Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I ontl)ron THC SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1S50. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Atms't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's.' THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jone IS66 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 20, 1901. New Series-Yoi. XX. So. 34 %\t W?t\)m\\ at? Sratljim Puhlisfcel Erary Wednesiay, -BT 3S3\ Gr. Osteenj SUMTER, 8. C. TERMS : $1.50 per annum-io advance. ADTBSTISSHSKT: Ono Square first insertion.$1 00 Every subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer wil be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will be charged for as ad versements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be eharged for. Andrew Carnegie Retires. KINGLY GIFT TO HIS WORKMEN. Pittsburg, March 13.-Two com? munications from Andrew Carnegie, which are officially msde public to night tell of the steel king's retire? ment from active business life and of his donation of $5.000,000 for the endowment of a fund for superannuat? ed and disabled employes of the Car negie company. This benefaction is by far the largest of the many creat ed by Mr. Carnegie, and is probably without a counterpart anywhere in the world. This fund will in no wise interfere with the continuance of the savings fund established by the com pany 15 years ago for the benefit of its employes In this latter fund neatly $2 000,000 of the employes' savings are on deposit, upon which the company by contract pays six per cent and loans money to the work? men to build their own homes In a letter to the president and managers of the Carnegie company Mr Carnegie sets apart $5,000,000 in Carnegie company bends to be held in trust for the following pur poses : .'The income of $1,000,000 to be spent in maintaining the libraries built by me in Braddock, Homestead and Duquesne. "The income of the other $4,000, 000 is to be applied : "First, to provide for employes of the Carnegie company in all its works, mines, railways, shops, etc , injured in its service, and for those depend? ent upon such employes as sre kill? ed "Second, to provide small pensions or aids to such employes as, after long and creditable services, through exceptional circumstances need such help in their old age and who make a good use of it should these uses not reqoire all of the revenue and a surplus of $200,000 be left after ten years' operation, then for all over this, workmen lo mills other than the Carnegie company in Allegheny county shall become eligible for participation in the fund, the mills nearest the works of the Carnegie Steel company being first embraced 91 New York, March 13 -Andrew Carnegie, accompanied by Mrs. Car negie and their daughter, sailed for Southampton today on the St. Louis Mr Carnegie expects to return to this country in October. He will spend most of the time while abroad at Skibo castle in Scotland When questioned as io bis plans Mr Carne? gie said be was not disposed to talk because he had retired from business He said, however, he was going away entirely for rest, and that be expected to spend the pleasantest seven months io his life Mr Carnegie was asked how much money be had given away for librar ies "Well," be replied. "I cannot tell Fou see I have just begun to give away money, but if you were to ask me the same question 10 years from now I might be able to answer the question Pennsylvania Buys B. & O. New York, March 12 -The Mail and Express of today has the follow ing : "?Vben a member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co was asked today by a Mail and Express reporter if additional representatives of the Pennsylvania Railroad company were likeiy to be elected directors of the j Baltimore and Ohio be answered : I 'The Pennsylvania can have anything j in the Baltimore and Ohio it wants :' ? "ile then explained that the situa- ; tion was similar to that produced by ' the Union Pacific's recent purchase I of a large block of stock in the j Southern Pacific He admitted that j the burden of responsibility for the ? future development of the Baltimore | and Ohio is now vested with the ! Pennsylvania railroad It han been reported for several days that the Pennsylvania has very considerably j increased its holdings of Baltimore i and Ohio st^ck The amount was given as high as 200,000 shares of j the common and an equal amount of | the preferred." Washington Gossip. Secretary of War Must Bqar The Blame. Washington, March 13. - Republi? cans here assert it is in the very na lore of things that Secretary Gage, as the head of the great revenue department of the Government, should continually come in for assaults for the execution of laws that do not meet with public approval They say that nearly every law that affects revenue must hit someone's pocket 8od lead that someone to clamor for relief, and that the blame for it will almost always fall, not on the Con? gress which made the law, but on the Secretary who executes it On the other band, however, it