Anarchy Threatened
in Si. Petersburg.
OJ
Martial Law May be Ge dared
to Keep Order.
St Petersburg, March 26, Tuesday
-It is reliably reported that at a
ministerial committee meeting held
io the presence of the Grand Duke
Yladimir, commander of the St
Petersburg garrisou the propose! to
place the capital under martial law,
should the indications presage
farther difficulties, was heatedly de
bated M de Witte, the finance
minister, was energetically opposed
to the establishment of martial law
.owing to financial reason?, not to
mention the disastrous effect which
it wonld have opon industry, com?
merce and the country's standing
with foreign capitalists The com?
mittee, accordingly, sanctioned the
issuing of a circular which has been
issued by the ministry of the inte
rior
A ministerial council has been
?called for Friday, at Tsars Ko Selo.
The examination of the 1,150 po?
litical prisoners is now being con
-ducted in secret by the police
Thirty-six prisoners who were
arrested as leaders of the student
movement, before the last riots, will
probably be released from custody
tomorrow and will be excluded from
the university for different periods
It is reported from trustworthy
?sources that the government bas
decided to make unofficial conces?
sions to the students, and, accord?
ingly, the military regulations against
student agitators are, therefore, set
aside for the present, though there
will be no public announcement to
this effect for some time The pris?
oners wilPnot be drafted into the
army. This is one of the results of
the ministerial meeting.
Our Claim to the Open Door.
Washington, March 26 -The State
department made public today a note
- sent to the Chinese minister on
February 19 warning the Chinese
Government against entering into
any private territorial or financial
arrangements without the full knowl
edge of ail the Powers The note is
as follows :
.'The preservation of the territorial j
integrity of China having been re?
cognized by all the Powers now
engaged in joint negotiations con?
cerning the injuries recently inflicted
upon their ministers and nationals by
certain officials and subjects of the
Chinese Empire, it is evidently
advantageous to China to continue
the present international understand?
ing upon this subject It would be,
therefore, unwise and dangerous in
the extreme for China to make any
arrangement or to consider any pro
position of a private nature involving
the surrender of territory or financial
obligations by convention with any
particular Power, aod the United
States Government, aiming solely at
the preservation of China from the
danger indicated and the conserva
tion of the largest and most beneficial
relations between the Empire and
other countries, in accordance with
the principles set forth in its circular
note of July 3. 1900, and in a purely
friendly spirit toward the Chinese
Empire and all the Powers now
interested in the negotiations, desires
to express its sense of the impro
priety and irsexpediency and ever?
extreme danger to the interests of
China of considering any private
territorial or financial arrangements,
at least without full knowledge and j
approval of the Powers now engaged j
in negotiation Hay "
This note was transmitted on
March 1 to the representatives of the
United States in Berlin, Vienna'
Paris, London, Rome, Tokio and St
Petersburg for information and com
munication to the Governments to
which they are accredited.
Assuming that the arrangement is
to be carried out, it is the contention
of the State department that nothing
has occurred to change the ptatup ot
the United States toward the "open
door," as applied to any part of
China, including Manchuria A? far
ae written pledges can commit a
Power Russia stands pledged to ac j
cord to the United States the "open
door'* if she takes control of Man
churla, either directly by annexation
or indirectly, but quite as effectually
by the means proposed in this Russo
Chinese agreement This is the
view of the State department and
that view is endorsed by the entire
cabinet. The administration believes
that the secret agreement between
Russia and China is in violation of
the spirit, if not the letter, of the
general understanding to which ali
the Powers subscribed last summer,
and the United States Government
is prepared to use all its moral sna
sion and influence to prevent its con
summation. Further than that the
Government is not prepared to go.
Tbe Stare of Tex*3 ba? tbe larpent
Capi'cl budding in this country and
the s-venth largest of the kind in tbe
world. Ii is built of Texas granite,
bas a dome 311 feet high, is valaed at
$3,500.000. but didn't cost Texas a
red Sbe gave a Cbicago onmpany
3,000,000 aeres of land to build it.
