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Consolidated Avg. 2, ISSI. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1895.5 >ew Series-Yoi. XIV. Xo. 36. Published 27017 Wednesday, -BY .INT. Gr. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : Two Dollars per annum-io advance. ADVERTISEMENT: Ooe Square first insertion...$1 00 Every subsequent insertion...... 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. AU communications which subserve private interests will be charged foras advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. The War in Cuba. Great and Growing Excite ' ment in the Island. HAVANA, April 2, via Tampa, Fla. Tbe streets of Havana aud che fields and mountains of Coba are filled with soldiers and revolutionists. The excite? ment all over the island is more in te o se nov than at any period eioce the rev? olutionists fired the first shot on the 21st of February. This is because the insurgent forces are growing almost as rapidly as the reinforcements of loyal troops, who are coming io on every maritime vessel sailiog in this direc? tion from Spain. Io Havana, the beat of the drums and the drilling of re? cruits are seen from daylight UDtil far into the night. In the plaza surround? ing Hotel Pasaja, there are hundreds of gaudily caparisoned soldiers march? ing up and down all during the day. The mounted police gallop over the city six abreast, never stopping until their animals are exhausted, when their places are taken by fresh animals and men. This is for the purpose of awing those who are inclined to join the insurgents and to excite loyalty of the Spaniards. Troops are being forwarded to the front as rapidly as the government can send them. The Spanish boys, for they are boys, do not tarry long at Havana, and they come here and are instantly marched os. No one here knows exactly where the government is moving their forces to. The cables and telegraph over the island is under government supervision, and the strict? est censorship Ls exercised over all mail and telegraph matter. It is known, however, that a majority of' men are now being forwarded to Trinidad in the Slate of Santaclara and to Manzanil? lo and Santiago de Cuba; in the State of Santiago de Cuba. From these re? ports they are being shoved into the mountains beneath a boiling sun. Nearly one-third of all the soldiers im? ported from Spain have been sick and many of them have died. Tbey are unacclimated and as food is scarce, they have eaten greedily of greeu fruits. The result has been disastrous and demoralizing. It is reported here that a company of regulars deserted the army and joined the insurgents near Puerto Principe. The Massa brothers, commanding the insurgents at Holguin, are reported to have gained a siognal victory on the :29th, defeating the Spaniards, killing twenty-sir, wounding 132 and captur? ing twelve. This st&ry is discredited by officiais here, but at insurgent head? quarters, visited under cover last night by me, it was said to be absolutely true. Captain General Emilio Callejas re? turns to Spain as soon as Arsemo Mar? tinez Campos arrives, which will be the middle of the present month. The new captain general of tbe island com? ing here, it is said, will introduce the Sherman idea of warfare and will make a march direct to the strongholds of the enemy burning and destroying tbe property of all supposed to be disloyal to Spain. I goto the mountains, where the in? surgent forces are marshalled, to-day. Havana had sixty-six Dew cases of yellow fever yesterday. Of these the majority were Spanish soldiers All Americans are leaving Cuba, fearing the fever. And all Cubans who re? member the new captain general will be in the United States before his arrival, which will be about, the middle of the present month. The Cause of Cubans. As Just and Holy as That of Patrick Henry. JACKSONVILLE, April 4.