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TE COUNTY RECORD,
Published Every Thursday
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1IN08TREE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
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C. W. WOLFE .
Editor and ProDrletor.
Candidates at Wurtemburg. Certnany.
liave rather an easy time of ir.
On a recent election day i:i that city
only one person, a police sergeant,
took tL,r trouble to vote, and ho elected
the whole municipal ticket.
A rule has boon made requiring
British army officers to wear their
uniforms in public, in order to stimulate
the recruiting spirit. There are
doubtless sctne whose interest in personal
appearance is sufficient to keep
this display from being a hardship.
Admiral Van Iteypen. Surgeon-General
of the United States Navy, lias
prepared a statement showing that
there were more casualties in the
navy during the recent trouble in
China than there were during the eutire
Spanish-American war. The larg
est number of casualties resulted from
gunshot wounds, the percentage of
deaths being nineteen in the SpanishAmerican
war aud twenty-six per cent,
in China. That was largely due to
the fact that the Spaniards used the
small Mauser projectiles, while the
Chinese used large-bore guns, shell and
shrapnel. Heat-stroke also caused
* many casualties in China.
As Queen Consort. Alexandra inherits
a number of quaint ancient prerogatives.
An ancient statute awards her
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a portion of every whale caught or
stranded 011 the British coast, to supply
her wardrobe with whalebone.
Another gives her the right, r.s a sin
gle woman, to purchase ami convey
land and to sue in her own name. Although
a subject, she has the same security
of life and person as the King,
and conspiracy against her is treason
just as it would be if the plot were
against the King. Should she be herself
the subject of a charge of treason
the House of Lords only lias the right
of trial. She will be crowned at the
same time as Edward VII., but instead
of being "by the will of the people." it
yvill be "by the direction of the King."
Ernest P. Bicknell. the General Superintendent
of the Bureau of Charities
of Chicago, has set the sociologists
of America to discussing the problem
of wife desertion. His statistics
showed that it was a common offense
for husbands and fathers to abandon
wives and children or to live um.n the
earnings of their families. Chicago
is uot alone in this respect. Ii?.ports
reaching Mr. Bicknell trom other
cities indicate that the offense is general
throughout the country. These
reach him in letters, in official statements
and in newspaper clippings. Mr.
Bicknell suggested the adoption of the
German method of imprisoning such
men at hard labor and turning the proceeds
of their labor over to the dependent
families. The press has giv
en considerable attention to this suggestion,
and the sentiment of the
country seems to be favorable to its
adoption.
Wireless telegraphy, although figuratively
and literally in the air, finds
scanty support as yet in the Naval Bureau
of Equipment, notwithstanding
the glowing reports of its progress
elsewhere. The experts of the bureau,
who have made numerous practical
tests of the various experimental systems
now in use, have not been con
vlnecd of their practicability, aud tlie
field of invention is still open as far as
the Federal Navy is concerned. It is
possible, however, that recent experiments
in this direction undertaken in
the weather service branch of the Department
of Agriculture may lead to
more satisfactory results. Secretary
Wilson is quite confident that the
scientists *of his department have
solved the problem of electrical communication
without wires, and a new
series of tests, to be made by the naval
experts, is to lx? ordered without delay.
It would be strange, indeed, if. after
all. the most exigent electrical problem
of the day should have been solved
by a few modest attaches of the Agricultural
Department, observes the
Philadelphia Record. ?
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THROUGHOUT THE COUN1KY
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I he South.
The negro problem was diccnsned I
in addresses to the General Missionary
Conference of the Methodist Ep scoyal
Church. South. at Xetv Orleans.
Two men robbed an express ear
near Gordon. Ga.. but did not get ail I
the money there.
Confederate Memorial Day was ol -
served in uoorgia ana omer coucnoui 1
states.
Dr. L. F. Barker, formerly cf Johns
Hopkins Medical Sc hool, carried mboie
plague germs from San Francisco
to Chicago ior study.
A thrashing was given Miss Branford
Gist, a sc hool teacher at Chases.
Md.. by Mrs. Jacob Snyder, whose
daughter had keen whipped by the
teacher. i
Col. A. E. Buck, minister to Jopaa,
who is ill in Washington City with the. ,
grip, is not in a serious condition.
