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Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at be thy Country's thy God's and Truth's.
THE TBUZ SOUTH ROS, ??t?Dll*I>ed Jene, 2S6
-Cosftlidated Aug? 2S1881.
SUMTER, S. O ; WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 18, 1906.
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SE-.?T TO CZAR'S GOVERNMENT.
Has lao Intention of Interven
t?o?, Bot WEI Use Quiet Influence
for Peace.
S?-O?agham, England, Jan. 12.--j
The Post hears that the French gov
-emrnent recently sent the Russian
j.gov4?rn?ent a statement having the
Pmost important bearing on peace in
th Fa? East. This statement was con?
sidered at Monday's meeting of the
Russian state council and a long reply
was sent to Paris.
Though France is not considering
interventioa the French ambassador at
St. Petersburg will exert all his pow?
ers in a quiet manner for peace.
THE ?YXAMITm'ARRE^PEP.
Gessier Resseaux Captured by Phfla
^ deiphia Police.
Washington,- Jan. 14.-Major Syl?
vester, chief of police, received, infor-i
mation from Phils ?elph?a this morn?
ing that Gessler Rosseaus, who ar-,
j?ved_ there yesterday and was held as
the man wanted for attempting to
j dynamite the statue of Frederick
Great, is probabry the right maa. Pho?
tographs of this man have been identi?
fied by the cab driver who drove the
dynamiter to the war college. Ros-.
-c?.ux fe also probably the man who
.tempted to blow up the Umbria
^sorne;-months ago. .j
Wk'- HOGING IX KENTUCKY. :JM
Noted Murderer Pays Penalty for
Crime After Long Legal Fight.
Lexington, Ky., Jan. 14.-James W.
after being twice convicted for
the mrder of Mrs.'Martin, was hanged
in the jail yard here this morning at
8 O'clock. He went to the scaffold in
the same cold manner that character?
ized him during his long confinement
in jail The murder was committed in
March, 1903. It was supposed his mo?
tive was robbery.
RUSSIA'S NOTE TO CHINA
France Does not Regard it as a Se?
rious Matter.
Paris, Jan. 14.-Government circles ;
take a conservative view of the Rus- j
sian note of warning China, issued
Thursday the powers, which stated
that there have been a number of,
cases where China violated her neu?
trality. The opinion is that Russia's
aim is to protect in time to . avoid
further difficulties and not to invite1
trouble as some interpreted it.
hester, England. Jan. 16.-The
.~ is inofrmed by a well known
me.xb*-r of the r^plomatic body that
> note to the powers last week
complaining of China's laxity in the
matter of observing neutrality has set
the diplomatic world agog. What Rus?
sia can gain by the note the diplomat
says nobody knows and not even Rus?
sia herself can satisfactorily explain
li
Londoz;, Jan. 14.-It is reported
that fourteen miners have-been en?
tombed in a coal mine in Wales by
failing of rocks.
Pittsburg, Jan. l?.-^C?r number 13
cf the Mount Washington division cf
the Pittsburg Railway company in?
jured twelve people, six most seriously,
this morning by running away as it
left & tunnel. It jumped a sharp curve
and dashing against a steel pole was
wrecked. When the car struck the pole
it was running at very high speed.
Washington, Jan. 16.-The supreme
eourt of the United States today re?
versed the decision of the district
court of St. Louis and granted Senator
Joseph H. Burton, of Kansas, a new
ir?a I. T^e court was divided five to
four. He was convicted of acting as
the paid attorney for a get-rich-quick
coneerri before the postoffice depart
mer;C. v. hile holding the position of
senator,. and was ser tenccd to si*
months in Iron county, Missouri jail,
and pay a fine of $2,500.
! P0S?0FF1CE BOBBERS ARRESTED.
UNITED STATES GRAND JURY IN?
DICT CHARLESTON MEN.
It fe Intimated That Many Arrests
Will Be Made in This
Case.
