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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-09-09
CHATTANOOGA 70 ANDERSON.

Anderson, Sept 2-W D. Frink and
Merrill Skinner, of Blue Ridge, Ca,
promoters of the Tennessee, Georgia
and South Carolina Railway, were
here today in the interest of the road,
and President Brown called meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce in the
afternoon. This is the road that was
surveyed from Chattanooga, Tenn, to
this place some months ago. Messrs.
Skinner and Frink stated in the meet
ing that satisfactory progress had been
made in getting the enterprise launch
cd. They have completed the surveys
and have obtained rights of way for
most of the route, but found that in
order to float bonds it would be neces-
sary to plce $500, 900 along the line of
the road to show the faith and interest
of the people benefited. They wanted
the city of Anderson to take $50, 600
the money to be paid after the road is
completed from Anderson to Chatta-
nooga. They stated that the road would
be built and in operation by January,
1905.
Resolutions were adopted faroring
the scheme, and committee was ap-
pointed to go before the city council
and urge that body to order an cleo
tion on the question of issuing S5o,0O0
worth of bonds in aid of the road, said
money to be paid when the road is
completed, and that to be within two
years of the date of the election. The
Chamber of Commerce also decided to
take page in The News and Couriers
Art Edition, to be issued this fall.
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Lee County items.
From the Vindictor, Sept. !:

Four or five carloads of delayed ma
chinery for tie oil mill came in last
Monday. Everything is ready to start
the ginnery except the engine and that
ought to have been here by August 1st.
But we all get disappointed sometimes.
Mr.. ". Z. Baker uncle Of Mr.. L. L.
Baker who left this country and moved
to Macon Ca, thirty years ago, is
on visit to his relatives here. Mr..
Baker at the commencement Of the war
was courier for Gen. Beauregard and
at it's close was courier for Gen. Lee
when be surrendered. He will be here
only few days and then return to his
home in Macon.
The little eight year old daughter of
Mr.. Fletcher Atkinson of the lonia
section, while making fire in the stove
to get dinner last Friday. took the
can Of kerosene oil and poured some
on the fire. AS she did so, the flames
caught the Oil in the can and there
was an explosion. The burning oil
was thrown all over her and she was so
badly burned she died that night. Her
father got his hands badly burned in
trying to smother her burning clothes.
She was buried at Cedar Creek church
last Saturday, Rev. G.. D. Peterson
conducting the funeral sevices. This
should be sad warning to all who
use kerosene in starting fires.
Two weeks ago we chronicled the
illness of two of our Oldest citizens,
Messrs. William Frasier and Thos. Nc
Caskill. In that short time both have
crossed over the river into the great
unknown hereafter, as has been pub
lished already. Mr.. Frasier was buried
last week. This week the mortal re-
maius of Mr.. Thomas McCaskill have
been laid to rest at old Concord, the
church of his boyhood days.
Nh. McCaskill was in his 84th year
and his robust constitution literally
wore out. Last Sunday evening, Aug.
5oth, he peacefully passed away sur
rounded by loved ones and kind neigh
bors. Mr.. McCaskill was bern near
Concord Church in the Kershaw por-
tion of Lee county. He moved to
Florida in early life and spent about
80 years out there. After his wife
died, he moved back to South Carolina
and has lived with his only brother,
Mr.. X. McCaskill, till his death. He
was an exemplary citizen and those
who knew him best loved him most.
His nephew, Rev. Kenneth MCaskill,
conducted the funeral service, which
was solemn and impressive.
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SITUATION IN MACEDONIA.

