The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 09, 1903, Image 6

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jr1 Europe's Ban) By Frank A. Vande Italy a bank che< W tlcally no small tra< fl V n| them keep a bank a( I Dp to find that such a I of Paris Itself. I "w; pr BJ 1 France under the g S M Into one great room 200 desks enclosed I asked what these "These cages are for our city col' chant 'borrows from the Bank of Fra borrow a bank credit, and have his books of the bank. With us a me Actual money and takes it away. H He writes no checks. When the loai: In your banks, come in and pay hi that we send a collector to him. and currency. Two hundred men start c H tag to collect matured loans. Severa out 400 men, and on the first and t go out" These collectors were uniformed they have the matured notes and w collections are made from the bank I stood at the paying teller's des the Bank of France. As I halted tl Window at the moment presented a < counted out and handed over to hi] passed on. I asked if it were not uni xency, and was told that it was not. wndereloped is the banking system i miMin?"EVrvm t4Tho AtllPPirf ^CUCi?l |/UI/1IV? A AVUJ ***v Scribner's. J The Waste o By O. S. Marden. @0W the handicapped lege, and would giv a foundation "which many an embarrass* hood, that he may much more he coul< had cultivated his n a disadvantage. Hli is weak because he employ a literary 6 la grammar, errors in history and b forced to petty expedients to hide h w Oh, what a pity It is to see splen crity A man of magnificent parts, kdne as a leader, is pitiable when co: plod along m nopeiess oDseurity. The eager unrest of youth, that ct to rush to action, makes havoc with proverb will ring mockingly in memo [ .V 1 n i i . - "He that will : ' When he woul ' What are investments in bonds a with investment in an education, in the life and be n perpetual blessing t To rob one's self of the means o: can give has no compensation in me tty can compare with a rich mind. I1 0t enjoyment It enables one to b< under discouragements, trials and I mind an an empty heart. The Wearing jMMBoAX O'RELL said a se as plained to the public tl Msarily the one who fee before, but it is worth It is salutary to re long face. There is n( which mourning Is con ciety. Whether genuirn must be worn, the horn emor.onal the better, n \ cnce of children or working people get In their lives. And it is a lamen thing is more a matter of parade tha It seems heartless to say it, and < particular case in this way, but thei ward ceremonies of grief, not so mu< saet with a terrible bereavement, as occasion, and feel that people will th ttiveness unless they behave in the One finds these people saying, " aoornlng: '' .. "Well! I don't see how she bear can't have cared much for her hi feeling." It may be that the apparently ch Without outward sign a crushing we others may not be darkened by her The woman who does this for tl - , to service for which they will live to will think she does not care. Child these things.?Xew York New* Country Trai By President Eliot < MhAJMHEN a child grows i iug iu accurate obs R I I clover; it runs to se I ^ JT I the woodchuck to its M \jtw of the birds, and ku jfjf 1 aud 'hen the twillgl V. 1 In short, the country ^observation. It also manual labor. Fron to the care of animals, the successfi eral welfare of the family. In the cl ubstitutes for it have to be artificin into our schools nature-study and ie its eyes and its hands, and to dev< K? and these new beneficent agencies i the near future to go far beyond any ee how to replace In urban educat or the sea coast boy pets from his of nature. The Gotts Island boy. c father In the early winter morning ii traps and bring home the entrapped and a quiet sea. though the tempera ateer the boat five or six miles to sea spot which the lobsters love. The f watches the weather, and suddenly , coming. See the clouds driving thi just as well as the father what that ward to get home, facing a savage i dashing over the vessel and freezing the bow with ice. It means a life-a being. Shall we get Into harbor or n nlflcent training for a boy, and the adverse forces of nature, if cot so foi are strenuous teachers; but in mode jh Mows, or that *he flood is coming, o Mtt. hf. ting Methods. rlip. ,'k is looked upon with suspicion. Praclesman would take a check, and none of >count. It was still more surprising to me statement would be almost literally true is studying the mechanism of the Bank of uldance of one of the officers. We went in the old building In which there were in wire cages, all empty at the moment were for. lectors," I was told. "When a small mevnee, he does not. as with you in America, loan merely added to his balance on the reliant, when he makes a loan, gets the e probably has no bank account with