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ras 30.UTSH WATCHMAN, KMabtinhed April, 1SS0. "Be lust and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TKUE SOCTBKOS. Eatsbiiahed jone 1S66 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881 SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 22. 1901. .Sew Series-Yoi. XX. No. 43 C?je WS??^m at? Saat|rmt Pablisied Every Wednesday, IXT. Gr. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : $1.50 per annum-in advance. A.DV2R7ISKKKKT. Ono Square first insertion.$1 00 livery subsequent insertion-. 50 Contracts for three nonths, or longer wil be made at reduced raies. Ail communications which subserve private interests will be charged for as advertiemects. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. BLOODSHED IN ALBANY. The Law Defied by a Howling Mob of Men, Women and Boys. Albany, N. Y., May 14.-When darkness fell this evening several thousand weary street car strikers and sympathizers went to their houses, but they were replaced by as many more, who took up the vigil to pre? vent the United Traction men from running their cars with non-union men. The darkness brought some con? fidence that there would be no attempt before morning to move ecars, for two attempts made in broad daylight had brought bloodshed and riot on such a scale that the local police, as? sisted by scores of deputies and Pink? erton men, had been unable to quell the disturbance. Gae man lies in the hospital seriously wounded, one of the cars the company attempted to run is in the gutter of a street nearly two blocks from the car house, wrecked, and the trolley wires are cut in several places, practically crippling the road. Near the car houses are thousands of men, women and children, wrought up to a pitch of frenzy that bodes ill if the doors of the car house open to let ont another car. Inside the car house, afraid even to look out of the grated windows, are about seventy-?ve non? union men, whom the company ex? pects to use in running the cars. Early this morning there were about one hundred and fifty of them, but by night fall sixty-five had deserted and joined the ranks of the strikers. The men claim that they were brought here under misapprehension and that they supposed they were going: to Philadelphia. This afternoon the police practically admitted that they were powerless to take care of the large crowds on the streets if cars were ran, and General Manager McNamara immediately call? ed upon Gen. Oliver, in command of the 3d brigade, for protection. He said: **We intend to run our cars if it takes the entire National Guard of the State to protect us." Gen. Oliver issued an order assem? bling at their armory tonight the 10th battalion of Albany, comprising four companies of the National Guard of Infantry, and the 3d signal corps, mounted. Gen. Oliver said that he would warn the remainder of the 3d brigade to be in readiness for a calL The riot today was full of exciting features. Exciting Scenes when Non-Union Men Arrived in the City. Albany, N. Y., May 15.-So serious is the situation here tonight over the Traction company strike that Gov. Odell postponed the continuance of a trip to State institutions which he had undertaken and returned to the executive mansion. Two thousand arm? ed soldiers are now within the city limits, more are coming and 2.500 are in readiness to move to Troy when Gov Odell so orders. The streets are thronged with excited men, women and children and the otherwise quiet day terminated in bloodshed. A dramatic element was added to the day's fea? tures by the sudden death of Adjt. Gen. Hoffman. As long as the traction company does not attempt to move cars or bring in non-union men, the crowds on thc street remain good natured except for taunting the soldiers and police, but the instant an attempt is made to work on the lines or bring non-union men in the crowd becomes frenzied and bloodshed results. Citizens saber-slashed, non-union men with broken limbs and bloody faces, women and children trampled under foot, soldiers maimed with fly? ing missiles and leaders in the crowds beaten with muskets were some of thc results of the day. Anticipating an attempt to^move the street cars in Troy, Maj. Gen. Roe has ordered the 13th, 14th, rand 47th regiments of Brooklyn. Troop C of Brooklyn, the Second signal corps, the 17th separate company and the Third battery, which carries Gatling guns to hold them? selves i unreadiness to move immediate? ly. Mob andfmilitia closed in combat I - ------ jmra late this afternoon but by the accident of fortune there were no serious cas? ualties. It was the introduction of more non-union men to take the places of striking traction employes that pro? duced the violence. Seventy-five non? union men reached the union depot shortly before 6 o'clock and their de? livery at Quail street barn, a mile and a half away, was made with a dash under cavalry escort with mob resist? ance in almost every block. Frenzied men swarmed through the police lines surged around the fast moving caval? rymen and fought to get at the cowed non-union men inside the circle of galloping horses. The rays