Sofa, Bulgaria, Sept. 2.-The report
published by the Dneynik of general
uprising in Northern Macedonia is
denied both in official and revolution
ary circles. Well-informed persons,
however, assert that the report was
correct, but that its premature pub
lication disarranged the plans of the
revolutionists, and, therefore, it is
denied.
According to reliable reports from
Monastir thousands of Bulgarians i'll
that vilayet are confronted with fa-
mine in addition to Turkish persecu-
ton. Peasants, who are continually
arriving from Monastir, complain of
the attitude of Philli Pasha and the
Turkish atrocities.
The news is published here Of an
eight-hour fight, which occurred at the
village of Smilovo, August 26, be-
tween FIVE hundred insurgents and
eight battalions of Turkish troops, sup
ported by artillery. Thirty-fve insur-
gents are reported to have been killed,
while sixty Turks were killed or
wounded.
On the following day the Turks re-
turned and burned the village. Seven
other villages in the neighborhood are
said to have also been burned by the
Turks.
According to Salonica dispatch of
August so the Bulgarian insurgents
sustained a serious reverse at Smilovo,
August %, when 1000 of them were
said to have been killed, while the
Turkish losses were insignificant.
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EENTUGKIAN S1IRS
THINGS IN RUSSIA

st. Petersburg, Saturday, Aug. 22.-
John Oliver Keene of Lexington, KY,
trainer for the racing stable of M. l.
Lazarev, who has been suspended for
year, dating from Aug. 20, for
alleged use of some unknown drug,
has won 70 races with his stable and
over 100000 during the last four or
five months. Keene and his friends
say that it is the only reason for the
ruling against him.
Keene was trainer last year for Henry
de Bloch, the millionaire of Warsaw,
and won $4,000 with single horse
named Sirdar. He has already ex-
ceeded this, though the season is not
vet over, with NJ. Liazarev's Irish
Lad, horse which he has won SOC, 500
and now holds all the three-year-old
records for Russia.
The success of the stables handled
by Keene has been the sensation of
Russian sporting circles for year or
more and he has been accused Of ruin
ing horse racing in this country, since
every body bet on his entries. When
the present season opened Keene select
ed Irish Lad, three year-old sired
by Saltimore, an English horse pro-
cured at a great expense by the I'M
perial stud, for the great racing
events, and Irish Lad won the Moscow
and the Warsaw derbys, besides other
valuable prizes.
Keene's success was attributed By tt e
leading sporting journal of st. Peters
burg to wise training end good riding.
The rival stables, however, were un-
willing to acknowledge that Keene
had won by superior training alone
and had for months been trying to
prove case of doping" aginst him
and eventually procured Keene's sus-
nension for wear.
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Admiral Cotton's Fleet.

Washington, Sept. 2.-The Admin
istration has come to no decision re-
garding the disposition to be made of
the American war ships which are now
sailing to Beirut. Whether the Brook
lyn and San Francisco will remain in
Turkish waters will depend entirely
upon the report which Minister Leish-
man makes concerning the situation
in Turkey and the necessity which ex-
lists for war ships to protect American
interests. It is expected that the re-
port oftMr. Leishman will receive the
consideration of the President before
any determination is reached. 1t is
understood that Minister Leishman IS
complete report will reach Washington
about the time Of the arrival of the
SQUADRON in Turkish waters.
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TRYING TO save ADRIANOpLE.
The Porte Sends an Army to Meet
Col. Jankoff.

Constantinople, Sept. According
to Government advices Col Jankof,
the insurgent leader, who, with a
strong following, is operating south
wards of Demotyka, has been entrust-
ed with the task of destroying the
larger bridges of the railroad running
from Dedeagatch, on the south coast,
to Kuleli Burgas, over the Maritz and
Aruda rivers, so as to cut off COM
munication with Adrianople from the
south and delay the troops who are on
their way to the threatened city. The
Government believes it has taken
measures which will bring about a
speedy and, it is hoped, decisive bat
tie with the insurgent forces command
ed by Col. Jankof The palace Off
cials were IN constant communication
with the authorities at Adrianople
throughout Monday formulating plans
to master the situation in the vilayet.
A WARNINGS TO THE EMBASSIES
Constantinople, Sept. 2.-TEe Porte
has sent a note to the foreign embas-
sizes and legations informing them
that, according to police information,
the Bulgarian agitators are projecting
outrages against the embassies, iega-
tions and other public buildings in
Constantinople.
The note says tie Ottoman Govern
ment has taken precautions and re-
quests the heads of the foreign mis-
sicns to do likewise.
SENSATIONAL RUMORS IN WEN
Vienna, Sept. 2.-The Belgrade pa
pers tonight are again spreading sensa
tional rumors that a portion Of the
town of AdrianopIe has been blown up
and that the other part is burning.
No confirmation of these reports is
obtainable.
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AUSTRIAN STEAMER BLOWN up.
Twenty-nine Lives Lost---BuIga-
rian ReyoIutionists Thought to
be Responsible.

