Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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m ono r?? aUKTJSJ? WATCBMAS, Established April, 1850? **Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims t at be thy Country's thy God s and Truth's. THE TRUS SO D TH HO H, Kstablisbed Jane, ISO CosoHdate? Aus. 3,1881. SUMTER. S. C. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 25, 1905 New Series-Vol. XXIV. So. 27 k-?li* . . . --?BT . OSTES? PUBLISHING COMPANY, SUMTES, ac' T?RK8: $? 50 per ano um-io advatsce. ?. s. v isTzsiMiir: &ae Socare fi rat insertion.._(.0 ; ?very su bsequent insertion ........ ...50 Contracto for three montos, or longer wi]i ne eaa?e at reduced rsiss. AH comm anica dons which subserve private interests will becbarged for as ad vertieres ts. ? Onitnaries and trio&tes of respecte will be warded for. THS FLOOD OF NEW BELLS CON? TINUES. Kesointioas Calling for the Repeal of Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend? ments Introduced. Columbia, Jan. 18.-Among the new hesse b?ls introduced today were the following: By Mr. Irby-Constitutional amend? ments allowing state and counties to j manufacture cotton seed products. By Mr. Besureguard-To ratify bi? ennial sessions amendment! Ey Mr. Edwards-To appoint a commission to inquire into the feasi? bility of combining the Citadel with the South Carolina, college into the * South Carolina University at Columbia. By Mr. Giles-Regulating fees of physicians tesstifying as experts. By Mr. Lafayette-To declare curs? ing, or abusing another assault and to lit purchasing and carrying bf re? ivers. By Mr? Sanders-To provide for the inspection of oils and other -?uids. By Mr. CuUer--Td regulate the sales by common carriers for collecting of charges and freights. By Mr, Ijafayette---To define and govern: the sale ot any me<?ci?e. By Mr.; i5asqt e---To prevent the re jectiag of certain-passenger tickets as - hav>rrcrexpired." By :?- iQeVoe, of.Edgefield-Reso 1 uiiori ?::at th? fourteenth-and fifteenth j amendments should be^repeated even ii ii' becomes necessaigr to out down : our representation in ?iongress?: It was ordered printed for consideration later. - Over in the senate** concurrent res? olution was adopted to hoid -elections; next Thursday.*"for" the following posi? tions: ~" . Circuit, judges . to succeed Earnest Gary and 'D! "Al Townsend; successor to . Superintendent of . Penitentiary Griffith; directors to. succeed J. G. Mobley, A. K. Sanders and M. O. Row??l land; successor to Senator Cole B?ease, resigned as trustee of the colored co?-1 " lege af Orangeburg. Senator . Earle mtxodxiced ?'bill to limit railroad employes* hoars. Twelve " hours unless prevailing schedule, by reason of casualty prevents. The bill requires eight hours* rest after ? twelve-hour run. The minimum penal? ty is one hundred dollars. -. Wm Columbia, Jan. 20.-In the ^senate today various bills on the. calendar were taken up and as to some of them there was some debate. The bli! hy Senator Johnston, of Aiken; relative * o primary elections, brought forth some discussion, but no action :w?s taken," the bill going over for further consideration! The bili is aimed at ^.-stopping an ci y uni thing corruption in the primary, and several amendments llphaving that idea in view were intro j?''"ducedi Ail of these, however?, were or- ? ~-~deretr*oyti&~fxiax*i?\. >fe -.'J "Secretary of State-Gan?b'transmit-j ted tty the senate the result bf the vote ' l?&n the eJectionto . establish Calhoun .-conaty... In"; this connection Senator * Raysofs bill to prescribe and define the ???nn?r of "showing . compliance with the' requirements of the consti tion" to the governor prior to the or v dering an election for a new county came-op for discussion. Senator Alor Leojd opposed the bill, because, he said, it would- result in the prevention of the formation of new counties in the future/" Senator Raysor pointed out that under present arrangements the governor could not investigate as io- whether petitions .were properly drawn,. or whether .the alleged facts '?'7 captained in them are correct. Mr. Raysor said the bill simply" provided . that when a petition was presented to the governor that it should be re? ferred bade to the county commission? er s to investigate whether the provis? ions -of :the constitution have been complied with. They . report to the ?oVernor, under tho bili, and then the governor may acc. The statistics they furnish would be the basis foi action. ' The bill, he said, only intended to have the necessary facts presented ! before"'an election was ordere i. Senator McLeod, in spes-king furth- j er as to the bill, said it was some-I thing that woud relieve the governor of a duty, which might be disagree? able sometimes. He did not think it right that commissioners of an old county, probably opposed to a new county, should have the power to act. They might or might not act Finally further discussion was post? poned. Senator Raysor's compulsory education bill and his dispensary bill were made special orders for 12:30 Tuesday. The senate adjourned un? til ll o'clock tomorrow. In the housse Mr. Ashley's resolu? tion to adjourn ^n February ll was killed by a vote of 78 o 29. The usual talk occurred in consideration of this measure and much time was lost in bringing about a consideration of other matters. BRIEF REVIEW OF THE TWO WEEKS* WORK. Columbia Jan. 23.