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PQ THOU MBERTY GREAT. IK SPIRE OUR S?UI?/?KD^AJ^^b?l^ LIVES IN THY POSSESSIOK HAPPY; OR ?UR^BATHS 'GLORIOUS IK THY O?.U6E :----_-?--_!_._._i O *.....: . V-' ''.' ...' BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., Mft)AY, NOVEMBER 13, 1903. buy at ld be : Amerir itiznn. ember number of Frank pular Montbly appears an ltled "The National Lobby gton" and written by the rbis article should be read American citizen. Although any it may seem that the authors billa ariticle have made startling re velations, with all the seriousness of the situation as they have described it, the half bas not been told. In the beginning, the authors of "The National- Lobby at Washing ton," explains that there exists a profound Impression lhat someting is wrong with the basic principles of our governmenfras it has been adminis tered for a decade." This impression, the authors attribute to "the robhery of the treasury through bribery, blackmail and petty larceny in the postotllce department; the illegal ab sorption of public lands with the sus pected connivance of officials now re moved and of members of congress still in office; the defalcation of the department of justice and in the o ill ce of the commissioners of the District of Columbia; the interest of congressmen and senators in glove and tombstone contracts." It is pointed out that as a matter of fact, the congress of the United States is its own lobby; that in nine cases out of ten the lobbyist sits in the senate with hiB state behind bim or in the house of reprerentatives with bis dis trict and his senator behind him; that In nine cases out of ten the senatorial or representative lobbyist acts and speaks for some great corporation which is socking some vast special privilege which is antagonistic to pub lic interests and to which it has po moral right. In the opinion of these authors the great curse of national legislation is the campaign contribu tion. Upon the campaign contribu tion is placed tbe responsibility for tBe growth of new system whereby congress Vi its own lobby. It is point ed out that in presidential or con gressional elections the great corpora tions pick the candidates and the party to whom they feel they can look for ?favors; then they contribute enormous sums to carry the election. "Frequently," say the authors, "a definite bargain is made with the national committee that something shall be done or another one not done. It ls a cold matter of business. Com prntn.\ _. ..._:icb "has built up vast fortunes in a generation or two like those of the Standard Oil crowd or of Carnegie's toterle of young men, can usually pick a winner or make a winner in a national campaign. It did so in 1888, when it turned its back on Cleveland and contributed to the Harrison fund for M. S. Quay to spend. Again it did so in 1892, when it. switched from Harrison back to Cleveland and gave the millions to William C. Whitney and Don M. Dickinson with which they swept the country. It could not choose in 189G and in 1900 because William J. Bryan was running for president on a plat form which made the corporations quake, so Commercial Acumen emp tied a Bum equal to a king's ransom at1 the feet of Marcus A. Hanna at the I behest of such men as Cornelius N. j Bliss; Senator Aldrich, Senator Alli son, and Senator Quay." And io Is ex plained by the authors that "the great interests which contributed iu these four campaigns got what they paid for." An Interesting feature of ''The National Lobby at Washington" relates to the part played by a number of conspicuous senators. Senator Nelson W Aldrich of Ithode island is credited with being the most important man in the senate. It is said that Sena tor Aldrich represents more great in terests than any other man in con gress, being the representar,!ve of the J?ockenfellers, the Morgans, the James J. Hills, the E. H. Harri mans, the W. K. Vanderbilts, the Schwabs, thc Carnegie, the Armours, the Swift;., and the Cramps. It is admitted that the list of interests that Senator Ald rich serves with his voice and his ip Jluence is two long to priot io ah arti .cle of limited scope, lt is, however, pointed out that Senator Aldrich represents the Standard Oil Company. It is explained that thc term "Stand ard Oil company" as here osed de scribes all the enterprises in which John D. Rockefeller has united the greatest aggregation of capital in the world. It ls shown that in the pro posed currency legislation Senator .Aldrich represents the Standard Oil igroup and the J. Pierpont Morgan group, and that as the servant of these interests when congress meets, he wilt .be found pressing to permit the tem porary in?ki?on of the currency so it may meet the demand which may ho made upon it every time the specula tors in Wall street expand prices. Mr. Aldrich is further referred toas the servant of the sugar trust, of the steel trust, of the beef trust and of the anthracite coal trust. Next to Senator Aldrich iu point of influ ence as the friend of great combina tions of capital is Senator lianna, ac cording to the authors of "The Na tional Lobby at Washington." lt is ?aid that in the capacity of chairman of the republican natloual committee Mr. Hanna "collected in 1890 for the .election of McKinley the largest cam paign fund ever spent In the United . States. Again in 1900, he collected an enormous sum. This money came mostly from the trusts, the great ri xiancial institutions and protected manufacturers. With blicke contri butions came responsibilities for Sen ator Hanna. Not onu of the moo who gave their money gave it solely to en sure their property against the laws which they feared if Bryan 'were elected. They all demanded some thing more. First of all, they wanted a high pro tective tariff and tills they got in thc Dingly bill. Rockefeller, Morgan, Hill, Hardman, all wanted to bc let aloue &Dd permitted to go on with their ;^v^; H~ OrlscOm wanted a ship. 