The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, November 28, 1900, Image 2
Death Dealig Cyclone.
SIXTY-F?OR KILLED AND
FIFTY-ONE INJURED
ALREADY RE?
PORTED
Nashville, Ttco. Nov 2i -Tonnes
sec w?.? ?wop- l&si ai^h: by che caost
destructive storm ever known io the
State. Moro tbao fifty persone were
killed und a hundred or ciorc fe?nred,
while the damage to houses, timber sod
other property will reach ;?.rge figure?
The storm ectered the State from
northern Miseiss?ppi and swept across in
a northeasterly direction Great damage
18 reported from the counties bordering
on Mississippi, and farther oo, Coium
bia. tn Mandy ooanty, is the heaviest
sufferer. Lavergoe, LoieosviUc ac?
Galatia also felt the wind'?? torce, the
storm fioaily losing its force against the
Cumberland mountain range.
Nashville, Tena, Nov 21 -Dispatch?
es to 9 p m. indicate that last eight's
storm, which swept over northern
Mississippi and central and western
Teocos>ec, was ene of great severity
Advices to the Associated Press and
from special correspondents show tha^
the ?o?? o* life in the territory visited
by the tornado already amounts to 64
and the ctunbsr injured tc over 50.
Telegraphic comtnuaicatioc to the
regions visitad by the cyclone i9 inter
rupted, and it is feared that wheo fal}
detaita *are koowa the list of thc dead
will be lengthened. Tho fcilowiog
table shows the loss of life, together
with the injured, oompiied from dis?
patches forced through by courier aod
telephone from the devastated iecaiities :
Killed ir.jur'd
Columbia, Teno 40 25
La Grange, Tenn 3 6
Thompson, Tenu 1 0
Nolansvi?le, Teon & 8
Lavergoe, Teon 2 1
Love Station, Teno 2 1
T?nica, Miss 5 0
Lula, Miss 4 0
Hernando, Miss 2 0
Batesviile, Miss 0 8
Bexley's Stare, Teen 3 0
Franklin, Teoa 0 2
Total 64 51
Arkabueia. Tate County, Miss, Nov
21.-Yesterday afternoon a tornado
descended upon this little town and as
a result 10 persons were killed out?
right and 20 were injured.
The storm overwhelmed the town
aboat 5 o'clock io the afternoon and in
a few miontes cearly every building
was demolished. Many of the victims *
were picaed nader the wreckage and i
were extricated with muon difficulty.
The tornado passed to the northeast
..and caused oiueh carnage through the
.pastry districts
Memphis, Teno, Nov 21.-Advioes
- recsived tonight from the storm-swept
.- -seotioas of Mississippi, Arkansas and
Tennessee indicate tba: the ioas of life
. and damage to property is far greater
a- 3;?t reported
In Mississippi the greatest icss of
life a'fd damage to property occurred
near Tunica, Luia and Hernando A
report b? ca-rier from a point 13 miles
from l'aies ^ays that the tornado'?
-devastation was so great that it wilt .
'take Weeks to calculate and repair it. {f
-'Five negroes lost their live? on the
"?Hamii:. place
in Tuiiic* tfc^ achoo! house, church
and a cumber of buildings were totally
demolished. More than 50 negroes
are Bfcsicg sad it ls feared that sever?
al of ?bem have perished Cotton is
reported badly damaged.
At Hernando a white maa was killed
and a negro fatally injured by flying
debris Numerous sawmills, several
residences ac? hundreds of negro cab
ins were blown away.
Memphis Teno, Nev 22 -Commun
ication between m39t plaoes struck bj
Tuesday afternoon's storm has. been
restored, and reports ?o far indicate
thai there will be few additions to the
oasnaify Pst from Tennessee and north?
ern Mississippi owing to the small
population cf the ooaotry districts.
The chief property loss was iocurred on
the outtoo plantations, bat no estimates
of the damage oao yet be made.
Nashville. Teco, Nov 22 -Latest
reports from the districts swept by
Tuesday's storm show that seven per?
sons lost their lives io Williamaoo
county.
One more death, that of Clayton
Tacker, ba ooenrred near Columbia,
making the total io the eeotion 24.
Three members of the Eilis family,
at Wainui Lake, Tunica couoty, Mia
issippi, were Stiled.
