The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 03, 1901, Image 6
Tile C0U3TY BECOBD.
Published Every Thursday
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1ING8TBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
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0. W. WOLFE .
Editor and Proprietor.
It is reported as evidence of the
stagnation of trade in Southern Russia
that seventy per cent, of all the industrial
works of the great manufacturing
government of Ekatorinoslav
have suspended, and in order to relieve
distress and to prevent disturbance
40,000 artisans have been deported
to their homes in the interior at
the expense of the Government.
The Trade Register repeats a statement
the truth of which is obvious,
yet which cannot be too often impressed
on beginners and small dealers.
It is that most of the successful
business men had their start under
the same conditions that surround
nine-tent lis of the small merchants,
and that their success has been duo to
their courage and persistence in advertising.
It is the teaching of common sense
as well as of experience that a man
who has reached middle age should
never take physical exercise to the
point of weariness, and that any
exertion which he may make should
ir>?? violent than the training to
which he was used to in his earlier
years. It is not well that a man at
any age should attempt to maintain
the highest degree of bodily strength
and agility except as a preparation
for an event which will tax his powers
to the utmost. ?he prizefighter puts
himself into the best condition for a
contest, hut it is never his aim to keep
in that state. Experience has taught
him that there is a limit beyond which
a reduction of weight is unsafe. Men
who use their lirains much cannot
carry muscular development far. The
greatest minds and their greatest
efforts have not been associated with
severely trained bodies.
The recent disastrous explosion la
Philadelphia from the ignition of gasolene
vapor has directed renewed attention
to the dangers attending the
storage or handling of this volatile <
Uasolene has been exploded for years
In lamps and stoves and more recently
In launches and automobiles, and has
proved itself to be, in the careless handling
given it, about as dangerous as
dynamite. If those having some e::perience
and skill in its handling have
accidents with it. no surprise need be
felt when the vapor from a leaky barrel
in a grocer's cellar meets a spark
and explodes. Yet in many places no
adequate measures have been adopted
to regulate the storage of the oil. In
the first flush of the excitement in
Philadelphia the Ledger of that city
recommends that the sale of the l!uhl
be absolutely prohibited. This, i: acknowledges,
would be a hardship to
some manufacturers who use the oil
largely, as also to families who cmploy
it in cooking, but they, as well as
other people, it argues, would be protected
from a real and ever-present
danger by the prohibition.
As the world stands to-day, the fail
of nations is through internal decay
and disintegration, rather than from
the invasion of armed enemies. The
mightiest empires of the past, whose
legions once ruled a good part of the
world, are falling iuto bankruptcy
which must inevitably end their existence
as independent countries. The
absorption of Persia by Russia and
Croat Britain is concrete illustration
of the new* method of invasion of one
country by a more powerful empire.
lVrsia is practically a bankrupt nation
to-day. aud is owned part and
parcel by Russia and Great Britain.
She has raised loaus time and again
from the two Powers, and to-day mortgages
cover her railroads and chief
industries. The end of her resources
may not yet be in sight, but she has
practically delivered over half her empire
to Russia and the other half to
England. The result is that Persia
Is hardly an independent country. She
can not make a move in the game
of politics without consulting her owners.
and if she attempted it one or the
other would block the move.
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL!
New Enterprises That Are Enriching
Our Favored Section.
For a Park Reservation.
The Appalachian National Park Association.
which has membership in
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia.
Virginia. Tennessee. Massachu-.
nVii/\ Ponncv'vnnifl
OCUO, V/UiU, 11 uuv.o, A
New York. Rhode Island and the Di >trict
of Columbia, is determined to
push at the coming session of Congress
the national legislation for the
establishment in the Southern Appalachians
of a great forest reserve. At the
annual meeting last week of the association
at Asheville, President George
S. Powell reported that North Carolina,
South Carolina. Georgia. Alabama.
Tennessee and Virginia had granted
the national government authority to
acquire the lands for the purpose within
their respective limits, and that
many organized bodies of 'business
men had endorsed the project, and
suggested that a strong delegation of
representative citizens should go to
^Washington nnxt winter to insure the
passage o: a diii ior ir.e esiauusninfu,
cf the reserve. Such a bill, it will be
remembered, was passed by one House
of Congress last winter, but failed to
become a law. The movement, which
is based upon economic principles, and
which. If successful, will benefit immediately
not only the Southern
Slates, in which the reservation is to
iie. but many States in other sections
should be carried to fulfillment promptJv.
