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VOL. 70 EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, J UNE 28, 1905. NO. 33. BAD-MOTS A? LODZ Two Hundred or lore Dead and . ^ Thousand Wounded STREET FIGHTING STILL CONTINE!) poliah City Resembles a Shambles and HC-Jthe "Fighting Spirit of thc -People is So Fully Aroused That the Pres ? ?pce of Ten Russian Regiments is^ Insufficient to Stop Firing From Houses. Lodz, By Cable.-Since, the arrival o: re-inforcements actual fighting in the city has stopped, but the outbrenk is by no means quelled, and fresh collis ions are expected momentarialy. The city resembles a shambles and the terrible scenes of the last two days will never be'wiped from the memory of the Polish people. The fighting spirit of the people is fully aroused... They have tasted blood and want more. Certainly the revo lutionary spa it'^&b road, and it re mains to be seen whether military .measures wiil have the same effect as ? previously. Saturday at Baluty, a suburb of Lodz, four Cossacks were hilled and sixteen others wounded, by a bomb which was thrown into the barracks. Twenty of their horses'were killed. Occasional volleys-are stilled fired by the police of gendarmes in response to <SS? y. _ . . shots frornfhousesr" The soldiers are showing what ap pears to be wanton cruelty. L??e lu the afternoon they shot and killed two women-a mother and her daughter. The funerals of vic1 im s of the shoot ing of Thursday and Friday took place surreptitiously in various outlying vii-: lages. It is quite impossible to give the exact number of killed and wounded, as reports vary according to the quarter from which they are obtained. Cer tainly the killed number more than a hundred, and the wounded five times as many. An official reports says that the number of casualities was largely increased by the neglect of persons to remain indoors, and the others who in sisted on looking out of doors and win dows when the volleys were being fired upon the rioters hy the soldiers. Resi dents of th<?city say that they receiv ed no orde>s to remain indoors. 1 j Peace Conference Date. St Petersburg, By Cable.-Negotia tions for the peace conference have taken, an. important step forward, a proposition for . the date of the. meet ing of the plenipotentiaries vat ' Wasb.-? ! Vnow .^undfcr\jCon.siderar,-| -tionV Thc exact "date propose'd has not been ascertained, but there is reas son to suppose that it is somo time during the first week or ten days of August, which is about th_e earliest period at which the Japanese repre sentatives could he expected to reach .Washington. The Emperor's answer is not ex pected for a day or two, as the diplo matic mills of Russia grind slowly, and the Foreign Office, as one of the sec retaries put it, "is not used to your hustling American methods;" but it is thought thaKthe date will be satisfac tory, as it wiil give ample time for M. Nelidoff, the Russian ambassador at Paris, or other Russian negotiators, to reach Washington, and there will be little preliminary work for them to do until the Japanese terms are submitted. Whether the proposal regarding the date originated at Tokio or at Wash ington, cannot be learned, but the fact that the negotiations was conducted through Ambassador Meyer may indi cate that President Roosevelt has per 7 -?.ps again stepped to the fore and jested to the two powers, neither of whom are willing to take the initia tive, a suitable date. I Passenger Wreck in Colorado. Denver. Special.-Westbound passen ger train on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad was -wrecked at Pinto, a small station, sixty miles west of Grand Junction, Col. No fatalities re sulted. The accident was caused by a broken bolt in a frog at a switch. Three coaches were derailed and twen ty-nine passengers were slightly in jured. [ Sheriff Resists Gov. Folk. St. Louis, Special.-Governor Folk's order to stop race track gambling in Missouri with the aid of the militia, if necessary, met defeat at the hands of the'Sheriff'of St. Louis county, John Merrel, who says ho will not raid race tracks or call for troops, and that if the Governor sends troops to molest any one the soldiers will be arrested, possibly shot. Sheriff Herpel declared, he war, opposed to raids as a usurpa tion of tho judicial authority, and said: "An appeal to bayonets is the first threat o? a bigot, fired by fanatical zeal, his. personal ambition and by ideas aga-r.st the guaranteed liberties of the people." Hanged For Murdering Manager. Birmingham, Ala., Special.-A spec ial from Tuscaloosa says that John Carpenter, a negro, was hanged there Friday fer 'the ' murder of Stewart Champion, superintendent of the Stew art plantation,'- last April. Carpenter, an employe of the plantation, had a grudge aga inst , the manager, and shot him in>his home at night firing through the window as Champion sat with his child in Lis arms. The child was slightly wounded and Champion was killed." Killed For Making Protest. Tampa. Fla., Special.