Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' -x V ^ - r" ? The Slaugi Railroa I ? S By Frederick i ?<^/w ^HE appalling slaughl tention of the old-fai public sentiment, ye passing a law maki I I S vices. The railroad S \ I own satisfaction, tha ft ft maiming tens of tho new couplers. Ever to delay and defeai of which was to check the wholesale corporations declared thai there were a falsehood and so absurd on its fact willing to aid in the outrage declined companies fought the lav.- in the com prehensible to them that a corporatic for so vain and profitless a thing as t They induced congress to give tl sion has long since expired, yet the that there are thousands of cars not more progressive railroad managers i murderous old couplers to the new 01 has wrought so vast a devastation in tion of the antique couplers years aft' lem. A report recently issued by the 1 that the total number of casualties states, during the fiscal year ending 2787 killed and 51,343 injured. This year. It is a large total, and, in comj complete destruction of any one of si Antonio, Texas; Racine, Wisconsin; cut; Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania; or . anything like 53,000 inhabitants. In September 19, and October 7, 11, ar movements around Sara, ga, as inclu cisive Battles of the World," there while the highest total given by C. K the killed, wounded, and missing on t est battles of all time, is 54,428 menof United States railroad casualties, ments during the past year was 11,! rolling stock and roadbeds. This giv sions and derailments over 1903?as p'oyes, in 1904, by 75,000.?Success. Respect i 5JJ By Beatri AClt of respect towai < w 2 istlc of the young p < > T Girls speak to J ! I ! they arA the parent < > * M parents are quite ai \ lack of respect is th < | If from infancy < ttttMIM versaticns, to have i Itself forward on all grow self-assertive and domineering, s It knows more than both its parents p If It is a boy he will, patronize hi *the old man;" if a girl she will tak< sions, answering when the latter is t as though she?the daughter?were tt If the girl who speaks disrespec sion she creates on outsiders, I am su speaking. There is nothing that so pi her by word, look or deed show the s The false pride that makes a gir and father, who have toiled and sacril dren may have luxuries and educatior should be strangled at its birth. Many girls who really love their them old-fashioned ana ignorant. You often hear a girl say, "Oh, know," and then the daughter goes a had she consulted her mother's wiser frcm doing. Excepting in very rare cases, the the instinct of love and mature wisdo for their children. Not long ago I overheard a delics "Oh, mother," broke in her disrespect: ness; you're always ill." What do you think of that daugh man who was thinking of marrying 1 would have gone away in a very thoui One thing that leads to this state o can parents of effacing memseives wn suit is that the young people get into things themselves and that the preset The American girl is the best girl independent and cavalier in her treatr A well brought up English girl woul way her American cousins have of spt Nothing is more beautiful than the youth to age, and it is a great shame be marred by this one blot.?New Yor | Causes of L k By H. B. n q/w AN is a creature of 1 that is the main rea ^ A whv men do not anti 7 7 loves the man that |rl X takes care of his coi ? T that feeds him, and ? ? ? higher ideals and es AIMIMMH fortable before he a The great cause that we expect too much of each oth( by our literature. The heroes and hei fifty year heads on twenty year shoul < sions. A man marries simply for a hom< and him can do anything with him, a with him. When a man is looking fo accomplishments, but does want the That is the woman he is looking for. ry a demure little "country mouse," a A girl less than twenty-five or thi band; any woman over forty will ackn elope with at twenty she would despi: fifty, if he proposed marriage. Health Record in English Town, The little south Lincolnshire village of Ewerby is said to be the healthiest town in the world. During the past ten yArs only one person has died between the ages of two and sixty. Mrs. Margaret. Vickers, who has lived in the village for seventy-six years, celebrated her hTibdredth birthday recently. Tlftre is another woman aged . ninety-five, one eighty-four and many aver seventy.. The town is fuil of sexagenarians, and its population of 358 is as strong in healthy youngsters as in those who have reached ripo age. 1 11 hter of ] 1 d Employes $ XJpham Jidams. C ' t