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THE PLANTERS IOAN AND CAVINGS BANK. ?AUGUSTA, GA.| Pays Interest on- Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. HAYNK, President, CHAP. C. HOWARD,* Cashier. NO. 69. TEE NATIONAL BANI OF AUGUSTA' h. C. HAYNK, CHAS. C. HOWARD. President. Cashier.' CAPITAL $250,000. Surplus )???-/v?rt Undivided Profits, j $125,000 Our New Vault contains 410 Safty-Lock Boxes, which we offer to our patrons and the public at three to ten dollars per annum. SDA?, JANUARY 27, 1904. NO. 5. ninor Events of the Week In a B S Brief Form. g ? Negro Shot to Deatn. . A negro named Jim Stevens, living on Mr. J. D. Prothro's piace> about seven miles below Aiken, was shot and killed by Mr. Jackson Fanning, an ?overseer for Mr. Prothro, Tuesday af ternoon. Mr. Fanning was here today .and stated that the trouble arose over fk dispute with the negro about water* ing the stock. The negro was imperti nent, and Mr. Fanning reprimanded him. The negro cursed Mr. Fanning and advanced upon him with an opeU knife in his hand, and Mr. Fanning drew his pistol, but slipped it In his pocket, and struck the negro with a stick. The negro then ran to his house, and others standing by told Mr. Fanning that he had better be care ful, for Stevens would kill him if he had to waylay him. Mr. Fanning did not believe that the negro would trouble him again, but he went home and got his shot gun and came out to the gate. In the meantime Stevens had gotten his shotgun and came to Mr. Prothro's place, stopping on the | way and trying to buy some bucksnot. The negro crouched behind a wagon shed and tried to g'?t a shot at Mr. Fanning, who had dropped behind th? fence when he saw the negro coming. After the negro came his wife, who screamed and begged him not to kiil Mr. Fanning. Mr. Fanning, thinking that perhaps the woman was meneu vering against him also, turned his head towards her when Stevens' shot him and ran. Mr. Fanning's face and head and hands were peppered with ! bird shot, but as tho negro ran off he j shot him twice and killed him almost instantly. Anderson Leads. A special from Anderson to the Col- j uinbia State says: "The amount assessed against An derson county, $200 to help bear the .expense of the State Immigration As sociation is at hand, and ready to ba paid over. When Mr. Matheson's let ter was received a few days ago th?, Chamber of commerce held a special ' meeting and resolved to pay half of ? the amount, or $100, if the Farmers' Institute of the county would pay the other half. Mr. W. Q. Hammond, a leadiug- farmer of the county, was in the city and hunted up the sceretary "of tho Chamber of Commerce, and paid the other half out of his own pocket. The Farmers' Institute will not meet again for a month, and Mr. Hammond was much interested in th? "Immigration movement, and he want-1 ed the matter clinched, and started ?. at once, so far as Anderson county is concerned. Minor State Items. The hearing before the railroad commission on the merchants' peti tion asking for a reduction of inter state freight rates was concluded in the council chamber Wednesday "alight-that is. concluded so far as the ?evidence is concerned. But x It is a Jong call between a petition for a re duction and actual reduction. It will be fully 60 days before the commis sion renders a decision, for it has an almost interminable mass of evidence to review, and won't be in possession of this and all the arguments under 50 days. And then if the decision ia against the railroad there is no sub stantial hope that an appeal will not be taken, and the matter indefinitely tied up in the courts. A telegram from Mr. Lewis W. Par ker, president of the Olympia, Granby and Richland coton mills, of Columbia, was received there last week and con veyed the satisfactory intelligence that the reorganization of these mills along lines on which Mr. Parker has been working, was about to be effect ed. Senator A. C. Latimer has returned to Washington very much gratified at the reception which has been given his bill to secure Federal aid for building good roads. He said that a great many people had not understood his bill at first, but now that they db they admit that it is not in violaion of he constitution, nor is it out of har mony with Democratic principles. Calhoun, Jackson, Gallatin, Clay and others of the old school of statesmen favored such appropriations for good roads. The Hampton monument commission reports that there is. on hand from vol untary contributions about $5,500, and it is expected that in a few days this will reach nearly $6.000. A bill haa been introduced in the House to sup ply the deficiency, so that a $20,000 monument can be erected at once, and those who have talked with the Rep resentatives state that the bill will probably pass. The DeKalk Cotton Mills, at Cam den, which recently passed into the hands of a receiver, 'are now running out the raw material stocked in the machinery. It Is estimated that the value of this material is about $6,000. The mill will continue in operation for about six weeks and then will close down indefinitely, perhaps until the next -cotton crop. Darlington county stands at the head of the honor roll in the matter of con tributions to the Hampton monument fund. Although on a basis of property assessment Darlington's pro rata would have been but -$200, the county of sterliog men and loyal women has con tributed $1,000 to the erection of a proper memorial. A petition has been ?led with the United States district court, Judge Brawley presiding, to declare as bank rupt the Farmers' and Mechanics' Mercantile and Manufacturing Co. Capt. J. L. Argus, of Chester, died there Wednesday morning at ten o'clock. He was in the 80th year of his age. For more than thirty years he was in active busines there as a lending merchant.