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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-10-13
O'DONNELL e co.

Improvements. Very nearly eight
thousand dollars were expended, and
that is good deal of money. Ten
thousand dollars would have paid fol
new Court House from top to bot.
tom and furnished it with improved
modern furniture and appliances. We
presume that no one can be blamed
or the result, however, as it always
costs more than It's worth to patch up
an cid building, but no. one had an
idea when the job was undertaken
that it would cost go much money.
Judge Aldrich has decided that q
man above the age OF sixty-fve years
is disqualified for service on the jury.
This may be good law, but is absurd
10 practice Some men more thau
sixty Eve years of age may be men
tally an1 physically incompetent. but
there are the same objections to be
urged against hundreds of younger
men.
Gov Ellerbe has appointed Col. Joo.
P. Thomas to succeed The late Gen
Hugh L Farley as State Confederate
historian. A better selection could not
have been made. There is 30 map in
the State more competent and no one
could or would take more interest 10
completing the task begun by Gen
Kersbaw and continued by Gen Far
ley
TIE offer Of premium Of one hun
deed dollars for the bes. bale of cotton
exhibited at the State Fair should be
the ueaos of securing the larges: cotton
exbiblt ever at the fair. Sumter coun-
ty should capture the prize.
The dispensary coustabies are said to
be slow sbou. giving up the pistols ADD
rifles belonging to the State If they
had been slower 10 using them there
would be just f~w less graves scattered
about the State
If the cylindrica! cotton bale
should destroy the business and use.
fulness of the two hundred and odd
congresses and throw out of employ
ment thousands of brokers and other
middlemen who live on the profits of
the cotton crop, wherein would the
cotton farmer, whose labor and CAPT.
tai produces the cotton, be the losei!
he would be the gamer in the end
without doubt. an9 we ...ail the ad
vent of the new round bale that will
do away with jute bagging, steel ties,
congresses and multitude of other
charges entailed. by the old square
bale
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-10-13
FLAG NONSENSE.

Some secret society or other in the
town of Sumter desired the privilege
Of erecting an American flag over the
school house of Sumter, and the
board of school trustees promptly
and properly refusad the permission.
The notion of raising American flags
over school houses is nonsensical in
the extreme The American flag is
q very good sort Of flag and the de-
sign is pretty, but on the mastheads
of ships and at the head of regi-
ments are where it is beautiful. On
federal court houses it is at home and
for decorating days it is nice enough
at all places. But it is not intended
to ad.rn the roofs of kitchens and
private residences In the latter
most of the education Of this coun.
try is in progress and the work moves
along satisfactorily without the aid of
the stars and stripes over the door or
on the skylights Weather signals
and their meaning would be of prac-
tical service to the public school
childran but the American flag is a
picture on cloth whose signi6cation
can be picked up without daily and
cheap parade. Unfortunately, a
considerable proportion of our youth
become familiar with it in connection
with the cigarette Flag talk is
mostly slush-Greenville News
The Greenville News has succeed
I'd in expressing our views exactly.
With the addition of a few words
the flag question can be disposed of
finally as far as we are concerned.
From what an outsider can gather,
the persistent effort of the Junior
Order to erect flag staff on the
Graded School grounds smacks more
of an advertisement of the order
than of patriotism. The United
States flag is the emblem of the or
der, we are informed, and were it to
be raised at the Graded School by
the Junior Order, or at the solicitation
of that order, it would become a
daily advertisement of secret So
ciety The School Board was ex-
actly right in refusing the request of
the Junior Order committee. and the
and nonsensical TRADE
against the members of the Board
that appeared in The Patriot, the
organ of the order. should cause nei.
ther anger nor uneasiness.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-10-13
Ole Maitgnlall a'0 sal't(ran.
WRDNEsDAY, ocq. IS. 1887.

The Snnste, Waschnaan was founded
81 1850 aud the True Southron in 1866.
TIE Watchasaa and Sosahron now has
t,e corabined circulation and influence
cf both Of the old papers, and is mani
festly the best advertising medium in
IS 4mter
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
THE FIGHT MCLARED DEAD.
Struggle for Maintenance of Horse Racing In New Jersey.


