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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-01-22
SPORTING sREWITlES.

Rochester, N. Y, is to have three
Quarter-mile speedway.
Roller polo Is the leading winter
sport In Massachusetts,.
Motor bicycle racing has become q
feature on European cycle tracks
Fair progress is being made in the
construction OF the new cup yacht.
Bend Or. the famous race horse and
Derby winner, has died in England.
The Chicago racing season Of 1903
will begin at Lakeside on April 20 next.
Cresceus has trotted the Montgomery
(Ala.) track In 2.07, breaking the track
record.
Morris Wood. Of. Montclair, N. j.,
has won the principal honors in the.
skating races on Verona Lake, N. j.
The New York National League
Baseball Club will open its prelimin.
ary season at the Polo Ground or,
April 8.
Although 1t was believed that Jim
Murphy, the noted Southern trainer.
died poor, 1t has been found since that
he was worth about $4,000.
The golf club of the Michigan Uni
versity is to have its own links. Forty
acres Of ground adjoining Perry Field.
at Ann Arbor. are to be purchased.
Henri Fournier. n noted chauffeur,
has arrived in the United States from
Europe, and has issued challenge for
an automobile race to Alexander Win
ton.
Burt Downing, brother OF Hardy
Downing, and the youngest Of the trio
of brothers, is now the amateur cy-
cling king of the Pacific coast, having
been undefeated this season. Young
Downing is nineteen, weighs 179
pounds and stands five feet ten Inches.
There will he an invasion Of Austria
La next fall by number of the lead
ing cycle cracks Of America, including
Iyer Lawson. Floyd Mcfarland and
Hardy Downing, sprinters, and severap
pace followers, with modern motors.
Australia is to have several coliseum
cycle tracks.
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COUNSEL Q5lkRf[,
Operators Eeny They Derive Benefits
From High Price Of Coal.
CHAIRMAN STOPS Personal 7ILTS
Physicisns Testify That the Work Of
Anthracite Miners Is Not as Un-
healthy as Represented.

Philadelphia, Special.-Having occu-
pied nearly three days in calling Wit
nesses to testify, the Delaware & Hud:
son Company closed its case before the
Coal Strike Commission Tuesday after
noon and the commissions attention
then was called to the conditions exist
ing in and about the collieries operated
by the Erie Company. This corporation
managed the Hillside Coal and Iron
Company and the Pennsylvania Coal
Company, and its counsel before the
commission is Wayne Macveagh. Of
Philadelphia, and Major Everett War
rem, Of Scranton.
One Of the principal witnesses cali
ed before the commission was Thomas
F. Torrey, general coal sales agent OF
the Delaware & Hudson Company at
New York, who testifsdsthat the fcom-
pany he represents is deriving no bene-
At from the present abnormal price
which the public Is paying for Its fuel
Among other witnesses called by the
Delaware & Hudson Company were two
physicians who gave testimony tend
ing to show that the occupation OF q
mine worker is not so unheaithful as
physicians for the miners have stated,
o real estate agent who testified to the
amount Of property owned by miners
OF the company and an empi0ye OF the
Delaware & Hudson who made an In
vesttgation Of wages paid to bitumi-
nous miners which showed their pay
was under that received by the an
thfacite miners.
General Wilson, owing to. the illness
Of Judge Gray, again acted as chair
man Of the commission and was sew
eral times called upon to intervene
In the personal tilts between opposing
counsel over the admission Of certain
evidence.
Major Everett Warren, for the Erie
Company, in his statement. says the
miners have 1t in their power to earn
large wages, that the demand for an
eight hour day Is most unreasonable"
and that a 2;249. pound ton is imprac-
ticable. Major Warren says the Efie
Company has no objection to labor or
ganizing but -said the local unions de
stroy individual effort, curb ambition.
restrict earning capacity. encourage
idleness and discomfort, breed lack Of
respect Of authority and destroy dis
cipline."
Capt. W. A. May, Of Scranton, the
general superintendent Of the two COM
panies, was the first witness Tor the
Erie. Before the strike Of 1900 the wit
ness said, the relations between him
and the men were very pleasant indeed.
Captain May was still on the stand
when adjournment was taken.
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How He Kept Informed on Clocks.

