Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Y00M8 GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE. Had Been Punished fey Her Father -Took it to Heart and Ended Her Life. Special to The State. Camden, Aprils.-One of the sad? dest tragedies that ever occurred in Kershaw county took place Monday evening at the home of Mr. S. Tiller, formerly of Tiller's Ferry, now resi? ding a few mlies west of Camden. Leila, one of his twin daughters, aged 14 years, it is alleged, had an alterca? tion with her brother for which their father chastised them both. The girl took the punishment so to heart that she procured some strychnine and ended her life. She was a pupil of the Camden graded school and her death was a shock to her schoolmates and teachers who had last seen ber Monday morning. DEATH DEALING STORMS IN WEST. Hopewell, Alabama, Swept Away -Three Counties in Arkansas Ravaged. Haneeville, Ala., April 8.-A torn? ado passed over Hopewell settlement one and a half miles north of here, at 2 o'clock this morning, and as a result eleven persons are dead, four are fatally injured and a dozen are more or less seriously hurt, while the destruction to property is heavy. Little Rock, Ark., Aprils.-Specials to the Arkansas Gazette from several towns in White ana Cleburne counties Ark., tell of a tornado which swept through that section . on Tuesday night, leaving death and destruction in its wake. The major portion of the country through which the storm ploughed its way is remote from rail? roads, telegraph or telephone lines. A special correspondent of the Gazette wires from Searcy, Ark, tonight that he had passed over a portion of the track of the storm and that trees are twisted from their trunks and houses demolished. Thus far it has been impossible to ascertain where the storm began, but it is known that it raged in those two counties, and the list of casualties will, from indications, amount much higher than it now is, with nine dead, three dying and thirteen others badly injured. The towns of Little Sed, Albion, Bradford, Heber and Pangburn have been heard from thus far. The dead are: Jim Leggett, Joe Leggett, Tom King and wife, three King children and a young lady school teacher who was boarding at Kings', i all in Little Bed, and A. C. Williams, j near Heber. Chattanooga, Tenn., April 8.-A heavy thunder storm, accompanied by unusually violent wind, visited this city early today, and in half an hour the rainfall at this point was more than an inch. The velocity of the wind reached thirty miles an hour. Tele? grams from Charleston, Tenn., a point above here, on the Tennessee Elver, state that the rainfall was 3.66 inches dering the past twenty-four hours. At Clinton? Tenn, the rainfall was 3.56 inches. The storm covered the entire Tennessee Valley and the river is rising ; rapidly with a prediction that it will reach within a few feet cf the danger line. Fire sn Florence. Florence, April 8.-The plant of the Florence Ice Company was partly, de? stroyed by fire at 5 o'clock this morn? ing, caused by a spark from the furn? ace. The plant was valued at 12,000 and was insured for $6,000. The loss will amount to very nearly $6,000. This plant is new, having been erect? ed in the latter part of last year. Mr. O. C. Weston, the proprietor, had only begun operations for the season yesterday, and the loss will be felt by our people, especially during the sum? mer, months. Mr. Weston says he will rebuild the plant at as early a date as possible. Germans Fight the Trust. Berlin, April 8.-The Dresdener Cigaaretten Fabrik, the name under which the American Tobacco company operates in Germany, is being pro? secuted in the Berlin courts by a combination of dealers for alleged unfair competion in placarding that the company's cigaretes can be beug hi everywhere, which the complainants aver is not true. They ask for protec? tion from 4 4 the foreign concern with 180,000,000. EYER WATCHFUL A Little Care Will Save the Reader Future Trouble. Watch the kidney secretions. See that they have the amber hue of health. The discharge not excessive or infre? quent. Contain no brick-dust-like sediment. Boan's Kidney Pills will do this for yon. They watch the kidneys and cure them when they're sick. Mr. John Zolleir, City Auditor, residing at 731 Robert Ptreet. Newport, Ky., say9 : *JA man who has never had backache or kidney complaint in any of its many forms can- scarcely gauge the misery a sufferer endures who is annoyed day and night by this far too prevalent trouble. To ali such my advice is procure Doan's Kid? ney Pills and take a course of the treat? ment. The result of the use of three boxes proved to me that the remedy is up to representations and deserves my unquali? fied indorsement." For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name-Doan's-and take no other. s g\ 3 ! ft. ROME TIED UP BY A STRIKE. No Street Cars Running-Whole City Occupied by Troops. Rome, April 8.