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Stilla Mystery.
Maceo's Death Demands Fur
ther Proo?
Habana/via Key West, Deo. 16.?
Maceo's death is still surrounded by
mystery. Tbe body undiscovered and
> '- no farther proofs have been addeced
;-v." except tbe ofSoial statement which
v' leads tbe Cabans to think be is still
alive. Ia fact, the residents of Punta
Brava, the vicinity in which the eo
?:-/? ' gagemeot occurred, disbelive the story.
Zartacba, continues to give oontradio
;;v_ tory evidence. He now says the
knife captured belongs to Go
Inez's son and not to \ Maceo.
The ?Cubaos consider it significant
that the objects captured are not
shown and also the' alleged written
statements of Gomez's son. It is also
* significant that no Cabans have sur
rendered since the leader's alleged
death, proving either that it will not
affect tho revolution, or that -Maceo is
not dead Many rumors are *afioat in
connection with Maceo'e death and all
are confusing. One is that a major at
Cabezas, Matanzas, telegraphed that
Maceo passed near the town with a-large
force. Another is that Agairre bas
written under date of the 10th, but
does not mention the fact. Many cou
riers have been sent to investigate, but
have not returned. The Cabaos disbe
lieve the story tbat Maceo was killed
by : treachery They eay Maceo was
not easily crapped and would not ac
cept a Sag of truce ' even. from Ahu
mada. He knew the gentleman by his
reputation. The marine authorities are
*iodtgnant at WeyJer's statement that
Maceo crossed the trocha in a boat, and
it is said have cabled to Spain protesting.
The minister laid the faot before tbe
<v . cabinet meeting. The relations of" the
naval and military authorities -are
'' /.,. strained.
The dewonetrations in Weyier's
honor were simply to cover the failure
in Pinar del Rio. It is easy to organ
ize' any demonstration in Habana,
counting with volunteers tbe great
numbers of semi-miiitary organizations
who are forced to obey orders. Crowds
will gather th? same as in other places
and will cheer for the sake of excite
ment
It is said friction has occurred be
tween Weyler and Civil Governor
Porruna on account of the former not
;promoting Chief of Police Labarrera,
who is only a mejor of tbe civil guard.
Reporte from the field are scarcer
everyday. The government is biding
allimportant engagements. It is said
important encounters have occurred in
Pinar del l?io aod Matanzas, but the
details are suppressed! In fact, tbe
government is trying to impress the
public that the rebel ranks are demoral
ize^ since Maceo's death and shirk
fights Quite the contrary. The reb
els are displaying more activity even in
tbe vicinity of the city, where outposts
are fired upon nightly. The same hap
pens at Gaanabacoa and other sur
rounding towns.
A Declaration That
Maceo Lives.
Cabans at Key West Become
Greatly Excited Over a
Story From Cuba?A
Spanish Trick.
Key West, Fia., Dec. 17.?Passen
gers by the Olivette last nigbt report
that great uneasiness is felt in-' Habana
on account of tbe uncertainty of Ma
ceo's death. It is reported on good au
thority that Gen. Prats, commaoder of
Matanzas province, notified Weyler by
telegram to cease all demonstrations on
account of the death of Maceo, and
that General Bernal of said province
had an engagement Tuesday week with
Macao, who had five thousand men with
him. The Spaniards report a victory
as usual.
Passengers sta*e that the reason fot
the report of Maceo's death is well un
derstood in Habana, aod that it was
made up by order of the home govern
ment to influence the congress of the
United States.
There was the wildest kind of excite- j
ment on the deck last night when the
facts became known. Tbe cheers for
Cuba Libre shook the dock. It is also
said that there are private letters in the
city confirming tbe above, bat it is im*
possible to get at them to-night.
The cruiser Raleigh returned last af
ternoon from her chase after the Three
Friends. It is reported that they did
not see anything of her. It is reported
on good authority that a small boat
landed at this port from the Three
Friends about 4 o'clock.
The Cause of Cuba
New York. Dec 17.?Col Etben
Allen, nresident of the Cuban League
of the United States, which was organ
izsd the other evening by a number of
prominent New Yorkers at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, issued an address to the
public to day in which he set? forth the
principles and purposes of the organiza
tion. The address, after reviewing
the struggle in* Cuba from its ioceptioo
to the present time, say e:
We are charged before the world with
impotency in not protecting our own
citizens against Spanish violence on
Cuban soil, ?tf in hushing our indigna
tion at unumbered cruelties in Cuba
while millions of American capital
there invested are gradually disappear
ing, which would be saved by the im
mediate intervention of this ? govern
ment.