-Gonzales de Quesada, who is DOW at the head of the Cuban party io this country since Geo. Marti's departure, accompanied by Col. Fernando Figuerado and Dr. Fermi Valdeo Dominguez, arrived here from Tampa this morning. They were met at the depot by the reception com? mittee, consisting, of R, J. Martinez, E. M. Delgado and J. P. Cancio, and also by about fifty Cubans and escorted to tbe residence of Mr Cancio, whose guests they are while here. To-night a mass meeting was held at Metropolitan Hall to express sympa? thy with the Cubans in their effort to throw Spain's yoke. There were fully 800 people present, including the most prominent business men of the city. Among those present were United States District Attorney Clark. Uoited States Marshal McCay, Postmaster H. W. Clark, Mayor D. U. Fletcher, City Attorney Barrs and Judge Gibbons of the city court. The meeting adopted the following resolutions : Resolved, That it is the sense of the American people here assembled, 1. That they most heartily sympa? thise with the Cuban patriots in their desires and efforts to free Cuba from foreign control and obtain for the peo? ple of that island the right of self-gov? ernment so much prized by us. They have vaetly more reason for their action than had our forefathers., of whose actions we are so proud, and they will persist in their patriotic en? deavors until Cuba is free. 2. That it is the duty of byers of free Americao institutions to express their sympathy for the oppressed peo? ple of Cuba and their desire to see them free. 3. That we urge upon the Legisla? ture of the State of Florida the duty of formally by resolution expressing the sympathy of the whole people of Florida with the movement for a free Cuba. 4. That we urge upon our Federal government the dury of promptly re? cognising the Cuban patriots as bellig? erents and doing ail in their power to secure the recognition by the Spanish government of the freedom of the isl? and of Cuba. 5. That we call upon all Americao citizens who sympathize with the Cu? ban patriots to make known their sym? pathies, in order that their moral sup? port may be given to the good cause. Queseda received a dispatch today confirming the reports sent out that General J. A. Maceo hand landed on the island with three generals and 221 men. One of Mr. Queseda's party add? ed that arms in the shape of canon, rifles and ammunition were also land? ed, but from what port they were shipped is a secret none of the gentle? men would divulge. The four generals who landed are old campaigners against the Spanish. They fought in the last revolution. The three lieutenants of the famous Maceo are F. Crombet, the Costa Rican, F. Cerr?n and Patricio Corona, who was known when in Sacksonville as Senor Miranda, one of those connected with the yacht Lv gonda, which was seized io Fernandina, found to be laden with arms and am? munition, and which was subsequently released. Quesada hints that Maceo and his party were landed from the steamship Ethelred, which was fired upon by a Spanish vessel a day or two ago. Queseda seems confident that the re? volution will succeed. He said : "The only difficulty we have is to get our ships out of this country. If we clear the coast of this country we wMl do the test. This talk about Spanish warships patrolling the coast of Cuba is ali bun? combe sent out by the Spanish authori? ties to bulldoze the patriots and their allies. The steamer Mascotte, a week or so ago, made a trip to Jamaica and then skirted the entire island of Cuba, and bow many Spanish warships do you think she encountered ? Not one, .'Not a single warship I" The State's Pensioners. Some Interesting Information Changes in the Pension Law. The State Pension Board is uow hard at working making ready for the annual distribution of the State pension money. Each pensioner, the chairman of the board says, C111 receive about ??22 this year. The list of pensioners .ia now being rapidly made up and it is expected that the checks will" be sent out about the middle of this mooth. At the last session of the Legislature a material change was made in the law. it makes ir. possible for the widows of all dead Confederate soldiers whose names were ever on the pension rolls to secure pensions. Heretofore the law allowed pensions only to t ie widows of tb ose soldiers who died in the service of the State in the late war. Of courss this will materially increase the num? ber of pensioners in the State this year, but the prorata share of the pension fund will remain about the same, ow? ing to the fact that the county boards of pensions examiners will be paid \ about ?500 cut of the appropriation for their services, instead of about ?1,- ! 200 as heretofore. Comptroller General Norton, io talk- j ins: about the matter of the State's pensioners yesterday, referred to a letter be had rccieved from Mr 1). L Lumsden, a South Carolina Confederate veteran, who is now in the Soldiers Home io Maryland. The letter was a pitiful appeal from this poverty-stricken old soldier Mr. Norton remarks th^t thece were now io this State, and scat? tered about the country, about 200 such veterans as this, who would sooner or later, unless the State made some provision to take care of them, have to go to the poor houses.