of the setting sun gave glint to busy sabers but wielded by forbearing hands, seldom descend in serious blows. Several of the mob were knocked down by cornered caval? rymen but the record does not yet show the score of a single fatality. In the passage through the streets few of the non-unionists escaped the flying bricks and stones that were hurled at them but less than a dozen were badly hurt. The courage of near? ly a dozen of the non-union men failed them in the opening spurt through the crowds and they sprang from the wagons that carried them to mingle with and be lost in the crowd. The ride of the non-union men through the city was the dramatic spectacle of the day. At five o'clock the Third signal corps, mounted and armed as cavalrymen, formed a hollow square around the non-union men who had just arrived at the depot. Five thousand men tagged at their heels and jammed in around them and thousands more crowded into the in? tersecting streets. Fifty policemen formed in cordon about the waiting Dragoons and tried to force the crowd back. The street was cleared but the walls of humanity on the sidewalks held firm and could not be moved. A broken alleyway that runs along the southside of the union depot was the stage of the open? ing scene. Into it were driven four flat-topped open trucks. The crowd recognized them as the same vehicles that had carried the first batch of strike breakrs and had greeted them with groans. Suddenly a side door of the depot was thrown open and up the al? leyway toward the waiting teams marched the non-union men. Once they were all aboard the drivers brought their teams out into the streets, the cavalry closed in around them and the race was on. The flying column dashed into State street for the run up the hill past the capitol. Here the crowd was as dense and des? perate as the other and men plunged in and around the galloping horses. One rider was cut off from the crowd, brought his saber down on the face of one of his antagonists and a line of blood marked where it struck. Two blocks up State street and a clever military ruse blocked the down town mob. Two companies of the Tenth battalion were concealed in Chapel Street and when the cavalry escort dashed past they ran across State Street and faced the pursuing crowd with fixed bayonets. The new line wavered and broke on one flank, but in the main the movement was suc? cessful. But the strike breakers were not yet free. Smaller crowds gathered at various points along the route to the barn and they threw stones when the non-union men rushed past. There was another wild scene at the barn where thousands more were as? sembled. The infantry repeatedly charged into the crowd substituting butt for bayonet and after much effort a passage was opened for the scurry? ing cavlcade and it was safe inside the inclcsure. Sixteen of the strike breakers were injured during the ride and many of them stunned, weak and scarred, had to be helped from the wagons. The strikers say that 18 strike breakers de? serted during the ride and that less than 50 were safely landed in the barn. In a hollow square of infantry pro? tected by lines of pickets that reach into every bisecting street and outer skirmish line in circular form that encompassed all, the traction tower wagon was moved out of the barn this afternoon and two hours were spent in repairing trolley, wires. The heavy force of guardsmen and the stringency of the protective measures seemed to awe the crowds that surged around the outer skirmish line and there was no disorder. The soldiers were jeered and derided but no one offered them violence. The city is quiet at mid nignt. Both the strikers and the railroad people claim that there has been no further attempt at negotiations for a settlement. The company says that it will pro? ceed to move cars tomorrow under guard of the soldiers and Gen. Roe, in command of the troops, says he will asisst to the best of his ability with his 2,200 troops. THE CITY UNDER MARTIAL LAW. Albany, N. Y., May 16.-Five hours of conference tonight with all the warring elements represented, failed to settle the Albany strike of street railway employes. The strikers waived all demands for the removal of the nine non-union men. The executive committee of the United Traction Company will consider the proposition in the morning and may accept it and settle the strike. In the meantime, Maj. Gen. Roe in? tends to take every precaution, and at midnight ordered out the Ninth regi? ment of New York. It will arrive here tomorrow afternoon 800 strong, and if the strike is not settled will assist in opening up the other lines of the traction company in this city. William Walsh, one of the men wounded by a bullet from a squad of the Twenty-third regiment, defending a car, died at 10.15 tonight. Leroy Smith, shot in the same melee, was slightly improved at mid? night. The shooting of Smith and Walsh had a very depressing effect upon the members of the Thirty-third regiment, and tonight when stones were thrown at the picket men around Quail Street barn, they did not fire into the dark. Two privates were hit and hurt, but they did not care to take