The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 28, 1897, Image 1

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lp iDfttrtyman nn 0 t| ii. TBS suaiTBR WATCHMAN, jCstAbiished April, 1850* "Be Just and Fear not-Lee all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THJK TKOE SOUTHRON , Established jone. 1266 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1897. Sew Series-Yoi. XVI. 3 o. 38 --? - ---^----M- -^MM--^-^^^^^M-M i ^uiiMMi-WP.^--.-1-_|_ Published Story Wednesday, i>tf\ Gr, Osteen; SUMTER, 8. C. T8RMS : * $1 50 per an nu m-in advance. ADVERTISEMENT: Que Square first insertion..................SI 00 Every subsequent insertior........ ......... 50 Contracts for three months, or -Jouger will be made at reduced rates. \ AU communications which subserve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. Important Yictory. Greeks Haye Reports of Continued Triumphs. Athen*. April 20-Midnight. News bu just reached here that the Greeks after a desperate battle have captured acd barned Daaoasi. Vigilia is tili resisting. Another division of the Greek troops, it is reported, tra versed the Keven r passes, and captured three block booses. The division bas ai most reached Damast, -vb ere it will effect a uni n with the force that oap tared thc town. The 40.000 troops ander Geo. Smolenitz displayed the greatest bravery. Kevern Hes j 12 miles nor;h vest of Larissa, Eihem Pasha, with a force estimated at from 10.000 to 14.000, led assauts against it yesterday; bat all were repulsed by. the Greeks. Crown Prince Constantine has telegraphed here that the Turks were completely and finally repulsed. Io Athens, gr; iter ateotibo bas been paid to the operations in tbe neighborhood of Rev ent that those at Mi'onoa pass. The theory ail aiong has been that if the Greeks oonld establish themselves at Damasi, their road would He open to Elassooa. Athens. April 20.- Tbe news nf the captare of Damast pats a new complex* ina upon the situation of the frontier and is a great encouragement to the government, and is likely to have a most exhilirating effect epon the spirits of the "Greeks who have been g ra t e I y depressed by the reverses of their troops-at Milonna pass. If the Greek divisions effect a anion nt Damisi, as is expected, there is almost; nothing in the way of their prompt aivanoe to Etas sona. If Tyrnavo falls into the hand's of Edhem Pasha and the Turkish troops sweep down opon the plain and advance-to Larissa to meet - the force concentrated tbere uoder, the Crown prince they will be between the two grand divisions of tbe Greek army. This seems to have been the object of Greek strategy. Should the Greeks succeed in reduc ing the forts at Prevesa, as now seems probable and in occupying the town with the large land force cooperating with the bombarding warships, the road to Janina wonld be opec and tbe Turk ish troops at E pi ras placed at the most serious disadvantage. The strat gie valoe af Prevesa to the Tuhkish troops is that so long as it remains io the baods of the Turks it makes possible a steady line of communication for food supplies With Prevesa io the hands of the Greeks this line woald be prac tically impossible to reviotoal. the Turk ish troops by the long land route throagb Macedonia. On the other hand, the Greek troops coold be revic taalled dy sea. / THE OTHER. SIDE. Constantinople, April 20.-Echam Pasha has wired the sultan jbat he gaioed several notable victories yester day, ocoapyiog all tbe fortified posi tions commanding the Tyrnavo. He reports that the Greeks evacuated their entrenched camp, leaving bebiod 30 eases of cartridges and many rifles. The Tarks. be says, have retaken JTelitzsko,, which the Greeks sarprised and captured on the first day of frontier figbtt og. Thc Turkish com mao oder at Janioa announces that the Greek fleet, which was bombarding Prevesa, has been compelled to retire, one division with drawing to the intarior of the golf and the iron-clads outside sailing for the inlands of Paxto and Sanoto (Uara. An official telegram from Sean th ia, siy8 that the Greeks who landed at EiuthOrpoii and reached Gojrat, near the railway, were attacked and defeated by Turkish troops and peasants and that. 1,000 Greeks were killed. Where There is War Turks v Move Headquarters to Milonna Pass. Mi'ouna Pass, April, 20 -Night Delayed in transmission)-The Greek posts at Milonna pass- and Tyrnavo were captured, to day at noon. Tho Turkish headquarters have been re moved from Elassona to Milonna. It ! is estimated tbat the Greek forces j now in the Thessaiian plain in front ! of Edhem Pasha and between this point and Larissa number at least 60,000, bat the Greek prisoners^ say that their reserves are exhausted. A military telegraphic line has been extended to Milouna, but as yet there is np postal service. ' From the heights can be seen hage clouds of dust in the. distance, which indicate that large bodies of Greek infantry are en route from Larissa to defend the Greek heights not yet captured at Tyrnavo. Bot they will probably be too late. The coolness and courage of the Turks in attack are beyond praise. [ FIGHTING AT DAM ASI Athens, April 21.