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The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
A Horrible Fate.

AS result of an accident at the
Orr Mill at Anderson one day last
week Hugh III. Scott, a machineSt and
engineer, lost his life. Scott was sent
there several weeks ago by the West
inghouSe- -Church-K Kerr company to
superintend the erection of the new
l 900 horse power engine. Steam was
turned ON the engine for the first
time and Scott was standing by watch
ing its movements. He stepped upon
the base to oil bearing when bis
foot slipped and he fell into the rapid
ly moving fly-wheel. He was whir!cd
around and hurled to the opposite side
of the engine. lie was horribly
crushed and mangled, both legs being
broken and the lower part of his body
was crushed. Notwithstanding the
injuries he was conscious when assist
ance reached him and wrote the name
OF relative in Michigan to whom he
wished a telegram sent.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
Republicans in a Hole.

Speaking Of the Crumpacker resolu-
tion, Representative ID. Linn Gooch,
OF Kentucky, who is one of the most
conservative men I'm the house, said
last week that for once the Republi-
cans have placed themselves in hole -
He said further: I'VE remember what
followed the force bill legislation of the
tifty-tirSt congress the election OF a
Democratic house and two years later
the election of Mr.. Cleveland. l do
not hesitate to say that i'm my humble
opinion we will elect democratic house
this fall and thus pave the way to car
ry the presidential election in 1904,
and the Crumpackcr resolution will
prove to be worth thousands OF votes
to lis next November
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
A Crnel Husband.

j. b. Post, a farmer 30 years old,
living on the Worth road. four miles
south OF Tanawanda, n. Y, bound his
wife Amanda TO stake In the bull
pen OF his stable Thursday morning.
She wore Il red calico apron, which
aroused confined bull to frenzy and
in It's rage the animal attacked the
woman and gored her to death. 1t Is
said that Posts act was caused by
Jealousy OF Hiram Coates, Free
Methodist preacher who lives at Ken
more, half mile south Of the Post
farm. Coates has been a frequent
caller at the Post farm and had often
gone out driving with Mrs. Post.
Thursday night he met Mrs. Post at a
prayer meeting at Kenmore, and as
the pair were attentive to each other
turning home.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
Tired of Life.

Wednesday evening a porter of the
Scriven House, savannah, Ga, de-
tected an odor OF gas. 1t came from
room 63. He tried the door and found
that it was locked on the inside. He
got on table and pushed open the
tranSOm over the door. 1t was dark
inside and the porter Struch match
and held it up. Instantly there was an
explosion. Room 63 and number
adjoining We're wrecked, and windows
shattered in other parts OF the house.
y fire alarm was turned in. Firemen
entered room 63 and found on the bed
the dead body Of w u. HankinSon,
aged 24, OF Ellcnton. S. G. He had
taken morphine, unscrewed the tip
from the gas burner and turned on
the gas. Letters found on his body ex-
piaincd that he was respondent and
determined to die.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
An Editors Lament.

The Knoxville Sentinel saws it /,
astonishing how the public looks upon
the newspaper rs Il free horse To be
ridden to death. People will pay
money for band, for lights, jamitor,
TO 20 to a job printing Office and buy
thousands Of dodgers. pay boys % de-
liver them, pay performers in the en-
tertainment. # they are professionals.
or pay some mauagcr to get up the al
fair aud give him 4 large percentage
OF the receipts, pay ali their bill-in
fact, pay for everything except that
which is most valuable TO tnem-to
wit, newspaper advertising. And If
The newspaper is unwilling to devote
more n)ticc u Sucl cn5artainm mt
than liberal news notices il come; i'm
for mach abuse. And vet why
Shout not the newspaper charge
for it, advertising Splce just aS the
owner >, the hlil charges for its rent.
the Billboard mln chlrEeS foe taa use
OF his Il isbOIriS, the iitaJ Eraphers
-charIa f II furnishing posters. the
JOB printing Ollie chprgeS for the
dodgcra, and the outside parties charge
for their services? The uewSpapcr has
only two sources OF revenue. One is
subscription, the other advertising.
The subscriptions to newspapers are
so cheap that they little more than
pay the cost OF the white paper
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
Has Thirteen Wiycs.