* He retired in 1888 after amassing quite a large estate. In early life he spent five years in Ceiiforiiia, being one of the "forty nl; !-rs." He was an officer In the Ca"nou i Guards, Sixth regiment, tho fir t year of the war, then quarter mi te:- of Bratton's brigade. He se. ed -everal terms as mayor of Cl ester, and . was always interesad in the welfare of the town. THE STATE'S LAWMAKERS A Number of Bills Passed By the Body. A Special Message. At the opening of the session of the Legislature on Wednesday the follow ing special message from Governor Hey ward was received and- read: Special Message No. 4. To the Honorable the Gentlemen of the General Assembly: In my annual message to your hon orable body reference was made to lawlessness in our State, the frequent occurrence of lynchings being dealt with particularly. The necessity of re spect being paid tb the law by civilized communities was ur$ed in this con nection. You, the law-make. 5. had not been assembled h?r? a wer-\. when another evidence of this lawless spirit is given In the lynching at Reevesville. The Governor is popularly credited with the power to prevent or punish these outrages against the State. In reality he is practically powerless. When notified, he may sometimes frus trate the mob by the employment of troops, but when the crime has been committed his hands are practically tied. The meagre rewards he has been empowered to offer out Of his contin gent fund have proven ineffectual, and this is as far as he is permitted to go. In the. meantime the spirit of law lessness is unchecked. Any band of lawless men may feel secure in taking the life of a fellow being on almost any pretext This deplorable condition, ought to be remedied. To compel greater respect, the proper respect, for the majesty of the l?w ? recommend the enactment bf special legislation in reference to lynching, that the great responsibility of officials directly charged with enforcing the law be brought home to them, and that more effectual measures be taken for the apprehension of persons who take the law%in their own hands. lu lieu of some such legislation, 1 suggest that the Governor be provided with an adequate fund for the purpose of suppressing lynching-a fund that may be used in offering suitable re wards or in obtaining evidence against lynchers in such manner as mav be deemed best. I sincerely regret the necessity for this and am not desirous of additional responsibility, but I will not shirk any duty that the General Assembly my y see fit to impose for the welfare and good name of South Carolina. D. C. HEYWARD. Governor. January 20, 1904. In the House. After an adjournment since last Sat urday at noon the house of representa tives convened at 12 o'clock Wednes day and speiit an hour in session. At 1 o'clock Hon. A. C. Latimer, junior United States senator from this State, was accorded the privileges of the hall in accordance with the invitation sent him last week, and for a quarter of an hour he presented to the members of the general assembly strong arguments in favor of his bill to have govern ment aid in _behalf nt srnn? morie There was only one-thrld reading bill on the caledar-Mr. Eflrd's to grant the Lexington Water Power com pany the right to erect dams at Dre her's and Rauch's shoals in Lexington county. This was passed and sent to the senate. Mr. T. F. Stackhouse introduced the memorial from the State Temperance, Law and Order league. This document was received as information and was spread on the journal. Unfavorable reports were made on the following: Mr. Ford's marriage li cense bill; Mr. Dorroh's garnishee bill; bill to change the time for convening the general assembly until the second Tuesday in May. and the bill to cur tail tho hunting season. Mr. Sinkler's resolution 1 extend the use of the hall to the S. '.ar as sociation this afternoon ax. morrow afternoon and night was a " od. In .making up the list ?. offices to be ?filled by election today, two vacan cies in the Citadel board were over looked. This omission was corrected yesterday by Mr. D. 0. Herbert's reso lution. The Oyster Bill. In the house Mr. Toole called up hiB bill to grant to the sinking fund com mission exclusive jurisdiction for the protection of shell fish, terrapin, mi gratory fish, ducks and other game fowls in the public waters and lands of the State. Mr. Glover of Beaufort wanted the bill recommitted in order that, a dele gation could appear and make state ments to the committee. Mr. Toole objected to what he de clared to be dilatory tactics. Mr. Glover declared that Beaufort is the only county in the State which has ever attempted to protect the oys ter beds, and he offered his motion not to impede legislation but to put the committee in possesion of all informa tion obtainable. Dr. Smith of Barnwell who favors fhe bill very heartily, agreed that it would be better to recommit the bi'I in order that any objectionable feature might be eliminated. Mr. Sinkler took the same position as Dr. Smith. Mr. Toole said that no defect had bc .n pointed out and if there be any defects why not amend it on the floor. The bill would get locked up in the committee room and would die there. Mr. Colcock favored recommiting the bill and showed some points which needed perfecting. The bill was recommitted by a vote of 55 to 12. The house killed Mr. Banks' bill "to prohibit the appointment of other than freeholders as local trustees in com mon schools." This was the only sec ond reading bill disposed of yesterday, not one being passed. - The bill to regulate the commuta tion tax so that each county may have as