The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 03, 1901, Image 9
48 SOLDIERS KILLED
Fec.-ful Slaughter of Our Men in the
Philippines.
OF 72 MEN, 24 ESCAPED DEATH.
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Were Surprised While at Breakfast !
Saturday Morning, on the Island ol ]
Samar? News Created a Sensation :
in This Country.
Manila, By Cable.?A disastrous
fish: between faited States troops aii.i
insurgents occurred Saturday in the
island of Samar. ucar Balangiga. -A
large body of insurgents attacked j
Company C, Ninth Infantry, only 21J
members of the company escaping.
All others are reported to have been >
killed. The company were at breakfast
when attacked and made a deter
mined resistance, but the overwhelming
number cf the insurgents compel!?*d
th?ni to retreat . Of the survivor*
who have arrived at uassey. u art
wounded.
According to the latest returns th?
strength of the company was 72. Th?
survivors include Captain Thomas W. i
Connelly. First Lieutenant Edward
Bum pus, and Dr. R. S. GriswoM. surgeon.
Cai^ain Edward V. Bookmiller. cl <
the Ninth Infantry, reports that Gen
eral Hughes is assembling a force il
attack the insurgents. The insurgent*
raptured all the stores and ammunition
of the company and all the rifles
except 26.
Washington. Special.?News of the
disastrous fight between troops of the
Ninth Infantry and the insurgents en
the island of Samar was sent prompt-'
ly by General Hughes, commanding1
in that island, to General Chaffee at i
Manila, and by him transmitted to the
War Department. It reached the Department
during the cany hours Sat
urday and Adjutant General Gortin
realizing its importance, at once made
it public after sending a copy to the (
White House. General Chaffee's dispatch.
which agrees with the Associa
*" ' * * In n n frtl 1a*VC
ICU r*i"tes uiayaivu, io iv>tvn?.
"Manila, Sept. 29.
" Adjutant General. Washington:
"Hughes reports the following from j
Bassey, Southern Samar. Twenty-foui i
men of Company C, Ninth Regiment. '
1'nitcd States Infantry, eleven wound j
cd. have just arrived from Balangiga.
The remainder of the company killed.
The insurgents secured all the company
supplies and all rifles except 12.
The company was attacked during j
breakfast on the morning of September
28. The company was 72 strong
filacers. Thomas W. Connelly, capaln:
Edward A. Bumpus. first lieutenant.
and Dr. R. S. Griswold, majoi
_/ surge>c<n. escaped."
/ The news created a sensation in official
circles. It was the first sever*? '
reverse that has occurred for a long
time. Still the officials were not unprepared
for news of just this chara*t?r
from Samar, in which the rovolu- j
tiun started by Aguinaldo still con- \
tinues. Samar is a country about as j
large as the State of Ohio and the
American forces of occupation number
in ail between 2,000 and 2,500 men.
These are distributed among various
posts in the island, a large number
being located at the more important
?- centres. Spain never made any effort
to o?i upv Samar and it only has been
for probably three months past that
the ITn.fed States have undertaken
the work. The latest report made by
General Hughes to the War Depart
gent rifles in the Island aggregated
about 300. The Filipinos carried on a
guerilla warfare and operations
agaist them were difficult. The diss
aster to Company C occurred, it is believed,
while it was engaged in an expedition
to clear the country of roving
bands of these insurgents. The fact
that the Americans were attacked
while at breakfast indicates the pluck
and daring of the insurgents.
Two Men Killed by Fall.
Wilkesbare. Pa.. Speci?f. ?John Wallace,
engineer, and John Conneily
miner, were instantly killed at the tw.n
shaft at Pittston. The men were being
hoisted to the surface in a bucket ami
when about half-way up the shaft the
bucket tipped over and both men were
thrown out. They fell a distance of 2C0
fe?: and when picked up nearly every
Jtoone in their bodies was broken.
Negro Whipped to Death.
Longview, Tex.. Special.?News ha?
reached here of a race riot at Hallvilie,
in Harrison county. A party oi
white men Saturday night whipped c
lieg.o so severely that he died. They
attempted to break into the house o!
anmiv r negro who shot and killed Julian
A wood. Armed citizens have beer
searching for Tom Wa'krr, v.ho (lit
tii - sheeting. and late reports say he
has been hanged. The trouble was ovci
orc.i mortgages. It is said the negro *
secured advances on their crops an I
utn refused to fulfill the contract.
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M'KINLEY'S V/1LL r?.C3AT^.
