Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Bawton's expedition, consisting of 1,500 men, left 8an Pedro Macati, on the Pasig river, on Saturday night with the purpose of crossing Laguun de Bay and capturing the town of Santa Cruz, on the eastern shore of tho lake. Tho plans of the American commanders worked perfectly with tho exception that the progress of tho expedition was delayed by tho difficult navigation of the l'asig river. In navigating the shallow stream, perhaps through the cunning of native pilots, who were not anxious to see the Americans succeed, the boats grounded and it was nearly dawn when the troops reached the lake. The expedition then steamed can; tiously forward, tho Napidnu and the Oeste a mile uliead, tho Luguua de Bay guarding the rear. ltebel signal tires, however, were lighted on the mountain tops, giving alarm of the approach of the troops. It was noon before the white church towers of the city nppenre>l in the shadow of the grand volcanic mounTmvVly -'surrounded the city, while the gunboats Ijngum de Bay, Nnpidau and Oeste, uimUj ^ command of Captain <*'*'%,,! ollt. Utah battery, shelled the eit lying trenches. s stnpncconi (teneral Lawton R,.%ctimcs leading pauicd tho troopsftn fighting tactics, the charges in.^ resulted in the coinwhich eveij*j|u, rebels, with the smallpleto l'QUt of damage to the city and est efct to the Americans. ELEVEN MUX AHHAI(JXEl). Allcgt'il I.jriH'lu-r* of Nruru Post On Trial al Cliurlt-olon. Kleven alleged Lake City, S. ('., lynchers were placed on trial in the United States circuit court at Charleston Monday. Tho case against J. 1'. Newlmm and Vurly 1'. Loo, the men who turned state's evidence, was dropped by the request of the district attorney, and this accounts for the fact that eleven instead of thirteen men are now on trial. At the very outset counsel for the prisoners sought to enter a demurrer to tho indictment, it was claimed there was a mumpuciiy 01 ithuct charged in the counts ami that the circuit court had no jurisdiction under the statute. Assistant District Attorney Cochran and General Barber replied for the defense, and the court overruled the demurrer ami the jury was selected and sworn. The defense exercised its right to challenge six times, four of the men excluded being negroes. The jury as it stands is composed of white men of means and standing in the several counties from which they come. EX-SKN'ATOIt TA110II OIKS. lie Was at One II (lie I{lelient Man In All Colorado. Hon. H. A. W. Tahor,postmaster ol /i..I ??,l ?v-T',.l(?,1 J 'fll \ t*l , \'W|., Itllll V.? V ' -V, senator, died Monday of appendicitis, after three days' illness. JJoraco A. \V. Tabor was horn in Orleaus county, Yt., November 20th, 18:10. He removed to Kansas in 185J and served a term in the legislature. Jn 1800 he engaged in place** mining in California Gulf, (now Leadville). Ill partnership with August ltoche and George T, Hook he opened the famotu Ijittle Pittsburg inine, later selling hi) interest for $1,000,000. Other miuei at Iieadville yielded enorinous profit i and quickly made him the richest mar |u Colorado. * . When Senator Teller entered Presi P'1^ dent Arthur's cabinet, Mr. Tabor wai U' nppointod as United States senator t( cell fill the unexpired term of thirty days He was a candidate fot the long tern us senator, hut was defeated by on< vote. In 1808 Mr. Tabor was appointee postmaster at Denver by Presiden McKiuley. He had lost his wealtl through unfortunate investments. DEAD IIEIIOES UUHIED. n?illA? of 330 Amrrii'Miit Who Krll In Cuba Hwlnbrrrd ?t Washington. I With full military honors, in the presence of President McKinley and liis cabinet and a multitude of people, the bodies of 330 dead heroeB who pave their lives for their country in Cuba or Porto Rico during the Spanish-American war, were consigned to , their last renting place in Arliugton j cemetery iu Washington, Thursday | ufteruoou. I The bodies of tiro Spanish war dead were brought to New York last week by tho steamer Crook in order that they might rest forever in the soil of inni iiiiu vu iiiiiu. | In accordance with the directions of ' the president, every honor, military and civil, was sliown to tho nation's , heroes. Tho government departments and the federal courts were all closed at noon, and tho llags over the government buildings, the barracks, navy yards and tho forts along tho Potomac wero half-masted. The military escort comprised all the artillery troops at the Washington barracks, a troop of cavalry from Fort Myer, a battalion of marines from tho navy yard and the entire national guard of the District of Columbia. Colonel Francis P. Guenther, of the Fourth artillery, had command of tho troops and charge of the military ceremonies. The day was perfect. Tne sun hla/.ed from a cloudless