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Coselidated Aug. 2,1881.
SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 29, 1905,
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ANTI-JIM CROW CAR DECISION.
Maryland Court of Appeals Decides
That Jim Crow Car Laws Are Not
* Applicable to Inter-State Pas?
sengers.
Annapolis, Md-. March 22.-In an
opinion delivered today the Court
of Appeals held that the act passed
at the last session of the legislature,
commonly known as the "Jim Grow"
law and requiring steam railways in
the State of Maryland to furnish sep?
arate compartments for white and col- j
orded passengers, is .valid so far as it
affects commerce within the State, but
invalid aa to Inter-State passengers,
and must he construed as not apply?
ing to them. Wm. H. H. Hart, the ap?
pellant in the case, is a resident of
Washington, D. C. He was arrested
for refusing to go into the compart?
ment assigned to colored passengers,
while he held a through ticket from
New York to Washington on the cars
of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington Railroad Company, and
was fined $5 and costs by the circuit
court for Cecil county. From this ver?
dict he appealed. The court of appeals
upholds the right of common carriers
to make reasonable regulations pro?
viding for the separation of the races,
and also the right of the legislature to
impose such regulation?.- lipon com?
mon carriers. However, in the matter
of imposing such regulations upon
carriers engaged in inter-state com
""?tTci-ce.^the" Maryland court regards
the decision of the United States court
in the case of-Hall against Decuir as
conclusive. In that case the Supreme
Court held that those engaged in in?
ter-state commerce in the state of
Lousiana should give all their passen?
gers equal privileges as to the parts of
hie conveyance they should occupy.
NO MORE TRANSFER CHARGES.
Overcharges on Freight Rates-The
Railroad Commissioners Make an
Investigation.
It seems that for some time past the
North Western Railroad has been
charging "its patrons in this city ex?
cess freight charges for transferring
cars. The matter first came to the at?
tention of Mr. B. C. Wallace, when he
discovered that an excess charge on a
carload of wood had been made by the
railroad, and he reported the same to
Mr. H. D. Barnett When complaint
was first made the extra amount was
accounted for as the usual'charges for
transfer. The matter was immediately
reported to the railroad commissioners
who took St under consideration, and
came to this city this morning to look
into the facts of the case. The investi?
gation proved that the charges were
without warrant of law, as they are
only allowed when freight has to be
transferred from the track of one
company to that of'another. The
Northwestern had been charging extra
for getting their cars in a suitable
place from which they could be easily
approached, for the purpose of un?
loading-a duty which was incumbent
upon them in the first Instance. ?.
Commission er Earle stated to a re?
porter of The Daily Item that when a
reason for the extra charge was ask?
ed of a representative of the railroad
he said it was either an oversight or a
mistake. These mistakes have been
occurring with marked regularity in
the past, and now that the attention
of the railroad company has been so
forcibly directed tc matters that they
were in the habit of overlooking, it is
hoped that they wi?i, in the future,
keep within the provisions of the law.
SOMEWHAT WORRIED
New York, March 23.-John D.
Rockefeller is said to be exceedingly
annoyed at the protest made by the
congregational ministers against the
acceptance of his $100,000 to the board
of foreign missions. While no state?
ment has as* yet been forthcoming, it
is believed that he will withdraw the
gift.
Medenord, Mass., March 22.-Dr.
Elmer Hewitt Capen, president of
Tuft's College, died this morning from
an attack of pneumonia..
BI SHOP POTTER DISCUSSED.
People of Colombia Seeking Explana
t?on of His Position.
By W. H. McCaw.
Columbia, March 23.-The Bishop
Potter .incident is the talk in cultured
circhis here just now, as it doubtless
is in a number of other communities
in the state. The head of the Episcopal
church in New York has been very
popular here and elsewhere through?
out the State, and it is with surprise
and disappointment that his friends
jin ttds section see him displaying so
much temper when called upon civilly
enough to explain his unwarranted
slander of social conditions in this
State. He said, according to the New
York Globe, that the prevalence of
miscegenation in this State showed
that an anti diveroce law was not the
solution of the social problem, and
when asked for an explanation from
Columbia replied curtly saying that
"common civility" would suggest that
the inquirer first ascertain whether,
there was any connection between the
publication and what he really said,
and inasmuch as there was none and
the comments of the inquirer were
"impertinent and unwarranted." Af?
ter lie wrote this and refused to an?
swer further letters he had himself
inteiviewed in the Globe to the effect
that he had no apology to make for
what he said previously and reiterated
that in view of conditions in this state
that this State's claim to superiority
"wa3 at once comic and pathetic."