His Wife node the Sole Legatee For
: Life?Executors Named.
Canton. 0.. Special.?Secretary Cortelyou
came hpre last Friday to as- \
sist Mrs. McKinley in disposing of 1
matters connected with the late
President's estate. Alter meeting
Mrs. McKinley, the question of filing
the will was taken no. The trvir.g
task of reading it to her was undertaken
by the faithful secretary. Mrs.
McKinley made a heroic effort to bear
up and succeeded in doing so. although
the ordeal was difficult for her. She
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IS resiiu& well. .Mil ic^ai IU1 mauvag i
necessary for her to sub.-c-ribe to were
disposed of. At 3 o'clock Judge Day
and Secretary Cortelyou went to the
office of the probate judge and offered
the will of President McKinley for
probate. They carried with them the
following:
"I. Ida S. McKinley, widow of William
McKinley. deceased, hereby decline
the administration of his estate
and recommend the appointment of
Wm. R. Day and Geo. B. Cortelyou as '
administrators, with the will annexed."
This recommendation bears the date
of September 27. 1901. Following is
the text of President McKinley's will:
"Executive Mansion, Washington.
"I publish the following as my latest
will and testament, hereby revoking !
all former wills: To my beloved wife 1
Ida S. McKinley. I bequeath all of my !
real estate, wherever situated, and
thp inoomp of anv nprsnnal nrrvnprtv of
which I may be possessed at death,
during her natural life. I make tho
following charge upon all of my prop
erty, both real and personal: To pay
my mother during her life $1,000 a
year, and at hor death said sum to be
paid to my sister. Helen McKinley. If
the income from property be lnsufli- j
cient to keep my wife in great com- !
fort and pay the annuity above provi- |
ded. then I direct -that such of my
property be sold so as to make a sum :
adequate for both purposes. Whatever
property remains at the death of rny
wife. I give to my brother and sister,
share and share alike. My chief concern
Is that my wife from my estate
shall have all she requires for her
comfort and pleasure, and that my
mother shall be provided with whatever
money she requires to make he
old age comfortable and happy. Witness
my hand and seal. this. 22nd day
of October. 1897, to my last will and (
testament, made at the city of Wasnington.
District of Columbia.
(Seal.) "WILLIAM McKINLEY.
"The foregoing will was witnessed
by us this. 22nd day of October, 1897,
at the request of the testator and his
name signed hereto in our presenco
and our signature hereto in his presence.
"CHARLES LOEFFLER."
"G. B. CORTELYOU.
It is given out on authority that the
.Mi-rvimejr eoicue win UJUll --O.l'UU or 1
$250,000, including life insurance of
$07,000, Aside from this insurance the
estate consists of real estate here and
contiguous to Canton and of deposits
in Washington banks. Monday morning
has been fixed by the probate
court for a hearing prior to probating
the will. The will is in the President's
own handwriting.
Military Prisoners Shot.
New York, Special.?Charles P.
Meiner. of Yonkers, N. Y., one of a
batch of military prisoners who were
being escorted aboard tho steamer
Hamilton, bound for Norfolk, tried
to escape and was shot above the
right hip by one of the marine
guards. Edward Early. The guard,
used a revolver and the bullet pasted
through Meiner's body. Meiner was
conveyed to the Hudson Street Hospital.
and after Early had reported
at the Leonard street police station
he was allowed to proceed with the
rest of the guard in command of
Lieutenant G. Bishop. Jr., Meiner was
conscious when he reached the hospital
but the doctors there stated
that he was in a precarious condition.
Canal Treaty Ready to Sign.
I/ondon, By Cable.?Correspon
dence regarding the Nicaragua Canal
treaty has ceased, the treaty being
in form for signature. The only authoritative
information obtainable
about it here is that it is considerably
better for the United States than the
preceding one. The utmost reserve
exists respecting the neutrality
clause. In other respects the treaty
follows the general lines of the old
one.
flacArthur Mas Nothing to Say.
Milwaukee, Special.?When his attention
was called to the dispatches
announcing the disaster that had overtaken
Company C of the Ninth Infantry.
Gen. George Arthur MacArthur
said: "This is one of those deplorable
isolated incidents which will have no
effect on the general result. It is a
portion of the insurrection which has
been conducted by General Likban.
which has not been suppressed. There
are plenty of soldiers there ultimately
to subdue the rebellion in the island of
Samar. The details are too meagre for
me to discuss the subject. The dispatch
contains all the information that can
be had at this time. I can add nothing
more."
