Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NO PEACE. IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE INSURGENTS HAVE AGAIN BECOME AG GRESSIVE. [anila, Maj 28, 8pm - The ap preach of the wet season fiads the insurrection seemingly taking a new lease on life. AH along the American linee the rebels are showing more aggressive activity, io their guerrilla style, than at any time since the fail of Malalos. ^ They keep the United States troops In the trenches, sleeping in their clothes and constantly on the alert against dashes upon oar outposts and they make life warm for the Ameri can garrisons in the towns. The bands of Gen. Lana and Gen .* Maccardo, which retreated toward *Tar!ac when they feared tbt j would be caught between Gen. MacArthur andren. Lawton, have returned io . force to their old trenches around San Fernando where there are daily collisions. Opposite oar lines on the sooth protecting Manila, all the way around San Pedro Macati, the Filipinos have three rows of trenches most of the distance Reports from prisoners indicate that the insurgents construe the peace negotiations to mean that the Americans have bad enough of fight ing. The Filipinos are also encour aged by the belief that thc- Americans are prepairing for an interval of inac tivity daring the wet Season This period is sore to be followed by mach suffering. Thousands of acres that weie nuder cultivation last year have not been plowed this year, and the government will probably be obliged to feed thousands, jost as it fed the Cubans. Friendly natives, * -amigos," continue to pour into the American lines by land and river routes, coming from_the territory of Insurrection into the country where the passage of the two armies has left no food., and practically throwing themselves upon the charity of their conquerors. Such able' bodied men as are not in the Filipino ranks have . been kept by the insurgent leaders to dig trenches, and old men, women and children form the mass of the refugees. These are doing some plowing, bot they will be Confronted with hunger before they can realize any subsistence from their crops. The United States army has organ ize a system of distributing rice at Hal los and some of the smaller towns where Filipinos stores were captured, but the latter will soon be exhausted. The United States transport Morgan City, which arrived here from San Francisco with 600 recruits for the varions regiments sailed today for lioilo with the troops As it was impossible to take to Spain the remains of the Spanish Geo. Moo tero who was fatally wounded in a recent engagement with the Filipinos in the island of Mindanao and who died ywhiie being brought here from Z&m boango co che transport Loon Xiii, it was decided that the interment should take place io Manila. The funeral were held today, hundreds of Spanish soldiers and civilians attending tba cortege to the grave with wreaths and fog*. v ! The Sanieh papers declare that Mon tero was a victim cf the Spanish gov ernment's neglect. Insurgents Occupy Zamboan ga-Otis Would Enlist Mac cab8b9s. Manila, May 27. 10.15 a m.-The Spanish steamer Leon XIII landed the 23d regiment of United -States regu lars on the island of Jolo, and took OD board the Spanish garrison, the Americans paying the Spaniards the usual honora The steamer then proceeded to Zamboanga, island of Mindanao, and the troops there embarked on the Leon XIII, the Puerto Rico, the Urania and Des Hermanos, the three last named vessels ailing for Spain The insurgents agreed not to mo lest the Spaniards daring the evacua tion The Leon XIII entered Manila harbor last evening with Sags flying at half mast in honor of Gen. Monte ro, who died on the passage from Zamboanga to Manila from wounds received in a recent engagement with the Filipinos in Mindanao, and with the garrison, officers and their famil ies on board The insurgents, it is reported, were in possession of Zamboanga when the Spaniards left, and it will be neces sary for the Americans to recapture that place. TO ENLIST TEE MACCABEBES. Manila, May 27, 6 p. m -Gen. MacArthur is in favor of the experi ment of enlisting the Maccabebes against their old enemies, the Tagals. A delegation of the leading Mac cabebes has visited the general and its spokesman read an address assur ing the American commander of the friendship of the Maccabebes, and of their willingness to transfer their allegiance from Spain to the United States. They complained that the Tagala murdered them and burned their village?, and they asked to be protected and given arms to protect themselves. j sisted in posting the Americans on 1 I the country and the positions of the j enemy. Gen. MacArthur wounld arm a hundred of these men aad use them ! as scouts, and if the experiment j proved successful he would enlist more of them. Major Gen. Otis has issued orders inviting volunteers to re enlist for six months, according to the act of Congress bearing on the matter. Representative Filipino Law yers Appointed. Manila, May 29.