Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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B?-War?rtte FbHtppities DESERTER HOLDS RANK OF GENERAL AND IS OUR BITTEREST # FOE. Manila, Oct 28.-While scouting .eas: Looo a def ?ob ment of the Twen? tieth tod Twenty-eighth regiment? nader Capt Beigier, were attacked by 400 insurgents armed with rifles ander the command of a white man, whose -nationality is not koowa to the Ameri? cans. The insurgents for tbs most part were in tren oh ed. After ao hernie fight Capt Beigler drove off the enemy, killing more than 75. The fight lasted for two hoar?. Capt Belgier and three privates were i slightly wounded and two af the Amer teins were killed. ? An engagement took place Oct 24. between detachments of the Third cav? alry and the Thirty-third volunteer io- j fan try, cumbering 60, and a force of j in sargen ts inolading 400 rifle aod 1,000 bolomeo. The fighting was ! desperate. Finally ander pressure of overwhelming numbers, the Americans ; were compelled to retire on Nar rican. Lient George L Fe biger and four : privates ware killed, nine were wound? ed and four are missing. Twenty-moe horses are missing A number of teamsters were cap tared by the insurgents but were sub sequent ly released The enemy'* loss ia estimated at 150. A civilian launch, towing a barge loaded with merchandise near Arayat waa attacked by a force of 150 insur? gents nuder David Fagin, a deserter from the Twenty fourth infantry The American troops, on hearing the firing, tamed ont ia foree before the boat coald be looted and recaptured it. Fagin, who bolds the rank of general among the insurgents, bas sworn spe? cial enmity toward his former company. Of the 20 men he captured a month ago seven hare returned One was killed ia a fight,' his body being horri? bly mutilated Fagin sends messages to his former comrades threatening them with violeoee if they become his prisoners It was Fagin's men who captured Lieut Atstaetter, who is still j a prisoner. j Reports from Gen Young's district | show, a daily inerease of insurgents j there, o wirrg to the faet that recruits j are goiog thither from the towns. PRINCE Tl' AND YING NIEN. London, Oct 29-Dr Morrison, wir iog to The Times from Pekin today, ; nuder date of Oct 26, says : j ''Th? foreign mioers io conference today decided to add the names of Prince Yi aod Yieo Nien to tho?e of tba seien officials whose exeoutioo Franee has demanded. "it is said that the commaoder of the allied troops at Pao Ting Fa has arrested the provincial treasurer, who was chiefly responsible for the ill treat meat of the rescued missionaries." _ _ _ _ j CHANGESjON THE SOUTH ERN. Washington, Oct. 28 -Under exe? cutive order No 32, there ia to be a -change in the organization of the operating department of the Southern railway to take effect Nov 1, 1900 Tbe order provides that the third Tice president and general manager shall be assisted by an assistant general manager, a general superin? tendent of transportation, two general superintendents, a superintendent of motive power, an engineer of bridges and buildings, and a superintendent of telegraph, and that the assistant general manager shall assist the third vice president aod general manager, especially io all matters pertaining to maintenance of way and equipment, and in tbe direction ol new construc? tion and improvements upon operated lines The following appointments are an? nounced to take effect Nov 1 : Wm H Peddle, assistant general manager, Washington, D C; James H Bar rett, general superintendent of trans portation, Washington ; Joseph H Sands, general sn pen" nt ende nt eastern district, Salisbury, N. C ; J. A. Dod son, general superintendent, western district, Chattanooga, Tenn , and D W Lomrj, engineer of bridges and buildings, Washington The order aiso abolishes the offices of general superintendent of mainten ance, assistant general superintendent of maintenance, assistant general sa perintendent and superintendent of track, bridges and buildings Rock Hill, Oct 28 -A small fire occurred at 5 o'clock this morning at the Southern cotton platform and about 50 bales belonging to Springs, Mason & Co. were burned. At 1 o'clock there was a blaze in a row of Friedbeim Bros ' cotton in rear of Hand Bros.' restaurant. Mr Hand and others extinguished it with a backet of water At 5 o'clock the 50 bales at the Southern platform were burned. A half hour later Mr Campbell of tue Scuih Carolina and Georgia office found a bale of pick? ings on fire upon his company's plat? form While at work upon that the alarm was sounded from A. Fried beim & Bros ' platform in rear of their store All of these small blazes were subdued without any trouble and without allowing a spreed lt was very apparently an incendiary attempt. Dedication of the Savannah Cathedral. IMPRESSIVE SERVICES THAT ARE RARELY WITNESSED IN THE SOUTH. Savannah, Ga, Oct 28.