Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Telegraphic Briefs. _i May 29. The. French steamer Don Pedro j was wrecked off Cape Corobdo. Eighty persons were drowned. Another $150,000 cotton mill will be built in Columbia. It will be known as the Granby Cotton Mill. The corporators are C. H. Manson, W. B. S VVhaley, R. W. Shand and W. H. Lyles. Asa W. Bushnell has been nomi? nated for Governor of Ohio. Judge Cromwell Gibbons, of Jack? sonville, Fla., criminal court, defied Governor Mitchell and ignored a pardon which the latter granted to John L. Marvin, president of the Merchants National Bank. Cotton fell a few pointa yesterday. A distinct earthquake shock was felt at Brattleboro, Vt., yesterday. The Washington correspondents are in Atlanta, the guests of the Ex? position managers. Jacobi Henson, a young colored man, recently tried and convicted in Howard county, Maryland, and sen? tenced to be hanged on June ?, was taken from Ellicott City jail and hanged to a limb of a dogwood tree. The lynching was the work of about twenty men, who thus avenged the murder of Daniel F. Shea, which was one of the most brutal crimes ever committed in Howard county. The lynchers feared that the Governor of Maryland might be induced to inter? fere and commute Henson's sentence to life imprisonment. The Supreme Court of the United States Monday decided the Geary Chinese Exclusion Act to be consti? tutional and incidentally affirmed the general power of the United States to exclude aliens of all kinds. ? The question came before the Court j in the case of Lem Moon Sing, ap-1 pellant, vs. the United States. The j appellant transacted business in San Francisco for a number o? years, and in January, 1894, went on a tem? porary visit to China with the inten? tion of returning and continuing his residence in the United States. Dur? ing his absence the Geary law of 1894 was passed. Jone 3. The mercury climbed to 95 de? grees in the shade yesterday in Chi? cago, and there were many fatal sun? strokes. The Russian government has pro? mulgated a law that all commercial dealings with that country shall be concluded upon a gold basis. It is said that Murphy, the Orangeburg murderer will be granted a new trial. Judge Cromwell Gibbons, of Jack? sonville, Fla., has ordered the release of all prisoners serving in the county jail for carrying concealed weapons. This he did because Gov. Mitchell pardoned Banker Marvin. The Salvation Army brigade at? tended the Dirby races at Epson. Jone 4. It is positively asserted that Marti, | the great Cuban leader is not dead. | The hot wave continues. The ? thermometer registered yesterday in Baltimore 97?, in Chicago 95?, St. Louis 100?, Cleveland 49?, Louis? ville 100?, Atlante 94?,. Many deaths have occurred from the heat. Miss Abbie Allen, a maiden lady, who lived in Pntman Co., Florida, and her servant, who was with her, were murdered and the house burned Monday night. The Freehold Building and Loan Association of Pittsburg was closed yesterday and a receiver appointed. The authorized capital is ?30,000,-1 000. It has disposed of 30,000 shares in Pennsylvania and West Virginia at $100 each. Mr. M. F. Dwyer's Banquet did not start in the Whitsuntide handi? cap in London yesterday. The triumphs of the Radicals in the recent elections in Italy have made a strong impression in political circles. General results of the elec? tion assure the ministry a consider? able numerical majority but the situ? ation is nevertheless difficult from the strength of the opposition. The Baltimore World yesterday ! afternoon printed a sensational story of the arrival of a ship with yellow fever aboard, it states that the British steamship Eamwell, Capt. Ryes, from Colon via. Santiago, brought in three cases. One, John Doiley, died this morning with every symptom of yellow fever. The other patients are not in quarantine. A coroner's inquest will be held to? night in the Doiley case. The general term Court of Com? mon Pleas for New York hand a de? cision yesterday reversing the order of the board of police commissioners is dismissing Police Captain Wrn Devery and Wardman Ed Glenoan from the police force and ordered that they be reinstated. They were charged with accepting bribes. ii.eie were three seizures of pack? ages at the express office in Colum? bia yesterday. Those persons of "high standing" who were the non recipients were too hot to kick, but in their misery longed with a pas? sionate longing for what might have been. The Federal authorities claim ed some ol the liquor, but, finding the packages did not contain five gallons, returned them to the State authorities, according to au agree? ment with the ?late officials ? convention of the advocates of free silver is called to meet on June 18 in Topeka, Kas Dr. David McGowan, of Laurens County, who was assaulted by a negro desperado, at Cross Hill, in that county, about a month ago, died Suuday of his iujuries. The negro escaped. A five-year old daughter of section master F. H. Holiday, of Lanes, was horribly burned yesterday by the ex? plosion of a kerosene oil can. She was pouring oil on some apparently dead coals when the oil ignited, burn? ing her, probably fatally. Aldermen Howell and Colvin, of Atlanta, had a fisticuff in the Council Chamber yesterday. Howell got the es t of the fight. The Ring's Knees Shake. Half a Loaf Better Than no Bread at all. EDGEFIELD, June 3.