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Conflict With Sailors. HABANA POLICE HAVE A CLASH WITH SEVERAL MARINES. - Habana, April 2 -Late this after > TSOO ^ a alight conflict occurred at Li Machina wharf between the police and soma marinea and sailors of. the Resolute. The appearance of Geo Ludlow and the police reserves quelled the disturbance. It is asserted that tbe marines were more or i ess intoxi cated, that one of them raised a row, that the police interfered, acd that, - thereupon, tbe companions of the intoxicated marine set opon the police. Several shots were fired before tbe arrival of the military government and tbe police reserves under Chief Meoooal. The marines returned to the Besolate, and it was reported at head quarters this evening that one policeman was wounded io the affray. To day as ander the Spanish regime, bribery and fraud direct the Coban courts. This is ibe firm conviction of ! the military administration. Gov ! Gea. Brooke is taking the matter ap =and intends to clean oat the corruption, to revise the judicial proceder , to change the court personnel and to abolish the barbarous practice of incommunicado, by which a judge may imprison for life a person ignorant of the accusation against him and of the -names of bis accusers. It is true that the statutes allow only j three days detention incommunicado ; but a judge auder tbe practice that bas grown up, may make a new commit ment at tue expiration of the third day, aaother at tbe expiration of ibe sixth and soun wiibout limit More than this, tbe evidence io criminal causes is taken by clerks, who for a consideration write into j be testimony things never ottered thus ofteo makiog the best friends of the accused appear ~ to condemo him. I Apparently the whole criminal and civil system have been arranged so as to make it possible to boy and sell justice. .Gen. Maximo Gomez, in a long -letter directed to bis wife io San Domingo, reviews bis differences with the so-et lied military assembly. He begins by describing the situation wheo Bobert B. Porter, as the special repre | sen ta ti ve of President McKinley visited Cuba after the assembly's represent atives at Washington obtained a promise of $3,000,000 from the presi deni. The writer tells of his coo fer euee with Gov. Geo. Brooke, relatet tbe pariicaiars of bis arraignment by the assembly and concludes : "Re garding the matters under considera tica, I said I bad no hope of obtaining morn that the $3.000,000 from tbe United States and disproved askicg charity, contending that the only method left was to raise a loan, for which the assembly laoked adequate authorisation. Fothermore, I pointed oct l;hat the soldiers could net wait, that already they were too great a burden upoo the people of Cuba and that longer delay appeared io me to be eruel. "The oenfereace ended without accomplishing asjthiag I saw I could not make rnyself understood hy assembly acd decided not to be miseo op in its doings, bat to await develop meets. A few days later the meo whom I did not know visited ms and said that several millionaires stood ready to facilitate a loan of many mil lion*, but that the matter was possible only with my cooperation. I answered that I could not consider any proposi tion of the kind and regarded it as trange that anyone would be ready ? o lentil money without guarantee. My visitors replied that the city oouncil could arraoge a guarantee Then a corms?f'oe of tbe assembly approached ^~tS8, asking me to support the assers bi y's efforts to obtain a losa. To this J. replied that Coba could not make a loan, as she tacked the necessary au thority. The next day tbe assembly deposed me. I eoosider that I have neted honorably and my strongest de lire now is to return borne.". -Sai lors Fight Desperately on a Point of Honor. Kfog lcD, Jamaica, March 28 - The crews of the American fleet ashore oo leave started rioting among them selves 8st night over an old feud ! about the flagship New York's absence ! from the fighting at the battle of San tiago cn Joly 3rd last. It wan over two hours before he ofBsers acd police succeeded ic supprees ing the fight, teverai men were slightly wounded, and Green and Armsteid. of tbe Tezas, were seriously injured. The former had a wound in the abdomen and the latter was twice stabbed in the tide Both men are in the hospital, where they are pronounced to be in a dangerous condition. The wounds were ioflicted by a col ored man named Johnson, ateo of thc Texas, who is a Jamaican born. He was surrendered by the police a:. is now io doable irons on board bis ship, awaitiog the issue. Ali is quiet to day. Paris, April 1.