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?CIAL PAN/ Roosevelt Presents Case Fully to Cong-ess. REASONS ARE GIVEN FOR ACTION The President Shows Why the Independence of Panama Was Rccog ' nized?The Matter Fully Discussed. m ?-? I^Washington. Special.?The President sent the following message to Congress at 12:30 Monday on the Panama Treaty: To the Senate and House of Representatives: I lay before the Congress for Its information a statement of my action ^ion up to this time in executing the let entitled "An act to provide for the icenstruction of a canal connecting he j Mpaters of the Atlantic and Pacific J oceans." approved June 28, 1902. [ By the said act the President was authorized to secure for the United States the property of the Panama Canal Company and the perpetual entrol of a strip 6 miles wide across ^ Uhmus of Panama. It was further "should the President bo for the United States | KQHD|Mfewtip to the property of Canal ^^^control of the necessary territory i ^Hthe republic of Colombia * * with | SHh. reasonable time and upon reason- ] SHe terms, then the President should npdeavor to provide for a^canal by the l^icaragua route."The language quoted o n nrooi cirm utraiitrs tvnu ca?\ uivoc ?i?v* .what was to bo donr-, and what as a matter of fact hgA been done. The j President was autnorized to so to the j Jaragua route,only if within a reaable time hr could not obtain "con- J of the necessary territory of the public of Colombia." This control ] now been obtained; the provis'on of the act has been complied with; it; is no longer possible under existing j legislation to go to the Nicaragua route as an alternative. This act marked the climax of the effort on the part of the United States to secure, so far as legislation was concerned, an interoceanie canal I across the Isthmus. The effoit to soli cure a treaty for this purpose with one of the Central American republics did not stand on the same footing with the effort to secure a treaty under any ordinary conditions. The proper position for the United States to assume in re-; ference to this canal, and therefore to the governments of the Isthmus, had J>een clearly set forth by Secretary Cass in 1SDS. In my Annual Message : I have already quoted what Secretary Cass said; but I repeat the quotation here, because the principle it states is fundamental:While the rights of sovereignty of the states occupying this region (Central America) should always be respected. we shall expect that these rights be exercised in a spirit befitting the occasion and the wants and circumstances that have arisen. Sovereignty has its duties as well as its rights, and none of these local governments, even if administered with more regard to the just demands of other nations than they have been, would be permitted, in a spirit of Eastern isolation, to close tbe gates or intercourse on the reat highways of the world, and justify the act by the pretension hat these avenues of trade and travel belong to them and that they choose to shut them, or, what is alequivalent, to encumber them such unjust relations as would pr^ent their general use." The principle thus enunciated by Secretary Cass was sound then and is sound now. The United States has taken the position that no other Government is to build the canal. In 1889 when France proposed to come to the aid of the French Panama Company by guaranteeing their bonds, the Senate of the United States in executive session, with only some three votes dissenting, passed a resolution as follows: That the Government of the United - States will look with serious concern and disapproval upon any connection "e l^.^/xrv/vn? wnvftrnmnnf tL'ith thA VI au.y j^uiuycau guigiumvuv -i-vu construction or control of any ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien or across Central America, and must regard any such connection or control as * Injurious to the just rights and inerests of the United States and as a menace to their welfare. Under the Hay-Pauncefote treaty It was explicitly provided that the United States should control, police and protect the canal which was to be fcuilt, keeping it open for the vessels 4of all nations on equal terms. The United States thus assumed the position of guarantor of the canal and of ts peaceful use by all the world. The guaranty included as a matter of course the building of the eanai. The