Christian G. Nelson, railroad con
tractor and horseman, alleged to have
3 wives is in jail at st. Joseph. Mo,
on the charge OF bigamy, having just
been brought in from San Antonio,
Tex, where he was arrested n few
days ago. Nelson will be tried in
St. Joseph because one Of the women
most active in his prosecution was mar
ricd TO him in that city last Septem-
Der. This bride was Mrs Mary 4.
Parker OF Plattsburg, Mo. Nelson
admits having three wives, but says
the other 10 are myths He is said
TO be wanted for bigamy in Chicago,
San Francisco, DcS Moines. New York.
st. Paul, Sumter, 5. c.. and Conway,
Ark. His preliminary trial will be
held before the same justice Of the
peace who Solcmnizcd his marriage
with Mrs. Parker in September
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
Corpse Held for Board.

a funny case is reported from St
Louis. Until few minutes before
the hour set for the funeral of Mrs.
Carrie Schlosinger, Friday afternoon,
there was doubt as to whether the
services would take place; the body be-
ing held for board bill alleged to be
due Levi Sliyerman and wife OF 2Sl6
Olive street, where Mrs. SchleSinger
died. Henry SchleSinger, the woman'S
son. who is n travelling salesman, was
notified by wire Of his mothers death.
and came to st. Louis To arrange for
the funeral. The SilvermanS presented
to him bill of $50 for his mothers
board and their care for her. SchlcS-
niger declined to pay and was told
that the body would be held. SchleS-
niger employed Attorney Howard
Sidencr and was about to enter suit in
replevin when the matter was cumpro-
missed
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
A SALUDA MYSTERY.
A Bad Negro, Who Had Been Miss-
ing, Found Dead.

A dispatch from Saluda to The State
says the finding OF the dead body of
John Chapman, a negro In the employ
OF Mr.. S. b. Corley, in Mr.. Corley's
pasture has created quite sensation.
Chapman, a negro of bad reputation,
had been missing for two weeks. On
Sunday, the 9th inst, soon after
Chapman left Mr.. Corley's house to go
to his fish basket i'm Little Saluda
| river, three gun shots were heard by
several persons in the direction Chap
man had gone. Chapman's wife, fear
ing difficulty, as she says, went in
search OF her husband but failed to
find him. Searching parties were or
gaDized, and Coroner Gibson under
took an Investigation, but on being
assured by and estimable lady that
she had seen Chapman pass her house
after the firing OF the guns, he abandon
ed it. 1t was then thought by some
that Chapman had run Off to avoid
arrest for robbing Riley's store at Mt.
Willing.
Your correspondent went to the
anu Jllc H..
1t was found that the negro had been
shot twice, one load OF shot entering
his heart and the other back OF his
head. An empty shell was found near
his body Julia Chapman, the dead
mans wife, was examined by the cor
ner and testified that her husband
told her on Saturday afternoon previ-
GUS TO the time he is supposed to have
been killed that Bee Corley, Mr.. S. B.
Corley's son had warned him TO leave,
as Bob Corley and others would kill
him If he remained there, as he Chap
mani had been telling that Bob Corley
and Bee Corley had helped him to rob
Riley's store. Bee Corley was seen
and denied this in toto Bob Corley
was not present. Both are young men
Of good reputation.
The only other evidence of any i'm
terest brought out before this CORE
Spondent left was the statement OF
Dave Perry that Chapman had sold
him number OF small articles pre-
Sumcd to have been stolen from Riley's
store. The corOner's jury is composed
OF good men and they seem determin-
ed to solve the mystery if possible.
Mr.. 5. b. Corley and the members OF
his family, 1T is understood, say that
Bee Corley was at home at the time
OF the firing OF the shots. MIR. l.. j.
Merchant, an honorable man, states
that Bob Corley was at his house when
the shots were fired. One theory Is
that Chapman, who was gambler,
was killed 10y other negro gamberlers
1t Is said that the bottoms OF Little
Saluda river are resort for negro
gamblers on Sundays Chapman was a
negro OF bad reputation and has tigur-
ed in court nuite often
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
MASoNS ON A LARK
shriners do Not Represent Serious
Side of Grand Lodge.