much or as little commutation tax as possible, received sundry amend ments and the matter got into such shape that final action was deferred until today. This bill was indefinitely postponed last Thursday, but on the day following Mr. Brown of Oconee by hard work got the house to rein state the bill on the calendar that its objectionable features might be modi fied. Senate Proceedings. The senate session was short, the body adjourning within the hour and little being transacted other than the introduction of several new bills and the reading of the calendar. Senator Brice introduced two peti tions, asking that they be placed on the calendar without reading. One was from the State Law and Temperance league and the other from the women of Yorkville and both were along the line of changing the dispensary law co that a dispensary might be re moved by popular vote. Immediate consideration was asked by Senator Hardin for his concurrent resolution relating to the Columbia Female college. It included a change of the name to the Columbia college and Offl at?^i-V-'" cifl-:.. . fe?: as was Senator Douglass* "bi tioning a part of Union's sha: dispensary funds for mainta public library. The Lanhai baggage bill and Senator Ray angeburg school election bill \ given third reading. The nous tion of Mr. Lanham to give don's country treasurer certa In repayment was indeflnitel; poned. The Gause bill to preve ping shad out of the State w a special order for today. Rev. John Lake who made tl ing prayer for Rev; Walter I. was once a page in the senat a South Carolinian and is now sionary lately returned from C Legislative Elections. The elections by the joint a Thursday were conducted quie results seeming to have been e: the battles fought out before t leting commenced. A friend o feated candidate for dispensan tor said after the voting: "He have been elected had he sacrifi principle last night." From t v.-ould appear that the issues election were practically set caucus. The balloting was tedious am was no excitement' as has been fested on former occasions. Tl sensation occurred last night. 1 tendance upon the joint assemb meagre as there .was a good si the opera house; When the elect college trustees came up. no one ed to know whose terms were al expire, and it is now believed th L. A. Sease of Newberry was a< tally left off the Clemson boan that Senator Tillman or Mr. F was dropped similarly from the throp board. The joint assembly was called der at ll o'clock by the pre: Lieut. Gov. Sloan. For associate justice of the su court to succeed Hon. C. A. * but one name was placed in no tion. Senator Brown of Darlingto Senator Stackhouse of Marion n ated Hon. C. A. Woods of Marion thereupon was elected for the te eight years, his election at th? session having been for the pired term of Associate Justice then elected chief justice. Mr. V received 156 votes. There were two vacancies to be on the penitentiary board, the ten Messrs. W. B. Love of York an D. Mann of Abbeville having exj The names of both of these gent! were placed in nomination as wer following: J. 0. Wingo, represent from Greenville; P. T. Hollis of ( ter; D. B. Peurifoy, represent from Saluda; W. N. Brown, repri tative from Oconee; W. D. Kirby resents j VP from ChArc\"---?> ..Tho. on first ballot stood: wingo, o9; P foy, 66; Love, 54; Mann. 47; Hollis Kirby, 23; Brown, 16. There wert votes cast, necessary to a choice Under the new rules forbidding *t being changed, another ballot made necessary. Before the second ballot the nc of Messrs. Brown and Kirby ' withdrawn. This ballot resulted: V cast, 153; necessary to a choice, Wingo, 82; Peurifoy, 81; Love, Mann, 53; Hollis, 38. One of the most interesting conl of the day was the election of a S librarian which followed. The n iuations were: Miss Linnie LaBord Richmond, Miss Annie B. Dacus of derson, Miss Julia Tompkins of R land and Mrs. J. A. Muller of Lex ton. The first ballot resulted as lows: Miss La Borde, 103; Miss Da 26; Miss Tompkins. 21; Mrs. Mullel One hundred and fifty-six votes v cast-76 being necessary to a chi and Miss La Borde was elected on ballot for a term of tvi ) years. fi La Borde's election brought her congratulation of many friends. DISPENSARY ELECTIONS. Representative W. 0. Tatum of angeburg had no opposition in the e tion to the two-year term of disp sary commissioner and received votes. The greater interest In the electi of the day was taken in the race the $700 per annum office of chaim of the dispensary board of directors The nominees were H. H. Evans Newberry, presented by Mr. Ki rh seconded by Mr. Colocy, and J. McDermott of Horry, nominated Mr. Jeremiah Smith., seconded by 1 D. D. McColl. Of thp 155 votes c Evans received 99 aj McDermott The house of representatives was session less than half an hour yest day. After the introduction of n bills the time was given over to t elections in joint assembly. When the Lanham bill came m from the senate, Mr. Mauldin rais objection to the senate amendme which he declared, requires street T? roads to carry 200 pounds of bagga under tho head of "common carrier! The" senate amendment was disagre to. By a vote of 99 to 0 the house agre to the introduction of the bill amen ing charter of Colurauia Female ci lege. There was no majority favorab report on Mr. Richards' bill to increa the amount of beneficiary scholarshi; at Winthrop from $5,400 to $12,4oo. The following new bills were prese ted: Mr. Beamguard, to let the asylu have 10 convicts every year, and let none to other institutions. Clemsr. now gets 33. Mr. Davis, to provide for libraries i the public schools. The bill provid( that when the patrons contribute $2 the school board shall contribute $5 and the State superintendent