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EXCITING AFFAIR. '
The wife of a Respectable Citl
Shot By Dispensary Con
stables. ; ;
Columbia, S. ip., Feb, 25 Four
State constables, -'charged with the
enforcement of the dispensary law,
went at 6 o'clock this evening to the
residence of John Stewart, a respecta
ble citizen and a clerk in one of the
biggest mercantile establishments in
the city, for the purpose of searching
it to see if there was any whiskey in
the house. They went with a search
warrant, but were met at the door
by Mrs. Stewart. She sent for her
husband, who on arriving indignantly
refused to permit the search. "
The constables stated that they had
been informed that he had been sell
ing whiskey contrary to the law, and
were determined tp make the search
Words followed and Anally upon
Stewart cursing constable Crawford
the latter slapped him. Stewart ran
into his house. His wife had come out
on the piazza. From the doorway
Stewart opened fire on the constables,
Crawford returned it and shot Mrs.
Stuart just below the heart. The wo
man was dangerously wounded but
not killed. Shes is now lying in a criti
,cal condition at the city hospital
Stuart was also badly shot in the
" mouth, his tongue being nearly serv-
ered.
. In the fusilade that followed Con
stable Crawford was shot through the
left wrist. The sheriff ami several
' policemen arrested the constables and
carried them to a magistrate's office.
The news of the shooting spread all
over the city and soon four or five
hundred infuriated men were in front
of the office, making a big demonstra
tion. , The constables were kept pris
oners , in the magistrate's office all
night guarded by the sheriff and his
deputies. The two local military com
panies were ordered ont and kept the
crowd pressed back, There is no
danger of lynching, but public feeling 1
is wrought up to a high state, and if
Mrs. Stuart should die, as now seems
probable, feeling wtll run higher.
The Cuban Aacembly.
ed. The books were probably carried
to Spain with other archieves and the
widows hve not been paid their pen
sions for twelve or fifteen months and
have been left to be supported bv the
charity of Cubans.
STATE NEWS.
Will Rut h to Manila.
We understand that . during the re
cent snow storm many hogs and cat
tie perished in the Pee Dee islands
We heard of one man who lost twen
ty five head of cattle and a number of
hogs. Fair Bluff Times. .
The Greenville Weekly says: The
snow, freeze, thaw and rain have
filled the creeks, branches and other
streams to overflowing -and great
Colombo, Island of Ceylon, Feb.
26. The United States transport
Grant, which sailed from New, York
fo. Manila on January 19th' with
jf I Btioaiuo i- uvemuwmg tauu great
troops unden Jommand of Majcy Gen- damage has been done to roads and
ci til neiiry y. jjuwion on ooara, ar- bridges,
rived here to-dav. 1 if
General Lawton received a cable- There were enough rabbits killed in
gram from Maior General Otis. In this country during the snow to feed
charge of the American military force an army' Tne new8 of Sreat slauehfr
in t.hA Phiiiinninoo ,,,. .vo. ers of them comes from all over the
tioi critical. Your early arrival neces- country. A party near Atlanta kill-
faarv." ed 103 in two days, without guns or
He also receiyeUiitoui General Cor- dogs. And a party near Mr. Fred
bin, United States Adjutant General, Hay's killed 118 in one day. Monroe
a cable dispatch ursine him to hurry Journal.
General Lawton ordered his officers
to boy supplies regardless of expense,
and the transport is taking on water
and coal hurriedly.
She will try to reach Manilla with
out further stop.
,;..' Havana, Feb. ,25. The Cuban As
. sembiy met to-day and heard the re
port of the committee which was sent
to Washington some time since t o con
fer with the Government regarding
Cuban affairs.
The Assembly was clearly dissatis
fied with the doings of the commission
inasmuch as its members had not act
ed in accord one day telling the Pres
ident that the Cuban army was eom
posed Of 30,000 men and the next that
it consisted of 45.000: while the eoiis-
i sary who was sent to Cuba to ascertain
the facts, on his return reported that
there were 40,000 men in the Cuban
ranks.