us. i is due, he does not, as would be the case s indebtedness with a check; instead of that collector is repaid the loan in actual >ut from the Bank of France every morn* 1 days each month it is necessary to send he fifteenth of each month 000 collectors men carrying leather pouches in which hicli are later filled with currency as the 's borrowers. k as I went farther along in my tour of lere the man who happened to be at the check for 50,000 francs. The money was m, stored away in a big wallet, and be isual for a man to draw out so much curIt was but another illustration of how of Continental Europe in its uses by the in 'Commercial Invasion' of Europe," in f Youth. millionaire envies boys in school or cole half his wealth for the chance to lay i they are thinking of spurning! How ?d man in public life longs to relive boycorrect the mistakes of his youth! How 1 make of his life, of his position, if he lind when young! He does everything at ? grasp of documents, speecnes anu dooks does not know how to study. He must ecretary to save himself from blunders iography, or In political economy. lie Is Is Ignorance. did ability made to do the work of mcdifeeling that he is by nature intended to mpelled to do the work of an inferior and lafes at restraining school walls and longs countless careers. In after days the old ry: not when he may, d he shall have nay." nd stocks, in houses and lands, compared a broad, deep culture which will enrich o one's friends? f enjoyment which education and culture re money wealth. No material prospert is a perpetual wellspring of satisfaction, car up under misfortune, to be cheerful tribulations which overwhelm a shallow of Mourning. nsible thing not long ago, when he extat the ostentatious mourner is not neees'ls the most deeply. This has been said ? iimAA BOCUl iiiui'Oi member that there is no real merit in a )thing more heathenish than the way in ducted in certain cities of American soi sorrow is felt or not, quantities of crape ?e must be darkened, and grief, the more lust be displayed, regardless of the preswko need all the pleasantness they can itable fact that in some cases this sort of n anything else. one could not venture to comment on any e are people who go through all the out h because they really feel that they have because they like the importance of the ink that they are not showing proper sentraditional manner. tvhen others depart from the routine of s up under it. She seems so cheerful she tsband. But, then, some have so little eerful person is forcing herself to endure ight of sorrow, in order that the lives of continual tears and lamentations, le sake of her children is rendering them thank her. There is no danger that they Iren have their own ways of finding out ning For Boys. >f Harvard. jp in the country, it gets a natural trainlervation. It wants to find a four-leaf e where the green snake went to; tracks i hole nnd pot* ir out: it learns the sonars iows when the smelts run up the brooks lit is just right for finding the partridges. r child gets naturally a broad training in has on the farm an admirable training in i an early age it can actually contribute il conduct of the household, and the? geuty all this natural training is lacking, and lly provided. This necessity has brought lauual training, to teach the child to use dop its senses and its muscular powers; 11 education, already well in play, are in stage at present reached. V.'e do not yet ion the training which the farmer's hoy habitual contest with the adverse forces hi the coast of Maine, goes out with his 1 a half-open sailboat to visit their lobster lobsters. They start with a gentle breeze ture is low. The boy knows just bow to , where the traps are sunk on some rocky athcr is busy pulling the traps. The boy he says, "Father, thc-re Is a northwester is way over the hills." The boy knows means. It means a fearful beat to wind* *pray and a falling temperture, the spray to the sails and ropes and loading down nd-death struggle for hours, the question ot before we sink? Now, that is a inagsheltered ciry oilers nftthiug like it. The niidable that men cannot cope with tlic-m, rn cities we hardly know that the wind r that bitter cold is imperiling all animal AN AWFUL HORROR Many Killed By Explosion ol Deadly Fire Damp AWFUL SCENES OF SAD DISTRESS Hundreds Killed Without Warning - ? . - _ _ and Work of Rescue was a *ci> Difficult Matter. Hanna, Wyo., Special.?Hanna was the scene of a terrible disaster at 10:30 a. m., when an explosion of fire damp in^mine No. 1, of the Union Pacific Co,pl Company snuffed out the lives of 234 men. injured scores of others and caused the destruction of a vast amount of property. The mine was not fired, as was stated in the earlier reports, but the explosion was terrific and completely shattered the timber