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THAT BOOK MATTER ? Methodist General Conference Takes Mooted Question Up. " * A HARD PROPOSITION TO TACKLE What the Outcome of the flatter is to Be Remains Problematical? The Other Proceedings. * Dallas, Tex., Special.?H. Warner j Hill, of the North Georgia Conference, precipitated a spirited five minutes debate on the war claim issue in the I Methodist General Conference by a ! resolution seeking to instruct the com- : mittee on publishing interests to coia ; continuous sessions until the matter be , settled, because of the importance of j the matter and the universal interest of the Church in it. On motion of Dr. j Rankin, the resolution was tabled. 160 to 6S. Soon after this vote was taken J. P. | Sti other, of Los Angeles, presented a i paper to be read to the open Confer- j ence in defence of the attitude of the minority of the book committee at Baltimore in 1898 on the war claim. One of the most acrimonious debates since the Conference opened resulted, i The paper was finally refe.red to the publishing committee. Dr. Wilson, of South Carolina, gave notice to reply from the majority members of the book committee of 1808. >A resolution signed by A. Coke Smith ! of Virginia, expressing gratification at i .the visit and addresses of the fraternal 1 delegates of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, and endorsing the sen, timents contained In the addresses was adopted. A greeting from the Southern Baptist Convention at Asheville, N. C. i was read and accepted. Among tne reports of committees was one from the educational committee urging closer and more careful study of the Bible in theological seminaries. The report enlisted unusual interest. The Louisville Conference recommended the quadriennial meeting be held in Louisville. The request was referred to the committee on entertainment of the General Conference. Rev. H. B. Parks, missionary secretary and fraternal delegate of the Afican Methodist Church, was presented to the Conference and received by the delegates rising. Only one session of the Conference was held, Bishop Hendricks, of Kansas City, presiding. Bishop 0. P. Fitzgerald, in a communication to the Conference, requested to be released from active service because of advanced age and feeble physical condition. It was referred to tho committee on episcopacy. Passenger train wrecicea. Lynchburg. Va.. Special?Train No. 37, Washington Southwestern vestibule, in charge of Conductor J. M. Gregg and Engineer J. D. McCormick. was wrecked Wednesday morning at 20 m'rnites nast 5 o'cloek at Lawyer's. about twelve miles south of this city. A freight train, south-bound. Conductor Joe Johns and Engineer C. Thornton. by some mistake occupied the main track and was struck by No. 37 which had the right-of-way. The passenger engine, two postal cars, cluh car and Pullman sleeper Eavaria were; wrecked and burned to ashes. Engineer MeCormick and Fireman Abe Gordon,! when they saw that the collision was unavoidable, jumped for their lives i and escaped with cuts and bruises. TV. T. Racker, chief clerk, and J. D. King, colored porter, were slightly injured. The freight caboose and five or six cars Joaded with lumber and flour were wrecked and burned. Not a passenger was hurt. Help For Volcano Sufferers. Washington, Special.?An additional appropriation of $300,000 was made by i the Senator for the stricken people of the Freeh West Indies. The appropriation was made in accordance with the recommendation of the President, who had asked that the amount of relief le ovu.uuu. ine juiuc retoiuiiun carry;!!;.; the appropriation was adopted with- j out debate. Before proceeding to the j consideration of the Philippine government bill the Senate passod the agri- j cultural appropriation bill. The Sheradan Horror. Pittsburg, Special.?A careful and ! systematic search for the dead and injured in the Sheraden horror reveals a list of 23 dead and 202 injured. The complete list of injured will never be known as many were able to get aWay without assistance. A conservative estimate. made by those thoroughly fa miliar with the situation places the number more or less seriously hurt at not less than 3000. The scenes in and around Sheraden were pitiful in the extreme. Practically every house in ine village had one or more injured inmate and in many homes families were gathcrcd about the charred and distorted remains of loved ones who were victims of the terrible calamity. $5,500,000 in Gofd Lost. Valparaiso. Chili. By Cable.?The , German steamer Sakkarah, Captain Pienig, has become a total loss at Huamblin Island, off the coast of Chile. The fate of the steamer's crew and passengers is not known. The cargo of the Sakkarah included .500,000 in gold specie, which was being demiCcd by the ChP.iian government. The steamer left here April 34 for Hamburg. ALL IN A TANGLE. Lively Scenes at Hethodist Genera! Conference. Dallas. Tex., Special.?The parliamentary tangle over the war