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VOL. XV. MIANNING. S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 89 O 2 DESPERATE FIGHT. lt;Took Place Behind The Doors of a Bank. TWO MEN WILL DIE. An 'Aged Cashier 'Attacked By Stranger. Supposed Robber Mortally Wounded. An Unlikely Story. A dispatch from Chicago, cf Sept. 20. says: Frederick J. Filbert, the aged cashier , of the Palatine bank in Palatine,' Ill., 26 miles north-of Chica go, is l ing eiose to dcath as the result of an attack made upon him today'by a young man vho gives the name of Wal ter Lawton. The latter, ,who is un parently of good education, is in the county jail suffering from a bullet wound in the abdomen which will prob ably prove fatal. Henry Plagge, 70 years old, a farmer, whose intervention at acritical moment prevented the out right murder of the cashier. is 'at his home west of the village cut and bruis ed and disabled as a result of his strug gle with Lawtoo, whose motive for the assault, according to his repeated state ments, was not robbery. The attack upon Filbert was made with a tack hammer and the aged cashier was struck at least a dozen times beforePlaggo interfered. The attack occurred at 3 o'clock in the af ternoon. At this hour many of the re sidents'of the community were thrown into a tumult by hearing the repcrt of a revolver and the noise of a fierce strug gle in the bank rooms. Wm. Garue, a farmer, was among the first to reach the bank rooms. As he entered he al most stumbled over the form of Cashier Filbert, who 'with torn clothing and bleeding head was feebly endeavoring to crawl through the open door. Garme turned and ran into the street shouting "murder," and then returned to the bank. Sounds of a struggle still came from the rear room and Garme hurried to that apartment. As he push ed open the gla-s door, he found the old German farmer. Piaggo, bleeding from a number of wounds, but fighting vigorously with a stalwart young man who lay on the floor with Plaggo on top of him. A bloody tack hammer and a revolver with a broken butt lay on either side of the struggling men. The young man's clothing was stained with blood in the region of the abdomen. The crowd which had gathered rap idly after the alarm had been given sei - arated the two men and took the sup posed robber-to the village lock-up. He was too severely wounded to offer any resistance and this fact was all that saved him from violence at the hands of the excited crowd that followed him to the jail. Law ton's confessed motive for the assault was reven:e on Filbert. who he alleges. alien.,:ed the affections of his wife. His story is not believed by the police, however. They have no doubt'the looting of the bauk was his ultimate design. The robber sa:,s he tracke'd Friber' for five years and that he discover, d only recently where the object of hL, pursuit lived. He went to the bank. he asserts, to demand $1.500 in satis faction for the old injury. The easn balance of the institution was 5100. 000, all of which was in the vaults ar the time the assault took place. Law ton was brought to Chicago on a late train tonight and placed in the county jail. He denied that he had entered the bank for the purpose of robberv. and claimed that the alienation of his wife's affections by Filbert took plact five years ago at the Fifth Avenue hotel in New York city. Filbert dclares he has not been in New Yoik for twenty years.,, Late tonight it was annnnetl a inat both Filbert and Lawton will die. The former's skull is fracturk d in tvo places and the latter cannot iur-ive thte wound in his abdomien. DiesIn His Buggy. News reached Spartanburg WX dnes day morning that the horse of Dr. Thos. W. Vernon of Whitney had run away and killed him. lie was a lover 'f fine horses and this particular one hai ran away several times. W\hen he wa found dead in the lot of 31r. A. 31. Glover, with an abrasion on his head. it was naturally concludtd that a shocking accident had happened. But an examinatibn of all the circumstances showed that it was rno accident hut 2 case of heart failure. M1r Glover found him in his lot about 9 o'cleek Sunday night and at once called his raeighbors Dr. Vernon's horse and buggy were standing near. The doctor had been seen near night going home alone in his buggy, and he had to pass MIr. Glover a to reach his own house, which was a short distance away. He had been vis iting a patient at 3Mr. Glover's, and it is supposed the horse turned in therc from force of habit. lie