enterprise was reccgni-.ed as responding to an international need; it would be the veriest travesty Kn right aud justice to treat the gov^ ^ nAt'OAeclAn rvf *ViCk let limn <5 !tlilltrma in v/i having the right, in the language Mr. Cass, "to close the gates of inrcourse on the great highways of the >rld, and justify the act by the preasion that these avenues of trade d travel beong to them and that ey choose to shut them." When this Government submitted to ilombia the Hay-Harran treaty three logs were, therefore, already settled. One was that the canal shold be ie for de by ermitsocial >ment passhad ... the : "only ilized inded lay in that it unwas purrit of I i * i IMA MESSAGE . -? ? * AV# fffinArnoUi J JUBlitC UUL III a opii it v/i voiv, with the people through whose lane we might build it.The Hay-Herrai treaty, if it erred at all, erred in th< direction of an over-generosity to wards the Colombian government. Ii our anxiety to be fair we had gone t< the very verge in yielding to a weal I nation's demand'; what the nation wa< helplessly unable to enforce from u.? i against our will. The only eriticisn 1 made upon the administration for thi terms cf the Hay-Herran treaty wen for having granted too much to Colom bia. not for failure to grant enough I Neither in the Congress nor in th< I public press, at the time that this ; treaty was formulated, were here com plaints that It did not in the fullesi and amplest manner guarantee to Co lombia everything that she could bj I any color,of title demand. ,Nor is the fact to be lost sight 01 ! that the rejected treaty, while gener ! ouslv responding to the pecuniary de mands of Colombia, in other respects merely provided for the constructior of the canal in conformity with the ex pressed requirements of the act oi | Congress of June 28, 1902. By th?.t act as heretofore quoted, the Presideni was authorized to acquire from Co lombia. for the purposes of the cana "perpetual control" of a certain strij of land and it was expressly required that the "control" thus to be obtained shoul include "jurisdiction" to xcak( police and sanitary regulatins and tc establish such judicial tribunals ai might be agrec-d upon their enforce ment. These were condtions preae dent prescribed by the Congress; and for their fulfillment suitable stipula tions were embodied in the treaty. II has been stated in public prints that Colombia objected to these stipula tions, on the ground that they involved a reliquishment of her "sovereign ty;" but in the light of what has taken place, this alleged objection must bo considered as an after thought. In reality, the treaty, in stead of requiring a cession of Colom bia's sovereignty over he canal strip expressly acknowledged, confirmed and preserved her sovereignty ove: it. The treaty "in this respect simply proceeded on the lines on which all the negotiations leadlngup tothe pres ent situation have been conducted. Ie those negotiations the exercise by tht United States, subject to the para mount rights cf the local sovereign of a substantial control over the canal and the immediately adjacent territo rv, has been treated as a fundament al part cf any arrangeir.cn that mighi be made. It has formed an essential feature for ail our plans, and its ne cessity Is fully recognized in the Hay Pauncefote treaty. The Congress, ir providing that such control should be secured, adopted no new principle 1 4. in if l/vr!oio UUl umy IIICU1 iA/l r.icu ju IV ict,igi? tion, the importance and proprietj of which were universally recognized During all the years of negotiatior and discussion that preceded the con | elusion of the Hay-Herran - treaty Colombia never intimated that the re quiremcnt by the United States o: control over the canal strip wouu render unattainable the constructior of a canal by way of the Isthmus o: Panama: nor were advised, during the months when legislation of 1901 . was pending before the Congress, thai the terms which it embodied woulc render negotiations with Colombi: impracticable. It is plain hat no na tion could construct and guarantee the neutrality cf the canal with a less degree of control than was stipulate* for in the Hay-Hcrran treaty. A re fusal to grant such degree of contro was necessarily a refusal to make an: practical treaty at all. Such refusa therefore squarely raised the questioi whethej Colombia was entitled to ba: , the transit of the world's traffi< across the Isthmus. That the canal itself was eagerly de nianded by the people of the localitj through which it was to pass, and thai the people of this locality no less ea i gerly longed for its construction undei I * ? x 1 -? 