A fad more or less general in the
collecting Of old clocks, from the tall
grandfather variety to The curious
timekeepers of foreign make. The
garrets of old farmhouses from Maine
to the Carolinas have been ransacked
for the former. and there is many Z
man and woman in New York who
keeps an eye on the pawnshops OF the
foreign districts for curions and an
cient things from abroad.
1T is almost impossible to keep
them all running" complained wo'
man who has two dozen aged and valu-
able clocks scattered through her
Madison avenue home. They seem
to be in good order and run along for
a while, then al Of sudden they
stop for no reason at all.
81 have found an old German who
knows more about the ways Of old
clocks than any one in the city. l
sent him my German prize a few
weeks ago, and when It did not come
back after the usual period OF waiting
I went to. his shop. What do you
think found him reading?
The friend did not have the slightest
Idea.
1T was little German volume with
a title something like this, Thirteen
Hundred Reasons Why a Clock in
Perfect Order Won't Run."-New
York Tribune.
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UnbreakabIe Glass.

Louis Kauffcld, Bavarian glass
worker. makes extraordinary claims
for a new kind Of glass ie has just dis
covered. 1t Is glass Of such nature
that It will not break. that can be
moulded into any desired form, tha-
can be hammered without catastrophe
in short, a glass that will be as NAL
leable as lead or any ether metal
With an ordinary goblet made of this
new material you can hammer nail
Into tough board. You can bore d
hole in glass pane and then patch 1t
with another piece Of he same kind
of glass. Coffee pots and tea kettles.
1t is claimed, can be made OF the new
substance, and will no more crack,
even under the most intense heat, than
would steel.-Tit-Bits.
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Abram s. Hewitt Elead.

New York, Special.-Abram S. Kew
lit, former mayor of New York and
Renrosentative in Congress from 1874
to 1887, died at o'clock Sunday morn
ing. He was in his S1st year and had
been critically ill for ten days. With
him at the moment Of his death were
his wife, his three sons and three
daughters. Mr.. Hewitt, who had been
IN feeble health for some months, was
attacked with obstructive jaundice on
January Sth, and from the first 1t was
recognized by his attending physicians
that there was practically no hope for
the aged patients recovery. Only MS
wonderful vitality kept him S.e until
this morning.
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EDITOR GONZALES DEAD.
Victim of James Tillman's Enmity
Succumbs to Assassin's Bullet.
\. G. Gonzales. Esq, editor of the
Columbia. S. c.. State, who was shot
on Thursday of last week by I.ieuten-
ant Governor James Tillman, died
Monday afternoon at 1:10.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

The Crown Prince Of Germany is 4
skillful violinist.
Colonel Thomas wentworth HigCln-
son has just celebrated his seventy
ninth birthday.
Joaquin Miller. the "Poet Of the Pa
cific Slope" has, 1t is said, made a for
tune out Of Texas real estate.
The eminent German playwright.
Gerhardt Hauptmann, recently cele-
brated his fortieth birthday. He was
born at Obersalzbrunn In Silesia. His
father was 4 hotelkeeper.
President Hadlcy, of Yale. is the first
man in his position to take an active
part in college athletics. He recently
PLAYED in the Yale tennis tournament,
easily beating his opponent.
Senator Mitchell has presented to the
President Major William Hancock
Clark, of Portland. Ore. the oldest liv-
Inc descendant Of Colonel Clark, OF the
Lewis and Clark expedition.
Commissioner General Sergeant. OF
Washington, who was Grand Master
of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Fire
men lOr seventeen tCdlS. Has bNNu pic-
sented by the order with handsome
silver service Of 191 pieces.
Former President Steyn has been
spending some months at Clarence. OIL
the Lake of Geneva. where his children
20 to school. When he first went
there he was so worn out that he could
hardly speak, but his health was soon
restored.
The man who invented the Swedish
safety match, Karl kiesewetter. died
a few weeks ago IN Roumania in great
poverty. His invention had brou"ht
him a fortune which. however, he :Jst
through unlucky and risky railway
speculation. He was born in 1919.
As 4 sort Of reward. after preventing
his relative from becoming member
of q London stock-brokinsoArm, King
Edward has allowed Prince Francis of
Teck $4,000 year until the prince
can obtain some remunerative position
more in keeping with his standing as a
member of the royal family.
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KILLED OR INJURED.
Powder Charge Explodes on Board
the Massachusetts.
CAUSED BY PERCUSSION PRIMER.
Which Was Accidentally Discharged
While the Breech on an EighG.inch
Gun was Open.