-The State. Honorably Adjusted. The Mexico-Guatamala Boun? dary Dispute. WASHINGTON. April 2.-The facts with regard to the settlement yesterday of the boundary dispute between Mexico and Guatemala are said to be these: About a year ago, the Guatemalan po? lice broke up a Dumber of Mexican lumber camps which were located in a part of the couotry in dispute and over which Guatemala at that time claimed authority. This tract of laod embraced about 4.000 square miles aod is partic? ularly valuable for its great timber possessions While Guatemala insisted upon its cootrol of this la?d, it was well understood between the two gov? ernments that it would be relinquished to Mexico after the boundary line had been drawn and accepted by the two countries. The indemoity which Gua? temala, it is said, will pay to Mexico, would result from her action in driving from this territory the Mexican citi? zens engaged there in the lumber busi? ness. It will not be a large sum and will not in the aggaegate exceed some hundred? of thousaods of dollars, but less than a millioo. On the other hand, the agreemeDt reached between the Guatemalan min? ister at the City of Mexico, Mr. Leon, and the Mexican foreign office yester? day, will result in the absolute control by Guatemala of another tract of la?d embraci?g 1,000 square miles, which has been claimed by Mexico, but which the Guatemalan goveroment felt it could not relinquish, even though war were to follow as a consequence of this re? fusal. This land lies to the east of that heretofore referred to and lies directly in the line of travel between the north? ern and southern departments of the republic. The possession of this land which aside from its Iocatioo, is val? uable io mineral deposits aod mahog? any, ts of eoormous interest to Guate? mala, and is, as a matter of fact, of far more importance than the other and larger tract in dispute. The agreement reached by the repre? sentatives of the two countries yester? day at the City of Mexico, requires the ratification of the Mexican Seoate and of the Guatemalan Assembly, but it is believed that no difficulty need be ap? prehended from either of these sour? ces. The Guatemalan minister does not know yet the details of the arrange? ment signed yesterday between his country and Mexico, but he has re? ceived from the Guatemalan minister io that city the following telegram : "MEXICO, April 1.-To the Minister of Guatemala, WashiDgton. The de? finite settlement of our difficulties with Mexico was signed to-day. Conditions honorable and satisfactory to both coun? tries. (Signed.) De Leon." Wrecked in Good Time. NEW YOBK, April 2.-Pilot W. Crocker, of the pilot boat James Gor? don Bennett, brought in from sea a story that will explain to many anx? ious hearts why they have Dot heard since 6he sailed from the men who went out in the little steamer City of Haver bill, which started for Key Weet on stero-wbeel river boat aod on her trip Thursday last. She was a flat-bottom South was put into a safe harbor every night, but no word was received of ber until Pilot Crocker's arrival yesterday, and he reports that the body of her captain, W. P. Watrons, with a life buoy strapped about the waist, and some wreckage were sighted by the men of the James Gordon Bennett after the heavy blow of Friday last offSarne gat. The rest, of the men aboard have ! perhaps been picked up. but old sailors say that the City of. Ilaverhill would not have lived five minutes at sea in a gale. Just how many were aboard the ! boat could not be learned. Her pilot for the trip was Capt. Wm. D. Van wycke, a well-known yachting captain Her chief engineer, Sam Brown, was equally well known, and his assistant, J. Fred Luckehback, was a nephew of \ IiOuis Luckenbacb, the tug owner. Fred Probst, whose father lives in j South Brooklyn, was the steward, and Mr. Watrous, whose home was in Key West, had his son, a youug college stu? dent, on board. Besides these uo one knew who were ?D the crew. The ! steamer's full complement of men was fourteen, but she is not supposed to have carried more than a crew of teu men. Pilot Crocker's report adds: Half an hour after picking up the body of Capt Watrous the Bennett fell in with the steamers wheel house and several benches and chairs The Iiaverhill had just been fitted 1 out io South Brooklyn at an expense of several thousand dollars for duty arnon9 the k-ys around Key West. She was supplied with an electric light service and had twenty-two state rooms con , strtictcd on the upper deck. She was i fitted with an open deck below, after ; the style of Southern river steamers, I and drawing only a few feet of water was top-heavy and altogether dangerous j io the rough water to be encountered on : a trip South. Tricked by Thieves. Springfield's Postof??ce Rob? bed of $8,000. SPRINGFIELD, ILLS., April 3.