-A special to The Tribune from Brooksville says that Mr. J; Hansel! Norman, of the turpentine firm of Norman. Weeks & Co was shot and killed by S. B. Keag gin' white. Keaggin was whipping a negro employed by Norman, when the latter asked him to desist. Keaggin fired twice at Norman,' the second shot hitting him in the side. Norman died three minutes later. Keaggin fled, but a noise, is "after him. Norman's body was shipped to his former home, forman park, Ga. " REPORT OF COMMISSION South Carolina Railroad Commission After Thorough Investigation of the Wreck of the Ogden Special, Makes Report. Columbia, S. C., Special. -The Railroad Commission on Wednesday filed their finding - on- the week of the Ogden special car near Green ville on Ap^U 29. The finding goes into the particulars in detailand makes some rather drastic recommendations. In addition to the regular finding Commissioner Earle filed a supple mentary report on the* wreck and makes some additional findingse. The commission says: "The yard engine and train engaged in switching in the Greenville yards was neither a second or third class train, and the effect of the train or ders above mentioned was not to alter" the relations between it and extra en gine 1010. as established by the rules of the railroad company. We find the rules of the railroad company make all extra trains inferior to regular trains of whatever class. The rule of the company which governed the train in question on the day of the accident was as follows: "'Yard limits are indicated by sign boards reading 'Yard limits' located on either side of Spencer, Salisbury, Charlotte, Spartanburg, Spartanburg junction, Greenville, Toccoa. jula, Athens, Elberton, Armour and Atlanta Switching and other engines and trains may work within these limits ?without regard to second class and inferior trains, but must give way immediately upon their approach. Second class and inferior trains must approach and run through yard limits under full control, expecting to find the main track occupied. In case oC accident, responsibility rests with approaching train.' . "From this it is apparent that as acording to the company's -"assiflca tion of trains, which is the usual clas sification on American railways; the extra train of engine 1010 was inferior in class, and for the purpose of ascer taining its right on the road to sec ond class trains, it was its duty, in approaching and running through . Greenville yard, to do so 'under full control,' and 'expecting to find the main track occupied,' It was right under the rules for the switch engine and train to work within the yard lim its without regard to approaching second class or inferior trains, which include extra trains, but they are re quired to give way immediately upon their approach. ?"Under these rules the entire obli gation of safety rests upon the ap proaching train, and, in fact, the rule explicitly states that 'in case of acci dent, responsibility rest with approach' ing train.' "If we take the rules to govern-a train crew, we must decide from the facts shown that the approaching ex tra train, in this case engine 1010, was, tn approaching and passing through the Greenville yard limits, being run In. direct -violation of these rules, and of being under-;full control' was .run denc?'tnat the '?n'gineer and conductor of this train had been furnished with the rules .In-'question had been examin ed on and knew them, but simply in action, at least, misinterpreted them. HOLDS CREW responsible "The conclusion, therefore, of the commission, is that the responsibility for the accident rest primarily with j the crew of engine No. 1010." The commission after stating that the rules of the company are standard says: "There is one point, however, that the commission are not fully satisfied with, and that is when the operator at Greenville received the last mes sage, that is that the Ogden special was running forty minutes late, if he received it in time, and it seems from the testimony that he did, he (the op erator at Greenville) should have made every effort to convey this notice to the yard"crew. If this could have been successfully done, in all proba bility this unfortunate accident could have been averted. "It appears that the trainmen on this special misunderstood their or ders, and that they considered that they were running a first-class train. It further appears that the yard men in Greenville regarded them as a spe cial, and that they should have come into the Greenville yard under control, expecting the main track occupied, lt appears that the train crews having the safety and lives of the passengers in charge are not sufficiently familiar with their orders, and that railroad companies should only employ men for these position who are thorough ly familiar with all