-The aspect of Rome was completely changed today. The gay crowded city of yesterday seemed dead. No cabs passed through the streets and even the street cars, which ran at long intervals, were escorted by police, and were almost empty, as the people feared to ride in them on account of the threats of the strikers. The shops were open, but the shutters were np, as the proprie? tors intended io be ready for any event. The whole city was occupied by troops. Detachments of cavalry were posted cn the squares and special d?? tails of soldiers and police were sta? tioned around the Vatican, so as to prevent any attempt against the Papal Palace. Unimportant encounters between the strikers and troops took place during the morning, the former wishing to hold meetings, which were forbidden, or reach the center of the city, but the strikers were easily dispersed by cavalry chargea Five hundred French pilgrims ar? rived here today and had some start? ling experiences. The party arrived at the Garibaldi Bridge just as a de? tachment of cavalry charged a mob, and a scene of indescribable confusion ensued. Abont the middle of the day the strikers succeeded in gathering in threatening numbers on the Corso Vittorio Emmanuele, almost in the centre of the city and detachments of troops charged, fired three volleys and dispersed them. Abont a dozen men were reported to have been wounded. Many strikers were arrested ; during the day. The Pope was much inter? ested in the particulars of the strike. He said: "It is a sword with two edges." He also expressed sorrow at the damage done the interests of the city and also because the strike inter? feres with the religious ceremonies of Easter. . THE STRIKE IN HOLLAND. A Strike of all Trades Throughout Holland to be Ordered. Amsterdam, April 8.-The work? men's defence committee has decided to proclaim a general strike of all the trades throughout the country. The dwellings, of the employees of the Government Railroad, who have not struck, are guarded by troops as protection for the men's wives and children. The ba'kers' shops and carts are similarly protected. The employees of the river and canal navigation companies have decided to strike in sympathy with the railroad men. More trains are running today than on yesterday. The pupils of the Locomotive En? gineers' Institute have unanimously tendered their service to the railroads. Their offers have been accepted and a number of them are being employed as stokers. The workmen's defence committee is anxiously awaiting reports, from the delegates who were sent to Germany, France and England to appeal for the support of the trades unions of those countries. CEN. CORBIN TURNED DOWN. Cannot Become Member of Metro? politan Club. Washington, D. C., April 6.-For the third time Adjutant-General Cor? bin, of the army, has failed to be elected a member of the Metropolitan Club of this city. Gen. Corbin's last attempt to be? come a member failed tonight after a long session of the Board of Governors of the club. His application for mem? bership was filed some days ago. Mind? ful of previous experiences in trying for entrance to the club, General Corbin took the precaution to have his ap? plication endorsed as highly as possi? ble, and on his petition for member? ship were the names of Theodore Roosevelt and John Hay, Secretary of State. The Board of Governors met Satur day'night, and for three hours the ap? plication was di^ussed. .No action was taken. The board met again tonight, and was in session until nearly mid? night, devoting all the time to Gen? eral Corpin's application. Finally Paymaster-General Bates, of the navy who had presented the application, withdrew it. A very significant thing in connection with the affair is the fact that Secretary Hay and General Nelson A. Miles are on the Board of Governors. Many years ago General Corbin was expelled from a Chicago club. The Board of Governors of the Metropolitan Club take the ground that no man who has been expelled from any other club is eligible to membership in this. While General Corbin was in Europe last year he had the entree to the most exclusive clubs in England and on the continent. A celebrated officer of high rank in the German army enter? tained him at Berlin clubs, and on General Corbin's' invitation will visit Washington this summer, and will be the guest of the Adjutant-General of the army. But his host cannot put him up at the principal social clubs of the national capital.