-The Springfield postoffce was robbed of about ?8,000 to-day. It was the oeate8t and most mysterious job ever put up in this city, and there is little clue to the perpetrators. The amount taken, with the exception of about ?30, was in stamps. It was abstracted from the vault in Postmaster Ridgeley'e private office while Mr. Ridgeley was absent for luucheon. .The loss was not discovered until after 4 o'clock. The thieves used duplicate kejs to unlock the office and vault, and they worked so quietly that with a dozen clerks on either side of the room no suspicion was aroused. The vault and that in the revenue collector's office are only separated by a wall, and Chief Clerk Will Vredenburg of the collector's office heard some one moving on the other side. Miss Davis, the stamp clerk, passed through the corridor about the same time, and saw two men standing near the postmaster's office. The robbery was discovered by As? sistant Postmaster Lester McMurphy when he went into the vault to get some stamps. Ten thousand dollars worth bad been placed there Monday, and from which two days sales had been made. A box containing jewelry and silverware belonging to the post? master's daughter, Mrs. Harry Dever.aux, partly wedding presents, was also stolen. The thieves had care? fully closed all the doors which they had to unlock with their duplicate keys. Two weeks ago, two men passing as attorneys, came into the postmaster's office and asked to borrow his keys to unlock a tin box carried by one of them, which they said contained papers to be filed in the United States court While there, another man came in and asked to see the postmaster. Mr. Ridgely referred him to Mr. McMur? phy and went across the hall to intro? duce bim. Wheu he came back he noticed one of the supposed lawyers holding the safe key to the light and examining it intently. The postmaster learned from the clerk of the Circuit Court that no pa? pers had been filled. Suspicion was allayed, however, by the return of one of the men next morning who told Mr. Ridgely he had got the box open and would file the papers soon. The po? lice believe that while Mr. Ridgely was introducing one of the conspirators to Mr. McMurphy, the accomplice in his private office was taking a wax impres? sion of the keys. Preparing For Yellow Jack. The Marine Hospital Service Very Much Disturbed by Th9 Condition of Affairs in Cuba. WASHINGTON, April 3-The author? ities charged with the conduct of quar? antine matters and the general super? vision of public health are keeping a sharp lookout to prevent importation of yellow fever into .the United States. The care that is being exercised by all Quarantine officials is illustrated by the action of the New York officials on Sun? day in orderiog the Portugese Prince back to quarantine for disinfection be? cause a fireman had died under sus? picious circumstances before the vessel touched at Santos. Th?9, too, in face of a clean bill of health by the ?quaran? tine officials ofthat port and the United States consul. The regular quarantine season begins on the 1st of May. All quarantine stations are being thorough? ly equipped and each of the three ports of refuge for s'ticken vessels is under the charge of a physician of experience and an assisting force that has dealt with fever in the past. The three large quarantine statious are as fallows: >outb Atlantic station, at Black Beard's Island, Sapelo Sound, near Aberdeen, Ga; Gulf station, at Ship Inland, off Biioxi, Miss, and Key West station, at i Dry Tortugas. There is also a very ! complete station at Brunswick, Ga., i but it does not compare in point of j equipment and ability to care for yellow j fever ships with those just named. ? The insurrection in Cuba causes a condition of affairs unpleasant for health officials to eousider. The marine hospi? tal officials declare that the shipment of several thousand new Spanish troops j into Cuba at this season of the year non-acciimated is bound to precipitate I an epidemic of yellow fever, the ill j j effects of which must, in a degree more I or lew severe, be felt in this country. ! They also fear that Cuban towns, ; especially Havana, will be overrun with j j country people seeking to escape th2 j contending forces engaged in continu-1 ? ?cg or suppressing insurrection, a'jd ; j that as a consequence sanitary precau- j ? lions will be even more neglected than ! 