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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
HOSTS OF EPWORTH LEAGUERS
Gather at Frisco In Fifth international
nvention-President Mckinley
Sends Message Of Greeting.

! The fifth international convention OF
the Epworth League was opened at
San Francisco, CAL, Thursday under
the most auspicious conditions. The
weather was ideal and the attendance
equalled the most sanguine expecta
tions. The scene at the Mechanics pa
| vilion, where the main exercises or the
day were held, was one not soon to be
| forgotten. Every vantage place IN the
auditorium and galleries was occupied
by enthusiastic delegates and every
unsightly inch of wall was hid by
tasteful decorations. Thunderous vol
umes OF harmonious tones from hu'
man throats and the vibratory accom-
paniment of the monster Stanford Or
gan inspired a feeling of reverential
admiration and homage that entered
into the full possession Of participants
and on-lookers The railroads had Vlr-
tually fulfilled their promises and, de-:
spite many annoying delays, landed
the last Of the eastern delegates IN
time for the Introductory ceremonies
The great army of invasion. with 3o,-
600 men and women in rank and file,
had been provided for without the
least trouble and in manner most
gratifying to all.
During the forenoon the streets
leading to the Mechanics pavilion, the
headquarters of the league, were
thronged with thousands OF delegates
wearing the badges Of the order, and
long before the hour fixed for the pre-
liminary proceedings the vast struc-
ture, which will accommodate $4,000
persons, was practically filed. The
Alhambra theater and Metropolitan
Temple. where simultaneous meetings
were held, via each hold $500 people
and provision has been made for any
possible overflow in churches.
President Mckinley wired tho fol-
lowing message:
"I have much pleasure in sending to
the International Epworth League con-
vention, assembled at San FRANCISCO
my hearty congratulations upon the
good work the great body Of Christian
men and women which it represents
has accomplished in the past, and my
earnest wish that even greater success
will crown the future efforts of the
league"
Vice President Roosevelt wired:
"Heartiest greetings, and may good
luck attend the Epworth League in its
efforts for social and civic righteous
ness"
Other communications were from
Governors Mcmillan, Of Tennessee;
Shaw, of Iowa; Dublin, of Indiana;
Yates, of Illinois; Bliss, Of Michigan;
Dockery, Of Missouri; Stanley, OF Kan
sas, and Van SAINT, Of Minnesota. All
were received with cheers, those from
Mckinley and Roosevelt arousing the
audience to much enthusiasm.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
MRS. KRUGER PASSES AWAY.
Shock on Receipt Of News Almost
Prostrates Her Exiled Husband
In Far Away Holland.

Advices from Pretoria state that
Mrs. Kruger, the wife of the former
president of the South Africa repub'
lie, died Saturday Of pneumonia, after
an illness OF three days. She was six
ty-seven years old.
Mrs. Kruger's long separation from
her husband, combined with the death.
of her favorite daughter, Mrs. Smith
4 few days ago, had completely broken
her spirit. Mr.. Eloff and many other
members of the Kruger family were at
her bedside when she passed away.
News Broken to Kruger.
Owing to the Sunday telegraph
hours in Holland" says dispatch to
The London Daily Mail from Hilver
sum, "Mr. Kruger was not informed OF
his wife's death until the evening. The
news was broken to him by DR.. Hey
mans and Secretary Boeschoten. Mr..
Kruger, who had just returned from
Hilversum church, burst into tears and
asked to be left alone. He exclaimed:
"'She was a good wife. We quarrel
ed only once, and that was six months
after we were married.
"He prayed for long time and then
slept calmly, his Bible beside his bed.
The Transvaal and Orange Free State
flags flying above the white villa wert
draped and half masted."
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
JONES DREW KNIFE.
Ex-Governor and Delegate In Alabama
Convention Defies Chairman.

Ex-Governor and Delegate In Alabama
Convention Defies Chairman.
In the Alabama convention Saturday
Ex-Governor Jones appealed from
the decision of the chair on the ques-
ton of an ordinance forbidding state
officials the use of free passes.
President Knox directed Jones to
take his seat until the question could
be stated.
Jones refused and asked if the ap.
peal was going to be put. He declared
ne was the peer OF the chair. Knox
again ordered him to his chair. Jones
refused again until the chair had de-
cided on his right to appeal.
The president directed the sergeant
alarms to eject Mr.. Jones, who said
there was no necessity for any heat.
The chair insisted on his being seated
and directed the sergeant-at-arms to
remove him from the hall. Jones drew
his knife, opened it and passionately
exclaimed: IF he attempts it, it will
be done over my dead body"
The greatest excitement prevailed at
this juncture. The governor finally
sat down and the chair put the appeal
and was overwhelmingly sustained.
Mutual explanations followed and
good feeling was restored.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
OLD MAN ADMITS GUILT.
English Peer cofesses to Having Two