By W JO. McCaw.
Columbia, Jan. 14.-The brother of
Rudolph Rabens, both of whom the
federal grand jury here yesterday in?
dicted in two cases of postoffice rob?
bery in this state, will likely be arrest?
ed in Charleston today, deputies leav?
ing here last night for that purpose.
Rudolph was arrested in Charleston
several weeks ago, hut is out on a
bond of $5,000. Judge Frawley has
JBxed :bond in each of the two cases-,
against Rudolph at $2,500, so that he
will likely not be bothered about his
liberty until the Charleston term of
court in April, when it is expected
he and his brother will be tried for
conspiracy and breaking into and
stealing, from two post offices in this
state. The Rabens are Charleston Ger?
man grocers, who went from Walhalla,
to which town they emigrated from
the old country. They got into bad
-company, it is thought, through their
connection with the old Star Exposi?
tion theatre, where they became inti
lixxately associated with some swift ci?
tizens both male and female. By the
time the case is ready for trial it is
likely that a number of other arrests
will have been made.
Another interesting case that goes
over for triai in Charleston is what fe
known as the Charleston peonage
case against a number of Italians ac?
cused of working their fellow-country?
men in bondage. True bills have been
returned against the defendants in the
case, but the district attorney is for
the present holding the matter in
suspense in the hope of getting a guide
in the shape of a decision from the
federal supreme court in the Clyatt
?case, which comes up on appeal from
Florida on a writ of error involving
two points of 2aw of vital interest to*
this case and many o?ier similar,
cases in Florida, Alabama and Geor-:
gia, which are also awaiting the fed- .
eral supreme court decision before
they are brought to trial. Whether
the peonage act of congress is consti?
tutional and if constitutional whether
it is necessary to prove ca system of.
slavery established by law er by local
usuage are the two points of import?
ance which the -district attorneys in
these states are waiting on the federal
supremo court to decide. The case has
been argued, and as it is known that
many cases arc being suspended in an?
ticipation of the decision that it is
thought will be made and announced
soon as thc court can with reasonable
convenience do so.
It is barely possible, though not
probable, that the decision will come
out in time for the trial to be had here.
WOULD TAX BACHELORS.
Member ol the Tennessee Stale Leg?
islature Revives a Rather Musty
CixestMmVL
" ' ' -
Nashville, Tenu., Jan. IA.-In the
lower ..ho.us? ef^the state legislature
yesterday Mr. Bawls introduced a bill
*to encourage matrimony and to pro?
mote the strenuous Ufe."
He proposes to tax all backed ors af?
ter they reach the age of 23 years and
to increase the tax as they grow older.
Between 23 and 25 years of age, the
proposed annual tax is $59; 25 to 20
years old, $100; 35 to 40 years -old,
$150; 40 to 50, $250. Over 5# no tex
imposed.
Bankers and Cotton Growers Meet.
New Orleans, Jan. 16.-The meeting
of Southern Bankers and Cotton Grow
I
ers at New Orleans, Saturday, Jan?
uary 14, is an important precursor of:
the convention of the Southern Cotton
Growers' Protective Association,- whieh
will assemble at the big auditorium j
^of the New Orleans Progressive union
January 24 for a three days' session.
Thos^who are at the head of the na?
tional meeting are anxious to see that
the convention shall be guided by
business-like conservatism and have
asked the bankers to co-operate with
them in a plan to finance the surplus
crop. The New York Commercial pro?
nounces Saturday's meeting as an em?
inently practical step for the better?
ment of the present cotton situation in
the south." The president of each of
the State bank associations of the cot?
ton belt will meet President Harvie
Jordan of the Southern Cotton Grow?
ers* Protective Association, Vice Pres?
ident Eugene Williams, President E.
S. Peters, of the Nation? > Cotton Asso?
ciation and other leading men identi?
fied with the movement. It is cur?
rently stated that the bankers and cot?
ton growers will come to an agreement
which will settle the present diffculty.
