<3 'S mun an THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the ends Thou Aims't at he thy Coon try's, Thy God's and Truth's.' THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jane, ISM Consolidated Aug. 2, ISSI. SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1906. New series-Yoi. XXVI. No 21 M.?^sm ani) San?j)nni Published Every Wednesday, -BY OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, SUMTER, S, C. Tenus: $1.50 per annum-in advance. Advertisements: One Square first insertion.$1-50 Every subsequent insertion.50 "Contracts for three months, or longer -will be made at reduced rates. All* communications which sub? serve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. WORK OF CONGRESS. *?OOD PROGRESS HAS BEEX MADE Di A WEEK. Senate Has Passed Resolutions Call? ing: for Information on Japanese Question and Discharge of Negro Troops-House Passes Bill Permit ring National Banks to Loan Mon? ey on Lands-Next Week Senate Will Discuss the Smoot Case. Washington, Dec. 8.-Congress has already made a good beginning. In the senate resolutions have been adopted calling for information on nhs Japanese question and fe* the records in the case of the discharged negro troops. The house has defeated the bill abolishing compulsory pilotage on sailing vessels and passed the bill allowing national banks to make -loans on farms. Negotiations have begun for compromise on the ship subsidy. Next week the senate discusses the Smoot case and the Algeciras treaty a_;d considers the nominations of cabinet members. The house will have a hearing on the currency bill. FRATERNITY HOUSE BURNED. A Fatal Fire at Cornell University Loss $200,000. Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 7.-Five men .were killed, two fatally injured and several seriously, in a fire which de? stroyed the Chi Pai Fraternity House of Cornell University., early this morn? ing. Two of the dead are students, ?while the other three are volunteer ^firemen. Twenty-seven students were sleep? ing in the house when the fire started in the kitchen range. One was burn? ed to death in his room and the-other .was so dadly burned in escapiny that he died later. Those who escaped jumped from the windows. A falling wall crushed the three firemen! In? adequate water service made it im? possible to fight the fi?mes. The en? tire building, which was valued at $200,000, was destroyed. WRECK IS MICHIGAN. Express Train Jumps the Track and Turns Over in a Ditch. Detroit Mich., Dec. 7.-Four per? sons are reported dead and twenty five injured in a wreck of ?""-express train on the Michigan Central and Otter-Lake. The train left the tracks and overturned in a ditch. Commu? nication with Otter-Lake is inter? rupted and few details are obtainable. ROOSEVELT HONORED. Norwegian Parliament Confers the Noble Peace Prize Upon vnm Christiana, Norway, Dec. 10.-The Norwegian Parliament has conferred the noble Peace Prize on President Roosevelt. This action was due largely to the President's successful efforts in ending the Russian-Japa? nese war. Worth Thirty Thousand.. Washington, Dec. 10.-The Nobel Peace Prize, which was conferred on President Roosevelt, carries a $30, 000 gift Norwegian Minister Krugo today informed President Roosevelt officially of his selection. WOULD-BE SUICIDE. New York, Dec. 10.-Mrs. Lulu B. Glover, who attempted to commit sui? cide, after making a will beqeathing all her property and two cats to President Roosevelt, is recovering. She claims that President Roosevelt is her kinsman, but wron't say what led her to attempt suicide. A note which was found beside the woman asked that President Roosevelt be notified and saying that he would take care of the body. FISH FIGHTING TRUSTS. ! LATE PRESIDENT OF ILLINOIS j CENTRAL STARTLES WALL ' STREET. Stuyvesant Fish Delivers a Speech Denouncing Anarchistic Rich and Asserts That High Financial Circles . Are Permeated With Dishonest* and Disregard of Law and De ! cency. ! ? New York, Dec. 7.-Stuyvesant Fish, the recently deposed president of the Illinois Central Railroad, has thrown a bombshell into Wall street through a speech delivered last night attacking corporations and the "an? archistic rich." It is reported in financial dis? tricts that Fish proposes to assist President Roosevelt in his future in? vestigations of railroads and trusts. In his speech Mr. Fish declared dis? honesty is the issue and Roosevelt is the one to control it. "That there has been mal-adminis tration, not to say stealing, in many of' our corporations is a matter of common notoriety," he said. "Some men have ogne to great lengths in : ridding from the restraints of law, equity, ethics and even common de? cency, themselves and those with them in the higher circles of finance." GRAYER CLEVELAND ILL. Ile is Su?Tering From Acute Indiges? tion and H*e Condition Canses Alarm. Princeton; De- S.-Grover Cleve- ' land is ill w/H ao'it? indigestion. Be? cause of his advanced years his con- : dition is causing some alarm. Dr. Camochan, the attending physician, 3 said that Mr. Cleveland had been ; srek a week and has shown no im- ? provement, although carefully at- 1 tended. He is suffering much pain, although his condition is not neces- < sarily serious. 1 NEW BANKING BILL. J Provides for LemJjag Money on Real Estate as Security-Places Limit on Such Loans. Washington, Dec. 5.