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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28
Smallpox Near Camden.

There are two cases of smallpox near
Camden. The first case discovered was
a negro living on the road near the
railroad crossing Just east of the city !;
the other case is in Kirkwood There
is also a case of chickenpox or small
pox on Teams row on Campbell street.
In view of the appearance of smallpox
the Board of Health passed resolu-
ton recommending general vaccina-
tion in all cases not recently success
fully vacccinated. -Wateree Messenger.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28
Clemson College.

The meeting of the board of trustees
of Clemson College, which will take
place on June 4, will doubtless be of
greater Importance than the people of
the State generally think. It is said
by Greenville man, who is in posi-
tion to know, that Dr.. Hartzog will
demand thorough investigation Of
his record as president and Of the
recent trouble at the college. It is
thought that such an investigation
will make some surpriinsg disclosures.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28
Winthrop College Scholarship and
Entrance Examinations.

The examinations for the award of
vacant scholarships in Winthrop College
and for the admission of new students viii
be held at the County Court House on FRI
day, July 11th, at a. N.
Applicants must not be less than fifteen
years of age.
When scholarships are vacated after
July 18th, they will be awarded to those
making the highest average at this ezannl-
nation.
The next session will open September
II, 1902.
For further information and a catalogue
address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill,
S. C.
May 2s-July lila
Just received fresh lot of Crepe
paper Sc. roll. H. G. Osteen & Co.
Detective stories of all kinds at q.
G. Osteen & Co.'S book store.
Flower baskets to suit all. 4. G.
Osteen & Co.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28

"A lecturer on the mistakes of his
tory says that Ethan Allen did not
utter at the taking of Fort Ticon..
deroga the ringing phrase associated
with that event in the mind OF every
schoolboy. Instead of informing the
British commander that he demanded
the surrender of the stronghold in
the name of the great Jehovah and
the Continental Congress, he shout
ed: Come out of that, you old rat. )"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28
Flower Baskets.

Fancy flower baskets of many sizes,
shapes and prices can be had at Il. G.
Osteen & Co. IS book store. The stock
is large and the prices as low as it is
possible to make them. If you expect
to send flowers to friend during COM
mencement weekEyou will need pref
ty basket. May 2'-3t.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28
sUpr. OF EDUCATION.

We present to the voters of Sumter
county at the primary election the name
of S. Dwight Cain for the Office Of County
Superintendent of Education. Mr.. Cain
is thoroughly qualified, and has been con-
stantly engaged in teaching in this, his
native county, and Richland, the past six
years. Friends.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28
CANDIDATES CARDS

The cards of candidates for county and
State Offices will be inserted in this column
continuously until the Primary Election
for Five (s5) Dollars. payable cash in ad-
vance. -
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28

The Sssatey Waschnsnas vas founded
in 1850 and she True Soasaroas in 1866
The Waschnsaa and Soaahron now has
the combined circulation and influence
Of both d she old papers, and is mani
festly the best advertising medium in
Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28

Now is the paper hat season. Nice
assortment material at a. G. Osteen
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28

The negro. Thompson, who says he
will be the Republican candidate for
Congress in this district, does not
enter the race with any hope or ex-
recitation Of defeating Congressman
Lever bat for the purpose of making a
contest or the seat in Congress and
thus securing few hundred dollars
from the fund allowed contestees for
expenses. It is an old game, but 1t
NAV still be worked successfully.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28

The proposition made by Governor
Mcsweeney at the meeting of the State
Democratic Executive Committee, that
the county chairmen be notified of the
dates of the canapign meetings and
requested TO arrange for the entertain.
ment of all OF the candidates by citi-
zens, is the checklist thing that has
vet developed in political circles. The
very idea of quartering the horde of
oGce-seekers who viii go around the
State upon the people is distasteful
and violates our idea OF the proprie-
ties. The offce-seekers are in nowise
the guests of the communities they
visit and there is no obligation resting
upon the people to provide quarters
and raticns for them. The candidates
are seeking Office as matter. Of busi-
ness, and if they did not hope to bet
Ter their condition none would join the
campaign circus. In the present, as
in past campaigns, many of the candi-
dates viii be welcome guests and will
be gladly entertsined bys.their person
al friends, without gratuitous sugges-
sions from State Executive Com
mitsee; but there may be, and doubt
less will be, Candidates whom no one
will wish TO entertain, and the effort
to quarter them upon the people may
prove an embarrassing undertakings.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28
Rev. A. Coke Smith, D. D., of the