CZAR PRAISES STOESSEL.
TRIBUTE TO HEROISM OF PORT
ARTHUR GARRISON.
The Address Expresses Confidence in
the Ultimate Victory of Rus?
sia Over Japan.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 14.-Czar Nich?
olas today issued the order of the day
to the army in praise of the heroic
defense of Port Arthur by Gen. Stoes
sel and the garrison.
The order after praising the men's
brave, heroic and uncomplaining work,
continues:
"My brave soldiers and sailors, let J
not this sorrow discourage you. Our
enemy is brave and strong and it is
extremely difficult to sustain the strug?
gle-at a distance ofMOtfOOn-ersts, *but
Russia is great and powerful. During
her national life of a thousand years,
she has given proofs of her ability to
overcome even more serious dangers.
It is in such sorrowful times as these
that the power of Russia renews itselt."
I am confident, as is every Russian,
that our victory will be striking and
God will bless my dear army and fleet
in their effiorts to erush the enemy
and sustain the honor and glory of our
Fatherland."
RUSSIAN RAIDERS'OEFEATED.
BRISK SKIRMISH-NEAR YIN KOW
THURSDAY. .
The Russian Loss Estimated to Have
Been Two Hundred or ^
More.
Tokio, Jan. 14.-LiaoTung garrison
reports that the Russians who were
defeated in the neghborhood to Yin
Kow Thnrsday retreated in disorder
north toward Takoakan and south to?
ward New Chwang.
They left sixty-two dead and six
wounded on the field. It is believed
their casualties exceeded two hundred.
The general staff believes the object
of the Russian raid is to intercept Gen.
Nogi's guns enroute for Shahke river
and upset Field Marshal -Qyema's gen?
eral transport arrangements.
There was further fighting near
NewL Chwang .yesterday in which the
Russians were again defeated.
SEN. STOESSEL AT NAGASAKI.
ff _
TRANSPORT WITH RUSSIAN PRIS?
ONERS REACHES TAIPAN.
The Japanese Give Distinguished and
Gallant Enemy a ?Cordial
Reception.
Wagasake, Jan. 14,-The Japanese ?
transport Kansafcnre ?from port;
Dalny January lltifa with Gen. Stoes-i
sel and other Russian ?officers and sol
?
diers aboard, arrived ?this morning. Af?
ter a prolonged ?quarantine inspection .
the chief officials of the port proceed-.
ed Gen. Stoessel, his wife and several ;
j officers ashore. The reception accorded j
the prisoners by the Japanese visas 1
? most cordial. ;
Movement of Baltic Fleet.
Suez, Jan. 14.-The second division;
j of the Russian Baltic fleet, under Ad- :
mirai Botrevesky* which arrived here i
i '.
i yesterday and proceeded south today, j
It is probable that they have gone to
join the remainder of the fleet.
i London, Jan. 16.-According to the
Rome correspondent of the Central
News a dispatch has been received in
the Italian capital from Tokio an
j nouncing that 200,008 reinforcements
are ready to be sent to Field Marshal
Oyama who is operating against Gen.
Kuropatkin a\ the Shahke river. Fifty
thounsand troops h^ve airady started
on the way to the front.
Penkin, Jan. 16.-The Chino-Jap
anese Gazette today publishes a report
of a most important and significant
speech by Count Okuma, former minv
ister of foreign affairs of Japan.
He said that Japan must follow the
example of America, especially in the
matter of the Monroe doctrine. He
said that Japan should see to it that
no other power should be permitted to
obtain any east Asian possessions.
Japan should assume herself the lead
ershop in China, Korea and Siberia.
Weimar, Germany, Jan. 17.-Grand
Duchess Caroline, weif of the reigning
grand duke. William of Saxe Weimer,
died at 3 o'clock this morning of pneu?
monia. Her sickness was brought on
by a long motor ride while the ther?
mometer was below zero. She was 20
years old and was married to the
grand duke in 1903.