-Though this South Carolinoa. legislature has been in session two weeks the finished product of the mill is only beginning to appear, the first and only act being that enrolled on Saturday-to provide against a county going without a legal jury (as was the situation in Claren? don) by reason of the jury commission neglecting to fill the tales box. In fact it was not until last Saturday-when the hosse spent three hours and a half at hard work, during which it passed to a third reading the Laban Mauldin bill to repeal the secret fea? ture of the income tax law, passed with amendments the Mogan automo? bile bill, passed without amendments, the YeldeV bill forbidding traffic in cotton seed and unpacked lint cotton after dark, passed ?rdery anti-tres? pass bill and killed after short but swift fights the Lebana Maul din bill to reqiure assessment of prop? erty at actual value and Mr. Graham's, bill to forbid the taking of liens on crops grown on the lands of another without the consent of the owner that anything of general interest or importance was accomplished. Absolutely nothing has been done so far in the way of meeting the main issues before this legislature-the dis? pensary, the state's finances and com? pulsory education. The Blease inves? tigation resolution, has passed the sen? ate and has been ordered printed for consideration in the house, but this is merely a side issue of the main point. There; has not so far been a vote on any of the measures looking to amendments of the Brice act and seeking changes in the manner of conducting the central dispensary. - Some of these will be reached this week as will. the compulsory educa? tion bills.. Doubtless some important tax measures will also be reached this week. The Morgan high license biil, which .7has been printed in full in this cor? respondence, has not yet been intro? duced. I have really nothing substan tion enough on which to. hang an opinion as to its probable fate. So ; far as I have been able to observe this dispensary legislation has every body guessing up to this time. Al? though South Carolina is t ne of the .greatest experimenters in the nation in the matter of legislation I see no indication of anything like a general indication to*"wipe the dispensary out; The committee reports so far have shown a decided tendency to hold m check anything like freak or class . or decidedly radical legislation. A bill whose passage would relieve the financial situation almost suffic? iently to place it on a cash basis and which seeks a radical change in the matter of pensions is Mr. Prince's which takes the pension .matter out o f the hands of the * comp? troller general, does away with the nate appropriating $200,000 ? year for. this purpose (equivalent to a levy of one mill) for pension purposes, the money so raised to be paid on the warrant of the respective county pension boards, which shall have sole authority to distribute it, according to classifications and' regulations which these boards shall themselves adopt. This, Mr. Prince thinks, will prevent padding the lists and result in a more jost and .equitable distribution. In the counties where there is more property "in" proportion to- the num? ber of pensioners; each pensioner will, of course, receive a larger amount. Those who are unworthy .will not be admitted to the lists inasmuch as those' who will have the making up of the list will be directly interested. Another new bill of importance is Mr. Turner's compulsory vaccination bill, which provides: "That from and after.the passage of this act all persons residing within this state who are not immune by reason of having and smallpox or who within the past seven years hove not been vaccinated, shall be compelled to submit to vaccination as required by any of the boards of health of the state. "Any person above the age of 16 years and not under the control of his ; her or their parent, or any parent, or ; parents, who shall refuse to be vacci? nated or allow their children or per? sons under their control to be vacci? nated shall be guilty of a misdemean? or and punished by a fine of not more than $50 nor less "ian $5 or impris? onment for not ^e than thirty nor less than five days." The fact that the judiciary commit? tee has reported in favor of two new judicial districts and the growing need of more judges and more frequent or longer terms of court as shown by the congested condition of the dockets seem to promise that districts will be created this year. Although one is re? minded of the postion that Senator Aldrich took the last time this matter was up in the legislature-that the trouble lies with the lawyers who should be taught to concentrate by authority being given to the judges to limit the tinie a case should consume r^fore it is started-and arrangement wuich would be of great benefit to both the lawyers:and the state. Theixi