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m .* VsS| * ' Jllll bVOL LIV WINNSBORO. 8, C., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1899. NO. 6 ^ ^ ^ THE WAGES OF SIN." A Young Man Ends His Life Rather than Face Charge. WAS ACCUSED OF STEALING. As an Officer Was About to Arrest Him He Placed a Pis to! to His Breast and Fired. > J. Horace Wood, aged seventeen, x shot and almost instantly killed himself Wednesday night at about 8 o'clock in the office of JR. G. Dun & Co., on the second floorj}f the j'Erchange bank building, Macon, Ga. The young man ? chos~ death rather than the disgrace of arrest on the charge of stealing about $20 worth of postage stamps. Wood was formerly employed in the office, but was discharged early in August, having worked for about fivp. months as clerk. Prior to his discharge the number of postage stamps used in the office had increased to such an extent as to cause first surprise and then suspicion ou the part of the local man. ager Mr. Logan Douglas. Suspicion pointed to young Wood but nothing fixed upon him until last night. After his discharge the stamps continued to disappear too rapidly to be accounted for on the score of letters mailed. The watchman of the bank, Warren Mosely, was notified and last night Mr. Douglas himself decided to a T * -t"L _ waccn ioruie tmei. He was seated at his desk in a corner of the office without a light and the outer door locked when someone came up the elevator and walked to the door, called to ask if anyone was in Mr. Doag_ las made no reply. The visitor then knocked and said that someone downstairs wanted to see the chief clerk. He I received no reply and immediately af terwards Mr. Douglas heard a key turned in the lock and Horace Wood entered, passing through the railing and approaching the stamp drawer he saw Mr. Douglas, who rose and said; "Well, Horace I have you now." "Yf>s Mr. Dnnffla*/' answered the I boy, "you have me now.': Mr. Douglas, troubled because of the discovery which he has more thaD half expected to make, asked Wood what he out to do with him. "I don't know," he replied. "I have no right to ask a favor of you but if you will overlook it and say nothing I will leave town tonight never to return. "Rnf Mr Termor! oa fnlrl him tTlflf', hp. must pay for the stamps he had abp stracted and asked him if his father would not pay for them, but to this proposition the boy would not listen. He said that he had rather die than - have his father know anything about it. At this time Mr. Clem Steed, the f lawyer who has offices nearby, appeared and ?Mr. Douglas told him the discovery and asked Mr. Steed to go to the window and call a policeman. Mosely, the watchman, who says he saw the young man go up the stairs was, iiowever, in waiting ana entered tne BP office. Mr. Douglas told him also, aad together they talk the matter over. Finally Mr. Doudas told Mosely to take Wood to the barracks and he would meanwhile see what could be done about it. As Mosely approached Wood drew a pistol from his pocket and said: "T'll ?d if vnn ever take me to the barracks," At the same time holdidg the weapon in front of his breast and pointing towards'Mosely. The watchman spoke gently to him, edging up close, and when within reach tried to knock the pistol down, but as he did so "Wood turned the weapon on himself and fired. The ball entered about the region of the heart. Mo?ely seized him and walked with him down the passage towards the elevator. After a few steps the unfortunate youth tottered and sank .in the officer's arms, exclaiming: "I am done for, tell all my folks good bye." In a few minutes afterward he died. The body was taken to Wood's under taking establishment. Young Wood was the son of Mr. J. W. Wood, a most respected man, who i3 well known by the business men as eminently trustworthy and highly respectable. He has been employed by the Central Railroad and now holds a - - - ? * tr r position ot trust witn tne jbiod Jianufacturing company. The young man has been ^.little wild and since his discharge by the Dunn ^^ompany he has been out of employgraHfnent. War and Tobacco. It sounds almost ludicrous in these enlightened days to hear of a church body whech denounces the use of tobacco as wicked and sinful and proposed to enforce an ancient church blue law against th*; weed. Yet there was considerable row in the Methodist conference at Newport, Ky., the other day because several of the ministers were reported to be users of tobacco. There - isn't any question about the chewing of B tobacco being a filthy habit, and the jjL smoking of cigars being a costly one. Killed bv a Spider. The Pacslet correspondent of The r State says: '"Mrs. John Kirby who last I Wednesday morning while putting on her shoes was bitten on the toe by a ? small brown spider. Her sufferings onrl oil M were uiuii rAuiuuouu^ uuu fi medical skill, she died Thursday morn[ ing. Her remains were laid to rest ia W the Baptist cemetcry Friday, her pastor, Rev. S. A. Nettles, conducting the funeral exercises.1' Will be Pardoned. * The Paris correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle claims to have good authority for the statement that Drey? fus will be pardoned although President Loubet will not exercise his prerogative until after the meeting of the council of revision. He adds that Capt. Beauvais and Maj. Breon were the only two members of the courtmartial who voted foi acquittal and it is was Capt. Parfall who insisted-upon the^proviso regarding extenuating circumstances. TROUBLE IN THE CAMP. The Leaders of the Grand Old Partj Can't Ae^ree. Senators Hoar, Wellington and Mason, all Republicans, are openly opposed to the Hanna-McKinley expansion business. And now comes Senator Foraker and announces against imperialism. He has written a letter to Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, of Connecti cut and the minister makes it a basis for a sermon. We are informed that this letter contains a confidential intimation that he will head the anti-imperialist wing of the senate ia the next congress and being intended for publication is a semi-official announcement of the senator's position on this main issue of the nest national campaign. With the opening of the session he will find the first gun. The letter closes with a hearty note of commendation for ^"L - ? ? ?1- ? ~i n 4- / ? lae wurik. wmju Litis uccu iu m\, cause of anti-imperiilism by the Economic Club, and declares in underscored type that the senator "is with the cause." 