The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 16, 1902, Image 3
HlTaRP'S letter.
f Suminations of the Popular Sa?e of
Barlow
I m ?2!L05C?:?K IS REMINISCENT
We Discusses L-vciits of the Past in
tlij Mappy Manner ? Things
Me Does Not Know.
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Wanted?In 1SS1 General Henry R.
vJaekson, of Savannah, delivered in .
Atlanta the most notable, instructive <
and eloquent address that has been 1
heard in Georgia since the civil war. 1
The subject was "The Wanderer." a !
slave ship that landed on the Georgia ,
coast in IScS. But the whole address t
was an historical recital of many poli- <
ticai events that led to the civil war <
and of which the generation that has
grown up since were profoundly ig- 1
norant and still are. It was delivered j
by request of the Young Men's Library
Association, when Henry Grady
was its chairman, and I supposed was {
published in pamphlet form and could *
be had on application. But 1 nave
sought in vain to find a copy. I have a t
newspaper copy, but it has been worn j.
to the quick and is almost illegible. I
wrote to Judge Pope Barrow, who is
General Jackson's executor, and he ;
can find none among the general's ^
papers. Can any veteran furnish me a j
copy? I would also be pleased to obtain
a copy of Daniel Webster's
peech at Capon Springs, which was "c
suppressed by his publishers and to
which Gen -ral Jackson makes alius- .
ion. Generai Jackson was a great man. ,
He won his military laurels in the war .
vrith Mexico. He was assistant at- |.
g lorney general under Buchanan when j
I Jeremiah Black was the chief. He was .
the vigilant, determined, conscien- |
<~~"<1ous prosecutor of those who owned
and equipped and officered the only
ilave ship that ever landed on the *
Georgia coast. He was a man of splendid
culture and a poet of ability and
reputation. Strange it is that this
magnificent address has not been
compiled la the appendix of some
Southern history as a land mark for
the present generation. It is sad and
mortifying that our young and middleaged
men and our graduates from
Southern colleges know so little of our
ante-bellum history. The Northern
people are equally ignorant of the
prigin of slavery and the real causes
that precipitated the civil war. Most
pf them have a vague Idea that slav
sry was b?rn and just grew up in tne
South?came up out of the ground
like the 17-vear old locusts?and was
our sin and our curse. Not one in ten
thousand will believe that the South
sever imported a slave from Africa,
but got all we had by purchase from
our Northern brethren. I would wager
a thousand dollars against ten that
aot a mar. under fifty nor a school boy
who lives North of the line knows or
believes that General Grant, their
great military hero and idol, was a
ilave owner and lived ofT of their hire
tud their service while he was fighting
up about ours. Lincoln's proclamation
of freedom came in 1863, but
General Grant paid no attention to it.
He continued to use them as slaves
until January, 1865. (See his bography
by General James Grant Wilson in
Appleton's Encyclopedia.) General
Grant owned these slaves in St. Louis,
Mo., where he lived. He was a bad
manager and just before the war began
he moved to Galena and went to
work for his brother in the tanyard.
While there he caught the war fever
l and got a good position under Lincoln,
k but had he remained in St. Louis
f \ would have greatly preferred one on
our side. So said Mrs. Grant a few
years ago to a newspaper editor in St.
Augustine.
How many of this generation North
or South know or will believe that as
late as November. 1861. Nathaniel
Gordon, master of a New England
slave ship called the Erie, was convicted
in New York city -of carrying
on the slave trade. (See Appleton.)
