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I NEPHEW TAKES HAND Lieutenant Governor Tillman Is Now After Roosevelt. ALSO WITHDRAWS INVITATION President Is Requested Not to Present Sword to Jenkins at Charles ton—More 'Of Senate Muddle. Lieutenant Governor James H. Till man. of South Carolina, and nephew of Senator Ben Tillman, says that in deference to requests by wire from the subscribers to the fund for the s-word alluded to, he telegraphed to President Roosevelt as follows: “A short while ago I had the honor to address your excellency a letter re questing that on the occasion of your visit to Charleston you present a sword to Major Micah Jenkins, of the First United States volunteer infan try, of whose gallant services you spoke so highly, your words being en graved upon the scabbard. You ac cepted the Invitation, for which we thank you. I am now requested by contributors to the sword fund to ask that you withdraw said acceptance. "JAMES H. TILLMAN, “Colonel First South Carolina Volun teer Infantry and Lieutenant Gover nor South Carolina." In explaining the sending of the tele gram Lieutenant Governor Tillman said: "It was with much regret that I was directed, or rather required, to have sent the telegram I did, especially in view of the fact that I am so closely related to one who but a few days ago was subjected to an affront which was seemingly, or at least the people who contributed to the purchase of the sword think, unwarranted.” Tillman-McLaurin Muddle. A Washington special says: The meeting of the senate committee on privileges and elections Wednesday forenoon did not result in supplying any solution of the difficulty that the senate is in, in connection with the Tillman-McLaurin matter. The repub lican members of the committee frank ly confessed that they had not been able to formulate a scheme which would relieve the situation, and after less than an hour’s discussion they asked that the committee should ad journ until 2 o’clock Wednesday after noon, the understanding being that the senate would adjourn after a brief ses sion and thus give the committee an opportunity to fully consider this im portant question, which most senators look upon in its present shape as a stumbling block in the way of all other legislation. The meeting of the committee was marked by the best of feeling on the part of all members, and ail agreed readily to a preliminary suggestion by Chairman Burrows, that the question should be approached from a purely non-partisan standpoint because of its general importance. It was evident, however, that the democrats were in clined to apprehend some effort at po litical advantage on the part of the re publicans, and the channel through which they expected this manifests lion soon became evident when Sena tor Foraker made the suggestion that there should be a severer degree of punishment meted out to Senator Till man than to Senator McLaurin. Sena tor Dubois met this suggestion with a positive negative, During the morning meeting of the committee Senator Bailey notified the republican members that the demo crats would not submit to the adop tion of a resolution suspending the South Carolina senators. He said he agreed that they should be punished lor their breach of the peace in the presence of the senate, but he was sat isfied that the democrats would not submit to any proceedings which would deprive a state of representa tion. LAND DISPUTE DECIDED. Georgia Secretary of State Awards Claim to Coffee County. Berrien county, Ga.. loses in the dis puted county line case recently argued before Secretary of State Phil Cook and the land in dispute goes to Coffee county as provided in the recent sur vey made by D. L. Wardroper, under direction of Governor Candler. After long consideration Secretary Cook decided to sustain the survey as made by Mr. Wardroper. There were about eight lots of land of 490 acres each, or something like 4,300 acres, in dispute between Coffee and Berrien counties. BYE-BYE, CROWNINSHIELD. Bear Admiral Will Assume New Role Within a Short Time. The battleship Illinois, which is to -be the flagship of the European squad ron, has been ordered to report at the New York navy yard on the 2Sth last., to make ready to convey Rear Admiral Crowninshield to his new assignment. He will sail March 25th. WON’I SLIGHT CBARLESTON. It Is Thought President Will Personal Action Taken By James Tillman. It is stated in Charleston that tenant Governor Tillman’s action withdrawing the invitation to Presi dent Roosevelt to present the sword Major Jenkins will have no effect the exposition program for the dent’s entertainment, even if it is al lowed to stand. The sword presentation was an inci dent only of the president's visit to Charleston and in no way connected with the exposition program, The sword was purchased with a fund raised by subscription among the wo men of South Carolina and others, largely under Lieutenant Governor Tillman’s stimulation. The arrange ments for the presentation was left with him. It was not intended origi nally to have the president make the presentation, but in view of his expect ed presence at the exposition the opportunity was deemed fitting for such a feature. The invitation was extended by Lieutenant Governor Tillman and a place for the ceremony was made cn the program by the exposition commit tee at his request. The whole matter is outside of