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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
THBTBN new REGIMENTS
Orders Designating Them and Assign
ing Their Headquarters.
WILL BE SENT TO PHILIPPINES

The Senate Confirms the Nomination o'
General Miles to BE Lieutenant-Gen'
ernl of the United States Army-foung
Chaffee and Macarthur Are Major-Gen'
erals-Wilson md Lee to Be Brigadiers
Washington, D. C.-Adjutant-Gener
al Corbin has issued the necessary
orders for the organization and equip
ment Of the ten additional regiments
authorized by the new army bill. As
the regiments are organized and
drilled they will be forwarded to San
Francisco for transportation to Man.
la, but it is not expected that many
of them will be in shape to go to the
Philippines for several months. Mean
while the regular army organizations
now stationed In this country will be
used as far AS possible for Philippine
service and the new organizations used
for garrison duty in this country: Ac-
cording to the orders these regiments
will be located as follows:
Eleventh Cavalry. headquarters,
Fort Myer, VA: Twelfth Cavalry,
headquarters, Fort Sam Houston, Tex
as; Thirteenth Cavalry, headquarters.
Fort Meade, s. D.; Fourteenth Cav
airy, headquarters. Fort Leavenworth,
Kan; Fifteenth Cavalry, headquart-
ers, Preside Of San Francisco; TWen.
ty-slxth Infantry, headquarters. Fort
Mcpherson, Ca; Twenty-seventh In
fantry, headquarters. Plattsburg Bar
racks, n. Y; Twenty-eighth Infantry,
headquarters, Vancouver Barracks,
Wash; Twenty-ninth Infantry, head
quarters, Fort Sheridan, ILL.,; Thirtieth
Infantry, headquarters, Fort Logan,
Col.
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

The Philippine Commission is receiv-
inc a warm welcome from natives on
Its journey in Luzon.
The mass of evidence against Nicely
is accommodating at Havana, Cuba. and
preparations are being made for his
public trial.
The American forces in the Philip
pines have captured since. September,
eighteen cannon, 1900 rifles, thousands
of bolos, and 10000 cartridges.
A lumber yard, sawmill and fourteen
houses in Havana, Cuba, near El
Cerro, were burned, with q total loss
of 100000. Eighty persons were IN
jured, most Of them firemen.
Several arrests were made in Manila.
P. l., in connection with tic alleged
aiding Of insurgents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
ALABAMA coNvIcTs SHOT.
They Had Made Daring and Nearl.
Successful Effort to Escape.

Birmingham, Ala.-Six convicts made
a dash to escape from the coal mines
at Pratt City. They were led by Chas.
Higgins, a life man sent up for MUIR
der, and Charles Harris. serving q
twenty-year sentence. The men made
their way for two miles under ground
In entries of worked-out mines.
When the conylcts were checked of
the six men were missed. About that
time an electric gong was sound
ed as the desperate men were batterlns
down a heavy gate at the mouth of the
old mine. All the guards were notified
and when the convlcts had the gate
down and were about to get out into
the open they were fired on by the
guards.
Higgins was almost instantly killed.
Harris was shot in the breast and is
fatally wounded. The other four men
surrendered and were marched back
to prison two miles away. The con-
victs had to break down seven gates
on their underground trip.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
COLONEL ALBERT D. sHAw.

in-Chief Rossieur, Of the G. A. R., and
complained to friends nearby of suf-
fering from indigestion. His death
was due to apoplexy, and he probably
died soon after reaching his room.
The body was taken to Watertown,
N. Y, Mr. Shaw's home, where the
funeral was held.
Mrs. Shaw died on February o,
1899. Mr. Shaw leaves q son, DR..
Henry L. X. Shaw, Of Albany, and
two married daughters.
Albert Duane Shaw was born in
Lyme, N. Y, December q, 1S41. He
enlisted as a private in Company A,
Thirty-ffth New York Volunteers, in
June, 1861, and served two years. He
served one term in the State Assembly
of New York and then entered the
consular service. He was Command
erin Chief of the Grand Army Of the
Republic of New York in 1896 and Of
the National Encampment in 1899.
He was elected to Congress last No
vember to fill the unexpired term Of
Representative G. A. Chickering, who
committed suicide while temporarily
insane, and was also elected to the
Fifty-seventh Congress.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
FOREIGN.