 New York, Nov. 29.-The fight for the maintenance of horse racing during the next five years in New Jersey was off cially declared dead to-day by J. c. Carr, one of the Guttenburg race track Big Four" MT. Carr gave out a statement, in which he said that a call for meeting of the association would soon be issued and the track would be ordered sold. There were eighty lots in the enclosure, upon which fully $l,- 000,0 900 had been spent in improvements. The present grand stand, club house, betting ring and barns are all fine buildings. The club house would make a fine hotel. The stockholders will be , lucky if they get 30 per cent. on the stock outstanding. The association has already received an offer from 8 build ing syndicate which is ready to buy the site of the old track, cut it up into city lots and sell the lots to individual buyers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
RECoMMENDs .4N INVESTIGATION
Captain Wright Who Commanded Troops
 in Recent Indian Disturbanoe.

Washington, D. C., Nov. 29.-Captaln Wright and Lieutenant Cavenaugh, Ninth cavalry, who commanded the troops in the recent Indian disturbance in Colorado, have recommended that an Investigation of the affair be made by the interior department. Captain Wright secured a statement from the Indians of the affair, the substance of which is that a small party of them were camped on Snake river hunting deer, when party of white men came into camp and told the Indians they were buckshn police and the Indians must go with them. The Indians refus- cd, upon which a struggle commenced. A squaw ran to the assistance of the Indians, when the police literally rid dled two with bullets. The squaw was shot in the back of the head and an- other in the arm. Two bucks escaped The Indians insist that neither at that time nor since have they fired shot at white man.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
THE HARRINGTON PUBLISHING co.
MURDER OF MISSIONARIES.
China Said to be Willing to Make Ample
 Reparation.


 Pekin, Nov. 29.-Inquiries made here in Chinese official circles confirm the statements contained in dispatches from Shanghai giving the substance of the demands made by Baron Won Heykng, the German minister to China, as re- suit of the murder recently of the Ger man missionaries and the destruction of German mission property.
 Germany asks for the discovery and execution of the murderers of the mis- sionaries, the punishment of implicated officials, including the governor of the Shan Tung province, in which part of China the mission was situated; the re- construction of the missionary bulld- ings, the payment of an indemnity or 600, 900 taels to the relatives of the vlc- tins, the payment of heavy indemnitles to cover the expenses of the German naval expedition, and the maintenance of the German force at Kiao Chou Bay, the railroad monopoly of the Shan Tung province and the occupation of kiao Chou Bay as a German coaling station.
 China will refuse the demands of Ger many, but will express willingness to make ample reparation for the murder of the missionaries and for the damage done to the mission property. Russia, it is understood, Is not yet helping Chi ma, but the latter country has decided not to provoke hostilities and to trust to diplomacy for a settlement of the diff faculties which have arisen in connec- tion with the mission outrages.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Annual Election of Ofiicers-Paper by
 Judge l.. E. Munson.

Annual Election or Omcers-Paper by
 Judge l.. E. Munson.
 At it's annual meeting last evening the New Haven Historical society elect ed the following officers for the ensuing year:
 President, Thomas R. Trowbridge; inst vice president, Hon. Lynde Harri- son; second vice president, Rev. Dr. E. S. Lines; secretary, Henry T. Blake; treasurer, Dwight E. Bowers; directors, Hon. Simeon D. Baldwin, Charles R. In- gersoll, James R. Hoppin, Charles H. Townshend, Caleb B. Bowers, Eli Whit ney, Henry F. English, Joseph B. Sar- gent, Edward F. Bradley, Charles L. Baldwin, Henry l.. Hotchliss, Amory L. Rowland Ellsworth I. Foote, Charles Fl. Smith, T. Attwater Barnes, George A. Root, Edward c. Beecher, J. Edward Heaton, Frank B. Hotchkiss, George E. Adams, George Petrie, Cornelius S. Warehouse, Edwin H. English Colonel E. E. Sill, M. M. Gower, Benjamin R. R. English and Henry Baldwin. The nominating committee was Edward c. Beecher and Maier Zunder.
 A paper was read by Judge l.. E. Munson on Lincoln and Jefferson" The paper compared the lives of the two great statesmen and gave many in- teresting incidents from their biogra- phes A vote of thanks was given the speaker.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
THE MYSTERY CLEARED UP.
Father Believes He Killed Two Children
 and Tried to Kill Himself.