orders, rules, etc., concerning their work. : "It further appears that when so many trains are handled over a single track, that in all such cases the rail roads should use the block system, and any other precautions that it is nossible to use. It further appears that there is not sufficient track room in the Greenville yard, and that more room should be given fer the handling of the large amount of business there. "The commission recommended that in cities like Spartanburg, Greenville, Charleston, Columbia, and other ..cit ies like these, that the railroad com panies should have an employe for the purpose of delivering messages, tele grams, etc., to the yardmaster and all yard crews that may be in the yard limits on duty, concerning all over due trains and the approach of all extra trains. "Respectfully submitted, "J. H. Wharton, chairman, .. "B. L. Caughman, "John H. Earle, "Commissioners." Shot For Hiring Negroes. A special from Florence says that H. D. Granger, a local Baptist preach er, was shot from ambush and killed while working on his farra near there Friday. He lived Tn the districc" known as the "dead stretch," where it is said that negroes are not wel come, and the only explanation of his death is that he had hired two negroes to work on the farm and had protected them-even allowing them to sleep on his premises. Two New Majors. Major Walter B. Moore, of Yorkville, and Major W" T. Brock of Cheraw, went to Columbia and stood successful ly the examination for promotion. These are the only new majors in the militia under the recent elections. Ma jor Moore came through Chester and reports that the condition of Mr. Paul G. McCarkle is extremely critical. Mr. McCorkle has never rallied from the kick in the face which he received from a- frighteaed horse a few weeks ANOTHER BAD WRECK Chicago Flyer Suddenly Goes Into Open Switch LARGE LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED Although None of the Lake Shore or . New York Central Officials Ascribe the Disaster to Excessive Speed, a Return to the 20-Hour Time is An nounced, Cleveland, 0., Special-Nineteen dead and a dozen slightly injured comprise the revised casualty list made by the wrecking Thursday night, at Mentor, Ohio, of the east-hound twentieth cen tury limited, the Lake Shore and New York Central's eighteen-hour train, which ran into an open switch, crushed the Mentor depot and partly burned it up, scorching several of the mangled corpses. The surviving injured are not much hurt. The twentieth century limited, ac cording to announcement from New York, will hereafter return to a twenty hour schedule, although none of the railroad officials ascribe the wreck to excessive speed. It is maintained by railway officials that the switch on which the limited was wrecked was thrown open and locked and the switch light extinguish ed by some person, either a maniac or some one seeking; revenge. It is still unknown who this person is, although detectives are working on the case. A careful examination of the switch showed that it was in perfect condition. Trainmen are of the opinion that the engineer of the twentieth century train was deceived by the light of the switch just beyoDd the open switch, the light of which is said to havo been out. W. H. Marshall, general manager of the Lake Shore, says the speed of the train was not a contributory cause to the wreck. He said that other Lake Shore trains travel through Mentor at a speed equal to that attained by the limited, which was not, Mr. Marshall says, above 60 miles an hour. The schedule for the train calls for a speed of 57 railes an hour at Men tor. Coroner York, of Lake county, an nounced that au inquest would begin next Monday in Painesville. A revised list of the dead follows: John R. Bennett, attorney, 31 Nas sau street, New York. John A. Bradley, of the law firm of Rowley, Rogers, Bradley & Rock well, Akron, Ohio. T. R. Morgan, second vice president of /the Wellman-Seavers-Morgan Com ^aaiyvy61evelapd.\;, ? -"-" . C. H. Wellman, of the . Wellman S??v?rs-M?^gan Company, Cleveland, died in hospital. :' A. L. Rogers, New York city, repre sentative of the Platt City Iron Works, of Dayton, Ohio, died in hospital. S. C. Beckwith, 115 One Hundred and Seventy-fourth street, New York. \? A. H. Head, London representative of the Otis Steel Company, of Cle^Br^ land, died in hospital. 't???, H. H. Wright, traveling man, &&??f cago, died in hospital. M??& D. E. Arthur, traveling man, ????^ waukee, died in hospital. J. H. Gibson, Chicago, traveling^ ' died in hospital. M^^TJP H. C. Mechling, New York ilty;'witi^ the Wheeling Corrougated ^r^?^Cpid pany. J.