of the main shaft and numerous entrances, filling the working with debris, and those of the miners that were not killed outright by the explosion were buried alive. The explosion was heard for many miles around ' and attracted people from the adjoining settlements. Huge timbers and railroad iron were hurled 300 feet from the mouth of the shaft. Superintendent E. S. Brooks and a large force of men began the work of removing the debris from the shaft that they might reach the entombed I Thoir nroeress into the mine Uiiuv* a w. was blocked by the foul gases and several times they were forced to return to the surface. All day the rescuing party worked, the force being increased from time to time by the arrival of ranchmen and others from nearby settlements and by those of a relief train sent out from Rawlins, which reached .here at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. About 1 o'clock p. m. four men were taken out alive and a half hour later they were followed by 42 others. Many were unconscious and had to be carried from the worftings. Several are in a serious condition,'but it is believed all will recover. Two hundred and eighty-two men went down in the mine at 7 o'clock Tuesday morning and up to a late hour only 48 have been accounted for. Of this number two are dead. It was some time after the explosion occurred that the flist man was brought to the surface. He was followed by others until 1 o'clock, when the last of the 48 was brought out. The rescuers were unable to penetrate further into the mine as it was necessary to make another opening to permit fresh air to reach the lower levels. Horses and scrapers were put at vork hauling debris away from the Bhaft. The work is progressing slowly, owing to the narrow space in which the rescuers are compelled to operate, but by daylight the mine should be open sufficiegtly to permit I of deep explorations and the rescue of the dead bodies, uaie ai ui^m a v*i >.j of rescuers reached four mules that were alive and this caused renewed hope. It is a faint hope, however, for experienced mine bosses and miners say that when the imprisoned men are reached all will be found dead. Some of the miners who escaped said they saw 20 dead bodies in entry No. 17. They reported that many of the men were crazed by the explosion and ran hither and thither in the mine. Many of these could have escaped, but they lay down, buried their faces in their hands and gave up the fight. Of the 234 dead about 175 were married and leave large families. About 100 were Finlanders, 50 were colored and the rest were Americans. The Hanna mines are among the best on the Union Pacific system, being established in 1878. The town was named for Senator Mark Hanna when he was a member of the Union Pacific Coal Company. Mine No. 1 is practically a new property. It has 28 entries. 15 miles of workings and a main incline shaft of one and onehalf miles in length. The mine has been recognized as dangerous property for some time on account of the large amount of gas, but the system of ventilation has been so good that an accident was not anticipated. Allowed Rail. Montgomery. Ala., Special ? By an agreement of the counsel for the State and defendant in the case of the United States Deputy Marshal Byron Trammell, charged with the killing of C. E. Taylor, a former deputy, marshal, the defendant was allowed bail in the sum of $7,000. Fatal Collision. Knoxville, Special.?In a collision between two trains on the Virginia & Southwestern road. Fireman L. H. Kain, of Bristol, was instantly killed and Engineer R. C. Clowry, of Bristol, fatally injured. The engineer and fireman of the eastbound truin jumped. Decides for Railroads. Jackson. Miss., Special.?Judge Niles in the Federal Court here ruled against the injunction of the lumbermen of Mississippi, praying that the railroads be prevented from adding a rate of two cents p*r 100 pounds to the ent rates. News in Notes. One hundred and one additional towns in Russia were opened to residence by Jews. A fully equipped metallurgical institute for teaching and research was proposed at a meeting in London as a memorial to Sir William Bessemer, the inventor, to which Carnegie has promised to contribute. Rear Admiral Evans, commanding the Asiatic station, has asked for 500 more marines, and it is inferred he looks for trouble in Manchuria. \ 4 THE B'MAI B'KITfl PETITION Official Statement Given Out From Washington. "Washington, Special.?The State Depatment has authorized the following statement: "At the State Department it was 6tated by a high official in the absence of Secretary Hay that the delay in forwarding the petition of the American citizens of the Jewish faith as to the ill-treament of their co-religionists In Russia was due solely to the delay in furnishing the address to the State