1 xU, I American control, are suowu uy iu? | unanimity of action in the new Pana me Republic. Furthermore, Colombia I after having rejected the treaty ir j spite of our protests and warning! i wheu it was in her power to accept it j has since shown the utmost eagernesi : to accept the same treaty if only th< I status quo could be restored. One of th< men standing highest in the officia circles of Colombia, on November 6 addressed the American minister ai I Bogota, saying that if the Governmem i of the United States would land troop; j to preserve Colombian sovereignty an< | the transit, the Colombian Governmen would "declare martial law; and, bj j virtue of vested constitutional authorr > ie /llotnrKorl i V , W UCIi puuiit Ul UC1 id uioiui uvu (would) approve by decree the ratifl cation of the canal treaty es signed j or. if the Government of the Vnitei ; States prefers, (would) call extra ses | slon of the Congress?with new ant ; friendly members? next May to ap i prove the treaty." Having these fact: 1 in view, there is no shadow of qucs | tion that the Government of the Unite.' j States proposed a treaty which was no I merely just, but generous to Colombia I which our people regarded as erring | if at all. cn Hie side of overgencroaity ! which was hailed with delight by th< | people of the immediate localit: . e.nnioh ivV>ii-h tIip opnnl was to nass , ...... _ . j who were most concerned as to th< 1 new order of tilings, and which th< Colombian authorities now rcrogniz< os being so rood that they are willln; to promise its unconditional ratifies tion if only we will desert those wh< have shown themselves our friends am restore to those who have shown them selv3 unfriendly the power to undi what tlicy did. I pass by the questioi as to what assurance we have tha they would now keep their pledge an< not again refuse to ratify the treaty i they had the power; for, of course, will not for one moment discuss tin possibility of the United States com mltting an act of such baseness as ti abandon the new Republic of Panama Third. Finally the Congress definite ly settled where the canal was to bi built. It was provided that a treat; should be made for building the cana across the Isthmus of Panama; and il after reasonable time ,it proved impos sible to secure such treaty, that thei we should go to Nicaragua. The treat; has been made; for it needs no argu V. ment to show that, the intent of the Congress was to insure a canal across Panama, and that whether the republic i granting the title was called New Granada. Colombia, or Panama mattered not one whit. As ev?ts turned . out, the question of "reasonable time" 1 did not enter into the matter at all. Although, as the months went by. it became increasingly improbable that 5 the Colombian Congress would ratify * the treaty or take steps which would 1 be equivalent thereto, yet all chances 5 for such action on their part did not c vanish until the Congress closed at 2 I ^ o ry f\ within t h " | tut; t'uu ui uiiuuti , (tau ?ivu4U v... 5 days thereafter the revolution in Pan1 ania had broken out. Panama became 3 an independent state, and the control - of the territory necessary for building the canal then became obtainable. The . condition under which alone we could i have gone to Nicaragua thereby bes came impossible of fulfillm'ent. If the - pending treaty with Panama should t not be ratified bv the Senate this would - not alter the fact that we could not go r to Nicaragua. The Congress has decided the route, and there is no alterf native under existing legislation. When in August it began to appear . probable that the Colombian Legisla? ture would not ratify the treaty it bel came incumbent upon me to consider . well what the situation was and to be f ready to advise the Congress as to what were the various alternatives of t' action open to us. There were several possibilities. One was that Colombia j would at the last moment see the unwisdom of her position. That there ! might be nothing omitted, Secretary [ i Hay, through the minister at Bogota, ! reDeatedly warned Colombia that grave J consequences