-Fighting has been renewed at Damasi, which is being cannonaded by a Greek brigade advancing from Boughasi The Turks have occupied the posts of Ligar a and Karatxo, which are strategically important, while the Greeks have advanced and occupied the Sloti Hill A dispatch from Arta says that the Turks bave abandoned Strevina, beyond Filippiada, after horning t. The bombardment of Prevesa continues with increasing damage to the forts. After bombard ing Platamono the squardron will proceed to Katerina* ABSENCE OF NEW3. London, April 21.-Commenting upon the absence of definite news to day from Elassona, the headquarters of the Turkish troops in Macedonia. Tbe Daily Mai! says it has received a private telegram from one of its correspondents on the scene of hosti lities, indicating thaUEdham Pasha is suppressing all dispatches. This cor respondent adds: "The whole sit uation appears changed by the tena city with which the Greeks are hold ing Eevini Pass, whereby they may probably turn Edham Pasha's position and! cot off bis communication with Sassooa." WOMEN OF GREECE Make an Eloquent Appeal to American Women. New York, April ll.-The follow ing appeal has been issued by the union of Greek women under the presidency of her majesty Queen Olga and Grown Princess Sophia : The Women of the Old and New World. Christian Mothers, Sisters and Wives, Workers for Civilization and Progress. Guardians of Love and Justice, Greeting: Christian mothers, sister and wives civilized like yon, earnestly appeal for your help Our sons, our brothers and husbands who are fighting for the cross are being killed and wound ed in a sacred cause. Their blood stains the last page of history of the nineteenth century, the history of civilization and progress of which you are the promoters . "Christiao women do not share the responsibility of your diplomats. Arouse in the hearts of your husbands and sons more Christian and more equitable sentiments. Uuite and your just protest will re echo ia the heans of the nations and the people* Prove by your energy and Christian work that the women, the true mis sionaries of right with the gospel of love and justice in their hearts, range themselves ou the side of the wrong "HELEN GRIVA, "President of the Uuion." The appeal was promulgated im mediately upon its arrival here from Athens. Donations for the fund of the Union Greek women, who have in charge the Greek Red Cross can be forwarded direct to her majesty, Queen Olga of Greece, at Athene, or to the president of the union, Mad ame Helen Griva, Athens, or to So lonia J. Yelasto, editor of Atlantis, No. 2 Stone street, New York, who has been authorized to collect funds I aod organize committees throughout ! the United States. THE HOSTILE NAVIES. Turkey's is Much the Larger, But Its on Paper. New York World. Greece, which invited the war now on with Turkey, has about one-third the army numerically and about c^e half the navy in fighting ( Sck-nc*- or thc sultan, j The Greek navy consists chiefly or ! unarmored cruisers and balf-irntic!ad j ?);v?p$ of rar ann gunboats, a -.' iti of I sixteen torpedo boats, only eleven of ' which are in commissio: * three firgt I class steel battleship?, ail launched ! within the iast seven years ; eue coast . def:nse ship and oct armored cr;1.:- tr \ The battleship- are: The Spetsai, the Ps ra aad \;3-0 ; a The armament of euch is a3 follows : Three 10 1-2-inch g'ms, Ove G iucii Cacet?, seven G pound r-ri::-Fre, sis teen machine guns, three torpedo tabes The - battleships are of 4.885 tons j barden, and their speed 3 17 knot?. I Eich is protected by an armor b*k "f ! ll 3-4 inches, d^ck plate 2 inches, bat- : tery plate ol: 13 3-4 inches. The c:<a8t defense ship, the B^PIIPUS ; Geor ios. registers 1,744 ton?, bas two j 8 inch 10 ron Krupp guns, two ma chine guns, four 1-pounders. The Olga, a wooden armored ship of 2 060 tons, has four 6 1-2-iocb 5 1-2 ton Krapp guop, two 6 1-2 ioch 3 12 too Krapp guns, four machine guns, four 1 pounders. There are four partly armored sloops of war, ranging from 1,000 to 1,800 tons. According to the latest register published by M. Canaris, inspector of marine, the streogth of gao metal of the Creek navy is as follows : Caoet gnns, nine 10 1-2 inch, fifteen 6-inch, twenty-four 6- OCQ and fifty of smaller calibre. Machine guns, principally of Nor denfeldt and Gatling pattern, 210. TURKEY^ NAVY. The navy of Turkey is a very form idable one. Turkey bas to-day a set consisting of 15 armored ships, carry ing 108 heavy guns and a secondary battery of 116 guns; eight unarmored cruisers, mounting 80 heavy gaos and 60 smaller ones ; also three gunboats, mounted with 32 heavy guns and ll small machine lines; 20 unarmored gunboats, earryiog 96 guns, both heavy aod machine rides ; 27 despatch vessel , mounting 80 guns, and a flo tilla of 42 torpedo boats of the first and second classes. . The total number of guns the navy of Turkey mounts is 583 The Turkish warships are manned by 309 officers, 21.256 seamen, 92 marine officers and 1,200 marine sol diers Tbe total number of naval men