A Na^hvinc, ienn.. dispatch sazs:
"The amount ol' alleged shortage of
W. W. Lee. bookkeeper of the First
National Bank, who disappeared last :
July and was subsequently arrested, i
was disclosed for t^e first time Saturday.
It is said to be $23,07G."
Bids were opened Saturday at the
bureau of yards and docks, at the Na
vy Department, for the bulldihg if
an equipment house at the Key West
naval station. The lowest bid \ca3
that of Grant Wilkinson, Atlanta, Ga. ,
at S.iS 171.87. !
A little son of Ed Maw. of Central,
S. C.. died Thursday night as a re- i
suit of carbolic acid given hiai by i
mistake by his father.
Donald McLean, formerly a fruit
grower of Orlando. Fla.. and who has 1
been in Porto Ricco three years, died i
at San Juan of heart disease, lie I
was C9 years old.
Postoffice Inspector Key has report- '
; ed to the Department the arrest of 1
Archibald Free, a star route carrier,
charged with robbing the mails at
Newport, Tenn. |(
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The North. j
The Fnited States Supreme Court j
will meet Monday to announce opi.i- j
ions and then wiil take a recess uiuil
May 31.
A sub-committee at Pittsburg formulated
creed revision propositions for
the Presbyterian General Assembly
at Philadelphia May 16.
Princeton freshman and sophomores
had a lively scrimmage because the
freshman insisted on wearing spring
hats.
A policeman, testifying in the trial
of C. R. Eastman at Cambridge. Mass.,
gave Eastman's account oi how he
accidentally shot hi3 brother-in-law,
j Grogan. I
The Ohio river is stationary at Cincinnati.
with a total height of 59.6
feet, and is falling everywhere abova
that city.
Dickinson and Pennsylvania State
Colleges had a debate at Carlisle. Pa.,
on the restricted franchise in Mississippi.
A 300-pound safe containing $10.000
in gold, was stolen at Anaconda,
Mount.
Frederick \V. Holls, of New York.
! has been appointed Judge for Siam
at The Hague International Tribunhl.
Odd Feliows 01' the District of
Columbia celebrated the eighty-secon 1
| anniversary of the order's birth by :i
parade, which president McKinley re
viewed.
Foreign.
A native rebellion has broken out
fn Oran Province, Algeria.
The British government's majority
was cut to 33 on a vote in the House
ol commons.
J. X. Merriman was liootc-J at Eiinbu?gh
when he sought to pleai for
self-government for the Boers. I
Great Britain insists upon the neutrality
of the Nicaraugua canal as indispensable
to further negotiations
oq the subject.
The Loudon Saturday Review describes
the increase of the German navy
as aimed against the Unite 1 States.
The Newfoundland Government has
reopened negotiations for the ratification
of the Bond-Blaine reciprocity
agreement with the United States.
Owing to a broken shaft the American
liner New York is proceeding
from Southampton to New York at
reduced speed.
Late estimates of the dead in the
explosion at Griesheim, Germany, puc
the number at 50.
Tzi Hsi. Dowager Empress of China,
has appointed a board to relieve her
of part of her public functions.
The Chinese regulars who recently
retreated from Pechill Province are <
again threatening the allies.
The German Ambassador, Herr Von
uniiohon HoniPB that he is to wed next
fall."
Mexico's Ambassador denies that
his government has given a concession
of ia.id for colonization purposes.
In the hanging of Thomas E. Ketchum,
the train robber, at Clayton, N.
M.. the head was severed from the
body by the force of the drop.
niscellanrous, 1
A London cablegram to the.Phila- <
delrhia North American revives the }
report that General French has been ]
captured by the Boers. 1
Gen. William Ludlow is ill from <
tuberculolsis and will hurry home j i
from the Phillippines. ?(
FOUR SHOT DOWN]
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Bloody Deed of a Man Probably j
insane.
LIKELY A QUADRUPLE MSJRDLR.
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fin Electrician in Portfhn.d, Me.,
While in a Room With a Number of
Workmen, Suddenly Draws a Revolver
and Kills Two cf Tlism and
Mortally W ounds Two Others.