'A special point is made in Senator Foraker's letter of the appeal which Isabel Artacho, former partner of A Vioo f.rt thp AmPTl can Republic, Artacho, who is spoken of as a man of wealth and influence, has ju-t taken an oath of allegiance to the Uaited States government. He protests that he has always been a loyal citiz-n. He rails at what he characterizes as :the mean and spurious affectation' of the leaders of the present rebellion. He declares that tb( United States alone can restore peace and prosperity to the islands. ' 'Behold, what an honorable ally the president has taken to himself,' argues the senator. 'Isabel Artacho, the meanest man the islands have ever produced, as little as Arnold without Arnold's fire. Since the American occupation of the city he has - passed in and out as freely as before. Doubtless, he had his useful sides. Bat that he should be brought forward as a-clincher, that his simple statement should be thought sufficient to blacken the character of the man, who, whatever may be said of him, is still making a pretty stiff fight for his country?this is laughable. There were to be had at aay time during our own war for independence 50 Tories who would swear before the .British parliament that Washington was a mere self elected usurper, leading a handful of atrociously merciless banditti. Artacho's evidence lis worse than useless. This government welcoming a traitor was more than Foraker could stand. In old days, the senator was very fierce against southern "Rebils." He is now on the warpath against his own party. Members who are bringing reproach upon the constitution, the Union and the flag. A Brutal Parent. Beckville, Panola County, Texas, is excited over a triple tragedy. James Forsythe, a highly respected young man, and Ollie Simpson, a belle of the neighborhood, eloped and were married Saturday night. When Andrew Simpson, the girl's father, learned of the wedding last evening he started after the couple on horseback. As he rode up to Forthe's home he saw his son-inlaw fleeing through the orchard. He brought him down with seven buckshot ? i a j j in tne groin, leaving niui j.ur ueau. King EL Forsythe, father of James, came out of the house unarmed to see what the trouble was, and was instantly killed with a load of buckshot in abdomen. Simpson then dismounted and ran into the house with hi3 pistol, saying he would kill his daughter, but voucg Forsythe's mother seized-and held his pistol until the girl escapedSimpson then walk out and put the pis. ? * 1 1 t IT 1 l/> toi to 111s loreneaa, Killing mm sen instantly. Young Forsythe may recover. Business in Beckville is suspended on account of the tragedy. Great Demand for Yarns. A Boston dispatch to the Ntw York Commercial asserts that cotton yarn manufacturers are having in their way "the same kind of boom as the producers of pig iron." That is, they are getting mere orders thaa they can possibly fill, even by working overtime, ' 111 A* and in many instances aouoie time. 'They are overwhelmed with contracts,' the dispatch goes on, / 'and are quoting prices which equal those at which similar goods can be imported, and are refusing orders in many instances." One manager of many years' experience says he never saw the mills pushed as they are at present. Nevertheless the price of raw cotton remains very, very low, because spinners do not have to pay an advanced price to get what they want, being able to get it at their own price. Most Bloody Murder. Mrs. Jane Barber and her two sons, Wilfiv and Levi, were murdered bv un knotfn robbers in a cross roads station, six miles from Pieasanton, Texas. They were killed with a hatchet, their heads having been smashed to a pulp. A sack containing $100 in silver was secured by the robbers. Foot tracks in the sand indicated that there were three men implicated in the crime and that they left in the direction of San Antonio. Runners have been sent to all parts of the county and a close search has begun for the murderers. Texans Won't Visit Paris. Judging from the preliminary movement being made in different places in Texas, the State will boycott the Paris exposition as a result of the Dreyfus verdict. A movement has already been set on foot in Galveston and San Antonio to secure pledges from the people to stay away from the exposition and a similar movement has been started in Austin. Reports from north Texas are that ^similar movements are working there. The Leading Names. British census reports of family names give for England and Wales 253,GOG Smiths, 242,100 Joneses and Williams, Taylor, Davies and Brown following in order. For Scotland, Smith leads, followed by McDonald, Brown, Thompson, Robertson, Stewart and Campbell. Murphy is ahead in Ireland, there being 62,000 of them; then come Kelley, 55,900; Sullivan, 43,600: Walsh, 41.700: Smith, 37,000: O'Brien, 33,400; Byrne, 33,000; Ryan, 32.000; Connor, 31.200; O'Xeil, 29,100, and Reilly 29,000. " LIES, BASE LIES, That Is What a London Concern is Telling on the South. A SCURRILOUS DOCUMENT, The Howard Association Caps the Climax of a Series of Libels on the Southern States. The Howard association, of London, - ? . ^ n a concern engaged in circulating aeiamatcry literature about the southerc people, has recently issued a documenl whicn cap3 the