expo sition or Charleston control. According to a Washington special, the statement was made at the white house Thursday night that the presi dent has not abandoned his proposed trip to Charleston. NO FLUNKEYISM HERE. Daring American Official Forces Ob noxious Canadians to Decamp. Some time ago the secretary of the treasury received unofficial informa tion to the effect that J. Ivey, collec tor of customs at Sitka, had instructed his deputy at Unalaska, not to permit Canadian vessels presumably about to engage in pelagic sealing to obtain supplies at that port. The collector was informed that if such orders had been given they must be rescinded. Last Wednesday the department re ceived a telegram from Ivey saying: instructions were not against vessels engaged in alleged illegal seal fishing, but against Canadian vessels actually engaged in pelagic sealing, which is illegal and criminal when committed within the marine jurisdic tion of the United States. If there is an ancient treaty between the United States and Great Britain by which British subjects can commit depreda tions, destroying American property, and depleting our revenue of tens of thousands of dollars annually, while our own citizens are denied these priv ileges, the sooner such treaty is abro gated the better. “Your new collector will arrive iu time to enforce your orders. My Amer icanism will not allow me to rescind an order which gives British subjects privileges within our marine jurisdic tion which are denied our own people. "I have recently issued orders to the deputy at Skagway which have put the Canadian officer located there out of buisness, and sent him to his own ter ritory. You are aware of the fact that this officer became so offensive that he interfered with American offi cers in the discharge of their official duties, opened United States customs mail, dominated over the railway offi cials, discriminated in the order of shipment in favor of Canadian mer chandise against that shipped from Seattle, established a Canadian quar antine at Skagway, collected moneys and performed other acts of British sovereignty in a port of the United States, such as hoisting with bravado the cross of St. George from the flag staff of his custom house. "I have sent the concern, baggage, fla S and ° ther paraphernalia flying cut of the country. You may fear the shadow of international complications and rescind this order, but a Reed, an Olney or a Blaine would not.” Defense of Neely Begun. In the trial of the Cuban postal ^ raud cases at Havana Senor Zayes bas begun argument in behalf of Charles W. F. Neely. He said he would discredit W. H. Reeves-, the former deputy auditor, and in so discrediting him, his testimony should have no weight. PANAMA TRADE IS OFF. Stockholders Vote to Postpone Enter tering Into Any Engagement. At extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the new Panama Canal Company in Paris Friday President Bo read a message from the consul gen eral of Colombia at Paris setting forth that the company could not transfer its concession to another nation with out first the assent of Colombia. The meeting adopted a resolution expressing approval of the attitude of the board of directors and deciding in view of the message of the Colom bian consul general, to postpone enter ing into any engagement. DEATH IN FALLING ROOF. Two Men Crushed to Death and Three Injured In Chicago. Two men were killed and three were !n J ured Frida >’ b >’ the falli “* of » fur / nace rocf at the plant of the South Chicago Furnace Company. The accident is supposed to have been due to the weakening of the steel trusses supporting the galvanized iron roof. TRIBUTE TO M’KINLEY Fitting Memorial Services Held at the National Capital. SECRETARY HAY WAS ORATOR Great Throng Packs House of Repre sentatives to Pay Tribute to Memory of Dead President. At noon Thursday in the great hall of representatives, in the presence of President Roosevelt, Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the German emper or; the members of the cabinet, the justices of the supreme court, com manding general and officers of the army and navy who have received the thanks of congress, the ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives of foreign countries, the senators and representatives in congress and a large number of distinguished guests, the Hon. John Hay, McKinley’s pre mier, pronounced a eulogy on his dead chief. Four times before national memorial services for presidents who have died in office have been held in this hall, two of them like this, in commemora tion of chief magistrates who have fall en by the hands of an assassin. Flags Half-Masted. The only emblems of mourning at the capitol were the flags fluttering at half mast above the two wings and on the great arching dome. At 10 o’clock the doors were opened and in five minutes the space surround ing the chamber was dense with black rows of people. Even the aisles were filled. In the surrounding galleries were many of the personal friends of the late president. These were only a few of those from all quarters of the union who came to attend the memorial ser vices. But none of the immediate fam ily of the late president, so far as known, was in attendance. On the floor were many former members of the house, senate and the governors of the several states. The Session Begins. The vast audience instantly respond