Portland, Me., Special.?One of the
bloodiest tragedies in the history of
Portland in recent years, occurred
Wednesday afternoon, on the fourth
Roar of the building occupied by the
New England Telephone Company.
The principal actor in the affair was
George H. Brainerd, a foreman electrician
who hed been employed by the
company almost 20 years. For some
unknown reason and without the
slightest provocation, while chatting
with his fellow-workmen, <he whipped
out a 28 calibre revolver and opened
fire on the party around him. He was
evidently an expert markrmin, one
r> k /v 1.111
i u:ict 01 uurc uc nwitu -j-ut;
man outright, fatally wounded another
man and probably fatally wounded
two others. Then he made an attempt
to kill Marshal Pritch, when tht officer
tried to arret! him. The man who
was killed outright was I. H. Farnfitm,
of Boston, the electrical engineer
of the New England Telephont Company.
Earl Buxton, another victtm,
died In the hospital tonight. Elmer
Zane and James YVadsworth, of Lewistown,
are be ieved to be fatally injurtd.
The only notice that eon be assigned
fcr the crime is insanity, yet neither
before nor since the tragedy did
Braincrd exhibit any mark id evidence
ci! mental derangement. The men in
the tragtdy were employes of the telephone
company and excepting Mr.
Farnkrtn we.re engaged in installing a
new exchange system on tht upper
flccT cf the building. There were 14
men in the room and Biainerd had
charge c! the work. Mr. Farnham having
general ovtrsight. The entire
force which was attached to the general
office in Ecston had been at ^ork
for three or four months. Mr. Farn
ham came down from Eoston to loak
over the pcition eomplettd. The men
went to work as usual and nothing
out of the ordinary occurred irp to
noon time. Just before 2 o'clock Mr.
Farchum and Mr. Braincnl walked
over to one corner of the room whert
a carpenter was at work Braine<rd
gave the carpenter a few instructions
and then he and 'Mr. Farnham walked
away, 'talking in a friendly manner.
They pissed down by the long; switchboard
to the end, where they stopped.
Then the report of a revolver rang
cut. The workmen saw Mr. Farnham
fall totht floor with Brainerd standing
over him with a smoking revolver in
his hand. Erainerd did not remain inactive
for a moment after shooting
Farnham, but he immediately opened
flre on the ether workmen.
The nissionary Conference,
Xew Orleans. Special.?The opening
session of the Central Missionery Conference
of the Methodist church, South
at Tulane Hall Wednesday drew an
overflowing audience. The attendance
of visitors frc-m kther cities was very
large. Bishop E. R. Hendrix, of Kansas
City, presided. Cn the platform
were Rev. James Atkins, Rev. Alexander
Southerlar.d, Eis'ncp Granbtiy,
Bishop Tfccburn and others. Rev. John
Wesley Tarbourx, in charge of the
evangelical work in Brazil, offered the
invocat:.*'. Rev. Alexander Southerland.
secretary of the board of Canadian
missions of Toronto, spoke on the
subject, "Oneness in ChrLsrt." Bishop
Granbery spoke on obedience to tht
great commission, Christ's law of life
to His Church. Rev. John Fox followed
with on address on "The Bible and
Missions." Thoburn whs the preacher
>+ nltrVi# V-1 ri tr lvrwvn thf hftajintf Of
nstions, or the agony of the Holy
Spirit
Big Fire at Danville, Va.
Lanvlllt, Va.. Special.?Fire Wednesday
riesiroytd five builddnge and
burned out six busi nets hic-uses w ith
an aggregate loss of $67,500; insurance,
$44,000. It started in the paiat and oil
department of the Dan Valiiey Hardw\ar*t
Company, at 3:30 p. m., and
cleared out the entire corner bounded
by that firm, whose stores on Main and
Union streets join ait the rear. The departments
ut Greensboro and Lynohburg
were called on, but were not
needed. Thick black smoke, lying like
a po-Il on the streets and in all the
buildings made the department's work
very difficult, but the firemen did excellent
work.
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rire in a wmiun csmp.