*''"'-'"--- ~~ L. M. Eirick, manager gM&ffiS?re~ atre, Cleveland. E. F. Nagle, Chicdgo^fi^^raKr of a railway supply house. "?y\&Cy' Two unidentified bodies,'supjosed to be those of L. A. Johnson, of the millin ery firm of Corney & Johnson, Cleve land,- and Henry Trinse, barber on the train. Allen Tayler, engineer, Collinwood, Ohio, died in hospital. E. J. Brant, head brakeman, 2012 Ash street, Erie, Pa., died in hospital. N. B. Walters, a baggage man, Ham burg, N. Y., died in hospital. W. D. McKey, porter, Chicago. The scenes following the wreck were appalling. The night was dark save for the light from the blazing wreck of the coach that was crushed and splintered on top of the engine. Men swarmed about it combating the flames with the means at hand, grouping their way through the blinding, scalding steam that rose in clouds, hunting for the in jured, whose piteous cries were such as chilled the hearts of those who heard them. The water supply was small and the means at hand for fighting ' the' flames were pitifully inadequate, but the zeal of the rescuers wrought great things for the first few minutes. Ex-Governor Tubbock Dead. Austin. Texas, Special.-Former Gov ernor Frank B. Tubbock, one of the most interesting figures in Texas, died here Thursday night, aged 90 years. Governor Tubbock suffered a stroke of paralysis last Tuesday afternoon, from which he never regained conscious ness. He had been married three times and is survived by his third wile and a number of relatives. He had been State treasurer and was conspicuously identified with public life in Texas. Assassination and Suicide. Atlanta, Special.-A special to The Journal from Griffin, Ga., says that Prentiss Chapman, a well-known farmer living near Head's Shops, assas inated Tom Head, a neighbor, late Fri day night and then killed himself, cutting his throat with a razor. The tragedy was the result of a feud of long standing between the men. There were no eye witnesses to the tragedy and both men had been dead for sev eral hours when their bodies were discovered. Both men were well con nected. Four Killed in Boiler Explosion. Attaila, Ala., Special-A boiler at the saw mill of the Curtis Attalla lumber plant exploded killing James Watts, Will Rosson, Gus Cash and Marion Maddox. C. Smith was fatally hurt and Barney Works was seriously in jured. Murderer Hoch Gets Reprieve. Springfield, 111., Special.-Governor Deneen granted Johann Hoch a re prieve until July 28th in order that the case may be taken to the Supreme Court Justice for a writ of superse deas. PALMETTO CROP BULLETIN Conditions For Past Week as Given Out by the Department. The week ending 8 a. m., June 19th, had a mean temperature slightly above normal, with extremes of a maximum of 98 degrees at Blackville on the 13th, and a minimum of 66 degrees at Greenville on the 13th. The sunshine averaged about normal, although in. parts of the State there was consider able cloudiness the latter part. There were no destructive high winds, or other damaging conditions. The precipitation was in the form of thunderstorms and local showers. The rainfall was heavy in places in the eastern counties, where it ranged from half an inch to over two inches, with scattered localities in all parts; of the State that had no rain or had amounts too small to be beneficial. There were some heavy showers in the northern border counties, but they were widely scattered. The need-of rain is indicated for the central and southwestern counties generally and in places elsewhere. Cultivation made rapid progress, and nearly all fields' have been rid of grass and weeds, except where labor-/ ers were scarce, or where the ground has become too hard to plow and culti vate. The weather was favorable for harvesting wheat and oats, which ] work is nearly finished except fort] spring oats. There was a general improvement in the condition of cotton, with excep- [ tions in the case of fields that have not been thinned or cleaned of grass, but only ia exceptional instances have j the plants attained normal growth, bb- j ing generally undersized. Blooming is still sporadic, though fairly general in the eastern counties. Sea Island cotton is in good condition, hut as yet blooming sparsely. Lice are still present in sections, but are disappear ing. Chopping has not been finished. ?[ There has been only slight im-, provement in corn, which continues' small and yellow, except on fields that*' received early and thorough : cultiva--; tion. There are many complaints of corn tasseling low, and of damage by. worms. TI ?re is considerable land yet to be planted in corn. There is little change In the condi-_ tion of tobacco, which shows the ef>, fects of too much rain and lack of . cultivation. Rice is receiving its har vest water in the Colleton district, and is generally doing well. Gardens and pastures need rain in the central .an?i western parts. Melons are quite prqm| isiug. Wheat is yielding poorly-Mgm threshing. Oats also is generaSM poor, but with numerous exceptio*1^ where the yields range from good? excellent. ? large acreage of pe for forage, being sown, and more lan^ will be sown as soon as it rains.r^? W. Bauer, Section Director. To Have Association. Colun^^S^gpecial. - Comm Wats0?