ter of railway employes due to the re- , shioned freight car couplers so aroused ;, an ir.tn ars ago, mat congress iw?;u ng obligatory the use of automatic de[ interests had figured it out, to their { t it was cheaper to keep on killing and j < usands of their men than it was to buy (; y possible influence has been employed | t the enforcement of this law, the aim j murder of hard-working employes. The no practical coupling devices, so puerilt, ; ' i that even those who would have been j to do so on this ground. The railroad j < rts and were beaten. It seemed incom j >n should be compelled to spend money ; he saving of human life. | lem an extension of time. That exten- ' statement is made and not denied that ' provided with automatic brakes. The 1 tow recognize that the change from the j' les is a profitable one. No modern war | human life and happiness as the reten- I ( er inventive genius had solved the prob- { interstate Commerce Commission shows 1 to persons on railroads in the Unitea June 30, 1904, was 55,130, confusing shows a large increase over any^ther 5 larison. may be said to be similar t?the ' uch cities as Salt Lake City, Utah; san Topeka, Kansas; Waterbury, ConnectiAugusta, Georgia, neither of which has both the American and British armies, id 12, 1777, in the series of fights and ded by E. S. Creasy, in his "Fifteen Dewere less than twenty thousand men; - "Cuolnnaerfia." of . Aaams, in juuusuu 9 v/v.?r_ , >oth sides at Waterloo, one of the great-not so many by 702 as last year's total The number of collisions and derail291, involving $9,383,077 in damages to es the astounding increase of 648 collitounding but for the reduction of em 1 1 lo Paren ts t ce Fairfax. A 1 WW* rd rS elders is a deplorable character- 1 eople cf this country, their parents in a manner which both ts should be heartily ashamed of. The 1 5 much to blame as the child, for this 1 e result of bad up-bTinglng. a child is allowed to break into all con1 voice in every discussion and to thrust 1 occasions, the chances are that it will ind as it grows older come to think that < iut together. ' s father and call him the "governor" or J " ---nf hor mother on all occa- . " piCWUVUVV VI uvi ? ? ?? spoken to and acting in a general way le one to be most considered. I tful to her mother only knew the impres- 1 1 re she would try and change her way of ; j rejudices people against a girl as seeing , lighest disrespect to'her parents. i 1 ashamed of the hard-working mother iced themselves in order that their chil- , i, is the outcome of an ugly feeling that i parents grow into the habit of thinking mother means all right, but she doen't , head and does some foolish thing that, i judgement, she might have been saved | ; I mothers always know best. Guided by j \ im, they invariably choose what Is best j ite mother complain of not feeling well. , i ful daughter, "I'm tired hearing of sick- i j ter's manner to her mother, and if any her had been there, don't you think he ghtful mood? f affairs is the bad habit of many Ameri- j en their children have visitors. The re- ' the way of thinking that they can run ice of their elders is guite unnecessary, in the world, but she is just a trifle too . nent of her elders. d exclaim in horror at the free and easy ;aking to their parents, tender respect and deference shown by for the American girl to let her charms ] k Journal. ( < nzmzz? < i Jnhappiness j j La Rue. 9 & lis senses; woman of her ideals. And j son that woman can never understand j I cannot love as women do. A woman i honors her; he loves the woman that mfort. Like a dog, he loves the hand no other. He may claim to have the 1 :patiate on them, but he must be com- 1 in expatiate on anything, of the mass of human unhappiness Is ?r. Our ideals are very largely formed 1 oines of our best fiction always present ders, but marriage dispels all such illui e. and the woman that takes care of it i nd if she does not she can do nothing r a wife he does not demand beautv or 4 "good face to have around the house." I 1 He will leave society beauties and mar- I 1 nd society wonders. c irty years old is not fit to select a husowledge that. A man that a girl would j se at thirty, fight at forty, and shoot at j I j Saying He Never Felt Better, Died. The death of W. H. Rockhill, exclerk of the courts of this county, here verifies in a v.ay the thesis of Goethe < that no man can survive a happy mo- ] ment. i He had been feeling ill and went ? to the office cf his physican to tell the ] doctor that he was improving in ] I health and that he never felt better ? : for many days. The words had no mere than es- 1 i capcd his lips than he keeled over ! cud died of heart disease.?Lebanon . j correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer, j W : - T ' ' nv " r NEWS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY Minor Happenings of the Week at Home and Abroad. Down in Dixie. Major John William Johnston died it Richmond. A new railroad is projected from Norfolk, Va., to Beaufort, N. C., along .he North Carolina coast. The noted "moonshine"' distillery of William Nowlin. in Franklin county, svas destroyed and Nowlin captured. Miss Lilly Cary has been appointed sponsor for Virginia at the Confederlte reunion. A contract for building 100 miles of the Tidewater road will be awarded June 1. The trial of Reynolds Carlisle, charged with the murder of John D. Krombling, was begun at Berryville. Majority and minority reports on federation were made by the special committee of the Southern Presbyterian Assembly appointed to deal with the subject. Wesley G. Parker, until last Tuesday exchange teller in the Arkansas Nar tional Bank, of this city, is missing, and it is claimed that his accounts show a shortage of $10,000. President C. M. Rix, of the bank, admits the shortage and said that the institution is fully secured by a bond. ^ At the National Capital. Second Vice-President Gage E. Tarbell, of the Equitable Life Assurance society, was examined dj- state superintendent of Insurance Hendricks. Through the North. Mr9. Lease was robbed in New York Saturday Night. The Merchants' Trust Company of New York closed its doors and receivers were appointed. Chicago's teamster strike spread, as was expected, but efforts to bring ibout peace were renewed. A wide difference of opinion on union developed among the Cumberland Presbyterians at Fresno, Cal. Considerable opposition developed in the General Assembly to the cathedral Idea of Justice Harlan. A check so cleverly raised that it deceived even the banks which cashed it caused the arrest of a New York barkeeper. m The Chicago express companies refused to recede from their decisions not to reemnlov strikers, and the strike will now be fought out to the end. 1 The entire plant of the National Fire Works Company at West Hanover, consisting of ten wooden buildings of ane story each, was destroyed by an explosion in the mixing room. Of the ninety employes at the plant only five were injured, one seriously. Mpyor Weaver, of Philadelphia, renoved his Director of Public Safety and Director of Public Works as a step in his fight to prevent the lease of the gas works to the United Gas Improvement Company. One train crashed into another on the high trestle of the elevated near the bridge over the Harlem river and 20 persons were hurt. May corn went up C cents a bushel en the Chicago Exchange, and there was talk of a corner, wheat also undergoing a sharp flurry. The United States assayer at Seat tie stales mat tne output ui guiu num the northern country this year will amount to $22,000,000, if not more. From the Klondike alone he predicts an output of'from ten to twelve millions. the balance coming from the ramps on the American side. foreign Affairs. Greece is to be warned against supporting Grecian bands now active in Southern Manchuria. The Servian Cabinet has resigned. A detailed report to confirm the identification of John Paul Jones' aody has been sent from Paris to Washington. Gen. Linevltch, under date of May 23, eports that a Russian detachment^ucressfully attacks the Japanese trenches 3n the heights south of the station of ^hangtufu, May 21, forcing the Japalese to evacuate their trenches. It is believed the injuries sustained by Empress Augusta Victoria by 'ailing dow-n a stairway at Wisebaden were more serious than at first reported. Miscellaneous Matters. The General Assembly of the Pres?A?t m??u jyienan V/iiurcu, tuuug 01 uiuuua ^ake, decided unanimously for union vith the Cumberland church. More than 100 Methodist ministers narched to the Philadelphia City Hall md protested to Mayor Weaver igainst the proposed gasworks lease. Milton E. Rose, of Stafford county, aras drowned at Acquia creek. The Charcoal Club opened its anlual exhibition, the standard of the vork being higher than ever. Labor agitators in Paris threaten 0 make a demonstration against King Mfonso of Spain when he visits that :ity. Wreckers ditched a train on the Uchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail oad, east of Emporia, Kan., and six mssengers were injured, two of them atally. Lull i#Chicago Strike. Chicago, SMcial.?The final rejection >f the uaijn teamsters' demands, especially tlftse of the express drivers, tvas officia^^uinouneed by the employ?rs. thus anm^ng the present settlement of the teamsters' strike. The employers demand unconditional surrender. Neither side in the strike made 1 direct step towards peace and each is apparently waiting the next move of ihe other. The employers sent their goods all over the city under pblice protection without encountering vioence. v * * 1 ... 