-7 p. m -An order has been issued re establishing the Philippine courte which have been ciosed since the American occupa tion. lt revives all the Spanish sys tem not conflicting with the sover eignty of the United States. Tne chief justice is Cayetano Arrelano. -The associates of the civil branch are Manuel Arauila, Colonel Crowder and Gregorio Arita. Justices of the criminal branch are Kay mun do M el Hz, Ambrosio Kian Izares, Julio Loren to, Maj. Young and Capt. Birkheimer. The attorney general is Fioreutio Torres. This corresponds with the American su preme court. The oath prescribed begins : .?I recognize and accept the su preme authority of the United States of America," etc. The Filipino members are all prom inent lawyers. Arrellano is the lead er of the profession in the islands In the early stages ot the Filipino movement he Was Aguinaldo's princi pal adviser in the first'cabinet. Molliza was president of the insurgent gov ernment at Iloilo Torres is the leader of the local : .mmittea working with a commission to conciliate the insur rectionists. Spanish will be the official lan guage of the courts. There has been agitation among the local British and American busi ness men and American lawyers who have come to the Philippines to make "fortunes, to have the English code and language adopted, but Maj. Gen. Otis coudencld that it would be un wise, even if practicable, to upset the long usage. He thought it best to give the natives courts in the lan guage to which they have been accustomed The- Spanish salaries proved a stumbling block to obtain ing good men, the highest being only $2,500, the Spanish judges are abolished. Ail the judges are repre sentative men. Two correspondents of a New York newspaper have been disbarred for fabricating an interview with Gen. Lawton, dated May 23 at Manila, and for evading the censorship. The steamer El Cano has arrived here from the island af Guam, bring ing the Filipinos who were exiled there by the Spaniards for participat ing in tbe old.rebellion. a Queer Logic. A. B William?, editor of the Green ville News, claims that the Baptist Church bas ex communicated the State of S3Uth Caroiica. Daring its recent session in Louisville, Ky , the South ern Baptist Convention agreed upon a resolution to exclude all liquor dealers from membership. This, Mr Williams ciaims, includes the State of Sooth Carolina and also the individual oit:z?ns who compose the State. According to the York ville Enquirer, the above "deduction is very well foaoded from a standpoint of logic " It is, is it ? Such logic could be used to prove any old tbiog. If all ths citizens of South Carolina are liquor dealers, so are the citizens of States which license the sale of liquor for the public profit. And by the same token, all the citizens of the United States are distillers. The general government permits the operation of distilleries and takes he lion's share of the profits So, such logic as the Greenville News employs and the Ecquirer enjoys woo'd wipe out the whole membership of the Southern Baptist Church -Col um bia Record COWFENS CELEBRATION. Gaffoey, May 27 -Cowpecs battle celebration was a success, ao immense orowd being present from far and near. Tbe HOD Amos J Cummings, from New York, the chief speaker, deliver ed a patriotic address. He was fol lowed by the Hon Stanyarnc Wilson, who read au ode on tbe Cowpeos battle, a contribution from the Daughters of the American Revolution. The other speakers were the Hon. A. C. Latimer, Major John Jones, of Blaoksburg ; Congressman eleot, D E Finley, and tbe Rev J. D-. Bailey, of Cowpeos. Charleston ~c7iUy 29. - Worth less negroes on Sullivan's island have recently caused muob excitement by attacking United States soldiers with out any apparent cause. On Saturday night the negroes fired at the looe sen try on Fort Caproo, the mortar battery, and Sunday night they assaulted pri vate Owens while he was walkiog bis beat in front of headquarters and shot him io the hand. They also took bis sword bayonet and slashed bis cap and coat. The entire garrison was aroused and searching parties scoured tbe island in vain for tbe desperadoes The New York Tribune bas fouad a I trust with $2.OOO.OOO capital, only $2,000 cf which has been paid in Bat that wiii do ss well as any to take 'n the confiding. PREPARING FOR A BIG ARMY. Scraps of interesting Politi cal Gossip From Wash ington. Washington, May 29 -Ttrere is something decidedly suspicious in the news from the Philippines. Not a line of press news can be cabled from Manila until it has been approv ed by the United States military censor, and it is not likely that he I wbuld approve anything the ad ministration did not wish made public. Hence the