was probably dead before reaching this point. Ilh had been subject to ittacks of heart failure for some time. Ie was about 34 years old and very popular as a ph-y siClan. .Tapanese Steamer Sinks. CA telegram from the governor of Shiga, prefecture to the Japanese gov ernment, reported by the steamship -Empress of India, states that on the 4th inst., the steamer Koun 31aru founded during a typhoon ctl Hana kawl, in Biwa lake. going to the bottom like a-stone. She had fif ty passengers on board, a majority being women and children. Twelve of these were drowned and two fatally injared while eight ot the crew also went down with the ship. their bodies being coftined by the ves sel. __________ _ Four Men Killed. Four men were killed and three se riourly injured Thursday in a rear-end collision of freight trains on a bridge on the Omaha road near Windotm. Minn. An engine was pushing the first train and the second was a doub~le header, 'so tI at three engines were thrown into the river in a badly wreck ed condition. One span of the bridge was demolished and 17 cars thrown in to the river or along the tracks. Thes c arsto fire a sevra were burned HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Two Citizens Assaulted and Robbed'i Lancaster County A dispatch fraui Lancaster to Th State says a very daring act of highwa robberry was committed net far frot the town liuiits on the Camden roa Tuesday night shortly after dark. Th victims were too you:' white farmer. Frank Shaver and hi, brother in-lan Robert llagirs, who live at -St. Luke, station on the South Carolina an Georgia railroad. four miles southeas of tiis place. The facts * about a follows: Shortly .fter dark Shaver an lacins left to sns for ho-ne, boh tbe, under the influence of "fuss-X." lit gins was on a mne and was tulo sed b.: hind by Shavt r. who was on foot. A they reached -Jacib-s lollow" the wcre both set upon by three me who knocked them down and bea them in a fearful mariner. lIagin managed to get to a hous nearby, leaving Shaver in an un sensible condition in the road. Short ly after Shaver was brought to town i a buzv. Bath t n 1r ented a horri ble a'pearane . beina fearfully bruise and 'ut un ab)ut the fae and head lacins has one arm broken. but Shas er's wounds are more serious, one c them bcir a fracture of the outer skull Two men 'niplicated in the robber we: - rest, Weinesday night short, af: r ou arrance. Oae is R ber Fu r. white, and the other Nathanic 'N '. colored. both notorious charac t. r Lvinzg in the county. Both of th victims positively identify these tw men. which. with other circumatance: make it certain that they are two of th gang. The moon was shining ver brightlv at the time of the robbers Hag~ri 1eketbook containiag S3 1 was found not far from the scene of th robbery Wednesday morning. Th supposition is that it was thrown awa in their flight by the robbers. A NARROW ESCAPE. Details of the Wreck of the Transpor Morgan City. A dispatch from Yokohoma say interesting details are at hand c wreck of the American tram ort Morgan City. It appears tha it came very near being an ai palling catastrophe. Striking upo a reef at 3 o'clock t he morning th ship ramained fast until daylight who by adopting the expedient of pushing the men alternately from one side t the other, the ship was rolled from th rocks into deco water. where she a once began to fill rapidly. She heade for the shore of the Island of Inoshim several miles distant, sinking percipt bly with every yard of progress. Ha she not reache d the beach she woul have gone under in another minute The discipline of the men was admira ble and all were gotton ashore in safety The seamanship shown appears not t have been spent so admirable, as n precautions were taken to make the boa fast to the shore after beaching. Th time was spent in removing stores, th transport lying very nearly bos uader but well afloat in the after pare. Eat in the afternoon without warnir, sh slid ocT the steer beach and sunki about si:: fat hems. A more favorabl spot for a shipwreck couli scarcely b found. The island of Inoshima is-abou a dczen miles from Hiroshima chic ity of the inland state. Aimost it stantly came aid from the Japanese au thorities. the cruiser Yosohono bein at once d'spatched and the Red Cros society sending a relief expeditiot ['he troops are loud in their apprecia tio:: of Japanese kindness. The trans prt City of Sydney having just put int Yokohama short of coal and water, wi. proceed via the inland sea