'dea which capital de y Epa ali things was that which i SBTthe broadening of tho Sher flSSHTtl-trust law. , Senator Hanna Hpk cmphatio ground that there Bjnould be no more anti-trust legisla tion. In this position ho had the hearty support of the old gaurd In the senate, consisting of Aldrich, Spooner of Wisconsin, Quay of Pennsylvania, Allison of Io wo, Elklna of West Vir ginia, Foraker of Ohio, and Fairbanks of Indiana. All of these men can be classed as defenders of trusts and when they unite, they can dominate the senate." Accompanying this Interesting artlole are several pictures of senators and above each picture ls a brief and Interesting description of the man.' For instance,, over Senator Aldrich's picture that gentleman ls described as "the most potent influence in the senate and die prime mover tn legisla tion favorable to corporations." Senator Quay ts described as "leader in the flgbt against restricted im migration on behalf of the foreign steamship lines." Senator Elkins IB introduced as the gentleman "who promoted the agree ment between the sugar trust and Senator Gorman who later became leader of the beet sugar lobby." Senator Millard is referred to as "the strong friend of tho beet sugar trust and also a mainstay of the Union Pacilic railroad." Senator Dietrich is called "one of the foremost upholders of beet sugar and protector of the usurpation of public lands." Congressman Babcock ls referred to as "the spokesman for the brewing in terests." Of Congressman Wadsworth; it is said: "Sent to congress from agri cultural district, but the chief repre sentative of the -oleomargarine indus try. " Senator Burrowa 1B referred to as "one of the leaders of the beet sugar lobby and violently opposed to re ciprocity with Cuba." It ls explained that "most of the senators who are engaged in shielding the trust and corporations that have so long dominated congress were above the suspicion that they do it fur pay; tbat most of them are millionaires in their own right; that while they are actually the servants of the trusts, they are parts of the trusts." There are many people to whom the statements of the authors of "The National Lobby at Washington," are not revelations and yet lt may not bc doubled that there are thousands of others, particularly among the rank and file of the republican party, who really imagine that the Aid riches, the Mannas and the Burrows are states men who are greatly concerned for the public welfare. To those who have been really ignorant on this subject") the article in Leslie's Monthly will provide food for serious thought. ~ Can the American people expect' honest representation at the lands of their publio ollluials when the trust are permitted to choose those officials? ls it not humiliating to the Ameri can citizen when he is told that the men who are presumed to represent public interests are, in fact, the repre sentatives of special Interests? The Commoner. One SOT Kills Another. A dispatch from Swansea, Lexing ton County, to the State says on Sun day evening, Nov. 1, two negro boys got Into a difficulty near the Red Sandy Bun, Lexington county. Campbell Speaks Bhot. and killed Perry Issac. Speaks left for parts unknown. He is about 17 or 18 years old, black, about 5 feet high,of heavy build, full eyes; lisps when he talks. It appears that there was no occasion for thc killing. The boy Speaks bought a pistol Saturday before the killing and said he was ? going to get a man with it, which he ? proceeded to do. Thc affair occurred . In an Isolated section, some ll) or 12 i miles from a trial justice. Efforts wi ii ? be made to capture him. When last i seen Speaks was going inwards Co - . lumbla. He had been working -v. tim summer at Stewart's rock (?oany or . thc quarry at Ca y ces, aeross Lin* river. ! The father of the rictiro was lhere ' Wednesday to we!, a coul? uno a magistrate to hold c'.'fi !ivp:csj. Molt l.ivrf. j Berry Joh h VJ* i a ne^ro, was iskf-ji j 'rora jail al Lake VWaKP. f-'ia., as .yA,n Tjesday by a n:o ? a.v.l ;i%.'.-.;-ei in Luc* I i centre o* tne lowti. T?:?aoi 'o'?wvvr/', l ? fight bvtwoci. thc whites ah?' '..iaci:s ' j eariy in the day in W.O?C J ran?,". ,Vu-j i deroon wa*? jcir-rd and ':. vr;?I '.<.>.. ?, i\ \ lawyer ?rcin Lit-lie ?loiri , ?u.d v-z?ra- ; ?others weK* w.-.o.-dc". Oo^irj}.; L':?? j row, '.t :.s claimed. Ki. Coiena?j, ai j negro, began s!>?>.n >./, whi?j? .lega;"? ii j I fusilado. Y? ..?<;?< c was ovvr I i;e Oci '? , 'and wu?in.ed wevi' ?* . . ii; j. OuV-nai? : i ?od with a posse lr, fi? '-. ..?.;, Joh/'/ ., 1 ? was lock< (' hp. \;;e;i)r -? rah '''..'i 1 and a niass .??M?e ?.ir y" ._.* ci''??ns rta4.] i heid. at which o--serva..'.tn* ...* aw' was I u*g(jd hy a'a-'j'c o.m.:. -. Ti-- future cioii'ih'e r.w!?cd to fie .-.'?h i??terr<i:? ! down b;.<c oo.;os, securer" J t>?,sor; aar; ! and har.ge<: birt?. ? New MOM?.il?\?f ftftlf iM.O'iice. j A s pee-a decalco **Q\\i A/'dersoi; I lo The Slate says ii?? 'f>gr.,?>s ia; . a oct s??;po.* yVc'h;<*dr?y sdgoi m . Si ?ncwa? ?Vatrico s place, '"iir .?>"?/. ;aboye Vir ?ji?jv ap?? o' coo?'sc a SK'5 /? ?r.g s?.Taj.c I:a)ti piricc. O.ie ? .?"...i?, whose oa ne co..:? hot !'0 :eavi'<v'i. was ' prothoiii.'g tho f??t?vi.?cs with a j p)sto!, Mc '>i:l' 1 WO S*'dl.S \V*.ic ? \\(UIV v>'.id. I;?:i ii.o i-':'ir?.i '?.?"ci; plowsr? ;is ?way ihri?Ugh J?m litchis'c?.???.*. a.?if? 1 r.hu.i wer t JJ.; ;?iid r.Uoo.: Hi .V.?O lin thc nvjui.'.'. ? .