will be a strong effort to change the law with regard to making the showing before the governor on which he orders elections for new counties. Mr. Raysor has a bill in the senate looking to the appointment of a board to supervise the surveys and pass . upon whether the constitutional requirements as to property have been met, this board to consist of three, one selected by the old counties af? fected, the other by the territory cut off and the third by the other two, and Mr. McColl in the house seeks to have the board appointed entirely by the governor. The work of the legislature during the present week is likely to be of greatest importance and interest. The governor's inauguration will interrupt a bit on Wednesday and the elections will butt in on the 26th, but both of these events will be of more or less interest in themselves. And there are special orders strung out over the cal? endars of both houses, ,one occurring almost every day in each house. Columbia, Jan. 24.-During the der bate in the house yesterday on the McCant's bill to convert the South Carolina College into the South Caroli? na University the friends of the Cita? del a$* Charleston smelled a rat in the repealing feature of sections of the bill, which they construed involve the possibility of the two institutions be? ing brought under control of one board, and remembering State Super? intendent of Education Martin's rec- j ommendation that the Citadel be com bined with the college, debate was ad? journed until tomorrow. There was no reference to the Citadel on the floor of ; the house. On Mr. Martin's motion the house simply adjourned debate in or? der to allow the ""correction of an er? ror." .: The.house passed the third leading bills without controversy. These in? cluded Mr. Yeidell's to regulate the traffic in seed -cotton and unpacked lint cotton, Mr. Laban Mauldin's local measure with regard to the county au? ditor, Senator Mauldin's resolution to investigate the Greenville county finances. Frost's to protect aids to nav? igation and Mr. DesChamps' to pro? vide for the establishment of experi? mental stations of agriculture in the counties of this state. The house got no further than ""post No. . I" in the long line of second read? ing bills. This was Mr. Morgan's bill to j prevent fraud and bribery in primary elections. After, refusing to substitute the Aiken delegation's bill along the same line, but which goes further and is much longer, the house adjourned debate until Wednesday in order to al? low the preparation of amendments. The house efused Pollock's amend? ments forbidding any candidate to pay or subscribe forany purposes, charita? ble or otherwise, during a campaign, but the amendments failed only by four votes, which it would be well for the state had it gotten them. The senate killed the vagrancy bill on the ground that it would establish a system of peonage, the bill poviding for payment of fines by persons to whom the defendant vagrant would agree to work out. It passed the Ray? nor bill to raise the pay of the supreme court justices from $2,850 to $3,500 by lopping off the $500, the effect being to increase the pay $150, which ought to be very cheering. Senator Mauldin introduced a bill to prohibit hotel and beer privileges, which caused a stiff fight. Senator Rv I. Manning, of Sumter, who had been appointed with Senator McLeod on the boiler explosion1' in? vestigation committee, asked yester? day to be excused from duty on this commission, saying that there were reasons why he did not wish to serve. These were purely personal reasons, said Senator Manning. The most important new house bill was that directed against the club ti? ger, repealing al charters now in force with these clubs and forbidding the secretary of state issuing them in the future. Mr. Sinkler had a bill to abol? ish thg right of dower. The new bills introduced in the house were as follows: Ey Mr. Taylor-To regulate the profit on goods sold under a lien or chattel mortgage. By -Mr. Earhradt-To abolish tiger clubs. By Mr. Hey ward-To require ciubs or others holding real estate for pleas? ure purposes to pav a license. By Mr. Morrison-To authorize the borrowing of money to pay off in? debtedness of Greenwood school -i's rri.^t. Hy Mr. Etheridge-To amend tho pension law. By Mr. Bivins-To amend the code with regard to holding court in Dor? chester. By the Lexington Delegation-Same with reference to courts in the fifth circuit. By Mr. Lyon-To prohibit punish? ment of persons procuring advances on contacts to work. By Mr. Pollock-To establish an ex? perimental station N of agriculture at Winthrop College. By Mr. Sinkler-To abolish the right of dower. DOWNTRODDEN PEOPLE OF ISSI! RISE TO AVENGE 1 INNOCENT BLOOD. THOUSANDS OF UNARMED WORK? INGMEN. WOMEN AND CHIL? DREN SHOT DOWN AND BAY? ONETED BY FEROCIOUS COS? SACKS AT ORDER OF CZAR'S MINSTER - THREE THOUSAND KILLED, 20,000 WOUNDED. . Berlin, Jan. 23.