of edi cation $10 out of the public funds. Mr. Whaley. to amend the law coi cerning the lien of certain mortgage Mr. Holman, to define vagrancy an provide punishment. Mr. Holman, to have county board of control and county dispensers elec ed as other officers are. Mr. Bomar, to authorize and enipov. cr mayors and other officers to gran warrants to break and enter assembl ing rooms in cities of 5,000 populatio: anti over. In the Senate Friday Senator r S. McColl, of Marlboro, Introduced ? bil to establish a department of com moree and immigration and to prc vide for the appolntrr.unt and coin pen sation of a secretary. Thio bill wa: presented in the House by Representa tive D. D. McColl, Jr.. of Maribel c.. Tin bil is the outcome of the immiyratioi convention which has started the peo ple to thinking. There are waste lands in South Carolina which would flour ish under the cultivation of thrifty people, and any investment the S;ate would make in bringing such people here would be repaid ten fold yearly in ture and sale bf fertilizers; A very important matter among the new bills was the presentation, of a memo liai from the State Immigration Association. This was accompanied by a bill presented by Mr. D. D. McColl, Jr., to have a bureau of commerce and immigration. Another new bill which will attract attention was presented by Mr. Wm. I J. Mauldin, of Greenville, which provides for the establishment of distilleries, breweries and blending, plants in cities of 10,000 inhabitants. There was a mas3 of matter handled yesterday, the introduction of new bills and committee reports consuming a lot of time. The commission to report on the improvements needed in ond around the State capital made its re turn. There was a memorial from the good roads convention and one from the immigration association. The com committee to examine the affairs of State colleges made its report also. In consequence the journal will be heavy today and the State printer will have 1 his hands full. A speech which Sena tor Tillman delivered in Congress last spring on the "Black Papers" was sent to Governor Heyward with the request from the Senator that the speech be communicated to the Legislature. This too will be printed. There were many new bills in the House. One by Mr. W. L. Mauldin, of Green vile, seeks to. permit the estab lishment bf distilleries, breweries, and blending establishments in cities of 10,000 inhabitants. The blending will be under supervision of the Federal government. There was an unfavorable report on two bills to regulate the time for pay ing taxes. The House at first accepted the report as the committee was unani mous, but later the bill was put on the calendar. Mr. Youmans introduced a bill to forbid granting of pardon conditioned upon the convict's leaving the State. By Mr. Barratt, to provide for ma jority rule in elections in cities of over 3,500 inhabitants. There were new bills to provide for issuing of bonds and erection of school houses at Dillon, Jonesville, Landrum and Ell ore. Mr. D. O. Herbert presented a bill to provide for a capitation tax on dogs and another bill to regulate traffic in cotton seed. By Mr. Lancaster, a bill to permit one's family to use his mileage book. The following were presented in the Senate: Senator Butler, to set a time for the election of school trustees in Cheraw. Senator Dean, to prescribe the pen. alty for assault and attempt to ravish. Senator Mciver, to instruct the school trustees of Cheraw to issue bonds of^ school^buildings. ^ auditor of Dorchester $65 by the county and $35 by the State. Senator Mciver, to alter section 714 of the code requiring the State Treas urers to give duplicate instead of trip licate receipts Senator Manning( to establish ? de partmer*. of commerce and labor and to determine the amount of compensa tion for the officers in charge. Senator Ragsdale, of Florence, to re quire common carriers to transport free all judges and sheriffs when on official business. Senator Hydrick, to encourage the establishment of libraries in the public schools of the rural districts. Senator Von Kolntz, to create boards of trustees of firemen's pension fund and provide for pensions for aged fire men and firemen disabled by service. On motion of Mr. Rainsford, the house Saturday took up uncontest?d matters in order to ger through with local bills which * wise would have little show ne. veek when the entire calendar is ta^en up with spe cial orders. The bills which in this way receiv ed second reading were: To punish malicious and mischiev ous interference with police and fire alarm boxes. To add another section to the law as to violation of labor contracts pro viding that conviction of violation should not terminate the contract. To provide for a loan of $12,000 from the State sinking fund to the county of Marion for the purpose of erectii ; a jail. Bill to change the law with refer ence to public cotton weighers in Edgefield. State to Make Fertilizers. After the calendar had been cleared of all bills provoking ho objection the bouse passed Mr. Rainsford's concur rent resolution to inquire into the ad visability of the manufacture of fer tilizers by the penitentiary. Mr. Rainsford explained that the resolu tion requires the penitentiary direc tors to give all of the information pos sible. The expense will be borne by the penitentiary. The resolution re quires no appropriation. The State's royalty from phosphate rock a few years ago was $200,000, now not over $15,000. What is the reason? Why not use convicts to dig out the phos phate rock and manufacture fertili zers? Dr. J. B. Black and Mr. Morgan fa vored the bill, the latter for the rea son that it would throw light on the main question