-A wealthy gentle man named Tourrett was shot dead yesterday evening on the Bois de Boulogne by a man who mistook his victim for President Loubet, to whom M. Tarrett bore a striking re semblance. Tbe murderer, whose mame is Oz moof, nd who is BS years old, is tbncgbt to be insane. S4D SUICIDE IN CHARLESTON. Prominent New Yorker Ends His Life in Fit of Insanity, Charleston, S. C., April 1 -Samuel Wertheim, an oil merchant of Veasey street, Nev York, killed himself io a mos shocking manner in the office of G M. Politzer here this afternoon Wert heim,accompanied byjbis nephew,Arthur Wertheim, had been staying at the Dorchester Ino, Summerville, for his health. He suffered from insomnia. His nephew grew alarmed at symptoms developed yesterday and started to take the sick man home. They came here to day and were to go north this after noon. Ac 2 o'clock the two called at G M. Politzers effioe on Adgers' wharf The elder Wertheim walked up to Mr. Politzer and said : ' Gus, I am going mad " With that he began beating himself on the head with a paper weight. Unable to rest raia bim, young Wertheim and Politzer rushed oct> to get help. The frenzied mao then broke out a pace of glass io one of the office windew and beat his face and neek ou the jagged edges that remained io the sash A negro boy tried to drag him from the window, but was told bo would be kill ed if be interfered The boy retreated and Wertheim dashed bis head through another pane and sawed bis neck oo the ragged plass till he fell to the floor exhausted Medical assistance was sum moned and be was put ic au ambulance, but be died before the city hospital was recohed SUICIDE OF ADMIRAL CARPENTER. Boston, April 2 -Rear Adrnial Charles G Carpenter, U. S. N., retired, committed suicide at a sani tarinm in one of the suburban dis tri is of this city yesterday The admiral bad been ia ill health for some time IT WAS SUICIDE Admiral Carpenter for the past six weeks was an inmate of the Adams Nervine asylum, io the Jamaica Plains district, and it was at that place that the suicide occurred. At the earnest request of his family the details were withheld from the pub lie The medical examiner has not made his report, as usual in such cases, the police were notified, bot even they were kept from knowing of the circumstances of the suicide until 24 hours after. / For a number of years previous to his retirement Admiral Carpenter suffered from nervous disorders, and after being released from service W38 nuder medical treatment He bad apparently recovered, but six j weeks ago there came a relapse aud I he was again placed io the asylum. ! Again be seemed to improve, and the family had hope that he would be himself again It is stated that the means of death was by shooting in the head The release of the body by the medical examiner wiii probably be given to morrow, but as yet no de tails for the funeral arrangements have been made A NOBLE WOMAN DEAD Paris, April 1.- Baroness de Hirsch is dead. Baron Hirsch left an estate of $25,000,000, much of which was bequeathed to chatty and afterward dispensed by the Baroness Millions have been spent in coloniz icg large bodies of Russian refugees in the United States and the Argen tine Republic Baroness de Hirsch was quite as remarkable a personage as her hue band. Worth many millions in her own wright, ehe gave as freely of her wealth as of that left bj ber husband. She was a daughter of the late Sena tor Bischofheim, of Brussels, bead of the great banking house of Bieo of bein & Goldschmidt, that financed the Erie Railway organization in 1871 A careful estimate shows that the Baroness de Hirsch spent $1,500.000 in the city of New York in charitable work since her husbaand's death, three years ago, beside the annual income of the fund of $2,400,000 created by the Baron. A LETTER FROM KIP LING. New York, April 3.-The following letter of thanks has been written by Rudyard Kipling : Hotel Grenoble, Easter Day, 1899 Dear Sir : Will you allow mc through year columns to attempt some acknowledgment of the wonderful sympathy, affection and kindness ebown toward me during my recent ilSnes?, as well as tho unfailing courtesy that con trolled its expression ? I am cot strong enough to enswer letters in detail, so I mus: take this method of thanking as humbly as sincerely, the countless people of good will through out the world who have pat me under a debt I can never hope to repay. Faithfully yours, Rudyard Kipling.'" Mr. Kipling got out of bed yester day for the first time since his illness. He is well on the way toward complete recory. CROP REPORT FOR MONTH OF