Most people remembering Bishop
Potter's prominence and Iiis undoubt?
ed talents and his great zeal are at a
loss to account for his "loss of bal?
ance" in this incident, but others are
finding an explanation in the Kyrie
Ballew incident, and the scandals
which grew out of its airing in New
Yoris a few years ago, and which in?
volved a member of Dr. Potter's fam?
ily. This, it is thought, accounts for
his bias, and has somewhat embitter?
ed Mm on the subject of divorce. Mrs.
James Brown Potter, his daughter
in-law, was a very handsome woman,
and very talented.
A member of the faculty of one of
the State college who was a teacher at
Uni DH college in New York while one'
of Bishop Potter's brothers was presi?
dent of Union, came into more or less
intimate contact with Bishop Potter
and his three brothers, and knows
the m all to be vain and egotistical. He
was therefore not surprised at the.
bishop's display of pomposity in this
SoL\th Carolina incident, about which
he ought to have spoken "with better
knowledge since he has visited this
state and is an intimate friend of Bish?
op Capers, and remembering the Kyrie
Ba'lew incident is not at a loss to ac?
count for the bishop's acrimony and
priestly frown.
Your correspondent's informant
went on to explain that in a curious
sort of way the late. Rev. Dr. A. Toom
er Porter, of Porter's academy in
Charleston was the indirect cause of
Mrs. Potters becoming involved with
stage people. Bishop Potter was a
groat friend and patron of Dr. Por?
ter, who was frequently entertained
at the Porter home when he went on
to New York on begging expeditions
foi- his school which was established
at the close of the Civil War. Mrs.
James Brown Potter became interest?
ed in his enterprise and organized pri?
vate theatricals among her fashionable
friends in New York as a benefit. She
took the leading part and the shows
w?:re ? great success from both a
financial and artistic standpoint. Many
New York papers spoke highly of the
splendid histrionic aient Mrs. Potter
displayed, but Dr. Potter compliment?
ed her with some reservation. He was
very grateful for her effort in behalf
of his school and honesty compelled
him to acknowledge that her display
of talent was remarkable. But he told
her then that his knowledge of human
nature had caused him to fear that he
had read that in her eye while she was
at work on the stage and heard the
applause of her 'acting which meant
that she had been caught by the stage
fever. She laughed lightly at the time,
but subsequent events proved that his
fears were well founded. She was
finally divorced from James Brown
Potter, who is now living in Rich?
mond. She afterward married another.
New York, March 25,-Maurice
Barrymore, the actor, who has been
an inmate of the Long Island Home
for the past six years, died this morn?
ing of paralysis. He was the father of
Miss Ethel Barrymore and Jack Bar?
rymore, both well known on the stage.
Columbus, Ohio, March 25.-About
$200,000 worth of property was de?
stroyed by fire last night in two of the
Columbus Dry Goods Company's
buildings on High street. The fire,
which burned all night, gave the fire?
men a hard fight preventing its spread.
DISPENSARY INVESTIGATION.
Information Given Out Respecting: the
Proceedings at the Meeting
Last Night.
The dispensary investigation com
mitteee met in Sumter last evening
in the office of Hon. T. B. Fraser.
Those present were Senators J. T. Hay,
chairman; Cole L. Blease, N. Christen?
sen, Jr., Representatives T. B. Fraser,
J. Fraser Lyon and D. A. Spivey. Mr.
Gaston was prevented by sickness
from attending.
The sub-committees, among which
the work has been divided, conferred
with the chairman who indicated the
lines along which they will continue
their work. The sub-committee com?
posed of Representative Fraser Lyon
and Senator Niels Christensen, Jr.,
stayed over today and looked into the
affairs of the Sumter dispensary. The
rest of the committee went home this
morning.
The committee accepted the resig?
nation cf Colonel Bacon who had
been elected accountant and chose
Mr. W. W. Bradley, of Abbeville, to
take his place.
STORY DISCREDITED.
China the Only Power Likely to Ask
tins Powers to Take Action.
London, March 23.-Despite dili?
gent inquiry as to the connection of
the cabinet meeting with the report
that is called for the purpose of con?
sidering peace proposals made for in?
tervention by powers in the war in
the Far East, no official confirmation
has been forthcoming.