claim, which has enveloped the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, since the opening clay, was only deep ened by Friday's session. Bishop .Morrison. of Kentucky, presided. In tho course of 20 minutes there were 22 points of order made and there were four appeals during the day from (he decision of the chair. One question at issue, the continuity cf the service of the members of the board of fnance, was lost in the maelstrom of talk on tactics. A resolution introduced by delegates from Virginia held that as th: Senate of the United States had allowed the claims as a "great charity," the fund to be used for the support of superannuated preachers, widows, etc., end that no portion of the amount beyond $5,000. the amount intended by Congress, shall be paid any attorney ar, a fee for procuring cr issuing in procuring the passage of the claim. This means that the Conference will be called upon to laise $10S,000, less $3,009. which amount was paid Maj. Stahlman. This is considered a masterly movement on the part of the faction seeking a compromise, i i:e rt^uiuuu.i Maa inferred. A statement of a delegate thai the mountains cf Kentucky one red u fertile a field for mission work as China brought out sharp resentment by Kentucky delegates. The committee on church extension reported that there had been an increase in their fund fiom $55,247 to in 1902. that the donations ex< ceded by $15,304. those of any previous period; there were*3.2C6 congregations still unhoused and $92.S09 had been asked for congregations, only onethird of which was given. Three papers on church insurance were submitted. The church has suffered a loss of $75,000 on property uninsured during the past year. The resolution was passed that a board of eleven bf appointed by the General Conference, members of which shall live in or near Louisville, to serve four years and formulate plans of insurance. The city of Cairo was transferred from the Illinois to the St. I>ouis Conference. The China mission was enlarged 10 include all of China and Corea. The Indian mission is to be divided into two missions. MOUNT PELEE STILL ACTIVE. Fire and Gasses Yet Pouring Steadily From its Summit Fort-de-France. Island of Martinique By Cable.?Great Flashes of very bright light were emitted from Mont Pelee between 10 and 11 o'clock Friday night. They were visible from here. ! Thick, glowing red clouds. Interspersed j with flashes of light, are issuing from the volcano. Showers of cinders, lasting for 20 minutes, accompanied the iiuuvnj. 1UL1 prujjic m uic U.SIIRHO of Lorrain, Marigct, Sainte Marie ami La Trinite are panic-stricken. REFUGEES CROWDING INTO FORTDE-FRANCE. Washington. Special?Secretary Moody has received the following cablegram from Commander T. C. McLean, of the Cincinnati: "St. Lucia. May 15.?Six thousand refugees have come into Fort-deFrance. Three thousand have come into Kingston. In the northern portions of Martinique and St. Vincent very many people perished; others are suffering for food and water. Very great difficulty in relieving and saving so many people scattered over large areas. The number of people to be fed and cared for is said to be reduced by mortality. Will endeavor to recover the records of American and British consulates at St. Pierre. If the remains of the officials are found. I will bury them with military honors." Later the Department reecetved a cablegram announcing the arrival of the. Cincinnati at Fort-de-France. A telegram also was received announcing that the collier Sterling, which tool: a quantity of stores from San Juan. Porto Rico, arrived at Fort-de-France. Fire in PSck-rj; House. Chicago. Special.?During the progress of a fire which destroyed the lard refinery of Armour & Co.. in th? Union Stock yards, 17 people were injured, four of them in p. manner which will probably cause death in a short time. The loss of the company is estimated by its officers at between $750,000 and $000,000 with ail the chances in favor of the latter figure. _ Drowning Near Wilmington. Wilmington, Special.?A few years ago Harckless Green, of Brunswick county, lost three children by drowning within a few yards of Navassa factory, four miles from Wilmington, at the mouth of a creek, which enters the river at that point. He was in a boat with his children at the time of the accident and miraculously escaped himself. Friday at about the same spot he and his son. Darry, j aged about 19 years, were in a boat, which capsized and the young man was drowned. The father again barely escaped. A SHARP CAPTURE.: Gaynor and Greene Bodily Kidnapped I , By Detectives PICKED UP AND CARRIED AWAY, j - # An Exciting Chase Wherein The Captors Distanced the Persuing Party and Brought Men to flontreat. a Quebec, Special.?Colonel John F. ; Gaynor and Captain B. D. Greene, who I forfeited their ball at Savannah, G?., j early in March, and fled to Canada. . | were placed under arrest by officers j ! connected with the United States j Secret Service and Chief Carpenter, of