climax in a series of wholesale noeis or me conim sia?.cs. The fall text appears below: The noble spirit of sympathy, with the victims of Spanish tyranny in Cuba and the Philippines, which has lately been manifested by the great nation of the U cited States, has successfully removed an incubus which had long weighed terribly on those splendid islands. May it now be hoped that a similarly humane feeling will as determinedly grapple with a stili more extensive form of oppression in the southern portions of the United States themselves? * i i t r j ? JUariDg tne past year tae nowaru association has on various occasions received from nhose southero states very grievous accounts of cruelties inflicted both upon prisoners and others of the colored race, and, in particular, in the convict camps and chaingangs, where a shocking condition of affairs exists. There are comparatively very few prison buildings in the south. Offenders are chiefly leased out for open-air work to contractors or bidders, who pay for their labor so much a head to the state or couaty, and then become absolute masters of such Drisoners, so that the taxpayer is entirely relieved from the burden of criminals, who actually become a source of large revenue to the state and to individuals. This may at first sight seem to be a great advance upon the general systems of the north and of Europe, which are so costly to the community. Bat in reality the lease system produces the most terrible sufferings and fatalities to many thousands annually. It is practically a revival of slavery, and on a very extensive scale. In Florida public sale of convicts (most of whom are Negroes) occasionally take place, when they are sold by auction to t-ho fnr various periods up to four years. Usually the sentences in the south (on colored perple), even for minor offenses, such as stealing eggs, are for very long periods. There are several classcs of leased convicts. Firstly, those under -the immediate supervision of the state, in camps, or farms, corresponding somewhat to British convict establishments. These, though open to grave objection, are comparatively free from the grossest evils, and have of late years undergone considerable improvement in several of the states. Secondly, there are the county camps, which are worse. And, lastly, and worst of all, theie are the numerous gangs farmed out to private sub contractors or bidders, who in many cases "sweat" their victims to death by excessive labor, wretched food, brutal violence and the grossest neglect of sanitary reqairements. And, of course, religious and moral obligations are utterly ignored in most instances. Tn f>ip nrisons of the northern states, as in New York state (at Elmira), Massachusetts (at Concord Junction and Sherbone), Illinois (at Joliet and Pontiac), Ohio (at Columbus), Minnesota (at Stillwater) and in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Rhode Island and other states, the reformation of the prisoner is, at least, earnestly attempted, and often successfully achieved. But in the southern camps and chaingangs it is the very reverse. The "captains" employed bythesubconcractors are often of the class depicted in "Legree," in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Their conduct to the female convicts is indescribable. A large number of illegitimate births take place in these camps. The wretched children born in them are, in some instances, permanently retained as slaves. And the breeding of such has become au avowed purpose, at least in one state. Woe to the women and girls who are sent to such camps! Their life is and must be an inferno. Men and women frequently run away and are then chased with bloodhounds and guns?those killed being sometimes registered as "escaped." The colored population furnishes about nine-tenths of the southern con" ' J "x *- ?? In! r-r rfn f O YICIS, aaa ID 15 r&HZlUiy DVftigu wuwv v? considerable portion of them are either quite innocent or are panished by long sentences for the most trifliag offenses, are frequently on merely trumped-up charges. It is to the interest of the local officials and contractors that the number of convicts should be as large as possible and their detention as prolonged as it can be made. A very sad feature in the chaingangs n i *n i_ . is the cumber ot young cnnaren beiu iu them. A leading philanthropist of Baltimore, Mr. G. S. Griffith, president of the Maryland Society for the Protection of Children, wa3 pained to find in the gangs so many children from nine yearsof age and upward! In one of the better class of chaingangs in North Carolina He found fifty-five prisoners, including three women and one boy of > eleven years of age. And he says: "These, men romen and boys all sleep under a tent 70x24 feet." This promiscious and most demoralizing association of the various ages and sexes, by day and night, is the usual feature of the private camps, and sometimes even ' of the state establishments. ! Judee Candler, of Georgia, says: '\My experience is that when a boy i: sent to the chaingang, lie is ruined.'1 Judge Berry, of Atlanta, says: "I have ; seen too many cases where boys have been ruined by being sent to the chaingangs." Then what must it be foi girls? Fearful brutalities are perpetrated bj , the ''captains'' in the lonely remote places where many of the gangs are located, as in forests and mines. Sometimes convicts have been flayed alive! On one prisoner's corpse forty injuries were found. He had been literally beaten to pieces. Another had been disgustingly dismembered by kicks, and there was a great hole gaping ir his side. A young white girl oi 17 years, after being repeatedly outraged by the officers of a camp, flee ? to the woods. She was overtaked bj * bloodhounds, her clothes stripped ofi and she was then flogged in the presence of jeering men. Another pooi I <rit-1 similstrlv treited. cave birth to a