Ocononowoc, Wis, Nov. 29.-The mys- tery which has shrouded the murder of the two children of Ernest Cornell and the cutting of Cornell's throat some days ago, has at last been cleared up. To-day, to the coroner's jury Cornell made a confession that, to the best of his recollection and belief, he killed his two children and tried to kill himself.
 This announcement came as a great surprise to the officials, who were pre- pairing charges against Cornell's wife and John Lewis, who had been in- carcerated in the county jail at Wauke- sha on account of the killing. Cornell made a statement that according to what he had read in the newspapers and what he had heard, he believed that he had committed the crime him self, though his condition at the time was such that he had no recollection of committing the deed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
JOHNSON WAs NOT ROBBED.
Gave His Money to Friend to Keep and Told Detectives He Had Been Touched.

Gave His Money to q Friend to Keep and
 Told Detectives He Had Been Touched.
 A man who gave the name of Henry Jansen, reported to Officer Hoffman Sunday that he had been robbed the night before of $71.50 in saloon on George street. The case was turned over to Captain Cowles of the detective bureau. Detectives Donnelly and Daly were put on the trail Yesterday they found that the fellows name was not Jensen, but Frank Johnson, and that he had not been robbed. It was ascertain ed that he had given his money to a friend to keep with the understanding that if he became intoxicated the friend was to keep the money. The detectives were caused considerable trouble and annoyance by the affair. Johnson lives at 16 East Pearl street.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
ARCHBISHoP KEANE,S VISIT.
Meets the Pope and is Congratulated on
 Several Things

Rome. Nov. 2s-Archbishop Keane, former rector of the Catholic univer- sity at Washington, was received by the pope to-day. His holiness congrat- ulated the bishop upon the abnegation with which, in a letter to the pope, he had renounced his claim to be included in the list of candidates for appoint ment to the archbishopric of New Dr. leans.
 The pope also congratulated the arch bishop upon the series of sermons in English which he commenced yesterday upon the occasion of the Advent ser vices at the church of St. Silvestro in Capite, venerable church of Rome, erected in honor of John The Baptist, a piece of whose head is still preserved there. The church is now in the pos session of the English Roman Catho- lies. The subject of the bishops ser- mon was 'The Incarnation
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
TRIANGULAR RACE CONSIDERED.
The Cornell Athletic Council Discuss It in
 Secret Session.

secret session.
 Ithaca, N. Y., Nov. 29.-,A triangular race to be participated in by crews from Yale. Harvard and Cornell was discussed at length by the Cornell Ath- letic council in secret session to- night. A communication was read, the details of which will not be made public at present. but which is sup posed to have been a direct challenge. The session was occupied by the mem- bers of the council in debating the ad- visibility of accepting the challenge under certain conditions.
 Pennsylvania and Columbia were considered, together with the Yale Harvard race onH in q manner that they must not conflict. It is under stood that the challenge from Yale and Harvard was specific in regard to the course, but under what conditions is not known, as the members of the board were very reticent and declined to answer any questions pertaining to the communication. The council was still in session at midnight and a final decision may be reached before ad- jOurnment.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
LECTURE ON POPE LEO XIII.
F. MARION CRAWFORD, THE NOVEL
 IST, AT MISS WHEEDON'S.
As Statesman His Holiness is Shown to Bismarck-It Has Been His Constant Effort to Maintain Peace in Europe CrnWford,a Annanrnnce.