^^^^11 a meeting the various lat- utb^-Z^i^^S The meeting for tant one and the State will hav ?ieWpresent . ?^^f/the most interested ^^e?m^is Mr. John Wood, s ?^^^?Rock Hill Commercial CttPffi; H|s-pronosed that the various towffii ij?^^/throughout the State asgi|j? ;?mce/so far as the commercial" ^nperned. v; 'At present when there is ar|jpj ?prise of importance to some otl ?jcular section of the State M ;,sen fisds it necessary to drop iwrk and assist in locating t ^efes, although he is usually 'this by various towns. If works there will be no further along this line and a State o tion of the commercial bodies sist in the development of th in many other ways. With a very small sum a haJd'dboofc can be gotten out, bearing the t?ffl^^ stamp of the office and yet rer^?s^^ ing the entire State in a wa|^i should be. At present the C0S?f?Sl3l^ great and the postage bills toc||||||ggjj to permit of any along this line oh > large scale, although there ha\r^o^ a very large number of small aijab uable handbooks gotten out office. The cali for the meeting willj||@B[ sued some time this month and large attendance is expected. More Incendiary Work. Honey Path, Special.-The han^ three-story barn of Mr. J. E. K?ig? was burned Saturday night at 3:00 o'clock. All the horses were saved but. fodder, oats, etc., were burned. The loss ls estimated to be over $1,000. Mr. Knight is a prosperous farmer in lower Greenville county, a man known and well respected, with not an enemy of whom he knows, so the fire is a mys tery. By the herois efforts of Mr. Knight, the len head of mules and horses were driven out just as the barn was falling in. The faithful and effi cient help of the neighbors saved the other buildings, which caught fire sev eral times. One Death From Heat. New York, Special.-One death, that of Miss Josie Barnard, who lived on upper East Side, and a number of prostrations besides much suffering in the tenement districts, were the result of the excessive heat in New York City and vicinity. At 4 o'clock Monday af ternoon the thermometer registered 39 on the roof of the weather bureau building. In the streets it was several degrees higher. Sunday was the hot test June 18 in 25 years. Bad Wreck Averted. Cincinnati, Ohio, Special.-A special from Huntington, W. Va., says that passenger train No. 4, on the Norfolk & Western road, eastbound, narrowly escaped destruction at Lost Creek trestle. At the highest point in the trestle a brake chain had been secure ly wrapped to the rail. Fortunately, the obstruction was discovered by thc engineer, who applied the emergency brakes and succeeded in stopping the train. Secretary Hay Much Improved. Washington, Special. - Secretary Hay arrived from New York tonight and spent tho greater part of the evening with the President, Secretary Taft joining the President and Mr. Hay. Secretary Hay will attend the cabinet meeting. He looked consider ably improved in health. He said that he would remain in Washington through this week, and would then go to his summer home at Sunapee, N. Hy ?Many Newsy Items Gatherc i Frcm all Sections. ?i General Cotton Market. % Middling. Galveston, steady.9 3-16 /New Orleans, firm .9 1-16 .Mobile, firm .8% '.Savannah, steady.8% . Wilmington, steady.8% 'Norfolk, steady.9 .'Baltimore, normal .9% New York, quiet.9.20 ?.Boston, quiet.9.20 ^Philadelphia, steady .9.45 "Houston, quiet.9% "Augusta, quiet .8 15-16 '.?Memphis, firm.9% ?gfc Louis, quiet.9 ^'Louisville, firm.9% Charlotte Cotton Market. p These figures represent prices paid to ?wagons: ?Good middling '..8 15-16 fStrict middling.8 15-16 Paddling.8% fjinges.;.7 to 7% ?Stains.5% to 714 ll J. M. Langley Missing. A special from Columbia says: Jo seph . M. Langley, a carpenter in the .?car repairing department at the shops '.of tht Southern railway in i:his city, rhas unaccountably disappeared, and has ?not been seen by his family or any of '.his friends since Monday. He left his ifhome. on the Barhamville road, less Cathan a mile from the shops, as usual, ?.?jVIonday morning. He worked at his /accustomed place all day and for two pours extra time, which kept him un |>til 8 o'clock that night. After leaving .work he was seen by acquaintances Jgoing towards his home and the last ?that can be learned of him is that he ?