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1 W eOHHTY REGORM PaWiahed Every Thursday ?AT? WNOSTBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?Br? C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. Another martyr to science. One of the doctors Investigating the causes of yellow fever allowed himself to be bitten by an infected tnisquito. and paid for It with Ills life. In view of such nwnrrprrvis -ts this it cannot ho held that medical men experiment only on their patients. One of the probable reforms under the new regime in England will be the serving of luncheon at the palace to ladies attending drawing-rooms. Hitherto a sandwich eaten in a carriage under the eyes of a curious crowd has been the only refreshment obtainable at the most desirable but most tedious of functions. At a session of the New York Mothers' Club it was suggested that children of two years had to be spanked In order to make them understand that they were culpable. After four years of age they could be reasoned with. If this schedule is systemati 1 cally elaborated flie future of New York children will be well worth watching. ?????? The experiment Is to be made by the Chicago school authorities in establishing a full commercial school for boys, to take the place of a high school, will be watched with interest by educators everywhere. Persons who believe a practical business education is more useful thau the knowledge of Latin and Greek look to the rChicago public business school to vindicate their theory. But for the fact that the male heir in the royal lineage of Victoria is preferred to the female heir Emperor William of Germany would be the natural heir to the throne of England. He is the son of u child of Queen Victoria who is older than the Prince of Wales. Still, if the male heir were not preferred Emperor William's mother would never have been wedded to an heir of the Prussian throne. Kingdoms are not combined nowadays; the people of each have troubles of their own. In a thorough "Beetles*' spirit Rudynrd Kipliug tackles the evils of British railroad traffic in the Fortnightly Review. His irritation ac many old crusted abuses, the unpunctual trains, the overcrowded carriages, the confu. sion at stations and the maddening time tables is expressed in the form fof an Arabian Nights tale. He suggests first that every one who has a grievance against the railroad management should write to eacu director personally and keep on writiug till the directors become distracted. Next he proposes that billboards be erected by the side of the tracks and covered with sarcastic placards in large letters and, finally, that when by accident a train arrives on time the public should overwhelm the company with mock applause. It is an amusing bit of fooling. It Is computed that at the end of the nineteenth century the whole number of newspapers, magazines and other periodical publications in the United States was 20,806, having a combined AUrtitlnfiAn (actio of noarlu OfKl . Ullu"'uuu ?? 000 copies. Less than 600 of the 20,806, however, are credited with eighty-five per cent of the entire circulation. The 2163 dallies issue nearly 10,000,000 copies a day; the tri-weekly papers are gradually disappearing, and the semiweeklies now number only 434. There are 14,734 weeklies, more than twice as many as there were thirty years ago, and these have a circulation of 19,000,000. There are 278 semi-monthlies with a circulation of 1,000,000 copies, and 2827 monthlies with a circulation of 20,000,000. Of quarterlies there are 179, Issuing about 500,000 copies; also two semi-quarterlies and sixty-seven bi-monthlies. Less than twenty-five dalies and less than thirty Weeklies and not far from fifty monthIks have over 100,000 circulation. r, / fv. MY PROMOTIONS ^^^fciven General Funston for Services, WHEATON MADE MAJOR GENERAL And Col. Jacob H. Smith, of 17th In fantry Promo ed to Brigadier General. Washngton., D. C.. Special.?'Tne following important army appointments were announced at the White House Saturday: To be major general United States army. Brigadier General Lloyd Wheaton, vice Miles, promoted to lieutenant general. To be brigadier generals in the regular army, Col. Jacob H. Smith, Seventeenth infantry, brigadier general volunteers vice Daggett, retired; Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston, U. S. volunteers, vice. Wheaton, promoted The announcement