-The executive committee of the Democratic party of Edgefield county, except a few, God save the mark, met to-day. Ben Till? man and Jasp Talbert were not io the meeting, but on hand to make sugges? tions to the faithful. It was agreed, after discussion, to divide the delegates to the Constitu? tional convention equally between the two factions. The Conservatives 6erved ootice that nothing would be binding on the Conservatives if there was any bucking by the Tillmanites. R. B. Watson, State Senator, said there were four thousand white voters in the county and seven thousand ne? gro votes, but ODe hundred determined white men could carry the election for any ticket they desired, and that he, R. B. Watson, would shoot down the first white man that would try to lead the negro to the polls, and take the cons?quences. A bystander said: "In a horn/' This is the same Chris? tian gentleman, Bob Watson, who four years ago wanted to head a mob to Ur and feather Aleck Haskell. It is be? lieved by some that when the shooting begins th?> Watson will be like some of the Hamburg heroes, hard to find.-Columbia State. - ^ i i < ? mm Edgefield I ollows Aiken. EDGEFIELD, June 3.-At a meeting of the county executive committee held here to-day the following resolution was j unanimously adopted : Resolved, That we ask thc Demo- j eratic clubs of Edgefield County to call together their respective organizations on Saturday, June 30, inst, for the ! purpose of electing one delegate for each twenty-five members, or majority fraction thereof, of said clubs, which delegates shall compose a mass meeting to assemble at Edgefield Court House j on Monday, the 1st day of July, to select three men from the Reform fae-1 tioa of the Democratic party and three j men from the Conservative faction, whom we shall urge the people to nomi? nate at the primary on the 30th of July as Edgefield County's delegates to the coming Constitutional Convention. The spirit to divide the delegates ! seems general. South Carolina Dispensary. WASHINGTON, June 3.-The South Carolina dispensary law will again come before the Supreme Court of the United States next October, for exami? nation of the relations it bears to the interstate commerce clause of the Con? stitution. It will come op on babeas corpus proceedings in behalf of E. C. Beach, a constable under appointment by Governor Evans, who is in custody of the Uuited States marshal for con? tempt of court in the violation of the order of Judge Gc? of ?he Federal court forbidding the officers of the State to seise packages of liquors im? ported into the State for the personal use of the owner. Attorney General Barber made application a fortnight I ago for leave to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which would j bring up the whole question, and the leave asked for was granted to-day. ! Chief Justice Fuller answered that the case would be heard on the first day ot 1 the court in October. A Society Girl's Suicide. Miss Elise Coleman, a Wealthy Girl, Kills Herself. - DUNKIRK, N. Y., May 31.-Miss ! Elise Coleman, daughter of the late William Coleman, a wealthy banker of this city, committed suicide last night by sbcotiog herself. Miss Coleman was a prominent society woman and spent the early part of the evening cabing upon friends. She w?s to all appearances io a cheerful mood and her friends detected nothing about her ac tion= that would indicate anything wrong Returning to her horne about about, il o'clock, thc went directly to her room. A few minutes later mem? bers of the family heard a pistol shot, and hurrying to the girl's room, found that she had biowo her brains out with a 42-calibre revolver. Miss Coleman was about 20 years of a^e an'J surrounded with all the luxu ries that wealth could provide. Her friends are at a loss to determine why ehe should have taken her own life, but the circumstances indicate premedita? tion. Workman, the Noted Ex Constable, Shot to Death. Colunil.in St.v.e, June 2. It was about 1 o'clock yesterday when Mr. John T. Duucau, the chief clerk iu the of?oe of the Secretary of State, received a telegram from his brother, Sam M. Duncan, who ie a member of the State liquor constabu? lary force at Cliutoo, sayi?g: "Shot Workman in self-defense; got shot twice in hips." It being known that W7orkman was the former chief of the force stationed in the up-country, a desperate man, the man who con? ducted the raids which caused so much trouble in Greenville duriog Governor Tillman's administration, the wires were at oDce set to work. It was soon ascertained that Workman had, like many others of the original constabu? lary force, joined the great