child, but both mother and offspring were speedily relieved by death. Women and girls are - habitually subjected to the grossest indecencies andcxposur5 es. In one camp was found a woman who had had seven children whilst there, and another had had six there. And such cases are legion! Christian America sends hundreds of missionaries to Asia and Africa. But is there not a vast mission field for effort and influence? The states of Mississippi, Arkansas t and the Carolinas all need great reforms ; in this matter; but especially Florida and ' Georgia. Their forest turpentine worss and their phosphate mines are often awful spots morally and physically. Loul isiana is making some special efforts at , improvement. Alabama and Texas are *\a*hor\n vva+fa-r f.vion "farm^rl tr vpf, o JJ\ZlJLLO>yO k/vWtVl wuu u v* wv* AJ . A v. W ! prison chaplain in Texas writes to tbe Howard association (189S): "Practically there has been no advance in the least system of our convicts. It can only be i an evil." The Howard association has also received, in connection with these sad aci counts of southern camps and chaingangs, much information showing that they form but ?ne portion of a still vaster system of oppression of the colored race generally in the southern states. The voice of Missions (Atlanta, December, 1898) contains a long and terrible ; indictment of the white race for the : treatment of the colored people since 1865. It says: "The Cuban war and its results and the Armenian massacres are nothing when compared with the thirty years of 'whitecapping,' chasing by bloodhounds, murdering, burning at the stake, lynching, flaying, swindling, robbing, defamation of character-injustice, false imprisonment and oppression which the colored people of Atlanta have passed through and are still undergoing. This year 300 have been lynched and murdered by our white Christian friends, and no voice but our own weak cry has been raised in protest." Many Negroes were shot by the white Democrats in North and South Carolina dur ing the November elections of 1898. Recently, aldo. many uaoffending colored people have been driven away from their homes and farms in the south by violent and covetous white neighbors. The same journal complains of the silence of the pulpit, both north and orvnf-Ti rocnf?of.incrt.Vipse fivils. and re marks that even the United States supreme court at Washington has always turned the scale against the colored race. Also that several of the southern states have disfranchised the JNegroes by wholesale, in violation of the federal constitution, whilst returning them all as voters for the purposes of their own proportionate represanlation in congress. It is known that some prominent politicians and legislators at Washington have made large fortunes as convict contractors. In The Richmond Planet (Jnly 23rd, 1S98,) a bishop is quoted as saying: "Enough colored men have been lynched to dsath to reach a mile high, if laid one upon another, and nearly as many more women and children to make a simizar pile." These lynchings are defended by many persons on the ground of their necessity for protecting white women from Negro assaults. No doubt occasional crimes of this kind have been committed by them, but they have been immensely outnumbered by similar outrages by whites upon the females of the | weaker race. The colored people have need to clear themselves from complicity with such crime and also to cultivate more honesty and truthfulness. Nor can they expect to be much respected until they manifest more seif-respect and become less characterized, as a people, by their everlasting grin and giggle. Lord Chesterfield said: "I never knew a 'Merry Andrew' a respected man." Bat the colored people are too often such fools, and until, as a race, they manage to make themselves both respected and feared, they are not likely to get the instlfp whifih is due to them. Buffoons will be despised. I /en the aggregate of the lynchings is very smajl in comparion with the enormous mortality of the convicts in the camps and chaingangs. Whereas in English prisons the death rate is under 7 per 1,000 per annum, it ranges in these camps from 75 to over 200 Tper 1,000 yearly. The Voice of Missions mournfully remarks: 'There are no advocates of human rights in the United States todav. Charles Summer is dead, Abraham Lincoln is gone, "Wendel Philips, Wm. - - ~ 1 J Loyd Harrison, i redenctc .uougias ana Harriet Beecher Stovre have all passed away: aodwith them went the last great advocates of humm rights." This complaint is, however, too pessimistic. Yet even the Society of Friends (Quakers) in America, once the foremost champieDs of the negro, through their J. G. Whittier, Thomas Garrett, 1 t " t ___ n?rc_ Isaac n. nepper, juevi v^uuiu, X lauwo T. King and other good men have of late years become strangely silent and apparently apathetic as to the oppressed race. However, a people of twelve millions . ought no longer to be mainly dependendent upon, or looking to others for their own protection. They must now chiefly > turn to schemes of self-help or remain ; oppressed. i An American correspondent of the Howard association writes (lS99):"The Negro trouble has become so great that I fear the difficulty can never be set' tied but with blood." 