English Peer confesses to Having Two
spouses and Receives Sentence.
A London special says: Earl Rus
sell, arraigned at the bar Of the house
of lords Thursday for trial on the
charge Of bigamy, pleaded guilty after
long arguments against jurisdiction OF
the court.
The trial was carried on with all
the quaint middle age ceremonies.
The arguments lasted one hour. Both
the earl and Countess Russell (Mrs.
somerville), through their counsel
pleaded they did not know they were.
doing wrong, but had acted on the best
legal advice obtainable in Nevada.
The peers reached their decision at.
ter consideration Of the case lasting
twenty minutes. Earl Russell was sem
fenced to three months imprisonment
as a first-class misdemeanant.
The benches reserved for peresses
were amply filed, while the space al
lotted to distinguished strangers was
crowded with diplomats and their
families, including United States Am.
bassader Choate.
After the reply Of the prosecution
to the argument Of counsel for his de.
tense, Earl Russell, in voice audible,
pleaded guilty. His counsel then ad-
dressed the house in mitigation, plead.
ing that the accused had acted upon
the best legal advice obtainable In Ne
vada. that the offense was merely tech.
nical and that no harm had been done
Mollie Coz lie.
Lord Russell then addressed the
house and said he proposed to re-mar.
ry Mollie Cooke at an early time. The
judges Hlled that King Edward had 9
right to legislate for his subjects all
over the world, but their lordships,
not desiring to 49, the full penalty
upon Lord Russell, had unanimously
decided that justice would be satisfied
by his being imprisoned in Holloway
prison for three months as criminal
in q first division.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
SoUTARN PROGRESS.

The New Industries Reported in the
South During the Past Week.
The more important of the new in
dustries reported for the past week
include a $4,000 bridge company at
Seabreeze, Fla; a $4,000 canning fac
tory at Durham, N. c.; a 100000 cigar
factory at Tampa, Fla; coal mining
company at Newcomb, Tenn; collar
and harness factory at Hickory, N. c.;
q $4,000 cotton compress at Helena,
Ark; a cotton compress at Houston,
Tex; a $4,000 compress at Paris,
Tex; a 100000 copper mining COM
pany at Little, Rock, Ark; cotton gins
at Goodwater, Ala, and Emory and
Wilmer, Tex; 100000 cotton mill at
Aberdeen, Miss; a 100000 cotton mill
at Graham, N. c.; electric light plants
at Tryon, N. c., and Culpepper, Va; a
furniture factory at Fort Smith, Ark;
a SIS 900 furniture factory at Hickory,
n. c.; gas works at Birmingham, Ala;
grist mills at Euiaula, Ala, Cofinton,
Ca, and West Nashville, Tenn; $780,
900 hardware companies at Statesville,
N. c., and San Antonio, Tex; Ice fac
tories at Ashburn and Douglas, Ca,
Hopkinsville, KY, and Kentwood, La;
a 100000 lumber company at Pensa-
cola, Fla; a 100000 lumber company
at Plaquemine, La; $125,000 lumber
company at Woodlawn, N. c., and
$4,000 lumber company at Mineral
Wells, Tex; a SIS, 900 land company at
Douglas, Ca; $4,000 machine shops at
Clarendon, Tex; marble works at
Statesville, N. c.; a $4,000 mining
company at Harrison, Ark; a $50,0O0
mining and mineral company at Wax
ahachie, Tex; 100000 motor works at
New Orleans, La; a 100000 oil COM
pany at Huntsville, Ala; a 100000 oil
company at Beaumont, Tex, and an
other with capital of $5O0,0O0; 100000
Oh company at Ell Paso, Tex; $780,
600 oil company at Fort Worth, Tex;
a $250,000 oil company at Paris, Tex;
oil and gas companies at Flemings-
burg, KY, and La Porte, Tex; an oil
mill at Laurens, c. c.; a $4,000 oil
mill at Sulphur Springs, Tex; an 1884,
900 oil and cotton company at Whar-
ton, Tex; a pottery at O'Quinn, Tex;
a $4,000 quarrying company at Shef-
field, Ala; $50,O0O rice mills at New
Orleans, La, and Bay City, Tex; roof
ing works at Nashville, Tenn; $780,
900 sash, door and blind factory at
Nashville, Tenn; saw mills at Spring
Hill, Fla, and Cofinton, Ca; staye
factory at Quiggstown, KY; a trunk
factory at Macon, Ga; a 100000 wagon
factory at Winterville, N. c., and
woodworking plant at Athens, Tenn.
-Tradesman Chattanooga, Tenn.)
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
REVENUE MEN AMBUSHED.
Desperate Tennessee Moonshiners
Fire Deadly VoIley Into Posse.