At the Japanese legation, however,
there was an inclination to believe the
report to be true. China was suggested
as the power that might have asked
other powers to interfere. The secre
Itary of the Japanese legation discuss?
ing the matter said he would not be
surprised if China had taken such ac?
tion on the ground that the contin?
uance cf the war was doing serious
damage to her territory. Further dis?
cussion was refused except to express
skepticism as to China's ability to in?
duce the powers to intervene.
London, March 23.-The Central
News reported a cabinet meeting ex?
traordinary will be held at noon to?
day for the purpose of considering
proposals which will be made for in?
tervention by powers to end the war.
The power which has taken the initia?
tive has not been disclosed.
London, March 23.-Baron Hayashi
has received the following dispatch
dated March 21: "Our detachment,
which is following the enemy, has en?
tered .Chautu, twenty miles north of
Kaiyuan. The enemy, in a large body,
is retreating in disorder towards the
northwest, along the railway.
St. Petersburg, March 23.-It is re?
ported that a desultory conflict has
occurred at Changogun, 100 miles
north of Tieling, where Gen. Linevitch
is preparing to delay Gen. Oyama in
order to give time for completing ar?
rangements to defend Harbin.
UNCLE SAM'S WARD.
Minister Dawson Suggests That United
States Take Charge of San Domin?
go Without Treatry.
Washington, March 25.-The state
department this morning received
from Minister Dawson a dispatch
suggesting a temporary solution of the
international difficulties of Santo Do?
mingo, pending the final action by the
United States senate. He suggests that
an American citizen be appointed as
commissioner to collect and disburse
the customs receipts of the country in
accordance with the terms of the
treaty. He says the officials of the Do?
minican government agree to this, and
are desirous of its adoption.
ACCDDENT IN TUNNEL.
An Unusual Occurrence in Subway
Under the East River.
New York, March 27.-Four men
were injured and the lives of eighteen
others were endangered this morn?
ing as a result of an unusual accident
in the East River tunnel which is be?
ing bored to connect Brooklyn with
New York by a subway. The pressure
of compressed air against the working
shield proved too strong for the mud?
dy soil and blew holes through to the
water. Those injured were close to
the shield. The force of the explosion
gave the men ample time in the other
part of the compartment to open the
gate and drag themselves out before
the water reached them.
St. Petersburg, March 27.-It is
stated that Gen. Batianoff has been
appointed to the command of the third
army .
COTTON GROWERS' EMBLEMS.
Buttons Being Sent Out Irom Atlanta
By the Thousands
Atlanta, Ga., March 25.-Thousands
of emblems of the Southern Cotton
Association are now being worn in
every State in the South. The demand
for these emblems is exceedingly
heavy and a large office force has been
busily employed in the emblem bureau
of the association, filling the orders
which have been pouring in for some
time.
The official emblem, which is being
furnished by the association for a
small sum, in order to help carry out
the work of organization, consists of
a button which is worn on the lapel of
the coat. On the button is an exact re?
production of a cotton bale. Above the
top of the bale there is the statement,
.Tn Unity There Shall be Strength."
In the centre of the bate are the let?
ters, "S. C. A." Under that is the
statement, "Twenty-five per cent. Re?
duction," and just under that in red
letters, "We Will Do It"
Banks all over the country are or?
dering large supplies of these buttons
for their customers, warehousemen,
guano factories, plow manufactories,
grocery merchants and commission
m?n are also purchasing them in large
numbers for distribution among their
patrons as well as individuals. Large
numbers of these emble:ns are being
i ordered; hy the county and district or?
ganizations of the Southern Cotton
Association for the benefit of the
members.
The Tmtton shows that the wearer
is in thorough sympathy with the
southern farmer and his fight against
the New York speculators to put down
the price of cotton to a figure where it
means ruination to the South to pro?
duce it
The emblem bureau, which is lo?
cated at 1420 Empire building, Atlan?
ta, Ga., is working day and night to
supply the big demand. ^
$50,000,000 FOR UNIVERSITY.
Stated That John D. Rockefeller Is
Committed to Raise Tl at Amount
for Pet School.
Chicago, March 25.-It is believed
among a majority of students and
many members of the faculty of the
University of Chicago that John D.
Rockefeller is committed to the task
of providing a fifty million dollar en?
dowment for the school. The belief is
based on a letter received from Mr.