the chance by firing. It was held by the officers and men generally that the order to fire was entirely justified, but there was general regret at the consequences of the volley. With the addition of the Ninth regiment tomorrow there will be over 3,000 guardsmen in Al? bany. The bloodshed came after a day of peace. From early morning the crowds had melted away before bayo? nets and shotguns, cars had been ope? rated under heavy guards and there was an impression that the spirit of turbulence was wanting. There had been some minor demonstrations, par? ticularly in North Albany, but not a shot had been fired and as the day had passed along, the running of cars at? tracted but little attention. The vol? ley fired on Broadway by a squad of the Twenty-third infantrymen, in which Leroy Smith and Wm. Walsh, well known citizens, fell mortally wounded, changed all that. It stirred and the feeling of hatred as the excit? ing tidincrs swept through the city and the guardsmen were bitterly de? nounced. Neither of the men had been guilty of any offence but were caught in a crowd, some member of which had stoned the guardsmen, and by mischance were hit. The distur? bance was not a serious one and "mur? der" is the title applied by inflam? ed public sentiment to the shooting. The guardsmen seem but to have fol? lowed their duty was soldiers for they were under orders to shoot if assault? ed. The bright prospect of a settle? ment of the strike has not served to allay the growth of vindictive feeling and if the present situation continues acts of bitter revenge and violence may be expected. It was on the last run of the sol? diers that the tragedy of the day oc? curred. The cars were on Broadway moving northward and a constantly swelling crowd was gathered about the union depot. The first of the workday folk had been released by the whistles that sounded through the manufactur? ing district and they were pouring into the streets. Near Columbia street a truck blocked the way of a car, and urged on by the crowd, the driver re? fused to move on as speedily as desir? ed. Some one in the crowd threw a stone, but it went wide of its mark. The crowd was very noisy and there was much confusion. The car finally moved forward into the next block and another stone was thrown at it. There was a sharp command and as the car slowed down four shots were fired from it. Leroy Smith lounged on the steps of his store, Wm. Walsh, his business neighbor from across the street, was his immediate companion and a small crowd hung about near them. It was into this crowd that the guardsmen fired at a range of less than twenty feet. Smith and Walsh were both shot in the abdomen, and fell where they stood. A third man. Wm. Rooney, was slightly hurt by a glanc? ing bullet. Some of the guards step? ped from the car and reloaded their pieces. The startled crowd fell back at the first shot, and a moment later the guards sprang aboard the car and were rapidly wheeled from the scene. Smith and Walsh were hurried away to hospitals for surgical care and an angry mo!) swarmed into thc street to curse and denounce the guardsmen. Fairmont. W. Va., May 15.-Six miners lost their lives, five were fatal? ly injured and three seriously burned in an explosion at the shaft of the George's Creek coal and i rom com? pany at Farmington, seven miles west of this city on the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio road this morn? ing. ROBBING THE CHINESE. The Exorbitant Indemnity Which They Cannot Pay. Washington. May 14.-A cablegram from Mr. Rockhilf, our special com? missioner at Pekin, received at the State department today, mentions the receipt by the ministers of the re? sponse of the Chinese envoys to the ministers' demands for indemnity. The dispatch indicated briefly that the Chinese represent that an annual payment of 810,000,000 is the full extent of their power, and it will take thirty years to discharge the debt at that rate without interest. Mr. Rockhill makes no mention of the subject of interest, nor does he touch upon the means by which the money is to be raised by China, or say who is to guarantee a loan necessary to be made. It appears that the Chinese feel them? selves obliged to submit to the powers in this question of indemnity as in all other things, and though realzing their own inability to assume this in? debtedness of 450,000.000 taels, they feel obliged to make the effort. Mr. Rockhill has been instructed to con? tinue his efforts to secure an abate? ment of the total indemnity, but in the present disposition of the Powers little hope of success is entertained. Pekin, Sunday, May 12.-The offer of China in reply to the statement of the ministers of the foreign Powers as to the losses sustained by nations and individuals in China has been received. The answer commences with an appeal for mercy, saying that the country is impoverished. The answer explains that the utmost China can offer is 15,000,000 taels annually for the next thirty years. This amount will be raised as follows: From salt, 10,000,000 taels, from the liken tax 20,000,000 and from native customs f 3,000,000. The communication further asserts that were this done it would leave the country unable to meet the expenses of Government without assistance. It is therefore, requested that the foreign customs be increased one-third, and the receipts therefrom to be given to China for the purposes of Government. The ministers refuse to discuss this answer until it has been considered by them in meeting. CHINA'S REPLY NOT ACCEPTA? BLE. London, May . 