7 . TOGO DEFEA Japanese Admiral Prac of thf 4 RATTIF l\ THF STRAITS ftF k'flRFA According to Information Received at the State Department in Washington, the Battle Began Saturday, the Japanese Sinking the Russian Battleship Borodino, Four More Warships and a Repair Ship. According to the latest information, the battle between the Russian and Japanese naval forces for the supremacy of the Oriental seas, on which hangs the outcome of the far Eastern struggle, has begun, if it has not terminated decisively. All the dispatches received point to a Japanse victory, though it is net yet known whether the full force of Vice Adrimal Rojestvensky's fighting ships took part in the contest, which, according to the dispatches. took place in the comparatively narrow waters of the Straits of Ko4a. The first information came in a . ^Hispatch from the American consul at f Nagasaki to the State Department at Washington, telling that the Japanese had sunk one Russian battleship, four other warships and a repair ship in the Korean Straii and this was followed by a dispatch received by the State Department, the date of whioh was noi given, mai me Japanese government had made the announcement that its fleet had engaged the Russians in the Straits of Korea Saturday and had held them." The State Department also received information that two of the vessels reported to have been sunk were the sister battleships Orel and Borodino, and that three of the other ships were cruisers. From Tsingtau, the German port on the Shantung Peninsula, came a report that a running naval engagement took place near the Island of Oki, in the Sea of Japaiv 200 miles northeast of the Straits of Korea, and that the whole Russian fleet did net participate, the slow vessels having been sent around Japan. Russian sources give* no news of the battle, while the Japanese government, following Rs custom, is silent as to either the battle or its outcome. j THINK TORPEDO BOATS DID IT. WashirTgton Naval Circles Comment on Dispatches to State Department ?Battleship and Five More Vessels Sunk?Straits Held Against Russians. Washington, Special.?A dispatch received at the State Department says that the Japanese Government has made the announcement that its fleet had engaged the Russians in the Straits of Korea Saturday and had held them . The reported sinking of the battleship Bordino is mentioned in a dispatch received at the State Department ! from the consul at Nagasaki. The belief in the naval circles in ; Washington is that the Japanese rei sorted to the free use of torpedo boats | in their attacks on the vessels of Vice' Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet. The ; Japanese have a large number of torpedo boats in 'their fleet and they demonstrated their effectiveness in the operations around Port Arthur. Naval officers here express the opinion that it was unlikely that such serious losses as those reported could have hepn inflicted hv ordinary fire. The following is the text of the NaTexas Town Not Destroyed. Austin, Tex., Special.?S. J. L. Mather, mayor of Mineral Wells, Tex., requested a correction of the report sent to several papers that the town had been badly damaged by a tornado last week. He says that no damage was done at all. and that excepting a very high wind, which swept over the town last Wednesday, there was no provacation for such a report. Floods North of El Paso. El Paso, Tex.. Special.?A half million dollars is a conservative estimate of the damage done by the overflow of <%e Rio Grande north of El Paso in the Messilla valley. Some 7,000 acres of farm land are under water, crops and farm machinery have been lost, r.nd all houses in the path of the waters washed away. The water in most places is six feet deep. Every abode house in Anthony, N. M., has been washed away and the people have fled to El Paso. The water is still rising rapidly, threatening great damage, especially at El Paso. McGraw Fined. y?w York, Special.?Manager Mere rp v of the New York National Lea guo 3aseball Club, has been fined 5150 an- suspended for 15 days for using pr< ' *.ne language to President Dreyfus, of 'ie Pittsburg elub. McGraw will be c'iplble to resume the privileges of the ball field on June 11th, providing that previous to that date the fine of $150 is paid, together with the sum of $10, which fine was imposed by President Pulliam because of his being removed from the game May 20th. Another Dividend. Macon, Ga., Special.?Receiver W. J. Butler, of the First National Bank, which failed in the R. H. Plant collapse last year, will distribute next week another dividend of 10 per cent to all creditors of the institution. This will make a total of 95 per cent paid. Drummer Dies Suddenly. 