-Richmond Times. Daring Robbery in New York. New York, April 9.-A man and eight boys looted a house on East 53d street this afternoon. They carried off $5,000 worth of bric-a-brac, silver? ware and jewelry. Seven of the boys have been arrested. One of them, 8 years old, confessed and told the names of the others. The house was occupied by Mrs. Elizabeth Dempsey, a widow. This morning she removed her furniture to a new abode. She intended placing her remaining be? longings in storage. Mrs. Dempsey left the bouse at noon and returned at 6 o'clock. She found that the house had been ransacked and almost every? thing portable had been carried off. The nolice learned that a man and a number of small boys had been seen carrying articles from the house, pre? sumably helping the occupant movo. THE GREAT DUTCH STRIKE. Strikers Did Not Succeed in Scar? ing Parliament. The Hague, April 9.-The second chamber of the Netherlands Parlia? ment today adopted the anti-strike bill by 81 to 14 votes. The Socialists and Liberal Democrats voted with the minority. The punishment clause of the bill was adopted by 78 to 15 votes. The chamber also authorized the formation of the proposed military brigade to work on the railroads dur? ing strikes and adjurned sine die. OFFER TO NEGOTIATE REJECTED The Hague, April 9.-According to the Vaderland, the Railroad Em? ployees' Union has asked the State railroad companies to agree to negoti? ations for a settlement of the dispute and the reinstatement of the men. The officials of the State railroads, it was announced later, refused the proposal of the Railroad Employees' Union to enter into negotiations for a settlement of the dispute. THE STRIKES ONLY PARTIAL. Amsterdam, April 9.-The strike of railroad employees, like others, is on? ly partial. About one-third of the gas workers are idle. The authorities have appealed to the public to restrict the consumption of gas. A majority of the diamond cutters and the men employed in the building trades are idle. It is now estimated that the strikers and men locked out number about 25,000. The Crucifixion and the Jews. (From a sermon in the Unitarian Church, Cincinnati, March 22, by Rev. George A. Thayer, upon the tragedy of the death of Jesus. ) The sentence of death seems then to have been from substantially the same motives which have inflicted ignom? inious punishments upon blasphemers against established religious systems in all ages. The Christian church through its official heads has done the same thing thousands of times ; so has the Mohammedan religion. Your and my Unitarian beliefs have many a time been deemed equally blasphemous and. dangerous; one of the last of English laws for punishing blasphemy by death, being directed against denial of the doctrine of the Trinity. From our stadpoint of the sacredness of all private religious opinion, no matter whose doctrine it offends, the Jewish Council of Seventy, which crucified Jesus, and the Roman church which burned hosts of Protestants, and the Calvinist and Lutheran churches which butchered thousands of Ana? baptists and other enthusiasts, and the English church which hurried to their graves thousands of dissenters from the Thirty-Nine Articles, were all in one and the same cateogry of well meaning but mischief making men. Put some Christians of today in the shoes of the Jewish Sanhedrim and they would have done the same deed with a elear conscience. Conscience without knowledge has wrought much iniquity. Were the rank and file of Jews par? ticipants in this crime? I think the most of Judea of the year 33 did not hear that there had been any crucifixion of Jesus. That was not a time of swift circulation of tidings ; each little village lived in its own narrow world of small inter? ests, and the world tragedies seldom reached their ears. But those who did hear were prob? ably divided in their minds; a few sympathizing with the victim, as a few always have tender hearts for suffer? ers, but the most assuming that what the dignitaries did was all right. That is the way we think upon most questions outside of our private hurt. The government, we say, is probably right, especially if the government is our political party One feature of the ecclesiastical ways repulsive to me, that is, the emphasis at this Lenten time