of these appointments was made after a conference between the president. Secretary 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 commis- j s-arv departments and of chaplains | was made known. All of these appointees are in the regular army, under the recent act of congress enlarging and reorganizing the army, and without exception the staff appointees are from volunteer officers. The chief interest, however, centered in the three high appointments of a major general and two brigadiers and more particularly ;:i the selection of Gen. Fun*ton after his gallant exploit in capturing Aguinaldo. Following the announcement Go?. Corbin sent the following to Gen. MacArthur: Mac Arthur, Manila* The following appointments made: j Wheaton, major general; Smith and I Funs-ton. brigadier generals. Secretary : of war joins me in congratulations to all. OORBIN. Among the other appointments were i the following: To be captains and assistant quari termasters: Wm. Coulling, Virginia; 1 TTT T> n?1.*. A W ! ! W. 13. Ddl ftCi , xx. vv | ! Btftt, Georgia.; H. L. Pettus, Alabama; L. F. Garrard, Jr., Georgia; K. J. Ham<ptoo. Kentucky; B. Frank Cheatham, Tenneissee; Fredk. W. Oole, Florida; Chas. T. Baker, South Carolina. To bo captain and ass.stant commissary of subsistence: H. G. Cole, Georgia; T. B. Hacker. Tennessee. To be chaplains: John M. Moose, Mississippi: Charles T. Wright, Georgia; A. A. Pruden. North Carolina. Fitzhugh Lec Banqueted In Omaho. I j Omaha. Neb., Special.?At the Omaha club Dr. George L. Miller, the veteran journalist of this city, tendered a formal dinner in honor of Gen. i Fitzhugh Lee. Covers were laid for 40. The club dining hall was profusely decorated wiith cut flowers and 1 A w.,Anf* + Vi r? Alii of pid-UiCt. /VUiVUg LJlt. vri*t V*. town guests were Gov. Leslie Shaw, of Iowa; FOrraer Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling Morton and Former Congressman George W. Perkins, of Sious Oi'ty. There were a nomber of ; notable responses to toasts. Dr. Mil! ler, the host, acted as forstmaster, I and in graceful and finished phrase j I proposed the health of Gen. Lee. "We ! are gathered here to do honor to one of the most illustrious names in the national annals, to one of the most famovs soldiers of our time, to one of the x-governors of Virginia, the mother of States and statesmen, who are among the chief arcnitects of our i free system of government." The i guests drank, to the heaith of Gen. j Lee standing. Gen. Lee's remarks were brief but eloquent. Thanks Cabled Funston. Washington, D. C., Special.?The War Department has made public a portion of the cablegram sent to General MacArthur, conveying the appreciation of the President and Secretary of War of General Funston's capture of Aguinaldo. It is ac follows: "MacAxthur, Manila. "The President directs me to express his high appreciation of the gallant conduct of General Funston and of the officers and men of the army and navy engaged with him in the Palanan expedition. The Secretary of War personally joins in this expression. (Signed.) "CORBIN." Newsy Notes. Another counterfeit of the |5 silver certificate, issue of 1899. has been found. A New York Stock Exchange seat yesterday sold for $52,000, an advance of $2,500, over previous prices. An opponent of the billion dollar Steel Trust will be the Hecker:-Baltzley Billet Company, of Findlay, 0. I CAPTURE OF AGUINAI.DO Co!. Funston Describes his Darin; Exploit. Manila, Bv Cable.?Aguinaklo, who was captured by Gen. Funston and brought to Manila on the United Slates gunboat Vicksburg, was brought ashore at 3:10 a. in. Thursday and taken betfore Gen. MacArthur at the Malacanang palace. He talked freely, but seemed ignorant concerning recent events. He appeared to b? In good health and was very cheerful. He. lunched with the officers of Gen. Mac Arthur's staff and was then escorted to the Anda street jail. Aguinaldo's capture was attended with considerable difficulty, an insurgent major being killed at the time of the event. Twenty rifles and a number ol important pa per9 were captured. Gen. Fred Fun*ten. who. March 23, captured Emilio Aguinaldo, when int ij viewed by the representative of the Associated Press, made the following statement concerning the capture ol the Filipino leader: The confidential agent of Agulnaldc arrived February 2S at Pantahangan. in the province of Nueva L'vja, northern Luzon, with letters, dated January 11, 12 and 14. These letters were from Emilio Aguinaldo and directed Baldormero Aguinaldo to take command of the provinces of Central Luzon, supplanting Gen. Alejandrino. Emilio Aguinaldo also ordered that four hundred men be sent him as soon oo TwciKU covin?