sky and the scone in tho historic cemetery overlooking the Potomac river and the white walls of tho nation's capitol was profoundly impressive. The site selected for the interment is one of the most beautiful in the oempteiy. It is in a direct line about one-half mile south of the old Lee mansion on the top of the slope toward the river. Here in parallel lines were the newly made graves with the ilagdrupod caskets containing tho bodies of the dead soldiers at their sides. Ahont the graves were formed the military in imposing array, while in the group stood the president, the members of his cabinet, and other distinguished functionaries of the governi . . . ... ? mom. i>hck Him around tnese was tno vast concourse of people. The customary volleys were fired, tups were sounded and military dirges were played by the band- uiv-^.cn. u-rn-ri-^ciifni of the bodies began | at tho conclusion of the ceremonies and tho departure of the militia. DEARLY HLAZE IN NEW YORK. six Mi fit Arc I.out In the Andrews Hf?Idcm-i mid Mmiy MUkIiik. Six lives are known to havo been i lost in a fire at an early hour in New j York city Thursday, destroying the ' live-story dwelling at No. 2 Enst Sixtyi ninth street, the homo of Wallace Anj drews, president of tho New York ' Steam Heating Company, and the ; five-story brown stone house of Alfred ' Adams, No. !1 East Sixty-ninth street. Several persons are still missing and ; several firemen were injured while battling with the flames. The dead are: Mrs. St. John, Wal! lace St. John, her son, seven years old; four unidentified bodies, found ! on tho third floor of the Andrews J house. The missing arc: Mr. and Mrs. Wal' lance Andrews, J. St. John and his two young sons; Mary Holder, Mary /Flanagan, Ann Murra, Eve Payson and Kate ltoth, servants. The Andrews house is in the heart of the district occupied by the homes j of New York's richest millionaires. The house on the corner is occupied by H. (>. Armour. The house at No. I is occupied by M-. Rothschild. The firemen found it impossible to save the Andrews house and devoted most of their energies to saving the Armour and Rothschild properties. NEW LINCOLN MONUMENT Coiil<'iii|>lat<-<l l!v IIIIiioIm I.CKlsluture To Cost ? IIoiiikI At III ton. A dispatch from Springfield, III., says: I he house committee on appropriations has prepared a l>i 11 providing for the erection of a new I.iueoln inonnment in Springlield to costSl,I 000,000. Of this amount $100,000 is to l>e appropriated at once for tho commencei ment of tho work; congress is to be requested to appropriate $f>00,000 and $100,000 is to be raised by a popular i subscription, The bill was reported to the houso ? Wednesday night and advanced to second rending. t i DEFECT IN CONVICT LAW. ? (iroriciii l.eulhliit >o-?! Ovorlnokril An Important 1'rovlnioii. J It now seems certain that in spito of 1 the care given the formation of (leor1 gia's new convict law by the last legislature, a serious oversight, that may " produce much inconvenience,has been s detected in it. The evident mistake y in the system has been pointed out by Comptroller (leneral Wright, who has 1 submitted the facts to the attorney e ............i t.... i.:? m-iK .ui .y. uin "Ciuimi. Tliero is apparently in the new lease ^ law no provision for the payment of t hoards of inspection and chaplains for J the various penitentiary camps, which have always been required by law. n WARSHIP 10 NICARAGUA,, ' AMERICANS AT RLUEFIELDS ASK 1 FOR PROTECTION. J - i AN INSURRECTIONARY MOVEMENT. ' _____ i.i I Arbitrary Action* of General Torres In . LovjIiir Double Dulles Causes f Vigorous l'rotost, t J A letter to The New Orleans Pica- 1 < y u tie from Pluefields, Nicaragua, ( dated March 21st, says that Gen- t eral Torres, tho special agent of ? President Zelaya, has again iioti- c lied the merchauts they would have ^ but twenty-four hours to pay the duties again, which had been already t paid to the treasurer of.Nicaragua, e who served after the revolution began. J Torres also undertook to prohibit j tho American consular agent from cabliug to Washington or the prcei- v dent of Nicaragua at Managua. 1 He is in charge of telegraph wires ^ which lead to both the capital and to V San Juan del Sur, the cable station. { 'llie Araericau consul, after diBCov- i cring that it would be imi)Ossible to J secure satisfactory information from f Torres, withdrew with the American ^ merchants, who accompanied him to j the palace. \ At this meeting Torres also declined j to state what steps will bo taken to d force the American merchants to sub- j mil to double charges. A vessel was chartered promptly, j ami ufter considerable difficulty a G clearance was secured from Torres and this vessel sailed for Port Limou, Costa ltica, with dispatches for tho n government. ti The consul, in these dispatches, J asks that at least two warships be sent u to Rluefields at once. I t The next iuovo Torres made was to i issue a decree doubling the duties, J ? notwithstanding the fan* ???