-A dispatch to Die Zeitung from St. Petersburg this af? ternoon states that the casualties in the rioting there so far are 3,000 per? sons killed and 20,000 wounded. Hie Calm Before the Storm. ; Su Petrsburg, Jan. 23, 5 a m. Though comparatively quiet, this city in in that state of quiet which pre? cedes a storm. The night was full of meetings of workmen and policies were proposed and adopted, which, if carried out, mean the breaking loose of a full grown revolution at any mo? ment. Every street in the city is pa? trolled by troops, while in front of the . palace and. at various approach? es of the city there are massed thous? ands of the czar's troops fully armed and ready to oppose any movement of j strikers of other cities toward the j capital. Tlie Ferment Begins. St. Petersburg, Jan. 23, 10 a rn, While the city is quiet at this hour, there is ferment in. the outlaying dis? tricts. Late yesterday evening the po? lice made a house to house visit warning householders to maintain quiet. That a riot will break loose at any moment is a foregone conclusion. It was learned this morning that a band of rioters, the strength of which is not known, had decidd to divide themselves into squads and sack the city. Troops Iiisurbordinate. St. Petersburg, Jan. 23,-It is learn? ed that the greatest uneasiness is felt by the authorities, ,owing to the troops having already given signs of insubordination. This disaffection, it is said, is spreading among the crews of the third Baltic squadron. Admiralty Burning. St. Petersburg, Jan. 23.-The report that the admiralty works are ablaze is confirmed. Cruel Hand of Power. St. Petersburg, Jan. 23.-The gov? ernment has decided on the most stringent measures to check the up? rising of the populace today. All schools of the city have been closed and in many places the water supply has been cut off. Futher Butchery Ordered. Vienna, Jan. 23.-The Neufrie Press publishes special dispatches from St. Petersburg which state that, martial law has been declared in the Russian capital. Under the provisions of this law the authorities are empowered to arrest, place' on trial and pronounce sentence, including the death penalty. within six hours. _ Will Fight to the Death. St. Petersburg, Jan 23.-The muni? cipal building in the second district was demolished today by rioters. Af? fairs are taking on an omnious-aspect. At a meeting of the strikers at the Pu tiloff iron works this morning a reso? lution was passed expressing the in? tention of the strikers to continue the struggle to the last drop of blood. As ; this dispatch is filed several hundred workmen are making for the public square. Reports received this after? noon state that several outbreaks have occurred in the Vasili Island district. Dowager Empress Flees. St. Petersburg, Jan. 23.-The Dow? ager empress left for Tsarkoe Selo this morning. Moving on Winter Palace. St. Petersburg, Jan. 23, 2 p. m. The crowd which is moving toward the winter palace is assuming threat? ening dimensions. The men have a most obstinate demeanor. Quiet in Moscow. Moscow, Jan. 23.-Everything is quiet in the Moscow district today. Revolution in Poland. London, Jan. 23. -The Rome cor? respondent of the Central News wires that a Polish noble, writing to the pe? riodical Captain Francasca, declares that revolution has already. broken out-in Poland. The mobilization of troops, he says, has been rendered im? possible there, as the telegraph lines have been cut. Cossack Regiment Dynamited. London, Jan. 23.-The St. Peters? burg correspondent of the Westmin? ster Gazette says 12,000 strikers from the Capiloff works, who started for the capital were encountered by the military enroute and dispersed. The correspondent also reports that a bomb was thrown into a regiment of Cossacks in the centre of the city. Xo. mention is made of the casualties, but he states that all the machinery in ! the shop of the newspaper Xovoe j Vremya was destroyed. Destruction of City Feared'. St. Petersburg, Jan. 23.-A wild ru? mor has reached the authorities that Father Gohon the leader of the strikers, has plans to burn the entire city of St. Petersburg, feeding the flame with immense quantities of pe? troleum. The rumor is given no cre? dence, but the police have taken pre? caution to prevent incendiarism. THE BUTCHERS' EXCUSE. Russian Minister Issues Statement Throwing Blame for Slaughter on . the Strikers. . . St. Petersburg, Jan. 23.-The gov? ernment has issued a report blaming the workingmen. for yesterday's bloodshed. The demands, of the work? men are described as audacious .and impossible or fulfillment. The m?st.rer sponsibility is ascribed to Father Go? hon, the leader of the strikers-. ? ? The report, w.hich is really address^., ed to pyb.lic opinion in foreign coun? tries, continues: "Employes -express-, ed a willingness to negotiate with-the men individually, but hot with -their organization, which proffer the strikr, ers declined. As the strike" was at" first,conducted without disturbance no . repressive measures were adopted--. The agitation, however, was soon par? ticipated in by revolutionists and the. strikers, under Father Gohon's lead-, ership. openly professed insurrection? ary doctrines, which compelled the ; government to finally intervene.' ; j ST. PETERSBURG'S BLOODY DAY. Attempt of Striking Workmen to Lay Grievances Before the Czar .Made Excuse for Butchery. . .. St. Petersburg, Jan. 22.