Just think of it and wonder. In 1861
our .Northern brethren made war upon
, us because we enslaved the negroes
we had bought from them, but at the
same time they kept on bringing more
from Africa and begging us to buy
them. How many know that En|land,
our mother country, lever emaaciDated
her slaves until 1848. when
tjvelve millions were set free in the
Ba?$ Indies and one hundred millions
af dollars paid to their owners by act
of parliament? It is only within the
last half century that the importation
of slaves from Africa has generally
ceased, ftp to that time every civilize! j
country bought them and enslaved
tfrhom Wn?lUh etatpsmpn unrt rlorurv- <
fien said It was better to bring them '
away than to have them cont' tie in
their barbarism and canibalism. And 1
It was better. 1 believe it was God's
providence that they should be I
brought away and placed in slavery, ;
but the way it wag done was inhuman
and brutal. The horrors of the middle
passage, as the ocean voyage was
called, is the most awful narrative I
ever read and reminds me of Dante'6
"Inferno." About half the cargo survived
and the dead and dying were
tumbled into the sea. The owners said
we can afford to lose half and still
have- a thousand per cent profit. Rev. 1
John Newton, one of the sweetest i
poets who ever wrote a hymn, the author
of "Amazing grace, how sweet :
the sound, that saved a wretch like
me?" "Savior, Visit Thy Plantation,"
"Safely Through Another Week," and
many others, was for many years a
deck hand on a slave ship and saw ,ill
its horrors. He became converted, but
goon after became captain of a slaver
and for four years pursued it diligently
and mitigated its cruelty. Then
he quit and went to preaching and
says" in his autobiography that it
never occurred to him that there was
anything wrong cr immoral in the
slave trade where it was humanely
conducted. The Savior said: "Offenses
must n cds come, but woe unto
them by whom they come."
In Appletou's long an:l exhaustive
artie'e on slavery it is said that slavery
in some fern has existed ever
since human history began. And it
appears to banc- been under the sanction
of ProYWcttqe as>?nJiacl: a3 the
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days of Noah and Abraham. The latter
had a very gr at household and many
servants whom h^ had bough: with Lis
money. The word slave appears but
twice in the Pible. It is synonymous
with servant and bondsman. There
has born on time since the Christian
era that the dominant nations have
not owned slaves?sometimes the
ronh tt" was hard, hut as a general
run; the master found i. to ills interest
to ><? kin:1 to bin slaves. As Bo!:
Tccmh.s said ip. his Iioston speech.
"It ir. not to our interest to starve oni
slaves any more than ii is to starve
os'.r horses end home;! cattle." Shortly
aft-J- the little cargo that the Wanderer
brought were secretly scattered
around I saw some of them at work in
a large garden in Columbus. Ga., and
was told that they were docile and
juickly learned to dig and to hoe, but
that it was hard to teach them to eat
rooked meat. They wanted it raw and
bloody. They were miserable little
*unts, "Guinea negroes," with thick
lips and fiat noses, but they grew up
nto better shape and made good servants
and I know were far better off
:han in their native jungles, the prey
)f stronger tribes, and made food for
ranibals.
No, there was no sin In slavery as
nstitnted in the South by our fathjrs
and forefathers, and that it why
[ write this letter?perhaps the last
I shall ever write on this subject. 1
wish to impress it upon our boys ana
jirls so that they may be ready and
viliing to defend their Southern an estors
from the baseless charge of
suffering now for the sins of their
athers.
A Northern friend writes: "Do
ilease let up on the negro. We up here
ire tired of him. Give us more of
our pleasant pictures of domestic
ife. etc.. but let the negro go dead."
He does not know that the negro
ind what is to become "of him is a
luestion of tremendous moment wiih
is and it must be written about. But
will refrain as long as it is prudent,
fust now I would like to hire a man
o cuss the black rascal who came ino
my baek yard the other night and
itole mv grind stone. For Ave years
hare let every darkey grind his ax
vho wanted to. and now I can't grind
ny own. The fact is I have no ax to
;rind. for they stole that first.?Bill
trp, in Atlanta Constitution.
r New Mill at Huntsville.