The efforts of the Appalachian
'National Park Association should be
seconded by every individual or assoticn.
CapacPv lrcre??.*pd.
The stockholders of the Jefferson
Cotton Mills of Jefferson, Go., met during
the past week and decided to add
0000 spindles to their plant. A new
building will be erected to accommodate
this machinery, plans for It having
already been prepared. This company
announced several months ago
its intention to increase capital from
$03,000 to $101,000. and this action was
doubtless taken in connection with
that. The equipment now numbers
2000 mule spindles and 100 looms, producing
sheeting day and night.
Indiis'rinl Mlscal'anv.
It was recently announced that L.
A. McConl of Laurens. S. (J., proposed
the erection of a cotton-yarn mill. The
Manufacturers' Record is now informed
by Mr. McCord that the reiuired
capital has been promised, and arrangements
will at once he instituted
for establishing the plant. The in
vestment will be $25,000. and it is expected
that contracts for material will
be made about January 1. Further
facts will be announced as soon as details
are decided upon.
According to the report of Col. H. nry
G. Hester, secretary of the New Orle%ns
Cotton Exchange, the amount of
cotton brought into sight during the
first thirteen days of the present season
was 184,470 bales, a decrese under
Oimr r\t.rin/t 1<lRt VOIT Of 33,370
bales: the exports were 93,034 bales, an
Increisc of 48,489 bales; takings by
Northern spinners 23,892 bales, an increase
of 4327; by Southern spinners
02.000 bales, an increase of 9,898 bales.
In view of the official information
that Charleston has at lew water a
depth of twenty-four feet, and that at
high water vessels drawing twentyeight
feet can pass in and out at will,
cotton exporters of that city are preparing
for a heavy year's business,
and the outlook for the port is regarded
as better than at any other time in recent
years.
Mr. D. A. Tompkins, who is in charge
of the textile display and the Cotton
Palace for the Charleston Exposition,
has. according to the News and Courier.
announced that all his available
space bad been leased, and that it
would be impossible for him to accept
loss space than had been originally allowed
him by the board.
Paolo Magglone of Milan. Italy, one
of the largest cotton importers of Europe.
has been studying the cotton outlook
in the South, and has announced
at New Orleans that he expe ts to arrange
for the export of 100,000 bales
or more to Italy this year.
TexM'e Notes.
The Moultrie (Ga.) Cotton Mills will
art;! 123 looms.
Lynchburg (Va.> parties have leased
and will operate the Farmville (Va.)
Knitting Mills.
Dallas ITexas) Cotton Mills has installed
equipment for burning oil as
fuel. The oil comes from the
Beaumont field.
It is rumored that a company will
establish a knitting mill plant at
Rocky Mount. N. C.. and M. R. Braswell
can probably inform regarding
the enterprise.
The receipts of cotton at Little
Rock. Ark., in the season of 1900-190]
were 205,129 bales, more than double
the number received in the preeeeding
season.
Newton (N. C.) Hosiery Mill is completing
an addition to its building, the
second undertaken this year. Additional
machinery will be installed in
the new structure.
The Durham (N. C.) Hosiery Mil! is
about to remove to its new building, a
four story modern sructure. Order i
has been placed for 100 packing ma-1
chines for installation.
GUILTY OF MURDER.
Czolgosz, The Assassin, Convicted in
Short Order.
JURY WAS NOT LONG IN AGREEING.
The Trial Was Brief But Fair, and the
Verdict Was Inevitable?Will Be
Sentenced Soon.
Buffalo, Special.?Loon F. Czolgosz,
alias Fred Nieman, was found guilty
Tuesday of murder in the first degree
by a jury in Part III of the Supreme
Court, in having, on the 6th flay or
September, shot President William
McKinley, the wounds inflicted after,
wards resulting in the death of the
President.
The wheels of justice moved swiftly
and covered a period of only two days.
Practically all of this time was occupied
by the prosecution presenting a
case so clear, so conclusive that even
had the prisoner entered a plea of insanity.
the jury would not have returned
a verdict different from the one rendered
today.