is a protracted dwelling- upon the alleged exceptional agony of Jesus while on the cross. Crucifixion was indeed an exquisite torture chiefly because the victim usually lingered many days: but Jesus, possibly on account of the rupture of some blood vessel, died in three or six hours, (the statements differ upon this point), a period cf agony not nearly as long drawn out as has been endured by thousands who have been submitted to the rack, the thumb screw, and slow burning wood in the name of religion and law before and since. ^ But under the influence of a theo? logical theory that the death agonies | of Cavalry were, in some mysterious way, the concentrated pangs of mil? lions of deaths, it has since been preached with ail the vehement emo? tion of innumerable impassioned pulpit orators that they who inflicted this punishment and all their race there? after were the most infamous criminals that ever were upon the earth. The long unremitting tragedy of Christendom's brutalities against the Jewish people, lasting in some parts of Europe until now, constitutes one of the blackest pages of the world's history. There is not a form of torture, by fire or cross, or knife or dungeon or starvation which has not been inflicted in Christian countries upon Jews be? cause some of their ancestors were officially responsible for the death of Jesus; not a humiliation not an in? dignity against their women and chil? dren which has not been heaped upon them in the name of the religion of him whose last words were "Father forgive them !" If Christian churches seek some motive for a great day of expression of shame and penitence for some of the deepest sins of their fore-runners they might find it in this dark and grew some tale cf the attempt to implicate a whole race, for twenty centuries, in the offence of the religious intolerance of some Jewish official? of the year 33. A great black day of fasting and humiliation might appropriately follow or supplant the awful festival called Good Fridav. CASTOR IA For lofants and Children. The Kind You Haye Always Bought Signature of MB. DEPEW ON JOHN WESLEY. Senator Eulogizes the Founder of Methodism. In an address delivered before the Methodist Episcopal Conference in ses? sion at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., on April 3rd, Senator Chauncey M. Depew de? livered a eulogy on John Wesley. He said in part: "Wesley is immortal because of the adaptability of the truth represented by him to all stations in life, all con? ditions in diverse and widely-separated communities, and all ages of the world. "It is a common saying indicative of current thought that 'money talks.' Judged by these standards, far from being a base one, when the money is contributed and is used for high purposes, the twentieth century gifts by Methodists have no parallel. The vast sum counting its millions by the number of the centuries of the Chris? tian era, poured into churches, col? leges, seminaries, and missions, is to work still greater wonders than ever in the up-building of character which makes citizenship, and the principles and institutions which serve both God and Government. "Many years ago, I visited for the first time Westminster Abbey. No spot in the world is so impressive to the student of English history and literature. I stood at last before a slab upon which was a bust of John Wesley, and under it this simple in? scription : ' All the world is my parish. ' "My thoughts ran rapidly backward. I saw this young man of Oxford Uni? versity entering the ministry of the established church with a future full of promise for its highest honors and rewards. I saw him persecuted, despised, churches closed against him, mobs raging around him, the com? panion and savior of the poor and the lowly, the unfortunate, the persecuted and the oppressed. ; "I saw him when a strong church and a great following had increased the hatred of his contemporaries while his power commanded their respect. And now, his statue and name were triumphantly enshrined by those who would have destroyed him in life, 1 among the oldest and most venerated, honored, and loved of England's mighty dead." There was great enthusiasm among the ministers at the conference in-the afternoon over the announcement that the Laymen's Association of the New i York Conference, which held its an? nual meeting here today, had pledged itself to exert every effort to raise $250,000 for the relief of the superan? nuated ministers. The laymen were escorted before the conference and the President, Senator Charles B. McClellan of Dobbs Ferry, advocated making the fund $500,000. He said that there were thirty or forty minis? ters who now have charges who ought to be retired. Strawberries $1.00 a Ouart. The best price we have heard of strawberries bringing this season is one dollar a quart. E. H. Sauls, of Cades, sold some last week at this fancy price. His berries were very early this year and of a fine variety, which fact, coupled with the unusual price of one dollar a quart, probably gives Mr. Sauls the record for this country. At least we know of no one who has been so lucky as to get the price quoted by Mr. Sauls.