Rev. A. Coke Smith, D. D.. of the
Virginia Conference, M. E. Church,
South, who was: yesterday elevated to
the Bishopsic. is a native of Sumter
County, having been born and reared
to manhood st Lynchburg, where his
family have lived for more than a CEN
sury. He has two brothers in this
State, Rev. G. B. Smith, of the S. g.
Conference, and Mr.. E. D. Smith, OF
Lynchburg. DR.. Smith has for many
years occupied high and honored
position in the esteem of Methodists
and has filed many important positions
With distinguished honor and credit to
himself and his church. His election
as Bishop yesterday was an honor
Worthily bestowed, for no member OF
the ministry Of the II. E. Church,
South, is better qualified for the high
Office and rome would discharge the
responsibilities and duties of the posi-
tion more ably nor with greater just
ness and fairness. Bishop Smiths
many friends in Sumter extend to him
sincere congratulations and wish him
God-speed IN the great work ne has
before him.
The State Democratic Convention
was harmoaious And being harmo-
nious It was little else. But as it was
also harmless and stirred up no strife
OF bitterness, the people as rule are
better pleased with i than if it had.
crystalized some great political princi-
ole or sent6orth an epoeh-making plat
form. The platform adopted is rather
dry reading and Just mite long-wind-
ed, considering The absence Of original
ity Of ideas.
The plan to have two campaign
meetings in each county this summer
does not meet with enthusiastic ap-
proYal. The people with whom we
have talked do not care for SO many
meetings and: SO much speech-making
of the campaign variety, and we are
free to declare that in our opinion the
whole thing is stuff and nonsense.
One meeting in each Congressional
district sgonld be sufficient, and all
Others are s1perauous. Whenever the
people of community wish to hear
the candidates speak they can get up
meeting aad invite the candidates to
address it. Such meetings would be
Few in number, We believe.
WAGNER Day was magnificent sue
cess, the attendance being the largest
IN the history of the Exposition.
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The proposition made by Governor
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28

We publish today the schedules Of
campaignsmeetings, and we suggest
that politicians, amateur as we'll as
professional. clip the schedules and file
them away for reference. By SO
doing they Will have at hand the in
formation. that they viii want quite
frequently during the summer.
The Boers have not yet agreed to the
peace terms offered By the British,
and the hope all Englishmen have en-
tertained. recently that peace would be
positively established before the coro-
nation Of King Edward seems doomed
to disappointment.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28

ENTERTAINMENT OF SPEAKERS.
On motion of Governor McSweeney,
the chairman was instructed to notify
the county chairmen in ample time of
the dates of the meetings and suggest
to each county chairman the propriety
of assigning each Of the candidates to
homes of local people for entertain
ment.
a special committee, consisting OF
the chairman, Mr.. Wilborn and Mr..
Traxler, was appointed to watch the
progress of the campaigns, and when
it was found necessary to arrange fol-
special trains for the movements OF
the campaign parties to undertake to
make such arrangements.
The committee instructed the chair
man to take up the matter of securing
cheap rates for the campaigners from
the railroads, asking for half rates.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28

WAGNER Day was magnificent sue
cess, the attendance being; the largest
IN the history of the Exposition.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06

". ]. Bryan was nearly killed at Lin
coin, Neb., as the result of playing the
part of peacemaker. Riding on horseback
ne saw two men fighting. Leaping to the
ground, he separated the combatants and
one of them Immediately attacked him
with revolver in one hand and knife
in the other, and a struggle ensued. The
stranger was frenZied from liquor and
the excitement of his previous combat
and Mr.. Bryan was almost overpowered,
when John Burke, a barber, came TO his
assistance and the two speedily had the
enraged man on the ground and disarm-
ed. Those present wanted the man turn
ed over to the police, but Mr.. Bryan ad-
vised letting him go, and his assailant
departed without his name being learned.
Though a large number of people saw the
affair, no one present knew the man.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
BLINDS JEwELER, TAKES GEMS.
Bold Robber Throws Red Pepper ana
Secures Tray of Diamonds,