and unle prvision has already been made, wi take on boa:d a part o.f the troops. Marital Troubles. Many people whio have marital trot ble wite. to the governor to help the] out, thinn that he can do somethin for thew. iere is a specimen lette received Th~ursby; by the gotvernor, fro: Dav.is Station:~ ''l write to ask you opinion. I married a woman in 1S. ad in 1890i she left me and 1 got a lei tr from her in 18IM saying she woul nlever recognize me as her hu hand an mor:. I haven't heard from her sine then. Now, if it won't be violating th laws of South Carolina, I desire to mar r another woman. Would be l'ease, to have your views whether it n ould b vilating the laws of this state or nloI As already stated. I haven't heard frot er since 1594 and don't know whethe she's dead or alive, Thanking you i advance of your reply." The write asks that if the letter be niven to th iress that his name be withheld -Ce lumbia Record. Stronger Than Ever. James Creelman, the -vell knov: correspondent. who has been aceoum pan3 ing Bryan in his recent wester travels, tells tihe Baltimore Iheral that in his opinion the Ncbraskan' name will be the only one presente to the national Democratic conventio ext year. "Ihis strength," said he -is greater than three years ago. bu as the lines of battle are not yet fainl drawn and the issues not vet clearl deined, the question of' Mr. Bry an': success is still open." As Creelma reported Bryvan 's presidetutial canvas~ in 1896i he is qualified to make thle con: parison. Hie is a gold man, too, an ouht not to take an exaggerated vie, of'Bryan' increase in streugth.-T[h State. Hard on the Directors. NIr ". Scott Pope, one of' the bonae me"- for Col. Neil, has gi;'en notit tha he w'ill not pay any part of Co Neal' bon without suit. ad a jury fi: i the amlount of his liability. if an l tae thle position that tile board< directors allowed the bad managener and trouble to run along so long ast either havte known of it and aciuiesce' or by their co overative- bad mar .ap meact ant reter', w.ic wcr.:.mile~ at i to him, to have relee him < the liability. ie will make the istu on the liability' and dum '' of theb~ of directors affordine prteuna to' t 'ji bonds:nen anid the State, and k nwi omething about renorts to whin'th afix their names and author"it". Whe the damaces for which the bonid-me are responaible are fixed, Mr. Poj says, he will pay his share, but not uw til then. NEGRO CONFERENCE Called by Rev. Junius Mobley, a Colored Preacher n TO BE HELD lN'COLUMBIA. Text of the Call Setting a I Forth the Reasons Why it is Issued. Tired of Whites. 'W\hen neizhb')r 1iuit visiting they will fail out. Sach is the homely s aihorism of 1Rev." Junius Mobley anent' the 'condition of the lRepubli t , can par-y in this State. The definition is that when -neiglbors quit visiting. e ntimacy gives way to suspicion, dis trust is b-ed. and, with the aid of the gossip. open enmity is the consequence. The application is that the white and the colored Republicans "have quit vi-iting. A:e rding to his statemeut, they are n )t only n"t on friendly terms f but the Negro is bezinning to distrust I the white leadlers. June claims that he kept quiet while the -Lily White" and "Black and Tan" controversy was being waged. le wauted "the pot to boil down so that he could see what would come cut of it all." Ie has is sued a call to the colored Republicans o to meet in Columbia fair week to de vise so:e plan of pilicy for their bet terment. Mobley hails from Union e county and to his tite of "reverend may be added that of "honorable" for he represented his county in the legis -ature in Radical (.vs, and was a law e er. e Ile is opposed to the deportation of the Negro, for he realizes that his race is treated properly in the south, As such a solution of the Negro prob lem is not near at hand, .he claims to want to established a plane upon which the Negroes and whites may meet and "freeze out" the white Republicans. He wants to be the leader of the Ne s groes, of course. Following is his f manifesto issued Thursday: To the Colored Republicans of South t Carolina. There is a great' necessity for union n among us as a race variety in a coun e try where the interest of all the people a are co'mmor for we as a race have been so long misrepresented by our so-called o Republican white leaders in the politics e of this and other States of this Union t ar.d thereby have rendered us as a race d almost worthless to ourselves and to any other race politmoally. This