1 before Plans are being perfected by : : Surgeon Gen. Wyman to meet any con- j . cingency. Little oak trees, an inch and a half j j high, arc grown by Chinese gardners, j They tate root io thimbles. Enthusiasm in Knoxville. A Meeting in the Interest of a Trunk Line to One of Our Ports. KNOXVILLE, April 3 -A large enthusiastic meeting was held here to? day io the interest of a railroad from the East Tennessee coal field, to the South Atlantic seaboard at either Charleston or Port Royal. Represen? tatives were preseDt from Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Caro? lina and Georgia. In the forenoon there was an informal reception and conference at the Imperial Hotel, attended by 150 leading business men of Knoxville, besides representatives of the States mentioned. The afternoon meeting was held at the public hall of the court house, which was packed and hundreds could not get seats or stand? ing room. Judge S. T. Logan of Knoxville, presided and speeches were made by P. K. McCully of Anderson, Maj. Whitner, Maj. Lee and L. W. Perrin of Greenwood, J. H. Harrison of Walhalla, and others. Geo. A. Wagner of Charleston, was also present and participated. Resolutions were adopted approving a scheme of Col. A. E. Boone of Zanes ville, 0., under which he proposes to build the roa3.. Enthusiasm runs high and many believe that the completion of the great line is about to become a fixed fact. It Ran in the Family. JACKSONVILLE. Fla., April 3.-The body of. a negro, William Rawis, who was taken from guards at Newao'sville, Alachua County, last night, was found this morning swinging from a limb and ? riddled with halletts. Rawls was lynch? ed for the murder, March'll, of H. B. Kaul, a prominent merchant of New nansvtlle. The murder was for the pur? pose of robbery. A coroner's jury is now investigating the lynching of Rawls. The negro's father was legally hanged four years ago for a similar crime. Ready to Revolt. NEW YoiiK, April 3.-A passenger on the steamer Vigilancia, which ar? rived from Havana this morning, re? ports that at. Manzanilla, where be had beeb staying, the sympathy of the inhabitants was all with the insurgents and if the latter would approach the city and make a demonstration, the whole town would probably readily em? brace the whole revolutionary ?use. I There were frequent skirmi^^s be I tween the insurgents and the Spanish troops, but the former were too crafty ! to risk a decisive battle as yet. Their 'cause is a aparently gaining strength J daily. About ten days ago it was re? ported at Manzanilla that the insur? gent forces were about to invest the town, and for a time there was great excitement, but the rumor was soon traced to unreliabie sources, and the town again became quit Their Mother Was in Jail. The Two Murdered Williams In? fants Buried in Greenlawn. COLUMBUS, 0., April 3.-The bodies j of the two Williams children, found j murdered at the Park Hotel Monday, were taken from the morgue this moro? ng a?d buried in Greealawo ceme? tery. Williams, the father, and Annie, the surviving daughter, were present. The father was deeply affected, but Annie seemed entirely unmoved". Four car? riages followed the hearse to the grave, where a few words were said by Rev. J. C. Bright, of the South High Street Congregational church. The two chil? dren were placed in one coffio and buried I clasped in each other's arms. Mrs. Williams asked to be permitted to at? tend the funeral, but was refused. She was placed in the county jail this morn- j mg. -?MM?