1 Augusta. Ga.. Special.? Charles I. Warren, a drummer for a Baltimore chewing gum manufacturer, died suddenly at the Albion hotel Sunday morning. The coroner's jury brought I in a verdict of death due to natural pauses, i \ l ) . \ ' " ? IS RUSSIANS' tically Annihilates Navy j ; Czar , i i I gasakl dispatch to the State Depart- j ment: "Nagasaki, May 28.?Japanese sunk the Russian battleshio Borodino and ' J four more warships and a repair ship." The other dispatch read as follows: "Tokio, May 27?Japanese met and engaged the Baltic squadron this afternoon in the Straits of Fushima. which was held. Cannonading was heard from shore." From information which has been received in Washington it is believed thai two of the Russian ships reported to have been sunk in the Korean Straits by the Japanese are the Orel and her sister ship, the Borodino. They are battleships of 13.000 tons. Three other vessels reported sunk are believed to have been cruisers, the remaining one being a repair ship. The Orel and Borodino are of 13.516 ! tops displacement each, heavily armed, I well protected, ajid were designed to make 18 knots. They measure 397 feet j by 76 feet, with 26 feet draught, and | both have a lofty spar deck fully 30 I i feet above the water line, extending from the bow to the quarter deck. Forward is mounted a pair of 12.4-inch guns in a turret protected by eleven inches of Krupp armor. Another pair of guns, of same size, is mounted aft There are thirty other guns on the intermediate battery, the vessels carry two submerged torpedo tubes and two above the water. A special feature of the vessels is their verdical longitudinal bulkheads of inch armor, running throughout the whole length of the ship at a distance of nine or ten feet inboard from the ships' sides, designed to localize the effects of a blow from a torpedo. Failed to Mislead Togo. Chefoo. By Cable.?Private telegrams from Korea to the Japanese consul here state that a battle was progressing Saturday afternoon at or near the Korean straits, between the main portion of the Russian squadron and the Japanese fleet under command of Admiral Togo. Telegrams almost identical with the ! above have been received here, and : announce that a large portion of the ; Russian fleet was sighted approach- | ing the Korean straits Sunday, head- j ed for the channel between Tsu Island j and the Japanese coast. According to the best information receievd here recently, the main portion of Admiral Togo's fleet has been almost constantly at Masampho bay. Advices from a reliable quarter received here are to the effect that three Russian battleships, three armored cruisers and several colliers were off Shanghai Friday. It is believed that Vice Admiral Rojestvensky sent sufficient ships to the vicinity of Shanghai in order to induce the belief that his ; main fleet was there, while the major < : portion of it pushed on toward the Ko- j , rean straits. .Sinking of American Ship. Washington, Special.?Confirmation has been received here from Shanghai , of the press report that the Russian warships have sunk an unknown Amer- ' ican merchant ship off the Chinese j coast. Heavy gun tire is praimy nearu | 1 to the northward. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?Nothing ' is known at the Admiralty of the reported sinking of an unknown Ameri- i can steamer off Formosa by Vice Admiral Rojestvensky. It is recognized at the Admiralty as quite possible that "Rojestvensky may have been compelled by military necessity to destroy a neutral. If he feared that to allow it to proceed and report the whereabouts and direction of the Russian fleet would endanger his strategic plan, he had no other alternative except to take off the crew and sink the ship. Such an incident is unfortunate, but ! every naval officer must admit that the ! risk in such a crisis is too great to ' take any chances. If the ship was un- j justifiably sunk from the standpoint of international law, Russia, of course, will have to foot the bill; but any cost is cheap if it furthered Rojestvensky's mission." i _ | Shot Chief of Police. j . Nashville, Tenn., Special.?A special j from Jackson, Tenn., says that A. D. . Dugger shot and seriously wounded | ( Chief of Police Gaston, of that place, i Four shots were fired, two of wbtch took effect. Dugger was drinking and Gaston attempted to arrest him. Dugger was subsequently locked up. 1 An Interstate Railway. 