so that arguments could be made intelligently. Mr. Webb stated that he would vote for the resolution although he doubts whether they will have any more information than at present. Mr. DeBruhl withdrew bis hostile motion and the resolution was passed and ordered sent to the Sen ate. SENATE. The day in the Senate was practi cally absorbed by discussion of the C:.'iuse "shad bill," which came up again Saturday. Mr. Walkers' motion Friday to strike out the enacting words being again in order. The bill, after lengthy discussion, was passed. The Office Towel, "A country editor called on me one day," said Clyde Fitch, "to ask my opinion about, a play he had written. After talking a few moments he asked permission to wash his hands, as he had tumbled from a trolley cai- and gathered up more of the mud than he cared to carry home. "'Jimminy crips!' he exclaimed as he approached the wash basin, 'do you u?,e a clean towel every day? You ought to see the one I have In my composing room! Why, at the end of the week it looks as though it had been used to wipe the face of the earth!' " AR ON BOLL PEST fpariment of Agriculture Hot After the Weevil AN OF CAMPAIGN MAPPED OUT Special Representative Dispatched to .jthe Texas Cotton Elelds to Investi gate and Report, Washington, Special.-The Secretary of Agriculture has approved the plans for the cotton boll wevil investigation in the Southwest, for which a special appropriation of $250,000 has been made available. Secretary Wilson be lieves that the best method, for meet ing the ravages caused by the boll weevil will be to put into actual prac tice the facts which have been accumu lated by the Department during the past two years In the Southwest, for which a special conditions, the plant ing of early maturing varieties of cot ton, substitution of other crops, etc. The plans approved, which were sub mitted by Dr. T. B. Galloway, the chief of. the bureau of plant industry, and . Div Howard, the chief of the division of entomology, embody the following lines of investigation: Farmer's co-operative demonstration work. This will involve the organiza tion of farmers in Texas and adjacent I States in such a way to secure the cul tivation of cotton under specific in structions from the Department of Ag riculture, thus a definite working plan will be given to each farmers, the farmer himself to furnish the seed and fertilizers, if such are required. These areas of cotton will serve as object les sons and will be planned to show the practibility of growing cotton despite the presence of the weevil. Similar work will be carried on in Louisiana, where the weevil has not yet advanced. It is planned to have 8,000 to lo.??? farmers engaged in this work. Plan? of breeding and selection- of work. This work will have for its ob ject the improvement of present varie ties of cotton, with a view of making them more prolific and earlier, so as to prevent the ravages of the weevil. The work will be conducted on ex perminent farms, which will be se lected with due respect to climatic, soil and other conditions. The foregoing work will be looked after by the bureau of plant industry. The division of entomology will con tinue Its evestigation on experiment ing of cotton will be located in Texas and the investigations conducted will have for their object the determination of numerous questions relative to boll weevil which have not yet been defi nitely settled. The question of the ef fect of fertilizers on the early matur ing of cotton will be considered. It is planned that these farms shall em brace about one hundred acres each. Investigation of parasites in the orig inal home of the weevil will be made, the object being to Introduce thes" parasites into Texas with the securing of the destruction through them of thc boll weevil. Inspection of cotton products, their fumigation and general expenses at tending the certification required by State laws will be another line of work conducted by the entomologist. Investigation into the life history and habits of the weevil and for the general testing of persons and ma chines. Thia work will be carried on necessarily in the boH weevil infected districts. Investigations of other diseases than the cotton boll weevil, including the destructive cotton boll worm, which is one of the most serious pests in a num ber of the Southern cotton graving States. The organization of the work on the co-operative demonstration farms has begun under the charge of Dr. S. A. Knapp, who is now in Texas.? Massacre of British. London Cable.-The foreign office has received news of the massacres of a British expedition under the aus pices of the East Africa syndicate, by the Tarkhana tribesmen in the neigh borhood of Rudolph Lake, East Africa. Several white mon were murdered, but no details of the occurence have been received. Valuable Texis Dr', Austin, Texas, Special.-What is claimed to be the rich est radium bearing earth in the world has been discovered in the Llano gold and coal fields, 115 miles north of this city. Rumors of the discovery of earth bearing a large percent, of radium in the Llano dis trict have been persistent for some time, and these rumors were verified by the return of a party of seien' ists who had visited the mines to investi gate the reports. These gentlemen stated that the earth will produce a larger percentage of radium than that of any other known deposit. Injunctlod Filed. Cleveland Special-Judge Wing, of the United States Circuit Court, upon application of the Cleveland Electric Railway Company, has issued a tem porary injunction, restraining the city officials from enforcing an ordinance recently adopted by the city council providing for 3-cent car fares within a certain zone. The ordinance fixed tomorrow as the time of the inaugur ation of the new fare schedule. The injunction is to hold until February 13. Dynamiters Arrested. Jacksonville Special.