Grand Master Waiter NJ. Whitehead,
OF the South Carolina Grand lodge.
contributes Il card to the Charleston
Evening Post Thursday, called Draw
ing the distinction betw cen Ancient
Free Masonry and the order OF the
Mystic Shrine" with the end in view
that the public should not confuse the
serious order with the amusement
branch OF Masonry, about which so
much is being written and talked now
IN connection with the coming celcbra-
t'on OF "Shrincrs' day" at the eXpo>i-
ti"n. Grand Master Whitehead ex
plains That the Mystic Shrine with all
its amusements and attractions is not
Masonry, although the only prercquis-
tie fer membership in the Mystic
Shrine is that the applicant must lie
either Knight Templar or Mason
OF the 32nd degree of The Scottish Rite.
Among ether things Grand Master
whitehead states:
III Is to he eXpected that the pro
'"i'' IIlt Hi'iHltldteQ WHO has never
learned the beautiful system OF NOR
allty that Masonry inculcates, may con-
clndc from the absurd. farcical parade
and the reference To hot sands" ''hot
air" sober camelS. ''aStutc astrolo-
gers, rope ends" and other fantas-
tic and nonS2nsical terms, that Mason
ry is unworthy the attention Of seri-
ouS and digniiied men.
Such, however, is not the case. The
Shrine should not be cOnf0unded with
the Masonic system, as it is neither
Ma'onrY nor 4 branch OF Masonry.
While 1t diyertS its members and
amuics the gaping crowd the grand
Old Order OF The Masonic fraternity,
which has survived the criticism of
centuries of inquiring thought, sur
vived the hostility of crowned and |
mitered heads, grown grander as it
has grown older, which has secured |
the fealty Of sages, philanthropists
and patriots, which has dried the |
tears OF orphanage, huShed the wall |
OF widowhood, helped the stranger to
friends and the poor to benefactors
Will continue to move forward down |
the centuries undisturbed and undis-
mayed by the silly pranks and foolish
antics or the Mystic Shrine.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
\ Democrat Gnscatcd.

The Republicans in the House last
Wednesday unScatcd Mr. Rhea of
Kentucky, Democrat, and seated in
his place Mr.. j. Mackenzie Moss, who
was formerly Democrat but who.
according To his brief, is In accord
with Republicans on the dominant
issues. The Republican majority in
the house is ~. While only two Re
publcanS. IIanbury and Nrceland OF
New \ Ork, voted with the Democrats,
enough Republicans remained away or
declined to vote TO reduce the minOri-
to 10. The conclusion Of the debate
upon the case was rather spirited. Mr..
Rhca making an eloquent defense Of
his right to the seat. Mr.. Rhea made
Il severe arraignmcnt OF Nh Moss, the
contestant charging that although
he now called himself a Republican
that two weeks before the election he
had registered rs a Democrat and had
pledged himself If elected to go into
the Democratic caucus. With inn
pasSioned words he challenged the
contestant or his friends to deny this
statement. II IL is denied" said he.
II willproye him to be the poor, miscr-
able creature | know him To be-"
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02

IL is giving away a state secret tO saY
that there Is not Il man IN the House
or Representatives. on either side wliu
sees the proper solution OF this prob
lem ahead. believe that the Ameri-
can people now face a serious situation
tnat 1t will require a. the shrcwdness
and Christianity Of our people TO solve
this most difficult question. But !
have faith in the future of the Repub-
lie, despite THAT international vermi-
form appendix known as the Philippine
Archipelago"
Mr.. Littlefeld's speech has been
hailed with delight 10y the Democrats
especially, and should the Crumpacker
resolution ever reach the House from
committee it is thought not unlikely
that the man from Maine may take the
f"nr in opposition 10 the measure.
Certain ii is that Mr.. Littlefcld has
shown that lie is hot afraid to say
what ne believes, be it Republican in
sentiment or not
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
A Dangerous Tool.

The best OF bank safes are no longer
burglar preOf for julius Il. Haschke, Il
Chicago electrician, who has bought
al invention which will enable the
man applying it to cut through the
hardest steel plate as boy with a
knife would cut st. Lawrence county
cheese. Armor plate such as is used
ON the United States battleships, can
be perforated as an auger would bite
its way through plank OF Northern
nine
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
TILLMAN'S CHARGES.
Senator McLaurin's Friends Insists
on an investigation