1 Columbia, Special.?Definite an- 1 nouncement of a railroad from Charles- 1 ton, S. C. to Monroe, N. C., 1 N. C., giving Charleston, Sum- 1 ter and intermediate points seaboard connection at Monroe, was I made, in the shape of a petition for a 1 commission to incorporate the "Caro- 1 lina & Virginia Railroad." The com- 1 j mission was granted with Wm. H. Ing- J ram, Neill O'Donall and i^prion Moise, ! of Sumter and State Senator Thomas ' I G. McLeod, of Lee county, as incorpor- I I ators. The initial capital is forty thous! and dollars, and the ultimate two and a 1 half million. The "purposes" state that ! it is the intention of the corporation "to acquire rights of way and build and * maintain cotton worehouses, 1 News of the Day. The mayor of Philadelphia won out 1 in a stubborn fight against the ring he ! opposed. Stockholm, By Cable.?There were | riots here Saturday night in conneci tion with the scavengers' strike. A ; mob stoned the police, who drew their swords and cleared the streets. Many ; persons were injured and a number ! were arrested. Much damase was j done to property. Vesuvius in Eruption. Naples, By Cable.?The eruption of I Mount Vesuvius continues, the vol1 cano showing four new openings J 1 through which lava flows, while the ( ! immediately surroundiner country is ! covered with ashes. The funicular 1 ; railroad has been compelled to cease 1 i running. i I Big Saw Mill Fire. Washburn, Wis., Special. ? The t | large saw mill, owned by Aktly & d ! Sprague, has been destroyed by fire, g together with the machine and black- e smith shops and a large Quantity ol fc lumber, - v L *$?& w.' ' ; > ' - PALMETTO CMP CONDITIONS Weather Conditions Given Out by the Department Observer. The first of the week ending Monday, May 22nd, was warm, the latter part very cool, especially the nights. There were local high winds accompanying thunderstorms on the 16th that did some damage to fruit trees. The latter part of the week was fair with sunshine in excess of the normal amount. There were general rains on the 16th, heavy in places, and occasional showers in the eastern counties on the 17th, after which the ground dried rapidly. Cultivation of field crops made rapidDroeress durihg the latter part of the week. There is still widespread complaint of grassy fields, and a probability that some land planted to cotton will have to be abandoned owing to the scarcity of farm laborers. Labor is scarce in all parts of the State. Cotton planting has been finished, and more than two-thirds has been chopped, with chopping still in progress. Cultivation has been begun. Stands of cotton are generally good, tho there are numerous reports of plants dying on gray lands in the western counties and on sandy lands in the eastern ones, owing to too much rain and the recent cool nights. In some of the southeastern counties, some field3 have been plowed up and replanted. Excessive rains and lack of cultivation caused the plants to turn red or yellow In many places, and the recent cool nights have checked its heretofore rapid growth. The first squares were noted on the 19th in Col-# leton coulty. The general condition of the cotton crop is poor, tho promising in a few localities. Corn is suffering from want of cultl vauon ana is turning yeuuw, uui cultivation has been practicable it is in good condition. Stands are generally good except on bottom lands where worms continue destructive. There Xs yet much corn to be planted on bottom lands, in the western half of the State. Tobacco is doing well. Rice planting is delayed in the Georgetown district by high tides. The week was fav6rable for truck and shipments of potatoes and beans were heavy. The strawberry season is over. Wheat is promising where not rusted or damaged by the Hesrian fly. Fall oats are fine, and spring oats have improved rapidly. Oats ai? ripening in the eastern counties and some have been cut. Pastures are fine. Peaches are plentiful in the eastern counties, but are very scarce in the western ones. The first shipment of peaches was made this week. Apples are scarce and the trees continue to blight. Melons, gardens and other minor crops continue to do well.