*'<.... eaog-ii. tho i bullet bc tween M ns teeto sipf.vspaj. ?i ! out or? the ^T'-'und. Ise?tiiO'* o< Liv; 1 negree:? is badly Saft?. ..<?; i;hp ri?jU?? : was bal Le red i'i?o?' .a 'l semblance ?! : its orgina' shape. I ~ A (HUI ?iU\t). . Tiic Columbia S? ale saj.s a M'?mir. ? aino shipped hi? huv?gy <'ve>- Lee Mis souri, Kar.si.s and Texas r.vlway t?-a i point six tiiUes distant nod L?soo ??o ?and his wife decided lo 'ido in the 'buggy. The freight ira-.? was V,: j boura making the trip, tho doors \virt. I locKfcd, v.heie was no heat., the weuthe:' i was cold and the two .shippers almc.ii; ? froze to dear h. Tiley aro ?mw suing i thc railroad company for $'1.000 da.n lages. They will get thc money-If j Missouri juries arc in tho business of holding np railroads. j TAMMANY WINS, - I Greater New York. Goes Democratic by'Large Majority. A GREAT DEMONSTRATION. McClellan In Klee toil Mayor by Seventy Thousand Majority and the Result, is Con sidered Hignlfloant. After a remarkable campaign in which there was " uulted against him nearly all of the newspapers and practically every minister of religion in the city, George B. McClellan, son of the Civil war general, was Tuesday, 3rd instant, elected tblrd mayor of Greater New York over Seth Low, Fusionist, the present mayor, by the large plurality of 70,000. Edward M. Grout was elected comp troller and Charles V. Fornes presi dent of the board nf aldermen. These two men were originally on the Fusion ticket and were endorsed by Tam many, whereupon the Fusionists took their names from the Low ballots and nominated other candidates. It was the nomination of Grout and Fornes by Tammany that caused Hugh Mc Laughlin, the veteran leader of the Kings county Democracy, to bolt and declare that he would not support men who were not Democrats. In spite of this defection, however, Mc Clellan, Grout and Fornes carried Kings county. The management of their campaign there was taken over by State Senator Patrick H.McCarren, when McLaughlin refused his aid. NOT IN IT. A surprise was the small vote for Wm. S. Devery, former chief of police, who ran on an independent ticket, which was given practically no sup port. This result shows a tremend ous change in public sentiment since Mayor Low's election two years ago, when he won by 31,032. At that time he carried all the boroughs but Queens, his plurality in Manhattan and the Bronx being 5,003 in Brooklyn 25,707, and in Richmond 703. In Queens, Shepard, Democrat, had a plurality of 561. Wednesday McClellan carried Man hattan and the Bronx by about 58, 000, a gain" of 04,000; Brooklyn by about 0,000, a gain of 31,000, and Queens by about 5,000 a gain of more than 4,"000. This noakes a total net gain for McClellan of about 103,000, as compared with Shepard's vote of two years ago. Low carried only one borough Richmond -by about 200 votes. The result was known early and at 8.15 Mayor Low sent a telegram of congratulation to Col. McClellan. LOW'S CONGRATULATIONS. It was as follows: "I congratulate you on your elec tion. If I can be'of service Co you pray command me. Seth Low." The mayor then said: "I think that the telegram sums up all that I have to say tonight." Col. McClellan, who is at present a member of congress, made the follow ing statement: *'I am deeply grateful to my fellow citizens for their conlidence in me. I renew the promises which I made be fore the election. "I have no bitterness of feeling fur any une. "I shall go at once to Washington to prepare fur the extraordinary ses sion and as soon as the question of Cuban reciprocity is disposed of I shall turn my attention to the affairs of the city. "I invite the cooperation of every citizen, whether be supported me or not and regardless of Ills political views in the advancement of the city's good. ' This victory shot) tri encourage and uuii.e all Democrats for tue picsi'len liai contest io liPj-J." TUE TAMJI??IY I.E.*.par charlos. F. Murphy, the :eadcr of Tammany tia!:, 3t?hi: ..Tye '"gores! tpvarf tor tho infiel yes aol t-?e oe?'pie j .ir.ve Kpokep* Of coarse we ure pitas- ! cc ar L.'o result, i-- r."_:irs r.iit ?he j scares WA gave. If vhf: e:cci,;n? had j ?>:oh a w'.ok ''urvWor '.Tiii ol ..".ncc-j I .'. i; thar. D.vu'y wohl.1 lave polUi?] a I h>-.:*,- vote than Low." IM ?en ?'O'IOP Cuttin?f, at lue Ci t1 /.i?sja ihi?iKi :.iea0>iua?Ler-M gave ont ?\ .;ca?cmrt?ii) hi wi fco oe oxpross-v1 , ast..>i)>s!*.oc?yi? ?iver .v?o a*..:>.;?.. a?.?..! iii-. \ ' c'le' ii'??f. Sic5ifi p?ft?sari ;t.?tr:niiscra i.i'j.. w ).'..:) Mr. Vj:;(.;. ?'lari proposes ca?) bot >..);?. in jain ?he 'ivan lari sec oy -I.-. Low.'1 iieii>iw"iM?, -i:', says, the Ci-lions if??Vnj w'.'f - txSny ?o.v?r io preparo;;.; R..-' I.'?C r?: i, o'o.o.'o i. I'.; ;-? p ir.s Ji.c1 e'1 v ?iii. so'vlco. wit' : o rc | o', red a?, tittil cit.: :. .*.:?...' 4 P?j.'-',CSA',> .i'?-TB. VV.'w? '' >o. rr si...-v i. 'c; io at police Stnacj.j.iariiC'S wav:.: *-g the .'et.iros | AMS l.?is'wicw -A t c.i'ney vier'.me. Wi,co j j:?e e eci.i- <> oT McC .-. :ai: ?vas assured j .'ir. .loroTO was a ..; ; : M. re inn! any-1 u?'ihg iv.? r>ay. "?Sii* a ?uW?rt? doue.1' rhriMOC1. y Mix i ?owe ve?, a s'cacemcot \vi 'e1' .?ci. >'2'?A'? ' afire L-iw was ii?i .'rtn*??wCi? in win*: .' :-e f-.aif.? t.oat one oayi- :f aojo wt'iaird, woeJ'J ??o iv.:ii.ei? hy a ma/w oy o* fro/r 25:?ou i ? doti wa*: s i? wi' io .tim. ;i'j'tfai. wa'; ar.y cai.r ..;:d.<.ni.'nii o" ?oe c??,"''lii.iii".,?;.;' ?ie sa-d, "out w'ie:? ? ? 'o. ? L IO '%\i'? ry :;iN?:it:ct? rc jod:.; ro-it v. as .fiZ?. io siii?p?y resolved ?i>.rii* h'io a .p-e.s-.iioi ur Wiiotucr yo?' ii .'.ii o'-i.'-i.a ma?\*'iri prirc-pit '?.J he r; ,\r--'t>l iv an .Mili?v?i.iie .r:io. ; A III...ul. 1-?PHi'j \ 'I I? AM. .> .r??? roi!-; i.p bo thc A-.i t? b'..i-?es ??.MC r.'