C Thomas, living near Corinth,
Mis?, was carried away by the wind,
and co traoe of him bas been foand
Io Arkansas six dead and tweoty five
injured have been reported. The vic
tims are principally negroes.
?200,000 DAMAGE AT COLORA?
DO SPRINGS.
Colorado Springs, Col, Nov 22 -
The damage by yesterday's storm will
approximate $200,000 aad is due en?
tirely to destraction by the wind.
Eieotrio light aud telegraph wires aro
still strewn across the trolley wires io
many places, and street railway traffio
will not be resumed until some tima to?
morrow. Abont one hundred houses
and business buildings are damaged
and many trees were uprooted. No
lives were lost in the storm.
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Of Tremendous Importance.
Tariff Decision May End the
Philippine Question.
Congro?smao George W Rry, chair?
man of the house committee on judiciary,
who was one of the leaders io the fi^ht
for the Porto Rican tariff bill, said
yesterday at coe Fifth Avenue Hotel
th>i Until tho test oase brought m
determine the constitutionality of the
Porto Rica:i tariff wa? dse??ed ty tho
United States euprcmo court lhere
would ba no legislation by congress for
the Philippine?
''Tba: decision," he said, "will show
us where we stand and we eau then
prooeed intelligently. If the court
sustains the republican contention that
Porto Rico ?3 not a part of the Uoited
States, bot territory belonging co the
United States, and that, therefore, the
constitutional provisions for uniform
taxation throughout the United States
does net apply to Porto Rico, cf coarse
j the same will hold good with regard to
j the Philippic es We can then frame a
! tariff bili for the Philippines which wiii
! provide the necessary revenue fer thc
i government of the Philippines on
j progressive lines, sud also afford the
I necessary protection to our own rnaoa
1 facturers and labor "
"What; if the decision of the court
should be that the Porto Rican tariff is
unconstitutional and that Porto Rico is
a part of the United States ?"
"ff such should be the decision of
the court it might necessitate our bav
iog to give up the Philippines. We
are bound to the open door ia the
Philippines. That means that the
products of all nations can come in;o
the Philippines oa the samo basis as ?
oar own. if we cannot raise a tariff j
against Philippine products coming into I
the United States, tben our labcr
would be brought into oompc-iiticn with
the cheap labor of the Orient. If that
condition should come about wc might
feel that our interests would demand
oar withdrawal from the Philippines
"For myself I have no doubt as to
what the decision of the Supreme Court
will be. I am confident that the court
will sustain tbe contention that the
constitution does coi go into Porto Rico
and the Philippines of its own force,
and that they cao beheld as territory
belonging to the United States. If the
decision should be agaiost us I feel
certain it will be by a divided courr."
"Do you think the result of the
recent ela/tion will have aoy influence
on the court in its determination of the
3886 V
"Well, there is always a iesdency to
support the popular constitution-that
s human nature But, of course, the
>ourt will col allow itself to be swayed
>y the pepuiar verdict in favor of keep
ag the Philippines It is for the
:ourt to pass upon the constitutionality
>f laws passed by congress, and the
odTt cannot delegate its authority to .
be people, if it did che people might jj
everse their verdict at the next election j
nd toe court would have to change
nth them, a proceeding whicb: if fol
owed often, would not add to the gen
ral respect for thc court as a judioal
ribunal.
"It was tbe Philippine problem
?hieb we saw looming up in tbe future
reich led us to frame tbe Porto Rico
ariff. If we had not taken the pos?
ion wc did with regard to our sew !
>os>sessio/>s unen we ?id. we wotald j
?ave bad tc make the sazae fight wheo- j
?ver we started to iegisiate for toe j
Philippines. Nor?, if the Saprem* j
Joart sustains thc Porto Rican tariff j
ve will know just where we stan'i with j
egard to the Philippines and can ac* :
iccordiogly."-New York Times ;
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QUESTION ANSWEK3ED.
Yes, August Flower still has ibe iarg?st sale '
if ar?j' medicine in tbe civilized world, i'our
mothers and grandmothers never thought of
using anything else for indigestion- or bilious?
ness. Doctors were scarce, and they seldom
heard of appendicitis, nervous prostration or
neart failure, etc. They used August Flower
?o clean out the system and stop fermentation
of undig26ted food, regulate the action of the
liver, stimulate the nervous and organic action
of the system, and that is all they took when
feeling dull and bad with headaches and other
ache?. You only reed a few doses of Green's
August Flower, in liquid form, to make you sat?
isfied there is nothing serious the matter with
you. For sale by A. J. China. A
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Secretary Koot in CUDS.