-This morning, upon the feast day of St Simon and St Jude, the magnificent Cathedra! of St John the Baptist was dedicated by Monsignor Sebastiano Martineiii, delegate of the pope to the United States, assisted by some 50 priest?, including 10 bishops. The bishops who took part in the exer- j cises were Rt Rev Henry Moeller, DD, of Columbus, Ohio ; Rt Rev Edward P Allen, DD, of Mobile, Ala; Rt Rev Sebastian Byrne, DD, of Nashville, Tenn ; Rt Rev Th?ophile Meerschaert, DD, of Indian Terri tory ; Rt Rev A Van Devi ver, DD, of Richmond, Va ; Rt Rev Leo Haid, DD, O S B, of North Carolina ; Rt Rev Alfred A Curtis, DD, of Balti? more ; Rt Rev Henry P Northrop, DD, of Charleston, S C ; Rt Rev John Moore, DD, of St Augustina, Fla; Rt Rev B J Kelley, DD, of Savannah. Monsignor Martinelli was the cele? brant of the mass, assisted by Vicar General Bazin of Atlanta, Rev Dr Brannen of New York, Rev Dr Rooker of Washington, secretary to Archbishop Martinelli, aod Rev Dr Flynn of Morristown, N J. The weather was perfect, and the services were attended by an im? mense throng. The exercises lasted three hours but so beautiful and im? pressive were they that not an andi tor left the building during their con? tinuance. Will Raise Maine Wreck. Washington Oot 28 -Secretary Loog has given hi? ooosent to tthe removal of the battleship Maine Immediately upoo the return of Gen Wood to Havana be will make arrange? ments for the raising of the wreck Several months ago application were mada to Gen Wood by persoos willing to remove the MaiB if they were giveo the hull io return for the work, and it is possible that may still be willing te observe the same terms Besides tbe Maine Geo Wood will probably make ' arrangements for the removal of the armored eruisers Visoays, Almirante Oquendo aod Cristobal Colon, that now lie along the south oost of Coba, and ! the Guoboat Jorge Juao, which is lying ; io the mud in the harbor of Nipe. Geo Wood will have a representeiive present during tbs removal of the Maine and Lieut Commander Young, the captain of the port of Havanna, will witness the opetation. Should any evidence be discovered bearing npon the cause of the destruct.on of the ship, it will be immediately report to Washington. The Main is pretty far down in the mud, aod it will proba sly be a very difficult task to raise her WINSTON CHURCHILL Declines to Withdraw Statement That Lord Rosslyn is a Liar. London, Oot 29 -The solicitors of Mr Winston Churchill have written to the representatives of the Karl of Rosslyn declining in the name of Mr Churchill, to withdraw or apologize for Mr Churchill's statement at the recent banquet of the Pall Mall dub that Lord Rossiyo io dispatches and letters from South Africa to English newspapers bad libeled British officers and made assertions that were nothing short of falsehoods. This morning Mr Churchill ?rites to The Daily Mail repudiating the sugges? tion that he is moved by persooal feeling against Lord Rosslyn, but point? ing out that the earl is responsible for a ' libellons statement oonoerniog four f tmous cavalry regiments " After say? ing that if L)rd Roselyn will frankly withdraw the alleged libellous staremeot he (Clarehill) will bc the first to regret that bard words have been spokeo, he refers to his acion regarding Lord Rosslyn's mtslcadiog account of Mr Co urchin's escape io Sooth A tries, pointing out that this resulted io the publishers withdrawing Lord Rosslyn's book from circulation aod to Lord Rosalyn writing to Mr Churchill that tbe passage was not inteuded tu an offensive sense and should be espuoged iu fatare editions Declined tbe Honor. Washington, Oct 27.