.-i.? s>> J' o* ; i.-., Okla.; \Vo."Voe:.?ay . ?;-.-"o- ami.?.,? I ac?) k?.??i Ms. A .'.if'?. .i:o iv?: m. in; iih'e? l?a.,', ard wo;;,.?'.cd Miw. Attics, Jil yea;?G'd. a diirijs 'tfci' i?y'sin?11.1 hw io bi**2 si'O?: dor. Tile ii;-sa:,.u'L .':r?.t forced .'..)"".:* A'ocsao? .l.Mi-k.?'vi' into tho r.e' y,i*i al ti'.c }iui ii i of a pisco?. T>ty .can1 a Slioi anil rao lo the head o' thc. Mini?nid found thai. Mrs. Ao>es i'sifl 'iv.cn k i'd ed. Jack-on was next \?i'C?\ Tilt yoifug woman fell with a bullet, io he- sliouider. bul. when uer assailant went lo Jie ce.'iar and shot Jacksoo again.she regained t?onscious ness and can to the neighbors. Sile .says thc stranger wa? a young man. There is no known motive. Several otneers aro in pursuit of him. "j xaJLK A BCKN? l^^A PJtAYi*^'^!" A Man Killed In a Saloon Whl?o lin ItatinfC te Xragedjr, In illustrating a play frora--Wbich; he had just returned William ^ra?.?i' Btabhed and fatally wounded 'Thom?s: Barrett In H. J. MoMullen's saloon^ 150 Franklin street, Brooklyn; "last week. He then walked to the nearest ; police station and surrendered himself^ saying: "I have killed my .best friend." -f Fraser ls 40 years old and Barrett was 22. The two men attended the theater; ? together and after the performance! - went to McMullen's saloon, where they were well known. About 18'med. were in the saloon at tho time, and; j Fraser and Barrett began illustrating the most exciting features of the per-:1 formance which they had seen. "The villian walked up to a' man,", said Barrett, approaching Fraser. "Then he raised his hand like this. He had a long dagger and he brought} I it down and stabbed the fellow ' through the heart." "That's what bo did all right," said Fraser, "but you didn't show the' exact way 'twas done. Now here," he continued ai the men in the saloon, gathered around the pair. "Suppos? lng you are the man that was killed 1 and I am the villain. First I pick up ' this here butcher knife from the free' lunch counter. That's to make lt seem more real. Now, then, you are in my power. 1 have you where we are alone. Die!" As he said this Fraser brought the knife down toward Barrett's left side and at the same moment the young man, at make the illustration more dramatic, sprang forward as if to re-: slst the attack. In doing so he lunged against the knife and it penetrated h?s left side just below the heart. With a scream of agony he fell to the door. Those in the saloon fled to the street, panlcstricken. Frasir followed them and disappeared. While the police arrived Barrett was uncon scious. He was taken to the Eastern. District hospital, where he died. Au U?ly Affair. A fatal elcctlou row occurred in an election booth at Fair veiw, in Scott county, Virginia, Tuesday. Two men were killed, one other fatally injured, and one seriously. The dead: John Osborne, Ezekiel NickelB. Wounded: J. H. Catron shot through the neck: will die. Alexander Keys, shot in the . right hip. The trouble arose over ob: jections being made to O. P. Roller; serving as a Republican judge. Roller, it is claimed, had been selected by Democratic election commisioners for services. Osborne and Nickels, the. two dead men, were Democratic judges and were brought into the quarrel on account of their official cor? nection with the election. It is h. lleved that Cat?n fir?d the sh?t th?, killed Osborne and Nicicelp. The two1 men who were killed ; shot Catron ' and Keys. (iuUl Brick AliHBiiifT. If any one .should find a gold brick, of the value of $23,000 lying around1 loose, a reward of 35,000 will be paid for its return to the manager of the Union passenger depot, Detroit Mich igao. On March 18th a gold brick valued at $23.000, which was being shipped by the Pacific Express Com pany, was stolen from the union depot in Detroit, Miciiigan. Thc bar -was carefully guarded and its disappear ance was a deep mystery. . Pinkerton detectives ?sore engaged and oilicers all over tue world were pul on the lookout fo?" the oas*. A reward 6f $5, OOo '.vas offered, yet the h ri ole of ^okl is rni.i>ii??. 'ide Pinkerton force is now making redoubled oiforts to ?nd the oa.' A H\>ol!nri Mui'ier** Crinia. '"Lookout. I'iJ shoot baby,'" cried j ..Tri,. Tuornas /int, o? Valdusta, Ca., ta ?. froi.e will? uer year-old child on Path'rtfayi itt tue same tim? pulnc-ing at the w.:iy an oi.l parlor riri?, that had ::een laid aro?u-.i She house sinc2 Cbcistrras. ?Pho ciiild 'aug:?erl in t'ecj: :j;it ir 3n ?osttatib there twas au explo sor a*ni a scieani o? paio from bile na'oy and ahothur ';crc;uo of horror from Lin .L'ot.js.". The Guild lingered ..? 9-?>n.jf nittil Thursday hibi'tiiiig. WOP 1? died. M-.1-.. Ham. ls ?raul?c -.vii>^ ?rief alic' dviHiiuices hui'iv??f as a Li'tr'.lci'M^:;, uh?.iiK'u ii is conceded tuat J.i'O 3:?0 'th'.\ wa. LtccidoiibaL r>'M.H)Cl*A(/C iflltlK^ Killed. in a pii>c?.'l dj'oi iv' Hid ivt'ii.s place '.T the ::ui..> oiccinui or the i?hoV<?i?fcb ?. L Ti 13 ."i'-.uii V:* J and Giee'i iua'ooiW, Cou.kviii .. !%;/.. T"iu Jvi'ny, tuc Dcmo fclr.fci?: iii'.'', wa-. Tuesday ?hot ,.'-<x.,\u-< nit'-: i.'ea'l i'.oil p?o?iahly filially v?iMii'lcd ?y J.' 'O'i Ki'ij?'iv, t:-ut iie oii'ilii'.v.K ..i- Wai. ."Mt.??'ii-., u.io ?Vip.?:?iica?' Jut':-'-'; was cro??i'C the s..r-::v th.0i)t'?: oho ii'j'ls wiai JCiloy op n?f'i I?rc -ji. iii-ii. .laco'i .Kriiicr, MI.: it 'i>u:.li'M' sharif? wini wa? ioskiii uv votiffc t;l - 'i says he ?.oiioved ?liii? *"ifiveii0' ('i-.', w.is a'>>ut i-?" oe fc?J'oi) ?'..id a )y:~.nit} ?rs na ??iley. ?Crij?er was su'-is?iiueutiy i'oicaso.'l on $;">0u fiai'. _ A ?''Mi C'VKIIO l??-,.i>;<:d. Sap A?.ans, a, you? 13 negro. ?rirr.?haUy .visawitod^ Mrs. .Peter ?' ucla . me ac I'.t*;s Cirisoian. Miss., "'. ..rsday. 