-The house today, waiting on the report of ap? propriation bills, began its legislative grind by passing ' three measures in? corporating the National German Al liance; authorizing th secretary of the treasury to duplicate gold certifi? cates in lieu of ones lost or destroyed, and the bill amending the national 3 banking laws, permitting national ( banking associations to make loans 1 on real estate as security and limiting the amount of such loans. The banking bill has been one of ] < the West's favorite measures and the leaders in the house from that sec? tion lined up generally in favor of ( the legislation, which it was asserted 1 would go far toward popularizing the national banks. The opponents of the bill, Democrats and Republicans, insisted that real estate was not a proper security for a loan, even though a limit was placed on the loan. The advocates of the measure were too strong, however, and the bill was passed two to one. EXCLUDE NEGROES. Bill in House Barring the Black? , From Army Service. Washington, Dec. 4.-Representa- j tive Slayden of Texas, today intro- < duced a bill which provides that "on j or before the 30th day of June, 1907, , ail enlisted men of the army who are ; negroes or of negro descent be dis- ? charged from the service of the Uni? ted States and thereafter no negro or , person of negro descent shall be en? listed or appointed in the army of ? the United States." In explaining his bill i'r. Slayden said: "The bill speaks for itself- It was not introduced for buncombe. My purpose is to give the congress of the United States an opportunity to purge the army of an admittedly dangerous .element. To say that the negroes are brave is not an argument against this measure. Many men have been brave, in fact most men are in the matter of fighting. The Comanche and Sioux Indians were as orave as men can be. But no one would se? riously suggest that we ultimately re? cruit regiments from them, put guns in their hands and station them near companies of white troops, toward whom they entertain inherent race hostility. The Twenty-fifth infanttry is manifestly imbued with the same race hostility and events have shown it to be quite as dangerous as the Sioux or Comanche would be." CHURCH m STATE. THE RELIGIOUS KOW IS OX, IN EARNEST IN FRANCE. Thc Government and the Catholics Are Expected to Clash O ver the En? forcement of Law Separating Church and State-Eviction of Priests Will Cause Trouble. Paris, Dec. ll.-The law for the separation of church and stat? be? came effective today. As the Pope has forbidden Catholics to conform to the law allowing religious societies to be formed to take over church property it means that ownership passes to the state. The churches throughout France stand on the verge of eviction. Serious times are anticipated if the government moves to evict the priests from churches, schools and monasteries and troops will probably be required to enforce the law. The cabinet today voted to pro? ceed immediately to liquidate the property in churches and rectories. This shows that the government is determined to uphold the law vigo? rously. The next few days it is' fear? ed will see a religious outbreak, with bloodshed, as the Catholics seem de? termined to resist the law. MARK TWAIN, LOBBYIST. Tlie Famous Humorist Appears in Washington in New Role. Washington, Dec. 8.-Mark Twain, who is lobbying for the new copyright law, has made a demand on Speaker Cannon for the privilege of going on the floor of the house to buttonhole members. In a characteristic letter he says he let congress alone seventy-one years ago and is entitled to its thanks. He said he had lots of arguments with aim, also a barrel with liquid in it. Speaker Cannon explained that he ;ould not grant the floor privilege, t>ut gave Twain his private room, vhere the humorist is lobbying mem? bers in support of his bill. . Twain has ilso called at the White House. NEW SEABOARD DEAL. Rumored That the , Southern Will Give Up Its Charleston Line to the Seaboard. Charleston, Dec. 9.-It is rumored n railway circles: here that the Southern railway and the Seaboard Air Line have come to an agreement oy which the former will turn over ts line to Charleston, formerly the >ld South Carolina railroad, enabling :he Seaboard Air Line to enter Charleston, which has been planned "or some time. The story seems im? probable in a way, but it is being per? sistently circulated and there may be 50me foundation for it The plans )f the Seaboard Air Line as generally mderstood, were to build a direct ine to Charleston from Lugoff, near Camden, but the acquisition of the Southern railway route would be pre? ferable, it is said, to the construction )f a new road. It is argued that the Southern railway has no direct inter? est in Charleston, its terminals being it other ports, which ls the cause of much of Charleston's complaints of ?iscrimnation, and it*is perhaps true, :hat with the settlement of the form? er antagonism which formerly pre? vailed between these two systems and the Atlantic Coast Line, and the ad? justment of conflicting interests, the Southern railway may now be willing to part with its branch line to Charleston. Some time ago on a vis? it of the late President Spencer of the Southern railway to Charleston he spoke very assuringly of a proper realization of the geograpical and natural advantages of the port of Charleston, and h6 might have had in mind the present project of the Seaboard Air Line taking over this branch line and making it a part of its system, and erecting new termi? nals at Charleston. None of the railroad people in au? thority would have anything to say for publication about the story and, as stated, it is not known how much truth .thre is in the rumor.-The State. HE IS SINFULLY RICH. The Stupendous Income That John D. Rockefeller Receives This Year. New York, Dec. ll.-John D. Rockefeller's income for this year will be sixty million dollars, according to the computations of Henry H. Rogers, and John D. Archibald, Rockefeller's closest friends. 