publication of the statement that it would be impossible for Gen. Otis to conquer even the entire island of Luzon, not to mention the remainder of the group, so that it would stay conquered, without a large increase in his army, was allowed .to pass the censor for a purpose. Not being in the confidence of the administration -few persons, even among the most prominent republicans, are-it can not be positively stated what that purpose is, but the inference is that it is intended to pave the way for one of two things : a call for volun teers to reinforce Otis,, or to make the people of this country satisfied with some dicker that is about to be made with the Filipinos, and which they would naturally be inclined to be dissatisfied with The preponder ance of opinion in Washington is that it means more volunteers. Orders have been sent to the civilian members of the Philippine commis sion that they must do nothing to interfere with the military plans of Gen. Otis, which is confirmation of the reported wrangles in the com mission. After holding it back for many months, Mr. McKinley has issued his much advertised order modifying the civil service rules lt doesn't appear to please anybody overmuch It excepts a total of somewhere in the neighborhood of four thousand places from the operation of the civil service rule, but as most of those places are already filled by republi cans, it will . "make comparatively little new patronage for the republi can leaders, lt doesn't touch the government printing office, which eo many republicans have been trying so bard to get thrown open to them So far as the party workers are con cerned, the order is likely to do more harm than good to the republican party. Representative Dalzell, of Peon sylvania, who stands about as much show as Payne, the New York anti Platt candidate, dropped into Wash ington a day or two ago and announced that he was a candidate for speaker. He could not control *three votes in the Pennsylvania dele* gation, counting his own, to save hie neck Bingham is the dummy can didate of the Pennsylvania delega tion, and will remain such until Quay Jecides who shall get these voles. No surprise was caused in Wash ington by Senator Piatt's flat-footed declaration that McKinley and Ho bart would be renominated. So far as McKinley is concerned, Platt has been mortgaged since early in the present administration ; his endorse ment of Hobart means that if he ever had any idea of helping lo get Roosevelt second place on the ticket, it has been abandoned, but whether because he wasn't pleased with Roosevelt or whether the latter wasn't pleased with the idea of second place, is a matter of conjee tore, but the former is more likely to be true ? The declaration of Senator Penrose, who is Boss Quay's man and mouth piece, in favor of McKin ley's renomination is nothing more than a bid for administration help for Quay in his contest to get bis seat in tbe senate This was doubtless pleasing to Mr. McKinley, whether he means to help Quay or not, as he found Quay decidely "uppish"' to wards the administration while he was in the senate. The administration was very par ticular to have the widest circulation given to the report of the beef court of inquiry, but it has now discovered that ali of the $200,000 set aside to pay for the inquiry has been used up, and has ordered work stopped on the punting of the testimony, upon which that report was supposed to be based, after it had all been put in type. It has all along been contend ed by many that the administration never intended tc make the testimo ny public, and this action makes it look as though that contention was correct. Secretary Alger has been putting bis foot in it again. Several davs ago, he cause an order to be issued by the war department instructing the military authorities in Cuba to give clearances to Cuban vessels under the Cuban flag, and at the same time stating that the vessels fiying the Cuban flag would not be under American protection. As there is no Cuban government, there can be no recognized Cuban flag ; hence the order strikes the average man as ludicrous Somebody called Mr McKinley's attention to the order and he directed that it be referred to the attorney general for an opiuion This opiniou, it is expected, will knock the order out It might answer for Cuban vessels to go from one Cuba port ic another, under such a clearance, but io any port outside cf Cuba, the masters of such vessels would be at anybody's mercy ; they would have no consul to appeal to in case of unjust treatment of any 'sort, and no stand Dg injany court of admiralty. Alger's specialty ap pears to be doing the wrong thing. The Dewey ome Fund isn't growing as fast as it might. It did not reach a total of $5,000 until .ay. Unless it gets a move on, it will not be big enough to buy a Washington House by the time Dewey gets