The British Admiralty chartered the
Maine to attend the Mediterranean
deet as hospital ship.
Another epidemic of the plague Is
raging at Bombay, India. OF 2O00
deaths within q week 922 were due to
this disease.
The Governor of the Province of
Shen-Si, China. is appealing for aid IN
behalf of 100000 inhabitants OF the
famine-stricken districts.
Forty-two Russians were killed in an
engagement at KaoChiao, China. They
refused the assistance of the allies.
A dispatch from Cape Town says
that A. D. Wolmerans. Boer delegate
to the United States and Europe
writes from Paris strenuously urging
the Beers to surrender.
Many Germans are offering to tho
British Embassy, at Berlin, for serv'
ice in South Africa.
Martial law was declared in the
province of Valencia, Spain.
Professor Won Pettenkofer, famous
bacteriologist, who was eighty-three
years old, at Munich, Bavaria, com.
mitted suicide by shooting himself
with a revolver. He suffered from
melancholia.
Mr.. Marconi was successful in send
ing wireless telegraphic messages from
the Isle of Wight to Cornwall, Eng
land, two hundred miles.
Enteric fever is increasing in Brit
ish garrison camps in South Africa.
United States Charge d'Affaires Girls
com had a farewell audience with the
| Turkish Sultan.
The Dominion Government aban
| doned it's plan Of sending a commission
to st. Petersburg to examine into the
| original Alaskan documents, in defer
ence to the wishes Of the Washington
Government.
Governor Gallett was recalled tt
France. His successor is Edouart
Petit.
SIgnor Saracco, the Prime Minister
resigned on account Of the defeat O.
the Italian Ministry.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
THE REPORT ON HAZLNG
Congress Committee Submits Its
Findings in the 6ooz Case.
GILL TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS

The Report Says That Fight Arranged
at West Point Are Mucl, More Vic.
ious Than Those Conducted Under
Marquis of Queensberry Rules-Dras.
tic Measures to Stop Practice Urged.
Washington, D. C.-The report of the
special Congressional Committee
which investigated the hazing Of Cadet
Booz and the general subject of hazing
at West Point was submitted to the
House OF Representatives by the
Chairman Of the Committee, Represen-
tative Dick. together with a bill pro-
viding stringent regulations against
hazing. fighting and all brutal prac-
tices at the Military Academy.
The report is N exhaustive review
of the practice of hazing in all it's
forms. and while moderate in tone, is
nevertheless stringent arraignment
of the practices enumerated. It speci.
ties more than one hundred distinct
methods OF harassing fourth-class men,
ard describes them in detail
One of the funny formations" de-
scribed is that practised on Philip
Sheridan. Jr., who was compelled to
ride broopstick Gin mockery Of his
1llustrious fathers achievement at
Winchester"
The report describes the system Of
fighting at West Point as shocking in
It's character. The Committee declares
that the West Point code is more
vicious than the Quee:sberry code. 1t
Is held that fighting is the worst form
of hazing. that such fighting as that
at West Point is felony according to
the statutes in many of the states, and
that the time has come when Congress
must decide whether fights which are
high crimes elsewhere shall continue
at the academy.
The Committee finds that Cadets
Macarthur, Breth and Burton were
haZed into convulsions, that others
were hazed until they tainted. while
others were hazed until they were
sick.
The hazing of Cadets Booz and
Breth are elaborately treated, but the
Committee does not attribute their
deaths directly to hazing. The report
adds:
But while we cannot fix upon haz-
ing the responsibility for these two
deaths, the possibility that it fastened
them and the blot it throws on the
otherwise fair and glorious fame of the
academy, its conflicts with proper
training and discipline and un6tness
in this century, urges the adoption OF
reasonable, yet, we believe, effective,
measures for it's eradication. and the
promotion Of discipline at the acad-
emy."
The bill submitted contains eleven
sections against hazing, and provides
means for it's detection and punish
ment. Dismissal is provided as the
penalty for taking part in a fight or
challenge, directly or indirectly. or for
any form of annoying, harassing, OF
bracing cadets: Cadets dismissed are
made Ineligible to appointment to the
army. navy or marine corps. Provision
is made for courts Of inquiry. courts
martial, closer association between OIL
= GERS and cadets and other means FOR
effectually stopping the practice.
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New Brake, Fast Time.