Desperate Tennessee Moonshiners
Fire Deadly VoIley Into Posse.
Seven revenue officers were am
bushed early Saturday, supposedly by
moonshiners, about six miles from
Monterey, in Putnam county, Tennes-
see. One man was killed and one bad
ly wounded.
A posse Of six, led by Deputy Collec-
tor Bell, was creeping along a steep
hillside above an illicit still, when
they received orders to throw up their
hands. They had barely located the
speaker forty feet below when vol
ley was poured in upon them.
Deputy Marshal Thomas Price was
instantly killed and Posseman c. Nc
Key was badly wounded. The officers
returned the fire, but the moonshiners
made the place so hot that Collector
Bell and the survivors retired and car
ried Mickey with them.
Collector Bell has gathered another
posse and started out to recover the
body of Price. Every deputy collector
and deputy marshal in the district has
been summoned to join in the raid,
which is contemplated. The moon
sinners have boasted that they would
not be taken alive, and as they are
we'll armed and fortified in the noun
tains, serious conflict is expected.
Commissioner Yerkes, of the inter
nal revenue bureau at Washington, has
received a telegram from Collector
Num-, at Nashville, Tenn, informing
him of the attack. He has telegraphed
the collector directing that everything
possible be done to recover the body
of Marshal Price and to capture and
punish the moonshiners.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
PACIFICATION AMYTH
Military Rule RerEstablished In
Three Philippine Provinces.
CIVIL COMMISSION POWERLESs
This Move Places General chaffee IN
Hiqher Authority Than That
Exercised by Gov.
-A :.';y
ernor ! aIs. :;

A Manila special says: The unltea
States civil commission announced
Thursday that after three months trlA
Of q provincial form Of government IN
the islands of Cebu and Bohol ana tne
province Of Batangas, Luzon, control
of these districts, owing to their IN
complete pacihcatioR, has been re-
turned to the military authorities, II
having been proved that the communi.
ties are backward and undeserVing OF
civil administration. The provisional
and civil officials continue ther rune
tions, but are now under the authority
Of General Chaffee instead OF that OF
Civil Governor Taft, as heretofore.
General Chaffee has the power arbitra-
ruy to remove from Office any OF az
provisional or civil officers and to ab-
rogate any section Of the laws pro-
mulgated in these provinces.
The residents of the island Of Cebu
have protested, but without success,
against the return of that island to
military control. Several towns IN
Cebu are still besieged by the insur-
gents. The insurrection on the island
Of Bohol has been renewed and insur-
gent sentiment in the province OF Bae
tangas is strong.
General Chaffee has ordered q bat
talon of the Thirtieth infantry to be-
gin the occupation Of the island OF Mn
doro. The province Of Batangas VIII
be occupied by the entire Twentieth
infantry.
H. Phelps Whitmarsh, governor o.
Benguel province, who was recently
ordered to Manila for investigation OF
certain charges against him, presented
his side Of the case to. the United
States Philippine commission at their
executive session Thursday. Mr.. Whit
marsh denied every charge made
against him. The commissions decis'
ion will be made known Saturday.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
APOLOGY IS MADE TO ITALY.
United States Sends Note of Regret
Fer Lynchins Of the Italians
In Mississippi.

4 Washington special says: The
acting secretary of state Monday sent
a communication to Mr.. Carignani, the
charge OF the Italian embassy, express
Ing the regret of this government at
the lynching of two italians recently
in Mississippi, and informing him that
efforts were being made to bring the
perpetrators to justice. Attention was
directed to the fact that it had not
been established officially mat the men
lynched were Italian subjects.
The same Information as that con-
tanned in the note to the Italian charge
was forwarded to Mr.. Iddings. the
charge of the United States embassy
at Rome, with instructions to lay 1t be-
fore the Italian 4oreign Office. Cover
nor Longino, of Mississippi, has advis-
ed the Italian consul at Vicksburg OF
the steps he has taken to appreiend
the guilty persons.
The letter details the active steps
the government mas taken 10 dpple-
hend those guilty of the outrage. The
governor, who has been to the scene
of the affair, is apprehensive Of con-
siderable difficulty in locating the gull
ty parties, as he states that the crime
was committed at midnight by masked
men, who departed quickly and quiet
ly, leaving no trace of their move
mentS.
Governor Longino left Jackson,
Miss, Monday night for Greenville,
wnere he will consult with the crimi-
nal judge touching the assassination OF
the italians at Erwin, and a special
term of court will doubtless be speed
lily called. E. Calralli, the Italian con-
sui at New Orleans, is said now to be
at Erwin, making in investigation.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
COMPROMISE BARRED
Millionaire Morgan Says Trust
Will Concede Nothing.
DENIES RUMOR OF SETTLEMENT
Battle Between Labor and Capltal
Must Be Fought Out to Bitter
End-Both Sides Are
Firm