oo the active list is 22,856 Besides these the government of Tnrkey oan call ont 36,000 members of the naval reserve to man the ships and act as coast defenders. Speaking about the Turkish army, Gen. von der Goltz Pasha, the German officer who reorganized the sultan's army, said : "The sultan's troops are no longer a force subject to antiquated methods and notions. These modern Turks are hard workers, aod io their military duties, which they hold as sacred, they Deitber hesitate nor falter. Turkish officers and generals have had a bad name, not because they lacked io aggressiveness or courage, but because they had little else to recommend them. This state of things bas totally changed. The Turk is a most enduring creature, hardly and capable of withstanding greatly bodily inflictions. His courage has never been doubted. Such a sol dier needs only capable officers to be almost invincible.'' The Turkish army io time of peace is estimated &t 202,127 men, 30.000 horses and 612 guns.* It is thought the Turks can mobilize about three times tba^ number if necessary. The army of Greece is calculated to have a war strenght of 215.770, wb e the nominal peace strength of the Greek army is set down at 30,000 men. Some years ago the peace strength was reduced to 27,000 from motives of economy. The permanent force is divided into 27 infantry and nine J ger battalions, three cavalry regiments and four squad rons, each,/eight mountain and four garrison batteries, and three engineer battalions. Turks Hold tbe Pass. Greeks Storm Works in Mi louoa Yesterday. Kepulsed With Loss ; Grecians Vic tories Elsewhere. Athens, April 22.-The situation on the Tbessalian frontier to-day is consid ered to be highly critical. It is feared the Greek troops, exhausted by three days' bard fighting, wiil be unable to resist much longer the furious attacks of the Turks Massacres of Greek oit zens have oc curred near Previsa, the Turkish town at the entrance of the Gulf Arta. The Greek troops, it is said have stormed five villages occupied by the Turks. The Turkish authorities, feario a Bulgarian raid into Macedonia, have reinforced the Ottoman troops holding the passes of the Rilo mountains. The Macedonian junta bas its head quarters at Sofia and has decided not ta act ur;t;l 'he result cf Emperor Francis Joseph's coming vi.-it to the Cz ir i. known. The Macedonia junta exocc; importan5 developments from the visit A dispatch received here from Arr.. ! to tkv a ... *- nen ces that Maior Sc tzi j w;:t) two squadrons eavelry, J.Js j captured three villages which were oc cupied For: SaJagoya, on ; he Gull cf i . j <.. i i o i url"o i"'*? r ' ! i- ; " ' ? ? ? ~ [three cannon and .. quantity ! dyna I mite ia the hands o Greeks. ; It is assert'.':: :..) day that G-reece ! bas inrorme.i thc powers that sh abandon ber ciai:os io the inland of Crece if the powers wi!! force Turkey to cede her Epirus and Mount CKyai nus, accorded to her by the treaty of Barlin. Offers of help are reaching the Greek government from ali quarters, acd the military authorities expect to have 40, 000 volunteers enrolled before the be ginning of next week The Epirotes at Athens are prepar ing to lsave that city to assist the Greeks in capturing Epirus Very heavy fighting in Milouoa Pass bas been in progress since dawn, Greeks have endeavored to take by storm the Turkish position on the hill opposite the entrance of the ravine. The Greeks were repulsed upon each ocoasion with tremendous loss. The engagement is still proceeding. The Turks have a strong reserve force ready to be brought into action, if needed. During yesterday's figeting, in the same locality, a Turkish general of brigade was killed. s Since 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon ac artillery duel between the Turks and Greeks bas been proceeding at a distance of two miles. In the mean time Greek reinforcements have been pouring over the bridge beyond the town this side of the river Xeras. The Turks have carried several Greek positions on the beighest above Tyrnavo, but the town and a small bill on this side are still io the hands of Greeks. It is reported that the Greek fieet is proceeding towards the Dardanelles for the purpose of meeting the Turkish fieet stationed there. It ie stated that in an advance on Damasi the Greek losses were enor mous. At Boughazi two entire Turkish com panies were annihilated while trying to to capture the Greek batteries. Con tinuing, the dispatch says that the Turkish fort at Viglia is surrounded by Greeks who are trying to silence the six Turkish batteries remaining in po sition. Even these, it is further stated are not supported by infantry. ? 