A new kind Of instantaneous brake,
which is said to diminish almost en-
tirely the disagreeable sensation of
concussion experienced when O train
is pulled up, has been fitted to the
Paris Calais express. Armed with this
safeguard the Northern Railway of
France express covered 1S5 miles be,
tween the Care du Eord and Calais in
1874 minutes, or less than a minute a
mile-a record, at any rate on the Con-
tinent. for such a distance.-London
Daily Mail.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
Doings of State Legislatures.

A bill for q Constitutional Conven.
ton has failed to pass the Oregon Sen
ate.
Congress has been memorialized by
the Oregon Legislature to reject the
Parcels Post bill.
The New Jersey House has passed
a bill providing a penalty of one years
imprisonment or $1,000 fine, or both,
for hazing whereby bodily injury is in.
tlicted.
The Tennessee House has rejected
unanimously bill appropriating $4,000
to bring home from San Francisco the
Tennessee soldiers now en- route from
Manila.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
New Light Batteries Of Artillery.

Washington, D. C.-Orders were IS
sued at the War Department for the To-
cation Of the new light batteries Of ar
tillery provided for in the re-organiza-
ton law, at the following points:
One each at Fort Myer, Virginia;
Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Fort LeaT-
enworth, Kansas; Fort Meade, S. D.;
Fort Smelling, Mimi; Fort Hamilton,
N. Y; Fort Sheridan, ILL.,; Vancouver
Barracks, Washington; Fort Logan,
Col, and Fort Ethan Allen, vt.
Two each at Fort Riley, Kansas, and
the Preside at San Francisco.
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Minor Mention,

A workman at Cardiff, Wales. has
been attacked by bubonic plague.
The Riviera has not had such cold
January as the past month since 1871.
Net earnings Of the Tennessee pris
oners in the last two years were $780,.
900.
Railway communication has been re-
stored between Pekin, Feigtai and
Paotingfu, China.
A Cleveland (Ohio) syndicate has
raised S5OO,OO0 to quarry lithograph
stone in one of the Southwestern
States.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27

Turquoise mining in New Mexico is
Of very remote origin. Many Of the
present mines, when located, indicated
operations by the inhabitants Of New
Mexico at time prior to or contem-
poraneous with the Aztecs, stone and
earthen vessels Of great antiquity be-
ing found in the workings.
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Died While His Pardon Was Being Signed
While Governor Bliss was in the
act of signing the pardon Of John
Becker, Of Quincy, the prisoner died
of consumption at the State prison In
Jackson, Mich. Becker was convicted
at Cold Water of arson and sent in
June, 1898, to State prison for fifteen
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27

Yankee ingenuity is hard at work
these long winter days experimenting
upon or really manufacturing articles
to be used in'connection with automo-
bile industry. It is said that in sew
enty-f1ve per cent. Of New England
towns there are one or more concerns
so engaged.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27

In 1900 the Indian canoe was prac-
tically the only floating vehicle on the
great lakes, which hold one-third Of all
the fresh water in the world. To-day
the lake feet numbers several thou
sand steel steamers, with seventy ship
yards on the shores of the lakes to add
constantly to the number.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
When Brosius Speaks in whispers.

When Brosius Speaks in whispers.
Marriott Brosius, Congressman from
the Tenth District of Pennsylvania,
has q voice that Is famous
Not long ago q member of the House
was passing out Of the front door of
the Capitol with a friend when they
heard a crash behind them as Of dis
tant thunder.
what was that noise?" inquired the
friend.
81 don't know" replied the Congress-
man, unless 1t was Brosius whisper
Philadelphia Saturday Evening
Post.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
Cuba Repudiates Debts of Spain.