Boston. Special?The Merrimac Manufacturing
Company was authorized by
vote of the stockholders at the annua!
meeting held here to Issue preferred
stock to the amount of $1,600,000
which increases the capitalization ol
the company to $4,400,000. The additional
stock authorized is needed foi
the construction of a new mill in
Huntsville, Ala., where the Merrima;
Company already operates a substantial
plant. It is the intention to build
a mill that will give employment tc
1,300 or 2,000 operatives.
Bloody Work of Crazy Man.
Hopkinsville, Ky., Special.?Lloyd
Nelson Young, a white planter, crazed
by drink, went to Pembroke and got
on a rampage Sunday night. After
being put off a train that he had flagged.
he secured an axe and brained
Rebecca MacRay, an aged negress
whom he met in the road. Leaving the
axe with the body, he sprang on Joseph
Landy, colored, aged 70, and cut his
throat, fatally wounding him. Afte,terrorizing
the citizens for two hours
he was overpowered by a mob of several
hundred negroes that had been
formed to lynch him.
Demand Federal Interference.
New York, Special.?David Wilcox,
vice president and counsel for the Deiaware
& Hudson Railroad, has sent to
President Roosevelt a letter demanding
that the Federal government proceed
against the miners' organization
in the courts, on the ground that it
is a conspiracy to prevent inter-State
>?- XTTil i*. U
commerce, .yr. ihua, n is ocuu wu
authority, represents all the coal opoizi~\s
in this action, and was select*
c' a.> their spokesman.
Thirty Bodies In Cold Storage.
Louisville, Special.?Thirty dead
bodies were found in a cold storage
plant in the rear of an ice cream factory
on Eighth street. The same pipes
which were used in congealing the
cream for table use were connected
with a small plant in a shed in the rear
where they kept the bodies cool. The
heads of the several colleges Interested
in the establishment asserted tonight
that the bodies were obtained legitimately
from the penitentiaries, insane
asylums and other institutions of
the State of Kentucky.
In a wreck which occurred on the
Cotton Belt at Sulphur Springs, Texas
Tuesday, an unidentified rfian was
caught under the wreckage and instantly
killed. The dead roan la said
to be one of the train crew. The damage
to the railroad property Is heary.
Sir Thomas LIpton's third challenge
for a series of races for the America's
cup was signed Tuesday afternoon at
Belfast, Ireland, by the officials of the
loyal Ulster Yacht Club.
Many letters containing small contributions
are being received by the
National McKinlcy Memorial Association.
A 40,000-Acre Farm.
The agriculturist who carefully cultivated
40 or 60 or SO acres and calls
it a farm is likely to look upon a
"quarter section"?the regulation
homestead of 160 acres?as a large estate;
an entire section (a mile square)
he would doubtless regard it as a tremendous
area, and a half dozen sections
would seem like a whole province.
What would such a man think
of a faon which 100 to 159 men a~e
employed; a farm whose farthest corner
is 17 miles from the farm house;
a farm that requires three bookkeepers
and stenographers to make a record
of its activity.
That is the scale on which M. M.
Sherman conducts his farm in central
Kansas. He has more than 40,000
acres. Evpry year he sells more than
2,500 fat beeves. If a man were to
start to ride around his farm on horseback,
following the fence line and
riding 50 miles a day, he would not
make the circuit in two/ days.
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I SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
Silk Culture and Manufacture
The Sericulture Manufacturing Co.,
has applied for incorporation at Atlanta,
Ga.. placing its capital stock at
12,500,000, with Messrs. Lewis B. Magid
of New York and W. R. Sweet of
Atlanta as incorporators. The company
will be organized to carry out the extensive
plans thai Mr. Magid has in
progress for silk culture and manufacturing
in the South. Mr. Magid has
been mentioned several time? in connection
with extensive plan3 of this
character, and several months ago purchased
2.500 acres of land at Taallulah
Falls. Ga.. and he has planted about
2.500 mulberry trees for feeding silkworms.
At the falls the company will
develop two water-powers to furnish
power for transmission by electricity.
This power will operate the machinery
for unwinding the silk cocoons. Mr.