home. THE PENITENTIARY \ INVESTIGATION. Legislative Committee to Vis it the Sf;ate Farms. Tbe time for the penitentiary invest igating committee to resume its work is rapidly approaching and the coming j session is being looked forward to with considerable interest. Ooe of the prominent members of the committee bas stated io the last j few days that the members have been io constant commuoioation with ooe another for some time and that tbs committee will certainly reconvene io j this oity OD June 13. The committee, it is stated, proposes to visit several of the Strte farms and will endeavor to complete the work io hand within a week. It is probable then that the j committee will adjourn until the latter I part of Joly or the first of August, when the body will meet at some point io the up-country, probably Anderson or Greenville The idea io doing this will be to give Col. Neal's witnesses an opportunity tc finish working their j crops, and puc them to as little es j pense as possible It is announced that ft ii the purpose of the committee to give Col. Neal every showiog possible in the oenduct of the investigation. While appreciating the kindness of the management of the South Carolina summer resorts the committee seems to be very emphatic in declining to go i on anything that could be considered a junketing expedition. It is understood that daring the recess the committee bas come into possession of a great many fac:s that will begiu to bob up soon after the next session opens aod'ft is hinted that several very prominent men, iooludiog some officials and ex-efficiais, are likely tO be summoned to appear as witnesses. The committee gives no indication BS wo when it expects to finally conclude its work of investigation and enter upon the preparation of its report to be filed with thegovernor. Nothing more has been heard as to what Col Neal will do about payiog the shortage already found. It was some time ago said that the amount would be paid when the board next met -The State. -- ? ? PROPOSALS SUBMITTED BY SEVERAL COUN TRIES. The Hague, May 29 -A brief oficial reoord of the doing of the peace conference during the past week says: "Provisional proposals for media tion aud arbitration have been submitted by the representatives of Russia, Great Britain, Italy and the United States." The correspondent here of the Asso ciated Press learns that the statement that the Americans have submitted an arbitration proposal is not correct. Their proposals for a permanent tribunal are not ready, as a Frenoh translation is necessary. They will probably be submitted on Wednesday. Count Nigra, chief of the Italian d l gation, submitted a proposal of mediation and arbitration consisting of six articles, tn the form of an amend ment to the Russian project. The Americans also submitted an amendment demanding that, in the event of a dispute between the two nations, eaoh should choose another to act together as arbitrators to settle the difference without bloodshed This must not be couofounded witb the proposal for a permanent arbitration tribunal which the Americans will introduce during the week. Paris, May 27.-Early this morning it was rumored that the preisdent of the civil seotion of the ccurt of cassation, Baliott de Beaupre, had reported to the president of ibe court of cassation, Marean, io favor of a revision of the Dreyfus triai, aod sending the prisoner again before a court-martial. This later in the day was confirmed by a direct statement that the president of tho civil section had so reported to the president of the court of cassation. Macon, May 27.-A special to tbe Telegraph from Columbas, Ga , says ; Intelligence reached Columbus today of the mmder of Jule C. Smith, a well known planter and merchant, near Columbus, by Bill Harris, a negro Harris shot Mr. Smith as be was entering his residence. It is said that Mr. Smith bad reproved the negro for stealing chickens Thu authorities are after the negro. Waterloo, Ia., May 28.-Through train from Chicago to Minneapolis, over the Kook Island and Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern railways, was wrecked at 1 15 Sunday morning at the crossing of Sink Creek, about four miles southeast of this place. The train consisted of s .. coaches, iooludiog mail and baggage oars, smoking car, two passenger coaches and sleeper. Nine persons were killed and 23 injured. Paying Cuban Soldiers. Dead Men Named ; Live Sol diers Omitted From Roll's Habana, May 28 -There were 1 ll applications today for shares in the 3,000,000 which the United States has offered as a gratuity to the Cuban troops. Thirty were given $75 each. The others were not on the rolls, although they had guns which they were ready to turn in and certificates of service. y/ The United States military author ities consider that the rolls are very unreliable. Indeed the opinion is freely