1 The problem is indeed a vast one and of pressing import to the United States, : both north and south. Is the ChrisJ tianity of that great nation to remain impotent for the solution? Are the * colored people to be driven to what now 1 appears to be their only means of re lief?by selfhelp, through imitating the methods of their adversaries in the formation of secret societies and powerful ' and compact organized unions for de: fence and offense? Is it only thus that they can-make themselves what they i -u fnoy._ muse De, someaow?respeutcu auu icm! ed as a race? But what else are they i to do unless the white race bestirs it' self for other efforts than continuing i oppression? There are nearly twelve million coli i ored people in the United Stal F They are increasing in numbers, in telligence and in wealth. It is sta ! that more than half of them can n r and that their property is worth eigl ^ million pounds, or four hundred mill dollars. The idea of emigrating snc ' multitude is utterly visionary. T1 i must be dealt with in America its< ; Nor is foreign interposition for a i ment to be thought of. Such a mu fiia nro r>11 lrn 1T7 fn nilf nn with t.h i>uu& aig uui> ixbl\*AJ vv jj/uw u p imvb WU oppression indefinitely. Nor on; i they to. Must it be left again to the comp sion of national disaster to solve t great problem and so to bring about ' suits which may far better and far m effectually be secured-by volunteer 1 manity and peaceful wisdom? SWEPT BY A CYCLONE. Mticli Damage Done to Private a Public Property. A cyclone swept over Bermuda land Wednesday night. Houses wi blown down and others were unroofi Ihe storm raecd the whole night, lives were los^ but heavy damage v done to public; and private proper fruit and cedax trees. The cause* was badly injured and the governing home was damaged. The storm v i-i i. 1 J? 4.1 t-U* me wursL jLuuyni tucic oiuuc iuu uui cane of 1880. In fact many of the habitants say it exceeded tne gaie 1880 in violence. Information fn the dock yard says the damage dc there is very seriou3. < The breakwa is badly damaged. Oa Ireland a Boaz islands everything is moie or 1< injured. The damage is roughly es mated at ?100,000. At Somerset the boats and small crafts were destr< ed, the trees demolished and houses x slated, or otherwise dtmaged. Prospect Camp the damage is estimal at ?3,000. More than half a mile the causeway connecting the mainla with St. George's is totally destroy* It will cost ?12,000 to ?15,000 to pair it. News from St. Georges rece ed by a whale boat says serious dams has been done there to trees, hous etc. All the boats have been destrc ed or are badly iojured. Reports fr outlying parishes are slowly coming: They all show there has been great? straction of trees and serious injury houses and other property. Bat, so i as can be learned here, there has be no loss of life. It is a curious coin dence that the great gale of 1839 occ red September 11 and 12 and this ? on September 12 and 13. No corn estimate of the amount of damage private property can at present be < tained, but it will be fully ?100,000. DON CAMERON'S ANGER. It Caused Him to Pay $850 for Wh r ping a Jewish Merchant. viia a^amatj n??r?or<s1 "Rollim YY ULUC .XJLCCIVA VftVsuw*** was in Bjaufort this '^eek he made argument in a case of unusual intere Some time ago Don Cameron sever* horse-whipped a Jewish merchs named David Schein, whom he char? with selling liquor to Negroes up his preserves near Beaufort. Sch< brought suit against his promin* chastiser for $10,000 damages. 1 jury after hearing the case in det rendered a verdict f:>r $850 in Schei favor. The jury was composed entir< of white men. Mr. Thomas Talbird a Attorney General Bellinger represent Schein and the latter drew a vn word picture of the introduction French methods a la Dreyfus in Sou Carolina. Messrs. Elliott & Elliott r< resented the distinguished defendai The story of the affair was to the i feet that Mr. Cameron while drivi along the shell road headed for the ( pot came across a crowd of Negrc who seemed to be drunk and they ye ed at him. He then came across a 2* gro who had rented some of his pre erty to Schein; he gave the Negro whipping and then drove up to Scheii place. He got Schein in a fence c< ner, driving his buggy and horse that a pen was made. Then he charg Schein with selling the Negroes liqu< and proceeded to whip him with ] ~ - /? - n_ j? buggy whip, scnein was nnauy iorc to tear away [some palings before could escape the lashes of his assa aot's whip. This is the story as heai Schein brougnt suit as stated abc ? J L Jowoiroa A f f-Vip fimp &I1U sPOc/u uv.?v the whipping it is said Mr. Camer told Schein to leave the neighborho and he did as ordered.?The State. (Jets an Old i Col. Jas. H. Tillma.- .f South C; olina, a nephew of 5 * '.tor Tillms was at the white house -v'ednesday a asked the president in- authorize t organization of an inde^c iient compa of Indian scouts for service in t Philippines. It is proposed to ma r"1- ? ~i?i + Mr. Tinman, wau was uuiuuci m . First South Carolina during the Spa ish war, captain of the company, a Joseph H. Woodburry, "Hole-in-tl day," the chief of the Chippewa India of Minnesota, first lieutenant, n.nd somember of tho regiment of "Rou Riders" second lieutenant. It is sz that many more than a company Chippewas are ready to enlist in a they are allowed to go to the Phil pines as an independent organizatic It is understood that the president forred his callers to the secretary war. A later disp-tch says that t President has promised Col. Tilltn . the position he seeks - Sentenced to Death. A dispatch from Manila says the cal papers assert that Corporal Da hoffer and Private Conine, of Co. Sixteenth infantry, have been sentei ed to death by courtmartial, and tl Private McBennethas been condemn to 20 years imprisonment tor tiavi criminally assaulted native women Manila a month ago. The crimes, is said, greatly aroused the nativ The papers assert also that Gen. 0 has recommended that President > Kinley approve the sentence and tl he desires a public execution of the m sentenced to death as a warning agai? a repetition of the crime. Built His Coffin. In Maryland there is a man who 1 built a coffin for himself, aad he 1 down in it for a short time each day a smokes. He says he is "getting use to the coffin. Maybe he smokes in because he expects to smoke hereaf also, and is getting used to that at I same time. fns: A BAD GANG. ted jad bty A Regular Band of Robbers'Near ion ta Charleston. ley jlf. no- COMPOSED OF CONVICTS. ItiAir A [Dozen Outrageous Cases Cited to Show the State of Affairs his re- Where the Robbers ore iu- Operate. A serious state of affairs is reported from St. Andrew's Parish. From all accounts lawlessness is running ram pint across the Ashley River and every day nd that the' maurauders enjoy enjoy immunity from the law the bolder grow - * ...j_ tiieir depreciations ana me more auuajs. cious become the actors in the play that ere is going on. A radius of two miles 3(j. from New Bridge seems to be regularly terrorized by a gang of outlaw Negroes, ^as who are doing the Jesse James act on ky the highways, robbing stores and malray treating all who are so rash as to oppose any objection for ,the sake of order or ?as self-defence. For several months this Tj_ disorder and lawlessness has been going An in ?