might follow from her | rejection of the treaty. Although it was ' a constantly diminishing chance, yet the possibility of ratification did not " wholly pass away until the close of the 1 I session of the Colombian Congress. A second alternative was that by the 1 c-lose of the session on the last day of October, without the ratification of the " treaty by Colombia end without any " steps taken by Panama, the American i Congress on assembling early in No> j vember would be confronted with a i I situation in which there had been a failure to come to terms as to building the canal along the Panama route, and yet there had not been a lapse of a , reasonable time?using the word rea, 1 sonable in any proper sense such as ' would justify the Adiminstration going r i to the Nlearauga route. This situation I seemed on the whole the most likely, . i and as a matter of fact I had made l the original draft of my Message to . j the Congress with a view to its ex; istence. ? ?*** I In view of all these facts l directed | the Navy Department to issue instruc j tiens such as would insure our havi j ing ships within easy reach of the Is?? -4-1- - non;l f*ric;i'n?_ mmus in ine I'vcm ui v.. Orders were given on October l'J to the Boston to proceed to San Juan dci Sur, Nicaragua; to the Dixie to prepare to sail from League Island; ' and to the Atlanta to proceed to ' Guantanamo. On October 30 the 1 Nashville was ordered to proceed to j Colon. On NoveaiDer 2 when, the Colombian Congress having adjourn! ed. it was evident that the outbreak j was imminent, and when it was ani nounced that both sides were making j ready forces whose meeting would i mean bloodshed and disorder, the Colombian troops having been embarked on vessels, the following instructions were sent to the commanders of the Boston, Nashville and Dixie: ? * In the third place, I confidently maintain that the recognition of the Republic of Panama was an act justified by the interests of collective civilization. If ever a government could be I said to have received a mandate irom ? civilization to effect an object the ac1 ccinplishment of which was demanded f in the interest of mankind, tho United j States holds that position with respect j to the interoceanic canal. Since our purpose to build the canal was definite. ly announced, there have come from " j all quarters assurances of approval and I encouragement, in which even Colom i bia herself at one time participated, ' i and to general assurances were added t specific acts and declarations. In or der that no obstacle might stand in r our way, Great Britain renounced im; portant rights under the Clayton-Bui wer treaty, and agreed to 11s auiusa. tion, receiving in return nothing but 1 our honorable pledge to build the ca5 nal and protect it as an open highway. - It was in view of this pledge, and of 3 the proposed enactment by the Coni gress of the United States of legisla3 tion to give it immediate effect, that 1 the second Pan-American Congress, at ' the City of Mexico, on January 22, t j 1902, adopted the following resolution: 3 J "The republics assembled at the In? j ternaticnal Conference o? Mexico api i plaud the purpose of the United States , government to construct an interoce. 1 anic canal, and acnowledge that this work will rot only be worthy of the i greatness ol the American people, but : ; also in the highest sense a work of civj ilization, and to the greatest degree . beneficial to the development of oom1 merce between the American States . and the other countries of the world." j . I ' "lift cip-nprl this reso ; Amuij^ lll^ac nuv " j hit ion on behalf of their respective I ; governments was General Reyes, the 1 delegate cf Colombia. Little could it ; | have been seen that two years later the ; j Colombian government, led astray by [ ! false allurements of selSsh advantage, ; ! and forgetful alike of its international |f : obligations and of the duties and re ! sponsibilitie3 of .sovereignty, would : thwart the efforts of the United States I! to enter upon and complete a work ; which the nations of America, reecho' ing the sentiments of the nations of " ! Europe, had pronounced to be not only I ^ . "worthy of the greatness of the AmeriJ can people," but also in the highest ~ I sense "a work of civilization." 