-S. A. Petty and M. Petty, charged with holding up and dynamiting the Seaboard Air Line passenger train at Sanderson on Jan. 17, have been captured. When ar rested the men had dynamite in their possession. They have been identi fied by the engineer and baggage mas ter. The United States authorities will charge them with firing into a mall 'coach, and jeopardizing the life of the mail agent. LOST IN A WRECK Fearful Experience of a Crew That Was Shipwrecked TWO SAVED OF A CREW OF TEN Mistook Shore .Light For Headlight of a Steamer, and Went on to Cer* tain Destruction. I New York, Special.-Eight lives were lost in the wreck Saturday off Quogue, Long Island, of the four-mast ed schooner Augustus Hunt, coal-laden, from Boston for Norfolk. Of the crew of ten only two men were saved, Sec ond Mate George Ebert, of Cleveland, Ohio, and a Swede who was uncon scious when washed on the beach and whose name could not be ascertained. The vessel was in commend of First Mate Conary. who took charge of her in place of Capt. Robert Blair, when she left Boston. Soon after midnight, during a dense fog, the schooner stranded a few hundred fee,1, from the beach and about a mile west of Quogue lifesaving station. A life-saving patrolman heard the cries for help of those on board and summoned the crew. For hours the live-savers were able to hear the cries of the men on the vessel, which was near at hand but buried in the fog. They were absolutely unable to help the men. Time and again they launch ed their boirt, only to have it hurled back to the shore by the heavy surf. The life-savers also had recourse to life lines, but the shots carrying the lines either fell wide or short of the invisible mark. Soon after daylight masses of wreck age began to come ashore, indicating that the vessel was rapidly breaking np. About noon a spar .with a man clinging to It was seen tossing in the outer line of breakers. After a line had been shot across it and made fast by the man, he was pulled ashore and proved to be Second Mate Ebert. A few minutes later another sailor was seen on a mass Of wreckage, and half a dozen life-savers, forming a human chain, dashed into the surf and drew him ashore. He was unconscious and continued in that condition at a late hour tonight. The cries of those remaining on the wreck continued to grow fainter and fainter during the afternoon, and final LsbWoA be unrecognizable. It is believed that only the bow of the vessel remains on the bar, and from this the exhausted seamen dropped one by one until all were owept away. Mate Ebert, after being taken to the life-saving station, said that the vessel stranded in the fog after having mis taken thc Shinnecock light for the headlight of a steamer. The officers believed they were at least twenty-five miles off shore and in no danger, when the vessel suddenly struck and began to pond to pieces in the heavy sea that was running on the bar. Great waves swept over the vessel, the masts snapped off like pipe-stems, and, with the rigging, were carried away by the tremendous seas. As the hull began to go to pieces the members of the crew were driven toward the bow, where they hung as best they could. Ebert was clinging to some wreckage of the deck when the whole mass went overboard, carrying him with it. Elbert was unable to give the names of any of the crew, most of whom Bhipped at Norfolk. Convicted of Murder. Sedalia, Mo., Special. Frank G. Dea on, who killed Emil Meyer in this city two months ago for the betrayal and desertion of Deaton's daughter, Daisy, was convicted of murder today, the verdict fixing his punishment at 28 years in the penitentiary. Evidence showed that Meyer was shot in the back, and on this ground the verdict was given. Carter Shot. Danville. Va., Special.-Brantley Carter, the Lynchburg commercial man who was shot at Chatham on Monday by Geo. Ball, a Danville drum mer, died in Chatham Thursday. Ball, who did the shooting, is in jail at Chatham, awaiting a preliminary trial, which will probably be given him tomorrow or Saturday. His brother. Thomas Ball, has been com mitted to jail as an accessory before the fact, the charge against him hav ing been certified to the grand jury. This is the third murder in Plttsyl vania county in the past month, and much excitement prevails in the coun try districts. A Man Robbed. Roanoke Special.-In the Hustings Court Fannie Hodges was sent to the State penitentiary for 15 months and Mary Foutz was given four months in jail ns accessory, both pleading guilty to the charge of robbing Hiram Jones, of Craig County, of money and certifi cates of deposit amountig to $6,840 while he was here a month ago. It is said that $300 in cash was taken. The certificates, aggregating $6,000, and some valuable bonds, were burned. Crown Prince Missing. Washington Special.