- .fhnt ithft hparer of I Cio ^VSO!V4V vuwv k? v, _ ,, the letter would lead these men to where Aguinaldo was. Gen. Funston secured the correspondence of Aguinaldo's agent and laid his plans accordingly. Some months previously he had captured the camp of the insurgent Gen. Lacuna, Incidentally obtaining Lacuna's seal, official papers, and a quantity of signed correspondence. From this material two letters were constructed, ostensibly from Lacuna to Aguinaldo. One of these contained information r.s to the progress of the war. The other asserted that pursuant to orders received from Baldormero Aguinaldo, Lacttuna was sending his te?t company to President Emilie Aguinaldo. His plans completed and approved, Gen. Fhmston came to Manila and organized Lis expedition, selecting 78 Macab?bcs, all whom spoke Tagalog fluently. Twenty wore insurgents' | uniforms and the others the clothing j of Filipino laborers, lue Macabebe I company, armed with 50 Mausers, 18 | Remingtons and 10 Krag-Jorg^r.sons, V... /V?n+ PtKColl T j was comma uucu uj .. ! Hazzard of the 18th U. S. Volunteer i cavalry. With him was his brother, Lieut Oliver P. M. Hazzard, of the same regiment. Cap:. Harry W. Newton. 34th infantry, was taken because of his familiarity with Casigunn bay, and Lieut Burton J. Mitchell, o-f the 40th infantry, went as Gen. Funston's aide. These were the only Americans accompanying the expediI tion. 1 With the Macabcbes were four exin-.-mi gent oficers. one being a Spanish, and the other three Tagalos, whom Gen. Funsion trusted implicitly. Gen. Funstcn and the American officers wore plain blue shirts and khaki trousers. They carried each a half blanket but wore no insignia of ! ranK. i ne ivixti*ctv>c?c vu>.. instructed to obey 'he orders of the ?o<ur ex-insurgent officers. | On the night of March 8th the oarty I embarked on the United States gunj beat Vicksburg. It was originally intended to take cascoes from the island ! of Polillo and to drift to the m*ain land, but a i orm arose and three of the cascoes were lost. This plan was abandoned. The camp of th<' insurgent leader ; was surprised, and the party of Col. Funston was ordered to fire. The Macabebes opened fire, but their , aim was rather ineffective, and only three insurgents were killed. The I rebels returned tie fire. Oa b \arng I the firing, AguinaMo, who evidently thought h'<? men were merely cole I ?I brating the arrival of reinfo cements. | ran to the window and shou-ed: ' Stop I that foolishness!?quit walsting J ammunition." Hilarlo Placido, one cf the Tagalng officers and a forme- insurgent major, who was wounded in the lung by f'.ie fire of the Kansas regiment at the bartie of Caloocan, threw Lis arms iroui:<l Aguinaldo, exclaiming "You are a prisoner of the Americans." Ool. Simeon Villia, Agriiualdo'? chief l of staff. Major Alambra and others attacked the men who were holding Aguinaldo. Placido shot Villa in the shoulder, tlambra jumped out of the window and attempted to cross the river. It was supposed that he was drowned. Five other insurgent officers fought for a few minutes, and then fled, making their escape. J A ? Killed I nree ciriarcn nnu Devil's Lake, N, D., Special.?Emil i Segerlin, a well-to-do farmer, living eight mi lee northeast of town, killed his three children and stabbed himself to death. He went to the barn, accompanied by two little daughters, aged 7 and 5. As he did not come to dinner his eldest daughter, aged 9, was sent to call him. It is thought that before she reached the barn her father had killed the others and immediately killed her. Both the olher children weTe killed with a knife. Segerlin wa6 sent to the insane asylum about ten years ago, but was soon allowed to return home apparently fully recovered. LABOR CONFERENCE Pennsylvania Delegation Visits Morgan's Office DECLINES TO TALK WITH MITCHELL fir. Morgan Offers to Act With the Boards of Trade and Thinks There Will Be No Strike. New York, Special.?A delegation composed of five me a, representing trade interests in the Pennsylvania anthraciite coal regions, with Rev. Edward S. Phillips acting as chairman, held a conference