-Owing to the protest by the State of Connecticut against naming oue of the oew moni? tor- after the State the Secretary of the Navy has practically decided to se leet some other State for that distinc? tion The people of Conneotiout basrd their objections on the ground that their State was entitled to a higher d'gnity io the naval register than ooul? possibly be cooterrcd by a mere mooi tor. especially as other Statee, it: dudiog ber small neighbor, Rhode Island, bad been honored io the nanjing of battle? ships. Ali four of the big monitors authorized by Congres were nam?d after States of the Union, Arkansas. Connecticut.. Florida and Wyoming, and so far Connecticut ia tbe only State to decline the honor The Navy Department was guided in (bc matter by tb*1 fact that there are not enough battleships to go around aod tbe further faot that the monitors are formidable armored veasels, like the bauleshtpc CARD FROM COL J. H. TILLMAN. Famishing Evidences That He f?as Never Been Before Recorder in Augusta Editor Thc Sute. Io a reoeot issue of your oowspaper jon had an editorial qootiog aod oom mentiug upon ao artiole which appeared to the Florence Times. I would hate giteo earlier attention to the matter, bu'-; hate been unwell I band you under (his ooter a letter from the reoorder of the city of Augusta which M ask that you publish. I also request those newspapers that hate referred to your editorial to also copy same. Very truly. James H Tillman. Edgefield, Oat 27. 1900. October 20, 1900. Hon James H Tillman, Edgefield S C. My Dear Sir : In reply to your in? quiry of reoent date, I beg to nay that, as recorder of the city of Augusta, I have-never tried you for any offense whatever, either under your own name or an assumed name. Tbe statement to the contrary oontaioed in the Flor* eooe Times and quoted in the Columbia State, which you send me, is absolutely untrue. Very Truly, E B. Baiter. (The State was not seeking to make a poiot against the lieutenant governor elect when quoting from the Flor? ence Times ; indeed, we rather at? tempted to soothe the shocked feelings of The Times. The report of the noc? turnal affair io Augusta with tery minute and particular and interesting and to some, perhaps, shocking details, was receited by os the day after its alleged occurrence. But it bas never been made publio. So far as our inde? pendent information goes, the state? ment of the recorder of the city of Au? gusta is correct-"ol Tillman did not afford bim the opportunity of "trying'' him, and for that, the State of South Oirolina in due somebody a vote of thaods.-Eiitor The State.) CARELESS BANKING. Tbe defalcation of Alvord, who stole about $700,000 from a New York bank, has served to call at ten tion to the remarkably careless man? ner in which great financial institu? tions are sometimes managed It would be natural to suppose that io one of the leading banks of New York would be found the highest degree of business carefulness and exactitude And jet from each an institution an employe manages to steal $200,000 more than its capital stock before he was even suspected The most remarkable feature of this case is tbe fact that nearly all of Alvord's acquaintances except his emyloyes had for many months held him under suspicion because of his very luxuriant style of living We do not wonder that the New York papers are commenting severe ly upon the blindness of the directors and other superior officers of tbe bank which Alvord looted lu their efforts to explain bow a vast amount of the bank's money could have been stolen without their knowledge the directors admit that there was a large reserve fund of which they gave no hint in their sworn statement of the bank's re sources. This will strike most per? sons as being worse than no explana tion at all. In this case, as in many other instances of defalcations, a large part of the moral responsibility for the wrong doing seems to test upon those who were charged with the guardianship of the bank's affairs and interests. The Alvord case has a very obvi ous lesson for directors of coucerns that handle money in a fiduciary capacity-Atlanta Journal THE BOERS IN FORCE Have 15,000 Men in Field Broken Into Bodies of About 300 Each. London, 0?t 29.-According to a dispatch from Cape Town to The Daily Mail a force of Boers attacked aod sur? rounded a patrol of Cape police, with a convoy, near Hoopstead. Orange River colony, latt Wednesday, aod a sharp fight ensued "The polioe," says the correspondent, "were compelled to abandon two max ?ms. Ultimately reinforced by the yeomanry, they succeeded in getting away with the convoy ; but they los: 7 killed, ll wounded and 15 captured. Tbe Colonials were outnumbered 10 to 1, and the engagement lasted for two hours "The Boers have 15,000 men in the field, nearly half of whom are io Orange River colony. These are divided into commandoes of some 300 caob, bat arc capable of combioacieo for large operations " Population of United States Will Be Announced the Coming Week Washington. Oct 27 -The work of counting tbe inhabitants of the United States was practically completed by tbe oensus bureau today and next we?k Director Merriam will anoouooe the population of tbe country. THANKSGIVING DAI Toe President Issues the Usual Proclamation Nam? ing November 29th. Washington, Oat 29.