is - shown in the fact that they have kept I silent in everything which embodied the interest of the Negro along political lines. The Negro has simply been used as a . tool by his so-called white Republicans D and that to his detriment. This fact c is charged by the Democrats in their t speeches and alo by the Demociatie e newspapers-a fact which cannot be denied. The fact is, that these so called whits e Republican leade:s stand as a barrier e between us and the southern whites a with whom we must live, move and e have our continued being, for we never e will leave this country. Now, there t fore, since we are to live together in f this southland, I think it wise to call - a conference among ourselves to devise - some plans by which we ein meet the e other rat e upon amicable terms as ne s gro represcntatives. .This is fair since the color line has -been drawn even by our white liepubli ans. WVe believe that the Negro can o best represent himself with his white I brethren, sinee lie has this to do in all s of his business walks of life. Why should he need some one to represent him in the politial walks any more than in business or in any other walks of life? Let the Negro leaders come to. eether and act for themselves in all of n the vocations in which he is cilled to act as citizen. This will teach him r the true meaning of citizenship. I ver " ily believe that this is the sentiment of r te southern white people. Believing 0as I do, I therefore issue the following call: Let all lovers of the race meet in e)m Y ference in the city of' Columbia on the e 6Jth day in November. 1S23. Come to e ether, my fellow citizens, and let us -showv to the world that we feel keenly our condition and that we are willing to e do any honorable thing to better the -same Ior the time of' talk is past. Junius S. MIobley. 2 Reed, The Traitor. r "We are bound to say that of all methods of attacking the great and - cod 31eKinley which have been de vised, that pursued by ex-Speaker Reed is the mont -dastardly.' It is especial ly so bceause of the impossibility of an 2 swering it. All that M1r. Reed does is - to say that lie belierce in .tile declara 1 tioni of indeper'ience and in the pria~ C'i cipe of liberty, self-government, and s the rights of man. How cau an imper 1 lahst. thouch a \Mekinley editor, con 2 viet M\r. Reed of 'treason' for saying -such thin as? Yet it is -treason' of the blackest kind known to this epoch. MIr. SReed is perfectly well aware of the ' iendish signiticanecce of his words. IIe knows the pain they will cause in the alwhite house, and that the pain must be s borne iu silernee, yet lie utters tnem. -We should like very much to have a Sfrank expression of opnin on2 Mr. SReeds conduet from M1r. libnna. or C ov. Roosevelt, or Senator Pla~t, or any other strenuous upholder of the Pr~ident's l'hilippine policy. They must recard it with deep loathing as a more cowardly form of assault than Ceven the un-American mua vumps have devised. Tfhese c-au be -answered anu denon:-d. b-it how can you ausw~er or -denounce a aa-n when your ea'me ia gon i you qute his wvord ' New i uk -ving lost. Killed For His Mo ey. A 5peial frotu Jacks-onvie, Fl-a.. tells of tihe arrest at Tavares Fla., of I' rs Leoniard N eumi'.er and a man e named Ny'e. who bordel with her. dT'he are suspecte of the muuider et e the woman's hiusb-and. T he latter's bdy was found in a lakc noar the v hou-. A m'st mortem e'xannnation n revealed that lhe was dead when placed n i n te water. Neumeister. recently by >e the death of a brother, a Southern i- steamboat captain, came into property aoning to nea $0 000. DREYFUS PARDONED. His Departure from the Prison Was Unnoticed. A dispatch from Rennes, France, says, Cap:. Alfred Dreyfas at 3 o'clock this morning left the prison here in which he had been confined since his return from Devil's Island, and proceed ed to Vern, where he took a train bound for Nantes. His departure was completely unnoticed. M. Viguie, the chief of the secret service, and the pre feet, M. Dareault, arrived at the prison af ter midnight, bringing the minister of war's order for the release of Dreyfus. The latter walked from the prison to the boulevard Laenne, where he enter ed a waiting carriage and was driven to the Vern station, outside the town: Mathieu Dreyfus met him at the train and accompanied him to Nantes. While this dramatic turn in the Dreyfus drama was taking place all Rennes slept and the departure of the famous prisoner of Devil's