1 j In conclusion let me repeat that the t j question actually before this govern1 j ment is not that of the recognition of f ' Panama as an independent republic. I j That is already an accomplished fact e j The question, and the only question. - I is whether or not we shall build an 5 i Ishmian canal. * f I transmit herewith copies of the " latest notes from the minister of the Republic of Panama to this governj ment .and of certain notes which have , passed between the special emvoy of the Republic of Colombia and this gov~ eminent r THEODORE ROOSEVELT. | -1 White House, Jan. 4, 1904. [ _ .. J KILLED AND INJURED Many Suffer In Another Terrible nauiutiu wicca CONDUCTOR AND ENGINEER ERR A Frightful Mistake That Resulted in the Loss of Alany Lives and Produced fluch Suffering. Topeka, Kan., Special. ? Seventeen persons were killed and thirty-seven injured in a head-on collision between the Rock Island. California & Mexico express and a freight at Willard Wednesday morning. Most of the injured are in hospitals in Topeka. The doctors announce that all will recover with the exception of Mrs. M.fA. Hill of Greecsburg, Kan. The dead are: Mrs. J. H. Hill, Greensburg. Kan.; Mrs. W. S. Martin, St. Joseph. Mo.; Mrs. Mary Harvaille, Chillicothe, Mo.; Ben Harvaille. son of Mrs, Harvaille. aged 13; Tot Harvaille, daughter of Mrs. Harvaille. aged 3; Mrs. Susan Reed, a sister of Mrs. Harvaille; James Griffin, Claremont, Mo.; E. E. Mayer. Buffalo, N. Y.; Raymond A. Martin, Chillicothe, Mo.; W. S. Martin. St. Joseph. Mo.; E. R. Rankins, De Kalb, Mo.; William J. Wells. Jacksonville, 111.; Mrs. Mary Kaiser. Russian; Gale Fuller, aged 7, Brockton, Iowa; Grace Reed, Caillecothe. Mo.; Ler.ora Rood, Chillicothe, MO.; uniden tilled boy. aged eight years. If Is thought that carelessness of the trainmen caused the wreck. Instruct, ed to meet a special freight tiain at Wlllard, the engineer and conductor ol the Ill-fated passenger, noting that a freight train stood in the siding at Willard, rushed through, thinking that the cars that they had seen were the ones which they had been instructed tc pass. I'pon seeing at Willard a freight train upon the siding, Enigneer Henjamin threw open the throttle, and under the impetus of full steam the passenger leaped into darkness and crashed along at a rate which the passengers declare to have been 65 miles an hour. A formal inquest was held at the wreck today by Coroner Dooly, of Wabunsce county. The investigation will be continued tomorrow. II. G. Parsons, a reporter of the Topeka State Journal, who was on the wrecked Hock Island train, arrived in Topeka at eight o'clock this morning. fitter driving overland frcm the scene of the collision. Parsons escaped with slight injuries, while two persons on the seat in front of him were killed. Parsons tells the following story of the wreck: "It was in the third car of the passenger train, the fiist coach having been preceded by a smoker and a bag. gage car, that the greatest loss of life tu. pwrti/cr wViicH was oe ocmrrvu. lut; oiuvrit^i , .... cupied by only two or three men, was overturned and pushed through the car behind it. which was crowded with passengers, some standing in the aisle. The first warning given the pasengers in this car was when the sudden setting of the air brakes shut off the lights, leaving all in darkness. A moment later a mass of splintered wood and iron w<ts crowded down upon them. None were thrown out of their scats by the glow. Most of those in the forward end of the car were killed instantly. Thirty in the rear end of the coach, however, succeeded in escaping from that end of tho car which was still unobstructed. No one in the front half of the car escaped. They ""'a ^niched down between the seats of the smoker. When rescue was finally possible only three living persons were taken out by the rescuers, who were compelled to chop holes in the side and through the floor and top of the coach to reach them. "The three rescued from this portion were a man. a small girl, middleaged woman, who were begging to be taken out One man. hurt internally, was removed through the rear door Within five minutes after the collision, but died almost as soon as the rescuers could lay him down. A woman died two hours later while trying to tell a physician her name. A dozen men had worked on the place where she seemed to be before she was extricated. "Bonnie Martin, a girl 11 years old, was pinned down between the two cars, the heavy stove resting on one foot. Her cries attracted the rescuers and men. many of them bleeding from wounds about the face and arms, worked heroically to get her out. It took some time to release her. When she was taken out she addressed the doctor who was bending over her as "papa." The physician did not have the heart to tell her that she was an rpban. her father and mother having been killed. Mr. Martin was killed instantly and Mrs. Martin died ten minutes after being taken out of the '-so/i was suffering with wreth. i au v.iinu v.