Magtd's plans include the establishment
of colonies of Italian and French
farmers who are thoroughly versed in
the silk industry.
Another Mill at Anderson,
It is announced that another large
cotton factory will be built at Ander
j son, S. C. The company that will build
and operate it will be organized with
capital stock of $600,000, but it is probable
the stockholders will not meet
until Janilary to elect officers and determine
details. An equipment of 25.000
spindles and complement of looms
(about 750 will be installed, and a
high grade of cotton goods will be
manufacturer. R. S. Hill, president of
Farmers and Merchants' Bank, is the
promoter of the new enterprise, and
has announced positively that the plart
will be established.
Textile Notes.
Manufacturers' Record.
Brenham (Texas) Cotton Mills,
which contracted for its buildings and
textile machinery (5000) spindles and
160 looms) last month, will open bids
October 16 for furnishing and instilling
the required steam-power plant.
Bide are to he submitted at prices free
on board at Brenham. This steam
plant is to include a cross-compound
Corliss engine of 250 horse-power, with
flywheel to admit of Increasing 200
horse-power later; also two 250-horaepower
water-tube boilers to burn olas
fuel and arranged to be changed to
coal when desired, and feedwater heater.
wilh two Worthington boiler-feed
pumps.
Work progresses steadily on the
Washington Mills at Fries, Va., and
the company expects to have its 40.000
spindles and 1100 looms In operation
early In 1903. This extensive enterprise
was announced about a year ago,
and the power development ana erection
of buildings have since been in
progress. The company's dam on
New river is expected to develop about
6500 horse-power, but only about half
of this energy will be used at first. The
mill building is four stories high, 130x419
feet, constructed of brick. Capital
stock is $2,225,000.
The efTorts recently mentioned to establish
a cotton mill at Ringgold. Ga.
have proven successful, and charter
has been applied for. Company will be
known as Ringgold Mills, capitalized
at $100,000. half of which will be furnished
by local Investors. Water-power
will be used to operate the machinery.
W. H. Odcll will be president; W.
W. McClain, vice-president, and J. E.
Satterfleld, secretary. Walter N.
Brown of Monticello, Ark., will be architect,
builder and superintendent.
A $200,000 company will be chartered
and organized at Laurens, S. C., for
the purpose of building a mill for the.
ni-nHnMtnn nt fine cotton eoods. Lau
rens investors have subscribed $75,000,
and the remaining $123,000 will be
largely taken by New York capitalists.
W. E. Lucas, president of the Laurens
Cotton Mills, is at the head of this new
enterprise. All further details will be
announced later.
Victor Cotton Mills of Charlotte, N.
C., will resume operations October 9,
after an idleness of several months. In
making this decision the stockholders
also announce that the question of
changing from a spinning to a weaving
mill will remain open until the annual
meeting in January. The company
was recently noted as considering
suah a change.
Messrs. J. H. Parham, J. B. Mllligin,
w b Fothereill. J. A. Carter and O. K.
Wilson hare Incorporated Chattanooga
Cotton Felt Co., with capital stock of
$10,000.
Weatherford (Texas) Cotton Mills
has decided to install a knitting plant,
and thus be enabled to utilise Its production
of yarns. The company has
had Its cotton mill under construction
for some months, and the 8500 spindle*
are now being installed.
Oxford Knitting Mills of Barnesvine,
Osu, is preparing to increase the present
output of its plant for manufac
turing high-grade ribbed vests, etc. At
80-borse-power boiler, a 60-horse-power
engine, additional knitting machines
and finishing equipment will be
installed, and the company is in the
market for the equipment
James M. Catlett of Philadelphia,
Pa., does contemplate establishing a
knitting mill at Wilmington. N. C., as
was stated last week. He can be addressed
at G06 Arch street, Philadelphia.
A movement is on foot for organization
of cotton-mill company at Central,
S. C.. and it is said that D. K. Norriss,
president of Norriss Cotton Mills Co.
of Catecchee. S. C.. will be president.