is regarded as singular that Secretary Gage should suffer so often and ser? iously from attacks not for the execu? tion of the laws but for the manner in which he executes them Thus in the malter of the Mew York custom house scandal, the Secretary, it is said, was not criticized for renting the building, but for paying an ex orbitant rental therefor In his deposit of public foods in the banks of the country, he waa not criticized for cbargiog no interest, bot for selecting banks that stood close to certain prominent members of the Republican party-banks which were afterwards assessed for the benefit of the Republican campaign fund Similarly, in the case of the Ros sian sogar boonty. oe is not criticized for imposing tbe countervailing doty so mach as for the way he imposed it-hurriedly, in direct contravention of an opinion by the Attorney-Gene? ral that Russia did not pay a sogar boonty; after promising to take no action witboot giving the steelmak ers an opportunity to be heard ; and a)ino3t immediately after receiving a visit from Mr Oxnard, the sugar lobbyist of Hawaiian and Porto Rican tariff fame. To what curious tergiversations the Secretary ?B driven to support bis as sertion that Russia pays a boonty on sogar, appeared at a recent inter? view with a committee of Illinois manufacturers Mr Madden, a mern ber of this committee, said : "The United States levies an internal re venue tax, which has co relationship whatever to any fotber government upon earth. We levy a specific tax on whiskey which is porely internal revenoe If that whiskey h shipped abroad do we collect a tax?" Secretary Gage : "No " "Bot we do not consider this a boonty ?" said Mr Madden. "Then why consider ihe other a bounty ?" Mr. Gage replied lamely: "A sogar certificate in the bands of a shipper in Russia is worth about J cent a poond in the market The certificate of a shipment of high wiaes or whiskey in the United States is not worth a cent to anybody There must be some reason which makes the evidence of a shipment of sogar in Rassia worth about ? cent a poond when the evidence of & shipment of whiskey from the United States ie not worth anything at all Of course the secretary knew per? fectly well the reason for this differ ence, bot to admit it would be to acknowledge that be was merely obeying the dictates of the sogar trust A Russian refiner near a seaport sells bis home right to one in the interior, and exports bis stock, the difference being made op by exchange between the two official certificates of export The mannfac tarer who ceded bis right receives from the manafacturer who acqaired the right, the price per pood agreed opon between them, which is osoally determined by the difference existing at the moment between the price obtainable for the sogar on the home market and the price obtainable by sale abroad This is what is termed a transfer The price of these trans fers varies according to the fluctua tions in the price of 30gar in Russia and abroad Therefore the person who selia the transfer (the right of issue into the home market) charges several kopecks more than the differ ence mentioned above. Th'3 is done on accoont of the risk that is taken that sugar prices abroad may fall, and also for the trouble and ex pense involved in exporting and transporting This explains why Russian export certificates are subject to barter and sale, and is evidently not due to any government bounty. The whole ar rangement ie like a trust or a combi? nation of producers to put up prices 1 at home, and selling for exports at reduced prices It is a wide stretch to call this a government bounty, but | if we 8re to so construe it the United States is the largest bounty giver in I the world mmn II iw - Wa-hiogt^n. March 15-An ord<r wa? &ent to Gen ??hafT?? roriay fr.r the evacuation of China by American troops leaving only a legation guard of 150 men. The troops will be removed from China the last of April. PENSION TALK. Grand Army Trying to Raid Treasury for ?1,000,000,000. Washington, March 14.-Undeter? red by the enormous total to which the pension list bas attained, the Grand Army, backed by the pension attorney sharks, is hard at work advo? cating fresh schemes for despoiling the treasury both by means of new legislation and by putting new inter? pretations on old laws So utterly extravagant is the plan advocated by that great pension grabbing organiza tion that Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, chairman of the Senate Committee on Pensions, himself a Republican of deepest dye, has de? clared, after making a careful study of its terms, that if it should be enact? ed into law the total pension expendi tures of the Government' would reach the enormous sum of $1,000,000,000 per year or one and one third times as much as the total expenditures of the Government for all purposes at the present time It is owing to the refusal of Con? gress to enact this extravagant legis? lation and to the stand that Commis sioner Evans has taken against mak? ing new laws by putting unwarranted constructions on old