majority, several bullets having ended his earthly career. And, as will be seen below, yesterday was a bloody day all round for the constables; strange to say, only they themselves drawing blood. Duncan, the man who did the killing is thirty years of age and is a native of Newberry couoty. Ee has a wife and four children. There has been bad blood between himself and Workman for long time. Workman was for? merly the chief of the force stationed in the up-country and Duncan worked with him. Wheo the force was re-or? ganized about three months ago, Chief Fant, it seems, bad reason to believe that Workman bad sold out to the liquor men in Greenville and found that the other men could only raid cer? tain parties by acting contrary to Workman's instructions. Workman thought that Duncaa had been the cause of his removal. Dun? can, it appears, never had any use for him and went 60 far as to tell bim what he thought of him. Yesterday morning, according to all accounts received by The State and others, John WTorkman and Dancan met on the streets of Clinton. Work? man brought up the matter of the old trouble and charged Duncan with hav? ing been the cause of his removal, and the shooting followed. The State's correspondent says: "Workman first hit Duncan and shot him twice, and theo Duncan drew his pistol and shot Workman three times, each ball tak? ing effect. The coroners verdict was that Workman came to his death by gunshot wounds at the hands of S. M. Duncan. Eye witnesses say that it was clearly a case of self-defense. Dun? can wired Sheriff McCravy to come for him." Workman lived, it is said, about two hours after he was shot, although he w?s shot through the luogs and head. Duncan has two pretty bad wounds, but Dra. W. IL and J. W. Young, who dressed them, and are attending him, say he will recover. Mr. Duncan's brother went to Clinton in the after? noon to see that he is properly cared for medically and otherwise. ANOTHER CONSTABLE 8HOT. But this was not the only constable shot yesterday. The other affair was an accidental shooting. Constables Speed, Gardner and Martin were in the basement at the State Capitol yester? day morning about 8 o'clock. While they were talking, Martin let his pistol drop on the marble floor and it was discharged. The bullet cut through Constable Speed's trousers near the ankle and entered the left leg of Con stable Martin, going through just above the knee. The wounded con? stable was taken to Dr. Kendall's of? fice and that physician dressed the wound. It is not serious. Had the bullet passed half an inch nearer ID, the main artery would have been sev? ered and the man would have bled to death before aid could have reached him. ---?m-? - A Little Boy Palling Prom a Tree is Instantly Killed. The Colombia State of June 2, says: A terrible accident happened out on North Pulaski street about -4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A bright young lad, who was as happy as he could be just a few minutes before the accident, lost bis life almost io the twinkling of an eye aod in a most peculiar man? ner. The boy-youDg Tazewell Huffmao -about 9 years of age, a soo of Mr. Pickens Huffman, who runs a farm in Lexington and was formerly connected with the quarries over the river, was j having a happy time up in a large j mulberry tree standing on the pave- i meat just in front of his father's resi- j dence, No. 240 Pulaski Street, when, in j tying some strings from limb to limb, j be went out too far on a rotten limb, i The limb gave way, and he fell head i foremost to the sand pavement below, a distance of scarcely more than ten 1 feet, if that. Nine times out of ten he might have escaped uninjured, but it happened that he fell directly on the top of his head and his neck was brok? en, death resulting almost instantan- j eousiy. The spiual column was com pletely broken, and the head was hang- ' ms loosely to the body when parties who were on the lavement rushed to the little fellow ro lind that ?ie was a corpse. The body was quickly taken into the residence of the lad's parents, immedi? ately ifi front of which the fearful acci? dent occurred, and bi.n f.-.thcr was sent for The boy's mother was terri? bly shocked by the fatal accident and appeared inconsolable. The stricken family have three children left. Story of The Saved. How the Colima Perished In a Storm. SAN FRANCISCO, June 1.-The Ex? aminer this morning publishes the fol? lowing from its correspondent at Mazat? lan, Mexico : "MAZATLAN, May 31, via GALVESTON, May 31.