Senator Pritchard, of North Caro-
lima, is making an effort at the meet
ing OF the committee on privileges
and elections secure action on the
ago calling for an investigation of the
charges made by Senator Tillman
against John L. McLaurin, that the
latter was influenced by promises of
control OF federal patronage in casting
his vote for the ratification OF the
Paris peace treaty.
There Is a feeling among certain
Republicans in the senate that this
subject should be allowed to drop,
but Senator McLaurin's friends insist
that the investigation be made, and
Mr.. Pritchard, who is a member OF
the committee before which the resolu-
tion is pending, will urge that a favor
! able report be adopted. Sentiment
| in the senate seems TO favor the adop-
| tion of this resolution. Mr.. Tillman's
friends say he can prove the charges
he has made, while Mr. McLaurin's
| friends insist that he can not. Both
sides, therefore, are ready To support
the proposition for an investigation.
! II is said that Senator j. c. Bur
rows, of Michigan, chairman of the
committee, does not favor the Pritch,
ara resolution, and will strive to have
it suppressed Among the warmeS
advocates of the resolution is Senate
NJ. y. Hanna, who says he believe
the Tillman charge reflect on the lat
President Mckinley, and he will lenC
his efforts TO favorable report upol
the ground that the memory of tn
aSSaSSinatCd President should b.
purged OF all aSpersonS.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
Gave His i,irc for Others.

To the Editor of The State:
Seeing an inquiry in your paper as
to the whereabouts Of DR.. j. w Powell,
surgeon in the Confederate States
army. l will say DR.. Powell went 10
Mississippi during the yellow fever
epidemic several years ago ana died OF
the fever. He went there to help the
fever sufferers and lost his life. Dr.
Powell was a native OF Fairfield coun-
ty and has quite a number OF relatives
in that county now.
j. :. GUNNBLL.
New BrOOkland, March %.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
Hard ON FunstOa.

Senator PatterSonS. Of Colorado in
the United States Senate Thursday
sharply criticised the methods by
which Gen. Funston captured
Aguinaldo and sought TO show that
Gen. FunstOns statement published
to today that he had not violated the
articles Of civilized warfare was not
accurate. The senator said that all
authorities upon international law
and the articles OF civilized warfare
declared that the use OF the enemy
uniform was not warranted and that
a man in an enemy's uniform who
killed another man was guilty oG
assassination and outside the pale OF
protection.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
Justice at Last.

Nicely, Rathbone and Reeves, the
American carpetbag officials who loot
ed the Cuban postofllce department,
have received tardy justice In senten-
ces OF ten years imprisonment accom-
panied 10y fines ranging from $40
900 TO $50, 900. The cases againS
them were begun two years ago,
and the slowneSS OF the American
administration i'm Cuba in pressing
the prosecutions has been scandal
GUS.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
After Many Years,

Laborcrs engaged in digging away
hill at Old Brunswick, near VIII
mingtun, y. c., uncovered a skeleton
which is believed to be that Of a British
soldier killed during or before the rev.
Ulutionary war. In the white sand
about the skeleton were found a num-
Der OF brass military buttons Of English
manufacture during the seventeenth
century.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
Who Can Answer?

Governor McSweency has received
a letter from Edwin ID. Newton, A.
NJ, NJ. D., asNIug Tor the whereabouts
OF DR.. J w. Powell who was medical
director of the Sd army corps Of the
Army OF Northern Virginia. Mr.
Newton was a member of the immedi-
ate stafT of Chief Surgeon Guild, A.
n. V.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
Better Late Than Never.

The Columbia State says Henry
WatterSOn is always racy, always in
ciSiyc, and he made gaOd use OF his
genius for phraSc-making in the
speech he delivered in Washington on
Monday. We hope it will have its ef-
feet upon those present or former
Democrats who need n political chart.
But Mr.. WattcrsOn in urging the
Democracy to unite on a platform OF
opposition TO Imperialism and abSo-
lutism does not blaze out new path
for the party. The national Demo
cratic convention in 1900 distinctly de-
clared that opposition TO the admins.
tratiOn'S policy OF imperialism was THE
paramount issue" OF the campaign
and long before that action was Off.
Cially taken by the party large ma
jority OF the Democratic papers had
committed themselves to the same
proposition. The trouble with Wat.
tcrson is that ne has not always been
sound on the issue himself. Now that
his views are amended and improved
we are glad; but we protest that oul
newest recruit If somewhat audaciou,
i'm Signalling his coming into camp by
reading general order fixing the plar
Of battle
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
\ Blind Architect.