COLUMBIA IN LEAD.
The Second Yacht Race Was Quite a
Success.
IT WAS VERY CLOSE AND EXCITING.
Women Fainted and A\en Went Wild
With Excitement?The Englishman
Satisfied.
Thr> first nf tHo r.f?r>9 n*
al yacht races was a failure cn account
of light wind. The second was a
successful one. and is thus described:
New York, Special.?In the closest
and most soul-stirring race ever silled
for the old America's cup, the white
flyer Columbia Saturday beat the British
challenger over a windward and
iceward course of thirty nautical miles
by the narrow margin of 39 seconds.
As Lipton's latest aspirant for cup
honors must allow the defender 43
seconds on account of the extra 813
square feet of canvass in her sail a;ea,
the official record, under the rules,
gives her the victory by one minute and
two seconds.
As a spectacle the contest was superb.
From the time the two sky-scraping
races crossed the starting line until
they fled across the finish line four
and a half hours later the result was in
doubt and the excitement aboard the
excursion fleet increased until men became
frenzied and women almost
hysterical. So evenly matched were
these two scientific racing machines
that never after they started were the
rival skippers out of each other's hail
and more than three-quarters of the
time they were so close that Charlie
Barr, who had the tiller aboard the
American, could have tossed a ball to
Captain Sycamore. For miles as they
beat their way to the other ouier mark
the black shadow of the Shamrock's
huge club topsail was painted on the
bigmainsail of the Columbia and for
an hour on the run home, with the
two yachts flying like scared deer before
the following wind, they ran almost
beam to beam as if they had been
harnessed together.
As a result of the day s race, though
faith in the Columbia still remains in
the hearts of the patriots, all the experts
admit that the British boat is
the ablest sloop ever sent to these waters
to lift the 100-guinea cup which
the old schooner America brought
across the Atlantic 50 years ago, and
that the superiority of American seamanship
and American naval architecture,
as represented by the defender,
remains to be established. The quality
of a sailing ship is measured by her
ability to carve her way into an ad- J
verse wina ana in me uiueu-umc
thresh to windward the golden challenger
gained 39 seconds, while on t ie
run home her lead was eaten up Lad
the Columbia crossed the finish line
exactly 37 seconds before the Shamrock.
It must be remembered, however,
that the challenger had the weather
gauge, and the nautical experts said
after the race that during the outward
journey she had been sailed to absolute
perfection, while before the wind
the American yacht not only showed a
fleeter pair of heels, but, in the opinion
of the sharps, was better handled.
Damage to Rice Crop.
Savannah, Ga., Special.?The freshet
that came down the Savannah river I
Friday was one of the worst ever experienced
by rice planters of this section.
The river rose a foot or more
higher than ever known; and practically
every rice plantation 0:1 the river
is under water. The water reached its
greatest height Friday night. It not
only overflowed the banks of the fields
but in a number of places broke
through the banks, making bad wash-1
outs that can be repaired only with a
great deal of trouble and expense. The |
damage to the rice will not be known j
until the flood subsides enough to allow
a repair of the banks and the
drainage of the fields. The water is
receding.
Another Fight Reported.
Manila, By Cable.?Capt. Lawrence
J. Learhn reports a 3evere engagement
with insurgents near Canilelaria, ti e
Americans losing one killed and two
wounded. The insurgent lcs3 has not
been ascertained. The Americans captured
20,000 pounds of rice and several
hundred pounds of ammunition.
General News Notes.
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
and York arrived at Winnipeg, Man.
Prince Makachidze. of Russia, was
arrested in Italy as an anarchist.
Mount Vesuvius is in eruption again.
The Peary Artic steamer Windward
returned to Brigus, X. I'., from Ncrt'.i
Greenland.
The first of the scri's cf iares between
the Columbia and Shamrock
11 for the international yachting championship
was declared "no race" becaus
the yachts failed to finish within
the time limit.
Six men were killed and seven severely
injured by a gas works explosion
in Newark, N. J. i
6ET1I.VG THE REPORTS READY.
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State Superintendent of Education is |
Pushing it Forward.