Wednesday with J. Pierpont Morgan in "the privaite office of Mr. Morgan, in this city. The conA# I A 41k A A uiLiiruo \ji lujirai lu ouuu<i awnu coal region at present. were set forth | in the briefest possible form by Fath- ! er Phillips, who presented the delega^ tion to Mr. Morgan, and two whom Mr. Morgan expressed hiB interest In their welfare and his willingness to make personal effort to prevent a strike, though he declined to hold a public conference with the labor leaders. The delegation who met Mr. Morgan comprised Rev. E. S. Phillips from Hazleton; Edward Lauderbach, the treasurer, and A. T. McAlister, the secretary of the Hazleton board of trade; J. N. Zerby, president, and L. W. Marquardt, chairman of the manufacturers' committee of sthe Pottsville board of trade. Arrangements for this meeting were made last week by officials of the various boards of trade of the coal region of Pennsylvania, through Rev. Father Phillips, as chairman. The conference lasted iess than an hour. Father Phillips made a brief presentation, saying that the delegation were there merely to try to bring about some action that would prevent a strike, that they were ready to act as an intermediary body, or Co be used in any way that would compose any differences existing. Father Phillips a6ked Mr. Morgae if he would meet John Mitchell president of the United Mine Workers' 4??t/-viatinri nrhrv -hfla hpAn in NeW York for several days. Mr. Morgan, In reply, said In subalance that his attitude up 'to the present has been towards the preventation of a strike. He said he was much interested In the mission of the delegation, and he assured them that they coiftd rely upon him to do all within his power to prerent any action that would paralyze business. He remarked, however, that he was disinclined to hold a public conference with the labor leaders, indicating as a reason for this attitude the belief that, should a public meeting between himself and the labor leaders be held, the publicity thereof and possibly attendant conclusion might hamper (the achievements of the best ends which all were seeking. In other words, as Mr. Morgan remarked, should he hold a public nveaing, or conference, "half of New : York would be upon his heels." Mr. Morgan added th-t the ends sought could best, be achieved through other channels and he assured the delegation that lie might communicate with \ the boards or trade later. "You may re^t assured that I be- | lleve there wll be no strike," remarked ; | Mr. Morgan. Mr. Morgan shook hands ! I tcli :h the mombere of the delegation j land they deoa:tcd. After the confer- I [ he declined to make any s.ate- J I ?/--+ nplnfrn th*?rn!io. A Ca'l to Cotton Growers. Dallas. Tex., Special.?Col. E. S. Peters, president of the Texas Cotton Growers' Protective Association, has issued a call to cotton growers of every county in Texas to meet at their respective court houses on the first Saturday in April to agree on a reduction in the acreage of cotton. In his call President Peters says: "If the cotton acreage of the south be increasd the price for the staple will go below 6 cents in the fall, which will result In the greatest financial calamity that has befallen the Southern farmers in years. Now is the time for action, because the price for the staple will be fixed according to the acreage planted this spring." $30,000.0^0 Spanish War Claims. Washington, D. C.. Special.?The Spanish war claims commission, of which former Senator Wm. E. Chandler. of New Hampshire. Is president, has received from the State Department a full Pelt of the claims against growing out of the insurrection in Cuba, which were filed in the Department up to the 15th of the present month. These claim,-) are all those of American citizens, for, under the treaty of Paris, the government* of the United States and Spain undertook to adjust" the claims of their own eiti7ens. The grand to al of the_? claims Is about $3.000.0oo. Soldiers Withdrawn. Kingston. Jamaica, By Cable.?In consequence of the pressure brought to bear by the British consul, the President of Ecuador has ordered the withdrawal of the armed soldiers guarding I the camns of the Jamaican laborers 1 employed in the construction of the railroad frcm Guayaquil to Quito, un der the auspices of Mr. McDonald, the I American contractor. * I The Arkansas tives has passed a bi^Jfr'-:' of frcm $500 to $1,000 President Judge Clark