> Tnn?t }iii>'h-'har-dr>d manner, and in- v" ** ?e 7 - , 0f unless the officials responsible for the 3m preservation of order do something ine themselves to stem the tide of crime or ter call on some one who will there is no Q(j telling where the matter will stop. It 3gs is now unsafe to travel the roadways at night and residence in that section may ajj soon become daDgerous if more strin3y_ gent methods are not adopted to relQ. store good order. As said before this lawlessness is ;e(j caused by a band of Negroes?the exact '0f number not being known?all of whom n(j are fugitives from justice. These Ne+>|a 1 Aorta r gIUC3 <3.1 C Vl^aUi^wU I?.uv*v/A VMV "Te[ ship of a ^egro Darned Henry, but who jv_ prefers to travel under the intimidattge ing cognomen of "Wild Bill." es "Wild William" and his gang are a sweet set of jail birds that would be om perfectly at home in the State Peniten[n tiary, and some of them have been senjel tencea there, but escaped before sentx. Ariftps Dassed on them could be execut ?ar ed. As a sample of the character of :en "Wile Bill" it is only necessary to ci_ state that he is wanted for criminal asQr_ sault on Edisto Island, and a bunch of ras constables from that place went to St. 3Cfc Andrew's after him last week, but after 't0 loafing around the woods for a few days returned without him Another man supposed to be connected with the gang is Henry Haynes. Haynes killed Constable Oliver at Ten Mile Hill, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the penitentiary. While conlP" ;i at. Jiueu ill tue tuuuij J6U uv, w caped. To show the hardihood of these Ne?er gro outlaws it is only necessary to rean cite a few of the crimes they have comsk mitted. It was impossible to secure the names, but the facts were given to inJ1 a reporter for The News and Courier !ec* by one of the most prominent lawyers '?n in Charleston, who has property in St. 5in Andrew's, and v/hu has studied the sit^ uation. Lewis's store, about a mile from New a,K Bridge, was robbed by the gang in broad ?js daylight. They just walked in and 5iy lipid nn thp nrnnrifttor. Mr. Lewis verv , -v.- ?- x JC - - ? - r naturally objected and sought to onpose them and in the scuffle that ensued had ric* his arm broken by the Negroes. After ?* helping themselves to all that they needed the gang left for the woods. 5P" A few nights after Mr. Dapont's store was entered and the clerk, who e*" sleeps upstairs hearing the noise started nS down to see what was the matter. A le" Negro with a gun made him come to a standstill, and the clerk was informed i~" that he had better not interfere. The ,e' clerk was powerless and the Negroes )P" after helping themselves made off. ,a The store of Mr. Wigger, in Marya s ville, was the next place of attack. The 3r" gang tore off a strip of weather boardrt 1 1 . _ T___x P J mg irom tnis piace, dud jquuo. mey e(* could not enter, so went around to another si le and endeavored to force a u| window. Mr. Wigger was waiting for them on the inside with a well loaded ?e shotgun, but unfortunately, in working about for position, made a noise which 'd* frightened the gang oft. ,v? The clerk in Gadsden's store wa - held ?* up one rainy afternoon bv a single ?? Negro, supposed to be Wild Bill. Foroc* tunately, while the clerk was looking down the barrel of the pistol, a party of ladies drove up to the store to take shelter frnm tlie rain. The Neero. not ar" knowing the invading party was of in' feminine gender, jumped out of the t" back door and took to the woods. e Another dastardly case of violence of which "Wild Bill and his gang are guilty k? is the serious whipping administered to the town marshal of Maryvilic, a .Negra e named Robertson. A few weeks ago ^ Robertson had occasion to arrest a reD lative of one of the gang, and at the ie~ time was threatened with violence. ns Robertson paid no attention to the threat, because he -always went well armed, but as is usually the case, he 111? finally threw aside precantioa. One 0 day he was driving along the shell road -se in a wagon and had left his pistol in the bottom of the wagon body, where it )n* was unhandy to get at. Before he knew what he was about a Negro rose r up out of the bushes on each side of the rjad and ordered him to throw up his | an hands. As the working ends of two pistols pointed right at him. there was nothing to do but obey orders. and up 10_ went his "^feeders." Robertson was m_ then jerked from the wagon seat by a g bunch og Negroes, some of whom camc acl out of the bushes after the hold-up. iat and was unmercifully beaten. The ec| cries of Rob?rtson reached the ears of Dg Mr. Ivracke and another white nun in who were driving along the road in a it buggy, returning to the city from Mr. es Kracke's farai. As the buggy aptjs proached the sjene of the difficulty I0. Kobertson was released and his asiat sailants made good their escape. ien Another case of highway robbery was inflicted on a collector from Charleston. The Reporter's informant did not re?. (Ynntln-nion's nlimn hilt CJlld Illi;111 SCI