THE FILIPINO
LEADERS CONFER.
Aguinaldo Advised to Urge
Surrender.
Manila, March 29 -Aguinaldo to
day conferred in the Tagalog; lau
guage, at the MalacaDan palace, with
several former members of his cabi
net and other prominent Filipinos,
whom he had usked to see They
explained to bim the hopelessness of
the insorgent canse and advised him
to ose bis influence to establish peace
and for the .recognition of American
sovereignty. The result of tbe con?
ferences is as yet unknown.
Aguinaldo is now detained in a
comfortable room in the wing of the
MaUcanan palace He is in charge
of Capt Benjamin H Randolph snd
Lieut Gilbert A. Yonngberg of Bat?
tery G. Third artillery
When Aguinaldo was captured he
wore a plain dark bine snit, with the
coat closely buttoned at the throat
and a wide, white helmet, with a
leather band He takes his capture
philosophically He ia generally
cheerful, bat sometimes moody His
health during the past year has been
very good It is uncertain what
attitude he will assume Certain
visitors are permitted to see Agui.
naldo, but newspaper interviews with
the prisoner are not allowed
Since Aguinaldo has been domicil
ed at the Malacanan palace persons
not provided with special permits j
have been denied admission to the I
grounds
Gen. Trias, the commander of the
insurgent forces io southern Luzon,
who recently surrendered to the
American authorities, visited Agu?
naldo and told the latter why he sur
rendered Trias said that a con
tinuance of armed opposition to the
United Sutes was unjustifiable and
ruinous, that the independence of the
Philippines was impossible and that
the Filipinos would better accept
liberty, prosperity and progress
under American role
The capture of Aguinaldo, follow
ing the surrender of Gen. Trias, will
probably occasion the surrender of
the insorgent leader Malavar, in
Batangas province. Luzon : Bellar
mino in Albay province, Luzon end
Lucbban in the island of Sama, with
in a month
NEWS ITEMS.
Mark Hanna is said to have sold
his interests in the American Ship
Building Co to J P Morgan for the
steel trust
Richmond, Va. hss accepted An?
drew Carnegie's offer to give $100,
000 for a library on condition that
the city appropriate $10 000 a year
to maintain it
The back of Columbus, Ky, was
robbed of $10,000 Monday by four
men, who escaped
Mrs Kate Roach Morris, a well
connected Charleston woman, is
wanted in Charleston for obtaining
gooda under false pretences, issuing
bogus checks and swindling A
warrant for her arrest has been
issued.
Luther Jones, an escaped convict,
was shot and fatally wounded by
officers near Honea Path on Monday
Three cases of smallpox are report?
ed in the town of Florence The
case3 have teen isolated and quaran
tine established
Germany has demanded ?00,000,
000 indemnity from China
A ?130,000 fire occurred Monday
night in the retail dry goods district,
New Orleans.
Jobo B Youngbiood. nf Colombia,
ha? been awarded $2,700 damais
agaiBSt tho Sourhero Ra:i*?y by ihe
Suorrme Courr. for the ?os;? of an arm.
Hamid Ei Dio, an influential Arabian
sheikh, ha* rai-ed a revolt against
Turkish rule in the proviooe of Yemen
Willie Murray, a 12 year old boy,
wan drowsed io Li'tie River cear Lau?
rens Monday afternoon He was
attempting to cro?s the stream ia a
wagon
Burglars io New Orleans killed J ;bo
Favalooa aad d^aghter and rao*anck'd
the h^use on Wedop;day
Caroey Gaskina, a Confederate vete?
ran of St George's, committed suicide
Tuesday.
Nearly *eve;: ?oches of rain fr-11 io
Y'-rkv?le Mr.udy night.
Patrick Henry, of Brandon, M ss,
who bas been a r- ptv.^entaiive in C->n
grc8< from the S-vecth disrriot of tbat
State, went out with tb* late Coogress,
aod Pairiok Henry, of Vioksburg.
comes an tbe representative of the
Third Mississippi district- io the next.