--J. W. Baier, Section Director. Anti-Trust Law Valid. Columbia. Special.?About five years ncn nnrtpr leeislative direction then Attorney General Bellinger brought a suit to disrupt the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company and appoint a receiver for the separate properties that weut to make up the corporation. The case descended from General Bellinger to Attorney General Gunter and has been pushed by both these officers. The j Virginia-Carolina Company has, J through its counsel, Mr. Henry, A. M. i Smith, and his associates, fought every I inch of ground and the case is Just j about where it started more than four i years ago. except that the State courts have held that they had jurisdiction in the case and the lower courts^have held that the anti-trust act, under which [ the suit was brought. Is constitutional. ' The State Supreme Court has decided I that the State anti-trust law is valid ' and constitutional. It previously sus- j tained the lower court in overruling a demurrer. If the Virginia-Carolina . Company does not interpose some new point, the master will take testimony at Columbia and the real inquiry will begin. The case is likely In the end to find its way to a jury and If the State courts decide against the VirginiaCarolina Company, then the case will likely go to the Federal Supreme Court. Decision Expected This Week. It is expected that the United States Supreme Court will file this week its decision in the case of the State of South Carolina against the secretary l of the treasury for the return of cer- | tain license fees paid by the State in behalf of the State dispensary. This amounts to about $60,000 at present and involves tne payment of license in succeeding years. This matter was first agitgteu by Mr. F. J. Mackey, a South Carolinian residing in Washington, not the notorious Judge T. J. Mackey. He secured the permission of the dispensary authorities to institute proceedings, and agreed to take payment in a percentage of what might be obtained. The case was lost in the court af claims and Mr. Mackey died. The dispensary authorities then engaged Mr. G. Duncan Bellinger to carry an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Bellinger secured the assistance of Messrs. Mordecai 4 Gadsden of Charleston and Ralston & Siddons of Washington. The case was argued some time ago and the court will adjourn Saturday until some time in October,, it is confidently expected that a decision will be filed this week. If the ease should be decided in fai'or of the State of South Carolina the sstate of Mr. Mackey will be paid for his services.?Columbia State. Telegraphic Briefs. " ?- ? a-* it - 1 r rencn suiuiens uiew up iue uuuse m which an outlaw barricaded himself, md he got out only to narrowly escape being lynched. The Chamber of Deputies sustained the French Government by postponing indefinitely interpellation upon the neutrality question. It is stated a special envoy will rep-esent France at the wedding of the Serman Crown Prince. Mr. Watson to go North. Mr. E. J. Watson, commissioner of tgriculture and immigration, has gone :o Washington for a stay of a few J lays, and from there he will go to ^ew York. Mr. Watson was very nuch encouraged on his last trip to *Jew York, ai^l will probably meet dth an even more cordial reception his time. His object is not to inluce immigration, but to pick immi;rants who are desirable, for the forigners are pouring into the country iy thousands daily. tbe Famous Flnancie^^^HH WAS A OF Eminent Financier Who Dollar Indemnit^^^^^^^^J Paid to Germany and Who Leading Spirit of the Rothschndl^^^H Their Relations With Europel^^^^ Governments Succumbs to Acut^Vf Bronchitis, Aged 78. ?'? V '1 Paris, By Cable.?Baron Alphon?r<l* Rothschild, head of the French -^anch m of the banking house bearing the name of Rothschild and governor of the '3 Bank of France, died at 4:30 Saturday morning from acute bronchitis aggravated by gout The eminent financier ^ has been sinking slowly for many daya^ but there was no apprehension that hi* death was imminent. ?' * He passed away peacefully surround-., ed by his family. The announcement ' of the baron's death caused widespread ^ regret, for besides his position in the .?l| financial world, Baron Alphonse waa known for his lavish charities, one pf of the latest being the gift of $2,000,00<? for the erection of worklngnten's homes. The deceased who was born in 1827*. will be succeeded as the head of the fciris banking house by Baron Lambert de Rothschild, of Brussels, whose business