Santiago de Cuba, Nov 2fo-Secre- ?
tary Root, responding to a toast tc bis
health at a banquet here, said in part :
"I am visiting Cuba as the represen?
tative of President McKinley for the
purpose of making a personal investiga
tioo of the condition of its inhabitants,
particularly wita rsfereooe to their
ability to govern themselves From
newspaper reports I had come to
imagine that the Cubans were only
partly civilized and I am agreeably
surprised to find an enlightened people.
? desire to renew assurances of the
good faith of the United States Govern?
ment, which will fulfil its promises,
and I expect to see a free, 6elf govern
iog republic in Cub*."
Charlotte, N 0 . Nov 20 -The big
cotton mill operatives' strike in &!a
manee County, N C . has been deciar.
ed off The strike bas been io toree
about three tnoBtbs tod several thoa
sand hands were involved. The laboi
organization wbieh bas been aiding thc
strikers withdrew ita fupport. This h
the third recent strike among cottot
mill workers in North Carolina and th<
mill owners have io each case boen th?
inners. /
Tbat Big Rice Combine.
Rice planters and dealers around
Charleston are interested in the re
j port from Crowley, L*, tba': the
American Rice Growers' Disiribtiner
j company has been incorporated there,
! with a capital stock of $15 000,000,
i and, according to the report, pro
! poses to undertake business when
I ?5,000,000 of this amount has been
j pr.id tn Under the impression -hat
j part ar ali of the l?tter amount has
j been provided many planters are
j delivering rough rice at the ware
j houses authorized to rec.;ict? it.
X I
ais) reputed that arrange
; mente are imder way to grain control
mr O
j of the product along the Atlantic
j coa?t at current prices, which are
i regarded as reasonable and good for
j a margin of profit, provided holdings
j are under the control of a single
! hand Most naturally the company
j is once more the subject of lively
discussion, but no one in Nsw York
seems to b? fully advised as td tbe :
intent or progresa made by tho incor j
pcratois !
Mr John F Talmage, president o? ?
Dan Taimsge's Sons' company, V7as j
interviewed by the New York Com- !
j merci?l regarding the combine The !
j Commercial printed the following : ;
Mr Talmage 6aid there was reu?y i
nothing definite to report Ile had j
been informed in a general way that
fair progtf ss had been made \n finan !
ciai negotiations and the parties at
the head cf the organisation express
ed confidence in their abi?it}' to carry
it to a successful issue.
"Many of the rice men seem to be j
of the 'doubting Thomas' character," j
said Mr Talmage, "simply because i
the organization had not started off;'
with the promptness of a rail train j
on 6chedu:e time. It might be weil
to recall the fact that a presidential j
election had been in progress and j
j until the i e6uH was determined many !
parties interested hesitated.
' Furthermore, an enterprise hav
iog $15,000.000 capital as its uki
mate and ?7,500 000 as its immedi
ate requirement is not a financial
undertaking to be accomplished in a
single day No matter how m?rito ,
riou3 the investment, sufficient time ;
must be allowed for investigation
"So far as this company is con?
cerned, if its cleaned rice is well
handled it will yield a profit over and
above values placed upon the rough
and agreed to be paid to the various I
mills for preparing it for consump I
tion. It is widely remarked that the ?
planters are to receive very fail j
values for their product, and, further?
more, mills are to be liberally re?
warded for iheir labor, and yet we
believe and know that there is a fair I
margin cf profit over and above such, j
provided the cleaned is distributed j
through one channel and by those j
who are possessed of neTve, intelli?
gence, and, of coarse, industrious
enough lo effect its disposition in
dae proportion each month as the
demand rosy arise n
Mr Talmage was aske-d whether
be thought ?1,005,000 would be
ample capital-with which to organize I
a successful rice combine, and re-1
plied that tbrs amouaS, in hie opinion, j
wos?d be inadequate, for, judging by
previous experiences, a large major j
i ty cf planters onder ordinary cir- j
cumslacces would want their money
just se fast aa they cou4d deliver thc;
steff ; and. furthermore, the company j
should be prepared to take the crop I
as iasi' as deli?* red and look for its j
reward by ''feeding the market," ;
and in so doin*- would- secure fair
financia? return o? the monev isveet- )
i
eu j
As to Wall "Directories." j
A tuan who ?r^es into a store ro
solicit ?io advertisement ior a. so j
ttl ?ed ' directory to bang or> af
wall wooji b?ve no geed reaesS to I
complain ot his reaeption and treat- ?