expressed that a large propor tion of the names are fictitious and that the rolls omit a majority of the names of those rightly entitled to share in the gratuty. The object of this, apparently, is to discredit the entire proceedings and to show the Cuban public that a large nnmber of the troops refused to take American money. Lieut Col George M. Randall of the Eighth United States infantry, the commissioner superintending the distribution here, went carefully over the rolls and one battalion with its commander. He pointed out 34 names of men who are dead and names of others who bad not been heard of out side the roils Of those paid today 25 turned in arms-Mausers, Remingtons and Car bines. The other five showed re ceipts from the alcalde vouching for the delivery of their arms The payment will continue until noon to/norrow in Habana city, but Col.. Randall believes it will be nec essary to have additional days after awhile here and extra pay roHs for men who have undoubtedly seen ser vice. He also believes that were the payment to be continued in Habana for the next three days at least 99 per cent, of thoae entitled to apply would do so. Most of those who received shares today asserted that they only heard by accident that the distibution was now actually taking place Coi Randall will send to Senor Perfecto Lacoste, the mayor, all the arms turned in today. The first payment outside of Ha bana will be made on Tuesday at Santiago de las Vegas, whither Col Randall' the clerks and 40 soldiers will go with the paymaster. Gen. Carpenter, military governor of the department of Puerto Principle, arrived today to attend the meeting of military governors summoned by Gov. Gen Brooke for Thursday next He reports that affairs in that pro vince are in good condition ; that the people continue at work, and that there is no trouble from brigands The muster out of the volunteers there leaves the Eighth United States cavalry, numbering 300 men. and the Fifteenth United States infantry numbering 700, as the force of occu pation. Gen Brooks intends to mcdify the mortgage extension decree so as to exclude properties that were bankrupt before the rebellion and city property. An artillery sergeant has been re duced to ranks for mterferiog with the police. Maj. Gen. Ludlow, military governor of Habana, in approving the sentence said the matter was a grave ene and that the soldiers must learn to respect the difference between the civil and military authorities. More Than 300 Cuban Sol diers Applied Yesterday for a Snare of the $3,000, OOO. Habaoa, May 29 -Today's events in connection with the payment of the Cuban troops entitled to apply here for a share ia the American gratuity have effectually killed off the opposition to the receipt of the bounty by privates. In American military circles it is; considered that a fine start has been made and that the opposition is defeated. Over three hundred privates arrived during the day to apply for payment but though Lieut. Col. George M. Randall, of the Eighth United States infantry, the distributor here, kept his office cpen from 10 a. m., only 112 could be paid during that interval, as each man took up several minutes. Many who brought arms were not on the rolls at ali. Ninety-nine rifles were surrendered, most cf the appli cants declining to take any chances io turning the weapons over to the mayor of Habaoa, evidently believing lt would be better to givo them direct to the Americans. At the conclusion of the day's work there were more than 200 who had not been heard. Tbess will have to wait until after the return of the pay oar oo June 15 when there wilt probably be extra days assigned to Habana. Gen Pedro Delgado, commanding the Cuban forces around Gaanajay called his men together today, and told them they were disbanded and ordered them to take their arms and go home. Of the two hundred some thirty who were mounted oo ponies, said they would ride to Habana and get their money. Thereupon Gen. Delgado who was formerly a notorious bandit, called upon the rest to draw up io lite and to phoot any mao who took the road to Habana. The thirty mounted mea j gloomily dispersed They will have an opportunity to receive their shares later. Thc 3 ad Toot's JXcin.i.. Many stories are told of McDonald Oiarke, known 50 years ago in New York as tbe "Mad Poet," which show that he had a vein of great shrewdness?, such as is often possessed by people who are counted insane. One day he was seated at a table in a New York i otei quietly eating his sim ple dinner when two young men took their seats at the same table. They were not gentlemen i:; ihe best sense of the word, and it occurred to them that they might have some sport with the poor poet. Consequently oue of them said in an unnecessarily clear tone: "I have seeu almost everything and everybody in New York except McDon ald Clarke. I have a great admiration for his poems, aud I would give a great deal to see the maH." When he paused, the mad poet leaned forward and said with evident gratifica j tion: i "Sir, I am McDonald Clarke, whom j yon say yon wish to see." The young man stared at him with much rudeness for a moment, and then, drawing a quarter from his pocket, he laid it on the poet's plate, saying, "That's for the sight!" Clarke looked at the coin for an in stant, and then, placing it in his pockety he took out a "York shilling," 12$ cents. This he handed to the you g man, saying gravely, "Children half price."