Island was no more noticed than that of an ordinary traveler. The carriage which was in waiting was the same vehicle which took Dreyfus to his prison when he returned from Devil's Island. Dreyfus got in opposite the house where Maitre Labori had stayed previous to the attempt upon his life, and alighted about 500 yards from the station and walked in, regardless of the drizzling rain. The Nantes train came in just as he arrived. Alfred and Ma thieu Dreyfue quickly took their seats and ihe train went out of Rennes bear ing Dre.fus away a free man. A small erowd of people had walked round the prison until midnight, expecting the release of Dreyfus, but it then dispers ed, thinking it too late for Dreyfus to letave. Madame Dreyfus left Rennes at noon, accompanied by her father and friends. A SWINDLER ABROAD. He Represents Himself as a Lawyer from Birmingham, Ala. A dispatch to The State from Spar tanburg says a slick rascal giving his home as Birmingham, Ala., worked a confidence game on one of the oldest and most proninent members of the Spartanburg bar on the 2d of this month. He went into the office and talked about things in general in a most entertaining manner, representing that he had been summering in Ashe ville and was on his way home to Bir m ingham; that he had run short of funds and desired the aid of a brother attorney to get $10. He produced a license to practice law in Birmingham and said he was a practicing attorney at that place. Everything seemed so plausible and he was such a nice fellow the Spartan went down to the bank with him and endorsed his check for$10 on the Alabama National bank of Bir mingham. In due course of time the check came back protested. A letter to a leading law firm in Birmingham reveals the fact that there is no such place: that he has been drawing such cheeks on this bank all through Ten nessee, Georgia and the Carolinas; that he was in Birmingham some time ago and desired this bank to cash some cheeks for him on other banks, but they refust d to take them except rer collec tion; that he became offended and went away in a huff. The man is evidently a fraud and ought to be widely pub. lished. Sank Into the Sea. The steamship City of Topeka arrived from Lynn Canal Wednesday with news of an earthquake which began Sept. 3 and continued until Sept. 10. The steamer Dora carried the news to Juueau. The earthquake extended fro'u Litueya bay, 150 miles below Yakutat, 300 miles nothwest into the Co~k inlet country. It was the great est phenomena witnessed in Alaska snce a similer occurrence in the Rus sian days. -Three distinct shocks .vere felt at Juneau. Baiidings were badly shaken. The earthquake was most severe at Yakutat, Kanan island at the entraies to Yakutfit bay sank 20 feet into the sea. At high tide only the tops of trees are visible. Huge fissures opened in the earth. The Dora pas sengers say that in two minutes the ocean rose 20 feet above high tide and almost as quickly subsided. In dians have deserted their homes and arc living in tents on the beach. Many have gone to Juneau. Murder, Robbery, Arson. The residence of Absolomn Kester, a miserly farmner, aged S0, near Pawpaw, WV. Va., was discovered on fire at 1 ocock Fridlay mornin. Neighbors hurried ~o the scene and were horrified to find Ke ster and Albert Gross, his hired man, lifeless in the yard. The housekeeper, Anna Doman, was also miurdered, but her body was consumed in the flames. The object of the crime evidently was robbery. Kester was k nown to keep a large sum of money about the house, but a few weeks ago was persuaded to put most of his money in the bank. The robbers secured about $200, it is thought. After beat ing the two with a blunt instrument, as they supposed, to death, the robbers set the building on fire to cover up their crime, but the men had life enough left to crawl out into the yard. A Curious Case. A spccial from Raleigh, N. C., says: The Atlantic and North Carolina rail road, in which the State owns two thirds of the stock, has applied to the United States court to escape the 1899 assessment for taxation imposed by the corporation commission. The defend ants must answer the complaint at the Uited States court room in this eity the first Monday in Noivember. The annoucment that a railroad in which the State owns such a large interest has filed a complaint with the Federal authorities against the State caused something of a flutter. Knock nig Down. C{iials of t se Brooklyn Rapid Trasit comnpany say they have been rbbed