L11V* ^ the collector was held up on the public ias highway by three Xegiocs, supposed to ies be Wild Bill and two of his pals, and ,nd relieved of $25 in cash. id" Xear Daniel's Church an old Xegro t it man was held up and relieved of a new ter pair of shoes and a few cents in cash. ;Jie A colored man named Williams, weli known as a butcher in Maryviile, tells of a strange experience he had while I driving along the road. He said a Ne- * gro, armed with two pistols and a rifle, stopped him and began to talk about the robberies that had been re- A t TTfMI* Mil. cently perpetrated, vvmiamg saicune Negro asked him if the white folks were making any efforts to catch the robbers, etc. It is thought that the unknown Xegro was "Wild Bill himself, endeav- B oring to find out if the climate of St. Andrew's was getting too hot for him. Trial Justice Rivers is in charge of L this side of St Andrew's district, and on him and his constables it devolves to rid the settlement of tae marauders.The thing has been going on for some time now, and the people affected are beginning to wonder where the trouble will Ar>fl. Tfc is believed bv some white 5? men that if the gang is ever roun<?e 1 up ^ some of the many fugitive murderers of . Charleston will be found.?News and .1D Courier. I TEE SCATTERED NATION. J>< I b( W; The Jews Are Discriminated Asrainst in ro All Over the "World. w; w? The Dreyfus case has served to call attention to the status of the Jews in wthe various countries of the world. Anti-Semitic feeling in France is or stronger than it has been for many tr years past, but there are many other gt lands in which the Jews are subject to n. severe discriminations and rabid prejudices. In fact the United States and y England are about the only countries or in which the Jews may be said to enjoy pj an absolutely open field and fair chance. Both here and in England Jews have e(j filled many positions of high distinction te and prejudice against them exists in a w; far lighter degree than it does elsewhere. kj The Jew has shown a wonderfal abil- p( ity to take care of himself even under the most adverse conditions. His busi- _0 ness success is undonbtedly one of the main reasons of the discriminations m" against him and the attempts to beat ^ him down. ^ But he has prospered even under persecution and will continue to do so. f0 Tnere is no prospect that the Zionist jj movement, the plan of collecting all the ^ Jews in Palestine and the restoration m to them of distinct national power, will jn ever amount to much. V They are scattered over the face of ^ the earth, and scattered they will re- j1( main until the end of time. jj The Jews are so prominent in aSairs, especially in commerce, for which they W| have shown a genius unsurpassed by ^ any other people that ever existed, that most persons believe they are more numerous than they really are. js According to the best information f0 there are not more than 6,200,000 Jews j), in all the world?not a great many ^ more than the population of the state aE of New York. Of the total Jewish cr population 5; 000,000 are in Europe, or chiefly in Russia. There are 200,000 a, in Asia, 700,000 m Africa, 300,000 in ar America and 20,000 in Australia. In 0? European Russia there are 2,600,000. ^ The next greatest numbers are iD Austro-Hun^ary, the figures being put at ^ 1,400,000, leaving 1,000,000 to be divided among the other European countries. ' There are 130,000 Jews in the British islands and not more than 200,000 in France. In the whole of Palestine ^ there are about 40,000 and in Jerusalem at 20,000. The fact that there are only 300,000 Jews in America will surprise the average reader. These 300,000 Jews seem a? to be so many more than they are be- * cause they make themselves felt in fa' every community where they live, be- . a n> cause tney are active, eutcii'ixoiug >uu thoroughly live factors ia our complex J? civilizatson. Three hundred thousand such people easily become a power even among 75,000,000. Will Not Go. of se: Indignation over the outcomc of the vo Dreyfus trial has caused a party of over i 700 Chicagoans who were going to the fair in a body to abandon their trip. Louis Halle, who is the treasurer of the Qt party, and who, since the scheme was ^ * T-?. ?Q maugurateu, ~<x uao u^vu jceiving weekly remittances from those ,ia who proposed going, Tuesday issued p notices to the members to call at his office and get their money. Immediate- 1 ly after the verdict in the Dreyfus trial , Mr. ^lalle commenced receiving letters from members of the party saying that under no circumstances would they visit ^ France. So many of these letters were , i .1 Li re,1 received ttiat a meeting executive uum- ^ mittee was called and it was deemed advisable to call the entire trip offA Deadly Weapon. The Mauser pistol is a new arm that Tmc l'nek Vioon rmf. tn TVrartti al test for Tio JIA-JV UVV" f ? , the government. Human cadavers vji were used to test the effects of the bul- an lets upon human tissue.-.. The pistol e(j has an effectual range of 500 yards, and fr( is said to be the most deadly weapon of ^ its kind ever invented. At 500 yards jH, the bullets went entirely through the cadavers. It is probable that the arm will be adopted by the army. It is now W( in use in Germany. It is the costliest j0( pistol made for army use. the price each in large contracts lots being $32.84. The cartridges cost four cents. Smokeless powder is used. The calibre is 30. The bullets have a lead core and a nickel-plated copper jacket, the weight of each projectile being 85 grains. be Want the Convention- st: po Buffalo, Milwaukee, St. Louis and pr two or three other cities are each anxi- j10 ous to have the Democratic national 0E convention next year, and several of them are takiDg subscriptions of funds to be used in securing the convention. ^ 11 y-v 1 nn rrr\ r/imoinc QATATIP iJJLCdLl Y1UJUC