The announcement made in the afternoon
by the attorneys for Czolgosz :
that the eminent allicnistu summoned
by the Erie County Bar Association
and by the district attorney to examine
Czolgosz and to determine his exact
mental condition had declared him
to be perfectly sane, destroying the
only vestige of a defense that Judges
Lewis and Titus could have put together.
Before adjournment Justice
White announced that he would pronounce
sentence upon the prisoner on
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Ho
was taken at once through the tunnel
under Delaware avenue to the jail. To
all appearances he was in no v.ay affected
by the result of the trial.
The crowd gathered at the city hall
was the largest which has seen him
since his arraignment. People were
lined up on both sides of the big ro- l
tunda on the second floor when court 1
convened and fringed the stairs lead- ]
ing from the floor above. There was no
demonstration except that of curiosity. (
A large number of women witnessed ' j
the proceedings. 1
At 2:44 in the afternoon District At- *
torney Penny abruptly announced that
the case of the prosecution was ended.
Judge Lewis arose slowly and. address- J
lng the court, said that the sudden
close of the case against Czolgosz was i j
a surprise to him and hi3 colleague, j
They had no witness to call for the .
defense. He asked the court that he j
be allowed to address the jury at once. ,
The court consented and the venerable j
jurist began an address that will long
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be rememoereu oy muse wuu uco.4U .... . ,
The jury re-tired at 3:51 to consider | j
the evidence. The sc:ne in the court
room then became dramatic in the extieme.
Decorum was somewhat forgotten
and the spectators stood up and
many walked about the room and engaged
in conversation. The guards
about the assassin, who still eat in his
seat, before the bench, were doubled
Chief of Detectives Cu3ack and two of
his men taking positions just back of
Czolgosz's chair. Others took seats to
the left and right and many "plain
among the crowd surging about the
clothes" men were seen mingling I
room clcsely watching every one whose
face was net familiar to them. There
was no disposition to crowd about the
prisoner, although the object of every
one seemed to be to get in a position
where he could have a full v.cw of hi3 j
face. j
Czolgosz had been seated in his chair
all afternoon, his hands clasped on j
the arms of the chair and his head ^
bent forward. The room was not a
warm but he frequently took his hand- f
kerchief from his pocket and mopped t
the perspiration from his forehead and \
cheeks. At one time during the ab- c
sence of the jury did he raise hi3 eyes
or lift his head or seem to know that t
he was the object of interest to sever- y
al hundred men and women. Every c
time the door was oepned all eyes t
were turned in that direction, the evi- h
dent thought in every mind being that v
the jury would take only a few minu- t
tes to agree on a verdict. d
It v.as 4:30 when the crier rapped for a
order and the jury filed into the room r
The clerk called their nanus, each jur- ^
or responding present as his name was .n
called. No time was wasted. The '
iurors did not sit down.
Judge White said: "Gentlemen, have r
you agreed upon a verdict?"
"We have," responded foreman
Wendt.
"What is your verdict?"
"That the verdict is guilty of mur- Is
der In the first degree." f,
There was a moment of silence and ^
then a murmur arose from the lips of w
the crowd. It ended there. There was ,
no handclapping; no cheers. Justice
White's voice could be clearly heard d'
in every part of the room when ne P
thanked the jurors for their work and fli
allowed them to go until 11 o'clock to. ^
morrow morning. Court was at once
adjourned. Czolgosz was immediately 81
handcuffed to his guards and hurried SI
from the court room down-stair? to { p<
the basement and through the tunnc-l I w
under Delaware avenue ?o Mie jail. s.
stNTENCED TO ELECTROCUTION.
President flcKinleys Murderer Must
Pey the Penalty? Date Fixed For
Week Beginning October 27.
Buffalo, Special.?Leon F. Czolgosz,
the assassin of President McKinley,
was Thursday afternoon sen- ,
tenced to be electrocuted in the Auburn
State prison during the week
beginning October 28, 1901. I
Before sentence was passed the
assassin evinced desire to speak.
dui ne couia not get his voice aoove
a whisper and his words were repeated
to the court by his counsel.
"There was no one else but me," the prisoner
said in a whisper. "No one |
else told mc to do it and no one paid me
to do it. I was not told anything
about the crime and I never thought
anything about that until a couple
of days before I committed the
crime."