-Tbe state department today issued tbe following : By the president of the United btates of America . A PROCLAMATION. It bas pleased the Almighty God to bring oar nation in safety and honor through another year The works of religion and charity have everywhere been manifest. Oar ooantry throagh all its extent has been blessed with abundant harvest!. Labor ?od the great industries of the people have j prospered beyond all precedents Oar commerce has spread over tbs world. Our power and influences in the cause of freedom and enlightenment have extended over distant seas and lands. The lives of oar official representatives and many of our people in China have baen marvelously preserved. We have been generally exempt from pestilence and other great calamities, and even the tragic visitation which overwhelmed the city of Galveston made evident the sentiments of sympathy and Christian charity by virture of wbioh we are one united people Now, therefore, I William McKin? ley, president of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the 29th of November next, to be observed by all the people of the United States, at home and abroad, as a day of Thanksgiving ana praise to him who holds the nations in the hollow of Hie Hand. I recommend that they gather in their several places of worship aod devoutly give Him thanks for the pros? perity wherewith He has eudowed us, for seed time and harvest, for the valor, devotion and humanity oj our armies and navies and for all His benefit to us as individuals and as a nation ; and that they humbly pray for the continuance of His divine favor, for oooeord aod amity with other nations, and for righteousness and peace ia all oar ways. In witness I have hereunto set mv hand aod caused tbe seal of thc United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 29th day of Ostober, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred, and of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and twenty fifth (Seal) William McKinley. By the President John Hay, Secretary of State. . DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN NEW YORK. Thirty-Five are Missing Many Miraculous Escapes. New York, Oct 29.-As a result of a small fire several successive explo? sions of chemicals occurred in the drug store at Warren and Greenwich streets today and blew down a dozen baildiogs and badly damaged a score of others. The lo6* of life is not known, but from all sources of information it is gathered that there are perhaps the bodies of 30 persons in the ruins, though because of the bot debris and the slowness of tbe moving of it, nobody bad been removed up to midnight. The disaster was one of tbe most terrible tbat has ever occurred in this city, and rivals the Windsor hotel fire in its appalliog results, though in loss of property it will be worsa. Chief Croker of the fire department said to? night that the loss is fully $1,500,000. The aotioo of the tremendous catas? trophe was more vivid aod awful than the city has eeeo for a long tirr?. Buildings fell in on themselves or toppled over on others, iron girders were throwo yards away, smashing through great walls, whole structures fell into the streets in piles so that the line of thoroughfare could oot be marked oat, huge splinters oftroo, steel aod wood were flung into the streets and into the buildiogs clean through the wall where they buried women aod men. People walking through the etreetp were knocked dowo and daoget orally injured by timbers, glass and steel, horses were throwo down, wagons, windows, store fronts aod ?ll sorts of property for blocks io every direction were wrecked and damaged There were 35 persons reported miss- j in g and 100 men, women and children are on the list of iojured Search for bodies is going on aud will be coottnued all nigbt. Chief Croker said tonight that no firemen bad per? ished in tbe fire, all bis men having been aocouoted for ' Smallpox at Gray Court. Gov McSweeney yesterday received the following from a L?ureos County towo : Gray Court, S C , Oot 29 j Gov McSweeoey, Columbia, S C : ! Eleveo casos smallpox io my prac I tice. Pieasc seod expert Aoswer A L Christopher, M D The goverDor at once wired as follows j ? to Dr Jame;* Evans : j . -'Dr A J. Christopher, Gray Court. ; reports eleven ea.?es smallpox and j desires expert sent. Please give prompt j I attention." J j He alno sent Dr Christopher the fol- j j iowiog : "Have wired