-The Corean minister authorized the statement that there had been no attempt to conceal the whereabouts of the Crown Prince Eui Wha. He said that the young man ls at present, and has been for some time, at Roanoke College- Salem, Va., and that recently he had made several visits to this city, alwavs stop ping at the legation. Regarding af fairs In Corea, the minister said that his latest advices from Seoul were to the effect that everything was quiet. NATIONAL LAWMAKERS What the Two Mouses of Congress Are Doing. Pure Food Bli!. The House spent the day consider ing the Hepburn pure food bill. It was not completed when the House was ready to adjourn, and, on motion of Mr. Hepburn, a recess was taken until 11:55 tomorrow, This will re tain the bill before the House without interruption for consideration' tomor row. Just before the recess an amend ment coming from the Democratic side was adopted inserting the word "wilfully," relative to the sale of prohibited adulterated goods by re tailers, which would make it incum bent upon the government to prove knowledge on the part of retailers that the sale of such goods Was con trary to law. The principal speeches of the day were made by Messrs. Hep burn and Mann in favor of the bill and Adamson, Bartlett and Clark in opposition. Mr. Adamson elaborated the views he expressed in a minority report. He s??d such legislation was unnecessary, as local communities had ample power to correct evils, Mr. Clark believed the present bill should be modified, especially the sections pertaining to the acquisition of sam samples, which, he said, required a man to furnish evidence against him self, which was unconstitutional. Patterson Talks. Mr. Patterson completed his speech on the Panama canal question and Mr. Platt, of Connecticut, began on the same subject. Mn Patterson declared that the President was largely respon sible for the revolt in Panama and an nounced his decided preference for the Nicaraguan route. Mr. Platt took this pronouncement for Nicaragua as the text for his remarks, saying that this preference for the more northern route explained away the mystery of the otherwise unexplainable opposition on the Panama treaty. Referring to tho President's declara tion that what had been done in Pan ama had been d?n? as the mandate of civilization. Mr. Patterson quoted with approval a statement by MT. Spooner to the effect that that was a new phrase, adding: :"It was a new phrase, and the man who penned it must have been in a state of mental exaltation at the time, as others have been on other occasions. Mahomet, Joe Smith and Dowie have moved in such exalted spheres that they imagined themselves as the very vice regents of the Al mighty, and it may be that the Presi dent moves In the same sphere." Mr. Patterson charged that the effort to displace the Nicaraguan canal with the Panama canal was in the interest of those who wanted no canal at all and who, If they were to have any canal, wanted the one which would give the least competition to the trans-conti nental railroads. Ho believed the Nic aragua canal could be completed in fif teen years' less time than the Panama canal. He would, therefore, vote against the ratification of the treaty. Hr. Plutt's Views . Mr. Platt, of Connecticut, concluded ?As..Sflg*?]?..AP J?an.?jna.Tji]irj5da.v. Cfm? session, after the expiration of the - morning hour. He defended the c-iHise of the President throughout the Pan ama revolt and eulogized the executive personally as brave and fearless. Du ring the morning hour Mr. Morgan spoke in explanation of his bill for the annexation of Panama to the United States baaing his argument on the ground that the pending canal treaty practically contemplated that result and said, in effect, that If it was to be done at all it should be done by legislation and not by treaty. Mr. Morgan spoke of the difficulties which the country has encountered in Panama, saying that they are not of the country's seeking, but were due to the precipitancy of the President of the United States. It was, however, impossible to undo what had been done, and he contended that further proceedings should be in accordance with legislation. In order to get rid of the consequences of our acts we must make, he said, some equitable arrange ment with Panama, for it was not to be supposed that Colombia meant to sub mit calmly. If. he argued, we are to build a canal in Panama, we must have the good will of Colombia, for without it the obstacles of disease and outlawry will be Infinitely increased. MT. Morgan predicted that the Presi dent would not be able to secure future appropriations. "Indeed," he said, "I don't believe that he wants appropriations. It is better for campaign purposes that leg islation on the canal question should consist of purposes only." He said that he had inserted in his bill the provision for the payment of ?15.OCO.00O for the practifieation of Co lombia because he had heard that the President had entered into an agree ment for the payment of that sum for that purpose. Mr. Platt defended the President against thc charge of committing zn act of war or even an act of interven tion, denying that his acts in connec tion with the Panama revolt amounted to either. The charges that the Pres ident knew of the revolution and had connived at it, Mr. Platt characterized as disgraceful and untrue. He said the President had the right to protect tran sit across the isthmus even against Colombia. Mr. Platt referred to the retirement ol' the Colombian forces and was inter rupted by Mr. Tillman, who asked If the attitude of the Colombian forces was not in thc nature of a dicker or badger to increase the price of going." Mr. Platt replied that Mr. Hubbard and his 424 men had nothing to do with the Colombian troops. "I want a canal at Panama," said Mr. Tillman, "if we don't have to steal it." The cab habit has led a woman cash ier to embezzle thirty-seven thousand dollars. She acquired a craze for cabs and carriages. She went lo her work in the morning in a cab. At noon she had a cab to take her to luncheon. She had another to bring her back to the office after the noon hour. In the evening there was another cab to take her home, and at night she went to parties, always riding in a carriage. This habit finally placed her where there will be no need of cabs or car riages for a long, long time to come, behind those bars which will grimly remind her of the ruthless law. This episode, but one of many, reminds us, says Collier's, that the taste for luxury and display, the general laxity which has marked our temper, leading from private life into business, and thence into politics, has apparently reached Ks climax, and is about to ebb. There are signs that simple living will be come the fashion, and once this be gins among the prosperous the mode will extend to those below. , A CYCLONE'S FURY Wipes An Alabama Town From Off the Face of the Earth THIRTY-SEVEN KILLED OUTRIGHT One Hundred Crippled and Very Much Property Swept Away By the Fury of the Wind. Tuscaloosa, Ala., Special.