-Youth's Companion. A Decidedly Novel Claim. A claim once made on the explorer, Cameron, in the neighborhood of Ga boon, Africa, shows the peculiar work ings of the native African's mind. Some of Cameron's possessions proved unduly attractive to a native, and he determined on transferring the owner ship to himself. He accordingly paid another native 200 io procure for him the coveted goods. The assistant took the money and did his best to earn it, but Mr. Cameron had perversely locked up the very arti cles that the fellow's employer had set his heart upon. Tbe man could not car ry out his bargain, and neither did he feel that he could part with the money. Therefore he ran off with it. What more logical than that the man who was the loser by $200 should expect the explorer to make the Joss good? This he assuredly did expect. He went to Mr. Cameron and told him the story, demanding in the first place the $200 which he, Cameron, by locking up his goods, had compelled the complainant to lose, and, secondly, the actual price of the goods themselves, which, but for these arbitrary measures, would now have been in his possession. It is not stated that his expectations were realized.-Watchman. Sterne' ^Destitution. Laurence Sterne, the writer, was the victim of the intensest poverty. A little time before his death, being in a state of destitution, he went one evening to borrow 5 from his friend Garrick. Upon arriving, be heard music and knew that a party was going on. He heard the merry laughter, and, gently replacing the uplifted knocker, retraced his steps. We never feel our miseries so keenly as when contrasted with the joys of others, and it is only then that we re alize Wordsworth's picture: And homeless near 3 thousand homes I stood And near a thousand tables pined for food. Another story of this writer does not evoke so much sympathy. It was known that Sterne used his wife very ill, and in talking with Garrick one day in fine sentimental style of conjugal love and fidelity he said, "The husband who be haves unkindly to his wife deserves to have his house burn down over his head." "If you think so," said Garrick quietly, 'I lvpe yours is well insured." A Malay Sultan's Letter. In the cover there were three inclo snres-a formal letter of extreme polite ness, written by a scribe; secondly, a letter written in my friend's own hand; and thirdly, another paper, headed, "Hidden Secrets," written also in the sultan's own hand. At the top of the first page of the second letter is writ ten, "Our friendship is sealed in the inmost recesses of my heart." Then this, "I send this letter to my honored and renowned friend" (here follow my name, designation and some conven tional compliments). The letter then continues: "Yon, my ear friends are never out of my thoughts, and they are always wishing you well. I hear that you are coming to see me, and for that reason my heart is exceedingly glad, as though the moon had fallen into my lap or I had teen given a cluster o2 flowers grown in the garden called *"* Benjerana Sri, wide opening under the influence of the sun's warm rays." "Unaddressed Letters," by Swetten bam. - An Antenuptial Understanding:. j* "There is one question I want to ask you, dearest," said the beautiful girl a9 . e toyed with the diamond ring cn . sr third finger. "When we are mar ried, will you expect me to bake my own bread?" "You can do as you like aboutit, darling," be replied, "but I certainly shall iDsi^-t upon your not baking mine."-Chicago News. A Bellicose YouA . The boy is still father tc the man. A certain prominent political hustler, who: like the British tar in "Pinafore," is ever ready with his fists, showed his pugilistic taste at an early age. The first day he went to school the family were, of course, anxious to know his impression of the new occupation. "Well, Sammy." said his father, "what did you learn on your first day at school0" Stra ghtening up and assuming a,^-" bellicose attitude, Sam replied, "Father, I learned I can lick every boy in my class. " A few days later his love of pugilism and frequent battles led to his expr.y^ sion. He came home that day and sur prised his good mother with the remark. j 4'Well mother, thank the Lord. I have been turned ont! '--Cleveland Plain j Dealer. _j