals, N. C. t
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Earthquake In Cuba. c
Santiago de Cuba, By Cable.?A c
sharp earthquake shock was felt here ^
Saturday night about midnight. It was E
;he most severe that had been ex- t
jerienced in several years and almost
:reated a panic at the San Carlos 1
A mkan/1 Via 11 tttq e In r\rA- I
fc/lUU, WUC1C CL 51 auu uuit nuo iu j/i V
jress. It was preceded by a dull 1
lound, like a mine explosion. Two t
rhocks followed, the former being t
juite severe and the latter scarcely c
jerceptible. No Injury was done with c
he exception of the breaking cf dlsb- I
is, though a few small bun^ngs are t
raid to have been pMeMlv damaged. I
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River and Harbor Bill. t
Washington, D. C., Special.?The 1
louse committee on river and harbors P
lave completed their bill. The total J
ippropriations carried continuing oon- h
racts, amount to about $80,000,000. A E
:ub-committee pared the bill down last P
light to about $60,000,000. Norfolk, 8
7a.. received $195,000, and Newport c
s'ews $225,000. The big project for b
Cleveland,O., the home of Chairman ^
Jiirton. which wa3 In the bill for more c
han 54,000,wo, was reauoea uo aoout *
?3,000,000, The project for the South- c
>rn Pass, at the mouth of the Mlssi3- c
lppl, waa reduced to 13,000,000. r
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LABOR WORLD. _ J
Jreat Britain makes 300,000,000 1
ards of linen a year. v
The dock laborers at CaJlao, the port ^
?f Limn, hare gone gn strike and ail n
vork has been stopped.
Alaska advices state that Dawson ^
s overrun with idle men, many of ?
n
vhom are wining 10 wura i?t
>oard. ^
The New York Postoffice has been c
luthorised to employ more clerfcs to j(
tandle the phenomenal business now c
>eing done.
The McKenna Steel Company, at
loliet, 111., which rerolls old rails, has in
esuined operations after a long period j.
>f Idleness. B
The settlement of the woodworkers' n
itrike, which has since September 1 a
nvolved 1400 men at Chicago, is said ?
o bo assured. 8,
It is estimated by the statistician of S
lie Central Labor Bureau, that in S
wenty-flve trades 212,000 out of 510,- *
(00 are out of work in Paris, France, n
During 1809 there were 740 strikes S
n France, comprising 170,826 hands 8
? ? * 1?n
li 4200 estaoiisnmenis, ana iuvuiyiu^ i
loss of 3,550,731 days' work. s
The employes in the cotton mills of ?
South Carolina are charged for house '
ent about fifty cents a room per '
nonth, and have a garden patch at- *,
ached to each tenement.
Si
By assessments and donations the c
:rades unions of San Francisco have f
raised nearly $80,000 to maintain the c
itrlkiug planing mill men in their con- c
est for the eight-hour day in Call- t
'ornia. j
The big furnace of the Alabama Con- d
solidated Coal and Iron Company nt t
[Jadsden, Ala., which has been idle n
leveral months, has gone into blast, n
jiving work to several hundred men, v
Officers of the Pittsburg (Penn.) dis- o
trict are trying to organize all the bl? e
Luminous miners into a single body.
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High Prices Paid to Singers. g
The highest price ever paid to a
lintrer in America, it is stated, was 1
?iven to Mme. Sembrich by a New
fork millionaire's wife who wished the
prima donna to appear at one of "
lier drawing-room entertainments.
Mme. Sembrich asked $2,000 for her
services, and she received it. The
sum wns paid for only a single aria^
Mrs. Corneliur. Yanderbilt paid Mme.
Meiba $1,500 for singing once at her '
famous muslcale. Neither Sembrich '
nor any of the other artists care to
sing at fashionable entertalnments1
Mme. Earaes and Calve will scarcely, ,1
eTer sing except for friends, and thei* '
they accept no fee.
MP ON CHRISTMAS.
ill Writes About the Glorious Holi/
day.
ELEBRATED FOR CENTURIES.
torles About Good Old St Nicholas
?Christmas as Observed in The
Arp Household.
