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PROVES FATAL TO CONVICTS. Young Solomon of Hampton the First Victim. There ha.? beao considerable excite ment for several days over the appearance cf several cases of menin gitis at the State peniteetiary In view of the talk a bo ai the matter, a representative of The State yesterday called on .Superintendent Griffith and Dr. Griffith, who is at. present in charge of the medical department at thc frisos, ? wieg to the tact that Dr. Star kia, thc regalar physician, is quite siekat bia tiome. ^So far five esses have developed at the inttitutbc, sod three of them have terminated fatally. The first victim yoong Solomon, the 14-year-old white boy who wa? some time af o asst np for a i&-jear tana for tho killing of his own father. This cass waa a notable se: Though thc hoy adoitted killing hts rather, sattinf sp as a defecas that hs did so te pr** *t his father from k &>f sis sister, sassy believe that hs fs tlstoof thc crises. His mother Laers sad visited hist os Wednes day lest I the sftsraeon, after she had goo , thc: lsd wac stricken with sstebta jaisal msaiaf asd thoagh he was 3 veti the heat of sttcoiioa, he di* FHday. Os tU day be died his mather ss aired af bk extreme illaess. She came herc ced thc body was takes hsck to Hessptoa for interment. Two asfvt) ooaticts were seised wish umist''- tfacsame day Ose cf them died oe 8s*eraaj last; the ether is still alive. He was better yesterday morning ; bat suffered a relapse ia the evenisg. A female eos viet was takes sick with the disease Seaday asd died Monday. " There have been, sc stated, ap to date five eases. The two remaining crace have Sit? thoroughly iaolated, ead the quartets which the affected prisoners recopied have bees disin fected. Dr Griffita, who ss is charge, says that tboofh the disease it to a cert is extsat contagions, he hopes through the steps pkm to prevest say farther spread. He ass coaferred with Dr. Taylor sad with Dr A. Barle Booser, ebairmaa of the Co oaib a hoard of health, sad aothieg will be left aadoae to pre vee; the dusses affecting other -The State, May 31. ANOTHER CONVICT THE V1 TI OP MENIN oms. Gslhoaa Jenkins, a convict frota Dor-3hsatsrot>oaiy,died at the peniten tisry Ssst night of cerebro spinal men -1 This sukes the fourth death in the institution from the disease There are sf;ill two cases,which wara reportad this morning ss doing Tory wall, and no aew esses bsd devolep ed daring tho day. Jenkins was at tacked hy the disease yesterday after noon and it atada qaick work of him. Within a few hoars after the first symptoms appeared ha wsa a dead The Negro in the South. Philadelphia. May 31 -The report of thc hoard of Freedmen mission was diseassed at today's session of the geo eral assembly of the United Presbyte rian oh arch. A resolution was adopt ed commending the policy of employing colored teachers and io organizing colored congregations io the sooth sod recommending that the territory of the sooth he pUeed ander the direction of the synod of New York The debate oo this resolution brought out thc cotire question of the status of the negro io the south, with the feel ing of the community therein, the sub ject of lynching, and the solution of the race problem. Rev. Jeb Work, a professor in Knoxville, Teno., univer sity ; said it was easier to start a col ored church io South Carolina than in Pennsylvania. - Io the sooth, he said, statistics show that 66 per eeot. of ail the crimes com mitted are ly colored people under the age of 25 years. This state of affairs is largely doe to tbe fact that the yonoger generation is growing op with free access to the saloon, the gambling house cod politics The Sootberc white people, be continued, are very much alive to this stats of affairs, and the reeeot lynching in Georgia caused them { rest anxiety. Athens. Gt, May 30.-John A Beoediot, cashier of the Exchange bask and owner of the Athens Roil Cover company, has been missing sinoe last Toesday. Be went to Greenville, S. C., on business connected with the roll cover concern and on Tuesday morning left a hotel there to visit cot ton mills at Spar tao borg His accounts at the bank have heirn fcund absolutely correct by experts. iV'o reason can be assigned by family or ?-friends, who fear hs has met with an accident or foal play. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Be Kind You Haie Always Bought Bears the ^-^-g g ature of AMERICAN SCHEME FOR MEDIATION ( Unanimously Adopted by the Sub-Committee of Peace. The Hague, J und -The Ameri cao mediation scheme was unani mously adopted at yesterday's sitting of the sob committee which embodied -as article seven the scheme prepared by the enb committee, with few alter ations. The first commission, by a vote of 18 to 3 adopted s resolution prohibit ing the ose of dumdum (or flattened bullets), Italy, Austria and Great Britain forming the minority. It was also resolved to prohibit the use of explosives from balloons and explosive bullets. An agreement was found to be impossible on all the important pro posals and tbs conviction is grow ing more than ever that the work of the first commission is doomed to failure. The second section of the Red Gross committee is also encountering difficaltiea. ss tba American and British members are opposing the proposed regulations as being too stringent. EFFORTS OF MR HOLLIS. London. Jone 2.-The correspond ent of tba Daily News at the Hague says : "Mr. Frederick Hollis, secre tary of the American delegation, is the author of the American mediation proposal Ia one of the most forci ble and lucid speeches the conference hss jet heard, he argued the utility of special mediation, ss illustrated by the lessons of the Hispano American war. -'He ssid tbst bsd Spain sod j America been each assisted by a ! mediator, peace would probably have been arranged after the battle of Manila " tm II tum CU BA Pt OIL cures Cuts, Burns, Bruises, Rheuma and Sores. Price, 25 cts. Sold bj Hufbfon-Ligoa Co. Du Paty de Clam Arrested. Paris, June 2, l a m -Col Ba Paty ds CUm, seriously implicated by the recent promediogt before the ooart af cassation ss the probable instigator af the forgeries thst have figured to the Dreyfus affair, wss pissed ander arrest at 9.30 o'clock Isst eveetog (Thursday) sad taken to tbs Oberohe military pris OB. Tbs officer teat to arrest him visited I his home thrice before he found him, sod declines to give aay information ss to why the arrest wss made. The Libre Parole, aoti-Dreyfuiite, publishes a letter this morning from Da Paty de Clam to the miaister of 'war, M. Kraals, protesting against .'the attaeks of which I sm ths vie tim," sad claiming the right to be permitted j to prosecute his calumniators, or, as an alternative, asking "the favor of a trial by some court or other/' STATE SUPREME COURT. The supreme court met*at 10 a m yesterday with Chief Justice Mciver, Associate Justices Pope, Grey sod Jones present. J. McCIensgban et al, appel lants, vs Leah McEacbero et al, resondents. Motion to dismiss re* fused. The State, respondent, vs G. P. Tsylor et si. appellants. Motion to recommit this case opon newly dis covered evidence. Messrs. Pnrdy and Reynolds for the motion ; Solici tor Wilson contra Motion granted J. C. McClenaghan et al, respond ents, vs. Leah McEachern et al, respondents. Mr. H L B Wells for appellants ; Mr. C A. Woods for respondents ; Mr. Wells in reply. A. D. Moses, respondent, vs Sumter County, appellant. On motion of Mr. T S. Moorman this case was submitted. Annie E Hodge, respondent, vs Alice Hodge et al, appellant* Mr. J os F. Rbame for applellants ; Mr H. L. B Weils for respondent ; Mr Rbame in reply. Otis Waats 30,000 Men. Washington, May 30.-The Post torrorrow will say : Gen. Otis bas informed the war department tbat he will be satisfied if tbs army under bis oommaod is kept at a maximum of 30,000 The president will give him this number. The situation in the Philippines was the subjeot of an extended conference today between the president and Adjt. Ge: . Corbin. In view cf the more or 1:53 alarming reports which have been sect to the United States from Manila it is important to know that the presi dent dees not bare in the anxiety which these dispatches have naturally created. Gen. O-is has kept in close touch with the authorities here, abd if he was io the tight position which the j press reports seem to indicate, it is felt that he would not hesitate about i makirg bis dilemma known O2 the contrary, tbe advices received from bim show thai he is not in need of a largely increada army. It can be stated on u*biri:y hat until Gen. O.is asks for an additional force, there will be no enlargement of the army. (richman mw .Southron SUMTES WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's.' THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jnoe, JSftS Consolidated Aug. % ISSI. SUMTER S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17.1899. New Series-ToL XTIII. No. 42 A FINE PIANO. 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