Rockefeller last week in which he ex?
pressed the hope that Harper's life
be spared in order that he might carry
out his cherished wishes for the ad?
vancement of the growth of the uni?
versity. President Harper's cherished
hope, according to the faculty, is to
see the University endowed with $50,
000,000, which he considers will make
it possible to complete his scheme for
a gigantic educational institution.
ROCKEFELLER'S MONEY.
Boston Clergymen Divided in Opinion
as to Whether Church Should
Accept.
Boston, March 27.-Numerous
clergymen in and about Boston de?
voted considerable atte:ion in their
sermons yesterday to i:he offer of
$100,000 as a gift by Joan D. Rocke?
feller. There seemed to be a division
of opinion regarding the acceptance of
the offer. Those favoring acceptance
styled the gift a bit of restitution,
while others thought the money too
wickedly accumulated to be accepted
for missionary work for which it was
intended.
All the Row Kicked up in Boston Af?
ter Money Was Secured.
Boston, March 28.-While the
storm of indignant protests against
the acceptance of $100,000 from John
D. Rockefeller by the American board
of foreign missions was at its height,
nearly half of the sum had already
been accepted and is now in the treas?
ury of the mission board. The fact
that $41,500 of the sum has been in
the possession of the board for some?
time was made public today by Mr.
James L Barton, the foreign secre?
tary. This acceptance makes it exceed?
ingly doubtful that the balance will
be refused. Barton said that when the
board informed him the gift was ac?
cepted an order for th?i amount now
in the treasury was at once made. The
president's committee, which meets
at 2 o'clock this afternoon is expected
to take final action on the matter.
Small Boy Lost.
New York, March 27.-Despite a
search being made of all freight cars
which left the city since Wednesday no
trace has been found of 7-year-old
Johnnie Donohue, who, it is supposed,
was carried off in a freight train on
Wednesday night while playing in a
freight car in front of his home.
GEN. K?ROPATKIX REMAINS.
j He Accepts Appointment to Succeed
Gen. Linevitch in Command of
First Army.
St. Petersburg, March 22.-The
Russian army in Manchuria is still to
have the services of Gen. Kuropatkin,
who is considered by many, in spite
of his series of reverses, the best gen?
eral and foremost strategist of the
Russian army. Sinking all feeling of
personal bitterness because of his su
possession and all the old time enmity
between himself and Gen. Linevitch in
a patriotic desire to be of service to
the fatherland, the former commander
in chief volunteered to remain in any
capacity with the army which he had
so long commanded. The tender has
been accepted by Emperor Nicholas
and gratefully received by the new
leader of the grand army.
London, March 22.-A dispatch to
the Reuter Telegram Company says
the Russian army has reached a place
of safety, but the stragglers have been
cut off by the Japanese. The haven
reached by the Russians is not given.
St Petersburg, March 22.-A dis?
patch from -General Linievitch says a
body of Japanese cavalry, accompa?
nied by a force of infantry has ap?
peared in front of the Russian-'out?
posts at Machantay.
FLOOD OF IMMIGRANTS.
Largest Number on Record Expected
to Arrive This Spring.
New York, March 22.-The an?
nual spring rush of immigrants lias
come according to Commissioner of
Immigration Watchem and Chief
Junker of the statistical division.
Eleven thousand immigrants were re?
leased in this yesterday and day be?
fore. From the present outlook
more immigrants will come into this
port during the months of March,
April and May than ever before dur?
ing this time. It is noticeable that
Russian immigrants are on the in?
crease at this port.
A Blow at Rockefeller.
Boston, March 21.-Congregational
ministers representing Boston and va?
rious sections of New England, have
forwarded to the American board of
commissioners for foreign missions a
protest against the acceptance by the
board of a gift of $100,000 from
John D. Rockefeller. The petition,
which was prepared by a committee
chosen at a meeting of the clergymen,
protests against the acceptance of the
gift on the ground that the Standard
Oil Company, of which Mr. Rockefel?
ler is the head, "stands before the
public under repeated and recent for?
midable indictments in specific terms
for methods which are morally in?
iquitous and socially destructive,"
and that the "acceptance of such a
gift involves the constituents of the
board in a relation implying honor to?
ward the donor, and subjects the
board to the charge of ignoring the
moral issues involved."
NO EXTRA SESSION.