|was at the store of Mr.. William G. ? Allworden, on the Barhamville road, . that night. .His wife is unable to account for vhis absence, and she says she thinks @??2? ... .he has been foully dealt with. She and ?her two young children have been left -in a most deplorable condition. Both /.of the children are sick and she her self/is just recovering from a recent .'illness. The eldest of tho two chil dren is two years old and the youngest as only seven months old. They arc Without money or the necessaries of ^fe and are dependent on the bounty ?Of. their good neighbors for food and yitielter. j^T-he Langley? invested in . $75 worth igf;;??rniture on tho Installment .plan '""Ven.; they began housekeeping some ago, and this has been seized and ipved by the furniture house from ich it was bought because of her aility to pay the installments. Mrs. lgley said that she had paid about that si ?So far as can be learned there is Absolutely nothing to indicate why iLan'gley should have left except that ^Bfjywas in debt and could not meet 'his'-robligations. His wife states that h'e?had no enemies, so far as she knew. ..There is no reason to believe that he idmsrrniet with foul play. Petition For Pardon. i - V;_ A petition for the pardon of John 'Hendrix, of Pickens county, has been i'fH?dvwith the Governor, The convict' pik(Baidrto be a weak-minded boy who, .Ihvi300.' was given a life sentence on the ^charge; of burglary with attempt to [assault, ^ iii??"Dbe7an imbecile, of Barnwell purity, who a few weeks ago pleaded ilty'; to the charge of larceny and was given a sentence of thirty months on. the chaingang, is the object of the jteyjnpathies of the county officials! in Barnwell wbo have written to the Gov- , ?rnor to have the bpy7i'eleased~on a l?rd?h. Hurley--Jones, of Greenville, is serv ; ing';a~life sentence on the charge of as {?ault;- The mother of the woman who ?filleges that she was assaulted, has ask d-Vfor the prisoner to be pardoned. anth?re were circumstances which are a,-,the convict's favor. _ g^gp?ew;;?nter^ises:.;^: ."^'T' . .? T?^EiSnfc:of No>waxji?s;appliedj[or'J ^.charter. ' A^ commission has been is sued to th?^folT?^t^ roi - W. C. Wolfe and J. A. Berry, of Orange burg, and C. H. Able, J. G. Williams, L. W. Jeffcoat, C. T. Dowling and A. L. Garick, of Norway. The capital steck will be $10,000. The Siegling Music House, of Char leston, wants to be incorporated with a capitalization of $24,000. A commission was issued to the fol lowing corporators of the Bank of Lynchburg, which will have a capital ization of $20.000. T. G. McLeod, E. D. Smith, J. C. Kilpatric, J. A. Rhame, J. G. Stokes. The Georgetown Boat Oar Company was chartered, capitalization, $5.000. F. D. Wilsey is president; Walter Haz ard, vice-president, and F. C. Clutter buck, secretary. The Timmonsville Lumber Company was given a commission, the corpora tors being B. D. Dargan and F. L. Wil cox. The capitalization-will be $40,000. The United Brotherhood of Labor of Enon, Richland county, was given an eleemosynary charter, as was the "In dustrial Health and Accident Company, of Aiken," a burial aid society. A charter was issued to the Charles ton Steamship Company, capitalization $20,000. A. C. Tobias is president; Wal ter Pringle, vice-president; John W. Peterman, secretary and treasurer. The largest stockholder is Moses Marks, of Georgetown. Walter B. Dean, of Spartanburg, wa? appointed a State constable. A charter was issued to the Barnwell County Building and Loan Association, capitalization, $50.000. George H. Bates is president and W. C. McNab, secre tary and treasurer. Violating Game Law. Mr. H. McRae, of Albriton, Marion county, has written to Capt. John C. Sellers that the fish laws are being violate dflagrantly on the Little Pee Dee river. Dynamite, traps and other means of wholesale destruction aro being used. Captain Sellers has written to Gov ernor Heyward and recommends the appointment of Mr. S. G. Moore, of Al ington, as game warden, under the provisions of thc act passed in Febru ary last. NEWS THROUGHOUT TBE COUNTRY Mir or Happenings of the Week at Home ana Abroad. Down in Dixie. Miss Virginia Downer, of Norfolk, was drowned at Alexandria. Mrs. Eva Fuller was burned to death at Petersburg from kindling Are with coal oil. E. C. Edwards, of Henderson, was struck and killed by a Seaboard pas senger train on Wednesday. Gen. William R. Cox was married on Wednesday in Richmond, Va., to Miss Claiborne of that city. The Virginia Corporation Commis sion has ruled that the Standard Oil and the American Can Companies must pay charter fees of $5,000 and $3,000, respectively. The annual meeting of the Southern wholesale grocers began at Norfolk. Judge Berryman Green died at Dan ville. Thc training ship at Annapolis, known heretofore as the Chesapeake, bas been named thc Severn. O. M. Baldinger, a Norfolk political worker, was convicted of offering forged voters' transfers and was sen tenced to three years in the peniten tiary. Elsie, the baby of Mr. Jack Penow, of Lynchburg, was strangled to death, its clothes having caught in the spring as it fell out of bed. The Credit Men's Association select ed Baltimore as the meeting place for next year. Confederate veterans paraded through the principal streets of Louis ville, Ky. In the municipal election at Jackson ville, Fla., George M. Nolan, Democrat ic nominee for mayor, was re-elected, receiving 1,337 out of 1,473 votes cast. In St. Augustine, Mayor Boyce was re elected by 183 majority. r At the National Capital. Ma.j.