Fellow citizens, it is due to our
selves as well as to Cuba that this
record should be reversed. This has
not been our record hitherto, and, we
are persuaded will not remain so now
when an appeal is made to the human
ity as well as to the material interests
of our people.
We do not propose, nor is it neces
sary, to violate our laws But if the
laws stand in the way, then change the
laws. We, the people, are the source
of power, and may dictate what .the
laws shall be, and, therefore, cannot
shield ourselves behind statutory
phraseology from the ?dium of not ful
filling our natural obligations toward a
people struggling (o be free Let us
so speak that the esecutive of this na
tion and our representatives in congress
shall recognize Cuban independence,
and all will be well. We are not re
quired to raise battalions of men nor to
furnish ships ot war, but we arc called
upon to declare that the heart of this
nation,is with the oppressed Cubaos,
and then with her independence ac
knowledged her unarmed heroes may
obtain from us the required equipments
of war, as Spain has done heretofore,
and thus we blaze the way for. a ?o al
victory, as surely to follow as in the
end right triumphs over wrong.
* 'While w? willingly give our sym
pathy a words, we should remember
that there are times when an empty
hand carries no favor. Such a'time is
the present, when the Cubans stand in
need of every necessary of life and
means of conducting exhaustive battle.
They toast, of coarse, be drained of re
sources, which our people should sup
ply. Arms and ammunition, and more
than these, food for hungry troops and
people, with medicines for their sick
and wounded, may be shipped to in
surgent ports with full p3rmissioo of
statutes, since with no formal blockade
against us, we may as freely traffic
there as with the ports of continental
Spain. To f?roish these things, which
may legally be done, money becomes
literally the sinews of war. The
league asks for subscriptions through
out the United States in aid of patriots,
whioh may be sent to Hon. Darwin R
James, the treasurer, at 203 Broadway,
New York city.
The Cuban league of the United
States is organized to give practical
consolidation to the sentiment of Amer
icau citizens and the ?noral support of
the same in securing to Cuba, by all
means, the inalienable right of self
government. It is proposed to so
arouse public sympathy by mass meet
ings and through the press, that recog
nition as an independent State shall
be fiecured to the patriots.
"The league will hold a grand mass
meeting in Cooper Union in the city of
New York on Monday, December 21.
It is desired that branch organizations
be formed throughout the country and
that meetings be held in other promi
nent cities of the nation. Friends,
who may read this address, will assist
if they janize at once and report
progress jo the secretary, Francis
Waylaud Glen, No. 132 Nassau street,
New York city, We earnestly request
the co-operation of all men and women
in this cause. Io grateful recollection
of those who crossed the ocean to help
our fathers a century ago, let us do
now what is recesi-ary to encourage
those who are repeating the story of
Washington aod bis compatriots.
From the north and from the south,
the cast and the west, let one united
voice proclaim independence for the
patriots, aod young Cuba, powerful be
cause of this shall scourge the assailant
from her soil and take her place with us
in the family of republics.
"Ethen Allen, President.
Francis Wayland Glon, Secretary.
"Executive Committee?Paul Pina,
John Jacob Astor, Gen. Daotjl Butter
field, Ervin Wardman, Frank B. Car
penter, Frederick D. Grant, John D.
Kelley, John 0. McGuire. R. C Alex
ander, Constant A. Andrews, Walter
S. Logan, Thomas S, Stewart.
-New York, Deo,- 17, 1896." ?
An American in Spain
Writes an Interesting Letter
to Governor Evans.
Governor Evans has received a let '
ter from an American citizen travel
ing in Spain. It is on businesn. but
after stating what he wants, he pro
ceeds to give bis views of the coun
try, its people and ho. they are
moving every power to conquer
Cuba T?he governor permitted cer
tain portions to be copied for publi
cation which are certainly forcible; if
not elegant. , The extracts read :
"I find that Spain still has a very
friendly feeling towards South Caro
lina brought about by their relations
in the past civil war I am sure that
if she were to go to war with the
United States, a citizen of the south
would fare better here than a north
erner I make no secret of being an
American citizen, but if it should
come to the worst, 1 might be put to
some trouble, although at present I
am ?ot the least afraid, but we don't
know what a day may bring forth
There are now more than 10,000 men
being drilled here every day, getting
ready to be shipped to the slaughter
pen. Two thousand wet e shipped
from here last Friday, boys from 16
to 20 years old It is the most piti
ful sight I evet saw ; it is just like
sending a lot of' schoolboys ; they
get about two weeks' drilling and
then they are driven on the ship like
dumb beasts, leaving here half naked
and, I might say, more than half
starved, but they say their pride will
cause ?hem to lay every man in Spain
upon the altar, before they will give
tin. It is sickening and disgusting in
the extreme, and I guess it is very
fortunate that I Ncannot speak Span
ish, could I, I expect I would have
been killed ere this, as my language
expressing my disgust for such has
not been very chaste. I have a Spanish
interpreter I talk to unadulterated on
the subject, but he has lived in other
countries among civilized people long
enough to know better. But what
could you expect of a class of people
that are traveling in the same style
vehicle and using the same style ag
ricultural implements that were used
in this country before Christ. Four
hundred years ago 85 per cent, of
the population of. Spain could read
and write : to day only 20 per cent
are able to do so. Who is to blame ?