The superintendent of education is
now busy preparing his annual report J ]
to the legislature. Superintendent Mi ^
Mahan is in Pickens conducting the j
county summer school, but while doir.g t
this he is also writing his report so c
: that H may he given to the State c
printer soon after his return next r
week. Meantime, the clerks in his oil- |
floe are busy collecting data and ar- ^
ranging it for the statistical part of f
thi3 report c
j i Qe tmorma^ion given in mis repjrt a
this year will be more accurate and ^
fuller, perhaps, than has ever been a
given In the reports of a superintend- j
ent of education. Many new features
have been added and special effoits j
have been put forward 6;<jce early in i
the year to have the data full and c
accurate. Many reports have had to
be returned for fuller information or ,
for correction. *
Wednesday the circulars for infor.
mation about the mill schools were t
sent to all the cotton mill presidents
In the State with a requtst that th?se j,
blanks be filled out and returned at
once. The table in the last report of
the superintendent of education was *
used much by the members of the legislature,
even though the data given in a
this table was not full. This year
| the superintendent of education will ?
! give a much more elaborate one, which
?in ho r\t miinli interest to
J Will UVUl/litoa t/V V4 *MM
! the legislature and to the many In- s
! teresled In the subject of education ?
In the cotton mills. One of the questions
Mr. Mahan has asked in this 1
circular is "up to what age do you 1 2
favor compulsory education?"
Some of the towns in the State have [
not yet sent in their reports, but the j r
reports have been checked off and "
, another request made of the delln- J j;
quent ones, making the third and in 2
some instances the fourth request
made. The superintendent of education
believes that there is no way to 2
get these reports except by persistent
effort. Still up to the present the re,
turns are more complete than they
| have been and it is likely that the report
of town schools will be a very full c
and interesting one.
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Tragedy in Greenwood County. x
Greenwood. Special.?A very sad i
death occurred in the lower section of f
this county last week. Young Clar- i
ence Colllson, the 16-ytar-old son of a
James W. Colllson of this city, was c
accidentally shot and instaatly killed
while engaged In target shooting with t
1 a Miss Connally, a visitor at the home p
of her brother-in-law, Eugene Bowers, v
with whom young Collison was stay- g
ing. The young lady had the rifle in a
i her hand and in some way it went off.
the bullet striking Colllson In the
I forehead. The bullet came out at tho
base of the skull. He died instantly.
His father and mother of this city P
were notified at once and went down. I
It was a severe shock fo hi3 mothei. *
She had been talking to him over the P
telephone not more than five minutes a
befcxe the accident occurred. Young P
Collison was a student at Furman ?
University last session and expected 0
to return this week to resume his S
j studies at that institution. He had ^
gone down to his father's store to 1
I help open the new fall goods and in- t
tended to return Thursday.
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"No Such Premium."
Strange as It may seem some rr>ig!s- ^
trates in different portions of the j.
State have had the idea that because E
a man loses his citizenship upon being I a
convicted and sent to the state prison t
he is not required to pay taxes after he
is set free. One magistrate wrote t
the attorney general about the matter c
and Mr. Bellinger replied as follows: s
"Dear Sir: In your letter of the 21st )
inst. you ask to be informed 'if a man v
who ha3 been convicted and served his j,
I time out at the penitentiary at Colum- n
bia, is amendable to poll tax?" In re- v
ply I beg to say that no one Is relieved a
of the burden of paying taxes, elthe: n
| upon property or poll, by reason of In- c
diriment or conviction for crime. Tho j
law doe3 not place such a premium B
upon violation of law." 0
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Whiskey In the Mountains. a
Greenville. Special. ? Constables o
James Altom, G. L. Cooley, H. L. Bell ?
and Deputy Collector E. A. Aiken left
the city Saturday night with the in- v
tention of bagging some larger game c
than could be caught in this neighbor- v
hood, and on Sunday about 9 o'clock ^
they returned with a white man. a
J"!
mule and buggy, a Winchester rid*, ^
and four cans which contained several
gallons of corn whiskey, which were
captured by them about 18 miles north
of the city in the Dark Corner, and ^
the officers claim that it was not a tvery
good night either for game. The
man they captured i3 named Ben Ful- ^
ler, and ho lives near Chick Springs, r.
Want Better Wages. f
Fall River. Mass., Special.?The tox- ''
tile council unanimously voted to in- v
struct Secretary James Whitehead to r
address a communication to the manu- J"
facturers asking that notices be posted
in all the mills giving an advance of 0
wage3 similar to that posted in the 11
Iron Works and Bourne Mills. 0
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SERIuUS WRECK.
ra5t Passeoger Train Runs Into a
Freight Near Columbia.