ed to his signal and arose to listen to the brief prayer of the chaplain. There followed the usual routine of the opening of a session of the house. By the speaker’s direction the clerk read the joint resolution providing for the memorial services and the order of the proceedings. The door-keeper then announced the arrival of the senate. Next the doorkeeper announced the chief justice and associate justices of the supreme court who, preceded by the marshal of the court, came sol emnly down the main aisle. Justice Gray, who has recently been stricken with paralysis, was the only missing member of the court. As the president was announced the marine baud in the lobby struck up “Hail to the Chief.” President Roosevelt was accompa nied down the aisle by Secretary Hay, the orator of the day, followed imme diately by Ills aides, Colonel Bingham, of the army, and Major Gilmore, of the marine corps, each in full unoform. The other members of the cabinet came in the wake of these uniformed officers. The president wore a mourn in gband of crepe upon his left arm. He took his place in the area facing the speaker’s desk, with Prince Henry upon his right. The members of the cabinet, excepting Secretary Hay, took their places to the right of the presi dent. Secretaries Shaw and Wilson were absent. Senator Frye called the assemblage to order, and after a fervent prayer by Rev. Dr. Couden, the blind chaplain of the house, he introduced the orator of the day who read his oration slowly and in clear and distinct tones. Throughout Hays’ speech, the audi ence listened with great interest, but the peroration, coupling together as if fo rail time, the names of Washington and Lincoln and McKinley seemed especially to impress the hearers and as Secretary Hay uttered the last sol emn words, the spectators broke into a perfect storm of applause which lasted for several minutes. One hour and twenty-five minutes were consumed in the delivery of the oration. The benediction was offered by Rev. Dr. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the senate, and to the strains of the fa mous hymn, “Lead, Kindly Light,” by the marine band, the president and those about him arose and quietly left the hall. As soon as all the visitors had withdrawn, Speaker Henderson called the house to order and at 1:40 the house was- declared adjourned. The First Official Message. The state department Wednesday re ceived a cablegram from Minister Leishman at Constantinople, contain ing the first official announcement it has had of Miss Stone’s release. WILL BE MILITARY CEREMONY. Troops Will Be Detailed to Take Over Danish West Indies. It has been practically decided by the Washington authorities that the formal ceremonies incident to the tak ing over of the Danish West Indies by the United States shall be performed by the army, and it is probable that a detachment of troops from Porto Rico will be sent to the islands to raise the flag and formally take possession of the new territory. LUCBAN IS TAKAN PRISONER. Filipino Rebel, Next In Importance to Aguinaldo, Finally Captured By American Scouts, In a cable dispatch from Manila Wednesday, General Chaffee notified the war department that Lieutenant ZZ.yTvL is confined at Laguan. Another capture is recorded in the same dispatch, namely, that of Wil liam Dunston, said to be a deserter from Company C, Eighth infantry, who had in his possession a lot of arms and ammunition and all of the tools neces sary for the making of ammunition. He was captured by Second Lieuten ant Pratt, First infantry, at Caghayan, on the island of Samar, The lieuten ant also destroyed the cuartel and the factory, and killed eleven soldiers, be sides capturing all of Dunston’s cor respondence. The officials of the war department regard the capture of General Lucban as the most important military event since Agunialdo’s capture.' He was run down on the island of Samar. The place of his confinement is a tiny is land in a bay on the north coast of Samar. Lucban is one of the most energet ic and ferocious rebels. He is a half breed, a mixture of Chinese and Fili pino stock, and he has been an irre conclliable from the first. He had va rious fastnesses in the mountains of Samar, from which he would descend upon the coast towns and his reign of terror was so complete that the entire population of the island paid tribute to him as the price of freedom from at tack. Ordinary campaign methods failed in his case, and his capture now is believed to be the natural working out of the system of dividing the is land into small squares by military, garrisons and making it impossible for the insurgents to obtain food or shel ter. General Chaffee has ordered that Lucban be treated as a prisoner of war of officer’s rank. GERMANY HIGHLY PLEASED At Cordial Reception of Prince Henry By Uncle Sam. A special from Berlin, Germany, says: All day long Tuesday crowds stared at the portrait of President Roosevelt and Prince Henry, which hung side by side in front of a news paper office on "Unter Den Linden” and part of the time this crowd was so dense that the police had to clear the way for traffic, Emperor William, who, with the em press drove by the newspaper office in the afternoon, noticed the portraits and Saluted a small American flag which hung above them. Upon per ceiving this the assembled crowd ap piauded. The Germans are slowly working up to animation