?Mill1? ?.? -
Xagaski. Japan. Jan. 17.-Gen.
Stoessel and his fellow officers, who
are enroute for Russia on parole,
leave Nagaski tonight on the steamer
Australien.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
A GENERAL REVIEW OF THE
FIRST WEEK.
Little Actual Business Transacted But
a Great Deal Brought Into
Sight.
By W. H. McCaw.
Columbia, Jan. 16.-So far the leg?
islature has done nothing since it con?
vened last Tuesday but fill its hopper
with new bills and resolutions of va?
rious kinds; the grinding will begin in
earnest this week. But though no vote
has been taken in either house on any
measure of importance, the trend of
legislation and the -quality and sound?
ness of the new law-making body can
i>e fairly.well-judged from; the nature
of the new bills so far engrossed for
passage. Ideal political conditions pre?
vailed among the people when this
legislature was selected at last sum?
mer's primary elections, there being
no disturbing factional contests, and
the public mind was in better condi?
tion to make its selections from the
standpoint of fitness and character than
in teni y??rs. And last week's work, as
far as lt went, gives every indication
that this is the safest, sanest, ablest,
soundest and most conscientious body
of law-makers this state has known in
ten years. - The btfrs so far introduced
indicate a tendency toward statesman?
like legislation, though of course many
changes will have to be made in the
bills which seek needed changes along
important lines. So far there has been
little or no tendency .toward freak leg?
islation, and no violent or radical new
measures have been introduced or
spoken' of as likely to be introduced.
A feeling of confidence prevails
throughout the state in this legisla?
ture, which therefore begins its work
in the most auspicious circumstances.
The bills of importance so far in?
troduced are those looking to impor?
tant changes in the dispensary sys
j tem, seeking the enactment of a com?
pulsory education law as a comple?
ment to the child labor law, reaching
out for such changes in the primary
system as will prevent bribery and
curtail **heeling," and searching for a
means of purifying the jury system
with regard to criminal cases by meth?
ods that. will do away with professional
jurors and prevent the jury lists being
"worked on" by keeping them .secret.
Important changes are necessary in
the county government law, but this
matter has been referred to a com?
mission, which will report hy hill, as
is the case with the school law. One of
?he most important matters to be dealt
with by this legislature is that touch?
ing the financial condition of the state,
which is running behind with a floating
debt of half a mllion, which conditions
must be remedied, the governor sug?
gests either by raising the levy or in?
creasing and more nearly equalizing
the assessments. This piece of business
was awiting the comptroller general's
report which will come from the press
now in a few days.
Perhaps the most important dis?
pensary bill is that by Senator Ray
ser. This bill, which has already been
outlined in this correspondence, takes
the purchasing power from the board
of directors, who are given % 1,500 a
year instead of $400 and required to
meet weekly instead of monthly and
gives this authority to the commission?
er, who is to get a salary of $3,000 a
year and is removable by the governor.
The commissioner is required to open
the sealed bids in the presence of the
board and make only such purchases
from the lowest responsible bidders
as are necessary to fill bone fide orders
from county dispensaries. The three
members of the county boards of con?
trol are to be selected instead of by the
state board, two by the county delega?
tion and the third by the mayor of the
county seat town. This*, bill follows
closely the suggestion of Governor
j Heyward.
. The Toole. bill is the?, old Br^ce act
ct last year with the'tax feature for
enforcing prohibition eliminated.
The new Brice bill is practically the
original Brice bill of last year, giving
towns and cities, as well as counties,
the right to vote out dispensaries on
elections called by a fourth of the
qualified voters. But such elections
may not be held oftener than every
four years.
Senator Blease.'s resolution calling a
thorough investigation by a commis?
sion of practically all the important
rumors that have been started about
the system, is of importance. This
comes up as a special order in the sen?
ate next Tuesday and will doubtless
provoke a heated discussion. Though
the greatest confidence is felt in the
presiding officers of both branches of
the legislature, it has been suggested
that this commission should come
fresher from the people by having
the commission elected by the general
assembly instead of appointed. This
was done in the case of the peniten?
tiary investigation, which brought real
results.