^ ^?. _ a broken ankle, where the heavy stove fell on her. and severe scalp contusions. She was put to sleep by a hypodermic injection to relieve the pain. "Some of the bodies found in the wreckage were so badly crushi d as to bo unrecognizable. Through a hole chopped iti one side of the car the body of a gray-haired, heavy-set man and a woman with long, yellow hair, were visible. Fires were built along the track at short intervals and by the light of these the rescuers, in their eagerness to remove the victims, chopped openings in the wrecked coaches until exhausted and then they handed their axes to others. The entire sides of the car had been chopped away when the work .was completed. - ?,Jo. Occasionally tne rescues ?umu sist upon an alarm being raised by watchers, who declared that the chopping away of the coach was letting the smoker down upon the victims. So terrific was the force of the collison that the smoker left the truck in its backward rush, leaving the trucks still upon the track. Not a wheel in the entire passenger train seemed to be off the track. The freight train fared differently. The four cars immediately behind the engine were crushed into kindling. Dead and dying cattle littered the right of way, while many which had escaped from the ears uninqured ran about adding to the confusion. | ] "On the passenger train. In the ' sleeper, was a young physician, .who walked with crutch as the result cf spinal trouble? He was thrown down and slightly injured, but was* the first 5 man to emerge from the sleeper and immediately began aiding the injured. He had a portion of the chair car and the berths in the sleeper cleared, and to them the victims were carried. The physician was without instrumnts or [ medicine, and the only thing he could do was to bind up wounds with bandages which he made by tearing up I sleeper sheets and pillow cases, and giving the patients whiskey to deaden ' the pain. THE DISTILLER WON State Dispensary Board Decides Aa Important Case. Colr.mbia State. 1 The Antioch Baptist church has lost out in its vigorous three months' fight . before the State beard cf dispensary . directors against the Jenkins distillery. But the bone of contention is to be removed a quarter of a mile further ' from the church, in order to put it out side cf the twe-mile limit. Much feel ing*and b!tt^rrecs have been engen dered by the contest and it is like that the cnu;cu will renew its fight against the distiller in the Cherckeq court by bringing specific charges of L violation of law against him. The following resolution adopted > by the board explain the position the ' beard has taken in the premises: Resolved, first. That it is the judg> ment of this board that the petitioners vs. the Jenkins distillery in Cherokee ' county have failed to prove that the Jenkins distillery is a nuisance to the 1; community, in that they have failed ; to allege and prove any specific viola; { tions of the dispensary law. consemmntlv Yx.*n pann .t fh** normit (: upon the ground of nuisance. ; J Second. That after investigating the ; | bcok3 of the revenue office we find that 11 Jenkins has no retail liquor dealer's 1 j license, but that the entry to that effect as testified to by Mr. Culley was ' a clerical error, hence that charge does not constitute a prima facie case against him. J Third. It was made to appear and is 1 not denied that the distillery is within ' two miles cf a church in contravention ' of the law. and it is ordered: That i ! unless the said Jenkins removes his ! distillery beyond the two mile limit from a church or school house as is provided by law. and within the confines of Cherokee township in the | | county of Cherckee. by the first day of February. 