Department by the petitioners. The State Department would, of course, pay no iitrcu Li-r auj ciaiciiicut |juq;ui luif, iw i emanate from the Rusian government' unless such statements were made officially, in ?ome form or other, to our own government. The State Department has been scrupulously careful to act only in accordance with all the requirements of official propriety, but j within the limits thus laid down it will 1 most cei-tcinly not hesitate to give ex1 prcssion to the deep sympathy felt not oniy by the administration, but by all the American people, for the unfortunate Jews who have been the vicitims in the recent appalling massacres and outrages. In this connection, It was pointed out by another official who reclaimed any purpose to speak in his official capacity, however, that it seemed somewhat strange, to say the least, that the Russian government should choose this parcitcular method of making a statement to the American people at the very time .when by methods which are certainly the reverse of friendly to the United States, it has sought to make China join in breaking the plighted faith of all the powers as to the open door In Manchuria, and has endeavored to bar our people from access to the Manchurian trade." The above statement was shown to Count Casslnl, the Russian ambassador, but he dealined to make any comment on it. Any reply to this statement must be made under direct instructions from St. Petersburg. It is realized, both at the State Department and the Russian embassy, that the situation Is extremely delicate. Lynching; at Norway S. C. Columbia, Special.?There was a lynching in Norway Tuesday night, and Charlie Evans, a negro, who* was UU-iU gtru WILU uiLeiupwiug LU aooaooiuaa Mr. Phillips and daughter on Sunday night, was hanged and his body riddled with bullets. He and three other negroes had been arrested and placed In the town guard house and a guard stationed around it. The men were overpowered by a mob, said to have been composed of "unknown parties," and the three were taken into the woods near the town. Pink Hartwell. TJ. S. Johnston and John Felder, who had been arrested with Evans, were released, it being shown that they had nothing to do with the crime. Evans was strung up and afterwards shot Mr. Phillips was shot while sitting down to supper, but he was not dead. Shots from the gun entered his shoulder and his lung, and ^ne penetrated his brain, and it is said that there is absolutely no hope for him. His daughter also received a wound in the head, but it was not fatal. Evans was a most desperate negro and the peqple were more infuriated than they would otherwise have been on account of hl3 previous desperate criminal acts. GOVERNOR HEYWARD TAKES AC TION. The one at Norway was the first lynching in Governor Heyward's administration and he very promptly wired Sheriff Dukes and Coroner Rlckenbacker. of Orangeburg county, to take all steps to get at the identity of the lynchers and bring them to prosecution. He also wired the sheriff and the magistrate at Norway to take all precautions to protect the lives of any ether negroes under arrest and to send them under armed guard to Orangeburg jail. News Items. The $75,000,000 of new Pennsylvania Railroad stock was entirely taken by the company's shareholders. Ex-Judge Cyrus L. Pershing, who sentenced to death a number of the Mollie Maguire gang in Pennsylvania, died at PotJtsville. Rev. Dr. Thomas A. Hoyt, an aged Presbyterian pastor, died in Phila delphia. A jury was secured at Hamilton, Ohio, for the trial of Alfred A. Knapp, the alleged multi-murderer. The trial of Mrs. Annie Phares, charged with poisoning her husband, was Degr.n at Mount Holly, N. J. Col. Robert A. Amman, convicted of receiving stolen money rrom the r-,oT,v-iin <3vnr!irat#? swindle, was sen tenced in New York to four years in Sing Sing prison. Charles A. Gardner, of the New York bar, in a speech before the convocation cf the University of the State of New York, at Albany, declared that education by the nation was the only solution of the negro Question. A large number of Christian Scientists went on a pilgrimage to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy's home at Concord, N. H. Workmen engaged in building operations at Charleston, S. C., went on strike for recognition of the union. It was reported that Senator Allison would-draft the tariff plank of the Iowa Republican platform to be adopted at the convention this week. American boats' crew3 won several ' races at Kiel and were cheered by their German competitors. MADE A GOOD TALK I Booker Washington Says Lynching is Not Sectional SPEECH BEFORE NEGRO EDITORS Noted Negro Educator Addresses An Immense Audience and Counsels His People to Patience. Loufsville, Special.?Before an immense audience Booker T. Washington, head of