The three compulsory education
bills-one by Senator Rayser, another
by Representative Herbert and the
third by Representative Kershaw-are
along the same lines. The Rayser bill
requires attendance 12 weeks in the
year and the Herbert bill eight weeks.
The most important primary elec?
tion bill is that by the Aiken delega
tion, which seeks to extend the pro?
visions of the code with reference to
bribery to primary elections. It for?
bids, under severe penalties, procur?
ing with money or drink votes, induc?
ing votes against another or accepting
such inducement in a primary or
general election or in a contest for an
elective place.
. The Morgan bill seeks changes
along somewhat similar lines.
The Otts' jury bill reaches out for a
jury commission of three appointed,
one by the circuit judge, one by the
circuit solicitor and the third by the
governor. The number of names to be
placed in the box is limited and they
are to be kept secret.
The Harrison jury bill seeks practi?
cally the same changes. It also calls
for a commission of citizens unbound
by political obligations in each county,
to take the place of the present com?
mission of county officers.
The South Carolina legislature has
always been stubborn about making
changes in its marriage law. It seems
to be well pleased with the distinction
of being the state in which it is easiest
to butt into matrimony and hardest
to wriggle out again, so not even the
Herbert bill, which simply requires
clerks of court to keep records of mar?
riages is liable to pass. ft
Mr. Adrey has a bill to prevent
ma rriages unless the woman Is as old
as 18 and the man 21, except by con?
sent.
The tendency of the railroad legisla?
tion can so far be judged only by Sen?
ator Blease's bill to reduce the pas?
senger fare from 3 cents to 2 1-2 cents
and by Representative Bruce's bill to
require separate Pullman coaches for
negroes. There is also a new bill re?
quiring railroads to provide indus?
trial sidetracks.
: Columbia, Jan. 16.-The introduc?
tion of new bills was again the only
feature of either branch of the assem?
bly today. Among the mere important
in the house were the following:
By Mr. Doar-To make clear the
deer law uniform by fixing the open
season between September and Jan?
uary 1.
By Mr. Ford-To provide a tax for
better enforcement of the dispensary
law.
By Mr. Labon Mauldin-To assess
property at its actual value.
By Mr. Watson-A resolution cab?
ing for constitutional amendment so
as to make the terms of circuit judges
16 instead of four years.
In the senate Mr. Manning intro?
duced a bill creating a state board of
assessors to consist of comptroller
general and one person from each of
the judicial districts to be appointed
by the governor to perform all duties
hertofore exercised by the state board
of equalization and the board of asses?
sors of railroad property to meet at
call of the comptroller general and to
visit the counties from time to time.
Senator Black has a bill to make
legislative members' terms four in?
stead of two years so as to fit in with
the biennial sessions idea.
Bills were introduced in both houses
to convert the South Carolina college
into the South Carolina University so
as to carry out the suggestion of thc
trustees.
Columbia, Jan. 17.-Among the new
bills introduced this morning was one
J by Mr. Fishburne requiring marriage
I licenses which are to be secured from
I clerks of court, the person performing
the ceremony to return certificate* for
filing in clerk's office with endorse?
ment that ceremony has been per?
formed, no other kind of marriage be?
ing valid.
Mr. Edwards has a bill prohibiting
shooting matches for turkeys or other
prizes, and Mr. Kershaw has a bill
making cock fighting or witnessing it a
misdemeanor anywhere.
Mr. Herbert's tax bill fixes the limit
for paying at last day of December,
after which 7 per cent, penalty at?
taches.
Mr. Bass introduced a bill providing
for a private examination of victims
in rape cases.
The bills requiring monthly ginners'
report and calling for market value
assessments of property were unfavor?
ably reported.