ViHV/fl.fV luuiuiuu ? w, feeling sure that there isn't any other city than herself in which the Chicago platform could be readopted with so y xuch effect An Unusual Case. an The jury of condemnation appointed at the instates of the Seaboard Air Line for the purpose <>f fixing a valuation on some 4.") acres of the lands of 32 Mr. J. 15. Den:; some distance from the s\i city, has alinwxi him a total of $2,<573, di: which is said to be a higher price than SV Mr. Dent himself asked for the land. It is understood that the Seaboard will er appeal from the valuation of the jury. c*! The road takes a right of way through re the land 100 feet wide for a distance of *ei 5 miles.? The State. a? IIGHWAY ROBBML White Man of Augusta Held Up - " 'v* and Robbed. RICKS THROWN AT POLICE. " 23 ost HisTPocket Book and AH the Money He Had Together With His Vaiise. A bold highway'robbery was comitted on last Thursday near Augusta, a. The Chronicle of Friday says: Mr. W. H. Foster, a white maa liv:g at 1336 Ellis street, w&s held up id robbed on the Mghway Thursday ternoon by a negro. Mr. Foster had jen over in Carolina, about five miles iyond the line to visit his father and A * ? * ? TTa as returning to -a-ii^usta. j_ic a house near the South Carolina railad track to get a drink of waler and bile there asked what the time of day as When he started *out a negro man ho was there said he guessed it was cue for him to'be going, and started i ahead. A short distance down the ack from the house the negro had opped and waited until Foster caught ) with him, when he asked Foster if i had anything to drimk. Foster told m he had not, and the man said he ight to have. * He then pulled out a stol and, putting it right up to Fosr'fi fane?nlnse enoueh to touch?ask I him if lie had a pistol, to which Fosr replied in the negative. Foster is then made to open a valise which i had with him. The negro then told m to pass over his money, which Mr. jster did. After this the negro made m pull off his coat, saying he had a >od mind to take that, too, and pawn He shook it to see if there was any oney in it and then handed it back, it kept the pocket book, which conined $2.40 and the valise.. Mr. Foster then took a back course r three miles until he reached the orse creek road and came by that way Augusta, going he says five miles or ore out of his way to keep from passg the negro again. Mr. Foster was :ry much frightened when he reached e city, but went at once to police :adquarters and reported the matter, e described the man as being a large ack negro, 35 or 40 years old, and taring blue overalls. He said he ought the negro weigned about 140 or >0 pounds. Whether he was in this crowd or not not known, but just before the time r the relief to go out last night Officer imish went over to the city bridge to - -? nan all T"ierVlfr fVlprfl C 11 CVCIJ nutlg, n<H au - ;d found several negroes shooting aps. When they saw the officer they' >ened a broadside on him on him with shower of brickbats that came down ound him like the falling of hail The ficer brought his pistol into view and e negroes, after hearing the tone of i voice twice, scattered in the direc)n of Hamburg at a lively pace. Challenges Esterhazv, The following challenge to mortal mbatwag cabled Thursday morning Count Ferdinand Walsin-Ekterhazy, hi* address in London: "Sir:?Believing you to be answere for the misery and humiliation of iptain Dreyfus of the French army, d he, Captain Dreyfus, not being le to call on you personally for satisction, las an American, {freeborn, / ring liberty, do volunteer in my own ;ht to meet you on the field of honor behalf of Captain Dreyfus at' any' ne and place agreeable to yon. ; . J? (Signed^) "PAUL E. AYER, "Arderson, S. C." Ayer is a s on of the late General Ayer the Confederate army, and was a pwant of the First South Carolina lunteers in the Spanish war. Slain on the Highway. A special from Batesbnrg to The ate says: ' 'Larkin*McCarthy was killat Langley Saturday night by Wilim Goodwin. They were brother-inw, and some domestic trouble preeded the shooting. McCarthy's body is brought here and taken to his faths for burial. ' All parties live near re. in Saluda - county. Beports say >odwin borrowed a shotgun, loaded ifc th large shot and awaited his victim the roadside and emptied both barIs, riddling the body and killing Mcirthy instantly. Goodwin was capred and is now in the Aiken county il." ; % Killed Father and Mother. A double murder occurred late Wed sday night near trie manuiacranng Hage of Fiskdale, Mass. John King d his wife, an *ged coupla, were killby their son Peter, who was crazed jm-the excessive use of liquor. The ulls,of both were crushed by a heavy strument. The murderer also atmpted to kill his brother Thomas, t only succeeded in inflicting severe rands. Peter is now confined in the jkup. He is in an unconscious contion and may die. The Porto Bican Sufferers, v The governor has received a letter )m the secretary of war stating that ere were yet thousands of persons to fed and clothed in porto Rico. He ited that a committee had been apinted to see that all contributions are operly distributed and expressed the ipe that tbere wo aid be no relaxation the part of citizens to aid taem. Death of a Vanderbilt. Cornelius Vanderbilt, eldest son of e late William E. Vanderbilt and andson of the old commodore, founder the family, died suddenly in New >rk Wednesday morning in his magnient residence at Fifty-seventh street d Fifth avenue. Gen. Wheeler Disgusted. Special from Manila, via Hong Kong' ys: Gen. Wheeler only obtained asjnment to active duty aftei' a serious spute with Gen. Otis, who wanted to ietrack the veteran fighter by sending m to some obscure post in the southn islands. Gen. Wheeler now deares he will apply for permission to turn to the United States soon, un55 there is some change in the manemont of affairs in tk? Philippines.