of nearly $50.000 in the last six weeks by the new conductors who have taken the place of the strikers last .July. The new men are said to have been "knocking down" fares industri ously, but the leakage has at last been topped. OUR HOME MILLS. They Have Made Themselves Feit This Year. SOME ADVICE TO FARMERS Some Excellent Reasons Why it Will Pay Them To Market Their Cotton Crop Slowly. There is spread before the people of the South at this time a great object lesson of the value of home cotton mills to cotton planters. Everybody realiz:s that these mills do good to the commu nities in which they operate; that they build them up in population, in wealth and in importance, raising the villages to towns and the towns to cities. In telligent farmers realize that they do good to the country also, increasing the home market for produce of all kinds and increasing the value of lands in their neighborhoods. It is also under stood, although for the most part loose ly, that they help the cotton planters near them by giving them better prices for their staple than they could gct from exporters. But only now is there 2 so great and broad an example of this last benefit as to impress not only the whole South but the cotton trade in two 1 hemispheres. i The situation is mst interesting, even to those who have no hazard in the 1 outcome. The cotton crop, which six weeks ago promised a great yield not- t withstanding its partial failure in this part of the South, has since declined rapidly in condition, owing to the drought in the southwest. Before the effects of this drought were fully re vealed Henry M. Neil, the New Orleans representative of British exporters, gave out an estimate of over 12,000,000 bales, 1 and the Liverpool market, responding to it, at once and sharply lowered the i price. This drop synchronously af fected the New York market and, to a lesser extent, all the American mar kets. Soon afterward the government crop report for September revealed the full extent of the drought injuries in the trans-Mississippi region and the South ern markets began to rise. The news since then has confirmed and heighten ed the government's estimate of losses, and throughout the manufactuing South prices have advanced materially. To this advance there has been a partial response in New York, but Liverpool, pinning its faith to Neill's estimates, has maintained practically the prices of a month ago. So we have this condition: The price of cotton in the cotton manufact raring States of the South is as high as in New York. and in some places high er, while in New York it is relatively higher than in Liverpool. Liverpool, has been paying 7 cents for middling cotton, and mill towns in South Caro lina t lina havebeen giving as much as 6I and 6 cents for it. The result is that it does not pay to buy cotton for export, and unless Liverpool materially raises its bids it will be able to buy very lit tle in the near future. This Southern buying which keeps the price up, and even raises it, in the absence of foreign competition, is being done by the Southern mills. Their managers see for themselves the hollow ness of Neill's estimate; they know the crop is going to fall largely below last year's, they believe that the price is certain to go higher, and as provident men they are laying in their stocks now. In thus reasoning and acting they are indubitably right. At the present and prospective prices of cotton goods they can afford to pay what they are now paying, and even much higher prices. The demand for cotton both at home and abroad is greater than it has ever been, the crop is the shortest in senral years, and-the margin between the prices of raw and manufactured cot ton is very large. This is the time for Southern planters to hold all they can . and for Southern mills to get all they can. We hope that but little will be marketed for the present and that every bale of that little will go into the ware- 1 houses of our own mills. The significant point of the whole matter is that Southern mills, by com petition among themselves. unaide~d by foreign buyers, have for weeks kept up the priee of cotton over a large area. This is in defiance of English specula ors and spinners, and it is a great step toward Southern independence. We can make it the rule and fix our own price for our great staple if we will only build mills enough. Oine we spin all o:r cotton what will we care for Liver pool, or for New York ani Boston mar kets! n cotton prices wec will be a law