MARCH. UNFAVORABLE FARMING OPERATIONS. _ Washington, April 1 -The weath er bureau crop report for the month jost passed says : "Upon the whole the season is backward at the close of March, the month having been very unfavorable for farming operations. In the Da kotas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin the ground is frozen to an unusual depth, the frost extend ing to a depth of from five to ten feet in North Dakota and Minnesota While the average temperature of March was somewhat above the nor mal in the Southern States, the sea son in that section is reported from two to three weeks late, except in Texas, where it is more nearly nor mal. "The general condition of wheat is lees favorable than at the close of February, and as at ehe close of that month the late sown la less promising than that seeded early. On the Pacific coast the outlook is most promising in Oregon, and the crop has been greatly bene fitted by recent rains in California, bat in Washing ton it bas been injured by severe weather and lack cf snow protec tion. "Preparations for cotton planting in Texas are well advanced and some bas been planted in tbe southern part of the State ; some bas been planted in portions of Georgia and South Carolina. "Some corn has been planted as far north as Tennessee and Oklahoma, and farther sonth a large part of the crop bas been planted "Some oats have been sown as far north as the lower Missouri and Ohio valleys " Col. Neal's Bondsmen. Whatever shortage the investigat ing committee may lind in the peni tentiary affair, it is more than likely that there will be a fight made by the bondsmen of Col. Neal about paying up what they are supposed to be bound for. One the bondsme stated this morning that he did not believe he was responsible for the shortage, as it, in his opinion, was due to the car! ess ne ss of the board of directors, the governors and other officiais whose duty it was to look after such matters. At any rate, he ! said that he did not believe a jory would hold the bondsmen responsi- i ble, especially when it was shown that governors and directors got some benefit from the irregularities and knew what was going on all the time. Whether this will relieve them from responsibility, however, is a question which ihe courts will have to decide, should the question ever come before them-Columbia Re cord. mm- ? ? - Tarko-Bulgarian War. London, April 3 -Grave conse quences in Bulgarian Turkish affairs cannot be avoided much longer. The whole Bulgarian province is armed and rapidly drifting to open r volu tion The people are drilling for the coming struggle and the country is virtually in a state of siege Turkish troops have been pouring in most of the disturbed districts, and are concentrating chiefly in the north. Reinforcements are arrving daily Detachments guard the Ori ental railway from Sal nica to the Servian bordes. Garrison towns are packed with soldiers There is a widespread impression throughout the land that momentous events are impending. Gordon's Courage. Sir W. H Russell, the veterao war correspondent, tells this characteristic i story of Gordon : Daring the Crimean war there was a sortie, and tbe Russians actually reach ed the English trench. Gordon steed on the parapet, in great danger of his life with nothing save his stick io his hand, encouraging tbe soldiers to drive cut the Russians, "Gordon," they cried, "oome down !" You'il be killed !" Bet he took no notice, and a moldier who was near, 8aid : "it's ali right : 'e don't mind being killed. 'E's one cf these blessed Chris tians V -Wi 37 - 4* - A New Firearm. What feema to fee a very formidable rival to toe revolver is thc light auto matic carbine or pisto) which has recently been put upon the maikei iu three paterna, two ci which come from Germany and the other from Belgium. The new weapon is only half the weight of a rifle': it is sighted to 500 yard? ; it will oome io half for packing and its cost is less than ten pounds. Ten shots cao be inserted in one second, and as many as eighty -hots per minute have been fired from this compact weapoo. The ammunition used is of the smokeless variety, and the car tridges are very light in weight. The weapon will doubtless prove of great use for sporting as well ss for more serious purposes.--Chamber's Journal. Filipinos Are Whipped. _, OTIS SAYS HE HAS SITU ATION IN HAND. Commissioners Will Issue Procla clamatlon Demanding Entire Submission. Manila April 3.