1904. his permit to distill 1 i alcoholic liquors shall stand revoked. i Another Alurdcr, ' Greenville, Special.?Tuesday night a murder was comimtted in the neigh, ] borhood of Belleview, in the upper I section of the county, the victim being , ! Paul Brown, a negro, and the murderer is not positively known. Brown was sitting before the fire when he was , j shot by a man outside the house, who , | fired through the window. The load of shot went through the chair and into - ' ? ? ? ? AA tkn-Minh ViO I tUC D<1C'K C)? oru-wu, UJUUCC uuuugu lac body to the flat bone of the breast and the load falling from there into the , abdomen. The negro was hilled instantly and fell forward into the fire, , , his arm being burned before he was I taken out. | The wife and children of Andrew . McKenzie occupied the house, and they j were picking cotton from the bolls : when the fatal shot was fired. Mc. | Kenzie left home last spring because he was jealous of Paul Brown, who | tcok his place in the house soon after, i | wards and has remained there ever i ; since. McKenzie's wife pulled the dead j negro from the fire, and with her ehil[ j dren left the house., alarming the neighborhood and calling for their asi sistance. Her husband has not been i seen in ihe neighborhood since he left ! nearly a year ago. but suspicion at 1 once rested upon hint and search was made without finding him. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict that the party who killed Brown was uni known. The barn and stables of Su, pervisor J. S. Speegle, two miles from the city, were destroyed by fire last night, together with a horse, cow, bugcrv anH ?> nuantitv of Drovender belong F*J ? <1 . ,, ing to E. M. Gillespie. The building is i! valued at $250, and including the contents the loss is estimated at $oOO. , A Prosperous Company. I Abbeville. Special.?The Abbeville! Greenwood Mutual Insurance Asociai tion held its annual meeting Tuesi day in Greenwood. This association was organized 11 years ago with $50.: 000 of property insured. The report of the secretary and treasurer showed that the outsanding insurance had reached at the present date the sum i of $025,000. This company has never had the courts to pass upon any of its i assessments or losses and the cost i of insurance has never been over $0 ; per $1,000 for anyone year. Every township in Abbeville and Greenwood . counties has a director who acts as i the agent of the association, and it is expected that by their efforts the total amount of insurance will this year ex,; ceed $1,000,000. J. Eraser Lyon, Esq.. j was re-elected president of the asso| ciation and J. R. Blake was re-elected !; secretary and treasurer. I i I Farmer Burned Outj Spartanburg. Special?Andrew Phil ips. a farmer and merchant cf Laurens, was robbed Thursday night .and his store burned. He found his large pocketbook. in which he had placed $107, empty in the road. The thief took one of his mules, and this was found at a neighbor's. By Wire and Cable. Tho sweetest little bulldog in the | I United States belongs to H. F. Stapel, of Rock Port, Md.. and will be exhibited at the St. Louis World's Fair. Mr. Stapel is editor of the Rock Port Mail. Several months ago he conceived the idea of having his bees reproduce his office building in honey. He accord, ingly placed In the hive an exact imitation of the Stapel block, and in a few months the bees completely covered every part of it with honey an inch thick. * \ . * . v'"*- VAY* * ' v? ' wmaiiH Iilgi isssssMsss<sssssassssissa[ f Pftlll GLEANINGS.] 2 5 #> ilinor Events of tlje Week In Brief i-orm. # I Palmetto Pointers. I ? . Alex McClellan. a farmer living; about three miles from Dillcn. across the Pec Dee, committed suicide Wednesday morning by swallowing about two ounces of carbolic acid. It appears that^lq made an attempt at suicide very early in the morning but did not. succeed. An effort was made by telephone to procure a physician from Dillon when it was discovered that he was trying to take the poison, but eluding the vigilance of his attendants he Anally succeeded in swal- lowing enough to procure instant death. He was about 35 years of age, clever and industrious, but addictecr to spiera, axiu u woo wuuc \jim one that he took his own life. ' He leaves a widow and several children. A valuable cow belonging to J. A. Covil. of Chick Springs, was found > dead in her stall Sunday morning. The heifer was found at the#taU door in a helpless condition. At three o'clock