Czolgosz sat down. He was quite
calm but it was evident that his
mind was flooded with thoughts of
his own distress. His eyes were
dilated, making them heavy and
bright, and his cheeks were a trifle
pale. The guards put the handcuffs
on his wrists. He looked at one
of the officers. There was an expression
of the profoundest fear and
helplessness in his eyes. He glanced
about at the people who crowded
together in efforts to get a look at
him. The prisoner's eyelids rose
and fell and then he fixed his gaze
upon the floor in front of him.
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LEON F. CZOLGOSZ.
At this point Judge Titus came
over to the prisoner and bade him
good-bye. Czolgosz replied very
Faintly. letting his eye rest upon
the man who had been his counsel.
"Good-bye," he said weakly. Czolgosz
was then hurried downstairs and
through "the Tunnel of Sobs" to the
iail, where he will remain until renovea
to Auburn to pay the penalty
for his crime.
Although the time announced for
:he convening of court was 2 o'clock
?very scat and every foot of standng
room were occupied before 1:30
ind scores were clamoring outside
'or admission. The doo^s were
ockec! ana no more were aamiuea to j ?
:he room. The prisoner was brought t
nto the room at 5 minute3 to 2. Five ?
ninutes later Justice White took his j
?lace upon the bench. a
As soon as Justice White assumed t
he bench, Crier Hess said: "Pur- c
uiant to a recess, this trial term of
he Supremo Court is now open for e
he transaction of business."
District Attorney Penney said: "If (
our honor please. I move sentence
n the case of People vs. Leon Czol- ^
;osz. Stand up. Czolgosz."
Clerk Fisher swore the prisoner j'
tnd his record was taken by the dis- ^
rlct attorney as follows: "Age 28
ears: nativity, Detroit; residence.
3roadwav, Nowak. Buffalo; occupaion.
laborer; married or single,
iingle; degrees of education, com- j,
non school and parochial; re- v
igious instruction. Catholic; par- t
nts. father living, mother dead; ^
emperate or intemperate, tempera- ^
>erate; former conviction of crime,
tone." tj
Then Justice White passed sen- t,
ence as follows: in taking the lite
if our beloved President you com- ^
nitted a crime which shocked and *
mtraged the moral sense of the ?
Ivilized world. You have confessed j.
hat guilt, and after learning all that .
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acts and circumstances of the case.
welve good jurors liave pronounced .
on guilty and have found you guilty
if murder in the first degree. .J
"You have said, according to the .
estimony of creditable witnesses and .
ourself. that no other person aided
r abetted you in the commission of ^
his terrible act. God grant it may
e so. The penalty for the crime for
rhich you stand convicted is fixed by ^
h's statute and it now becomes my ^
uty to pronounce this judgment
gainst you: The sentence of this
ourt is that in the week beginning 1
)ctober 28. 1901. at the place, in the ^
lanner and means prescribed bv (i)
iw. you suffer the punishment of .
eath. Remove the prisoner."
The crowd slowlv filed out of the
oom and court adjourned at 2:26.
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Brvan Favors Free Speech.
Lincoln, Neb., Special.?W. J. Bryan T
i opposed to any limitation upon the
eedom of speech, which he say3 has
een suggested as a cure for anarchy. 0(
t. Bryan believes the evils of restric- g]
? ?~ ~ fUor* ai'llti nf f rpp- <V
on are grcan-i u-au ?
ora and further declares the death of R
resident McKinley cannot be traced to
lything said or written against him.
he warfare, he says, must be against
nrchy, not against freedom of 0f
leech. Anarchy, he insists, is a Euro- te
an product, and thrives most there, F<
here there is the least freedom of ***
ae
.tech and the Dress. ^
SITTINGS RESUMED.
The Schley Court of Investigation in
Session Again.
TWO WITNESSES WERE EXAMINED
Nothing Startling lias Been Brought
Forward Thus Far By the Witnesses
Against'Schlev.
V/ashington, D. C.. Special.?Two
witnesses were introduced in the
bcniey court Wednesday. They were f
Admiral Cotton, who as captain commanded
the auxiliary cruiser Harvard,
md Captain Wise, who comanded the
luxiliary cruiser Yale during the Spanish
war. Both these vessels were
tsed as scouts and both came up with
the flying squadron off Santiago on
the 27th of May, before the retrogade
movement to Key West began. Admiral
Cotton testified tbat he hod
?one aboard Admiral Schley's flagship,
the Brooklyn, on that date to
take dispatches to him and he said at
first that he gave him four or five
dispatches addressed to the comnander
of the squadron. He after^ar.ls
modified this statement, saying that
probably all but two of these dispatches
were addressed to himself
(Admiral Cotton) but that they conmined
information which he thought
?hould bevin Admiral Schley's possession.