The Kentucky court of appeals has
granted new trials to Caleb Puwer*
and Jam**?* Howard, the Goebel assas
sins now under i:fe sentence
Count Cassini the Russian ambassa
dor has given Secretary Hay posi
five assurance that the Russian
agreement* with China as to tTje occu
pation of Manchuria is temporary
ouly
Fadio Kabbas. a notorious slave
trader in Gambia, Went. Africa, has
been captured by Frene, troops and
a number of bis followers killed
Admiral Dewey thinks the capture
of Aguinaldo will end tbs war io
Lnzon.
Reflection of a Bachelor.
i
I _
j A. really good girl is the last one cf
I them ali 'o be shacked.
Ar' U' all a coat-. ge;s in this life tire
the thing? be doesn't want and ?be
things be takes
Trie best way for a tuan not to have
j en/ big failiog* i? for him to b*vc a lot
j ut little ones.
There \? something fuodameora ly
wrong with a woman who b?8 no o-e
for a mao that smokes.
Th? bigger the place a mao Las io a
womao's heart tbe lees abla he is to
?urn around in it
A woman bas the advantage over a
man ; wben she laughs when she ought
to cave aofed when the can
always claim it was hysterics -New
Pork Press
Gov Mcsweeney has respited,
until Aprii 26th, Miles Curetou a
negro who was under sentence to be
hanged on Friday, March 29th.
Columbia has been made a through
registry office and hereafter regis
tered mail matter for the North will
go direct from Columbia instead of
via Charleston as heretofore
A commission has been issued to
C VV Davis, H G Barrett, E S
Johnson snd Bryan Lawrence, of
Augusta, as corporators of the Davis
Cotton Mill company, which will
build a mill in Aiken county. Tba
capital stock will be $200,000
Safe crackers blew open H Stern
berg's safe at Clio on Tuesdsy night
and escaped across the couutry to
Cheraw, where they boarded the
Seaboard Air Line train. The next
night the safe of W. H Lowry.
Morven, N C , w*s cracked and
about $1,000 secured
His Method.
The bell in the private office rang:
three times, and the man at the desk
hastily reached for a flannel bandage,
which he put around his neck. Then
he arranged a sling in which to put one
arm, mussed up his hair, drew down
the corners of his mouth, got out of hie
chair and painfully limped toward the
?oor.
"Mr. Smithkins?" inquired the well
dressed man who opened it just at that
moment.
The maa with the bandage gave a
half suppressed groan and answered:
"Yes; that'? my name. What can I do
for you?"
"You seem to be suffering," suggest?
ed the caller.
"Suffering!" returned the other. "Do
you think I'm doing this for fun? Do
you suppose I bandage my throat for
amusement, tie up my arm for sport
and limp because I think it's graceful?
And I've Jbeen in this way for six
months. But what can I do for you?"
"Pardon me," said the caller, back?
ing out. "I'll call again some other
time."
"It's some trouble." soliloquised the
man with the bandage as he removed
the harness and returned to his desk,
"but experience has taught me that it
is really the quickest way to discour?
age a life insurance agent and keep
him discouraged. That fellow never
will come back."-Chicago Post.
Appendicitis.
"Appendicitis." said Dr. Abbe in an
address before the New York Academy
of Medicine, "has few rivals in the sur?
gical held and takes rank today with
typhoid, pneumonia and rheumatism in
medical thought. Surely when the ac?
tive surgeon of today can number IOU
operations for diseased appendices
yearly-and there are a dozen such men
in New York and in other cities in the
same proportion-we begin to grasp the
importance of the subject and its men?
ace io tho community.
"The public continues to ask the phy?
sician what was appendicitis formerly,
and he answers. 'Probably it passed
under the description of "inflammation
of the bowels" or .'peritonitis." ' lt is
true that less than a generation ago
numberless people in the course of
summer travel were stricken with so
called intiarnmation of the bowels or
peritonitis and died.