secretary state board of j I health io regard to smallpox reponed i 1 by you *'-The State, Oot 30. I Alford Arrested at Last. He Had Been io Boston Since Wednesday Morning Tak? ing Life Easy. Boston, Oct. 29 -C L Alvord, Jr , the absconding note teller of the First National bank in New York city, who is charged with stealing $700,000 from the bank, was arrest? ed here this afternoon by Chief Wm. B Watts of this city and Detective Armstrong of New York in an ordi? nary lodging bouse at the corner of West Newton street and Burlington avenue When arrested Alvord, who knew Detective Armstrong, stated he was glad the suspense was ended, and was willing to go back to New York without papers. He sat down on the bed and smoked a cigar, and wat only dressed in his underclothes at the time. He afterward dressed quickly, and packing a few under? clothes in a bag. stated be was ready to go A hack was called and he was driven to police headquarters, and, after being measured and photo? graphed ander the Bertillon system, was taken to New York cn the 5 o'clock train. Chief Inspector Watts, in an inter? view, stated that the department was first informed that Alvord was in this city last Wednesday, when Henry Alexander of Denver, Col , tele phoned that he had seen Alvord in the Hotel Tooraloo He stated that he knew bias well, had done busi? ness with him and described bim per? fectly. This information was wired to Capt McClasky of New York, who immediately sent Detective Dinker here to identify him. From information brought to Chief Watts, he and Detective Armstrong went to a boarding bouse in the Backbay. They went up to a back room on the first floor and found the door locked. On gaining admittance. Inspector Armstrong identified Al? vord, who see -ed greatly relieved that Armstroug bad arrested bim, and said as much. During his stay at police head? quarters Alvord told Chief Watts mat he bad not seen bis wife for two weeks, although prior to that time he had told her of bis financial circum? stances and asked ber if he should kill himself or face it out, and she told bim to face it oct. He stated that he had Bot been near Mount Vernon, but that he left New York last Tuesday at midnight and arrived in Boston Wednesday morning When asked what he had done with the money he said : "Well, $700,000 is a whole lot of money, but it goes easy.'' In referring to horse races, he said he had backed horses bot never on race tracks, and had owned fast horses himself. He said he had liv? ed his life and had taken life to its fud at the rate of $50,000 a year or more. He said be would not make any fight, would throw up his hand, take his sentence and after that was over would ccme out in the world again He said be knew he would be uoabie to secure bail and that he had nothing with which to make re? stitution The Coal Companies Forced to Yield to the Demands of Their Employees. Philadelphia, Pa, Oct 29.-Today witnessed an almost general resumption of work in the anthracite coal region, where for six weeks the mia? workers therein employed have bee? on s'rike for an advance in wages, a reduction in the price of powder and in several dis tricia the abolition of the sliidmg scale of wage6. In a few instances collieries operated by individuals and by com? panies have faiied to recumo, but io the main it can be safely said that bard coal is once more bciog mined. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, which controls over 20 per cent of the output of the anthracite region, acd which largest operatiog company io the hard coal field, received word today that thirty seven of tbe thtrty-oioe collieries oper? ated by that Company were working. This ii (be number that wa.? io opera? tion en iMooday, September 17, the first day of (be strike With the resumption of the Reading collieries i: i? admitted by the company (bat further opposition to tho demands of (he mine workers is nseless, and it is the belief of the officials tbat wirhio a few days these operators who have not yet eunceeded tbe demands of the I Scranton Mine Workers' Convention will have done so Another Report of the Suicide. Washington, Oct 27.-From an iodepeodeot source Secretary Hay bas received confirmatory evidence of the reported suicide of Yu Hsiaog, the fanatical governor of the province of Shan Si, whose punishment was de? manded by the powers for the massacre of a large cumber of missionaries. This message came from Special Com? missioner Rookhil!. *s follow? : Shanghai, Oct 22. 