The church, which is the curse of the
nation. Now, don't place a wrong
construction on that sentence What
I mean by saying that the church is
a curse is this : the nation is ruled
by the priests and what they say is
law. They want to keep the nation
in inorance to satisfy their own
damnable greed. 1 would rejoice to
see a shipload o? them embarked for
Cuba. They tell the*people, 'Yon
must not send your children . to
school ; there they will learn to read
and then they will read bad books,
which will send them to hell.'*
"Well, if hell in not full of just
such cattle, there is not a just God.
I must curb my feelings'and stop.
You are too far ?way to appreciate
the situation."
The name of the young man writ
ing is withheld for very good rea
sons.
Penitentiary Factory
Suyeriotedent Neal has ander con
sideration another scheme for the bene
fit of the Penitentiary. It is to coo
vert tbe old shoe factory into a cotton
mill.
This factory is a large building and is
capable of being fitted up into a very
respectable sized cotton factory. Col
onci Neal has had the matter under
consideration for some time and be
stated yesterday that he thought he
would have everything iu readiness by .
the time the next orop oame
in. It is proposed to have a mill
of about 5,000 spiodles aod the cot
ton from the Penitentiary farms will
be manfactnred ioto cloth, which
can be used in making clothing
for the convicts and various other
purposes. If is understood that
it is not tbe iotention of the authorities
to oomplete with outside products,
though that might in the future be thi?
result. The immediate object of the
plan is to furnish employment for con
victs, not otherwise utilized and to
cheapen the expenses of the institution
by making its own cloth.
With a cotton and hosiery factory,
its own water works and electric plant,
the Penitentiary will fee the cost up to
d;tte institution io the county. The cot
ton factory is to bo run by electricity.
Colonel Neal expects to bc^in prepara
tions at eneo for the change.
Palmetto Road Reorganized.
Raleigh. Deo 17.?President Hoff
man aud Vice President St. John of
the .Seaboard Air Line arc here to day
attending the meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Palmetto railway. The line
extends from Hamlet, N. C, to Che
raw, S. C, aod was recently sold under
foreclosure. It was to-day reorganized
with Hoffman as president.
The Trend of Trade. ?
No Material Changes.
- .New York, Dec. 1??R. G. Dun &
Co. pay to-day in their weekly Review
of Trade :
Cuban reports, unusual closecess of
money in Germany, aod tbe decision,
that there will be no action on the
tariff at this session, have not really
changed the situation, but have been
talked about as if they might change
U. The holiday trade is generally
large, though at some points more con
fined to cheaper goods than usual, and
the influence of an increase iu the
working force is felt in other ways
Bat until the new year, the only mate
rial changes expected are such as pre
pare for a large business next year.
Id the iroo and steel industry these
appear of the utmost importaoce.
Exports of cottoo are naturally stim
ulated by lower prices add with forced
liquidation of important speculative
operations, catton has declined to 7 12,
recovering to 7.19. July .15th the
price was 7 06. short crop stories raised
it to 8 87 September 10th and it hzs
now gODe back about to the startling
point. Receipts from plantations con
tinue heavy, while commercial stocks
here and abroad are only about as large
as a yeao ago, when the mov?meot had
been 1,100,000 bales less.
Tbe demand for goods in this coun
try falls below the increased production
and the market is weak in tone with
prices of some jobbers' bleached goods
sharply reduced. Speculation iu wool
has baited.