the Montreal detective force. Thurs-, day. The arrests were made on warrants issued in Montreal. Chief Wilkie's men assisting the Canadian officers to make the arrests. The men were hurried on board a swift little tug which , had been kept in waiting at the wharf, j Ten minutes after Greene and Gaynor ' were safely on board, the boat steamed j out into the river and started towaid Montreal. The officers moved so quickly 1 *'? ^^rvoa tnat neuner 01 me ynowinj an opportunity to consult counsel. When notified of her husband's arrest. I Mrs. Gay nor at once consulted Mr. ; Tacherenu, her husband's attorney. A tug was chartered and an attempt was made to overtake the boat on which Gaynor and Greene were being carried away. After a short chase it was seen by those on board the pursuing tug that j j it would be impossible to overtake the i detective boat, the Spray, one of the swiftest tugs on the St. Lawrence, and the pursuit was abandoned. On return- j 1 ing to the city it was decided to charter a special train and attempt to head off' ; the Spray at some point between this city and Monereal. The arrest of Greene and Gaynor and j the manner in which it was accomplish- j ed caused considerable excitement in i the city, where both men have become well known. When the two Americans first arrived in Quebec they were fol- ! lowed by two men. also from the United States, who registered at the Caa teau Frontenac. Their movements led j the hotel employes to believe that they j were detectives sent here to watch | Greene and Gaynor. It now developes i that one of these men is Detective Burke, of Florida. Thursday morning ! Mr. McAlester, a prominent lawyer of J Montreal, who. it is rumored, is en- ! gaged by the prosecution, arrived here { by boat from Montreal. On the same | boat with him were six detectives, including Chief Carpenter, of Montreal. : They were met at the wharf on their j arrival by Detective Burke. At 10:30 a well-dressed man engaged , o rnhmnn hv the hour and instructed ; him to wait near the postoffice. Soon j afterwards Burke, wi':h another cab, arrived. Burke and two other men who I came up, walked to<rard the Chateau Frontenac. which Is near by. In the ; meantime, Mr. Greet.e, who had en- : ; tcred the postoffiee, as was hi3 daily j custom, came out bf the main door iSvo strangers who had been in waiting j in a store near by, crossed the street | and one of them placing his hand on Greene's shoulder, pulled a document from his pocket and asked him to enter the first cab. Greene was heard to say. "Wait a minute, until I see a fnend." but this was denied him, and J the three detecthes and Green entered the cab and were driven to the wharf. 1 While the arrest of Greene was being accomplished, Burke and the other detsctives went to the Chateau Fronten- ! ac. Colonel Gaynor was standing at the j clork's desk when they entered. Tho three detectives walked up to Gaynor, j one taking hold of bte right arm and j the other his left, while Burke prodnced , 1 1 ! a legal paper, C/Uiuutn uajuui asa^u | ; permission to get his overcoat, but he ; was not permitted to do so and tho : four hurried out to the cab and started for the wharf at a raplif pace. These proceedings occupied about 20 minutes. The hotel people notified Col- j onel Gaynor's counsel of what had oc- : curred. The Attorney General's depart- j , ment and Judge Chauveau were notified , and they in turn asked the police to investigate the matter. Half an hour af- i ter the departure of the Spray, an- 1 other tug was engaged by Mrs. Gay- i nor. She went on board with Detective "Walsh. The pursuit of the Sprav was given up at Cape Rouge. 8 miles j from the city. The Spray was then almost out of sight down the river. Upon the return of Mrs. Gavnor to the city, the lawyers in the case had a short consultation with her. and immediately two petitions for ha- \ bees corpus, ordering the return of . Gaynor and Greene to this city, were ! prepared, and two orders were signed ! to that effect by Judge Andrews, iu ; the Superior Court. ill I no meantime iuur uieiiiueis in i the provincial police left by the 1:15 j Canadian Pacific Railroad train for I Three Rivers, with orders to secure a tug there and try to intercept the Spray. The latter town is 90 miles from Quebec and just half way between here and Montreal. The petitions were sworn to by Mrs. Gayncr, who alleges that her husband and Greene were taken away against their consent and without giving them time to see counsel or take legal measures to prevent their arrest. While the petitions were being prepared a special train was ordered over the Canadian Pacific railroad and at 3:30 the chase began. On the train are Messrs. Cannon and Chauveati. attorneys in the ease, who are bearers of the petition: High Constable Gale and eight detecthes. w BANKER COFFIELD DEAD. Was a Prominent and Useful Citizen of Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Special.?Mr. George Cofield, Sr., president of tko National