the Tuskecgee Institute, Thursday night delivered an address. He said that recent regrettable events in connection with the race question went to show that lynch law is not confined to any one section of the country. Those events, he said, lead to sympathy with the race problem by making it national. He appealed to the negro to be calm and exercise self-control. Among the other speakers was W. H. Lewi3, assistant district attorney of Massachusetts, who was appointed several months ago by President Roosevelt. Principal Washington said in part: "In the present season of anxiety and almost of despair which possesses an element of the race there are two things I wish to say as strongly as I may: "First, let no man of the race become discouraged or hopeless. There are in this country, North and South, men who mean to see that justice is A- J * ' IIIL'lfd UUl iu LUC la^C. OULU a. uiau is Judge Jones, of Alabama, to whom more credit should be given for blotting out the infamous system of peonage than to any other man. "Second, let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution. "No one should seek to close his eyes to the fact that 12x9 race is passing through a very serious and trying period of its development, a period that calls for the use of our ripest thought and sober judgment. "Let nothing lead us into extremes of utterance or action. It is in the long run the race or the individual that exercises the most patience, forbearance and self-control in the midst of trying conditions that wins its cause. Let nothing induce us to descend to the level of the mob. In advocating this policy I am not asking that the negro act the coward; we a're not cowards. The part we have played In defending the flag of our country is sufficient evidence of our courage. "The outbreak of the mob emphasizes two lessons, one for our race and one for the other citizens of our country, South and North; for it is to be noted that the work of the lyncher is not confined to one section of the country. The lesson for us is that we should see to it that so far as 4L- : ? a M..i tut; iuauciiv.f v^i paicui, oiuwi ui J>UIpit is concerned, no effort be spared to .impress on our own people that idleness and crime should cease. We should let the world know ?on all proper occasions that we consider no legal punishment too severe for the wretch of any race who attempts to outrage a woman. "The lesson for the other portion of the nation to learn is that both in the making and in the execution the same laws should be made to apply to the negro as the white man. "There should be meted out equal justice to the black man and the white man. Whenever the nation forgets. or is tempted to forget, Its basic principle, the whole fabric of government for both the white man and the black man is threatened with destruction. This is true whether it relates to conditions in Texas, Indiana or Delaware. It is with a nation as with an individual; whatever we? sow, that uhnll wcs olcn ranr\ It nrn cnnr r-rlmn we sball reap lawlessness." Traffic Manager Resigns. New Orleans. Special.?S. F. B. "orse. assistant passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Railroad, with headquarters at Houston, Texas, has tendered his resignation to the committee, effective soon. He has made important financial connections In the east. Mr. Morse left the Big Four at Buffalo in 1S94 to associate himself with the Huntington lines. Arrcigned For Trial. Washington. Special.?August W. Marhen azainst whom thieo InrlW. rcents have been found for accepting a bribe in connection with government contracts for letter box fasteners, was arraigned before Justice Pritchard in Criminal Court No. 1. He waived the formal reading of the indictment, pleaded not guilty and was given until July 20 to file a demurrer, should he wish to do so. The Groff Brothers, who were indicted with Machen, appeared in court and pleaded guilty. It was announced that Machen and the Greffs would be tried at the fall term of the court, their cases being taken up in the regular order. The fall terip begins in October and continues several months. Lieut McClaln Arrested. Washington, Special?General Corbin has received a telegram from General Bates, commanding the Department of the Lakes, saying that Lieut. William F. McCure had been placed under arrest and sent to Fort Sheridan. His investigation of the case thus far tends to confirm the charges of bigamy made against McCure, but he also says there are indications that McCure is not sane. The dispatch has been sent to General ChafTee for action. I POPE LEO IS DYING f Head of Catholic Church Nearing His Final Reward LAST SACRAMENT ADMINISTERED His HolinessRalliesSlightiy at Times, and His Physicians Say He May Live For Some Time. Rome, By Cable.?"God's will beclone. Would you have believed