-A cavalry recoo noissance north of Malolcs to-day developed that a thousand of the enemy were at Kainga, fi?e miles northeast. Atter a sharp skirmish the Filipinos retreated. Two heavy coast guns were discovered hy MacArthur's men to-day buried in the streets of Malolos. The situation is now clearly in Amerioan hands. The Phrinpine com mission decided immediately o issus a proclamation to the natives which is not to contain a single word or suggestion of independence of the Filipinos, but will counsel complete submission to the will of the United Sttaes. It will be an eminently humane document, and will be sent broadcast through the Philippines, lt will give the natives a choice of surrender or practical extinction. Washington, 3.-The following cablegram was received at the war department early thia morning : Manila, April 3. Adjutant General, Washington : Present indications denote insurgent government in perilous condition ; its army defeated, discouraged and scat tered. Insurgents returning to their bornes in cities and villages between here and points north of Maloios, which our reconnoitering parties have reached and desire protection of Amer icans. News from Visayan islands more encouraging every day. Otis The war department officials were pleased by the cheering dispatch from Gen. Otis received to day. It contains a great deal of encouragement to them and those who know Gen. Otis well say he is not a man to take a roseate view of a situation unless there is reason for it. It is argued at the department that the Filipinos have never been used to .the kind cf warfare that the Americana have given them and for that reason they are now aware tba: ic will be im possible for them to accomplish any thing by fighting. While there is diesappointment because the movement for the captare cf a large force of toe Filipinos was not successful, it is believed the pressing of the insurgents steadily toward the north, capturing their capital and driving them from place to place has had a very discourag ing effect upon the natives who have been following Aguinaldo. It is evident by the referenoe which Gen. Ons makes to reconnoitering parties that he is having the country thoroughly covered and that the information which they are giviog him is the basis of the dispatch to-day Ir is believed that desertions will soon deplete the army of Aguinaldo to little or nothing. It would not take long for an army of the kind he bas gather ed to melt away and disappear in (be mountains and jungles cf Luzon. That portion of the dispatch relatiog to the Visayans refers to the operations of which lioiio is the base. Toe grGup icoludes Paoay, Coba, Negros, Bohol and others of less importance in the some vicinity The rebellion against United States authority was not very serious io the e islands, being stirred up by emissaries 1 of Aguinaldo at I ! o i i J The constant ! defeat of Aguinaldo's forces north of Manila has no doubt a depressing effect upon other insurrectionists. i _ i Practical Rebuke To Imperialism. _ j Governor of Nebraska Vetoes Resolution Commending Soldiers for Conduct in Philippines. Liucoln, Neb , April I - Governor Poynter to night sent a message to the legislature vetoing the senate bill which commends the First Nebraska regiment in the Philippines The language ia the bill objected by the j governor 6aye : "That we acknowledge with grat itude and joy the debt that the * tate owes them by reason of the houor conferred upon it by their valor while defending in the Philippines the principles ol our government, and adding new glory to our fi g '' The governor in this veto says : .'I cannot stultify myself and the calm judgment of the thinking peo ple of this commonwealth by giving official approval to the statement that, the w.ir of conquest now carried on in the Philippines is in defense of the principles of our government and is adding new giory to our ii Jig " The senate promptly passed the bili over the veto, but like effort tailed in the house, Populists voting solidly to sustain the governor The bill was passed several days ago and the veto followed shortly after an extended conference between Governor Poyn ter and W. J. Bryan, who returned home to day - mi i 'ii' ii"1 Hon. O B. Stevens, commissioner of agriculture, states that the sales of guano in Georgia this year cannot possibly amount to more than 75 per cent of last year's sales and he con eiedrs this a rather liberal estimate. Lake City's Many Alleged Lynchers. THEIR TRIAL TO BEGIN IN CHARLESTON I THIS WEEK. Charleston, April 1 -Fifteen prom ioent citizens or Lake City wiil be pat OD trial here ia the United States Cir* cuit court next week to answer tbs cbarge of having lynched Postmaster Frazier B. Baker, more than a year ago. Besides killing the postmaster, wbo was