unto yourselves, and no false estimates f yields need compel us to sacrifice our crop.. For all that we raise we will have purchasers at home. The mill stockholder will plant cotton and the otton planter will buy mill stocks. I here will be proit in both planting and manufacturing, and an adjustment of prices between them will not be dif Ecult.r South Carolina last year manufactur ed 44 per cent. of the largest crop of I otton she ever raised. This year she is likely to consume five-sevenths of a short rop-half a million bales of a erop of 700,000 bales. If we keep up the pace we have taken now five years more will raise consumption above lo- I al production. Every cotton planter with as much as a hundred dollars to invest should put it if he can into a new cotton mill convenient to his plaa- e ation. It will buy permanent insur- e anceaganst foreign and speculative cpacity.t Since the foregoing was written we C have seen Wednesdaysreportsfrom the b Liverpool and New York markets. t They show that the former has taken ~ alarm at the freeness of Southern buy- ~ ing and the holding back of cotton and has advanced its price. New York ~ followed suit. The rise will continue. Let planters hold t':.eir crops. A month of short receipts and Neills reduction of his estimate-which must come will send cotton to seven cents or more in every local market.-The State. "I have used your 'Life for the Liver and Kidneys' with great benefit, anda for Dyspepsia or any derangement ofs the Liver or Kidneys I regard it as be-t ing without an equal." James J. Os-e borne, Attorney at Law, Boliston,( Hdeson. ., . a. * c LOOTING CHURCHES. Resolutions Adopted by Catholic Young Men's Societies. The National Union of Catholic Y'oung Men's sccieties, in session in Newark, Wednesday adopted the fol owing resolutions: "Whereas, for some time past many -umors have appeared in the public iress, and have been affirmed by private Ldvices, that Cath->lic churches in the P)hilippines have been desecrated and spoiled of sacred vessels and vestments >y soldiers of the United States. "Resolved, That we, the Catholic oung Men's National Union, embrac og 50,00U men in the United States, lo call upon the president of the United tates, living every confidence in his air mindedness, justice and respect or *.li religions, and through iim upci the other proper authorities, or a thorough investigaion and report ipon such rumors as t> their truth or alsity, and, "Resolved, That if upon proper in Testigation these rumors should be ound true in whole or in part, we de nnd, 'First, The punishment of those ;uilty or responsible for such outrages ipon our religion, and, "Second, The necessary measures be doted to prevent the recurrence of uch desecrations. Resolved, That a copy of these reso utions, duly authenticated, by the pres dent and secretary of this convention >e forwarded to the president of the Jnited States." The following officers were elected by he association: President-Dr. S. H. Wall, of New k'ork. First Vice President-Rev. D. M. 3ogan, of Rahway, N. J. Second Vice President-J. M. Hig ;ins, Richmond, Va. Secretary and Treasrer-E. P. Gal agher, of Philadelphia. The convention next year will be held n Brooklyn. A FOOL KILLER NEEDED, nother Light Headed Frenchman Seeking Notoriety. Max Regis, former mayor of Algiers, ,ad a notorious Jew baiter, who re urned to Algiers recently, haunted by , he idea that the government intended o arrest him, and emulous of the noto iety of Jules Guerin, shut himself up or fou: days with a party of adherents n a villa labelled "Anti-Juif" just out ide the town. He laid in a stock of )revisions for a seige. Wednesday, .pparently annoyed at the absence of ny move on the part of the police, he ssued forth and entered the town, stir ing up Anti-Jewish demonstrations, iring which the windows of several hops owned by Jews were smashed. [he Jews responded by firing revolvers, .nd the mob raised the cry, "Death to he Jews!" The riots continued hroughout the evening and finally the roops charged with drawn swords and lispersed the rioters. Regis regained he villa and barricaded himself and us companions. During the affray nine persons were tabbed or shot, among them three po ice agents and two inoffensive citizens. t is reported that some Jews were mong the wounded. Order was finally estored about midnight. The rioting was renewed after mid Right in the Jewish quarter, where here were collisions between the Anti ~emites and the police. Several per