capacity has earned him a worldwide reputation. The burial of Baron Alphonse willbe most simple, according to the strict ' rule of the Rothschild family. Inclining a plain coffin without mourning : tributes. The funeral, the date of which has not been fixed, will be the k occasion of a notable tribute of re-:*/ 8pect. A mpmhpr nf a Franco-American banking bouse said: "Baron Alphonsn was the leading spirit of the Roths* \j childs in their relatidn with practical' ly all the governments of Europe. Besides the coloesal task of financing: ? the Indemnity which France paid to Germany after the Franco-Prussian war tj of 1870-'71, he carried on relations with other governments. In Italy these included both government and Vatican finances. The house has also had considerable dealings with American se- J3B curities through the Belmonts. J. Pierpont Morgan and John W. Gates, Including Louisville & Nashville and ^ Atlantic Coast Line transactions, , also has extensive interests In mines in California." Baron Alphonse leaves two children. Baron Edouard and Baroness Beatrix. He has two surviving brothers, Saroa Gustav and Baron Edmond. ? . . aB * * :"?S Speech by Judge Parker. Chicago, Special.?Judge Alton B. \^s Parker, of New York, addressed the Illinois State Bar Association at the Chi- \ K cago Beach Hotel on "The Lawyer is M Public Affairs." Judge Parker was greeted by hearty ** applause as he arose to speak. After returning thanks for the cordiality of. his reception, he said in part: In studying, however casually, or with whateve^ care, the modern development of the law, ami the scope of the men who follow it as a profession, it is impossible to escape from a know!- ;.Jjjj edge of the close relation which the latter bear, almost as a direct result of their professional life, to our politics. '<* It Is seen all along the line of public ^ effort whether in village,, town, city, *-59 county, State or nation. Its existence, therefore, cannot be overlooked nor car? its importance as a feature in the history and development of the law, or of politics be exaggerated. It is not a new tendency, having manifested itself even in our earliest days when, owing to the simplicity of conditions, the need for the lawyer and the recognition of his place in our social fabric became only slowly apparent. Yet. it is a tei^dency which has grown with the growth of the country and with the en->V*ilarged facilities for the study of polltics and also with the added dignity <ft the legal profession itself. In the PfiHfer davn in the history of the thirteen colonies, the questions discussed were those relating to rights, then popular denominated natural, most of which, in their practical assertion, have since become legal, or re-^ cognized as a part of our institutions: V J It was almost a necessity that the few members of the bar whose services were then called for should beeome'st once the assertors of these rights before the courts. It was even still more Imperative that they should come to the front in the discussion of them In the forum, in those todies where hearings must be held, and also in the respective assemblies of the people. Thit was in the declining days of a theocratic age when every profession other than that of the clergyman had to struggle for a position. He argued fur- ' , ther that no truly great lawyer ever has been a demagogue. j : More Chicago Riots. Chicago, Special.?Rioting broke o??t afresh in the teamsters* strike. Although nobody was seriously hurt, there were a number of vicious fights in the lumber yards during which the police were compelled to use clubs, and in one instance, revolvers, to disperse the crowds. Four Killed in Collision. Augusta, Ga., Special.?Two were killed, one fatally injured, two prol* ably fatally and three slightly injured in a collision Thursday night between: a passenger trolley car and a Louis ville & Nashville coal car on the Augusta & Aiken Railway, in a stretch of woods some miles from Augusta, on the South Carolina side of the river: The dead: J. E. Holdman, motorman; Felix Boddie, employe of railway, who was riding with the motorman. ] General Assembly Adjourns. ^ Fort Worth, Tex., Special.?The forty-fifth General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church ifcjourned Friday afternoon. Moderator Plunkett declared the convention dis- 4 solved at 5:30, and at the same time called the next session to meet at Greenville, S. C., at 11 a. m., on the third Tuesday in May, 1906 . * The Republicans of Ohio nominated Myron T. Herrick for re-election an Governor of the State. , *