'ti mo 'O'.sc the horses * .'d.'V: >>r.r CR/'iau'O iV"iiO ?'l\? WaSStrOil a'v wi?i? .liirs'j and cnild and ? f<:<, \r !co:s\ ?io-: companions under p-ctc: so o' >x'cu?'>iig tue an ni mais. f ?'e e.tC'ip.?.d, -,oi wai capuired and a .ii-.-t J.'J-IJC Kim fr.,;n the jail, which i>i?;M?i?vr:1ed 'jy armed men as a rr'.ce.: sn\ . and uangeu iiiixi Lo a uiec. j ".".i". iA'u&rs iotenderl taking ulm co' Miss&s'jvp' (J?t<y 'or :?ife Keeping, but; L'J? a venders v/ori. too numerous and n?VixmiU??. A Si>.d f JOSS? Abandoned by '.-or liUshand ten days a/o and appareot/y crazed by anxiety, Mrs. Susie. Abrains, of New York, has Jumper) ?rom a window of her rooms! in an J'iast Fourth street teucment. Sile died instantly, lier ten-year-old daughter was with lier when she threw open Mic window. When the child realized what her mother was ah?uc Lo do she grasped her skirts and exerted her utmost strength, but tho frantic woman beat her off and leaped out. Neighbors found tho child on the sidewalk, crying over the dead body. I IN AN OPEN BOAT % Boy Drifted Over Five Hundred .;. ' Milea on the Ocean, B?T WA8 RESCUED AT LA8T.J Ho Was Neax ly Starved to Death 5 When Picked Up Off tho 6 ' - Coast of Georgia by a ? fi Stoauier. H Off the coast of Georgia the etea hier El Dorado, hound from Galves ton to Now York, last/week picked up by accident an open Cuban fishing boaCa dying boy and a story of Monte Cristo improbability. The story, as told by the New York World, is bourne: out by indisputable evidence, the boy is now In a hospital tn New York and the boat is on board tbe El Dorado. Here is the story as told by tbe World: i The sole occupant of the boat, Jose .Vega, a twelve-year-old waif of Havana, had drifted in the "canoa," as the Cubans term this type of ves sel, from Cuba to the waters ol' the United States. The distance of the drift had been 520 miles, the time six days--for the Gulf stream sweeps things along at the rate of eighty miles a day-and the boy during this interval had been without food or drink, Capt. C. D. Prescott, El Do rado, calls it the most remarkable drift within his knowledge. GARMENTS DIS ONLY FOOD. ; When the boy started involuntarily from Havana op bis trip through the Florida Straits he wore a pair of trousers and a red shirt. Capt. Pres cott found him "with only a ranged remnant of the trousers. In his per ishing hunger the castaway had eaten his garments. He had also tried to quench an agonizing thirst with salt water, which had made him delirious, abd caused his lips to swell and crack and his eyes and skin to become in flamed. The brown skin of the Cuban boy peeled oil in patches, his black hair had been bleached a yellow brown aud his budy had wasted to a skele ton. After the rescue the blt of human flotsam revived, under the skilful treatment of Capt. Prescott, with -wonderful rapidity. He was picked up on August 10. After he was taken to St. Vincent's hospital, Jose, who speaks only Spanish, was able to tell his story, which he interrupted with constant appeals for food. The doc tora would allow only a little beef juice, broth and ice-cream. When his nurse gave him the ice-cream his dark eyes lighted up, bis face broke into smiles . and he said: - "Mantecado *?rlel". (cold ice-cream.) Thereafter ftep.t, calling; in.Spanish ipr '.'More 1 ice-cream." CASTAWAY TELLS HIS STORY. Jose is a bright boy-a Cu??u of tb? Havana streets. This ls his story as he told it, while lying on his cot in the hospital, to a World reporter: "My name is Jose Vega. My father I do not remember. His name was Andres Vega, ne was a fisherman and the canoa' belonged to bim. My father sold the boat to a Chinaman and went to the war. "My father was a Spanish volun teer. He was killed in a tight with the Cubans at Rincon, near Havana. My mother, Luizsa Fernandez, lived until after the end of the war. I went to school for three months be fore my mother died, but since her daath 1 have not had to go to school. "I have a married sister, about twenty years old, but she lives in Mexico. I have no home. I don't have to work. 1 sleep out of doors, sometimes in a boat, sometimes in a box and sometimes under a shack. '"Friends give me a bowl of soup, or some rice.and chicken or a piece of bread, sometimes, and again I go hungry. There is always plenty of fruit and 1 can always lind bananas, if nothing else. "Sebastian is another boy with whom I play in the streets and about che water. Sebastian is a good swim mer and I can swim a little. ' 'OUT AND OUT FltOil THE LAND." j "I and Sebastian borrowed my fath er's boao from the Chinaman. The Gui naman let us take it on the day th?ii I kept going out and out from ul ie land. "We leak the 'canoa' and went swimming off the Heina Battery of Havana. A breeze came up hard and ..ii med the boat over. Sebastian sv7?tu) ashore, leaving me by the boat. ! tried to manage the boat, but could bo??. After a while I turned it right sida oxer and got In. "The boat kept going more out, more out. and 1 could do nothing. Once 1 jumped out and started to swim toward thc shore, but it was too .far away. Then I swam back to the "canoa.' "I had lost thc oar. Thc other fellow had left me and 1 could not manage lt alone. "1 went to sleep that night and I wasu't hungry at first. Next day the sun was burning. 