-* *"" C - uy congress. This law lias (] never been amended or repealed. li XV in>hi|> Oiili K'il to NicnrHiiiiH. Y A Washington special toys: The r cruiser Detroit, which is now lying off ^ IT LaOuayra, Venezuela, has been order- w ed posthaste to Rluefields, Nicaragua, ] for tho protection of American inter- a ests in that quarter. v On the way she will touch at Port Limon, Costa Rica, where lier commander will put himself in communi- ^ cation with the United States consul at that point and where he also may receive further instructions. Sho is a also likely to make a brief stop at J! Clreytown. Her dispatch under hurry orders is )' at the urgent request of the state department, to which American residents 1 both in Minefields and in Costn Rica N have appealed for protection of American interests. The arbitrary and extortionnte policy adopted by General : J Torres at Rluetields, who on more i ^ than one occasion has made himself j ' persona non grata to this gov- ! 1 eminent and whose restoration to \ . lias been followed by tho acts , which power at this timo Aiucr- I . ican residents resent and protest 1 J. against, is the main cause of the vessel's dispatch. n The state department at the same : n time has cabled instructions to the ' ^ United States diplomatic represents- ' tive at Bluefields to lodge an energetic ' j protest with the Xicnrnguan govern- j incut against the action of General . j Torres and a disregard of this protest will be followed up by a more positive step on the part of this government. In Costa Rica the American business interests and residents are in trouble j as a resutt of au insurrectionary move- j ment. It is understood that the in- 8 surgents are le\ying forced loans on , 1 them, besides collecting exorbitant ' and double duties on its ports. KKBKLLiOX WAS Sfjl KLCIIKI). ^ <t? I.Un.1 ..r Ill 1..I I. i t - " "? ? li'"" n*niiii?i.ru u? j llicltr t%II t'|>i ining I According to n Minilu disputeh Col. ! J Smith, the governor of the island of * Negros, reports that n number of ban* j 5 dits, headed by a man named Pnpais- 1 . sio, uttempted a rebellion on March ; 1 27th, and killed seveial officials of j .1 umamayalan. He also captured other officials and | issued a proclamation calling upon the ' , natives to rise ami exterminate the Americans and Spaniards. Major Himo ' and two companies of the California 1 regiment were dispatched by water to v the scene of the disturance, and Col. ! ' Duboce and two other companies of I troops were sent overland. | |: On April 2d this force marched * twelve miles nud ca, tared Lab/,id, tho { head<|uarters of the bandits, and de- 1 c stroyed the town. The troops also " captured thirty-five prisoners and ' scattered Papaissio's forces, thus ef- J n fectually quelling the rebellion at tho . e outset | p o DEWEY KNOWS NO PARTY. M^ilrsl Bayt H? Won't D? m Candidate For tllO Frrilfionry. .Admiral Dewey has given to the Matil* correspondent of Leslie's Weekly in interview regarding the suggestion hat the admiral be made a candidate or the presidency next veer. The idmiral said, as to hispolitios: "I am a sailor. A sailor has no polities. The administration is his party, in# republican or democrat, it makes iq difference. Then, agaiu, I come X*m Vermont, and ypu |J*Ua? lytt me?n?----?iH)iirlBv(Bing but a *e,i/ilicau in Vermont*w to bo a man rwtout a party. My flag lieutenant *>Bjes from Georgia. He tells tne that One anything but a democrat in the loptb is to be a nobody. If I lived lotjilh I would probably be a demo>yat." "Have you ever voted?" the eorreslondent asked. "Yes, years ago, but my vote was , isually influenced by personal prefer- | !uce or local conditions. T am not a xditieiau, lmvo never held political iffice, and am totally iguorantof party ntricacies and affiliations." Admiral Dewey said that neither l?y oration, disposition, education or raining was he cnpacitated to fill the residency. He said that he was too rell along in life to consider such a ossibility. His health would not adMt it. All his life's work was in difIrent lines of effort, and that, while e kindness and enthusiasm of his [ends were grateful to him, and the I morons tributes of the Amerjcan peoe were dear to him, he could not and lit 1<1 not be a candidate for the prety jeuey of the Uni*"'1 Ui-' * Auditions. THE L. A X. WINS. T ?orK>a ltatlroad l-vnn1 I.ltlgntlon Sottle?l Ity .IikIro I'artlee. An Atlanta dispatch says: There is J o longer any question about the fu- j are control of tho Georgia railroad. udgeDon A. Pardee settled that Satrday by a decree which vested all itle to the lease of the Georgia road n the Louisville and Nashville railoid. . . ? ? r*?f"lVerenfter asserting any claim to lie lease, thus disposing of a long tigation. Twenty somo odd years ago, when William Wadley leased tho Georgia ailrond, he did not dream that the iouisville and Nash-.ille would ever et complete control of the road. He us then president of the Central . .....i ??"