New York, March 23.-Secretary
Shaw, before leaving for Washington
today, emphatically denied the state?
ment attributed to him to the effect
that the president is likely to call an
extra session of congress this summer
to take up tariff revision. The story
that Senator Allison, chairman of the
senate finance committee, is in New
York sounding business men on the
tariff revision measure was ridiculed
by local politicians today.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
Washington, March 23.-President
Roosevelt has tendered the office of as
sitant secretary of the navy ?o Truman
H. Newberry, of Detroit, Mich., and
the proffer has been accepted.
Mr. Newberry is a prominent busi?
ness man of Detroit. He will succeed
Charles H. Darling, of Vermont, who
some time ago tendered his resigna?
tion to the president to be accepted at
the president's convenience.
Letter to J. W. Dennis.
Sumter, S. C.
Dear Sirs: Currie Hardware Co. At?
lantic City. N J, had been dealing in
paint for more than twenty years ; and
last year found-out Devoe. This is
how they did it.
Bought two cans, took-off the labels,
sent to a chemist for analysis.
The chemist found it pure; and
they took our agency.
That is the way to find-out a paint ;
but not every dealer can do it. There
ought to be public provision for mak?
ing good things known without a cost.
It's a pity American citizens haven't
got it. The people want it, even more
than the trade.
Yours truly
91 FW Devoe & Co.
P S- Durant Hardware Co. sells our
paint.
A HATTER OF HEALTH
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POWDER
Absolutely Rare
HAS MO SUBSTITUTE
RAILROAD ASSESSMENTS.
State Board of Assessors Have Raised
the Valuation on Some Roads.
Columbia, March 24.-The State
board of assessors adjourned yesterday
until April 1st when the work of as?
sessing for taxation the property of
railroad companies will be completed*
Some assessments were delayed on ac?
count of the opinion of the attorney
general as to the application of the
franchise tax law to intrastate busi?
ness.
The board raised the assessment for
the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens
road from $5,000 to $6,000 per mile*
the assessment of the Lancaster and
Chester -road from $700 to $3,250, and
the Charleston and Western Carolina
from the Georgia line to Spartanburg
was made $8,000 per mile, and from
the Georgia line to Beaufort $7,500
per mile.
The Southern Express Company was .
made $100 per mile, against $85 last
year. The assessment of the Pullman
Palace Car Company was not
changed from $100 per mile, or a to?
tal valuation of $146,643 for the state.
The Postal and Western Union Tele?
graph Companies were not changed,
the assessment being $35 per mile of
wire in the state. The American'Tele
graph and Telephone oCmpany was
valued at $90,000 against $65,685 last
year. The Southern Bell Telephone
Company was valued at $400,000
against $215,592 last year.
The other assessments remained the
same for the present. There was no
change made in the assessment of the
Seaboard Air Line, whose attorneys
raised a vogorous protest Wednesday
on the present figures. It has been
hinted that this matter will go into
the courts.
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GREENE-GAYNOR CASE.
Quite an Excitement Caused in the
Magistrate's Court in Montreal
Yesterday.
Montreal, March 23.-Considerable
excitement was caused in the Magis?
trate's court today when counsel for
Gaynor and Green virtually accuseds
Judge LaFontaine, extradition com?
missioner, of being under contract
with the United States in connection?
with the extradition cases.
Many personalties were indulged in.
Judge La Fontaine indignantly denied
the-charge, but agreed to withdraw
an?? allow the case to be tried before
CLief Justice LaCoste. Donald McMas
ttr, who represented the United States,
characterized the accusation as a
falsehood. The suggestion to have the
case tried before the chief justice will
be argued later.
Mr. Taschereau, chief counsel for*
the defense, then moved for a suspen?
sion of the proceedings on technical
grounds in support.
He presented two telegrams, one to
a id on* u cm the. minVtcr : ' iusii?.e,
who, Mr. Taschereau argued, had the
right to determine whether the accus?
ed had committed an extraditable of?
fense or whether the basic principle
of the extradition treaty was being
violated.
"The minister of justice," declared
Mr. MacMaster, "a law partner of the
chief counsel for the defense, has no
more authority to suspend these pro?
ceedings than a man on the street.
The minister of justice in Canada is
a very important personage, but it
seems to me he would have had great?
er regard for tre proprieties of legal
jurisprudence if the had not allowed
his name to be attached to an appli?
cation for a writ of habeas corpus to
set the accused free."
Judge La Fontaine ?vermied M/,
aschereau's motion.
Dr. W. J. Spillman, the agrostologist
of the department of agriculture, has
been in Columbia for several days. He
is making a tour of the South visiting
experiment stations and addressing
farmers' meetings.