ID. f. Rearden, Boston architect,
is totally blind. Nevertheless he has
designed may building in that city,
and has just completed the plans for
a six-story apartment house TO be
erected by the Perkins Institute for
he Blind.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
WE ARE DEMOCRATS.
THE MAN ON HORSEBACK

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have the man on horseback. Affect
ing the simplicity of the cowboy, he
conceal beneath the self-conlidcnce and
queer manners of the bronchO buster,
the sentiments and ambitions, if not
the talents, of Diaz. To him, lit
tie thing like treating an admiral of
the navy, wearing the laurel leaves of
imperishable renown, as if he were Il
baby in arms, now to be dawdlcd and
now to be spanked, is merely an un-
dress affair begun and ended during
oiT-momentS between breakfast and
luncheon. TO him the reprimanding
OF the acknowledgement of the army,
grown gray in the fighting Of the bat
ties Of his country, becomes an anus
ing horse play, meant to relax his
muscles and illustrate his high -mighti-
ness, whilst warning lesser officers OF
the army to obey orders and say moth
ing
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02

an tolu Dy WnlpperSnapper in ShU.l-
der straps that, unless L do, | am 4
traitor to my country, my reply to
MIN shall be slap in the face.
THE TRUMPET CALL.
Friends, brothers, Democrats. let
us have done with diSsension. Let us
TURN our backs on the past, our eyes
TO the future, calling against these
things is my comrade, no matter what
he thinks or ever thought about silver
or gold. He who would deny me a
place by his side 10 fight them, must
he either very peryerse or very blind.
Let us cross no bridges till we come
to them. But already we can see far
enough ahead to take our reckoning.
TOE THE LINE"
There will be but one test of n
Democrat in i904-toe the line-toe
the line, saying to arbitrary power
and abSolutiSm, thou shalt go no fur
ther; we, too, are in the expansion
business: but our expansion is for the
religion OF the constitution no less
than for the religion of Christ and
Him crucitied; our expansion means
peace, not war; the honor, not the de-
gradation Of the flag; and just as sure
ly as Jefferson wrote the Declaration
OF Independence and Jackson fought
the battle of New Orleans-to resist
despotiSm-shall we make new
Fourth of July and celebrate another
eighth OF January, in resisting this
unrighteous scheme to abolish the
constitution and Mcxicanize the gov
ernment.n
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-02
A MILITARY DICTArnK.

y AM
AS these things go forward par
taking somewhat of the. character OF
feats to divert and blinds to hoodwink
public opinion, bill Of army rcOrgan-
ization is prepared and urged upon
congress, which, if it becomes a law,
will make the power Of the president
absolute, and which it is not too
much to say ought to be entitled An
act to make the president OF the Uni
ted States a military dictator Be
cause the rcprimanded lieutenant
general, answering the summons of Il
committee Of congress as was his
duty-eXpreSSeS an opinion adverse to
this bill, it is proposed to retire him
from the service. Taken in cOnncc-
tion with some other matters of more
or less sinister suggestion, these are
menaceS of most OminouS import.
WHITE HOUSE no THE CAPITOL.
but, turn from the white house To
the capitol, and look at the Republi-
cans in congress. The trail OF the
trade mark is over them all Old high
tariff dances the cancan in the house,
whilst old ship subsidy does the rcgu-
latiOn cake walk in the senate. Every
thing for the SyndiCatcs. Nothing
for the people. And, not content with
their arbitrary power in the white
house and their mCrccnary power in
congress- the leaders OF this party uf
federalism and false prctchSiOn would
rip open PandOra's box to tilch thence
the black, piratlcal flag OF negro dom
ination-the equally diSrcputable and
bloody shirt OF sectional agitation
and, in order TO make sure OF the next
house they are proposing TO bring for
ward another force bill to Smitc the
south, to blight the north, and TO con
vert land teeming with love and
peace into land rceking with nate
and strife. Such is the banquet tc
which the exit OF Mckinley, the
statesman, and the advent of ROOsc-
velt, the Rough Rider, has invited us
a SLAP FOR FUNSTON.
Il am something of lingo myself
l believe in the expanding greatness
and glory Of my country. | never see
the flag floating above the dome on
yonder capitol that my heart does not
throb with the proud, glad thought
that my eyes do not ilil with happy
exultant tears that /, too, am al
American citizen.
God bless the flag, and God blcs,
the boys that fight beneath it.
would carry it inviolate, / would keel
them spOtess And with this in view
| want To know what is going on
away out FOUNDER across the multitud
inous, the mysterious waves Of The
Pacific sea. | want other witnesses
than self-Seeeing politicians and self
exploiting soldiers TO come here anC
tell me. refuse to hold my tongue
i refuse to rest content. And, if