15.-Dr. Morrison, wiring to the Times from Pekin, says: "The Chinese reply to the ministers of the Powers is not acceptable. For the first time in the history of diplo? matic relations with the Chinese a French translation accompanied the dispatch. " AMERICAN BRIGANDS IN LUZON. They Commit Horrible Grimes Includ? ing Murder and Rape. Manila. May 14.-Detectives and the police have broken up a band of Amer? ican brigands, who have been operat? ing in the province of Pampanga, north of and not far from Manila. George Raymond, Ulrich Rogers and Oscar Mushmiller have been captured, and Andrew Martin, Peter Heise, Geo Muh and two others are still being pursued. This band committed out? rages, murder and rape at Bacalor. Pampanga Province in that vicinity, and on Sunday last they killed Henry Dow, an American. The band some? times represented themselves as Amer? ican deserters and at other times as American soldiers. George Raymond wore the uniform of a captain. Ray? mond and Marijn were formerly police? men in Manila. History in the Philippines. Washington, May 1(5-Tangible evi? dence that Gen. McArthuris prosecut? ing an active campaign of education in the Philippines comes to the war department in the shape of a number of copies of a condensed "history of the United States of America,7' which has been published under the Military Governor's direction and is being scat? tered broadcast for the enlightenment of the Filipino race. The history, although necessarily condensed, is very comprehensive. I? is printed in both English and Span? ish in alternate pages. The frontis? piece is a map of the United States. Then follows a presentation of facts concerning the physical features of this nation, the separation of the American colonies from Great Britain and the nation's growth after inde? pendence, both as to territorial and industrial development. The govern? ment itself is then taken up and set forth in detail, national state and local, and the outcome, and concludes with the full text of the constitution, its amendments and the Declaration of Independence. The publication of this little volume marks the first opportunity which Fillipinos generally have had to read for themselvees the fundamental laws of the United States of America. MEMPHIS REUNION PROGRAMME. The Sons to Have a Prominent Place in the Picture. Memphis, Tenn., May H.-The fol? lowing is the official programme of the coming Confederate reunion : Tuesday, May 28-Morning, 10 o'clock, meeting of delegtes in confed? erate halls. Calling to order by tem? porary chairman, George W. Gordon. Invocation by the Rev. J. W. Jones, chaplain general, U. C. V. Address of welcome by the Hon. Benton Mc Millin, Governor of Tennessee, on be? half of the State. Adress of welcome by the Hon. J. J. Williams, mayor of Memphis. Address of welcome by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Gaiter, on behalf of the Sons of Veterans. Address of welcome by Ex-Senator T. B. Turley, on behalf of Memphis Veterans and executive committee. Address of wel? come by the Hon. Tim E. Cooper, for Daughters of the Confederacy, the Confederate Southern Memorial As? sociation and to the representatives of the Jefferson Davis Monument Asso? ciation. Address of welcome by Lieut. Gen. A. P. Stewart. Brief address by the temporary chairman turning the hall over to the Veterans. Response by Gen. J. B. Gordon, commander-in chief of the United Confederate Veter? ans, and acceptance of the hall. Call of States for members of committees on resolutions and credentials. Ad? dress by Bennett H. Young. Afternoon, 2 o'clock, business ses? sion of Convention. Wednesday, May 29-Morning, 9.30, business session of Veterans. Afternoon, 2 o'clock, business ses? sion resumed. Thursday, May 30-Morning, busi? ness session of Convention. Grand parade of Veterans. United Sons of Confederate Veter? ans. VETERANS AND SONS OF VETERANS. Tuesday, May 28-10 a. m., Joint meeting of Veterans and Sons of Vet? erans, Confederate Hall. Address of welcome and response. 2 p. m., Convention assemble in reg? ular session at the Auditorium. Wednesday, May 29-10 a. m., Conven? tion assemble in regular session. ? p. m., Convention assemble in regular session. 