- -??.. -?Bi? Charles James Fox, it has been as- \ sorted, made th3 fortune of Adam ! Smith's "Wealth of Nations" by quot iog it in a speech made in the House of j Commons in 17?v>. In Mr Rae's life | of Adam Smith, recently published, the fact is established that the book was quoted for the first time then and by Fox. but that some years later Fox told a friend ?hat be had never read the book. "There is something in all these subjects," he explained, "which passer my comprehension ; something so wide that 1 could never embrace j them myself nor find anyone who did A Righteous Judgment A Preacher's Public Prayer Cannot be Made a Vehicle Slander. Los ANGELES, CAL., April 2-Io a decision rendered in connection with the suit for slander brought by Miss Tesea L. Kelso, librarian of toe public library here, against Rev. J. C. Camp? bell, Judge Clark overruled the de Bur? rer of the defendant that his statement was privileged because it was uttered in the course of a prayer before hisconSer gation in the First Methodist Episco? pal Church. The court holds that no prayer containing a slander publicly ut? tered can be exempt from the iegal con? sequences and that no communication made by pastor to his congregation is privileged because of such relation. The Ohio Elections. COLUMBUS, G., April 2.-The result of the election in Ohio cities yesterday indicates that the tide has not yet turn? ed in favor of the Democrats. 0: the larger cities only Columbus was carried by them, though the count may yet show that Major (Rep.) has beea de? feated for mayor of Toledo. Two of the three Republican papers there were op? posing him, however, and his defeat could hardly be claimed as a triumph of the Democrats, Blee, the Democratic mayor of Cleveland, who is defeated for re-election by McKissen, Republican, by 6,000 plurality, is ono of Sena? tor Brice's lieutenants in Northern Ohio, and it may be in Gome degree said to be a rebuke to Brice. Ex-&ov ernor Campbell and Congressman Sorg, alone among Ohio Democaats can claim some election honors. Camp? bell's town, Hamilton, elected the whole Democratic ticket by 1,000 plurality, and Sorg's town Middletown, which is strongly Republican, ehcted F. S. Tanzy, Democrat, mayor by over 400 plurality. In this city, the question was riot a political one. Both the Democrats and Republican candidates for mayor were believed to favor the opening of saloons at night and on Sunday. The law and order element placed D. E. Williams, a Democrat, ;n nomination for mayor pledged to enforce the closing ordinan? ces. Williams drew nearly his entire support from the Repubiicaos, at:d the Democrats, supportiog their candidate, Cotton H. Allen, solidly, elected him by nearly 2,000. A Jealous Husband's Deed. Killed H;s Wife Who Would Not Disclose the Author of a Letter. OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T.. April 3. Harry St. John, son of ex-Governor St. -John of Kansas, and a member of the last Oklahoma, Legislature, killed his wife this afternoon about two miles from this city. He became possessed of a letter addressed to ber. This afternoon he hired a buggy and drove out to his place. Getting bis gun, he confronted his wife with the letter, threatening to kill her if she did not disclose its author. She refused, and as he claims, the gun was discharged accidentally, shooting her ?hrouga the breast. Sae died without uttering a word. Mrs. St John was a Miss Mary Felbon. Her father, William B. Fel i bon was formerly county judge of j Saqnacbe county, Col , and later war I den of the Colorado penitentiary. She ? leaves two small chiidran She was I 2? years of age and her busbaud is 35 I and a lawyer. He has lived io Okla ; homa since 18S9. Montgomery rested bis fame on his ; "Pelican Island," a work uow forgot ! ron, and thought little of the hymns by ! which he is remembered. Andrew J. Houston, of Dallas, Tex., ; son of General S im [?ootoa, h?vs pre I sented to the city of Cincinnati the ! dagger which Santa Anna surrendered to his father at the battle et" San Jacinto. Thc present is made in re? cognition of the services rendered by the city of Cincinnati to the ca ase of Taxan independence in irs darkest days. The dagger is a very handsome, jewel ed-handled weapon of elegant fin sh - lilli - Thos* who llover read the adv tisenaents in their newspapers miss more than they presume. Jonathan Renison, of Botan, Worth Co , Iowa, who had bee.-, troubled with rheumatism in his back, urms and shoulders read an item in Ins ;>ap'-r about how a prominent German cit zen ti; I';. Mad? ison had bren cured. He procured 'he same medicine, and to use hi? own words: ">v cured me right up." He H:SO S?>?: S4A neighbor ami his wire were both sick in bed with rheumatism. Their boy was over to my house ?nd said they were so bad he ind io do the cookmg. 1 told him or' Chamberlain's Prtin Balm and how :t had cured me, he got a bottle and it cured them up in a week. 50 cent bottles for sale by L)r. A J. China. Highest cf all in Leavening Power.- Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking ABSOLUTELY PURE