Bold Robber Throws Red Pepper and
Secures Tray of Diamonds.
In Cleveland an unknown man entered
the jewelry store of Charles e. Wilsdorf,
on Payne avenue, and after the jeweler
had placed tray containing about 81 600
worth of diamonds ON the counter the
man threw a handful of red pepper in the
jewelers. eyes, grabbed the tray of dia-
monds, and made good his escape. Mr..
Wilsdorf, Notwithstanding the fact that
he was blinded by the pepper, grabbed
revolver and followed the man into the
street, firing as he went. A big crowd
joined in the chase, but the robber sue
ceeded in Guiding his pursuers. Later
Mr.. Wilsdorf was found wandering help
lessly about the street and the physicians
at the hospital to WHICH he was taken
are of the opinion that his sight has been
totally destroyed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
CONVICTS SHOT LIKE DOGS.
The Legislative Committee Reports
FrightfuI Condition of Affairs.

The Legislative Committee Reports
FrightfuI Condition of Affairs
Convicts treated like beasts of the held
and shot down like dogs by guards ana
contractors upon the slightest preteXt
Is the charge made against the manage
ment of the Texas State penitentiary by
an investigating committee appointed by
the last Legislature. The statement con-
tinues: at is our conviction that the
lease system is a disgrace to the State
and ought to be abolished. AS rule the
life of convict is not as valuable III the
eyes of the sergeants, guards and con-
tractors, with few exceptions, as that OF
a dog. In evidence thereof we find that
the average life of a convict IS seven
years. Convcts are shot down upon the
least provocation and when there is abso-
lutely no excuse for it. Convicts are
worked when they are sick and disabled
and some have been compelled to work
until they have dropped dead in their
tracks. When men are shot down like
dogs and are worked until they drop dead
under this system, the people of Texas
cannot hope to escape the responsibility
for these wrongs. The existing methods
are harsh, cruel, inhuman and unworthy
of an enlightened people. The law in
regard to whipping convicts ought TO be
repealed. The sergeant whips at any
and all times that it is his pleasure to do
so. The contract system ought to be
abolished at once and a more humane
system inaugurated."
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
BOY WRITES OF Staying BABY
Strange Letter Received by the Police
Is Confess ion of Murder.


If the statements made in a letter re-
ceived at the Omaha police station are
true, my Huffman is a murderer and
suicide. There was no stamp on the en-
velope 1t was addressed to police sta
ton, Omaha, Neb." The letter said:
Dear Sir-I am the one that cut Gtt
Dora Jackman's hair. am IL years old.
Two months after my mother died Kill
ed our baby, which was months and
days old. l am on my way to jump III
the Missouri river. l had nothing against
her. She was always polite to me. Put
this in the papers. l am so mean. put
on the clothes l had on when l cut OH
her hair l put her hair in my pocket.
l cut it off with a sharp razor L could
not stand to think what | had done, SO
l killed myself" my Huffman cut
long braid of hair from the head of Dora
Jackman during the early part of Febru-
airy. A complaint was filed against him
at that time, but he was never arrested
nor could any of his relatives be located
by the police. The police are now max
ing a search for the boy or his body. The
body Of an infant was found last June
which was unidentified, and which the
police believe to have been the baby men
toned
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
ROBBERS KILL POLICEMAN.
Were Caught Holding Up Kansas City
Street Car Barn.

An attempt was made by two masked
men at $3.50 Tuesday morning to rob the
Metropolitan Street Railway car barn at
Tenth and Usage streets, Armourdale,
Kan. Waterman Minsker was ordered
to hold up his hands and was taken into
the Office, but before the robbers obtained
any booty Policeman J. w. Norris enter
ed through the back door. Morris dealt
one of the robbers a heavy blow on the
head with his club and was shot through
the heart and killed by the second robber.
Waterman Minsker also was shot and
slightly injured Both robbers escaped.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
MANY INDIANS ARE STARVING
Government Will Feed 5000 Owing
to Appeal from Utah.