'I I Cuban Tobacco For New York Washington, Aprii 21. - Consul General Lee has advised tbe State de partment from Havana that the Span ish authorities there have released one consignment of Cuban tobacco for ship* ment to a New York firm. This to bacco has been held in Havana since May last, when Captain General Wey ler, by a decree, forbade the further ex portation of tobacco from the island. The American importers have made many strong protests to the State de partment against the workings of the decree, which it was commonly under stood had a double purpose, first, to insure employment to the cigar makers of Cuba, who otherwise would be tempted to join the insurrection, and second, to destroy the occupation of the Cuban cigar makers in Key West and New York, and thus stop their contri bution to the insurrectionary war fund The State department bas taken up the cause of the importers, but was obliged to confine their demands to an allow ance of the shipment of tobacco actual ly bought or conti acted for by Ameri cans before the decree went into effect. The tobacco released now is some that was actually paid for before the decree. As to that ooly contracted for, it ap pears to be doubtful whether it can be released through the efforts of the State department. The Spanish contention is that they have a full right to stop exports, leavio to the aggrieved im porter in the United States only a claim against the persons ia Cuba who have broken their oontraot, which claim may be prosecuted in the Spanish Courts The position of our Government is that under the treaty of 1795 our mer chants have the right, unrestrained by war, to bring away their effects, hold ing that in this view tobacco may be regarded as effects Preparations are now being made at Washington for the reception of the International Postal Congress, which is to meet there early next month. A building has been leased for the use of the congress and will be fitted up and furnished expressly for it It is understood that the con gress will be in session for six or eight weeks It will be the most representative gathering of the kind that has met yet, for it is expected that China, Corea and the Orange Free State, which have been up to the present out of the union, will send delegates to the congress The proceedings wiil be conducted in French, which has not yet been dis placed :is the most widely used lan guage of international negotiations Che net outcome of the work of the gathering can scarcely fail IT inure to { the facilitation r>i the mes n s o< com rh u n tea t o n the world over CHILL AND ? .? 'VFP TONIC Cures Fever In One Day, A BANKRUPTCY BILL Provisions of tbe Measure : that Passed Senate. I - ! Washington, April 22-The bank-j ruptcy bill passed by the tsenate to day was framed by Senator Nelson of Minnesota, and is comparatively brief and simple, compared with the bill reported from the judicary committee and known as the Terry bill. The Nelson bill provides that any debtor, other than a corporation, owing 200 or'more, who is unable to pay his debts may file his petition in the dis trict court of the United States for the district or division thereof in which he resides, asking for a dis charge from debts, and offering to surrender all his property for the payment of his debts, except such as is exempt by law of his domicile from execution and libility for debts. The petitioner shall attach to his pe tition a scbednle and list of all his creditors and the amount and nature of his debts due each, and shall offer to surrrender ali bis unexempt pro perty for the payment of his debts,, and shall conclude with* a prayer for full discharge from his debts and liabilities. The petition shall be heard by the court no less than 30 nor more than 90 days .from the time it is filed If the court unholds the petition, the estate of the bank rupt is transferred to an "assignee'' for settlement Creditors can resist the proceedings before the court on certain enumerated grounds of fraud, preference to creditors, etc. .Pre ference four months prior to the filling of bankrutcy petition are null and void, and transfers of property within six months are void. Provision is made for distributing the estate among creditors. After the settlement, the court gives a final hearing, and when all proceedings have been regular a final degree is given "discharging and acquitting" the bankrnpt from all his debts and liabilities due any of bis creditors in the schedule acknowledged in his petition or to any of the creditors, who may at any time subsequently thereto become a party to the pro ceedings. But such discharges shall not include any debts or obligations which have been created in conse quence of his defalcation as a public officer or as an executor, administra tor, guardian, or trustee, or while acting in any of the other judiciary capacity. The provision as to involuntary bankruptcy is as follows: "That if any debtor being a banker, broker, merchant, trader or manufac turer, who owes 500 or over, and who is unable to pay his debts, shall at any time within four months of the time of the filling of the petition hereinafter mentioned assign, trans fer; convey or in any way disposed of his property with the actdal intent and puipose on his part to prefer or defraud any of his creditors, he shall be deemed a bankrupt and may be proceeded against in a court of bank ruptcy as hereinafter provided. A creditor, or creditors, having debts against such a bankrupt to the amount of 500 or more may, within four montos after the act of bank ruptcy bas been