Atlantic & Gulf Mills of Quitman,
Ga., has declared an annual dividend
of 6 per cent. This company operates
5000 spindles on the production of cotton
hosiery yarns, and is capitalized
at $100,000.
Columbia Metallic Roll Co. of Columbia,
S. C., has been incorporated,
with capital stock of $100,000, by Louis
!. Guion. J. W. Babcock, L. J. Wringley.
W. B. Smith- Whaley and August
Kohn. Com^atfy's purpose is to control
a valuable patent on cotton-mill
machinery, recently issued to Mr.
WOMEN'S TEMPERANCE UNION
A Good Meeting of Temperance People
Last Week.
Leesville, Special.?The convention
of the South Carolina Woman's Christian
Temperance Union met in it3 annual
session here last week. The evening
was devoted to welcoming the convention
and reception. A very large
audience gathered in Leesvilie college
chanel and was presided over by the
State president. Mrs. L. B. Haynes. A
large choir sang White Ribbon songs;
temperance mottoes and banners were
everywhere and everything was propitious.
Dr. A. C. Wilkins of the Baptist
church welcomed the convention in
behalf of the clergy of the town, Dr.
E. J. 12theredge in behalf of the town,
Prof. W. Aug. Shearly in behalf of the
college. Dr. D. M. Crosson in behalf of
the physicians and Miss Bertha Able
in behalf o fthe local union. Mrs.
John Rcbb of Brookland responded in
behalf of the convention. All of these
speeches were happy, pleasant and
profitable, but the chief feature of the
evening was the annual address of the
president. Mrs. Haynes surpassed herself.
It is no extravagance to say that
it was one of the happiest efforts of
its kind ever heard here. Absolutely
void of sentimentality, full of good
sense and reason, delivered with perfect
care and grace, the charm was irresistible.
The evenine- ended with a pleasant |
reception heartily enjoyed by everybody
present.
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock the
convention met :'.n its first business session.
Much routine business was
transacted. Mrs. M. E. Cartland, president
of the North Carolina W. C. T. U.,
will deliver an address before the convention.
The convention will be very busy for
several days.
Dead in Cotton Seed Pile.
Kingstree, Special?There has reached
here somewhat of a sensation created
at Greeleyville, a small town 10 or
12 miles from here, by the discovery of
a dead negro buried in cotton seed in
tho house on the farm of the Mallard
Lumber Company. The dead negro,
Luther McKnight, an employe of the
above company, was last seen Sunday
afternoon. An examination of the body
disclosed the fact that the skull had
been battered in, the eyes mutilated,
the neck broken, and the face badly
disfigured by the heat of the cotton
seed. The body was discovered by a
wagon driver who had gone to the
building to unload seed, and the facts
were thus disclosed. Acting Coroner
Windham empaneled a jury and held
an inquest. A post mortem examination
held by Dr. A. D. Eppe showed
that death resulted from the wounds
described above. The Jury rendered
a verdict in keeping with the testimony,
the perpetrator of the crime being
unknown to the jury. The negro
McKnight, was a quiet, peaceful work
man nnd the affair appears to be entirely
shrouded in mystery, no cause
being known for the murder.
A Bad Mix.
At the last session of the general assembly
a new pension act was passed,
as was an act providing for county
pension commissioners. An examination
of these acts in the comptroller's
office preparatory to getting out circulars
of information developed the fact
that a general mixture has occurred
which it will probably take amendatory
acts to cure before the pension
machinery can get in shape for work
this year. The pension act requires all
county pension boards to meet on the
third Monday in January of each year.
The pension commissioner act requires
that the county pension board at its
first meeting in January shall elect one
of its members to be county pension
commissioner ana that he shall be at
the auditor's office to make out and
properly arrange the applications every
Saturday during the month of January.
Three other meetings of the pension
boards are provided for. It can be
easily seen wherein is the tangle.