Constantinople, Sept. 2.-Three ex-
plosions occurred today on the Austrian
steamer Vaskapu soon after leaving the
Bulgarian port of Burgas en- route for
Constantinople, by which twenty-nine
persons perished. The vessel caught
fire and had to be beached. A telegram
conveying this news was received by
the agent here of the Hungarian
Levant Line, to which the Vaskapu
belongs. The telegram said the
Vaskapu has been destroyed in the
Black Sea. The captain and officers Of
the steamer and six of her crew were
killed, a total of twenty nine lives
being lost. The Vaskapu sailed from
Verna, Bulgaria, and after calling at
Burgas was steaming through the
Black Sea to Constantinople when
three explosions took place on board.
The deck of the vessel took fire and
she had to be run ashore at Misivria
Bay, eighteen miles north OF Burgas,
where she is still burning.
The Vaskapu has been leased to the
Hungarian Levant Steamship Com
pany Of Fiume, Austria, and has been
engaged on the Black Sea service.
She was built in Newcastle in 1891,
and is a steamer of 1,076 tons. She
was 260 feet long and 36 feet beam and
depth of 169 feet.
REVOLUTIONISTS RESPONSIBLE.
London Sept. 2.-In dispatch from
Vienna reporting the destruction Of
the steamer Vaskapu in the Black Sea,
the opinion is expressed that the Bull
garian revolutionaries were responsible
for the explosions.
BOMB EXPLODED TOO SOON.
London, Sept. Especial dispatches
from Constantinople, published here,
describe the destruction of the steamer
Vaskapu as a revolutionary outrage.
They state that the bomb was timed
to burst while the steamer was in the
port of Constantinople, but that owing
to the vessel being twenty hours late
in starting from Varna the explosion
occurred off Misivria Bay. Among the
missing and supposed to have been
blown overheard is Herr Lendyay, be-
longing to the head Office of the steam
ship company.
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oo 1eAN1OAs3 >NSAA~4 - ''AAoSo eAS -
lows:
German papers state that it is pos
sible to keep eggs fresh for any length
of time by simply immersing them in a
10 per cent solution of silicate of soda,
commonly called liquid glass. This
produces the formation Of a coating
which renders the eggs perfectly air
tight. The eggs so treated retain their
fresh taste for many months. The best
proof of the efficacy of this treatment
has been furnished by the fact that
such eggs, after having been kept for
a whole year, were Matched, and the
chickens were strong and healthy.
'sThe preserving solution is best
prepared by dissolving one pound of
liquid glass in four quarts of cold
water. The eggs are then immersed
in this solution, which should be kept
in a glazed earthware vessel, and the
eggs are kept in the solution for a
short time. If one of these preserved
eggs is to be boiled, the shell must be
first perforated in order to prevent
cracking"
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Atlanta, Ga, September 1.-"Old
Uncle Andy" Montgomery, III years
old, the only negro ever owned by the
State of Georgia, died here today. He
is said to have been born in South
Carolina in 1855 There are many evil
dences to establish his great age. He
was we'll known to many newspaper
men in the North and East, where he
visited several times on lecturing
tours. He is oldest son, 50 years old,
and his youngest, 10 years of age, were
with him when he died.
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Atlanta made large haul from fugi-
tiVes who had focked thither from
smaller towns. Many idle women have
taken refuge in matrimony so as to
claim support from their newly found
husbands, and the streets are no