-The most disastrous cyclone that ever swept over this section visited Moundville, Ala., a town of 300 inhabitants fifteen miles south of Tuscaloosa, Friday morning ai 1 o'clock, and as a result thrity seven persons were killed and more than one hundred injured, and every business house, with the exception of a small drug store, completely de stroyed. The cyclone struck the city from tb? southwest, dealing death and destruc tion as it made its path, a quarter of a mile wide, through the town. The following is a list of the wLite persons who were killed: E. P. Seymour, of Nashville, Tenn., who accepted the position as operator at the railroad station last evening; A. H. Warren, of Birmingham, em ployed by the Alabama Grocery Com pany; J. H. Redmond, superintendent pumping station, from Nashville; Rob ert Powers, of Tuscaloosa; Miss Nettie Farley., The negro dead are: W. N. Miles, wife and six children; Albert Helston, wife and three children; Ike Holsten, wife and three children; nine other ne groes, yet unidentified. The following is a partial list of the seriously injujred: Mrs. W. A. Grubba, of Kentucky, dislocated hip; R. L. Griffin, Lee Griffin, A. B. Griffin, Mrs. Farley, Mr. Gailey, Mrs. Galley, Mrs. F. T. Gailey, Mr. Farley, A. B. Taylor. Mrs. McCaney. The names of the injujred negroes have not yet been procured. Surgeons were rushed to Moundville from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa, and all possible was done to alleviate the sufferings of the injured. By the force of the storm persons were blown hundreds of feet from their beds in the blackness of night. Through terror, a father, mother and three children fled from their home to seek refuge and in their excitement left a 5-year-old boy in bed. This morn ing he was pulled from beneath some timber, and thus far It is Impossible to find any other member of the fam ily. . ^S. ?arpejts and wearing appar through>what was a forest, birt which is now as clear as if it Lad been cut by the woodman's axe. Freight cars were torn to splinters, the trucks from them being hurled hundreds of feet from the track. The depot, the hotel, warehouses, gins, thirty homes, the store-houses occupied by R. L. Griffin, A. W. Wig gins and Son. W. J. Domenlck, A. D. Griffin and W. P. Phifer, together with their stocks, were completely destroy ed. Where they stood, it Ii impossible to find even the pillars upon which these structures rested. Bales of cotton, which were stored In warehouses, were torn to atoms, the fragments of lint together with the debris, lodging In trees, making it ap pear as if that section had been visited by a snowstorm. Heavy iron safes were carried by the storm, the doors of which were torn from their hinges. . A young clerk employed by W. R* Phifer, hearing the terrible roaring of the approaching cyclone, let himself down into a well in the center of the store. He had no sooner found his place of safety than the store was com pletely demolished. This morning he was drawn out uninjured. Danger at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Special.-Lulled Into a sense of security in the early evening by the rapidity with which the Alle gheny river was carrying ice and water from the upper stream into the Ohio, Pittsburg went to sleep with the belief that the warnings of danger from the rivers had been exaggerated, but at this hour a new danger has arisen. The Monongahela river has broken loose. Huge masses of ice, less broken than that which came rushing down the sister stream all day are choking the harbor. Both rivers are steadily rising. The Allegheny is already three feet higher than her consort stream, and as a consequence a dangerous ice gorge is now forming between the Wabash and Smithfield street bridges, just about tho confluence of the two rivers. Ice Gorge Gives Way. Otacinnati, Ohio, Special. - The large ice gorge in the Ohio river be tween Ludlow, Ky., and the western part of the State gave way. As it was below the Cincinnati harbor no damage was done here., but lower points have been warned. Grt^i-a'p prehension is felt in the harbor here on account of gorges up the river that are expected to break soon, as it is raining today throughout the Ohio val ley Quick Acticn on Caricl. Mobile. Ala., Special.-President D. E. Hudger. of the Mobile cotton ex change, by instruction of the directors has addressed a letter to Senators Morgan and Pettus, advocatingstrong ly quick action on the Panama treaty. lt sets forth the advantages to the Gulf ports from the construcion of the canal, and declaring that the republic is established, and that further oppo sition of the treaty can be of no bene- S fit to this country. By Direct Vote. Indianapolis Special.-The United Mine Workers of America adopted a resolution urging the election of Unit ed States Senators by direct vote. The convention began the considera tion of a number of rules providing for all mining contracts In the coun try to close on one date, and make one joint agreement district. There is a division of sentiment among the dele gates. The matter was referred to the pationa] executive board.