over the reception in the United States to Prince Henry, and are glowing with good feeling toward America. Newspapers that never be fore received special cablegrams from the United States are now publishing such messages. One editor remarked that the entire German press would be ■without dividends this year and ex pressed the hope that nothing else of equal interest would happen on the other side of the Atlantic for five years to come. All the correspondents in the United States for German newspapers agree upon the warmth of the reception to Prince Henry by President Roosevelt by the American officials, by the crowds and by the newspapers. ANTI-DISPENSARY1TES LOSE. Judge Henry Refuses to Grant Per manent Injunction In Case. Judge Henry overruled the applica tion of the liquor men for an injunc tion against the dispensary commis sioners of Floyd county, Ga. Judge Henry sustains the constitu tionality of the dispensary bill passed by the legislature and which was rati fied last week in Floyd county. The liquor men obtained a tempo rary injunction preventing the election of three commissioners last Monday, The saloon people asked for a perpet ual injunction. The case now goes to the supreme court, FRYE ADMITS HIS ERROR. Announces Back-Down in Matter of Striking Senators’ Names. During the less than ten minutes in which the senate was in session Thurs day, the Tillman-McLaurin case figur ed in half a dozen different ways. Senator Frye first made public an nouncement of his back-down in the matter on striking the names of the two senators from the roll. He had instructed the clerk to replace the names, he said, and by way of explan ation stated he preferred to have the senate pass upon the matter. NEW POSTMASTERS NAMED. Fourth-Class Appointments for Several Southern States. Among the postmasters appointed Thursday were the following: Georgia—Emerson, Bartow county, J. C. Leonard; Pistol, Wilkes county, E. L. Smith. South Carolina—Landrum Padgett, Pelzer. Tennessee—George T. Taylor, Union City; Harry Swaney, Gallatin A BRACE OF HORRORS Two Frightful Collisions on the New York Central Road. TWELVE LIVES CRUSHED OUT Seven Victims Die In One Wreck and Five In the Other—Besides Dead Four Are Fa tally Injured. Twelve men killed, four seriously in jured, and two missing is the result of two wrecks on the Auburn branch of the New York Central railroad Tuesday. As the result of a collision seven miles west of Auburn, N. Y., between a west bound passenger train and a steam derrick seven trainmen are dead, two seriously injured and two missing. The dead are: Edward Eavine, of Rochester, N. Y., baggageman on the passenger; Frank Hines, of Rochester, N. Y., fireman; John Heisman, of Rochester, N. Y., engineer; Engineer Durand, of Syracuse; John Evans, member of the derrick crew; Thomas Burke, Syracuse, derrick crew; Joe Shoemacher, of Rochester, N. Y., fire man; Edward H. Renner, a trainman, and Thomas Shipmuck, of the deck crew, are seriously hurt. It is reported that two other men are missing. As the passenger train was rounding a curve a few miles west of Aurelius, going at a fast clip, it met the steam derrick running “wild” from Candai gua to Syracuse. The two engines were badly wrecked. Engineer Heis man and his fireman, of the passenger train, were pinioned under the wreck age, and after an hour’s work were taken out dead. The other dead men were subse quently removed from the heap of wreckage. No passengers were in jured. The blame for the accident, it is thought, rests with the steam der rick crew. Five Die In This Wreck. Soon after this wreck five men were killed and two fatally injured two and a half miles west of Aurelius. A pas senger train and a wrecking train col lided head-on while rounding a curve at full speed. The dead are: John Hazeman, of Rochester, engineer of the passenger train; Frank Hiles, of Rochester, fire man passenger train; Edward Vine, Rochester, baggageman; Engineer Du rand, of Syracuse, crew of the wreck ing train; Fireman Schmuck, Syra cuse, of the wrecking train. Injured: Trainman E. H. Renner, of Rochester; — Evans, member of the wrecking crew. Both engines and the baggage car of the passenger train were demol ished. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE A FRAUD. Atlanta Preacher Thus Denounces Faith of Old Lady Eddy. Christian Science was the subject of a Sunday sermon by Rev. W. J. Holtz claw, pastor of the Jones Avenue Bap tist church, Atlanta, who spoke from his own pulpit. The faith he declared to be blasphemous and a fraud. Mrs. Eddy he declared to be an illiterate' imposter who is working for money and who knows her doctrines to be de ceits. His text was Colossians, 2:8: “Be ware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit.” In part Dr. Holtzclaw spoke as fol- “The fad is a fraud and I have facts to prove it. Who is Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, who poses as the author of the fad? She is a woman now about 80 years of age, notwithstanding that her followers are forced to sell a pic ture made from a crayon drawing rep resenting a woman of 40 years and which purports to be a picture of Mrs. Eddy. The purpose of this is to show wliat so-called Christian Science will do toward preserving the body. Mrs. Eddy’s picture as she appears today looks to be that of an old woman at least 90 years old. Mrs. Eddy teaches her followers to believe