10 p. m., Veterans' ball to sponsors and maids of honor at Con? federate Hall. Thursday, May 30-Division ses? sion of Sons of Veterans. Grand street parade of Veterans and Sons of Veterans. LEFT ON THE DOORSTEP. The Story of a Three Weeks Old Baby Girl. : Tuesday night about midnight the Rev. R. P. Pell, president of the Pres? byterian College for Women, went down to close the front door before he retired. He heard a noise which he at first thought came from a cat. He looked around to run the animal awTay and was amazed to find that the noise was made by a little baby. He reported to police headquarters and asked that an officer be sent out. Meanwhile the infant was cared for at the college. The waif is a little girl, about four or five weeks old, healthy and pretty. Her clothes are not of the finest material, but very nicely made. The baby's fine condition and the neatness of its clothes indicated anything else than poverty. Mr. Pell not being in position to care for the little one, turned it over to some good women who conduct the "Door of Hope." There the little one is now. and she is being well car? ed for. The child had not long been on the porch when Mr. Pell found it. for some one had been on the porch not half an hour before, and the waif was not there then. These facts were willingly given by Dr. Pell yesterday. It is probable that the bundle was brought into the city on one of the night trains and deposited on the porch of this inviting and homelike place. The State. Berkeley, Cal., May 14. The de? gree of doctor of laws has been con? ferred upon President William Mc? Kinley by the University of California. Only twice before, since the founding of the University in 1SC>S, has this de? gree been bestowed by the institution. ATTEMPT TO ANNUL LEASE ?F THE SOUTH BOUND. Because the Seaboard is a For eign Corporation. Columbia, May 17.-From the ver? dict against the South Bound in the Watts damage suit, and the failure to pay the judgment has grown a most interesting legal proceeding-an appli? cation for annulment of the lease of the South Bound railroad to the Sea? board Air Line, the appointment of a receiver for the South Bound and an injunction against the operation of the road by the Seaboard. The pre? liminary rule to show cause has been issued by Judge Gage and it is made returnable on Wednesday next. It is asked that the court annul the leases of the South Bound railroad to the F. C. and P. railroad, and the subsequent lease of the South Bound company's property to the Seaboard Air Line company on the ground that both the Florida Central and Penin? sular and Seaboard Air Line compa? nies are foreign corporations and nei? ther of them have been incorporated in South Carolina as required under the acts of this State. The matter is one that is full of legal possibilities. All the papers in the case were serv? ed yesterday afternoon. The attorneys for Watts who have taken this step are Messrs. P. H. Nelson and Jno. P. Thomas, Jr., of this city and Attor? ney General Bellinger. The matter will no doubt be productive of a very lively legal battle. It will be remem? bered that recently about 13 miles of the track of the South Bound railroad was levied upon to meet the judgment in the Watts case. The track has been advertised for sale to the lowest bid? der.-The State. The War in South Africa. London, May 15.-The Pretoria cor? respondent of the Times in a letter, dated April 16, says : "In another fortnight the South African winter will have arrived, and, unless the Boers are prevented from moving north to the bush veldt and hostilities are somehow ended, there will be another spell of severe and unsatisfactory campaigning in an impassable country, together with five months of comparative peace in the two colonies, to be broken by a recrudescence of guerrilla operations all over the country when the spring rains enable the enemy to operate on the high veldt. i ?4But this will mean no respite to j the troops, no moving into winter j quarters, but only a continuance of I the most demoralizing warfare that ! can be undertaken." j The correspondent then describes j "a strenuous scheme which is on foot ! to prevent the enemy retiring north into winter quarters," but he does not appear to be very sanguine of its succass. "The figures of the intelligence bureau," he says, "show that there are still between eighteen thousand and nineteen thousand burghers avail? able for service, although no com? mandos are known to exist larger than eight hundred men." Corn Cornered in Chicago. Chicago, May 15.-May com, which has been cornered on the board cf trade and which has been rather inac? tive for ten days, advanced to a new high price record today, when it sole"! at 60 cents per bushel. This is the highest price since the corner of May, 189*2. Phillips, who formed the cor? ner, bid the market up, but only a few small lots. It was rumored on 'Change that he had permitted shorts to settle for 500,000 bushels privately at 60 cents. A Black List Sustained. Chicago. May 16. -In the Superior Court today Judge Baker decided tli.v. it is legal for employers to maintain a black list. The ruling was in fhe casv of Annie Condon against several stock yard packing firms. The plaintiff was a labeller and can painter and joined a strike last year against a reducti^r in wages. Sinoe that time, sh& claims, she has been unable to secure employment. The Court ruled that the various firms had a right to tal c protective measures against persons who had quit the employment of otht r firms without valid reasons. ABSOKUTEiyfeuitE BAKING* POWDER Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROYAL BAKING POWOER CO.. WtW YOWC