The Constitutional Convention at
Havana, Cuba, adopted by large ma
jority the first article Of section rs
which provides that all debts con.
tracted prior to the PRONUNCIATION OF
the constitution shall be repudiated
except those contracted on behalf OF
the revolution from and after Febru'
ary "a, 1895.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27

Death Penalty Tor Kidnapping In nIissouri
The Missouri Senate passed the bill
Furnishing kidnapping with death. This
action was taken as q result of the
recent Cudahy kidnapping in Nebraska
and was recommended by Governor
Dockery in a special message to the
Legislature.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
THE SMALLEST WOMAN IN CUBA.
Senorita de Cenda, Twenty-four Inches
Tall, Calls OH the President.

Tall, Calls OH the President.
Washington, D. C.-Among his visit
ors a few days ago President Mckin-
ley received Senorita Estirito de Cen
da, who is the smallest woman In
Cuba. She was born near Matanzas,
and is about to return home after q
visit to the United States.
Senorita de Cenda Is commonly
called by her friends "Chiquita." She
is thirty-one years old, twenty-four
inches tall. and weighs tWenty-seven
pounds. She was showily dressed In
satins and silks and wore diamonds.
She speaks Spanish, Italian. French
and English and made q little speech
to the President in the last-named Ian
guage, as follows: II want to thank
YOU, Mr.. President, for what you nave
done for my people,
The President replied: '"That was
very nice little speech, one of the most
welcome have ever received
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
Life ImprIsonment For Lynchers.

Pegram Cochran and seven other
men, who were accused Of lynching a
negro in Fairbarn, Ca, were found
guilty, and were sentenced to prison
for life at hard labor. The men were
accused OF numbering Sterling Thomp-
son, a harmless negro farmer, for alb.
Solutely no reason.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
There Is a Glass OF People

Who arc injured by the uRe of coffee. Recently
there has been placed in al the grocery stores
new preparation called GRAIN-O, made Of
pure grains. that takes the place of coffee
The most delicate stomach receives Il without
distress. and but few can tell from coffee. II
does not cost over Il as much. Children may
drink it with great benefit. Is cts. and 25 cts
per package. Try it. Ask for GEAIN-O.
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a~kror Rtoh ElnndtLo GfriEa

James Lawrie, who arrived ut Seat
tie, Wash, on a steamer from Ram
port, reports a rich strike on Kuskok
win Creek. The Alaska towns are
greatly excited and many are leaving
for the scene of the strike.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
BRITISH POLICY UNcHAN cED.
Chamberlain Say It Has Been "Approved
Overwhelmingly by the Empire"

Chamberlnfn Say 1t Has Been Approved
Overwhelmingly by the Empire"
Cape Town. South Africa.-The
Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Sec
retary of State for the Colonies, has
addressed a communication to Sir Al
fred Miner, approving the remarks
made by Sir Alfred In his reply to the
Afrikander deputation sent to him by
the Afrikander Congress at Worcester
with resolutions addressed to Queen
Victoria. "The Government has no in
tention," says the Colonial Secretary,
"of changing the policy which it has
repeatedly declared, and which has
been approved overwhelmingly by the
empire"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
LhNcAsTER's TARs IN A FIGHT.

Clash Between Sailors and the Populacs
at La Guayra, Venezuela.
Washington, D. Conformation has
been received Of clash between sail
ors Of the United States naval vessel
Lancaster, now at La Guayra, Vene
zuela, and the people Of that city. II
was the outcome of brawl between
sailors who had been enjoying them
selves on shore leave.
The Lancaster's men were forced tt
take their small boats and return tc
the ship. No fatalities are reported or
either side. -,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
Another Indian Famine.