Government Will Feed 6,OOO Owing
to Appeal from Utah.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones
received a telegram from Senator Raw
Inns of Utah, reporting that 5000 Indians
on the Navajo reservation in the south
ern part of his State are starving. The
Senator requested that assistance be sent
to them. The restitution is caused by the
lack of vegetation due to excessive
drouth. Commissioner Jones at once ask
ed authority from the Secretary Of the
Interior to expend $4,000 in the purchase
of supplies to relieve the starving In
dams. Owing to the exigency of the
case he asked that the supplies be pur-
chased in the open market. The Secre-
tary granted the request and relief will
be sent Immediately.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
Craig Instantly Killed,

The awe-stricken crowd which witness
ed the accident rushed to the Presidents
carriage, but with no expectation that
he would be found alive The President
was cut on the right side of his chin ard
his face.
Secret Service Agent William Craig
was killed outright, and d. J. Pratt, the
driver of the coach. sustained fracture
in the skull which later caused death.
Ehe coach. which was a regulation tai
ly-hO vehicle. was struck by an electric
car on the Pittstield and Lenox street
railway at about 9:30 o'clock The acct
dent happened at a point about q mile
and half from LenoX near the Pitts
field Country Club house while the Presi-
dent and his party were enjoying coach
ing trip from Dalton, Gov. Cranes home
where the President spent the night, to
LenoX, distance of about twenty miles
over the Berkshire hills. The car was
in charge of Motorman Luke j. Madden
on the front platform.
The car struck the coach in the rear
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
TRAGEDY IN A "BLIND PIG"
Five Men Seriously Shot and Cut Dur
ing Drunken Fray.

Five drunken Italians hacked aud shot
one another in DOminick Ozeilios' speak
easy" at Dillonvale, Ohio, until it resem-
bled shamblcs. OZelios was shot near
the heart, a second man through the arm
and a third through the abdomen, all by
one man. He also shot a fourth, who
had already been stabbed, and who after
ward was spirited away. A Slav par
ticipant was stabbed and a cash cut in
his head with a Ratchet. Two of the
wounded men may die. Dillonvale was
voted municipality of Jefferson County
that day, so that liquor could be sold in it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
USES RIFLE ON A PROWLER.
Alleged Chicago Negro Probably Fa-
tally Shot at Cleveland.

Simon Johnson, a negro, who gave lis
home as Chicago, was shot just outside
the residence of Attorney Chas. n. Shell
don of Cleveland, with a rifle in the hands
Of Mr.. Sheldon. The negro tried 20 es-
cape after being shot, but was trailed by
bloodhounds and captured about 600
yards from the house. His injuries are
probably fatal The capture of Johnson,
it is believed, clears up the mystery in
series of burglaries which have been
terrorizing the residents of East Cleve-
land for three weeks.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06

down South street, two carriages on
either side. When near the Country Club
and at the railroad crossing, an electric
car was noticed coming at a terrific rate
Of speed.
Mr.. Craig signaled to the motorman to
stop, but he apparently paid no attention
to the warning and the car came pluIg
ing on in its work of death. The Presi-
dents carriage was literally smashed to
pieces. The President, Gov. Crane ard
Secretary Cortelyou were piled up in a
hHnn
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06

Unanimous action of Ohio Democrats
in carrying out plans of Tom Johnson
makes Cleveland Mayor formidable can
didate for the presidency. Democrats of
Wisconsin nominated David s. Rose,
Mayor of Milwaukee, for Governor. Iowa
Democrats in convention at Des Moines
rejected resolution to reatfirm specifically
the Kansas City platform.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06

A Singapore telegram to the China Mail
says that a collision occurred in the
Straits of Malacca between the Dutch
mail steamer Prnz Alexander and the
British steamer Ban Hin GUN. The
Prinz Alexander sank and the first Off
Ger and the first engineer and nineteen
passengers and members of the crew
were drowned.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06