Pensacola, Fla., Special.?Fire was
liscovered Wednesday morning in
.he cargo of the Spanish steamer Ali:-ia.
of the Sierra Line, loading here
vith cotton and general cargo for
Liverpool. There was about 1.000
jales of cotton in the cargo. The
iotton has been flooded and the
latches battered. The extent of the
iamage is net yet known.
PREPAaInG FOR THl REUNION. 1
Chief Marshal Arranging the Details
of 'he ParaJe.
Columbia.- Special.?The reunion
cf the Confederate veterans of th
State promises to be the greatest ever
held in South Carolina. The reports
received from the camps in various
portions cf the State thus far indicate
a big attendance ot veterans.
Tiiere is scarcely a camp that has
sent in less than fifteen names cf
its members who will be here, ana
many of them have sent in over twenty.
And these reports take no account
of the ladies and others who
are corning. The committees in
charge are doing all in tneir power to
make the stay of the veterans pleasant.
The reunion is only a few days off,
and the coming week will witness
much hard work. The executive committee
will meet again on Wednesday
night at 8:15 o'clock to hear reports
and attend to such matters as necl
attention.
Chairman W. D. Starling of the
committee is bending his energies t>
the arrangements for the big parade.
He is the chief marshal by virtue
of election at the last annual reuuioa
by the State organization. He is now
at work mapping out all the details
of the parade. He proposes to publish
the order of parade at the earliest
possible moment. Every organization
will have a place assigned to
it in advance. The governor and staff
if the committee's invitation is ae
cepted, will head the procession, being
followed by a military band an 1
the battalion of milita commanded by
Col. Wilie Jones, and the students of
the South- Carolina college acting as
an escort. i ueii win uuuie uc.i.
Walker and staff, followed by another
band playing airs of the 60's. which
carry a different step from that now
used by the soldiers. Then will come
the veterans and the carriages with
distinguished guests and sponsors ?
division and brigade only.
Reaching Elmwood cemetery, the
militia will be drawn up to the left of
the entrance, the governor and staii
and Gen. Walker and staff taking positions
in front and revieving the veterans
as they marcli in.
Chiei Marshal Starling has appointed
the following assistant marshals,
most of them having been in the Confederate
cavalry, and all of them Id
the v.ar:
D. R. Flenniken, Columbia.
Jos. Bates. Wateree.
Andrew Patterson. Lykcsland.
Col. T. J. Lipscomb, Columbia.
Capt. W. H. Sligh. Killian's.
Preston Bookter, Camp Ground.
Milton Leverett, Stocber's.
New Enterprises.
The secretary of state last week
granted a charter to the Journal Publishing
company, which proposes to
publish a newspaper and conduct a
job business at Rock Hill upon a capital
stock of $5,000. The officers are
J. G. Anderson, president: J. R. Barron,
vice-president; and J. M. Char
loue, secretary uuu ireasuiei.
A charter was also granted the Saluda
Oil Mill company, of Saluda,
which is capitalized at $15,000. The
officers are Geo. C. Wheeler, president;
Alvin Ktheredge. vice-president;
E. W. Able, secretary, and B. \V.
Crouch, treasurer.
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# Robbers In Blncksburg.
Blackburg.?Special.?The dicpen:a- j
ry and the store of D. R. Bird were
broken into Friday night. The former
was robbed of about a gallon of
liquor in pint and quart bottles, and
the safe in the latter was opened and
about $150 taken therefrom. Xo
goods were taken. It was Mr. Bird s
habit to leave the safe at night pare- j
ly locked for the convenience of in*;
head clerk the next morning and it j
was an easy matter for the thieves
to enter it. There is no clue to thv
robbers.
Sunday Opening.
Buffalo, N. t ?Special.?The question
whether the gates of the PanAmerican
grounds are to be opened
Sunday was finally settled by the
board of directors. The gates are tc
be open from 1 p. m. until 11 p. n.
but the midway and all amusement
features will be closed during the 24
hours from Saturday night until Moil
day morning.
Telegraphic Briefs.
A yacht supposed to be the Austrian
yacht Taermina. from Savannah
and Charleston, passed in the Cape;
Saturday.
Miss Nellie Kendall, of Fredericksburg,
was married at Brightwood. D
C., to Mr. George C. Stockdale, ol
Baltimore.