Bank of Spartanburg, died at his residence in this city Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mr. Cofield has oeeu in failing health for a long time past, but was apparently able to be aoout! and in good spirits up to Monday | evening.Tuesday he was at the lank t'no i regular hours, transacting his duties. At night he was taken suddenly sick with pneumonia and never rallied from the time the disease grasped hira until the end came. Mr. Colloid was 63 years of age. ard was born at Goshen Hill near Whltmire, in Union county, rle was a graduate cf Wofford college of ; the chs3 of '67. the first claas of that i institution. After graduation he t?tfght | school for a whjle. When the Civil war broke out he enlisted in the Hoicombo Legion, in which command he served until the surrender at Appomattox. H" came to this city after the war and i married Miss Mary C. Moore, daughter of the late David Moore of Spartanburg. and engaged in merchandising. In 1870 he entered the banking business as cashier of the Savings bank. After the 1 organization of the national bank near- j lv voire oorn ho iv?c mo.'lp of I IJ uv iiuiu HO^ ? -- | that institution, and subsequently beramo its president. At the time of his death he was also president of the Fidelity Loan and Trust company, one of the strongest though not the largest banking institution in Spartanburg. Mr. Cofieid is survived by his wife and six children, as follows: Mr. James Cofieid. Mrs. Paul Potty of 1 his city, Mrs. Mason Bratton of Guthriesville, York county; Mr. George Cofieid. Jr., Miss Ruth Cofieid and Mr. Robert Cofield of this city. Hail Storm in Greenville. Greenville. Special.?A secere hail- j storm visited the eastern section of this i county Wednesday afternoon, and did j much damage to the young corn and cotton, while injuring wheat and oats to a still greater extent. The hail fell in large quantities* on the farm of F. M. Pike, six miles east of the city, and from there to Walkersville the heaviest damage was done, covering a territory three or four miles in length, j The hall stones were as large as par- \ tridge eggs In some instances, and : broke the window panes in somo of the houses. Next morning the hail was on the ground in places where It had drifted. Corn and cotton will not be permanently injured, as the blades and leaves are quite small as yet, but the wheat and oats will not recuperate so much, as the hail beat the stalks very severely, causing the heads to droop, j Thunderstorms have been frequent during the past week, but the rams have been quite partial, and in some portions of the county the farmers are Deeding rain, as much of their cotton ;S still under the surface. Clemson Commencement. Clemson College, Special.?Four more weeks and Clemson will close for the year 1901-02. Senior examinations j begin on the 23rd inst. and extend to the 30th. Other examinations begin later and end June 5. The seniors are thus given six days off. Commencement exercises begin cn Friday morning. June 6, and extend , through Saturday and Sunday follow- j inc. The following ia the official programme: Friday. June 6?11 a. m., address to graduating class by Seriator H. D. Money of Mississippi, 8 p. m.. alumni address by F. G. Tompkina, class, '96. l"'*A T..-? T 11 a rr? f?r*TTl saturuay, JUUU i.?u . m., mencement exercises and delivery of | diplomas; 8:30 p. m., Glee club enter-! tainment. Sunday, June 8.?11 a. m.. baccalau- i reate sermon, by Rev. J. Walter Daniel, D. D., of Charleston; 8:30 p. m., ; farewell exercises of Y. M. C. A. On Monday evening, June 9, the an- j nual commencement hop given by the junior class complimentary to the grad- \ uating class will take place, and a large attendance is assured. The Juniors are making elaborate preparations for this moat enjoyable social event. The graduating class this year Is an unusually large one. and many visitors | are expected. Everything points to a . very successful and largely attended ; commencement. A FIghiIng Teacher. Florence. Special.?A personal altercation occurred last week in front of i the court house between Superintend .. ^ _ j - i r> T7< 1 r\V? t? _ ' ent or tne uraueu ocauuis i-. , son and J. J. Jennings, an Atlantic I Coast Line engineer. The parties ?a\e bond for their appearance at the mayor's court, it seems tliat the trouble I grew out of a suspension from the srhcols of a child of Mr. Jennings sonic j' time ago. He met Trof. Johnson. Prof, i Johnson extended his haua. vrnicn was j taken by Mr. Jennings. Mr. Jennings , said that he had been looking for Prof. Johnson and cursed him. Prof. Johnson asked him if he was armed, and the testimony of the witness to the affair is that he said he was. Prof. ! Johnson then asked him if he would give him time to put himself on an equal footing with him when the matter might be settled, but Jennings refused, cursing him again, whereupon Prof. Johnson struck him in the fare, following the blow with another bofore they could be separated by the . sheriff who was standing by them, j Both were placed under arrest and de- ( posited a sum for appearance before : the mayor. Mr. Jennings v.