1900. Have reliable information to the effect that Yu Hsiaog oommitted suicide. Rockhill. The determicaiion of Col Eilisoo S. Keitt to support Mckinley leares a fearfully big bo!e*in the Democracy of Newberry county. Wr wonder if Lit? tle Mountain would suffice to fill it ? State. DOODLER'S BEST SENTIMENT. To the Editor of the State. I ?rae asked a few days ago by a literary lady io Kansas City Mo, for ny very best sentiment in one verse For ber autograph album. Here is tbe verse I sent : MAY YOUR LIFE BE A.8 sweet as tbe violet tbat drioks tbe rain drops Fbat fall from my own cottage eaves, A.od as fair aa tbe rose io tbe moroiog of May, ?nd as pare ai tbe dew OD its leavee Or, like a fair dream of tbe days when I roved O'er the flower decked hills of my yootb, When close by my ear the sweet angel of peace Whispered love io its beauty and troth. J. Gordon Coogler. $300,000 BLEACHER! AND PRINTER! The Work of Construction is -Being Pushed Rapidly. Active progress is BOW being made on thc erection of an enterprise of con? siderable importance to southern tex? tile interests. It is the $300,00$ bleacher; and printery at Clear Water. S. C , near Augusta. Ga. for the Clear Water Bieaebery and Manufacturing oompany. This will be the first gener? al bieaebery aed printery in the south, there being but several isolated estab iishmsots of this cbaraoter io existence now. The organization of this com? pany and its lettiog of oontract for $000,000 bi?diogs has previously been reported in this department. The contractor is proceeding rapidly with bis work ; the foaodations are com? pleted, and the superstructure is rapid? ly g?it>it up The main building will be 33x76 feet, with two wings 83x225 feet and 51x196 feet, respectively : dye house will be 91x63 feet, and two store bouses 40x149 feet. The plant's capacity will be 8,000,000 yards of elotb weekly tn bieaebery and 3,000, 000 yards io the printery. The oper? atives will number 125 A box fac? tory and machine repair shop will also be operated. A. C. Freeman, formerly of New England plants, will superin? tend the new industry. Thomas Bar? rett, Jr, of Augusta Ga, is the com? pany's president -Manufacturers' Rec? ord. Elmira, N. Y., Oct 29 -For the first time io New York State and in the home of the D?mocratie eaodidate for governor, Theodere Roosevelt waa assaulted oo* the streets of Elmire tonight oo his way to the places of meeting. Efe was in a carriage with ex Senator Fassett, aod at several points along the route was pelted with eggs aod vegetables aod greeted with the vilest epithets He sat in dignifi? ed silence while the police looked oo quiescently. The campaign dub from Corning was also assaulted personally aod a bitter fight ensued. In the places of meeting the governor had no interruptions After it was over be said : "It was nasty conduct, the conduct of hoodlums." - -I II I mm Hubbard's Cotton Letter. New York, Oct 29.-Although Liverpool responded to our advance of Saturday the market did not show any strength from the opening. A good weather map with no indications of frost for several days to come caused the buyers of Saturday to become sellers. Crop accounts were of an improving tenor from many sec tiou8 on account of the favorable weather conditions during October Receipts at the Atlantic ports and interior towna were lighter than of late, but in the southwest they were on a very heavy scale Texas tele? grams state the movement will only be limited by the ability of the rail? roads to move the cotton. Southern mills are buying more freely than of late, while advices still report plant? ers on the Atlantic are disposed to bold back their crop Hubbard Bros. & Co Tbe Times republishes the card of Lieut Gov elect J. H Tillman io anoth? er oolumn. and the comments of The State thereon It is unsatisfactory. It leaves the whole matter open. While wc conclude that the assertion that the honorable gentlemen was tried under an assumed name is not correct, but we are still left under the very mortifying impression that the mao in whom the people of the State have reposed so great eor.fideoce and honor is not so careful about protecting bis owo honor or that of the people entrusted to him -Florence Times Tien Tsio, Friday. Oct 26 -Infor? mation has been received from Japanese sources that the Empress Dowager is seriously ill at Tai Chueo Fu, and that the most prominent physiotaos in the empire ba? beeo called to attend ber. Land Surveying. ? WILL GIVE prompt atteotion to all calls for eurveyice aod Dlattinjr lacds. BANKS H BOY KIN, Oct 10-o C<?tch*ll. S G. <? PISO'S CURE FOR M H" - lill ll I I M H IHII Ililli f 1,1. N CONSUMPTION ^