Another feature is if all the meetings
are held and the commissioners in
eatih county are to be paid as required
quite a snug amount will .be taken
from the pension fund. It is probable
that an act curing the defects in the
existing acts will be introduced on the
first day of the coming session and
rusnea tnrougn.
Florence's Federal Building.
Florence, Special.?Chairman Clayton
of tne citizens' association received
the following telegram Saturday:
"Washington, D. C.?City of Florence,
care W. F. Clayton, chairman;
Department letter addressed you 9th
inst. accepting Edwards site for federal
building hereby amended to accept
150 feet on Irby by 158 on Evans
street. Letter follows.
O. L. SPAULDING,
Big Order of Rolling Stock.
Baltimore, Special.?John Skelton
Williams, president of the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad, was in Baltimore
in conference with Vice President
Middendorf. Subsequently he left for
Richmond. He announced that the
Seaboard had just ordered the construction
of SOO freight cars to ac
commodate increasing business and
1,000 tons of steel rails, making a
total of 30,000 tons ordered since July.
In reference to the Louisville & Nashville
deal Mr. Williams said there was
nothing to add to his previous statement,
which was that the Seaboard
expected fair treatment and would
respond, if discriminated against.
Bled Profusely.
Mayesville, Special.?There was negro
cutting scrape last week on Mr. It.
A. Chandlers' farm near Mayesville. It
seems that a colored boy named Julius
Johnson had possession of a banjo and
Robert Moore wanted it, and one word
led to another until knives were drawn
and Moore cut Johnson's arm. severing
a large vein. He was . immediately
, brought to a doctor, but he lost several
quarts of blood which came very near
costing him his life. Next time he will
probably give the banjo a wide berth.
LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS.
Many Matters of Genera! Interest la
Short Paragraphs.
The Sunny South.
Trie merger of six Southern naval
stores companies was effected at
Jacksonville, Fin.
The National Council of the Boys'
Brigade decided to hold its ce\t meeting
at Baltimore.
A Mount Pleasant, Tex., dispatch
says: "The engine attached to a
Cotton Belt nassencer train jumped
the track nine miles west of this
place, turning over, and killing Engineer
Cicero King and Fireman L.
V/. Ashecroft. None of the passengers
were hurt,"
Roancke, Va? Special.?Monday
nigh tburglars broke into the postoffice
at Tazewell Court House, about midnight,
and blew open the safe with
dynamite. They secured $S00 in stamps
and $200 in cash. Besides these losses,
the office books of the postmaster were
blown over the office and almost destroyed,
Before breaking into the postoffice,
the party broke into a blacksmith
shop and secured the necessary
tools for doing the work on the safe.
Bloodhounds have been sent to the
scene. So far there is no clue to the
robbers.
At The National Capital.
The President has appointed to the
rank of brigadier-general Cols. Amos
S. Kimball, Chambers McKibbln and
Charles C. Hood, all of whom will b?
retired.
Veterans are already beginning to
arrive to attend the Grand Army Encampment
in Washington, which
opens Monday.
Washington, Special.?Alfred W.
Bew, said to be a well-todo resident
of Philadelphia, dropped dead in the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad ticket office
here Monday. Mrs. Bew was
across the street and saw her husband
fall, but he had expired before
he could reach him. He was 71 years
old. They reached the city from
Florida, where they had been visiting
their daughter.
It Is said that President Roosevelt
may suggest to the striking miners in
Pennsylvania that they return to work
under assurances that Congress will
make an investigation and enact legislation
for their relief in the future.
Ser.r^tflrv nf tha Twxkaiinr SVinur baa
issued a circular to national bankable
regard to the maintenance of reserve
against Government deposits secured
by United States bonds.
At The North.
Former Delegate Uthoff testified in
the case of Robert Snyder at St Louis
that he was offered $100,000 to pass a
traction bill.