1 got hungry, but there was nothing to eat, and I was thjr.sty, but there was nothing to drinK. "1 kept getting worse and worse, and by and by I didn't remember much. 1 don't remember what day I went swimming off the Reina Battery, but lt was as much as six days ago. '"When I got so thirsty that I couldn't wait any longer I drank salt watnr, When t he Rim humed me so bad I would drop over the 'canoa' and hang down in the water on the shady side of the boat as much as I could. SAVED HY FI HST SniP HE BAW. "I got KO hungry that first I ate my shirt and then 1 ate a part of my trousers. I never saw any land after that first night, and the ship that save me was the first I saw." After drifting through the Straits of Florda, by the Florida Keys and by the Great Bahamas, swept north ward by the friendly Gulf Stream, El Dorado steamed in the lad's way. This part of tho story was told by Captain Preston, of the Morgan liner. "Itwa8 about 4 p. m., on August 10, and we were in latitude 30.51 and longitude 79.32," he said. "It was aa hot a day as evei I remember, the s ia lay in a dead calm and the sun scorch ! ed the dook with such force that we had to keep under.the awnings. I heard the lookout call out, Small boat off tho s ta rb oat bow!' About a - mile off there lay a little open dug-out, apparently empty'. . , .;?->: "We'll run up close to her and see what she has aboard," I said. The , quarter mater laughed, remarking that lt would bea waste of time. I or dered the course changed, and he put , the wheel over. Within half a milo of the dug-out I saw raised above the i gunwale a head and knew that some body was aboard. "As the steamer rounded to and \ ran past the boy raised himself and ( weakly waved his hands. I ordered Second Officer Van Beek, with two | Bailors, away In a boat. When they , reached the dug-out the boy bad dis- , appeared. They found him up to his , neck in the saltwater. He was cling- . lng to the gunwale and screaming ? I with main pain as the salt ate Intu ? j his blistered skin and swollen flesh. RESCUE OF THE BOY. "Sticking up In the boat was a small crotched stick with some tieh Hoes,- without books, wound around it. . That was all the boy had for a signal of distress. The boy was com pletely naked with the exception of a torn piece of a pair of pantaloons. His body was so blistered Mi at I should' have thought he would have drowned himself on account of the pain. "When Mr. Van Beek brought the boy aboard be fell to the deck in a faint. 1 took him to my own room and gave him some water and, after a while, as much food as 1 thought he ought to have. If you could have" seen him eat you would not have thought there was anything the mat ter with him, but he has been more or less delirious ever since he came on board." The boat, wh?'h Captain Prescott will keep asa souvenir, ls very old. It is 14 feet lung, 3 feet 4 inches wide at the broadest part and is scooped out of a an Immense Cuban tree. On each side of the stern Is the name "Relamnco (skylight.) On the bow is the registry number in the Havana office of fisheries records, "F. 2,340." t'!?!" refers to the folio of the records. "How do you like New York?" lit tle Jose was asked. "1 like lt very, yery much," he re plied. "I should like to stay he$e and go to school, and when I grow up I should like to be a sailor." The sister in charge of the ward wound up a large music box. Jose forgot the pain in his legs. He laughed, shut his eyes and, maybe, dreamed that he was in heaven.-New York World. Nc?rocB at the ?imcnuiun. ' One night last week President and , Mrs. Roosevelt entertained at the < White House^the enlisted men of the 1 dispatch boats Mayflower and Sylph, ) which had been employed during the I summer as private yachts for the J President and his family. Among k tljp. party were several colored men, 1 who are members of the crews, and c their presence has excited considerable 4 remark, in view of the criticism which ; attached to the President's entertain- ' lng Booker Washington in the early J days of his administration. The 1 sailors were presented to the Presi dent and Mrs. Roosevelt in the east room, each one being introduced to the chief executive and his wife. ( Tho Earth Trembles. . A dispatch from Memphis, Tenn., \ says two distinct earthquake shocks < were felt there Friday. There was I no damage In Memphis or vicinity, 1 but occupants of office buildings made hasty exits. Many buildings swayed 1 and in the Business Men's club the ; chandeliers were broken. In tbe largest office buildings the ?bock 1 were especially noticeable and caused consternation among the tenants. Reports from surrounding towns tell of the shocks, but no serious damage was caused. The vibrations were felt far south as Fenada, Miss. The shock was also felt in St. Louis, Mo. K Got Six Thousand. Attorney D. F. Morrow of Yorkvllle has returned from Washington, where he went to endeavor to bring a com promise in the caHe against the South ern Railway company in the suit his son was to have brought for a broken leg and other Injuries he received In the Fishing Creek wreck, Yorkvllle, some weeks ago. After some days de bating with Southern Railway attor neys and officials in Washington, At torney Morrow succeeded in securing a compromise of 80,000 together with other considerations for his son, Mar vin Morrow, who is cashier of the Bank of Blacksburg. Tho Deadly Gin. A dispatch to The State says Martin Riddle, a well to do farmer and a highly respected citizen of the Warrior Creek section of Laurens county, met a tragic death Tuesday morning about 10 o'clock. Ho operated in connection with farming Interests a bier ginnery. This morning in passing among the shafting he was suddenly jerked into the machinery and terribly mangled and bruised. Death ensued In 15 min utes. He was 60 years old, being a veteran of the War Between the States, and his friends recall bis record as a soldier worthy of the name. A Strange Notion. A dispatch says the colored popula tion of west Atlanta is very much ex cited over the belief that the sun will be blotted out at 1 o'clock on Thanks giving