The control of the Mountain Iroo
Mes3abi mine has been leased for 50
years or purchased by the Carnegie
interest from Mr. J. D. Rockfeller, the
ore to be shipped by his new steamship
lines on the lakes and by tbe railway
which the Carnegie company is build
ing to Lake.Erie. This, with the erec
tion of 16 open-hearth furnaces, mak
ing 36, ensures enormous iocrease of
product at extreme low cost aod will
affect all combinations in steel products,
or iu ore The billet pool has practi
cally dissolved and sales are reported
at 016 to $17, the contracts to supply
consum?is through most or the whole
of next year The beam pool has re
vived aod restored the price to $1 55,
but nails and steel bars are a shade
lower. * The rait association has been
in session and our Philadelphia dispatch
save that rails are sold at ?25, against
?28 so long maintained. Bessemer
pig and grey forgo are a shade lower at
Pittsburg. Virginia and Alabama irefn
are offered 25 cents lower at the east
and with so much uncertainty regard
ing great changes io progress, very lit
tle is done in finished .products and
geocrally at concessions. A sale of
3,000,000 pounds of lake copper is re
ported at 1). 1-2 cents. Coke produc
tion is increasing, with contracts report
ed at $1.50.
Failures for the week bave been 387
in the United States, against 377 last
ladt year, aod 41 in Canada, against 32
last year.
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Who Knows Tiiem?
Colored Man Looking for
His Family.
Nashville, e ., Nov. 27, 1896
To tbe governor of South Carolina :
Dear Mr. Governor?I am seeking
for my people that I have not heard
from since the late war and I humbly
ask your assistance and hopo you will
do all in your power to help me if you
please sir. My name is Frank Flem
ing. I used to belong to Col James
Young, who Ui>ed to live at Carters
ville, Ga. He came from South Caro
lina and brought my mother with him.
Mother died years ago. ?
My father belonged to Dr. Anderson
of Georgia. His name was Frank An
derson but I think or was told that my
father was a Fleming before Mr. Ander
son bought him.
Col Young had a mother in South
Carollioa named Mrs. Sal lie Young.
He had a brother in your state Darned
Mr. -lohn Young.
Kind sir, mother had a brother in your
State named Robert Tigg Last account
I heard of these people they lived near
Mr. John D. Williams' farms or place
called Maofield or Paofield. L had an
uncle in your country named Littlejoho
Vance. My mother was named Polly.
She has kin people in your couDtry
somewhere.
Mr. Governor, wili you please lock
down on a p<>or negro nod have this
published in the papers cf your State.
[ will kindly thank you. I would like
very much to hc::r from some of my
necpie that I have never seen in my
life My father was named Frank.
Dr. Anderson carried him to Georgia
from South Carolina. My mother be
longed to Col James Young, who car
ried her from South Carolina to Geor
gia Please help me May tbe God
of heaven help you.
Frank Fleming.
Model Mill Co.,
Nashville, Teno.
Schr?der the "Healer." ;
In Columbia to Cure All Ills.
WONDERFUL CLAIMS.
His First Appearance in This Sec
tion.
Schr?der, the "divine healer,7' is
in the city There was nothing strik
ing in his advent He reached here
Thursday night unheralded and in
the meek and lowly manner of the
Saviour, whom he affects to resem
ble, he rode from the depot, not on
an ass' bsck, but in an humble
"heckcarriage." With his manager,
Mr G R. Berriman, he went to Mrs.
Adams' boarding house' 1212 Main
street, and there yesterday a reporter
of the State sought him
There is something striking in the
man's appearance. On first sight a
person is forcibly impressed with the
strong resemblance he bears to the
pictures of Christ; There is the
same expression of meekness and
tenderness, the same long chestnut
brown hair falling over the shoulders,
after being parted in the middle. A
?ull beard of almost the same color
as the hair, except for a reddish hue,
and finally light blue eyes of a soft
and kindly expresssion.
His regular features bearing such
a marked resemblance to the pictures
of Christ, gives him a striking pai
Bonality A soft, well modulated
voice with pleasing manners' makes
him all the more prepossessing and
adds to the awe with which he is re
garded by some. Over his nine
teenth century dress he wears a flow
ing black robe, across the front of
which is a black band with the words
''Divine Healer, Schr?der." A sil
ver cross is suspended from the neck.
The awe, which in a large meas
ure attaches to this personality, is
considerably lessened when his man
ager, Mr. Berriman, a plain matter
of-fact business man, bustles in the
room. The contrast is too great and
the spell is broken.
Scrader is not averse to giving a
full account of himself He briefly
told that he was born in Manitowoc
county, Wisconsin, on July 19, 1871,
which makes him 25 years His
wonderful healing powers were un
known to himself or anyone else
until his twelfth year, when he cured
an old woman of rheumatism by sim
ply laying on of his hands/ Since
that that time he has felt called upon
to do the works of God.
"At first my mother was 'opposed
to it and would say to rae. '??ow do
you do this ? Where do you receive
this power from ?' I replied, 'It is
from God ; it is His work and not
mine.'