that God has revealed to her the power to cause disease, death and business disaster, and yet at the same time she teaches them that sickness and pain do not really exist. Where is the harmony in this? As a result of this duping hun dreds of children and others are al lowed to suffer for the want of medi cal attention.” Judge Jones Memorial Orator. Judge Thomas G. Jones, of Mont gomery, whom President Roosevelt lately appointed United States district judge of Alabama, has accepted the invitation to deliver the oration at Grant’s tomb in New York city Memo rial day. MORGAN GIVES TWO MILLIONS. Report that Great Financier Helps University of the South. The Chicago Chronicle’s Nashville Tenn., special states that J. P. Morgan has given $2,000,000 to the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. This is one of the foremost institu tions in the south, having an average attendance of 600 students. NAMES RESTORtD TO Roll. Republicans Now Admit That Wrong Was Committed In “Disfranchis. ing" Tillman and McLaurin. A Washington special says: The most important development Tuesday in connection with the Tillman-McLau. rin episode of Saturday was the act of Senator Frye, president pro tern. 0 f the senate, in ordering the clerk of th e senate to restore the names of the two South Carolina senators to the senate roll. If the present plan is carried out this act will be followed by the adop. tion by the senate of a resolution be fore a vote on any other subject is ta ken practically endorsing the action of the president pro tem. In ordering their names erased and suspending the two senators for some definite time. The order of Senator Frye for the restoration of the names to the rolls was issued almost immediately after the senate convened Tuesday and was the result of a general conference among the republican leaders of the senate. When e-sked for an explana tion of this order, Senator Frye said: “In my rulings yesterday I beiieve that 1 was trictly within parliamentary laws that senators, in contempt are not entitled to recognition either to speak or to vote, and that logically their names should not be called. I still adhere to that opinion, but, de sirous of shifting the responsibility from the chair to the senate, I have directed the clerk to restore to tho roll call the names of the two senators from South Carolina." When asked if the result of this ac tion would be the recognition of either of the senators to either vote or speak, Senator Frye replied that it would not, and that was. a question which must be decided by the sentsfe. All official Washington recognizes the indefensible position of the re publicans. It is recalled that Senator Spooner and Senator Frye, republicans were directly responsible for tho en counter Saturday, the former by rea son of his persistent and uncalled for goading of Tillman into making the charge against McLaurin and the lat ter for his hasty message to McLaurin to come into the senate and reply to Tillman. The democrats were ready to renew their fight against the majority for having sustained the president pro tem. in striking from the roll the names of Tillman and McLaurin. This event was the climax of Monday’s proceedings. The democrats did not object so much to the imposition of the “closure rule” on Senator Aldrich’s motion, under which the Philippine tariff bill was passed, as. they did to the summarlv disfranchisement of the two South Carolina senators. Their contention was that, under the consti tution, these men must be permitted to vote so long as they are members of the senate. It made no difference that they were under charges, of contempt, they said, nor would it have made any difference if they had been under arrest and in the custody of the ser geant-at-arms. Their names must be kept on the roll ana called and they must be permitted to vote, until they had been tried and expelled by a two thirds vote and the seats declared va cant. DURBIN IN CHARLESTON. Governor of Indiana, and His Staff, Visits the “Ivory City.” Governor W. T. Durbin, of Indiana, with his staff, consisting of General B. A. Richardson, seven colonels and sev en majors, many of them accompanied by their wives, arrived at Charleston Tuesday morning en route home from a trip to Cuba. They were welcomed by the mayor and the exposition authorities, and spent most of the day at the exposi tion. On Wednesday, Indiana day, they were accorded a reception at the wo man’s building and went on an excur sion around the harbor. Revenue For January. Tl*e internal revenue for January, 19C2, amounted to $20,856,772, a de crease from January, 1901, of $3,091, 006. WOMEN AS MOONSHINERS. Russell County, Virginia, Grand Jury Returns Indictments. Ninety indictments have been re turned by the Russell county, Virginia, grand jury, alleging illicit, whisky -hell ng. Twenty-five cases are against Mrs. Bud Ramey, nineteen against Sallie and several against Geneva Ramey. It is claimed the latter pro illness many times w'hen sum Finally the court ordered her on a litter when she came un and was indicted by the jury. JUDGE REASSIGNS CASE. Attorney In Green-Gaynor Suit Given More Time For Consideration. At Savannah, Ga., Tuesday, Judge Speer reassigned the Greene and Gay nor case for March 17, thus allowing the attorneys a week more than he at first gave them in which to prepare to meet the important issues of the case.