ones that the pension expenditures remained prac? tically stationary d aring the last four years But even now, despite the fact that the veterans of the Civil War are dying off quite rapidly and many names are being constantly stricken from the rolls by minor children passing the pensionable age limit, tbere bas been a net increase in the number of names on the pen sion rolls of 1,500 since July 1 last, very little of this being due the Span? ish and Philippine wars. For three months all the republican talent in New York State, at tho oom maod of Mr Platt, has been utilised to devise State commissions which will take from New York city and Brooklyn sod other populous democratic centerB the control of their own local affairs Some of these projects have been so extreme and outrageous as to disgust all but the most bigoted and ua relent iog partisans In Pennsylvania Mr Qaay and his subservient legislature have not even troubled to get up a ballot to eliminate those who do not concur with their views, bot have at one fell swoop abol? ished elections altogether. In cities like Pittsburg aod Allegheny, with hun? dreds of thousands of population, and io other cities where the voters have iodicated dissatisfaction, it is now pro? vided they shall be ruled over by appointees of the governor, who is the tool and creature of Qaay and the republican machino. Ir the Southero States in express terms should declare that DO negro sboold be allowed to vote in local elections, it would be DO more than the act of Mr Quay's legislature takiog away local self-government from Pittsburg and Allegheny. Yet we bear no protests against this outrage Meanwhile efforts are being made to briog about Commission sr Evaos' re? tirement by insinuations that be is tired of the work of the pension bureau, desires some diplomatic posts, eic, etc. Mr Evans, however, bis 1st it be clear? ly understood that al) such asser tiona are canards and thai if he leaves the bureau it will be because President McKinley yielded to the pension sharks aod forced bim to do so "I suppose all this talk about a new pension commissioner," he said recent ly, "grows out of the fact that I rook the oath of office on the first of April, 1897, and my four years is. therefore, very nearly at an end. E have not, however, tendered my resignation, nor has the matter been discussed by the president wbeD I have had occasion to see htm " "Of course, if the president asks for yoar resigoatioo, it will be tendered 1" 'Yes," was the reply "I am not a financial pauper cor a political mendi caot " "Bat if it is not asked, will it be tendered T" "I do not thiok it will be," said Mr Evans * * * While the Repnblioan papers in New York and Pennsylvania are yelling so i loudly about disfranchisement in the sou:h, and particularly about the pro? posed electoral law in Maryland, it might be as well if they would take a look at their own affairs. The ?oofh may have disfranchised :>e?ro voters, but Mr Platt and Mr Q iay and their obedient legislatures arc also bending ali their intellect, all tbf?r ability, all their oner^ifs. to thc adoption of meas? ures to disfranchise enormous masses of j white voters hr obliterating ai oppor tunnies for aii twint; them to participate in government - N?W Orleans, March 15 -lr wa? announced hers to-Uy thar Linar 0 Quintero, a member of the local bar and attache of the Picayune srafT, has > been appointed to the supreme bench of thc Philippines at a salary cf $7, 1 000. M Mr. Carnegie Distributing Millions. OFFERS NEW YORK $5, 200,000. New York, March 15.-Andrew Carnegie, who since retiring as an active figare from the steel world, has been able to devote bis time ex elusively to his other passion, the founding of libraries, has made his departure for Europe this spring memorable by the largest offer of that kind ever advanced If New York will provide the sites and the main? tenance he has promised to give $5, 200,000 to establish 65 branch libra? ries in this city The offer was made in a letter to Dr John S. Billings, director of the New York public library, last Tues day The correspondence in con? nection with the offer was made pub? lic tonight MILLIONS FOR PITTSBURG. Pittsburg, March 15.-The Dis? patch says : Intimate friends of Andrew Carne gie say that it is the intentiou of the steel master to give at least $25, 000,000 for the erection of buildings and for the endowment of the pro? posed technical school of Pittsburg. It is also declared by those who have talked with Mr Carnegie that he in tends to make his school the finest of its kind in the world, and that it will lend as much fame to Pittsburg on the theoretical side of iron and steel making as his famous works have done in actual practice. A MILLION FOR ST LOUIS. St. Louis, March 15.-Andrew Car? negie has offered to donate $1,000, 000 for the building of a new public library in St. Louis. The offer is similar to many others which Mr. Carnegie bas made to cities through out this country The conditions on which the gift is to be made can only be complied with by the city of St. Louis. Mr Carnegie asks that the city famish an nnemcombered site for the library and that a maintenance fond of $15,000 per year be assured Cubans Besiege Congressmen. Habana, March 14.