The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 04, 1901, Image 4
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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.
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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.
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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 !
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! 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.
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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.
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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.
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