"Many people say that I claim to
be Christ. T?at is not true ; I am
only His agent "
When asked how this healing was
done, he said simply, by the power
given him from God. It was only
necessary for him to lay his hands ou
the afflicted parts and the cure
would be effected. It was the divine
power which did it all, through him
as an instrument.
"Are there any diseases which you
cannot cure?" was asked
''There is no ailment known to
mankind which my touch will not
cure," he answered. '
*"How about blindness?"
"That too I cure, provided the eye
is not plucked out. It is of course
beyond my power to res ore lost
members. If the arm or die leg be
taken away I cannot replace it."
"Is faith necessary?"
. "Yes," he answered, "but every
one who comes t.o me shows that he
has some faith. There is a secret
hope a person has that my touch will
restore health. It requires faith in
God on the part of the patient
Faith is all in all; faith we must have
to live, to exist, without faith there
is nothing 'According to your faith
it shall be unto you,' said the Master
Hence we must have faith to be
cured in the physical as well as in
the spiritual. They must have faith
in God to be cured by Him through
me
While the reporter was there he
had an- opportunity of seeing the
healer at his work.
Mr. S D Swygert came in and the .
healer stepped forward, placed one j
large hand on the patient's forehead, j
the other on the back of the head and *
pressed them together for an instant, j
looking all the time with a rapt gaze ?
towards the ceiling, while his lips
slightly moved as if in prayer His
[lands were next placed on
the chest and stomach, one
in front and one behind.
Then the hands of the patient were
taken in his own for a moment while
he again looked upward.
In a soft voice he asked, "llave
you a handkerchief? '
The sufferer produces a handker
chief, which the healer wads up and
presses tightly with his hands, all the
time seemingly in prayer Stepping -
to the bureau on which was an ordi
nary rubber stamp, such as is used
by buainess men, he stamped the
handkerchief, folded it up and re
turned it to the owner, with the
directions, "Take this; apply it to
the affected parts night and morning
until you are well; let no one else
use this handkerchief. God biess
you.'7
Mr. Swygert's complaint was neu
ralgia in the face. After the curing
process had been completed, he was
asked how he felt. He answered
that he was unable to detect any
change.
A negro was the next applicant.
He had catarrh of the head, he man
aged to say, though fear and awe
nearly overmastered him. The same
attitude was assumed, the .same lay
ing on of hands and the same few
words spoken by Schr?der.
No charges are made A persorf
gives or not as he feels disposed.
Mr. Schr?der said that he belonged
to no denomination. "My mission is
apostolic. I was given this power
to cure the sick and alleviate the
suffering of maukind. People often
wondered why I continued to heal
on the Sabbath day. My auswer is
that I am following the example o
Christ and doing the will of God."
He sometimes preachesJf a hall is
furnished him, he said. He expects
to remain iu the city until Tuesday
or perhaps longer. He will give the
hours, from 8 a. m. to 1 m., to the
colored and from 2 m to 9 p. m.
to white people. If the crowd .be
comes too pressing he will receive
them indiscriminately.
Up to the present the number of
visitors has been very small. He ex
pects many to day and he is not like
ly to be disappointed.?Columbi^
State. ^
Corbett and Fitz.
New York. Dec. 17?Articles for a
fight between James J. Corbett and
Robert Fitzaimmons were submitted to
and signed by TVIr. Corbett in Jersey
City to-day. Dan Stuart, the pro
moter of the enterprise, expressed the
belief that Fitzsimmons, who, be said,
is familiar with the cooditicros, Will
si^n
The articles caii for a finish fight,
for a purse of $15, 000, the winner to
rake all. As a guarantee that Fitzsim
mons and Corbett will both bp at the
rinsside on the date set for the contest,
each must post $2,000 either with Rich
ard K. Fox or Al. Smith, tbe New
York sporting man. This is to go to
Stuart in case either fails to appear.
Stuart agrees to post $5,000 that he
will pult cff tbe fight, tbe sum to be
equally divided between the two men if
be does cot puli the fight off on the
date he names. He will also put ?10,?
000 in the bands of either Fox or
Smith thirty days before'the contest,
and if the fight does not come off,
through hie failure, he will forfeit this
money, ?5.000 goiog to Fitzsimmons
and the other $5,000 to Corbett.
George Siler of Chicago is named as
referee of the contest The fight is set
for March 17, 1897, betweeo the hours
of 7 o'clock in morning and 11 :45 at
night. The place will be named co
February 17. Stuart reserves all priv
ileges.
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This is tbe only remedy that is known to
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Among the many thousands who bave used
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learned of a single case having resulted ini
pneumonia. Persons who have w*ak lungs
or have reason to fear'an attack of pneumo?
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