longer thronged with lazy, worthless
and noisy loafers.
A clergyman some time ago went
down into Maryland to study the race
question. After long and dispassion-
ate observation he declared that the
only hopeful solution of it is enforced
labor He painted graphically condi-
tions existing in Maryland which are
realized all over the south. Several
railway and other corporations were
Offering large wages for hands without
result, while lazy negro men loafed
about depots or lounged about their
homes. The housekeepers were great
II in need of cooks, and yet hundreds
OF women were idle in the streets or
around their doors. This condition,
according to him, is getting worse.
Idleness is increasing year by year.
OF course these views caused much
unfavorble comment along the latitude
and longitude of Boston, and in the
haunts of philosophic philanthropists,
SO called. Persons are always found
to CRY out against novel measures,
however wise they may be. But the
clergyman has struck the right key.
Those who Will not work must be
made to work.
Idlers are not all confined to the
negro race. A Yorkyille correspondent
asserts that at almost every cotton
mill in the State and elsewhere there
are strong, able bodied men who have
large families Of children, and that
these men do not pretend to work at
any thing but depend entirely upou
the earnings of their families for sup
port. Such cases as these should be
brought under the vagrant law, for
they are the worst of all ofenses
against decency. 1t is not yet neces-
sary to make and enforce a general
compulsory labor law, tout South Caro-
lima will lose nothing in following the
example of Georgia in enacting and
enforcing strict vagrant law. Just
now the farmers are wanting hands for
cotton picking and will soon be draw
Ing away COOKS lIOm Guy hiGcHSuS to
do the work, whereas If all able bodied
persons were made to labor the supply
would be ample for both farm and
household.
Another need in South Carolina is
officials that zealously carry out the
law. Statutes are piled up in the State
archives and are rot known save as
literary curiosities. North Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama have way Of
enforcing law and harassing lawbreak-
ers, not with absolute precision it is
true, but at least in way that COM
pels respect.
Every county in South Carolina is
demanding goods roads, and every
county contains enough of the merely
idle class to do assgood deal in the way
of filing holes and digging bitches
without waiting for conviction for
actual crime. Let the county magis-
trates and sheriffs get to work and en-
force the vagrant laws We have, and
then the legislature may pass brand
new up-to-date statute next January.
State
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Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 2.-During
dramatic performance by amateurs
at Bessemer Conight, Edwin Neeley. 10
years old, was killed instantly. The
play required the firing of volley OF
blank cartridges, but bullet acci-
dentally in one revolver caused the
death. Wade Rogers, one Of the
players, surrendered to the police.
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Richmond, Va, Sept 2.-Anderson
Finch. colored, was hanged at Boyd
ton today for an attempted assault on
Mrs. G. A. Geogban of Chase City.
Doc Bacon, another negro, was con-
demned to die with Finch, for COM
plicity in the crime, but was re-
prieved by the governor today until
Sept 4, so as to permit further exam
ination into his case. The two ne
groes narrowly escaped lynching at
the time the crime was committed.
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GUN and LOGKsMlTR.