Washington. Specfal.-Admiral Hig-
ginson cabled from San Juan, Puerto
Rico, that by an explosion OF powder
In the S-inch turret of the battleship
Massachusetts,, five men were killed
and four injured. None were commits
stoned officers. The text of Admiral
Higginson's dispatch is as follows:
San Juan. P. R.-Sec-etary of Ma
w, Washington: Powder charge ex-
ploded accidentally in S-inch turret
Massachusetts,. Cause being iavesti-
gated by board. Dead. A. Herdrick-
son. boatswain mate; F. H. Loesser.
apprentice; S. F. Malinowski, lands
man; X. J. Platt, ordinary seaman.
Robert Rule. ordinary seaman.
Injured: w. W. A. Schert, apprentice:
A. S. Tacke, coxswain; J. G. Patter-
son. ordinary seaman; A. y. Dassett.
ordinary seaman"
The records of the Navy Department
show that of the dead Loesser and
Hendrickson lived in New York, Malin-
owski, Chicago; Platt. in Troy. N. Y,
and Rule, in Mount Washington, o. OF
the wounded Dassett, landsman. en-
listed at Durham, N. c., July 20. 1901.
Next OF kin Newton Dassett, father,
1908 Pettigrew street. Durham, N. c.
Patterson was from Pittsburg, Tacke
from st. Louis and Schert from chi
cago.
1t is realized here that 1t will be very
difficult for the board referred to in
Admiral Higginson's dispatch to as
certain the cause Of the explosion. for,
from the heavy casualty list, it Is sur
missed that the entire turret crew was
either killed or disabled. The 8-inch
guns are next in size btlow the 13-
inch turret guns carried by this battle
ship and just above the rapid fire gun
limit. So their charges were not con-
tanned In fixed metallic cases and the
powder was put up in canvass bags.
The regulations require that the pow
der bags referred to should be con-
veyed from the magazines to the
breech Of the gun in can-like metal
reeeptacles TO guard against just this
kind OF an accident.
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that the dispatches sent out from Co.
lumbia emanated from the office OF
The State newspaper, Of which MIR.
Gonzales was editor, / don't deem it
necessary to deny what has been sent
from that quarter. When this unfir-
turate affair is known to my friends
as veil as to the people Of this coun-
try, they will see how thoroughly | was
justified in acting as I did.
THE statements already published
in the papers are untrue and at the
proper time will be prepared to show
this. Beyond this do not care to
make any further statement.
(Signed) JAS IA .TILLMAN."
The New York papers. with whatever
accounts they may have published
have not reached here to be read. and
the reports published here are based
on the available facts and evidence:
The understanding Is that Colonel
Tillman's line OF defense will be that
he thought Mr.. Gonzales was armed.
that be had weapon In his coat pock-
ct and that he had hts hands In his
coat pocket. He is said to contend that
he did not know Mr.. Gonzales was not
armed. Second. that when he aimed
his pistol the second time at Mr. Con
zales, he did so expecting Mr.. Con-
zales to defend himself and that e.
lowered his weapon because there was
no response and not because OF any
thing Mr.. Gonzales said. He refutes
the reiterated statement Of Mr.. Con
zales that he said to him with bullet
through him and unarmed, Shoot
again, yon coward:
Mr.. Tillman will also, it is under
stood, contend that he had not met Mr..
Gonzales. This is denied, and 1t is
said that Mr.. Gonzales and Mr.. Till
man were in the Senate chamber anu
State capitol together.
Lieutenant Governor Tillman, how
ever. only makes the statement that
appears over his signature. The whole
story has. however. all been given and
there is now no need to repeat the de-
tails of the awful affair. That Mr..
Gonzales sent no message; that be was
quietly on his way to dinner; that h.
was alone; that he was unarmed; that
he said nothing to provoke hostilhes,
all seem admitted, and that Lieuten-
ant Governor Tillman met Gonzales
promptly and fred into him is equally
true. What there was in the mind Of
the assailant is another question.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-01-22
Fighting In Morocco.

Madrid, BY Cable.-Ffshting is pro-
ceeding between the troops Of the Sui
tan Of Morocco and the forces OF the
pretender to the throne, according TO
a dispatch received by the Globe from
Fee. The followers Of the Pretender
are said to be overcoming the i'm
perial troops. The correspondent OF
The Globo adds that the inhabitants
Of Fee have risen against the Sultan
end that anxiety reigns at RabaL
where the Europeans are IN fear Of
an immediate attack. The SuAan's
representatives. at 'Tangier has been or.
dered to seize cattle and to dispatch
reinforcementa to the Sultan
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-01-22
Two Killed at q Dance.