-.s consid- . eratly bruised about the face. Prof, j , Johnson bore no marks of the encorn- J ] tcr. i, GENERAL ASSEMBLY Ai? c ji . r> t i /*L-1? !? ui iouinern ^resoyieridii uiluh m Session WEALTHY COLLEGES CIIRISJLESS, Said the Retiring Aloderator in His Sermon on the Opening Day of the Assembly. Jackson. Miss., Special.?The fortysecond session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian chur h in the United States was opened promptly at 11 o'clock Thursday morning in the auditorium of the First Presbyterian church. Full delegations from the various churches were present. Dr. S. II. Chester, secretary of the foreign missions board, real the Scripture lesson, which was followed by prayer led by Dr. R. P. Morris. Rev. Leander M. Woods, the retiring moderator of the Assembly, preached the opening sermon, which was unique and masterful, the idea being J ?_ C:,.,.* Comnnl 1 1 ? .1 UlttWU 1IULLI I'll at Li- u *_ i, A. AW being. "The Smithies Under Philistine Control, or Christian Schools the Crying Need of Our Time.*' Oi all the Issues that are facing the Christian ntellSgence of today none is of such transcendent importance. Dr. Woods thinks that the church shou! 1 own and control its own-smithies; that is, own agencies for forging the weapons which she must use to live. Pagan schools are wrecking the church. Dr. Woods defines a Christian school as a school laugh tby Christians, one whose curriculum is in harmony with revealed truth. Of the eighteen million youths at school sixteen millions are in State schools. Dr. Woods' estimate cl their religious condition was not flattering. "These State institutions are with only the rarest exceptions absolutely devoid of every feature of evangelical religion. In their class rooms the niKii, io novur tnncht nr eren read. in them the voice of prayer i3 never heard. They are almost as Christless po far as respects their curricula as the schools of the Jewish rabbis or the great Mohammedan University of Cairo and even more godless, for in the latter the Supreme Being is at least recognized and His ciaim t' to worship and service pressed home upon the hearts of the students. The public schools of our country, indeed, do possess the advantage of having in them a great many teachers who 1 1-* on/1 O PO Jirc 1UVCIJ' V> LI I IO l^uuo U11U M* -V w... passed with all the restraining ^nd helpful influences of a Christian public sentiment, but the public schools themselves do next to nothing to enhance the spiritual welfare of their resepeecive communities. They aro simply kept from utter demolarization by the Christian atmosphere, which exists in spite of them. Only a few years ago Prof. Andrews, then at the head of the public schools of Chicago, forbade the reading therein of Rudyard Kipling's Recessional hymn, because in it mention is made of "The Lord God of Hosts." Of the remaining two million students in the United States few are in distinctively Christian schools. Of the $147,000,000 invested in institutional endowments, ainfirtftfinno nr more than 73 Der cent., are owned by the 13 wealthiest universities of our country, and of these thirteen universities not a single one is under the control of any church whatever. All of them are by their own rating what is called 'nonsectarian' schools; and bear in mind these millions do not Include the buildings, libraries, museums, etc., but only the income as producing capital. Among these thirteen princely schools are included Lelan l Stanford. GIrard, Harvard. Columbia. Carnegie, Chicago, Cornell and others. whose relations to evangelical religion are well understood. These thirteen schools have on their rol'.3 from two to five thousand students each, among whom arc multitudes of th6 men who are to rule America for the next generation." Dr. Woods laid the magnificent proposition before the Assembly of the founding of a great Southern University. "I feel like crying out, gam ne, way tannot we set in motion at tills Assembly plans which shall look towards the founding of at lease one finely endowed university, amply equipped, which shall abide for all time as a monument to the Southern Presbyterian church?" riountain's Summit Gone. Kingston. B. W. I., By Cable?No one has yet been able to approach within eight miles of the crater of Soufriere volcano, out juugmg irum wnui uu be seen from a considerable distance, the old lake at tho summit of the mountain has disappeared. The numerous fissures in the mountain continue t~throw out vapor, and the subterranean murmuiings and tremblings indicate continuous unrest. During the afternoon on Monday a dens? volume of steam and smoke rose from the volcano and the whole island was covered by a peculiar mist. The inhalation of noxious vapors here ia increasing the spread pf sickness. Starvation threatens the poorer classes of the alilicted district. A