| take pleasure in giving no.
tice to my friends and the pub
lie generally, that, having re-
gained my health, have re-
opened my shop, and am ready
to do any work in the
line Of Guns, Locks, Sewing
Machines, &c. Prices reasona-
BILE, work done promptly and
satisfaction guaranteed.
Shop removed to No. %
West Liberty street, two doors
from Osteen's Book Store.
R. S. BRADWELI..
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GEOReIls aEW VlGRlAI LAW.
Full Text Of Act Being Enforced
Across the Savannah at the
Present Time.
From Augusta Chronicle.

In view of the great discussion going
on these days about the enforcement
of the Calvin Vagrancy law it might
be just as well for all persons to tho
roughly inform themselves as to It's
provisions and operation.
The bill provides that certain class
es Of people are yagrants now, VINO
under the old laws on the subject,
Wefe never considered as such. Few
people know that under the law a con-
victed vagrant may give bond for his
future industry and escape punishment
on the gang. 1t would be wise for all
people to study the descriptions given
in the bill Of agrants.
There are many people described IN
the measure, who walk the streets OF
Augusta regularly, and as soon as GER
tain test cases are made they may
have to change their methods OF life
or seek other pastures. The law is
aimed strictly at ioafers and idlers, and
there is nothing indefinite In It's pro-
visions.
There is no means OF escape-the
terms are too explicit for that.
The following is copy of the bill
IN fuil
TEXT OF Law.
To amend section 453, volume III,
of the code of 1895, which section de-
fines vagrancy and declares which
class of persons shall be regarded as
yagrarts, by designating another class
of persons as Vagrants.; by striking in
It's entirety paragraph second of said
section, lines "A to 26, both inelusives
beginning with the words Any per-
son may arrest ard ending with the
words For one year, and substitu-
tion In lieu thereof a paragraph pro-
Tiding speedier method OF pointing
ont and arresting persons alleged to
be yagranas and prescribing more
specific procedure and punishment in
all cases contemplated by this, and for
other purposes.
Sec. /. Be it enacted by the general
assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby
enacted by the authority of the same,
that from and after the passage of this
act section 4y3, volume LII of the code
of 1895, be and the same is hereby
amended by designating another class
of persons as vagrants by striking in
its entirety paragraph second of said Sec
tion, line a to 2e both inclusive,
beginning with the following words:
8. Any person may arrest and ending
with the words: $ For one year. and
substitution in lieu thereof a para
graph providing speedier method
pointing out and arresting persons al
legged to be vagrants, and prescribing
a more specific procedure and punish
ment in all cases contemplated by this
act SO that said section. thus amended,
shall read as follows: Migrants are:
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Concerning Migrants.

The legislature of Georgia al its
last session passed a vagrant act with
strict provisions, and already 2,0Oo
idle Yagabonds, male and female,
have been caught and put to work.
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Capital stock paid il, $4,000 90
Undivided surplus, $4,000 90
Individual liability of stockhold-
ers in excess of their stock, $4,000 90
Transacts general banking business;
also has a Saving Bank Department. De-
posts of 81 and upward received. Inter
est allowed at the rate Of per cent. per
annuuo, payable semi-annually.
W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, President.
R. I. MANNING, W. F. RHAME,
Vice-President. Cashier.
Jan. 81.
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To Preserve Eggs.

Richard Guenther, Consul General
at Frankfort, Germany, writes as fol-
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Land Surveying

I will give prompt attention to all calls
for surveying, plating, terracing hill sides,
draining bottoms, drawing Mortgages
Titles, Prcbating, &c.
BANKS q. BOYKIN, D. S.,
Oct 1910 Catchail, S. G.
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And this duty is performed with satisfac-
ton to all concerned.
Money is absolutely safe here and every
dollar deposited, be it principal or interest
earns per cent per annum. A small sum
will open up an account and secure bank
book.
Begin to save now. Interest payable
quarterly.
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The New York Herald has received
advices from Bogota that the Panama
Canal treaty was rejected by the Seate
because of the imperative nature of
the notes received from Secretary of
State Hay and United States Minister
Baupres These notes were regarded
as offensive and considered highly
humiliating, even by the senator's who
supported the treaty without amend
ments and were friendly to the United
States. Under the circumstances,
these friendly Senators considered it
incumbent upon them to vote unanim
ously for rejection of the treaty III order
to maintain the dignity of the republic.
This action of the Senate was followed
by the introduction of a proposition
authorizing the government to ne
gotiate new treaty with the United
States, in which the French canal
company should be left out of consid-
Grafton.
It is further said that the main ques-
ton now discussed is whether the
United States will be willing to enter
into new negotiations or let the matter
drop. That does not look very prom
ising from Colombia's point Of view.