A New York special says: ]. P. Nor
gan gave positive denial Friday to ru-
mors that the steel strike had been SET
tied. He made this statement to the
Associated Press:
There is not a word Of truth IN It,
There has been no settlement anc
there can be no compromise on such a
question. The position of the operat-
ing companies is perfectly simple and
we'll understood and, so far as l am
concerned, has my unqualified ap-
! proval."
Mr.. Warner Arms, vice president OF
the American Tin Plate Company,
made the following statement Friday
to a representative of the Associated
Press:
"Mr. Shaffer wants these companies
70 sign for all the non-union mills. A
wage agreement is contract entered
into voluntarily between two or more
persons representing certain interests.
Mr.. Shaffer has no right to ask these
companies to sign an agreement with
him for persons he does not represent.
These companies are not antagonistic
to labor and have proved it by entering
into wage agreements in the past with
Mr.. Shaffer for those that he repre-
sented. This year the American Tin
Plate Company entered into an agree
ment for one year from July 1st, but
Mr.. Shaffer violated that agreement by
calling out the men on a sympathetic
strike when they had no grievances"
No Change In Situation.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: The
strike situation cannot be termed ma
terially changed. Many rumors are
in the air to the effect that settle.
ment Of the trouble is imminent, but
none Of these reports have been veri-
fed. At the Offices Of the Carnegie
company and at the headquarters OF
the manufacturers the usual silence is
preserved.
President ShaHer, of the Amalgama-
ted Association, expresses his entire
satisfaction with the progress Of the
battle, and says the workers have
gained steadily, while the manufacture
ers have lost continually since the
strike began. He says up to the pres
ent the Amalgamated Association
forces contemplate no change in their
programme, being fully satisfied with
the showing their people have made.
President Shaffer says the advance in
wages offered the tube mill workers
at McKeesport Friday, while seeming
ly large, will not bring the pay up to
the union scale.
Commencing in a day or two, weekly
bulletins will be issued from Amalga-
mated headquarters to give the work
ers and strikers official news Of the
exact condition of strike affairs.
From the storm center at Wellsville,
o., comes word that the striking mill
men in that vicinity spent an uneasy,
restless day.
The American Sheet Steel Company
has many of the towns largest mer-
chants back of it in It's fight against
the workmen, the merchants fearing
that If the present trouble goes along
much further the Wellsville plant will
be moved across the line into Pennsyl-
vania. Grocers, clothing men and 9TH
ers are trying to show the strikers that
they are wrong and foolish in keeping
up the fight.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
SWUNG TO TELEPHONE POLE.

Citizens of Cleveland, Miss, Witness
Grewsome Work Of Lynchers.
Jesse Phillips, the negro who shot
and killed Lucius Reed, a plantation
manager in Cleveland. Miss, week
ago, was captured in the swamps near
that city at 10 o'clock Saturday night
and lynched by a crowd Of unknown
men. About a mile from the town a
mob intercepted the captors and. TAX
ing the negro from them, hurried him
to the spot where Reed was killed and
hanged him to telephone pole.
So quietly was the negro hanged
that the majority Of the citizens did
not know when the lynching occurred.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
REWARD OFFERED FOR MOB.
Governor of Mississippi Anxious to
Make Amends For Murder
Of Italians.