it. when only ten days ago I was presiding over a public consistory?" murmered feebly Pope Leo, as he felt himself late Sunday evening sinking into a sleep which lasted about three hours, until excruciating pain brought the dying Pontiff back to consciousucs3. He groined and complained of pains on both sides of the throax. Tenderly Dr. Lapponl, assisted by Pope Leo's valet, Pio Centra, and the physician's second. De Castro, lifted the frail form and, changing the position, succeeded in giving the patient some relief. Though hovering on. the brick of death, the life of the Pontiff is still prolonged by means of strong stimulants and concentrated nourishment, and while he is still alive, his wonderful vitality many again resist and conquer the attack of this illness-Later in the evening, after the excitement of the ceremony of the la4? Sacrament was over, the Pope seemed less restless, partly soother by the religous service and partly by a. dose of chloral which was given to him in considerable quantity. The Pontiff is lyings on a small bed drawn up to a window uv ci luuiviiig iuc ui oi. o. The only picture In the room is an antique Madonna, and the sole ornament a great Ivory crucifix. The Interior of the Vatican during the early hours of the morning testifies to the convlcation that the passing of Pope Leo is very near. The court yard of St. Damaso is filled with the carriages of the cardinals. Cardinal Satolli drove to Rome from Frascati, the beautiful carriage horses covered with dust and perspiration. In the cortile are drawn up* the carriages of the cardinals and of many notables. Servants and messengers hurry across the court with bundles of huge wax tapers and with the robes of the ecclesiastical dignitaries who are waiting within the palace. The ante chambeds of the palace were all through the nigbt thronged with the princes of the Church, high noblemen and members of the diplomatic corps. Telegrams of inquiry have been received from several of the monarchs; of Europe/ All kinds of speculation are already in circulation as to the probable successor to the throne of St. Peter. Opinions are much divided owing to the many interests which will be affected according to the choice made by the Sacred College. The first questions the cardinals will have to solve will be wnetner tne conclave snan t>e neia ;n Rome or outside of Italy. It is believed that the supporters of the idea of aban- ' doning Rome will be even fewer than in the conclave held after the death of Pius IX, when 32 out of 37 oardinals voted in favor of Rome. The second question will bo whether the next Pope must be an Italian or a foreigner. It is generally believed that he will be an Italian, because in view of the struggle between the Church and the State since the fall of the temporal power and the constitution of united Italy, all the clergy, as well as the clerical party and even foreigners think that an Italian Pope can protect better than a stranger the advance of the religious and political interests of the Church. The candidates chiefly spoken of are Cardinal Rampolla and Cardinal Seraflno Vannutelli. They are both representatives of the conservative policy, but are bitter antagonists or eaen otner. t;arainai nampoua is a very warm Francophile, while Cardinal Vannutelli is averse to the policy inaugurated by the present pontifical Secretary of State of assuming the power to which he has adhered for fifteen years. The most probable libera? candidates are Cardinal Bichop Agliardi and Cardinal Priest Satolll, whisebreadth of views and love of modern ideas have been strengthened during his stay in America. The most probable religious candidates are Cardina? Prest Cotti, who would carefully avoid mixing up in politics and Cardinal Priest Angelo Di Pietro. who also has the very desirable requisite old age, being 75 years old. Will Be Sentenced. Key West, Fla., Special.?Fred Ewart was convicted of murder in thefirst degree and will be sentenced tohang. Ewart was tried for the murder of Frank Whitaber. He made a full confession of the crime, claiming that he had invited Whitaker to go on board the New Venice to get some clams; that while there Whitaker cursed him, and that while enraged he- _ (Ewart) picked up an axe and struck * Whitaker with it. He did not remember striking him more than once, but admitted that he might have done so. ' Stabbed His Wife. Atlantic City, Special.?Thomas DePaul. of New York, came here and, finding his wife registered at a lodging house with another man, drew a large penknife and stabbed her in the neck. She is in the hospital in a dying condition. DePaul was arrested and held pending the result of her injuries. The wife alleges that she had to leave him because of abuse. He came here and insisted on her returning to NewYork with himJ ? * >3