Columbia, Special.?About midnight
Thursday night there was a ba-1
vreck on the Southern Railway's Coumbia
and Greenville division about
wo miles from the city. The news
>f the accident wa3 not generally roeived
in the city until after 2 o'clock
text morning. It was a tail-end collison
between the down passenger train
lue here at midnight?No. 16?and
reight train No. 72. Who were in
:harge of the two trains could not be
jcertained. At 2:30 Supt. Welles and
['ardmaster Blanton, with Dr. Taylor
md other physicians, left the city for
he scene of the wreck.
i ae man ageni on me i??icu65i
rain whoee name could not bo asceralned
was reported by the passengers
>n the train as seriously Injured.
The fireman of the passenger train
las an ankle dislocated.
One passenger, Mr. Joe Munday, had
ds shoulder dislocated.
Flagman Burns was also injured, it
s said, only slightly.
The engineer of the passenger Is re>orted
to havo dislocated shoulder.
This was all that could be l-earned
s to the Injured.
From a passenger who reached the
ity at 2:30 it was learned that the
relght train was trying to make the
idlng at Camp Fornance. having or*
lers to clear for the passenger to pass,
rhls proved to be Impossible, and tha
>assenger came down upon the freight
it the rate of 35 miles an hour and
rashed into the rear of the freight
The caboose of the freight was comiletely
telescoped, the oab being left
tround the engine boiler. The box
:ars of the freight were also telescoped
as well as two flat cars, the
rucks being left upon the tracks. The
elescoped cars referred to caught fire
md were burned, the flat cars being
inly partially burjied.
The passenger who told the story
aid that the crash was an awful one
.nd the jar was too much for the pasengers,
all being thrown from their
eats save himself, and he was sitting
n the double seat at the front of the
oach. There were two young ladies
vho were tossed about but were not
?urt. He says that had it not been
or the fact that the passenger was a
nixed train results would have b?e_n
lerlous. As It was one of tne box
ars on the passenger was wrecked.
The freight conductor came cm to
own cm the engine of his train and re>orted
the accident, and the engine
ras sent back with a couple of passenger
cars bringing the passengers in
tbout 2:15 o'clock.
Six flen Blown to Death.
New York, Special.?Six men anil
ossibly seven, were killed and seven
njured by the explosion of an oil
ank of the Essex & Hudson Gas Coni>iny.
at Newark. N. J. The known dead
re: I^awrence Kirch, 33 years old, em'loyed
in the works; Wm. Meyer, 10
ears of age; Otto Newman, 27 years
Id, foreman at the works; Alfred
!nyder. 22 years old, resided in Jersey
lity; Nicholas Miller, 45 years old;
midentifled man. Many witnesses say
here is a body in the river.as they saw
t hurled high in the air and thrown
n that direction. The tank which exdoded
was one of a number of imnense
steel reservoirs which was unlergoing
its periodical cleaning, havng
been emptied of its oil in the
norning. The tank was 20 feet deep
,nd Kirch and Meyer entered through
he manhole first without taking the
recaution of having ropes tied about
hem. They were iramediate'y overome
by the fumes. Foreman Newman
aw this and started down after them,
ifter shouting a warning to the other
vorkmen in the yard, he too collapsed
q t\e tank. Nicholas Miller, a grocer
ear by, who had been foreman of the
rorks, was in the yards and at cnce
ssumed charge of the rescue. Sumloning
others the men began with
hisel to cut a large ring in the tank,
t is supposed one of the chisels in
truing tne steei causeu uue cmiaoiuu
f a spark for immediately there was
in explosion like that of a cannon ana
, sheet of flame. Ten men were on top
if the tank at the time. They were
wept away in all directions. Miller,
Inyder and the undentifled man were
down many feet in the air. The tank
vas rent in twain and after all was
iver the badies of the three men in it
rere taken out. The gas and other
anks in the yard were surrounded by
lames for a short time but none exiloded
and the firemen had little to
io.
Minor Hatters.
Over 1T?00 sheep will be shown at
he Pan-American Exposition in Buf
alo, N. Y.. this week.
Major General MacArthur goes
Yost next week to command the Department
of the Colorado.
Hundreds of persons are fleeing
rorn Little Lake, Wyo.. the town havng
been set on flic by burning forests.
Forty switchmen, striking for higher.
.-ages, have tied up traffic on eight
ailroads over the Kentucky and Ininna
bridge over the Ohio River at
.ouisville, Ky.
William Thompson, former treasurer
f the National Soldiers' Home, at
lampton, Va., has been made govrnor
of the home, vice P. T. Woodfln,
eceased.