? vjwitijiuu ? , mill fter leasing the Georgia ns an imliidual, ho ma<le another lease to the 'eutral ami the Louisville ami Xashille as joint lessees. Each company rae to have eipiul voice in selecting lie officers of the Georgia road. For years the Georgia was operated s a neutral Hue. When the Central ail road went into a receivership it ailed more than once to put up its iroportion of the deficit in the rental, die Louisville and Nashvillo made the ental good to the stockholders to preent the lease being annulled. When the Central's properties and issets were put up for snle, the old ompany's half interest in the lease of he Georgia road was bought in by ilessrs. Thomas and Ryan, who were ondncting the reorganization. About two years ago the Central tailwny Company made a claim upon he Louisville anil Nashville for a half nterest in the lease of the Georgia. ?he claim was denied by the Louisville nd Nashville. Then Messrs. Thomas ml Ryan asserted their claim, delating that they had bought the old 'entral's half interest, in the lease, die matter was carried to the courts or adjudication. rEXNKSSEK JI I)(JEM SKIP OUT. 'licy 'W111 Tt-Ht Action of Aaftctitbly In OiatiiiK Thrill. Sonic strnngo developments seem to >e following the action of the Tetinesiee general assembly on the judicial edistricting bill. Judge T. A. R. Nelson, of the Ivnox ounty criminal court, and District Vttorney Fred Mynatt linve, it is dated, left the state in order to avoid ervice of notice that their oilices are 0 he vacated. It is said that a number of other udges affected by the bill have taken he same course, and aro whero the lergeant-at-nruis cannot reach them. tVhere this will leave the legislature s problematical. CHAPLAINS' ASSOCIATION VIII llol?l Important Medina at Cliarlojloii C'onft'dcrato Itriiulon. The Chaplains' Association, com>osed of ex-Confederate chaplains, rhich was organized in Atlanta, (la., astJuly, during'.he veterans' reunion, troposes to hold several important aeetiugR at Charleston, 8. C., during he coming rounion there. .J. William Jouos, chairman of the :ommitteo on arrnngcmntR, has issued 1 request for all old Confederate chapains, chaplains of Confederate camps md ministero of the gospel generally, (specially tliooe who wero Confederate oldiers, to meet with tho association md assist iu the work. ? ? ; -' : ' j! Wm. A. Nicholson & Son, Bankers 11 ' | ; RESPECTFULLY SOLICIT TOOK BANKING BU8INE88 ft YOUR FIRE INSURANCE, And promise you the best protection -V.^, V *. T H Prudential Insurance Company ?^OF AMERICA.^? Home Office, JOHN P. DRYDEN, , Newark, N. J. H President. Assets, July i, 1898, ----- $26,039,137.04. Surplus, July 1, 1898, ----- 5,627,584.34. STRONG AS THE STRONGEST. i Insurance written in iSp?, ------- $ 143$00,000. Insurance in force 1S97, 1 Income for 1897. 131580364. I The Prudential has forged its way a head uatil it now stands in ths front rank of the great life insurance companies of the world. Ift offers all that is good in life insurance and uuder the hest conditions. JAMES O. WYNN, Manager Southern Dept., Atlanta, Qa. C. T. RAWLS, General Agent, Asheville, N. C. M. A. nOORE, Jr., Resident Agent, Union, S. C. | MODERN PLANT! AMPLE RESOURCES! I LUMBER!! LUMBER!! Our capacity in our line is unequaled in the State. Our lumber is sold in nearly every town of any size in the State. If your dealers do not keep Alderman's lumber, insist that they get it at once, or write to us direct; don't be deceived into buying a substitute, under the worn out excuse "just as I good." Our ceiling will make your room bright and cheerful, and | your grand-children may every day stand on the R&me spot, I where grand-father stood, if you will only use our flooring. rv,?. ? :ii .?1? e i. i.i j?1_ ?-1 v/ui nullifies Will lllUIVV J'UU iUlgUL lUUVC "UHTK una dreary" days. Why throw away good money by going to Florida thi| winter; just weather board your house with our siding ai. / enjoy the tropics in your own home. No shrinking, no hand dressing to make the joints fit. We manufacture a superb line in yellow pine lumber and shingles. Our mouldings cannot be surpassed. Buy your lumber from us, and put your money where the future generation can admire your wisdom. Full stock kept on hand always by | RODGERS BRICK WORKS. . Yours truly, D. W. ALDERMAN & SON CO. Aloolu, S. C. j CAT APHORESIS. ELECTRICS: DR. H. K. SMITH, ???? L?^n E N TIS T.^>, "TSfiSw-k. WSt Union, S.C.