day. November ?f?; noyor tn h? seen iiKain from this earth. Services aro being held In various churches daily and converts are growing at a marvellous rate. No one can tell where the prophecy came from, but the negroes believe it firmly and can not be shaken In tho belief that their doom is pending. Was Sho Murdered. A passcngor train on tho Spartan burg and Asheville road ran over a woman at Beuna Vista, ten miles from Asheville, at 0 o'clock Thursday afternoon, iho head was severed and the body mangled. Tho body was found to be cold when picked up by the trainmen and it ls believed that tho woman had been murdered and placed on the track. The victim is believed to bo Mrs. Murry of Beuna Vista. THE OPEN SEASON. Hunters Can Now Lawfully Indulge lu Their Favorite Sport. ' " *- . Tbe sportsmen are how free to take to.the-woods after partridges for tbe season opened Sunday, November 1. From now until April 1 next tho Bport loving gunners will take the place nf the pot hunters. The Idea pre vails among some people that, tho close season ends on August 1, but this is not the case for partridges. The deer season opens on August 1. Section 552 of the criminal code pre scribes that: "It shall not be lawful for any per son In the State, between the first day of April and the first day of Nov ember, in any year-hereafter (1895) to catch, kill or injure, or to pursue with such intent, or to sell or expose for sale, any wild .turkey, partridge, ?luall, woodcock or pheasant, or be tween the flrst day of March and the first day of November.any dove; or afc any other time .during" the year to catch, kill or injure, or to pursue with such Intent, by fire-light any of the birds named in tbe section; nor shall any person or persons destroy or rob the nests of any of said birds. And any person doing so shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $20 or be imprisoned not more than 30 days." Section 552 states that it is a viola tion of the law to trap partridges on land where consent ls not given, and further "it is unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, or ship or export for sale, any patrldg? or quail for the space of five years from the 9th day of Feb-uaryA. D. 1900: Provided, "That nothing in this section shall prevent, the importation for sale of any part ridge or quail." Violation of this sec tion is punishable by a fine or not more than $20 or not more than 30 days' imprisonment. Until January 1, 1905, it is against the law to kill any Mongolian pheas ants. The penalty is a fine between -3D and 82o cr :mpr*S0uS^cnt not more tban-30 days. The government print ing office in Washington has lately issued farmers bulletin No. 180, en titled "Game Laws for 1903" and in this much valuable information con cerning the game laws of all the States may be found. The pamphlet will be Bent post free to anyone on application. With Glass Pitcher. A dispatch from Palatka, Fla., to the Atlanta Journal says J. S. Swack ard, a negro tailor, died Tuesday morning under very peculiar circum stances. Ile and his wife bad some [.rouble about ten days previous which resulted in a fight, according to evi dence given at coroner's inquest, and is Swackard was getting the best, of the vornan, she got hold of a small glass iltcher with which she struck bim on -he forehead, inflicting a slight wound, swackard attended to his business as lsual until last Friday when he was 50ri.pelled to take to his bed on ?c :ou ?it of it. Lockjaw soon after de vl?ped, a physician was called, but x)o late to alford any relief. The ury rendered a verdict of justifiable lomicide. A Deplorable Accident. While engaged in moving a freight ;ar on the side-track at the Mlddle aurg mill Mr. James Kneece, a highly .espected citizens of Batesburg met .vith a very serious if not fatal scel lent'. In going down a rather steep jradc the car gained sufficient mo mentum to become unmanageable. While he was attempting to get out )f the way Mr. Kneece's foot slipped md he fell being caught and horribly mangled beneath the wheels of the jar. The right leg between the ankle ind knee and the left foot were mash ed terribly. Drs. Hardin, Tlramerman ind Mitchell were summoned imme diately and did all that human skill could do to relieve the sufferer's- pain. It is thought that both legs will have to be amputated. Fooled With a Gun. " A dispatch from Beaufort to the Augusta Chronicle says Austin Le gare, aged 16, and Robert Seabrook, aged 19, both colored., attended a dance near Eddings' Point. On their way home they stopped at the shop of Kit Choplin, which is located on the Mary Jenkins plantation, St. Helena Island. A shotgun was standing be hind the counter. Legare pulled it over the counter by the end of the barrel, which caused it to discbarge, and its load of buckshot blew off the right side of the face of Seabrook, who was standing near by, and in stantly killed him. Told to Lioave. Excitement prevails among the col ored citizens of Morgan Bark, Illinois, as the result of the posting of placards throughout the town giving notice to all colored persons that they will be allowed forty-eight hours to leave the place. Several families have already left, taking with them whatever goods they could conveniently carry, and it ls expeoted that others will follow their example. The order to leave is the outcome bf the murder of Chief of Police Airey Saturday night by Mack Wiley, who, with several other of his colored friends, was out on a halloween frolic. Well Matched. Mrs. Nation has challenged Dowie to joint debate. She offers to hire the hall and give him $500 if he will go on the platform with her and let her get a whack at him. Mrs. Nution says Dowie ls "an old fraud" and