committed, file in the court of bankruptcy in the district in which the bankrupt resides, a peti tion under oath, setting forth, among other things, the acts of bankruptcy aforesaid and paying for an adjudica tion of bankruptcy against the bank ' rupt and the distribution of his estate among his creditors " The court then proceeds within 30 days to hear the cause The accused may demand a jury On the bearing the court or jury holds whether the accused is or is not a bankrupt. The other proceedings are as in the case of voluntary bankruptcy Fees in both classes of bankruptcy are provided viz : Attorneys fees not above $100 : assignee not above $3 per day Ap peals are allowed except when the entire bankruDt estate is under 5, 000 Secretary Sherman bas prepared a report relative to the proposed Univer sal Exposition to be held at Paris in 1900, in whioh he recommended an ap propriation of $350,000 to provide for the representation of the United States at the exposition. It is, he says, the purpose of the French government to make that exposition the most notable of the eenturv, in ord.r to fittingly rou <] the history of an era in which Mich international displays have Siled ; most iranoi!--'r part by bringing the nations together ir) the it:''.Test of com merce nd friendship This report, ff the Secreiary i: > b cn transmitted to Congress by President McKinley, with bis cordial approval. He arges apon Congre- the making of timely previs ion represe nia.:', on of thc i'ntted rr.- -; .-.!:! be heeded by Congress T.Lt t".ii*.. States should certainly be republic ancient ally. an.i that point Dei cg determined, c^rly action td provide representation should TO with out saying. ! MYERS' SENTENCE COM MUTED. Yesterday morning Governor El ' lerbe heard all the parties interested in the case oj Frank Myers, the negro who was under sentence to pay the death penalty for incendia rism in Geogetown to-morrow So I licitor Wilson, who bas been work ing Myers' behalf, and the owner of the burned property, along with several others, who wished to see the negro hanged, made statemeots be fore the governor At the hearing it was developed that tbe chief con fession which tbe negro is said to I have made, was wrung from him while his captors had a rope around his neck to intimidate him. When Governor Ellerbe announced some time ago that he would not interfere nothing was known of this He is convinced now that had this fact been presented to the jury at the trial, a verdict with recommendation ' to aieicy would have been rendered. Taking this view of the case he promptly commuted the unfortunate negro's sentence to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Practically eyery paper in the State has spoken editorially on this matter and they have been unani mous in urging the governor to com mute the sentence as an act of com mon justice to a black man.-State. "Sa!ly" Is Ellerbe's. Wheo tbe ease of Ellerbe against Evans for the possession of tbe sorrel mare Sally was called at 10 o'clock yesterday morning almost all tbe legal talent of the city was present to bear the proceedings. The green and red neckwear of the men about town was to be seen scattered about tbe court house with the satisfied smiles of the ownars just above The trial lasted all day and until 10 o'clock at night, when the jory returned a verdict for Governor Ellerbe. The interest in tbe case never lagged for a moment. Tbe prominence of parties to the suit only served tain increase the curiosity of the auditors. Among those wbo listened to the pro ceedings were ex Governor John Peter Richardson, ex Governor J. C. Shep pard, Lieutenant Governor Miles B. McSweeney, Geo. M. L. Bonham, and others too numerous to mention. The case opened by Mr. Abecy for the defense objecting to Col. F. M. Milson, a juror of the regular panel, for cause, and bein? questioned by the judge said he was prejudiced in ihe case in favor of the pUiotiff. The ob jection was sustained and Col Mixson excused. Messrs. Fred SwaffieH and D B. 'Clayton were preemp'orUy challenged by the defense and excused. Their places were supplied and the case proceeded to trial. Before the taking of testimony was be on Mr Barron asked that all the witnesses be excluded from the room until it came their turn to testify This was done and -Gov. Ellerbe, the first witness for tbe plain tiff, was put a DOO t he stand Mr. Barron examined bim, and for the de fense be was crossed examined by Geo eral Youmaos, who was asssociated with Mr. Aboey. Mr. Duncan Ray assisted Mr. Barroo.-The State. Old People Old people who require medicine to regulate* the bowels an a kidneys will find the true rem edy=in Electric Bitter-;. This medicine does* not stimulate and contains no whiskey or other intoxicant, but acts as a tonic and alterative. It acts mildly on tbe stomach and bowels, add ing strength and giving tone to 'he organs thereby aiding nature in the performance of the functions. Electric Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids digestion Cid People find . it exactly wb3t they need. 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