Alderman William Dickinson, df
Brooklyn, is charged with bribery in
offering to vote for a bill in return for
for a favor to a constituent
Senator J. P. Dolliver, of Iowa, discussed
tariff revision and trusts at the
convention of the League of Republican
Clubs in Chicago.
Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews has declined
a profferede advance In his salary
as chancellor of the University of
Nebraska.
Twelve men were killed by an explosion
of firedamp in the Lawson
mine, Washington State.
A son was born to the Duchess of
Manchester, who was before her marriage
Miss Helena Zimmegman, of
Cincinnati. I
Governor Bliss has tendered to Gen.
Russell A. Alger the appointment of
Senator from Michigan, to successed
the late Senator McMillan.
Bishop H. C. Potter and Mrs. Alfred
Corning Clark were married at Coopertown,
New York.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, at San Fran
cisco, charged with the murder of Mrs,
Dunning and Mrs. Deane, hopes for acquittal,
because of the death of J. B.
Pennington, father of the victims.
From Across The Sea.
King Alfonso of Spain wants to visit
the United States.
Dr. John Byrne, a well-known American
gynecologist, died at Montreaux,
Switzerland.
A plot against Dowager Emprese
Marie Dagmar of Russia was discovered
at Copenhagen.
Premier Balfour announced that the
British -government education bill
would not be withdrawn.
The new Russian ordinances for
Finland were promulgated at Helsing>
fors.
president uastro naa retreated to
a strong position near Carcas and
awaits attack by the revolutionist.
The Bank of England raised the
rate of discount to 4 per cent. A
$25,000,000 Japanese loan is to be
floated in London.
Pietro Mascagni, the noted Italian
composer, arrived in New York to begin
a tour of the country.
Subscriptions for a monument to
Emile Zola were begun in Paris.
The official Gazette of Caracas publishes
a protest against the British occupation
of the Island of Patos.
King Edward ordered that special
courtesies be shown to Generals Corbin.
Young and Wood in London.
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union women have begun a crusade
against alleged harmful advertisements
on billboards and in magazines.
Sultan Abdul Hamid is paying high
honors to Grand Duke Nicholas of
Russia, in Constantinople.
Mtsref'snmus Matters.
Thomas F. Ryan states that Americans
wiH control two-thirds of the
international tobacco combine and
also get a share in the British trade.
Thomas J. Sharkey, who was arrested
on the charge of causing the death
of Nicholas Fish, the banker, in a barroom
brawl in New York on September
15, has been indicted for manslaughter
in the first degree.
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General T. J. Stewart, of Pennsylvania,
Elected Commander-in-Chief,
RECEPTION FOR VETERANS'WIVES
Mrt. Fnn,ef?lt Meld Conrt In Corcoran
Art Caller, ?Woman's Keller Corp*
?.t:>en<iei 442,0110 During the Year
Z"" ? Jledlcftl DIvUIom of tho Pension Ba*
reau Scored by Special Committee. *
Washington, D. C.?The new Commander-in-Chief
of the Grand Array
of flic Republic is General T. J. Stewart,
of Xorristown, Pa., 'who was a
leading candidate for the honor a year
a So.
His competitors at the election of
officers were General John C. Black,
of Illinois, former Commissioner of
Pensions, and Colonel John McEIroy,
of this city. The Dame of General
Daniel Sickles, of New York City, was
presented to the convention, but he
withdrew from the race.
The first ballot resulted in the election
of General Stewart who was nominated
by Thomas Sample of Pennsylvania,
the vote being as follows: Stewart.
4<?7; Black, 272; McEIroy. 83.
William M. Olin, of Massachusetts,
was elected vice commander-in-chief,
and James M. Averill, of Georgia, junior
vice commander-in-chief.
Aside from the election of these officers,
the most interesting feature of
the encampment was the report of the
Pension Committee of the G. A. B.