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King Leopold denies the charges of general atrocities practic? ed on the blacks in the Congo State. There have been cases of misjudg? ment on the part of officials, but these have been punished. Every ef? fort is made to -protect the natives, not only from the whites, but each other. Leopold complained that he has been painted as a monster by per? sons who got their information sec? ond-handed. Individual cases of cru? elty have been magnified into gener alties. The king asked the correspondent if he carried a revolver to protect himself from such a monster, and how he dared to risk his life thus. Leopold denied that he has ever made a cent out of the Congo State. On the contrary, he has spent mil? lions in developing the region. The work will go on and his sole hope is to improve the country and better the conditions of the natives. A Boston Meddler. Washington, Dec. 10.-Dr. Herbert Johnson, representing the Congo Re? form association, Pastor of Warren Avenue Baptist church, Boston, is here trying: to get Secretary Root to intervene with King Leopold to bet? ter the conditions of the Congo na? tives. He says untold atrocities are permitted. He charges that the na? tives are allowed to kill and feed on the victims. The promised reforms will result in nothing. STIRRING UP TROUBLE. Washington, Dec. 10.-Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, has intro? duced a resolution in the senate call? ing for an international inquiry into the alleged atrocities in the Congo Free State. 1 KING LEOPOLD'S INTERVIEW. London, Dec. ll.-The action of King Leopold of Belgium in giving an interview on Congo affairs to the Publishers' Press, has aroused great interest throughout Europe. The German paper? take the stand that this is another indication of the "American peril." They say the monarch is discredited in Europe and is trying to rehabilitate himself in America. The United States newspa? pers are-becoming the supreme court of the world's opinion, and Europe wont tolerate this. Throughout Eng? land, Francqf and Italy there is the fullest discussion of the interview. Opinion is about evenly divided as to the gravity of Leopold's offense. INCENDIAMES ORGANIZED. Astounding Information Comes From Newberry-Three Suspects in Jail Now. Columbia, Dec. ll.-An astounding condition of affaira is revealed in a telephone message from Newberry. Three negroes, charged with having burned the barns and stables of Mr. P. N. Boozer near Kinard's last Fri? day night, indicate that there is an organization of negroes there who or? dered this work to be done. Louis Burton, colored, has confessed and it is upon his statement that the arrest of Ernest Burton and of Levi Ebaugh was made. There was a great deal of excitement at the time and the 'phone message stated that the sheriff, Mr. M. M. Buford, deserves great credit for his quick action, and that th e people of the vi? cinity deserve congratulations upon their forbearance, considering the fact that they were very much work? ed up. The fire destroyed 17 head of stock and 15 bal?s of cotton in addition to the building.. The moneta ty loss therefore is considerable, but the fea? ture of the case is the motive alleged by the negroes. Immediately after the burning Sheriff Buford received a phone mes? sage calling him to the scene of the trouble, 15 miles from Newberry. When he arrived, Sheriff Buford found Louis Burton in the custody of. a large body of men who were very much enraged. Some of these were strongly of the opinion that the ne? gro should be dealt with in a sum? mary nanner. However, the more prudent men prevailed upon the others to desist and the negro was delivered to the sheriff. Some of the cooler men were deputized by the sheriff to take charge of the prisoner while the offi? cer went in search of Ernest Burton and the negro was caught. Sheriff Buford got this prisoner in advance of a searching party. The two Bur? tons were then lodged in Jail by Sher? iff Buford. Levi Ebaugh, who was charged with complicity, was arrest- I ed yesterday and is now in jail. Louis Burton is said to have made a confession in which he :mplicated the two now in arrest and several others. It is alleged that Burton in his confession stated that he had no cause for malice against Mr. Boozer, but the crime was committed because he and several others had been ap? pointed to do this work. He alleges that the burning was planned at a meeting of the organization held last Wednesday night. He asserted that he had no grievance, but that it had faller, to his lot to destroy the prop? erty. Grace Glenn, a negro woman said to be 103 years old, died in a suburb of Columbia Saturday. THE NOBEL MEITZE, President Roosevelt Will Establish Permanent Industrial Peace Com> mission. Washington, Dec. 1,0.-Mr. Cl Hague, the minister from Norway? called at the White House, today, and N informed President ? Roosevelt that the Norwegian Parliament had con*, ferred upon him the Nobel peace^ prize at Christiana, Minister Peirce was directed by the president to read a message to the Storthing from him, extending his thanks for himself and on behalf ot the people of the United States. The president says: "After much thought, I have concluded that tha_ best and most fitting way to apply Ula? amount of the prize is by -using it as a.. foundation to establish at Washington*, a permanent industrial peace cora?, mission. The object will be to strive for better and more equitable reten? tions among my countrymen who? are engaged, whether as capitalista O? wage workers, in industrial or agr4> cultural pursuits." 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