Cairo, ILL.,, Special.-At a dance at
Morrehouse, Mo-. Tuesday night
James and Dolpheus Hill, Of JohnsoL
county, became drunk and created a
disturbance, and Marshal Dan Lance
and Deputy Marshal John Taylor were
called to restore order. Dolpheus Hill
shot and instantly killed Marshal
Lance and James Hill fatally cut Tay
lor. The Hill boys started to leave the
house, when Taylor shot and wounded
one Of them, but they succeeded In
making their escape. Searching PAR
ties have been organized, but the Hills
are still at Liberty.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-01-22
Norfolk & Western Appointments.

Roanoke, Va, SpecfaL-The Norfolk
& Western Railway officially announe~
ed the following appointments: C. s.
Churchill, chief engineer; ]. c. Cassell.
recently resigned as generally suppos-
ed, is made assistant vice president
and general manager; Theodore Low,
resigned as superintendent Of the Nor
folk division, becomes real estate
agent; Jose B. Lacy Paymaster, is
made assistant treasurer. All with head
quarters at Roanoke Treasurer w. G.
Mcdowell in future will have his office
in Philadelphia.
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Travelling Man comnaits Suicide.

Te1arkana, Ark, Special--isaae
Trissell, a widely-known commercial
traveller for Eastern houses. was found
dead in his room in a local hotel. is
throat and wrists were cut open. /
note from the dead man to the coroner
stated that he had killed himself for
private reasons. The note further said:
" Travelled on the road d years, iD
every State in the Union, Canada. ia.
pan, China and South America"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-01-22
Steamer Goes Ashore.

Gibraltar, BY Cable.-The North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Lain, Captain
Malchow, from Mediterranean ports
for New York, went ashore at O'Clock
Sunday morning at Tumara, 10 miles
east of the Rock Of Gibraltar. Inere
was a heavy fog and rain was Galilns
AT the time. Aboard the steamer are
zoo sailors and 200 emigrants. She Is IN
NO danger and is waiting for high tide
to GET off. The Lain is stern on to the
sea. The weather r. moderate, but there
= fear" :;ea.
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was very Indifferent but admitted that

was very Indifferent bit admitted that
it was his way.
Caleb Parker testified. He said that
he had passed the Cropsey place soon
after il o'clock on the night Of the
10Th of November. He saw man and
woman of about equal size moving
along the sidewalk. He did not know
who they were.
Ollie Meades swOre that he slept with
Wilcox that night, but never knew
anything from the time he went to
sleep till the next morning. He said
that Wilcox had on the same pants in
court that he wore then. This fact was
contradicted later by Misses Lettie and
Ollie Cropsey, who were put on the
stand for that purpose.
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Coal Companies Combine.

Harrisburg, Pa. Special.-Applica-
tion was made at the State Depart
ment for a charter for the Eastern Sc
curities Company, which, tt Is said,
is 20 be the vehicle for the eonsohda-
ton OF the anthracite coal interests OF
Pennsylvania. The application 1or q
charter is made under law passed by
the Legislature of 1901. The nominal
capital Of the corporation Is $1,000.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-01-22
Hired to Commit Murder.

Roanoke, Va, Special.-Details
reached here of tragedy near Bran
well, a little town in the coal fields OF
West Virginia. Mrs. Maggie Riley Is
alleged to have promised to pay her
son Hiram, and Arthur Eller sum Of
money TO kill woman named Mary
Clark. The men 1t Is charged went to
the Clark woman's home and shot her
to death. Eller and young Riley, to-
gether with Riley's mother, were ar
rested and lodged in the county jail
charged with murder. The women were
enemies and had frequently quarreled-
It is alleged that jealousy was the
cause of the killing.
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he danger of carrying an argument

The danger of carrying an argument
to it's logical conclusion is thus set
forth by The Chicago Post: They were
at a picnic Fingers were made be-
fore forks" she laughed as she helped
herself in democratic fashion. "Yes,
he admitted, land people were made
before clothes" She hastily reached
for fork
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Editor Wounded.