 The popular novelist and lecturer, F. Marion Crawford, lectured to an audi ence of about 200 people at the residence of Miss Wheedon, 33 Wall street, last evening. He was introduced by Miss Wheedon. The novelist is man of fine personal appearance, tall, straight as an arrow, broad shouldered, all of the fine athlete, which he is said to be. The work of an hour or more of lec- turing, followed by a general hand shaking with his hearers were borne by him without any appearance of fa- tigue.
 The lecture was not upon a literary subject, as many anticipated it would be, but upon the Political and Re ligious Revolution in Italy of the Pres ent Century" In the course of his lec- ture he compared the present head of the Roman Catholic church, Pope Leo XIII, with his papal predecessor, Plus TX.
 MT. Crawford is a Roman Catholic and to his subject of last evening he brought in addition to his we'll known power as thinker, the zeal and en- thusiasm of a recent convert. He was especially eulogistic of Leo XIII, extol- ling him as a statesman of great ability and a great religious teacher. In mat ters of statecraft he was the reverse of Plus IX., who was no statesman. t statesmen of the age, Abraham Lin coin, Gladstone and Bismarck, he show ed that he was the equal of any of them.
 Speaking of Leo's attitude toward the Catholics of Germany, Italy, France and the United States, he said that it had been Leo's constant effort to main- tain peace in Europe, and that peace had been so long maintained was due in large part to his wisdom and states manship The lecturer also gave an in- teresting description of the popes per sonal appearance and habits of living. The pope is a man of great physical vigor and endurance, although now in his eighty-seventh year. He was born in the mountains of southern Italy in 1910. His early life as a sportsman is probably responsible in great degree for his splendid physique. His life is sim pie. He is a tireless worker and sleeps only four and five hours a day. His life in the vatican was also described by the lecturer.
 The question of papal infalilbility was handled by MT Crawford with great skill and tact. He said that of course no pope could tell American Catholics how they should vote Even the strongest Catholics could not be gov erned in political matters by the pope. At the close of the lecture a recep- tion was held. Those who met MT. Crawford found him a genial and en- tertaining conversationalist.
 Many members of the Yale faculty were present at the lecture, among others Professors Seymour Tracy Peck, Ladd, William Lyon Phelps, Goodell; also Principal Scudder of the Hllhouse high school, and several Roman Catho- lice and Catholic diVines
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
Threw Up the Sponge.

Baltimore, Nov. 29.--The first boxing bouts held within the city limits for more than year took place tonight in the Assembly rooms of the Academy of Music under the auspices of the Eu- reka Athletic club Manager Harford had provided an attractive programme and big crowd went to see the sport The star bout of the evening was be- tween Joe Hans, the Baltimore colored niddleweight, and Stanton Abbott of England. Abbott's seconds threw up the sponge in the fourth round.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
NO OINTERFERENCE WITH BOYCOTT.
But Judge Hosmer Would Make Injunc- finn Rerlna q n k nardinsr iaIa

ton Permanent Regarding Violence.
 Detroit, Nov. 29.--Judge Hosmer of
 the circuit court to-day declined to in-
 terfere with a boycott by the employees
 of railroad milling firm. A temporary injunction had been issued restraining the Railroad Teamsters union and the Trades council from unlawfully inter- fering with the business of Jacob Beck
 S Sons. Judge Hosmer stated that he
 would make the injunction permanent
 as far as violence or disturbances are
 concerned, but could not interfere with
 "peaceable distribution of boycotting
 circulars or other legitimate means en- ployed by the unions to accomplish their purpose"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
Don Carlos, the Pretender.

Madrid, Nov. 29.-It is stated here that Don Carlos, the pretender, has summoned to Venice. where he is re- siding, the Marquis Cerralbo, his repre- sentative in Spain, with a view of pro- noting a fresh agitation of the ques- tion of the autonomy decrees. The Mar quis Cerralbo recently tried to nego- tiate loan in the Carlist interest, but the attempt was a failure.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
Tho Etua aonthe List |.

Albany, Nov 29.-Excise Commission CT Lyman announced to-day that the Aetna Indemnity company of Hartford, Conn.,, is one of the list of insurance companies furnished the department of excise by Louis Payne, state superin- tendent of insurance, as being author ized to transact the business of surety insurance within this state.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
OBJECr TO JUDGE GARY.
Defense in Leutgert Case Says He is Not
 Qualified.

Chicago, Nov. 29-The second trial of Adolph Luetgert for the murder of his wife was called before Judge Gary to- day. Luetgert was represented by ex- Judge Harmon and Attorney Riese, At torney Phalen hating withdrawn from the case yesterday after a heated in tervieW with Luetgert and the new lawyers. The court room was packed with spectators when the court was called to order.
 Most of the session was taken up by MT. Harmon in arguing that Judge Gary should not try Luetgert on the ground that he was not qualified to sit as a criminal judge. Judge Gary over- ruled the motion of the defense, inti- mating however; that he was willing that some other judge should sit in the case providing counsel for the defense should come to an agreement with the prosecution as to who should hear it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
Man With a Fit Was Drunk

A man named James J. Brown was seized with what was thought to be a fit on State street. between Court street and Grand avenue, about 10 o'clock last evening, and the police ambulance was called. Brown was taken to the hospi- tai and after he had been examined there it was ascertained that his was a case of intoxication and could not be received at the hospital. He was there fore removed to the police station, and spent the night there
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
Hack Drivers Rights.