-The steamer San Juan has arrived here with the twenty-oce pas? sengers picked up OD Tuesday from the wreck of the steamer Colima From the passengers, your correspondent has learned some of the particulars of the dreadful disaster which happened on Monday at noon, when the Colima was about forty-eight miles out of Manza? nillo and off the shore. All the res? cued are badly bruised. They were all pioked np from pieces of wreckage and rafts, with the exception of A. J. Suth? erland, who had clung to a boat after it had capsized five times and drowned all the others who attempted tc escape from the wreck io ber. All were afloat, lashed by the fiercest gale of years and buffetted by the angry sea for about twenty-four hours. The steamer was heavily laden, and had a large deckload of number. When the storm struck ber she made bad weather of it, the captain having great difficulty in keeping her heac. to the sea. The wind increased in fu-y until it is said to have been the fiercest storm known along this coast in twenty years. The sea rose rapidly. Waves washed over the vessel and started the deck load. As the waves rose the storm in? creased and the management of the steamer became impossible. One of the seas, a mighty wave, struck her with such force that the beams trembled as if she had struck on a reef, and most of the passengers thought this the cause of the shocks. The passengers were pretty badly stunned by being pitched about, but rushed upon the deck in a panic Here they met an? other danger. Thc gale tore part of the deckload of lumber from its fastenings and whirled the heavy planks about with appaling violence. Many were struck and maimed. At least one pas? senger was kilk-d by haviog his bead crushed by flying timbers. The survivors say that the officers of the steamer were brave and active in this crisis. Captain Taylor stood upon the bridge with the chief officer, Grif? fiths. At an order Griffiths ran for? ward to superintend the launching of the life boat No. 5, while Second Officer Lamhorn was in charge of the boat No. 3. The latter was successfully launched and filled with passengers. Then the ship went down aod the Langhorn boat was capsized. All in both boats are supposed to have per? ished. Capt. Taylor, went down with the j ship, and as the vessel sank he blew I three blasts of the whistle as a good? bye signal. The engiueersand firemen went down at their posts. Night Clerk Berry was in bis room and went clown with the vessel. Third Officer Hansen was among the saved. He sprang from j the ship as it went down, and succeed? ed in reaching a piece of wreckage. There he clung for twenty-four hours, washed and buffeted by the waves. He saw men and women sinking about him and was powerless to render aid. He j saw naked aod mangled bodies float? ing by, and the horror of it made him sick. Hansen says that as the steamer foundered her boilers burst. After Them Now. Several Affidavits Forwarded That Mean Trouble for Constabies. The Columbia State Saturday morn? ing made a brief notice of proceedings ?hat had been inaugurated before the Uuited States Commissioner Bauskett against the liquor constables who have i during the past week made so many j indiscriminate seizures of liquor io ! Columbia. It was inadvertently stated ? that Mr. Ried?oger has sworn out a ! warrant against the constables who I seized his liquor. Of course no war . rant could be issued. The party suffer I ing merely makes an affidavit as to the j seizure to be forwarded to the judge, j calling his attention to the fact that his ? order of injunction has been disobeyed. ! It is simply the preliminary step to the ; contempt proceedings that will of course j follow. Yesterday five such affidavits j were made by different parties before I Commissioner Bauskett, and were for I warded. The fun seems to be about ! to begin now and the constables will I no doubt see that it is no small matter for them to seize packages about the use of which there can be no doubt. Yesterday morning Constable Beach made a seizure. In the afternoon Con- j stable Lafar seized a half gallou jug and a five gallon keg, addressed to dif- j ferent parties. Later on he and Con- | stable Davis came across two boxes j of liquor at the express office, one con- j taiuing a five gallon keg and the other j about ten quart bottles, aod seized both packages. Yesterday two of the parties whose ; liquor was seized the previous day got | their liquor from the commissioner, j Attorney General Harker yesterday ' said that he know nothing at. all about j the seizures that are being made. Ile says he has written his argument in the dispensary appeal case. Sometime ajro I was trouble with an at- ? tuck ot rheumatism, I used Chamberlain's Pinn f>iiin HO.i vvas completely cu red. I hare since advised many of my friends and customer? io try die remedy and ali ?peuk highly of it. Simon Goldnaum. Sun Luis Hey, Cal. For ?ale by Dr. A. J. Cliina. "LES MISERABLES." A Nocturne in ?'C Sharp " We over?eurd a couveraation Thursday morning between two citizens of our town which went like this: "Hello, John, bow are jon feeling this , morning?" "Hot, man, hot ! and how are you standing it? Did you sleep any list night ?