Gainesville, Fla. Special.-City Edi-
tor p. 4. Ruhl was cut Sunday morn
ing by Linotype Operator Sauls, gash
5 inches long and three-fourths OF an
inch deep being made in his neck Rnhl
was taken to his home, where ne hes
in a dangerous condition. Details are
unobtainable, because Mr.. Ruhl Is not
permitted to talk and Sauls has disap-
peared. Mr.. Ruhl is city tax assessor
and Is prominently connected.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-01-22

Italy has proposed to establish the
Marconi system Of wireless telegraphy
between Pekin and Taku.
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Miss Carrie CropSey followed Miss
Ollie. She corroborated much of the
latter's evidence. Among other things
she said: IL asked Jim why he and
Nell ouarreled. He said: She has quit
going to the door with me. have de-
cided to drop her. Tuesday night Jim
heard us talking about him. He told
me that listeners never heard any
good Of themselves. Nellie had asked
me why I did not call him squatty.
said that | felt like an elephant the
night We went to the skating rink. We
asked Jim to unbridle our horse on
Tuesday. He said he was tired OF being
lackey."
Messrs. H. T. Greenleaf, Sr., and H.
T. Greenleaf, Jr., civil engineers, we're
put in the stand to furnish figures ol
distances. The body Of Nellie Cropsey
was found in four feet OF water at d
distance Of 300 feet, the exact place
being 200 feet to tha lett Of the rouse
800 feet out.
Among those who testified this after
noon were: Leonard Owens, who me-
Wilcox on his way from the Cropseg
home the night the girl disappeared
Mayor Wilson, Of Elizabeth City, be-
fore whom the defendant had appear
ed; Sheriff Reid, Of Pasquotank coun.
ty, who arrested Wilcox, after the dead
body was found, and w. H. Cropsey
the father Of Nellie. By Mr.. Owens
testimony, Wilcox had about 20 min,
utes to dispose of from the time he
left the Cropsey porch till he met him
several hundred feet away. WILCOX
seemed to be perfectly natural at the
lime: Sheriff Reid said that WILCOX
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-09-01
BIG HOTEL
ADVERT|SES
Much
Cash for Hawa.
lis Benefit.

Manager II. wingate Lake, of the
Alexander Young Hotel, is placing an
amount of Hawaiian advertising over
| all sections of the United States which
ought to bring large returns to Ho-
nolulu in the way of tourist traffic.
Late magazines, those for Septem-
Der, contain full page advertisements
similar to the one reproduced on this
page. The one shown here is from
the Sunset Magazine, journal reach
ing n large portion of the travelling
public of the Pacific West. These
magazine advertisements alone run
into large sums of money. Even news
papers in the Orient contain adver-
dition to these Mr.. Lake has scattered
broadcast all over the States an issue
of 100000 folders giving particulars as
to how the Paradise of the Pacific"
may be reached and how a traveller
may divide his time in order that he
may use the steamship service to the
best advantage.
Mr.. Alexander Young is now at work
writing a forty-six page book which is
to be published by the hotel at a cost
Of about two thousand dollars and this
will deal with the beauties of Hawaii,
describing them according to the ideas
of the man who thinks so much Of
them as a tourist resort that he has
been willing to spend fortune IN
building a magnificent hotel to house
the expected visitors. Mr.. Young's
book not only deals with Honolulu but
also with the places of interest on the
other islands.
1--WE think" said Mr.. Lake yester-
day, that the tourists should not be
held in Honolulu. We encourage them
in every way to take in the great vol
canic scenes on Hawaii and the MANY
other beautiful sights on the other
islands. In this way our visitors see
not only Honolulu but also the other
islands and then go away ready to
talk about the beauties of Hawaii as IA
| whole. They are more pleased than
they would be were they to spend all
of their time on Oahu and are thus
| able to advertise us better when they
! talk to their friends on reaching their
] TN a nd
on the opening of the hotel the
management sent invitations to peo-
! ole living in every big city in the
United States and Mr.. Lake has re-
ceived many complimentary letters
from the recipients in which they eN'
press intention to pay Hawaii and the
new hotel visit in the near future.
The hotel is placing advertising eacf
month all over the United States anc
when a Honolulu reader OF magazines
who used to find in every MAGAZINE
the advertisement describing the won
derful tropical story sof jamaica
minus, of course, all data concerning
the West Indian hurricanes-he Will
when reading. now find PROMINENT!
near 1t the story in pictures OF tn
perpetual tropical resort at the cross
roads of the Pacific"