A terrible accident overlook the Presi-
dents coach short distance from Pitts
field, Mass, about 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning. After a short visit to the home
of ex-senator Dawes the President start
ed on the long drive to Lenox. He had
not gone far when an electric car ran into
them, throwing everyone to the ground
and wrecking the coach.
The President received cuts on the
head, Gov. Crane was bruised. William
Craig, the secret service man, was in
stantly killed. The President was able
to resume his journey to Lenox, but sent
word ahead that there should be no cheer
ing.
After leaving Senator Dawes house,
the four carriages containing the Presi-
dent and his immediate party were driven
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06

1t is estimated that seventy persons
were drowned in Algoa Bay, South At
RIGA, during the storm which swept over
Port Elizabeth. Among the wrecked yes
sells is the British ship Inchcape Rock,
Captain Ferguson, which arrived at
-Agoa Bay Aug. from Portland, Ore
Part Of her crew was saved.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
MURDER CAUSED BY STRIKE.
Worker Killed by Waterman in Rail-
road Shops at St. Paul, MINI.

Joseph William jacques was killed by
a murderous asailant, who attacked him
on the Jackson street bridge in st. Paul,
MINI. Bruised and bleeding, he dragged
himself to his home half mile away and
died within three hours. His assailant is
unknown except for the fact that he was
Waterman at the Great Northern shops
under the Jackson street bridge. The
trouble grew out of the strike at the
Great Northern shops some weeks ago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06

Balloon Wrecked in a Gale.

After a lapse of more than tWenty-fOur
hours, during which no word was received
from three aeronauts who left Denver to
try for transcontinental balloon voyage
to New York, a telegram came annoumc-
Ing shat the airship had been wrecked in
a storm twenty-seven miles north of Flor
cncc, Colo. Although bruised and some
what frostbitten, the occupants We're not
seriously hurt
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06

Senator ]. X. Jones Of a.. n il
is in Memphis, Tenn, II lad BIZ
denied positively that ne i nr cap'
ed a place on the Istln lapfass
mission by President R0ose
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
1o2 Victims of Rail Wreck.

While rounding a curve on high en-
bankment near Berry, Ala, the engine
and four cars of an excursion train on a
branch Of the Southern Railway leaped
from the track and rolled over and over,
smashing the coaches into kindling wood
and causing the instant death of thirty
persons and the injury of seventy-two
of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
Corte1you Also Hurt.

The President, who in falling from the
coach sustained only slight bruises ard
few scratches, and Secretary George
b. COrtelyou, who suffered in a manner
similar to that of the President with the
exception that he was cut on the head,
with the other members of the party,
went to the Country Club near by, where
their wounds were dressed.
In short time they proceeded to the
Curtis Hotel at Lenox. arriving there at
II o'clock. The President retained his
composure, although he showed solici-
tude for the rest of the party.
The excitement was intense, and ru-
mors flew thick and fast that the Presi-
dent had been killed After remaining
at the scene of the accident for an hour.
the President determined to continue his
journey to Stockbridge After a brief
stop at Lenox he was driven to the rain.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
CUBAN PRESS AGAINST PALMA.
President Is Not Supported by Single
Paper in Island.

Paper in Island.
President Palma of Cuba finds himself
to-day without the support of single
newspaper controlled by Cubans. The
editorials published in the Cuban press
are, considered collectively, remarkable
for their bitterness and outspoken oppo-
sition to the chief executive. The only
paper which supports the President is the
Diario de la Marina, formerly the organ
of the Spanish government, and at pres
ent representing the Spanish colony in
Cuba. One of the principal causes of
the opposition to President Palma seems
to arise from the fact that he granted
the Castaneda concession for the estab-
lishment of an electric light plant at Ha-
vana. The press criticises President
Palma for interfering in such a trifing
matter, and especially as it was distinctly
a municipal affair.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
Train Thrown from Track.

\ tornado swept a passenger train from
the track Of the Chicago and Northwest
ern Railway near Meriden, Mimi. 1t was
thrown down a high embankment and
three persons were killed, two fatally
injured and more than score of others
seriously hurt.