Christmas has come again. It is our
nnual milestone and the miles get
horter and shorter as anno domini
oils on. Time keeps shrinking and
he view of eternity expands as we
raw near the line. Like the Sabath,
Christmas was designed, orained,
established for our good, our
est and pleasure. In the north temerate
zone it comes about midwinter,
.'hen the weather is hard and cold and
ummer fruits and flowers have gone
nd the birds have migrated ar.d naure
has gone to sleep, and the earth
3 wrapped in its blankets of snow and
ce. It comes like the school boys' reess
and brings good cheer and brightns
u<p the family hearthstone. Cnristoas
never wears out nor becomes old
r stale, or as a back number. Year
fter year a new generation Is ready
o receive it and herald its coming
rith a glad and happy welcome,
llessings on the hold fathers who esablished
the Christmas holidays and
>n the good men who for sixteen cenuries
have preserved it for us and our
hildren. All Christian people have
-bserved it with happy greetings, exept
the old Puritans, and I don't
:now whether they were Christians or
iot They condemned everything
hat gave pleasure.
Christmas was first observed by the
toman Catholic at Jerusalem and'
tome. Later on the Church of Engand
took it ut>. and so did the Pro
estants of Germany and other counriea,
for the birth of the Saviour was
>ne event that all Christians could
elebrate with gratitude and Joy. In
taphael's great painting of the naivlty
a shepherd is seen at the door
ilaying on & bagpipe. The Tyroleee
< Italy come down from the mounains
to the valleys on Christmas eve.
Tiey come caroling sweet songs and
laying on musical Instruments and
an be heard tor mile9 around as the
ills and vales echoed with their haraony,
and so music always accompanies
the Christmas festivities. Eiverreens,
too, must have a part in the
eremonies, for they have for ages
een used as symbols of immortality.
rictors returning from the wars were
rowned with them. The sacred poets
rrite of the green bay tree and the
edara of L?eDanon. r or centuries me
hurches and temples have been decoated
with them. All lovers of nature
lve welcome to them In midwinter,
or they bring good cheer when there
i no other sign of living vegetation.
Tie deep green holly with its red
raxen berries, the rosemary, the
mrel, the ivy and the mistletoe haraonize
with the poetic sentiments of
ur better nature. In the good old
reaths and chaplets of evergreen
uring the Christmas meetings at
ight, and a kiss stolen from a lassie
rith a rosemary wreath on her brow
ras considered innocent, and was
ailed "a kiss under the roee," and
>ve whispered under a mistletoe
rown was too pure to be lo6t or berayed.
Afar back in the centuries there
as a good old man named Nicolas,
ie lived in the third century and was
o good and kind and generous that
-*?? '? /vKn*?/?K onhim
men no uieu um wu .?
nd ever since then he has been called
t. Nicolas, and he is called the patron
aint of Russia. His German name is
anta Claus. The Russians say that
t, Nicolas, when he was only a man,
ras very rich and on Christmas
ights he would disguise himself and
o around among the poor people and
lip in while they were asleep and put
purse of gold in every young girl's
locking, if she was in love or enaged
to be married. The gold was
o buy her wedding outfit. He aiso
;ft a little present for every ch *d in
tie family. Didn't he have fun? I
tiink I would l.ke that. An_ so It Is
aid that from him came the custom
tf hanging up stockings and waiting
or old Santa Claus to come down the
himney with his pretty things for the
bildren. It is said that in Bavaria
here was another good man named
Cnfght Rupert, who while he lived
id the same kind of things, for he,
oo, hunted up the poor and left presiets
while they were asleep, but did
ot leave anything for bad boys. He
/as not their friend, and if he livea
ver here now I don't reckon a cagar***
romiid ci>t a.nrvthine from him.
bbO UW/ n o ? w w
"Christmas is a good time to make
ood resolves, and all tie next year a
*>od time to keep them.
Four hundred years ago ono Thomas
'usser wrote:
'Christmas comes but once a year,
?ow let us play and have good cheer."
-Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
A Starting Social Tendency.
"What are we coming to? If this
?ort of thing keeps on every social
jarrier will be swept away." ^
"What's the matter now?"
"Why, somebody's maid here In tha
x>lice court actually got up and islisted
that she is a kleptomaniac!"?
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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