it died as the result of wounds on its body. An examination showed that the animal's right shoulder been beaten almost In^to a Jelly j'e:t shoulder was also badly bruised, and two sever blows had been given on the back. Thb club with which the animal was beaten was found near the / * stable, covered with hair apftl blood. On Saturday while Wesley Bollin. a ycung white man eighteen years of age. and a colored boy .named Estell Froneberger, aged ten years, were oat hunting near Smyrna, in the western portion of York county, the negro boy . was accidentally shot in the back of the head by young Bollin. and died from the effects of the wound. The jury rendered a verdict exonerating young Bcliln from blame in the premises. ' The barn and stable on Supervisor Socegle's place. located about two miles from Greenville near the Farmers' Oil Xfill. "were completely destroyed by fire Tuesday night, together t with a horse, cow. buggy and a miintltv fpprl stuff bolnncinsr tb Eh M. Gillespie. The building was valued at $230. Including the contents the total loss is estimated at $300. The season for deer shooting In the State ended with Dec. 31. On account of the shortened season for the past few years, deer have increased in number in Georgetown county and the srort has been proportionally better throughout the hunting season. The hunters experienced better sport this last year than for many years previously. Messrs. Smith. Lee & Frost, attorneys. of Charleston, have filed a suit for $4,000 against the Blue Ridge Railroad Company with the clerk of the court of Anderson county. Miss Jane W. Adger. of Charleston, is the plaintiff. She sues for the value of a trunk which shp claims was lost by the railroad company. While out hunting near their home Wednesday morning Mr. Coke Catoe, of Kershaw, acidentally shot his brother. Mr. Oscar Catoe. in the arm ti?ui in iiirinw him aerionslv. C. Twitty attended the woundecffSung^ young man and he was getting along very well at last accounts. The State, board of directors Tue? day granted a hotel privilege to Highland Park Hotel, of Aiken. Three dis- \ tillers will be hauled up before the hoard for alleged violation of law. ^ These are J. H. Beard, of Greenville; R. C. Gantt. of Pickens, and J. F. Jenkins. of Cherokee. The Secretary of State Tuesdaygranted a commission to a large Charleston enterprise. The Lcbby Shoe Company will be capitalized at $60,000, and will do a wholesale business. The corporators are: R. C. Lebby, I'On L. Rhett and W. A. Holman. A commission has been issued to the Ayeock-Little Mercantile concern of Union county, capitalized at $10,000. A rommsission was also issued to the Citizens' Insurance Company, of Sum- # tar, capitalized at $1,000, with the privilege cl increasing it to $5,000. ', Sncw fell to the depth of two inches in some narts of the low country Wed nesdav for the first time in two winters. ?.* The governor Wednesday offered a _ y reward cf $100 for the apprehension of James Walker, a negro, who is wanted in niaekville for the murder of Minnie Williams, a negro woman, several months ago. Dr. .Tohnsone Stoney has calculated, by application of the dynamic theory of gases, that any water vapor introduced into the atmosphere of Mare, would escape into space, the gravitation being there insufficient to retain Monument to Dr. McGuire. Richmond. Special.?A bronze statue of the late Dr. Hunter McGuire, who w-as General Jackson's medical director, and one of the most celebrated surgeons in the South, was unveiled in the capitol square here last 1. rr>K? ,,?51 a.'aa (frawn hv his lit VY L't'IV. 1 lit" f Clt rr wo tie grandson. There was a parade and the Howizers fired a salute. A large crowd was in attendance. Judge Geo. L. Christian, grand commander of the Confederate Veterans of the State, presented the statue to Virginia, and Governor Montague received it. Thd oration was delivered by Major Holmes Conrad, of Winchester, Va., who served with Dr. McGuire on General Jackson's staff. Telegraphic Briefs. The memory of the poet Shelley was recently honored at Viareggio, Italy, where his body was washed ashore and burned in the presence of Byron and Leigh Hunt. Gabriel D\Anunzio, the gifted Italian novelist, delivered an address. New Years day was fittingly observed at the White House by Presi- J dent and Mrs. Roosevelt who gave an M elegant reception. J