that she can prove it. The Restorer hasn't accepted the challenge. Ile bas said, however, that Mrs. Nation is a fraud, and that Christian Science is a hum bug. What a happy time the pro phets, healers and reformers are going to have among themselves. Fell on Darby. While G. T. Darby, of Phoenix City, Ga., w?s working at the bottom of a 40-foot well at bis homo the windlass broke and the bucket which was near the top fell down 'like a meteor. He saw it coming and threw up bis arm and.broke Its force. Darby was dazed for a while, but soon rccovored con sciousness and climbed to the surface by means of a rope which was let down to him. HOW THEY Y?TED. ? Briinni?ry of the Results' pf ;last^ Week's Election. MARYLAND GOES DEMOCRATIC Kentucky IR Also tn tho Democra: lc Oulumn, but Ohio and Other Suites Stick to the Ito-, publican Party. '; ' ' The following Is-a Bumtoary of tho ?lection held In several Btates on Tucs on of last, week:' IN NEW YORK CITY. George B. McClellan, Democrat, elected mayor by a majority of proba- : bly 7C,000, which means tho resurrec tion of Tammany and its restoration to power in the Greater pity. McClellan Btands for Democracy; a -v-v complete administration of the city's " affairs, Tammanylsm and tho elimina tion of Devery and the grafters. ' Low stood for Republicanism, antl Tammanyism and the "reformation" of New York. Devery, who declares he has been counted down and out forever from politics and will retire, stood for. .' "Deveryism," while the . fusionists paid his campaign expenses because every vote for Devery was a vote for Low. . IN MARYLAND. Returns in Maryland show, the elec tion of Edwin Warfield,. Democrat, and the control of the legislature. Warfield has carried Baltimore by 6,00G. Returns are very slow, as the ticket was long and tedious to count. Stevenson A. .Williams, Republican'-SC^i candidate for governor, was confident until Wednesday, when he gave up hope. Williams stood for Republican ism and an endorsment of, Roosevelt's negro policy, Eocial and political equality. Warfield stands for Democ r.xi'.y and white supremacy is Mary land. The election of Warfield and bis ticket means that Roosevelt has s been repudiated by Maryland. The legislature, which is Demo cratic, will elect a successor to United States Senator McComas, who is a Republican. IN onro. Ohio is Republican by 100,000, though the Republicans claim 125,000. Colonel Myron T. Herrick is elected governor, the legislature .ia Republi can and the election of Mark Hanna certain. Tom L. Johnson is badly defeated. The plurality on joint ballot of 100 in legislature is three times as great a victory as ever won in Ohio. . The principal feature in the contest in Ohio was the fight to elect Hanna and this has been accomplished with apparent ease. The "Democrats prac tically admitted the defeat of John son, but to the very last declared that their candidate for the senate, John H. Clarke, would be elected, c The fight between Hanna and Clarke* was one of the bitterest ever waged in the Btate.' TN RHODE ISLAND. Che returns show the re-election of Governor Garvin, Democrat, in Rhode - Island, though admitted by his friends . ?"' to be at a greatly reduced, plurality. The Republicans made^teady gains in this state. .7 --- -- ^_... In Providence Mayor Miller, Demo- v erat, was elected. TN NEBRASKA. The home of Bryan has been cap tured by the enemy and tho Republi cans have carried the state by 10,000 plurality. Republicans claim to have elected the entire state Republican ticket without a single exception. The claims of the Republicans are borne out by the polls printed "by the leading newspapers of the Btate. IN NEW JERSEY. Vr-ry light vote was cast in New Jersey, as the contest was almost purely of local Interest only. "It is positive that the Republicans control both houses of the legislature, proba ble with slight gains over two years ago. IN PENNSYLVANIA. Pennsylvania sticks to Quay, piling up a plurality of more than 100,000 and these figures may be increased when full returns are received, to 150,000. Philadelphia elected all Re publican city officers. The entire state shows gains for Republicans. IN IOWA. The Republicans carried everything in sight, re-electing Governor Cum mings by a majority of 60,000 or more. - The house will have 82 Republicans and 18 Democrats and the senate will have 40 Republicans and 10 Demo crats IN COLORADO. Republican victory is complete In Colorado, though the vote was tery light. Tho vote has been light throughout the state and returns are very incomplete. The Daily News (Democrat) concedes tho election of Campbell. The Republican state committee claims Campbell's eleotiou by 5,000 to 7,000 plurality over Wil son. IN MASSACHUSETTS. Massachusetts ls Republican by good figures, though the city of Bos ton went Democratic by almost two to one. John L. Bates, Republican, is governor, defeating William A. Gas ton, Democrat. IN KENTUCKY. Governor J. C. W. Beckham is re? leleotert in Kentucky, after a hitter contest with Colonel Belknap. Beck ham's majority is estimated at 18,000. Republicans mako many charges'of fraud in Kentucky. The Democrats carried every thing before them. Fatal election Row. in a fatal election row Tuesday morning at Fairview, Teun., two men were killed and one fatally and ono seriously Injured. The trouble arose by Republicans about the polling place objecting to C. P. Roller servlpg as a Republican judge. He had been se lected by the Democratic election com missioners. John Osborne and Ezek lal Nichols, rhe dead men, wore Dem ocratic Judges. J. H. Catron fatally injured, shot Osborne and Nickels and they shot him In tho neck. Fair view is a remote mountain settle ment.