Willimantic, Nov. 29.-The superior court, which reconvened this morning after adjournment from last week We'd nesday, was occupied during the entire day with the case of the state vs Mer- Till Jones, which is the test case to de- termine whether or no hack drivers have the right to solicit patronage at the New England depot in this city.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
New Cable and Telegraph Co,nn,ny

Albany N. Y, Nov. 29-The Commer- cial Cable and Telegraph company, cap italized at $100,000, was incorporated to- day with the secretary of state. The main office of the company is in New York city and it proposes to operate a telegraph system throughout the Unit ed States and Canada. Among it's di- rectors are John w. Mackay William C. Van Horne of Montreal, Albert R. Chandler and William H. Baker Of Brooklyn.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
Alleped Bucket shop Keepers.

New York, Nov. 29.-In answer to in- dictments charging them with keeping bucket shops, twenty-eight brokers ap- peared in general sessions to-day, and pleaded not guilty. Leave to withdraw the plea and enter demurrers within a week was granted and the cases went over. Among the prisoners were Rob- ert A. Ammon, Walter Elliott and Francis Eggleston.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
Sew York Press C,ub,s E,a,.;o

New York, Nov. 29.-The annual cleo tion of the New York Press club was held to-day. There was a spirited con- test for some of the offices. Joseph Howard was reelected president, the defeated candidate being Colonel Will liam Brown.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
VICE-CONSUL BRICK RESIGNS.
Mir. Day Succeeds Him at United States
 Consulate at Berlin.

Berlin, Nov. 29.-The United States vice consul, Breck, has resigned his pos ition and will return to the United States. Consul General Glodschmidt has appointed MT. Day one of the con- sular clerks to be the successor of MT. Breck, subject to the approval of the United States authorities. The United States ambassador, MT. White, will visit Baron Won Bulow, the German minister of foreign affairs, for the first time tomorrow. Important matters will be discussed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
DR. BUTLER ExONERATED.
Autopsy on Bodyof Ex- United States Min
 ister to Chill Upheld.

New York, Nov. 29.-The grand jury to-day dismissed a complaint against Dr James A. Butler of this city, who was charged with having illegally per-. formed an autopsy on the body of Will. liam K. Roberts, ex-United States min ister to Chili, who died in Bellevue hos pital on August 9 last. MT. Roberts son, James F. Roberts, alleged that Dr. Butler had said that MT. Roberts had no friends and had taken it upon him. self, illegally to grant permission for an autopsy.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
4 TEMPTATION OF CHURCHES Baptist, Methodist and Congregational Ministers to NetcrIn inc Its Adrisahi

Boston, Nov. 29.-At a meeting of the ministers of Baptist, Methodist and Congregational churches in Boston held here to-day at which Rev. Charles AL bert Berry, D. D., of Wolverhampton, England, representing the federation of Free Evangelical churches of England and Wales delivered an address, it was voted that committee be appointed representing the three denominations, to determine the advisability of calling a conference of the churches looking to the establishment of a federation of churches here
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
Ayainst Lottery Company.

Washington, Nov. 29-The United States supreme court to-day affirmed the decision of the Kentucky court of appeals in the case of J. J. Douglass ys. the State of Kentucky. The case was brought in behalf of g. lottery com pany and is decided adversely to the company. Justice Harlan rendered the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
Message Not Completed.

Washington, Nov. 29.-President Me Kinley has not yet completed his mes sage and is still engaged upon some im- portant features of the document. Ow- ing to his giving so much time to the message he saw few visitors to-day.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30
Secured by a New Haven Firm.

The firm Of Fosket & Bishop of this city has secured the contract for putting In the steam heating apparatus and electric appliances in new school building to be erected at the corner of Henry and Rutger streets. New York. The contract is for $25, 900.