This committee severely scored the
medical division of the Pension Bureau,
declaring that it was a dead line;
where were executed the claims of
veterans seeking pensions. It accused
the persoonel of this division of approaching
representatives of examining
surgeons throughout the country with
suspicion and distrust, and aa
made in bad faith. It denounced the
reports that extensive frauds were
pracucea in pension Claims as aosolutely
baseless.
A resolution was adopted expressing
the grief of the convention over the
death of President McKinley and ft?
regret over President Roosevelt's Indisposition.
A collection of photographs of. most
of the past national officers of the order
was presented to the convention
by Delegate Beath, of Pennsylvania,
with the condition that they are to be
preserved in the Congressional LI- "
brary.
The twentieth annual convention of
the Women's Relief Corps, which tai
held at the Church of Our Father, was
one of the largest in the history of the
organization. Mrs. Calista N. Jones,
of Vermont, the national president,
presided, and was the recipient of several
historic gavels.
The order was shown to be In a
flourishing condition. Over $42,000
was expended during the year, leaving
a fund of over $11,000 on hand.
Mrs. Clara Barton, of the Natipnal
Red Cross, the only surviving honorary
member of the organization, wa?
escorted to the platform. Her feeble
health would not permit her to more
than murmur her thanks.
Amid classic setting, surrounded by
the masterpieces of Michael Angela
and Donatelli, standing between fluted
marble columns with ornate Corln
tninn capitals. Mrs. ttooseveit ana tne
ladies of the Cabinet received the ladies
of the Grand Army of the Republic
at the Corcoran Art Gallery. Tbq
reception lasted for two hours, from
4 to G o'clock, and was attended by
1000 of the G. A. R. ladies. The Marine
Band played at the reception to- .
day. and as the afternoon advanced
the place was brilliantly Illuminated
with electricity.
Prominent among the callers were
Mrs. John A. Logan, Miss Clara Barton
and Mrs. John C. Black.
DRIVEN INSANE BY OVERWORK.1 ' 'j
Foar Naval Officers Have Killed Themselves
Under Great 8traln.
Washington, D. C.?Overwork haa
been reported to the Navy Department
as responsible for the death, probably
the suicide, of Lieutenant Frederic R?
Holman, United States Navy, who
was lost overboard on August 13, 1902.
"On the morning of August 14." reported
the Board that made the investigation,
"careful Inquiries and &
close search of every part of the ship
was made and there is no possible reason
to doubt that be is dead; and circumstances
lead us to believe that bo
took his own life during a temporary
fit of insanity brought on by weakened
condition of the nervous system and
worry because of his physical inability
to perform his duty."
Lieutenant Holman Is the fourth officer
reported to the Navy Department
in the last two months as having committed
suicide.
tUSE OF X-RAYS BRINGS DEATH.
Surgeons Thought They Discovered Hissing
False Teeth in a Han's Throat.
Cleveland, Ohio.?Frank Buettner, a
well known contractor of this city, died
as the result of an operation performed
' to rpmovp a apt of falap tppth which it
was supposed he had swallowed while
asleep. An X-ray machine was used
on Bnettner, which, the surgeons declared.
showed the teeth to be in the
oesophagus. Just as the latter had
been opened its entire length a relative
of Buettner's rushed into the opr
eratiug room with the missing set of
teeth, which had been found In Buettner's
bed. It was learned that Buettner
was suffering from a severe case
of acute laryngitis. The pain in his
throat led him to believe he had swallowed
the teeth.
Sarmnla Guaranty Deficit, 1385,000.
Receiver George Keefer has filed In
the Kenton Circuit Court at Covington,
Ky., his report on the condition of
the Germania Guaranty -Company, showing
the face value of the assets
to be $205,374.63 and the liabilities
$590,980.63, leaving a deficit of $386.586.
Carncffie's Gift* Accepted.
Andrew Carnegie's gift of $75,000 :
to Belfast and $36,000 to Limerick. Irelaud.
for the establishment of^ libraries j
hire been accepted.