mee-, if the merchant should sam- 1
son bis entire force of olerkg and I
throw him into the street. Such
advertisemeati: aro of ao benefit,
becar.se they have no airculatreo,
beyond thc rich promis?? of the
promoter ?ad have no ii Te reading
matter on them to s-jize tbe attention
of Jae public. Tbis is one of the
mustiest old Sakes ever perpetrated cn
the advertising psblto a.ad yet it
continues io Souria-h. Gcod basioesa I
men and good advertisers gi vs up their
money to people they neve* see again
to go into these schemes that ead be of
no possible benefit to- them. It ie nc5
a matter of jealousy that prom pis these
observations, for as a rnle the
advertiser* ??bo g3 on these "Rosi
I ness Directory" msc tba best patroni
[of :he newspapers, bat we dislike to
I see fakes like thia Sourish and enrich
traveling advertising agents at tbe
expense of oar business men. Thia
newspaper bas been asked to give ita
endorsement to sash business and
offered a free advertisement therein in
consideration of such serveoc, bot we
rill have nothing to do with any
schemes which we conscientiously
believe to be absolutely without benefits
tc those who invest in them -States
fa arg Journal
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Harvard has selected one of ber
cegrc students to represent her ir. a
j?int debate with another college.
Now that toe Governor had secured
returns from thc mayors of our towns
5 j ??nd cities as to the ecforcameot of the
i j dispensary law, it might be well to take
i j a similar concensus of railroad stations
3 -id the lural communities Let it be
trorougb, and msko it to cover the
wbole State^^Newherry Obsever.
J HOD John Hay's Pike Coun?
ty Ballads.
! io the good ola days when Jobo Bay
n'as f*moaj iittd ioug beturc he elapse a
from literarure into dipiocjacy and s*ate
j craie-, ic the days wheo ?.ie ?op^a! was
to the people sod ace io their :u;eis
' 5?c told 12e how he oauie to wri;e
a;s Pike County Bailad? Ibo story
seems to rei interesting
As thc editor of Hearth a;;d
. I wro 0 :o bim urkiog for a b-aiiat: :
:i-ier!:;g a prie:.- tur ?s w^ich W??S ulsj;-r
raba?cas ::: ??:>??e days, a',-;? C5si;n even
ibis time of larger literary rewctds
: v.0ci:i o? recs d ?ibera!, ? ; wr.>.2
! aj?. iii reply chat ne simply CUL??O cut
: rcri?c a Pise Ccun:y baiu-.l to .?-ave h ir
j life ,
j The s i e.?2 cot seemed to mesosiogu
j i ar tvbiio ' Little Breeches," "B-iOty
? Tim'' and "Jitn Bjude-.e" were echo
j ?D?* in cay ears, ?ba? when I met Mr
i Kay sotse mcnth-.i iarer in the tS2e of
The Tribune. whica newspaper ho wai !
lea:porarily editing daring 31 r \\ bite ;
i law Raid's absence, ? a?kcd ':im abou- 1
ic He tola t?e tba: ali his Pike County j
B-liad? came from a single inspiraron ]
and ibai all o?' them were written io a ?
single ?eek. j
Sabsiaotially his account cf the '
matter was tats : ri ?og a guest ar. a j
coan fry h ;u?c bj ?.vent to charco with :
the family on Saoday I; x?as hoi, 1
drowsy ^jaim-.r weather, ai>d thc good j
old clergyman vr.-.s even drowsier tLao j
tuc Wca-hcr But in the coures cl bis 1
sermon he related in a proi=y way tho J
story wtiich Mr H.^.y afterwards made j
ioajorta' as ? Little Breeches." As he ?
told the story Mr Hay WAS struck with ;
iii? dramatic p*?stbilities tf cleverly '
presented in Pike County dialect !