, The commission presented a teport
"' of its conference with General Alger,
' Secretary of war and the Attorney
General, but failed to lessen the As
sembly's apparent feeling of disgust
Itwasnfinally decided to have the re
port printed and to hand a copy of it
to each member of the Assembly in or
der that they might study it carefully
The fact that $3,000,000 on a basis of
$loo for each soldier was accepted af
ter efforts to'obtain more failed, makes
obligatory the 'Assembly's ratification
of the account. General Gojnez did
not attend the, meeting neither did he
send the representative norf message.
The next meeting of the Assembly will
be held on Monday
Governor General Brooke, General
Ludlow, members of the Quban As-
, sembiy, the ' membersof the City
Council, the Secretaries ai4 other of-
. ficials atend'eithe banquet at the Ja
" . 'con Theatr to-dayi' ' .'' ''"fit
' ' Captain Grebje has finished his in ¬
quiry regarding the widows of Spanish
officers. He fonnd.that 89 widows with
' one hundred and twenty children oc
' . ,Cpy government buildings and subslbt
, upon army rations. . These and many
' , ' , v others who were self-supporting, were
u r8panish pensioners .paid out of thefund
t v maintained by deducting a percentage
.jjttdm' the pay "of the officers.
' The furtdi has been accumulatincr
Army Appropriation Bill In the House.
Washington, Feb. 25. Owing to the
pressuse of business, the House met at
11 o'clock to-day.
Mr. Henderson, republican from
Iowa, stated to the House that on ac
count of the great amount 'of public
business to be disposed of during' the
remainder of the session it was desira
ble that the House meet hereafter at 11
o'clock. . v
Three appropriation bills were yet to
pass the House, said he, and but three
had gone to the President. An order
to meet at 11 o'clock was made,
The House then went into commit
tee of the whole and resumed the con
sideration of the Army Appropriation
bill. General debate dosed yesterday
and to-day the bill was read for
amendment under the live minute rule
Mr. Hay, democrat, from Virginia,
the ranking minority member of tbe
Military Committee criticised . the
amount carried by Wie bill, which, be
said, was plainly insufficient to tttain-
tain an army of 100,000 men. The
bearings he said before the committee,
he said bad shown that it cost $1,000
to maintain' one enlisted man serving
in this country, and more while serv-
ng in this country, and more while
serving abroad. The bill appropriated I
$79,000,000. His estimate was $12Q,-I
008,000. He charged that the friends
of a large standing army did not desire
to let the country into the secret of its
enormous cost. But ther would'eure
ly be a deficiency. 1 '
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m.. w ....n.ij wuicueu Baltimore, rebruarv 20 A Dromi
that if tbe reorganization bill reported. nent financier, who is in a position to
10 tne oenate yesieraay rjecame a law! know, said to-dav that the Florida
Central and Peninsular railroad has
been bought by people owning the
Georgia and Alabama and Seaboard
Air Line. He believed the intention
was to incorporate the road with the
other two into a compact Southern
system. The details of this scheme, he
said, he was in a position to give. J,
Skelton Williams, of. Richmond, Va.,
president of tbe Georgia and Alabama
and the Seaboard Air Line, was in
town to day, but would neither affirm
nor deny the rumor,
Wednesday morning Mrs. G. H.
Watson met with a very serious acci
dent which came nigh being fatal
She suffers from rheumatism, and
was bathing her lower limbs with
gasoline before an open fire when the
liquid became ignited. Before help
could arrive she was painfully burn
ed. The fire destroyed the carpet
and spread to the ceiling before it
could be extinguished. Smithfield
Herald.
The Charlotte News says: Mr. J.
F. Carter, fprmerly of Salisbury, died
from an overdose of laudnum at the
Charlotte hotel Saturday afternoon.