a negro, the alleged lynchers will have to answer for killing Baker's infant child acd fer buroing the Lake City postoff : with all its effects. It is said here tbsr^atber arrests will be made before the case is taken ap. The indictment will go to the grand jory and the bearing will begin at once. Eighty witnesses for the government have been summoned and there is a great array of witnesses for the de fense. This is the first time on record that the federal government has come into the sooth to take op a lynching trial. The morder of Baker was prob ably the most brutal crime knowe io the history of the State Baker was appointed postmaster at Lake City and before he took charge of the office he was warned to keep away. He refused, and an attempt was made to kill bim soon after bis commission was received. This failed and then a regular band was organized to put bim out of the way. The defendants ia this celebrated ease are Ezra McKnight, W. A. Webster, M V. Ward. Moultrie Epps, H. C Godwin, C. J. Joiner, Oscar Kelly, Edwin Rogers, Alonzo Rogers, Henry Stokes, Alien Belk, Van Somerford, Early P. Lee, J. B. Newnham and Marion Clark. They are representative business men from the Lake City section. Marion Clark was formerly the editor cf a newspaper in that town. Stokes was a deputy Uoited States marshal some years ego and the other prisoners are merchants, druggists and farmers. According to the testimony given at the preliminary heariog by Newnham and Lee, who turned states evidence, the Lake City band of lynchers was organized for the special purpose of killing Baker. Tho negro bad refused to leave town and give up the office and tbe white people rebelled at the idea of a colored postmaster. SOUTHERN FLOOR MILLS. The wheat and grist mill, said to be the largest in booth Carolina, be gan operations last week at Green ville As described in the Columbia Stat e, the mill which is four stories high, is situated convenient for the reception of grain and the shipment of the finest product, a railroad track ruanibg up to the door and an eleva tor of 15,000 bushels capacity being used to unload grain from the cars In the mill are six double stands of roller machines of the best pattern of the Wolf system, cleaning and scour ing machine, gyrators and refineries, bins, etc. A corn mili is included in the plant, all the machinery of which is operated by an 80 horse power engine This mill is bat one of the number of flour mills which have been erected recently in the farther south and equipped with modern machinery. There bas been a considerable change from the old neighborhood mills of simple eon 8truction, operated by waterpower, since the time when they lost their influence with the incoming of the modern mills in the west But re- J cently older miils have been equipped with new machinery, and particular ly within the last few months there bas been a decided revival in the building of modem mills in the south. This movement may be regarded as at once a preparation for increasing wheat-growing in the south, and also an encouragement of it. The estab Hshment of the mill at Greenville ought to be of great benefit to the farmers of that locality, a^ giving them a market for another crop than cotton, and also should increase the local trade of Greenville - Manufac turers Record. New York City had more fire loses in February last than in any month in its history it is said. Paris, April 2.-Agocoillo, the af eat of Aguinaldo, in ibe course of an in tervic-'v published to dav in La Pairie, sayi : ''The capture o Malotes is not an important as tbe Americans are try ing to make it appear Tho Filipino gover casent bad ah cady determined apon rcmuva to Sari Fernance &&d a sraali detachment of troops was lei: rc barn thc town std thus to drat? the Americans bland. "Two months of rain and feyer tri!! ave tbs Filipinos their ammuaitbo acd a good deal of trouble, and rbi* war will not end while a sing! ! Fi;i pico remains to bear arms " He charges Maj. 0:is wiib opening the hostilities and bolds that the Amer icans are responsible for the transfer of the Spaoish p;isonera and for prevent ing the Filipinos negotiating a treaty [ with Spain. Richmond, Va., March 31.-By a j decision handed down in the Uuited States circuit court of appeals to day, the postaTTelegraph company obtains the right of condemnation of right of way along the Southern rall vt ay in North Carolina. THE CONSTABLE CRAWFORD TRIAL Grand Jury Brought in a i True Bill Against Him. I Columbia, April 3.