Over in the senate Senator Johnson
introduced a bill to give Winthrop col?
lege a third of the privilege tax on fer?
tilizers now going to Clemson.
Senator Blease has a bill to provide
for the enrollment of pupils in night
sehools that may be established in
connection with the compulsory edu?
cation law.
Mr. Erooks introduced a bill for the
appointment of a game warden.
There were unfavorable reports in
the senate on the vagrancy bill and
on that providing for the appointment
of a board of pardons.
A new dispensary measure was that
of Representative Forde, which au?
thorizes the governor to require a
levy of half a mill in any county he
sees is failing to enforce the dispen?
sary law, the money so raised to go to
the state treasury and the balance the
governor has not spent in enforcing
the law in that county to be returned
to it
PULLMAN mm NEGROES.
MR. BRUCE FAVORS NEW JIM
CROW CAR LAW.
A Bill Introduced Today Would Force
Railroads to Provide Pullmans
for Negroes.
Coumbia, S. C^ Jan. 14.-Only the
house met today and i% was in session
but thirty minutes, during which Mr.
Bruce introduced a bil! requiring sep?
arate Pullman cars for negroes. This
bill to require separate accommoda?
tion for negroes on Pulman cars is of
interest.
Section 1. Requires separate cars
to be carried, beginning * the first of
next June.
Section 2. Forbids any oflScers or
employes having charge of such cars
to allow or permit white and colored
passengers to occupy the same cars. *
Section 3. Fixes the penalty at not
more than $500 nor less than $200 for
each volation to be collected by suit
of any citizen of this state and the
penalty recovered sha? after paying;
off the proper fees and costs' go into
the general fun of the state treasury.
JOHN MITCHELL SPEAKS.
SOUNDS NOT OF ALARM TO MINE
WORKERS.
Says Mine Workers' Union is on Verge
of Dissolution Owing to Disloy?
alty of Members.
Indianapolis, Ind., Jail. 16.-In his
annual address to the Mine Workers'
convention here today President John
Mitchell shows how there has been
no increase in membership in the or?
ganization the past year for the first
time in ten years. He Declares that the
Anthracite section of the organization
is on the verge of disruption.
For the first time in any of his pub?
lic utterances Mitchell flays public
ficials from federal judges in the East,
to Governor Peabody in the "West and
asks' for a lobby to get legislation
through congress.
He accuses local unions of disloyal?
ty to national organization by keeping
back funds and sounds a general:
note of alarm to the organization!
which he says is approaching a crisis
in its affairs as in another year the
Antharcite strike agreement ends and
the Bituminous miners' contract ex?
pires also.
PANAMA CANAL AFFARIS.
President Recoimnends Material
Changes in thc Canal Commission.
Washington, Dec. 14.-If the pres?
ident's recommendations with regard
to the Panama canal are carried out
by congress as they probably will be
established, Chief Engineer Wallace
will become the real head of the great
undertaking and upon him will be
placed the responsibility of accepting
plans finally agreed upon for the con?
struction of the canal. These changes
will result in the simplification and
systematization of the work.
EXPLAINING THE ESTIMATE.
The Government Report Seeks to Jus?
tify 1:2,000,000 Figure.
Washington, Jan. 14.-The govern?
ment crop report for January issued
today contains the following relative
to the cotton situation:
The recent government report on
the size of the cotton crop of the year
1904, which indicated a crop of some?
thing over 12,000,000 bales, seems to
have been in the nature of a surprise
to the great mass of those interested
in the crop. Continuing, the report
says the fact was the season practical?
ly all through was a phenomenal one
as to weather, and that farmers were
able on account of the weather con?
ditions and by paying higher prices
for picking to gather a much larger
proportion of their cotton than usual.
Washington, Jan. 14.-J. P. Morgan
it is said donated ten thousand dollars
to Catholic University of America and
Seniors Aldrich and Elkins have given
the institution $2,500 each.