"Before I left <bn church," he said to j
me. * * * h s ba?ad <".?' 'Little Breeches* j
was complete in my mind, and before
the midday meal was served it was j
written ?own on psper Lese ? should j
lose its lines I refused to converge with I
anybody until the writing was done."
Theo, being in tbe swing of the Pik?
County Ballad literature, be continued j
to write it until ' Banty Tim," "Jim !
Bludsoe" and she rest were done.
"But theo," said Mr Hay, **the j
vein was ccm-pierely worked out. It ?
was what the Californians call a 'pock- J
et mine,7 aud t?sre was no setal left io !
it. From that day to this it ba* been
as* impossible for me to write a Pike
County ballad as io write a new Iliad
or Odyssey"
-George Tary Egglsstoa.
Free Rural Delivery.
Washington, N07 20 -An enrhusi- (
astin plea for a wide expansion of rorsi j
free deliverv ts made in tbe annual
report of W. 31 Jobrj^oo; first assistant \
postmaster general He says tba: the Z
extraordinary deyo-lopment of -bis ['
system during the past 12 months '
uoder the stimulus of? apppropria'ion ci j
$450.000 for the focal year 18?& I9l>0 j
and gi 050,000 for thc fiscal year j
1900 1901. is conyiuaive as showing |
that bec Hiter it must be a pessunent j
and expanding feature of inc portal ;
administration. Tb8 service can now j
be extended a3 swiftly as coogress may i
" . i
direct or a* the means permit, until ir j
covers ail those portions of the United j
States now reached wbole or in part j
by the more primitive methods of the j
postal service, whioh bave come down J
to u? almost witbous chanee from j
colonial times. Tb:B change jftr John
?on believes can bc effected withoui ex
cesaive cost to the government.
The Springfield Republican recent j
ly wrote tbe war department, "ask i
lng for copies of the last reports of i
Gens Olia and MacArthur, as mili- j
tary governors of the Philippine !
islands," but although Gen ?ti?' last j
report was in the hands of the j
department two months ago and that
.of Gen MacArthur several week?,
and ODly a brief abstract of the latter
and nothing of the former has been
published, the department responded
that neither document is "available
for distribution" nor will it be possi?
ble to secure either until the publica
tion of the secretary's report, jin
which they will be incorporated.
Upon which the Springfield Republi
can says : "That ie to say, in order
to get important official documente of
present interest which nave already
been in the government's- bands many
weeks, you must wait until tbe early
part of 19-01, or fully three months
more, and thea get them through
your congressmss,. poor man. This
illustrates-the difficulty that bas been
steadily encountered in extracting
information about the Philippines
from tb* United States governmed."
* The ?erman law of libel, aocording
to Chambers's Journal, is a curiosity.
An ?editor recently said in bis paper
that a certain gentleman "was an un?
mannerly boor," in consequence of
which a libel aotioo was brought against
the paper. Tba evidence given seemed
to ebow that tbe only fault with the
expression was that it waa not strong
enough. The case waa taken from
I court to court in the usual way until
j it reached the highest tribunal. The
fioal decision was that the editor would
have becu perfectly justified if be bad
said that the plaintiff ''bad acted like
an unmannerly boor ;" but since he
bad said that tbe plaintiff actually "was
an unmannerly boor" be bad eomniit
tPtl libel. Ia German it is libellous to
cull a mao a pig or an ass, but if you
combine the two and cali a man a
pig ass thea there is no libel, because
such ac aoimal decs not exist. The
favorite combination among Germans is
pig dog-sohweinehund.
ii^:T3:r:^g^^^==q?^ Por ?masts and Children.
?^^?pra#?!i ^8 Kmd roy Heve
if p^o^saii Aiwavs Bought
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!;TT=f^^L 1 * jji Signature /?W
H Ffcn?ot?sDig?sHori>CSeerful-jig # lip
m Oprjm,Morpfeiae nor Moeia! j S Ul MW^)J
pi STJK?^O?' i jji A ifs-* In
i j j ? Dcrfecr Eernedy for Cons lioa- j jj 9
j: ? ion, Sour 5iomach,Diarrhoea, i j j IJ \?f ?
fj V>onns,Convulsions .feverish- j j|j \ jg mf>P MUS&?*
t ness and LOSS OF SLEEP- ji p S UT U I U ?
SacSimSe Signature of ? ' ?P= g ? ?p
i ?g?#fm? i tnirtv YPSTQ
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