-Ki ngstree Mail. As a result fo intensive agriculture the potato crop of Germany reached the danger point of overproduction in 1901, and the harvest of 48,687,000 tons raised the serious problem of how to dispose of it without depressing: the market price. The first result of the increased production of the potato was a tremendous increase in the sup? ply of potato alcohol, and special efforts were made to extend by prac? tical means the use of alcohol for technical and industrial purposes. These efforts were eminently success? ful, and potato alcohol is finding in? creased use as a generator for land and water motors, for heating: and cocking purposes, and for lighting apparatus. The development of its use as a means of illumination is par? ticularly noteworthy. In lamps, chan delers and street and corridor lights alcohol vapor is burned like gas in a hooded flame, covered by a Welsbach mantle. Under such conditions alcohol vapor burns with an incandescent flame which rivals the arc light in brilliance, and requires to be shaded to adapt it to the endurance of the human eye. Mrs. Margaret Neve, King Edward's oldest subject, died on Saturday in Guernsey. For 110 years she preserved her health, strength and even her eyesight, and was known throughout the United Kingdom. She was a wealthy woman, lived on a charming estate, and gladly welcomed visitors who came to see this old friend of Queen Victoria. They always ex? changed congratulations, and her Majesty had Mrs. Neve's portrait hung in a conspicuous place at Osborne. Mrs. Neve lived simply and retained the old-fashioned fondness for the darning needle, a work which she ac? complished without glasses. Among the many accomplishments of Mrs. Neve, who entertained Marshal Blucher shortly after the battle of Waterloo, was a translation which she made of Dante's works into French. In May she would have been lil years old. So Tired It may be from overwork, but the chances are its from an in? active ? me? i With a wei! conducted LIVER one can do mountains of labor without fatigue. It adds a hundred per cent to ones earning capacity. it can be kept in healthful action by, and only by TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE ^O?DKOPS .^.>.iit.H...m?t.?i.:-M-'-:?...U-'??n;-..?i.1 i i /?Vegetable Preparationfor As - ?'i| siE?la?iitg liicFoodandRegu?a a ?he Stomachs and Bowels of ^f^XHllDI?EN. Promotes Digestion.Cheerfur ness andRest.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor "Mineral. ^SOT NARCOTIC ftzrpe of OM ?rSAltUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed'' v ?fbcSenna * \ ?oAeUe&Utt- j jiaiseSettl *? \ Pecpermmt - ) BiCmbonakSodtt* j hin* Se*d- I Clarified Sa?ar l^mtenpwirlavar. ) A perfect Remedy forConstipa fion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions ,Feverish ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Sought e Over Thirty Years Sumter, S. C., Dec. 1, 1902. JITST ARRIVED Thirty Headh Coice HORSES ??? MULE This shipment contains some of the smoothest and nicest mules ever brought to this market. Come and see them, whether you wish to buy or not. A look will be worth, the trouble. Respectfully, ANSLEY D. BARBY. Sept 17 Corn, Oats Hay, Ship Stuff, Hulls and C. Seed Meal, Carolina R. P. Seed Oat? at HARBY& CO.'S STABLES. Also full line of standard grade Wag? ons, both one and two horse. Buggies, Harness, Carriages We also have on hand a full line of building material, such as Lime, Cement, Plaster Paris, Hair, Laths, Fire Brick, Terra Cotta Pipe, Stove Flues, &c. We wani to give you prices when you need any of above, and we will get your patronage. Yours truly, HARBY & CO. Aug 8 Y?1II PFfl? lu J ll Ju 1J Li I A Good Grain Drill ? A Firs-class Hay Press A Mower or Rake A Good Horse or Mule, A nice Buggy, Carriage, Wagon, Harness, or any Farming Implements* If you do call on or write to me for prices. I can supply your needs, and the prices will please you? W. B. Bil1 Y LE, Oct 22 SUMTER, S. C.