Lord Curzon has notified the authori.
ties in London that another famine Is
impending in India, in fact has already
begun, and the immediate expenditure
of one crore of rupees, about $780,
600. is necessary, in addition to the
remission Of large land revenues.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
Heroine of Pekin Married,

Miss Mary Condit-Smith, who was In
Pekin, China, during the siege, was
married to Lieutenant Hooker. Of tho
Marine Corps, at Washington. At the
request Of the State Department she
will not publish her story Of the siege.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
Princa Commits Murder.

Prince Johann Pedocky has been
arrested for the murder Of an actress
named Pauline Mitoroski at Budapest,
Hungary. The prince, VINO was pen.
niless, robbed lis victim of jewels and
yaluaDles worth 100000.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
For Governor Of the Philippines.

President Mckinley will appoint
Judge William H. Taft Governor of
the Philippines and establish civil ad'
ninistration in the islands as soon as
the Army Appropriation bill, with the
Spooner amendment, becomes law.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
Try Grain.o! TRY Grnin.O!

Ask your grocer to-day to show you pack
age Of GRA1N-O, the new food drink that takes
the place Of coffee. The children may drink it
without injury as well as the adult. All who try
it, like it. GRA1N-O has that rich seal brown
Of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure
grains and the most delicate stomach receives
It without distress. Il the price Of coffee.
Is and 25c. per package. Sold by all grocers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
Sale of Danish Islands.

With only one dissenting voice the
Financial Committee of the Lands
thing. at Copenhagen, Denmark, has
approved the sale Of the Danish West
Indies to the United States.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27

Congressman Boutells Has Resigned.
Charles A. Boutelle has rendered his
resignation as Representative from the
Fourth Maine District in Congress, to
take effect February %.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
Senate Passes Pension Bill.

Senate Passes Pension Bill.
The Pension Appropriation bill, car.
rying $145, ,245, ,230, was passed by the
United States Senate. Claims allowed
on account of the Spanish war repre-
sent only $27O,O0O of this years total.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27

National Bank Of Cuba Incorporated.
The National Bank Of Cuba, at HaV.
ana, has been incorporated with q
capital of $1000,000.
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Have Choice Of Modes of Suicide.
The Emperor Of China is said to
have given a choice of modes OF sui
eide to the officials whose deaths are
demanded by the representatives OF
foreign nations.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
StaaI RaiIa Tor Australia.

A contract for 1900 tons OF steer
rails has been secured by the Illinois
Steel Company for the Australian
Government. The rails are to De
shipped to Melbourne.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
yaouis Defeat Mexican rroops,

Yaquis Defeat Mexican Troops.
Mexican troops were ambushed by
Yauui Indians in the mountain pass
east of Ures and fully hundred were
killed and wounded before they could
Nxtricate themselves
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
Smallpox in CalifoI MIA.

Six cases of smallpox have been
discovered in San Francisco. -Four
cases of the disease are reported IN
Oakland, Cal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
Largo Fortune Under the Carpet.

Thomas and Margaret Moore, IN
aged couple of Banklick, Ky, died
few days ago. Their two sons imme-
diately instituted q search for will.
They found $4,000 in gold under the
CARPET.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
DEATH OF CONGRESSMAN SHAW.
Former Chief of the G. A
r. Found Dead in Bed.

Washington. D. C.-Representative
Albert D. Shaw, Of the Twenty-fourth
District, and past Commander-in.
Chief of the Grand Army Of the Re.
public, was found dead in his room at
the Riggs House. He attended a
banquet the previous evening at the
Ebbitt House in honor Of Commander.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
pox Dies of Lockiaw After Vaccination.

Boy Dies of Lockjaw Alter Facc'hatlon'
Francis Mccormick, aged eight, died
at the Mercy Hospital, in Springfield,
Mass, Of lockjaw, which set in after
vaccination. The physician who vac
cinated the boy is not known, but the
authorities will investigate the case.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
Smallpox In England.

Smallpox In England.
Smallpox has broken out among the
Thirteenth Hussars at Norwich, Eng
land.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-02-27
Lanes Family Medicine


Moves the bowels each day. In order to
be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on
the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache.
Price 25 and so cents,