-Tho cev: \\ of striking- workmen culminated To? day in a bloody conflict with the troops. At 9:30 p. m., it was believed j that 1.500 people have been ki'lt d or wounded, but all estimates for the present must be * accepted with cau? tion. Popular rm?rs say that many thousands have fallen. The city at 9.30 was quiet. Troops bivouacked around camp fires here and there in the streets. One detachment of infantry refused to fire on the people and laid down their arms but Uhlans and Cos? sacks attacked those the infantry woud not. Firing continues on the Vassili Ostrov. It is rumored that the workmen there have seized a dyna? mite factory and also that 30.000 or 4?v0i>0 armed strikers .from Kolpino, sixteen miles distant, are marching on St. Petersburg. Barricades erected on the. island of Vassili Ostrov late " tonight ,\y?re de? stroyed by troops immediately, with the loss of thirty workmen killed. The Unspeakable Terror. St. Petersburg,- Jan. . 22.-This has been a day of unspeakable, terror in St. Petersburg. The strikers of yester? day goaded to desperation by a day of violence, fury and. bloodshed, are in a state of open insurrection against the government. A condition almost bor? dering on civil war exists in the ter THE OLD REUSABLE POWDER Absolutely Aire THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE ror-stricken Russian capital. The city is under martial law, with Prince Vas ilchikoff as commander of over 50,000 of the Emperor's crack guards. Troops are bivouacking in the streets tonight at various places on the Nevsky Pros? pect, the main thoroughfare of the city. On the Island of Vassili Ostrov. and in the industrial section infuriated men have thrown up barricades, which, they are holding. The empress dowa? ger has hastily sought safety at Tsar skoe Selo, where Emperor Nicholas II is living. Minister of the Interior Sviatopolk Mirsky presented to his majesty last night the invitation of the workmen to appear at the winter palace this afternoon and receive their petition, but the emperor's advisers had already taken a position to show a firm and. resolute front, and the emperor's an? swer to 100,000 workmen trying to make their way to- the paace today was a solid aray of troops who met them with rifle, bayonet and sabre. The priest, Gopon, the leader and ideal of the men, in his golden vestments, holidng aloft the cross and marching at the head of thousands of workmen ?through the Na vara Gate, miraculous? ly escaped a volley which laid low half a hundred persons.. The figures of the total killed or wounded at the Moscow Gate, at vari? ous bridges and islands and at the Winter Palace, ; vary. The best esti? mate is 500, although there are exag? gerated figures placing the number as high as 5,00OJ Many men were accom? panied" by* their wives and children and in the confusion, which left no time for discrimination, the latter shared the fate of the men. Tb-? troops, with the exception of a single regiment,, which . is reported io have thrown:, down its arms, remained loyal and' obeyed orders. But the blood w:h?ch crimsoned the snow has fired the-brains and passions of the strikers and turn? ed women as well as men into wild beasts; and the cry of the infuriated populace 's for vengcanse. The sympathy of the middle clasess is with the workmen. If Father Gopon, the master mindi Of the movement, moved at open rev-' olution, he managed the affair like a genius to break the faith of the people in "The Little Father," who they were convinced, and whom Father Gopon had taught ' them would right the wrongs and redress their grievances. Gorky, the Russian novelist, expressed the opinion that today's, work will break his. faith of the peope in the emperor.' St. '"Petersburg, Jan. 24.-The gov? ernment has caused an official state? ment to be made through the columns of the Official Messenger stating that there were no serious clashes yester? day and no casualties occurred. This official statement says that the mili? tary during the day prevented any at temp to attack thc Ca st on ig Gate. In the. evening the men working at the .electric light works joined the strikers. Consequently the city was in darkness and groups,of strikers began'breaking the windows.-of the shops in several streets. Order was soon restored. . . . Moscow Joins the Revolution London, Jan. 24.-The St. Peters ment this morning is spreading rapid? ly, throughout the * Moscow districts. .The gas works are idle and guarded by troops while "the "same condition exists at the electric light" works. The demands of the strikers are the same as those of their fellow workmen in St. Petersburg. The printers have all struck and as a result there will be no newspapers in Moscow today. There has been no fighting as yet though the men are marching about the city-gath? ering recruits from factories and stores as they go. Up to noon 10,000 strikers had quit work. The employes of Hopper's fac? tory this morning refused to join the strikers, but were forced to quit work. Five hundred workmen ejected those refusing to strike.