-Gen. John C. Bate? succeeded Major-General Gillespie as assistant chief of staff at the War Department. Attorney-General Moody submitted to President Roosevelt a statement re lating to the Sante Fe rebate cases and Secretary Morton's connection with them. Secretary Shaw is to try the experi ment of paying Government employes by check instead of cash. The President has appointed a com mittee of five to investigate the big ness methods of the Govemaseri'-and suggests needed reforms.' A .Washington special says: "It is intimated in official circles here that negotiations are prodding looking to an armistice between Japan and Rus sia. The stumbling block in the way of an armistice appears to be that neither belligerent is willing to take Through the North. The Chicago Civic Federation advised against, municipal ownership. President Roosevelt spent a few days the first of the week in New 1 England. The City Trust and Safe Deposit Co., of Philadelphia, has failed as a result of the Gaskill forgeries. The Lutheran Synod continued its session? in Pittsburg and received re ports on church extension and other subjects. Both of the lS-hour trains on the New York Central and Lake Shore rail road between New York and Chicago arrived ahead of schedule time. "Paul Morton, chairman of the board of directors of the Eciuitable-JJfe As surance Society^hasiiU???ii??v^tepx pert accountant tion; - ; Supreme Court Justice Gaynor has authorized Explorer Champ, to con tinue his search for the North Pole, the expedition having been fitted out by the late William Ziegler. Jesse Wilson, of Indiana, was ap pointed Assistant Secretary of the In terior, to succeed M. W. Miller, re signed. t^K^Jiot weather caused four deaths ?ln R^kl^n, N. Y. ic Ts'; tumored . ra Philadelphia that ! Mayoh.Wearer-may,; cause the arrest ^of^sr?^r^^^B^rhf?^ the Republi can organization leader, in connection with certain contracts. Foreign Affairs. Emperor Nicholas received a delega tion of Zemstvoists, to whom he reaf firmed his intention of calling a na tional assembly. Germany, suspecting Europe's inten tion, has engaged in unusual naval activity. The Chinese movement to boycott American goods is growing steadily. France will take part in an inter national conference upon Morocco. Field Marshal Oyama is gradually ex tending his line of Japanese .troops from the Mongolian border to the Sea of Japan. Miscellaneous Matters. Three hundred descendants of tte Fries family gathered in a reunion at Winchester. M. Rouvier, the French Premier, has decided to retain the Foreign Af fairs porto-folio. On motion of counsel for Gaynor and Greene, the habeas corpus pro ceedings were postponed until Tues day, counsel stating that the motion to quash his clients' appeal to the Supreme Court would be argued on Monday. Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild be queaths. $4,000,000 of his estate to charitable purposes. Thc Italian Heraldic Court decided that titles of nobility conferred by the Pope are valid. It is officially announced that a Jap anese detachment in northern Korea completely occupied Kangsong on Tuesday. A few thousand Russians, wtih artillery, retired toward Siasong, 12 miles northward. The feeling of doubt that James Hazen Hyde has really sold his ma jority stock In the Equitable Life As surance Society to Thomas F. Ryan appears to be on the increase and Lhere is a growing belief that there may be as much one-man power in the society under the trusteeship as be fore. A NEW RAILROAD SYSTEM Oconee People Ask For Charter For County Road. A new railway the "Oconee County Railway Company," applied for a char ter Monday. The railway willi he capitalized at $50,000 wita the privi lege of increasing to ?200,000, and will run from Westminister on the South ern to Fairplay, which is near the conjunction of the Oconee, Anderson and Georgia lines, and will run through intermediate stations includ ing Oakway. The declaration asks for powers to dam rivers and furnish light and power and provides that the railway may be operated either by steam or electricity. The corporators are W. P. Anderson, and Wm. Bibb of Westminister; J. W. Shelor of Walhalla; J. J. Halley, Jas. Bates and L. A. Edwards of Oakway; W. L. Thomas of T?galo; J. D. Shel don, E. C. Marett and J. R. Heller of Fair Play, and J. W. Shirley of Town ville. Steamboat Launched. Columbia, Special.