-Gen Wood and his staff today accompanied the con? gressional party now bers, which io oludes members of the river and har? bor committee, to Agcaoate, to inspect a sugar estate. The Coban delegates to the ooostitotiooai convention are eagerly seeking information from the American congressmen regarding the possibility of a reconsideration by con? gress of the Platt amendment. A con? troversy in the local press over certain statements alleged to have been made by some of these congressmen bas already began, and La Patria on the strength of these allegations, strongly urges the delegates to refuse to accept the Platt amendment bat to await uotil a new ooogress assembles.. This afternoon the committee on the Platt amendment held a private session ia tbe convention hail and discussed the amendment at great length There was considerable diversity of opinion and it was decided to bold another meeting tomorrow when each member will submit a written opinion Tbe varions written opinion? will theo be amalga? mated in a final report to be made before tbe convention. Tbe committee expeots to finish its work Saturday, bat definite action by the convention is not looked for wubin a week Charlotte, N C , March 14 -An? drew Carnegie, the Pittsburg philan? thropist, has ofiered the city of Charlotte $20.000 with which to erect a library building The offer is based on the conditions that the city will donate a free site and establish an annual fand of $2 500 for the maintenance of the library The offer will doubtless be accepted. A SLICK ONE CAPTURED. WilmiogtoB, N. C., Maroh 13. Postmaster Inspector Jere Coonoily arrived here today from Laoriobarg, N. C , a small town on tbe Seaboard Air Line, 95 railes from Wilmington, where be caused tho arrest of H T. Allon alias Dr Allen, a printer on the local newspaper. The chargrs against, bim :s fraudulent Use of thc mails in that be advertised extensively the sale of certain recipes ard offered as a prize with each order fae simile bills to thc amount of $15, which he sud were printed on "B N piper and could not be told from tbe g-nuine article." The bills in reality were Confederate ! notes. Ailan numoered his victims from Maine to Mexico, several orders having been received from New York State He was given a preliminary ?xamination and committed to jail for he United States district c( art in iefault cf bond in the sum of $?00. SENATOR JNO L. MCLAU? RIN TALKS. He'll Make a Hot Canvass in This State. Washington, March 13-Senator MoLaurio, of Sooth Carolina, stated today that the report that he requested bis name to be stricken from the demo? cratic caucas roll was incorrect He says be merely stated that be felt a delicacy in attending the canons on oertaio questions where be differed with bis party associates as it might embaras8 their deliberations. He added that if health aod strength per? mit be will present these issues as best be can in the next democratic primary in bis State. BURNED AT THE STAKE. Another Ravisher Receives Punishment. Corsicaoa, Tex, March 13 -Join Henderson, colored, who brutally assaulted and murdered Mrs Young er, a farmer's wife, living jost out side this city, several days ago, was burned to death in the court house square here at noon today A written confession of the crime, attested by Justice Roberts, was secured from the prisoner Five thousand people witnessed the burning and business was practi? cally suspended for a time Henderson was captured yesterday after a long chase He was trailed by bloodhounds from the Younger homestead, many miles back and forth across the country, and was finally captured near Hillsboro The officers took bim to the latter place and were impelled, through fear of mobs, to start for Fort Worth When the train reached Itasca, a party of Yoonger's friends overpowered the guards and bustled Henderson from the train He was conveyed across the prarie, a distance of 45 miles, to Corsicans, where be was placed in jail to prevent the infuriated citizens from tearing him to pieces Commercial Questions Con? cerning England. London, March 13.-Lord Salis? bury, speaking this evening at the annual banquet of the Association of the Chambers of Commerce, after alluding to the "unity of parties during the many months of straggle from which England ia issuing with her strength unimpaired/' referred to trade questions "I do not find," said the premier, "that the spectre of Germany has affected our commercial works, al? though a despondent feeling exists, which is doe rather to the necessity which fertile writers feel of produc? ing copy for impending issues rather than to any real foundation in fact Still there is a note of discour? agement in a certain portion of public opinion and the public press. "This, perhaps, is the national pessimism which attends too great success. But I trust we shall take such warnings as if they were real and give our whole attention to meeting any dangers that might be pressing upon us." A WHITE BRUTE. An Ohioan . Arrested for As? saulting a School Girl. Hamilton, 0., March 15.