Carter was seen on the streets that
morning shortly before noon, hour,
He told one or two parties that he
had taken the drug and that he
would die. Carter was formerly su
perintendent of a card mill in Salis
bury. He was in Charlotte en route
to Shelbyville, Tenn., to visit rela
tives." lie was about 50 years old.
Lawrence Pulliam', ex-cashier of
the National Bank of Asheville, who
gave himself up to the sheriff at San
Francisco, Cal., in January arrived
in Greensboro Thursday afternoon in
charge of a United States marshal
from California. He was turned over
to Marshal Milikin. Pulliam left
Asheville five years ago last Decem
ber, with his account short. It it said
that he left the bank for for the ex
press office with 15,000, but failed to
ship the money or return, fie was
cot heard from until he surrendered.
It is said that Pulliam spent all of the
3o,uuu ana am not .nave money
enodgh to come home on. That is
thought to be the reason he surren
dered. Ex.
Seaboard Air tine.
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Dealers in Engines and Boilers, Saw Mills, Threshing Ma
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The Hall Cotton Gin.
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We have recently added a Foundry to our plant wnicn en
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there would be a deficiency.
Mr. Hull, in the couse of some re
marks said he understood the Senate
euinmittee compromise army reorgani
zation bill would never go to confer-
ence.
Mr. Underwood, democrat from
Alabama, raised a point to order
against the provision for an increase of
the number of clerks, and being over
ruled, moved to strike itout. The mo
tion was lost.
Boy Killed with an "Unloaded Pistol."
La Grange, N. C, Feb. 27 Johnnie
Jones was killed in the country,
about three miles from here, Satur
day afternoou. It was an accident
caused by an "unloaded" revolver.
His brother Otho was trying to ex
tract the exploded shells when the
pistol fired, the bullet entering lohn-
nie's head just behind the right ear,
and ranged upward and forward.
The boy killed was fifteen years old.
His brother was about two years
younger.
Poisoned with Doctored Wine.
lsince;, 1864. Capt. Greble finds that
the cash and records have disappear.
Amesbury, Mass., Feb. 25. A fami
ly of five, who lived on a farm near
Whiton, N. H., have been poisoned,
and the father, mother and one child
are already dead. The other four
children are at the point of the point
of death and physicians have little
hope for their recovery. The farm
er's name was Horace Bates. Before
his death he said that 'a few days ago
he received a bottle .of wine from a
friend and that yesterday noon .411
were taken ill. Charles ' May bits
been arrested and will be helcj for In
quest. '
Good tobacco 25 cents per pound at
Young's.
A Wild Shot.
The other day Bennie Higgs was
down in the Skinner ravine hunting,
with a small rifle. He shot at a bird
and the ball did more damage than
was intended. Jesse Reid, a colored
man, was sitting 'down asleep on the
other side of the ravine, and had his
hands folde.d across his breast. ' The
ball from the rifle struck him in both
hands, cutting a piece of flesh out of
a finger on one hand and entering the
back of the other hand. Greenville
Reflector.
A Black Beast'i Crime.
Charlotte. N. C, Feb. 25. Julius
Julius Alexander, a joung negro
committed an outrage upon Mrs.
Tyce Mollis, a young white matrou,
at her home in the northern part of
Charlotte. After several hours hunt
by the police and private citizens, he
was found at a festival at Biddle.
rs. Mullis identified hiiu promptly.
he scratches she made on his fuce in
the struggle were plain and every
lircnuistance pointed to his guilt.
I here Is great indignation at thfs
terrible crime, and there was some
alk (of. lynching, but the law will
robably be allowed to. take, its
Opurse. 1 r , .
WOODARD & GODWIN
Are now located in the corner store formerly occupied by Mr
8. C. Wells, and request a share of your patronage. They keep
First-Glass Groceries and General Merchandise.
And sell you goods as low as the lowest.
Highest cash prices paid for Country
Produce.
Yours to serve,
u-14m
WOODARD
Godwin
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