-The grand jury of Richland county yesterday foand a "true bill" in the case of the State against W R. Crawford, charged with murder. This is the beginning of the trial of the sensa tional case which six weeks ago ap palled the community. Solicitor Thurmond has nol prossed the indictment of murder agaient J. B Dorn, J. M Coleman and J. . Cooley, charged with being accesso ries to the killing of Mr*. Jno R. Stuart on February 25. However he did not nolle prosequi the caue against W. R. Crawford, who is ia dicted as being the principal io the case Toe indictment was given to the grand jury yesterday morning at ll o'clock, and it lost co time in bring ing in a true bil) The grand jory is an excellent and very intelligent body, the majority of the members being well known business men of Columbia. Judge Watts in handing the indictment to the grand jury made no remarks, but simply defined the duties of the grand jury in the pre mises Mr John M. Stewart was there to appear bofore the jury This was his first appearance on the streets since that awful Saturday night. His face was bound up, but he was abie to talk a little to bis friends who were glad to see him out again. His little girl, Alice, also appeared before the grand jury, as did Israel Ham's, the derformed negro who worked for Mr. Stewart. There was no demonstration or display of any kind when the case was called The solicitor, the judge and the grand jury went to work on. the case in a very business like way. -The State ? ?- -i i HOTT Doctors Differ. "For ten solid years," said a New Orleans broker, "I lived in perpetual apprehension of sudden death. A doc tor in Texas told me-confound his pic ture-that I had valvular heart disease, and if I wanted to stay on earth I must avoid every species of excitement. I did my best to follow his. advice, but that miserable specter was at my elbow day and night and embittered my whola existence. I don't believe I am a cow ard, but the thought preyed on me un til I began to fear for my sanity. "At last, after all these years of in finite precaution, I went to a first class specialist to find ont how much longer I'd last and was assured that I hadn't one single symptom of the malady. Talk about removing a mountain from a man ! That assurance knocked off an en tire range. It changed the color of the universe in a twinkling, and I was sc happy I wanted to just throw up my hat and yell. "That was a couple of years ago, and I have enjoyed myself tiptop ever since up to ene day last week, when I hap . pened to be chatting with the specialist and remarked that I'd like to murder that sawbones in Texas. 'I don't blame you,' he said. 'That man had no right to tell you that you had heart disease. If I had found you right at death's door, I certainly would never have let you know it. ' Now, by Jove, I don't know who or what tc believe and am drifting back to the old state of uncertainty. 1 wish I lived in a cannibal island an had nevsr heard of doctors."-New Or leans Times-Democrat. Mille and Mathematics. When Thomas drove np to deliver the usual quart of white mixture, the gentleman of the house kindly inquired, "Thomas, how many quarts of milk do you deliver daily to your customers?" "Ninety-one, sir." "And how many cows have you?" "Nine, sir." The gentleman made some remarks about an early winter and the state of the roads and then asked, "Thomas, how much milk per day do your cows average?" "Seven quarts, sir." "Ab, um!" said the gentleman, as he moved off. Thomas looked after him, scratched his head, and all at once grew pale as he pulled ont a short pencil and began to figure on the wagon cover: "Nine cows is nine, and I set down seven quarts under the cows and multiply. That's 63 quarts of milk. I told bim I sold 91 quarts per day. Sixty-three from 91 leaves 2S and none to carry. Now, where do I get the rest of the milk? I'll be hanged if I haven't given myself away to ono of my best custom ers by leaving a b:g cuvier in these fig ures to be filed with water!"-London Sketch. Slaking Ii Clear. Somebody has discovered that a Ber muda onion eaten raw will clear the head. A Bermuda onion eaten raw will do more than that. It will clear an en tire room. An active Bermuda onion is a complete clearing house all by itself. Take one Bermuda onion-only one and let the lips of beauty close upon it, and love will turn to hatred and honey to gall and bitterness. Clear the head? Why, a Bermuda on ion in fairly good health will clear the head of navigation 1-Exchange. The Germans have introduced what amounts to slave labor in their east African colonies. Each native village must furnish a certain number of in habitants to labor for the imperial gov ernment, on plantations or elsewhere, withont pay.