*' "Mighty little; I never wa3 so bothered io my life as I waa last night by a lot of blank ety-blank noises, and coming on top of the plutonian heat, knocked sleep higher than a kite." "How was it, old man; tell us all about it." "Well, it was this way. First, off I kick? ed all the covering down, and tried to think of the eternal snows of the Arctic regions, ice-houses, refrigerators, freezing in the Alps, lying on one of those awful ice-chests (or whatever they are) that they put dead peo? ple on when they want to keep 'em, and listening to the drip, drip, of the melting ice, and other such such cheerful and blood-cbill ?Dg things-" "How jolly ghastly you must have felt," interrupted the other fellow. " Hold on ! " said John, " I was just about to sink.into the arms of Murphy or Morphine or whoever be is, wheo an ear-splitting, hair raising, blasphemy-producing, sleep-destroy? ing whistle, blown somewhere about the depot started up acu made me nearly jump out of my skin, and set every dog in the county to barking, and all the mocking birds to singing, and some fellow started out to hammer on iron, or throw bars cf railroad iron on flat cars, and the electric light works started up again after an hour or so of silence, and trains began to shift around, and the cats got to courting on the back fence, and somebody in the street went to whistling "Oft in the Stilly Night," and that started the dogs off again, and about that time the 4.20 train came rushing by, blowing its whistle, and thea the baby waked up, and the rooster began to crow, as if they were paid for it, and the baby fell to crowiog. too, and pull? ing my bair and mustache, and then came the cook and began to cut wood tor ber breakfast, and the milkman drove up and engaged the cook ia an animated conversation, and alto? gether I did not get much sleep, as you may imagine." "Ha! ba!" said the other fellow; "you surely had a tough time. Hope you'll do better to-nigbt." And so they parted. The Stearn Racer bold9 nearly all the world's records. The Stearns Special is the ?oest combination track and road wheel built. And the Stearns Model A is the road wheel par excellence. The Stearns Ladies' Wheel and Tandem are perfect models of their kind, H. G. Osteen & Co., Agents for Sumter and Clarendon. Terribie Fail on the Track. WASHINGTON-, May 31 -"Dick" Corbloy, *24- yeats old, j ?ckey for Frank Weir, tiie turfman, had his neck broker! during the last race at the St. Asaph, Va., track this after? noon. Corbley was riding Kirkover, who, at the time, was running 6ixin a five furlong dash. As the horses made the turn at the home stretch, Kirk? over fell, and the two other horses, Charley R. and Mary Irwin fell over him, and consequently upon the un? fortunate rider Corbley, whose neck was broken and he died instantly.. George McLaughlin, who rode Charley R., had his collar bone frac? tured- Punch, the horse running close behind Kirkover, became jos? tled by the accident, and a lit i further down the stretch, he too fell and broke his leg. He was after? wards killed. Wff?&m Corbley, who was from Jersey City, was conveyed to the house of Frank Weir, who lives near the track. McLaughlin was removed to a Wash? ington hospital. The accident is supposed to have been due to the poor condition of the track, which is dotted with small dangerous holes. For Sale at a Bargain. A large assortment of Fashionable Tinted Writing Papers will be sold at a bargain within the next tee days. H. G. Osteen & Co. Good paper ar 14cts, 15cts. 20cts, 25ct3 30cts per box. Fine paper at 35 cte, 40cts 45cts, 50cts, 55cts, 60cts, 65cts, 70cts, 75cts per box at H. G. Osteen & Co. < >l taine : : : / ' .- . : : * > a; tended to for MOlfEKA'i'E FEES Our r>free is opposite th* t'.S. 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And so it was that ? commenced made thea! especially subject to j the use of Dr. Miles' Ecstora* ive Ner headache, nervous prostration, neu- vine I took two and one-half bottles ralgia. sleeplessness, etc Dr. Miles' ?and am happy to say that I have noi Nervine was especially prepared for had ajicadachc since, and that was these ca vs. It has cured thousands ? nearly three months ago, and during and will cure you. ithis tinie I have boen under great Mr. JitO. .7. IC iii:, whose portrait ac-j mental strain and worry, through compa?as th::*, rex-resenting t.:c Na-r having prolonged sickness and death tiona] Starch Man'fg Co.. of New ; in my family, which would.ordinarily. York. I:as been a commercial traveler-have prostrated me. but eve:! under in Mie'wi.^a.i. Lualaiia ana Oaio for iii- this great nervous strain I have not teen years. : ad was a a*. < re ru?ferciv had the slightest symptom of a return Mr. ?vir?r?s tells la v,'lie was cured: cf the terrible headaches that 1 '? L !?.; vc be? n a sufferer I rom terrible J1 houg?i? would yet ?rive me crazy. headac!ie? f--i* }*ears. OX late they be-j My gratitude prompts nie to write came ?o s jvc rc as i o recur every eight this, as 1 am anxious that others or ten days, lasting ' rom twenty-fourJ should use Dr. Miles* Nervine/' to forty-eight hours and obliging mel Yours I" T health, .1??UN .1. Ki UK. togo tc) bed. 1 went to Hoi Springs, i Elkhart; lao.. Sept. *:'i. Arl:.. . Cierne::.-;. Mich., aid :.: a : 1- !.. always so. 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