charged with shcocln^ with intent to kill Rev. John Rejcrcocid, kv a quarrel overr a tot of fence rails, was acquired ? ac Weston, W. Va. The Wet'e-Whitehead Tobac o Company, of Wilson, denftS the published renort that its business has been sold to the American Tobacco Company, saying it is independent and; will reAt Huntington, W. Va., Sehon, Blake & Stevenson's wholesale giocery stone was burned. Loss, $100,000; ? insurance $"0,000. Fireman John L Wright was killed by falling walls. Chief Justice Furches and Associate Justice Douglas, of the North Carolina SupremeCourt, who were impeached by the State Legislature, were acquitted on every charge by the Senate sitting as a high court of Impeachment, on Thursday, eleven Democrats voting to acquit ? The North. New York butchers have asked rhe public's aid in alboliahJng Sunday work. Coal for 3 cents a bucket te 90M to. needy persons in Boston by the Salvation Army. Pearls to the value of $1,500 have been found in the Hackeasack ltiver. at Orangeburg, N. Y., and some from mussel shells at Nyaek. The BufTalo Pan-American. Expedition ateMnpi will be placed on sale at poet offices throughout the country on May 1 next. The Circuit Court at Cleveland, O., has decided tha: the eiglut-hour law for city employes enaoled by the last legislature is unconstitutional. A setitlcment has been reached with the 400 strikers at the Itacbeth Glass Works, at Marion, Ind., and business has been resumed. Nicholas Heeney, who murdered Prank Johnson, a Pennsylvania rail rtTdXl WWCi'UiUU, H<w scuituwu W >n? imprisonment at Cleveland, 0. Suit for divorce, on the ground of cruelty, has been brought a'alns: Comedian Prank Bush, at New York. PatheT John Gloyd, life pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic church of Washington City, died at the parsonage of the church. A mass meeting of Russian sympathizers was held in New Irving Hall, New York city, Wednesday night. There were 3,000 people present Abraham Chuen and a nihilist aimed Vlar dimir Slalchnelkoff were the principal speakers. Inspectors at San Francisco, Cal, have placed the responsibility for the wreck of the aleaimer Rio de Janeiro, ca February 22, on the late Captain Ward and Pilot Jordan, and have revoked the license of Chief Engineer Herlihy. ^ St. Clair McKelway, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has declined to bo a member of the Board of Visitors of the United States Naval Observatory, and Secro. tary Long has designated la his steed Professor Charles F. Chandier, of Oo? lumbia University, New York. Foreign. It is estimated that the wheat crop of Australia will he about 11,000.000 bushels. Berlin has fourteen schools in which girls of thirteen and fourteen are taug'hit to cook. Lieutenant Count von Arnim. of the Gardes tlu Corpps. has been ooir.ni inded to join the German Embassy hi Vvaahington. A Roman dispatch says It is officially announced that at a secret tonsistory to be held April 15, and a public consistory three days late. Archbishop MartJ'nelli will be raised to tie cardinalate. The cardinal's hat will be borne to him "by Signer Coluoiachi. The Cologne Gazette says, regarding the rumors that the Crown Prince Friedrich WUhelm intends to marry an Austrian Frinces3, mat me wuzcire Is reliably informed that the Crown Prnce will, dn no circumstances, many a Catholic, but either a German or an English Princess. niscellanrous. President George H. Harris, of the Burlington Railroad, was once a brakeman. In some Swiss hotels a fixed charge of $200 is made in case of the dea '.n of a guest. Nine bids for mail pouches and sacks for four years, beginning July u 1 next, were opened, but the award . ^ will be delayed some days Ex-Senator Chandler nas caiiea ne Spanish war claims oommisson to meet at Washington, D. C., on April 8, The new Una led Sates torpedo boat "Tingley," was successfully launched at the Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore. Miss Anna Truxton Craven, of Tuoabo, N. Y., grandaughter of the lrite Rear Admiral Craven, christened the boat. The indemnity negotiations are hindered. ?ays the Pekdn corespondent of the I>ondon Morning Poot, because Germany insists in forcing a loan upon China to meet the foreign demands Fir Robert Hart'9 scheme of internal tax aboil would occupy 50 years. A <on? flict s beLieved to be imminent between French aj:d Chi u ?jo troops aj Hawal-Lu. *t . - . t i - V