"Now we hear of no one so reported,
but it is said. 'Ile had an attack of ap?
pendicitis, was beyond the reach of a
surgeon and died.' or. 'So-and-so had an
attack of appendicitis, was operated
upon and recovered.' Hospital statis?
tics show the same changes of tabulat?
ed diseases. It is merely a new name,
not a new disease."
Late Realization.
"I now realize," said the pig as they
loaded him-ia the wagon bound for the
butcher's-"1 now realize that overeat?
ing tends to ?horten life."-Indianapo?
lis Press.
Vigor_of Men
Easily, Quickly, Permanently He
stored.
HINDIPO, D.-. J??:i 0'H*nV3 (Paris)
G:eit Fr-f:cn toree ao-1 vi.H z-r is f>;sld WlMi
?Tit:?? . pu'.rnnt-e r<> cure KerTo:i9 Deoilirv,
Lo-u Vitality, Failing Memory, Firs, Dizz'
ne*9, Hys'eti ., 6tops *il dr?i;i9 on the uer
voua iy*t&u caused by bai baoit9 or ex -e^Sive
urr of 'O^A.'CO, opium, ?iq-ors. '?r "'living
t ti f pnce' mai kills" b ^'t-d* <.ST ir-siory,
Conswmytioti afd d-stn. l> c mr* 'hi* Mood
?vnd r>riin, r- ri ; ? d ?* u;> ! rt* dh-t'tered nervt*?,
restores L?f fi'f of ?ou'h, nod r-r\n?s <h>:
pink s'ow to tai" checks, -n-1 rn-iLe:1 TU
?ind ffro-'t? .ipmn '0: , 12 t>ox?8 $S
B ro?i! io K. v Hdilrep*. Fer 3 nit i:> S'-mer
by Dr J F *V L'jD.irm.e 3~
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SURVEYING "nd Civil Rngineertne work
;> or? pt >' *f,d ?ccar*t-l? done
d'. LURING LEE. Cm| Engr
Mi 23-o
cJ PJSO'S CURE FOR
IL
???g;g? and
Chickens.
Barred Plymouth
Rock Eggs,
FROM FINE STRAINS OF FOWLS
At $1 per sitting of 13
Also a few young
Cockerels for sale.
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Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Gnp! of Mfa Carola,
CONDENSED SCHEDULE.
In effect January 13th, 1901.
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8 31 LT Elliott Ar 7 50
9 ll Ar Sumter LT 6 50
4 0" LT Sumter Ar 6 ?4
4 b'? Ar Creston LT 5 3 i
?5 45 LT Creston Ar 3 SO
9 15 Ar Prevails LT 10 00
5 16 Oranjreburg 5 10
5 55 Denmark 4 35
7 55 Auecsia 2 4<
am a in pm pc
*E?aily. f Daily except Sunday.
Trains 32 aod 35 carry thronzb Pullmn:
Palace Buffet Sleeping Cars between Ne*
York and Macon Tia Angosta.
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Capital represented $75,000,000.
Feb il?.
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Feb 5 1
Estate of M>8. Anuida H. Cohen?
NOTICE ia hereby gi*en that the under?
signed Execntoreof the last VF iii and
Testament cf Mrs Armida H Coben, de?
ceased, will, on tbs first Monday in May,
? ext, (A O., 1901,) apyly to the Judee of
Probate for Sumter County, in the State
nf South Carolioa, at bis office in the Court
House for Said County, for a 6oal discbarge
as Executors as aforesaid.
J. D. HAR3Y.
SOL EMANUEL,
ALTAMONT MOSES,
Mcb 2 0-41 Executors.
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Central R R , IeavioK Charleston 6 25 a. rr.
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'??o *. 3 rona thronen io Charleston, S.' <
Central R R., arri via? Mann.og .' O4 i
n Lanes ?3.4^ \< n-, Charleston 8 3<> D ra.
Tr^ns on Conway Branch leave Cbadb >ni
11 r0 a m, arrive On^ay 1 35 p m, r??ir;
:ng ?eaTe Hnnwnv 3 40 pm. anive Chad
b?>:irn * ?0 p rc, leave i'h:>dr)onr:i 5 3"^ p rr.
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