One of these was a copy of a
lispatch from Admiral Sampson which
lad not been printed in the official records,
stating that the Spanish fleet
vas at Santiago. He also said.that coal
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uuiu ua>c ucuu uarvcu wuu IUC iuti i 1
nac on the 27th of May, the day on
vhlch the retrogade movement to Key
tVest was begun for the purpose of
oaling. Captain Wise testified that on
he 27th day of May he had signaled
Captain Philip, of the Texas, his
jpinion that Cervera was inside the
larbor at Santiago, but the testimony
vsa ruled out.
The first witness called was A.
1. Claxton, the machinist on board the
rexas who had begun his testimony
vhen the settings of the court were so
ibruptly terminated Tuesday morning
)y the death of Judge Wilson. Mr.
Claxton said on July 3, 1898. he had
>een on duty in the engine room of
he Texas. The engine indicator had
railed for full speed ahead early in the
norning, which had, within an hour
ifter the beginning of the action been
hanged to "full speed astern." To his
cnowledge there had been no signal
or the revrsal qf the engine. He said
hat he had been excused from service
n the engine room, but still hp knew
hat the engines were reversed for
ibout two minutes.
Rear Admiral Cotton, now coninandant
of the Norfolk navy yard,
vho commanded the auxiliary cruiser
larvard during the Spanish war. was
he next witness. He said that on May
7, 1S9S. he had delivered dispatches
o Commodore Schley from Admiral
Sampson and the Navy Department. ^
le had. h? said, boarded the Brooklyn
,bout 10:30 o'clock. The weather was. r
hen moderate and he had had no difftulty
in going aboard the Brooklyn.
"What was said about the dispatch's?"
' I delivered to Commodore Schley
lie original ciphers in which the disiatches
had been received by me at
It. Nicholas Mole, together with transition
of those dispatches made by
deutenant Beall, of the Harvard. I
landed them personally to him in his
abin in the order of their date. He
eceived them, read them and co;naented
in a general way upon their
urport: spoke of the difficult*/ he had
a getting coal on board his ships
?*hile at Cienfuegos and subsequently
a the date o? which 1 am speaking,
lav 27. and said it had been an altost
impossibility to get coal on board
n account of the weather. He quesioned
me relative to the practicabiliV
of coaling ship at St. Nicholas Mole
nd Gonaive's Channel. As to St.
.'icholas Mole. I said: There is no
uestion the small ships can coal
here. As to Gonaive'3 channel. I
now of no reason why you should not
e able to coal there.' The commodore
lade remarks upon my statements,
Se language of which I do not recall,
ut he asked me. 'How about the large
hips at St. Nicholas Mole?' i said:
foil can't coal your big ships there.'
had special reference in my reply to
te battleships and protected cruisers
C the Brooklyn and New York class,
said, thinking of the fact that iny
wn ship had been there and was of
Dme 12.000 tons displacement and
early C.OO feet in length, 'possibly uner
favorable conditions, you might re
ble to coal the large ships there, one
t a time.' But the a;ea of deep water
)r the anchorage of large ships is so
Uinro it was net practicable to
sal at the very utmost more th t:i one
irge ship at a time and In rn.se the
eather became bad she would irarnclately
have to go to sea. ^
Irs. Roosevelt at the White House.
Washington. D. C., Special.?Mrs.
he. Roosevelt, the wife of the Presi;nt.
took up her permanent residence
i Washington Wednesday night when
> mistress of the White House, she
cupled apartments for the first time,
tie reached the city about 9:th)
clock, bringing with her two of the
oosevelt children, a governess and a
nisekeeper. President R icsevelt met
rs. Roosevelt and the children at the
irtcochere of the White House.
I'artments in the southwestern p.vt
the building have been specially t:td
up for the new presidentii! party,
or two hours late in the afternoon
e President enjoyed a horsebjek ride
companied by Col. 5>anger, Ihs Asitaat
Secretary cf War.