A Washington special says: Mr.. Ca
raignini, the Italian charge, called
upon Acting Secretary of State Hill
Saturday to prepare a note as to the
progress being made into the inVestl-
CATION of the killing of the Italians
at Erwin, Miss, recently. The charge
has not yet been able to secure evl'
dence to establish the nationality OF
the men, although the Italian authori'
ties originally reported otherwise, and
unless this shall be forthcoming and it
shall be shown that they were not neu-
tralized to the United States there
will be no further proceedings In the
case as far as the state department is
concerned.
Governor Offers Rewards.
Governor Lpngino, Of Mississippi,
Saturday afternoon offered 500 re-
ward for the arrest and conviction OF
each of the murderers Of Glovanna and
vincenzo Serio and the wounding or
Salvador Liberto by mob at Erwin,
Miss.
The governor received letter from
Secretary Hay inclosing copy OF
note from the Italian charge d'affairs.
in which Secretary Hay asked to be ad'
vised whether the persons killed were
Italians subjects or had been natural
lied. Replying to Secretary Hay Sat
urday, Governor Longino states that
his private advices are that none OF
the Italians named above were natur-
allied American citizens, but that ne
will make official inquiry and report
later. The governor advises Secretary
Hay that he went in person to Wash
ington county the second day after the
unfortunate occurrence, where he
learned from the sheriff that the 1tal'
ian consulate at Vicksburg had asked
for protection for these Italian sub
| jects.
The governor found that the sheriff
| promptly upon the receipt Of his teie
gram, visited the scene of the murder
but he was unable to ascertain the
names of the guilty parties. The crime
was committed under cover Of dark
ness and the murderers fed, leaving nc
trace of their identity.
The people Of Greenville, the coun
ty site of Washington, where the mur
der occurred, met in mass meeting ant
by resolution deplored and condemned
the action of the guilty parties and
requested a special term Of the circuit
court in order that the stain may be
wiped out by the punishment Of the
criminals. The governor transmits {
copy of these resolutions to Secretary
Hay, whom he assures, and through
him the Italian government that eve:J
effort will be made to apprehend ant
punish the guilty parties.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
SAMPSON IS BRAzEN
Admits Reading Proofs Of Book
Which Slurs Hero Schley.
ASSUMES ALL RESPONSIBILITY
Secretary Long Is Tired of the Whole
Controversy-Lieutenant VAIN
Wright Answers an
Inquiry.

Referring to Maclay's naval history,
which has been criticised on account
of statements considered objectiona-
BILE, Rear Admiral Sampson, in an in
terview at Boston, Mass, Monday,
said:
"In one way, possibly, was respon-
sible for the statements made in the
history. l was commander in chief OF
the squadron, and was responsible so
far as reading the proofs goes. If the
historian has taken facts from my OF
fetal reports to the navy department,
that is all well and good. l stand by
first reports and official communica-
tions.
"I would welcome an investigation OF
this whole matter by congress or by
the navry department" he said, "but l
see no hope Of it's being taken up.
"Schley's first statement regarding
the battle Of Santiago" continued the
admiral was moderately correct. The
interviews given out some time after
wards were not at all correct. They
we're entirely different from his first
accounts and were written in a differ
ent spirit l think. An interview pur'
porting to have come from Admiral
Schley published, believe, on January
9Th, was entirely incorrect. Soon az
ter this statement appeared in print
he came aboard my ship and told me
that he had been incorrectly quoted
The reporter to whom the interview
was granted was friend OF mine, and
he afterwards told me that he had pub
lished Schley's words precisely as they
had been spoken"
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"NoTHING TO ARBlTRATE."

Officials of Steel Trust Say Demand Of
Strikers Is Only Sentimental One.
The following official statement, &C.
cording to The New York Journal
and Advertiser has been given out by
a member Of the firm Of ]. P. Morgan
& Co.:
"The United States Steel corpora.
ton will not consent to any arbitration
Of the present difficulty. There is
nothing to arbitrate. The company
stands willing to agree to the demands
of the men as to wages and hours. If
there Is any other question at issue
it is merely sentimental one raised
by the Amalgamated Association"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
TAMPA's STRIKE TROUBLES.

international Cigar Makers Take
Places of "a Resistencia Workers..
More than one hundred Internation-
al Cigarmakers broke the La Resisten-
cia strike at the factory of Cuesta, Rey
& Co., at Tampa, Fla, Monday.
The La Resistencia struck because
the house opened branch in Jackson
vile.
The Internationals commenced work
Monday morning under a heavy guard
of deputy sheriffs.
The general strike, which is now
threatened, will affect more than 1000
people.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-25
WAS AN ACT OF GOD.

coroner's Verdict On Disastrous
Wreck Near Peru, Indiana.
Coroner Varling has filed his verdict
in the Wabash wreck near Peru, Ind.,
a few weeks ago. He decides that the
victims of the disaster came to their
death by reason of cloudburst having
washed out the track, causing the
wreck, and that the company had
used ordinary care in regard to the,
culvert and track, and is not to be held
responsible for the accident.