The body of a colored man. Jo?
Holland, who has been missing several
weeks, was found off Smoot's Wharf,
Alexandria.
In Wheeliug Judge Hervey gave a
decision in the Councilmanic eas?
which insures their places to th?
Democratic officers.
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I LAST CONFERENCE.
I Cuban Delegation Called Upon President
McKiilfy.
IKE POLITICAL SETTLEMENT.
The President Gave No Hope of Action
Before the Formation of Their
Government.
Washington, D. C.?Special.?Th^
j Cuban delegation completed its i?
I bors in Washington Saturday. In the
morning the delegates met Secretary
Root and went with him to the White
House where they had a final talk with
the President. Then they paid visits
of courtesy to each ot' the officials
whom they have met and finally 'hey
started for New York at 11 o'clock at
night, homeward bound. They will
sail for Habana Wednesday. The
proceedings at the White House were
interesting and important.
Senor Capote acted as spokesman
for the delegation. He thanked the
president for the many courtesies
shown them, which they accepted as
an expression of good will to the Cuban
people. He invited the president
to visit Cuba, to see for himself the
conditions in the island and learn for
himself of the love and affection which
the Cubans have for the United States
and their appreciation of what has
been done for them by this governi
ment in their struggle for freedom,
i Senor Capote asked the president
to do something for the Cubans upon
1 an economic basis, and especially ia
j the mat of reciprocity In trade re!
lations. He said that it was especial|
ly desirable to have something of
thi3 kind done before the next crop
; was harvested in order that the Cubans
might realize the advantages to
them oi closer political economic relations
with the VnltoJ Suies.
| In reply the president said it was
impossible to settle economic qucsj
tions until the political questions
\ were disposed of. He told the dele- ,
1 gates to first form their government
and then they would be in a posii
tion to enter into negotiations with
j the United States as u> trade relations.
Senor Capote responded that something
nnerht to he done while the Cu
ban government was forming. He
thought that while the United States
was exercising control there might be
I arrangements perfected similar with
, those under contemplation by the secI
retary of war In 1898. when the coy|
ernment first passed under control of
the United States. He told the president
that the Cuban republic did not
: wish to be torn in party strife and
| rage and it at least preferred to have
something with which to support -ft-.,
self and to have its people in prosperous
conditions immediately before
them.
The president again reverted to 'he
fact that under the present conditions
| as the secretary of war had advised
! them, he did not see how it was possible
to settle any economic questions
before the Cuban government was
formed. He would appoint eoramis
sioners immediately a government
was organized for reciprocal trade relations
and he believed that the United
States would be ready to deal in
a manner which would be beneficial
to both countries. He thanked the
delegation for the invitation to visit
th~ island and told tiiem to assure the
Cuban people or nis irieuuiy micimi
I in them and his desire to see them
contented and prosperous.
Senor Capote, speaking to Seeretarv
Rcote. expressed the hope that in
the interviews they had been having,
that he had said nothing in his earnestness
which was in any way offensive.
The secretary replied that on
the contrary he highly appreciated
the arguments of Senor Capote aw'
! his knowledge of the questions had
increased his admiration and respect
I for the legal abilities and keenness
of the Cuban people.
The delegates then shook hands
with the president and departed.
Gen. Capote later said to an Associated
Press reporter:
"We have concluded our business
here. We have had three interviews
with the president and four with the
secretary of state, during which time
all matters that we came here to discuss
have had the fullest and most
minute considertion. We came tc
consider the relations between Cubi
and the United States and these, both
political and economical, have boon
given most careful attention. We re
turn to Cuba and will deliver to the ,
constitutional convention all the intor- J
mation we have obtained, much ot
which is highly important.
. Preparing to Fight Us.
London, By Cable.?The Saturday
Review says that "the expansion of
the German navy is more in preparation
for a contest with the United
States than with Great Britain. The
readiest causes for future naval conflicts
will be found in the struggle for
the partition or the exploitation or the
great South African continent." The
Review devotes a page to a description
of the resources of South America and
Germany, the hundreds of thousands
of settlers in Brazil and Chili, and the
inability of Germany pursuing her designs
in South America without a con?
flict with the Unitod States.
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