-Winches? ter, a small towo io Prebie coaoty, was the scene of great excitement today. A farm hand named Henry Hobs was looked up in the village jail this morn? ing as a suspect io the assault commit? ted upon Edith Sbinkle, a ll year-old girl, at a district school five miles west of Winchester, yesterday The report was Dot qaick in spread iog, but yesterday a posse coosistiog of farmers from several miles around was formed to search for Hobs. Marshal Robert Brauton of Winchester discov? ered him io a nearby woods and placed bim in the village lock up today. He is a white mac The excitement of the nighr. be?ore was quieted to an extent by tho arrest, but today Winchester w*s thronged with people from the couotry roundabout. For a time a lynching was teared. Eiith Sbinkle went to Winchester this afternoon and identified the suspect He will be giveD a bearing tomorrow. MARYLAND'S ELECTION LAW. Bill Preventing Illiterates Vot? ing Passed the House. Annapolis, Md, March 12 -The bill to amend the election laws so as to prevent illiterates from coting passed the boase this afternoon, four demo? crats, Messrs Buckey,Pattison, Roberts and Garner, voting with (he republi? cans against the measure. The vote was 56 to 28. The bill is now so the bandi of the senate, and if the plats of the demo? crats do not miscarry it will become a law within the next 48 boars The seo ate committee 00? legislation agreed opon several amendments, aa follows : In Baltimore city the election para? phernalia, ballots, etc, will be distri? buted by the police oom missioners as at present. In tbe counties tais work will be done by the election:supervisors. The penalty for violation ef this section is obaoged from a fine of (1,000 to imprisonment for not mere than three years or $1,000 fine, or both, at the the discrimination of the court. This is tbe point which was insisted upon by tbe Reform Leagae. Io addition to this, the amendments already made in the boase were engrafted. Among these changes and corrections is that making it certaio tbat co new registra? tions will be required and that persons physically disabled from making their ballots mast indicate to the clerk who aids them the jo dividable for whom they wish to vote. American Tobacco Co Makes a Good Showing. New York, March ?2-At the meeting of the stockholders of tbe American Tobacco company, held in Newark today, the following direc? tors were elected : W.>tB Harrison., W W Fuller, W L Walter, Thomas F Ryan and A N;Brao>? * ..? The annual report snowed assets $79.933,253, liabilities $75,625,159, surplus $4,208,093 There was no change in the stock The total amount of outstanding common stock is $54,500,000 and of the preferred $14,000,000. The annual report also shows that the net earnings during the year were $6,303,498 Ont of this was paid $1,120,000, eight per cent divi? dend on preferred stock, $180,834, six per ceot interest on scrip issue of May 1, 1896, leaving applicable to surplus account $5,002,663 This, with the surplus of $2,575,429 at the dose of 1899, brought the eurplns up to $7,578,003. Oat of this was paid $3,270.000, six per ceut divi? dend on common stock, leaving a surplus of $4,308,094 This did not include net earnings in some of the companies in which the American company ia at present interested. Of these earnings the company's share is about $800,000, which it was deemed advisable not to declare as dividends bat to let it remain at present as surplus on the books of these companies. Philadelphia, Marob 15.-A report is in circulation io this city that John G. Johnson, a lending member of the Philadelphia bar and ooe of tbe most prominent lawyer? io this eoootry, bas beeo offered the portfolio of attorney general in President McKinley's cabinet to boooeed Attorney General Griggs. Barnwell, March 15-J. M Ash? ley, who was charged with grand lar ceny and convicted at tbe November term of ooort last, and sobstquent?y pardoned by tbe governor, was under indictment at ibis terra of ooort for hoasebreakiog and larceny Oo tbe call of the case defendant'-? attorney moved for a continuance Tuesday wa> fixed for day of trial; and bench wsr rant was issued for defendant In tbe interim defendant ccrnopUcd suicide, it is said. Atlanta, Ga, March 14-A Rome. Ga. special says : President Wilburn bas called a special meeting of the. stockholders of the Chattanooga. Rome and Southern railroad for Ma\ ' 15, to consider the sale and convey ance of that property to the Centr?. of Georgia It is understood he:. that the headquarters of Preside! ? Wilburn's road will be removed t.; Savannah. Tbe price paid for th<? Chattanooga, Rome and Southern H announced as $4,500,000. lt is 139 miles long and extends from Chatta nooga, Tenn, to Carrollton, Ga. BAKING POWDER Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROYAL DAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.