-"The City of Co lumbia," Columbia's new freight boat, to make weekly round trips between here and Georgetown, was launched Tuesday afternoon with impressive ceremony and in the presence of several hundred people, the attendance being large in spite of the excessive heat, The boat has a gross tonnage of 300 and a. net tonnage of 250, is 135 feet long, 30 feet wide, and is a stern-wheeler propelled by an 85-horse power engine, with a down-stream speed of 15 miles an hour and an up-stream speed of 9 miles. The christening was by little Miss Janie Murray, daughter of'Dr. W. J. Murray, the president of the com pany. The enterprise is backed by the strongest and most successful local business men, who intend to make this an interior port of importance, adding a number of various kinds of boats in the immediate future. With this in view correspondence has been opened with the Washington authorities and with the head officials of the Southern and Seaboard ralhoads looking to the construction of a draw bridge across the Congaree at a point near where the roads have ordinary bridges over which they come into the city a short dis tance below the present landing of the ? boat. The company intends to blast out the entlr^cJ^fj^?^^ necessary, in orde.r^tb put on a com?'i\at'te6jBiine of hsats. Edgefield to Discuss the Dispensary. Edgefield, special.-A call for a mass meeting of the citizens of Edge field county in the court house has been made and the same will be pub lished in the county papers this week announcing Monday July 3, as the time to discuss the matter of voting tie doubt but that ,an election will be ordered and the State rum mill dis lodged from this baliwick. Whether prohibition absolute is in the majority is questionable and it remains only to be seen, but the people here are sick of the State selling liquor. Wagons FURNI Large Shipments of thebestn just received. Our stock of fu is complete. A Large stock. COFFINS an always on hand. Alf "cull ly responded to. All goo gin ol profit. Call to si money. GEO. I* Johnston, W. J. Ruth MANUFACI AND DEI Cement, Plaster, Hair, Ready Roofing ai Write Us ] Corner Reynolds an< Augusta, THIS SPACE! The Leading Grocc ARRINGT? COMP 839 ?HF"W. F. SAMPI. H. H. SCOTT, JR., of Ed and Vant to s?? yo?. A Negro Shot. Laurens, Special-Ferrell Milam, a young white man of the county. ;shot Ader Madden, a negro farm hand Mon day while the two were engaged in a personal difficulty. A warrant was issued for Milam, but he came in and was granted bond in the proper"sum for his appearance at the next term of the criminal court to answer to the charge of assault and battery with in tent to kill. It seems that Milam shot at the negro several times, but only one shot struck Madden, which took effect in the arm just above the wrist, and ranged upward or inward, coming out at a point between the elbow and shoulder. During tbe fight Milam was struck on the head, apparently with a brick or rock. According to the state ment of Milam the negro was whipping a negro woman and he decided to In terfere for the purpose of stopping the fuss. Madden resented and the fight ensued. Heavy Storm Damage. Tampa, Fla., Special. -One death and damage to property amounting to thousands resulted from an electric storm and cloudburst which occurred here Tuesday afternoon. Beatrice Co lin, aged 7, colored, was killed by lightning while standing in the door of her home. The roof of the Penin sular Telephone exchange, fell in smashing the switchboard and Injuring several young lady operators, none seriously. Major Carrington's Case Up. Washington, Special.-The proceed ings in the case of Maj. F. del Carring ton, tried by court-martial in the Phil ippines, have arrived at the War De partment for review by the President. Major Carrington was in charge of the battalion of Philippine scouts at the St. Louis Exposition, and his trial was based on charges of misappropriation of funds and the duplication of ac counts. The court sentenced him to dismissal. Carrington was tried by civil authorities of the Philippines and sen tenced to sixty years and five days im prisonment. New Enterprises. The Lynchburg Mercantile Company of Lee County received a commission this week. The concern ia, cg?**cljaad at $5,000 and its-cp*^?*?0T are: J?L7" E. McIntosh^?=*^IcIntosll? Jr-. S. W. Frierson^rT W. Tarrant and E. D. SmitK^ Another commission was issued to the Evins Land company of Spartan burg. The capital is $11,000 and the corporators are: J. Choice Evins and Thos. M. Evins. The Independent Canning Company of Charleston will have a capital stock. of $40,000 and the corporators will be: William Fait, William Q. Lloyd, A. C. , Tobias and Edward W. Wynne. ^^?jhe Wateree club of ?amden will be gljjgmting and fishing^club. A num f ^northerners are, among; .tA^? raters. They "are: W..G..Fel* lowes, Ralph N. Ellis and Floyd War ren, all of New York city and John Cantey of Camden. This is an elee mosynary organization. Judge Thomas J. Christian died in a hospital at Newjort News. Buggies TURE lakes of wagons aod buggies ruituro and house furnishings .d CASKETS. s for our H?acse prompt es sold on a small mar :>e mc, I will sa\^you . COBB. South Carolina. erf ord & Co. URERS OF ^LER IN Fire Brick, Fire Clay, nd other Material. For Prices. 1 Washington Streets, Georgia. S TAKEN BY irs of Augusta Ga..f ON BROS. 'ANY, Broad JE of Saluda County and gerield County are with us