ons were injured and the police. made ix arrests. An Honest Confession. The Charleston Post doesn't make nuch of a defense of its slur at Bryan's ~rgumentative powers. We offer it his editorial expression from the Chi ago Times Herald, McKinley organ, n the speech whose weakness our harleston contemporary forecasted: 'No one who heard Mr. Bryan's ad ress will undertake to deny that it vas a skillfully constructed appeal to he popular prejudice against combina ion of capital. Regarded from a urely political standpoint it was a nasterly effort, and iu no way detracts 'rom the reputation of the silver leader .s a captivating orator. This much is 'eadily conceded by those who sharply issent from Mr. Bryan's views of in ustrial combinations, and while they ,re quick to perceive the flaws in his ,rgument they cannot honestly main ai that it will be without effect upon he minds of the masses." Frm sach ,source such a tribute to the Demo ratic leader means much.-The State. By His Own Hand. A special from Covington, Ga., says: Vm. A. Franz, professor of English .nd literature in Oxford college killed imself Tuesday night at his home here. ihe deed was done with a pocket knife, )r. Franz inflicting 15 wounds on his Leek, arms and in the lungs. He was ound yesterday mornir.g by his wife, rho thought he had died of a hemor age. A physician who was called in ummoned a coroner, and the result of us inquest was announced tonight. )r. Franz only Monday assumied the uties of his position, coming here 1 rom Fayettsville, 0. He was a native f Virginia, and the remains were taken o Dadeville in that State for inter No Use to Apply. Governor McSweeney is still in re- I eipt of a number of letters asking fort ndorsemeats for positions in the vol .nteer army. Secretary Root has writ en once that South Carolina's quota of ificers was filled. and another letterr as ben rcceived from him stating hat all official positions in the regular rmy have been filled and that further pplications esannot be considered at his time. Governor McSweeney has .ade it a rule to endorse nearly allr pplications sent to him.-Columbia record. Murdered by Moonshiners. John L. Hanna, chief of police of )alton, Ga., was shot and killed Wed esday by three moonshiners whom he ras trying to arrest. A posse of 12;5 in was organized and started in pur uit of the moonshiners. A spe':ial rain carrying a party of detectives, ac ompanied by bloodhounds, have left hattaooga for Dalton to aid in the --aptr ofhe murderers.I _. P.?.ISOERS HALF STARVED. It is Said They Are Living Only on Hope and Courage. A naval offiecr on one of the ships at Cavite says in a private letter to rela tives at B:ston, under date of August 19: "I today made a trip to Manila pur posely to see and interview a Spaniard who claims to have seen Lieutenant Gilmore and his men. The Spaniard arrived in Manila on the 13th, coming through the outposts at San Fernando de La Pampanga. His name is Felipe Galza. and he is a planter by occupa tion. On the first of February last he was on his plantation, when he was sur rounded by a d-putation of natives, who made him a prisoner. He was forced to follow the movements made by the so-called Filipino republic, and tramp through mud and water and over mountains in their wanderings. "T,vo weeks before his arrival at Ma nila he saw at Bigan Lieutenant Com mander Gilmore and his fourteen fel low prisoners. From his report it is judged that they had fared badly at the bands of their captors, and although their courage was undaunted, they were in bad shape physically, in reality be ing half starved. Gilmore himself said he was in better health than some of the thers, being a man of strong physique and of strong determination. The whole party was entirely destitute of clothes, and all the necessaries of life. The Failure of tae Ur.it.d States to ransom them as expected had so enraged the insurgents that their treatment, which For some time had been kind, had since become reversed. The members of the ;arty, however, were not discouraged and fully expected to return to their Friends. "Galza thought that with proper measures employed by the United States government, there would be no trouble in effecting the speedy release of Gilmore and the Yorktown's men." A Manager Murdered. Julia Morrison. leading lady of the "Mrs. Plaster of Paris" farce comedy :ompany, shot and killed Frank Lei len, stage manager and leading man of the company Friday night on the stage f the City Opera House at Chattanooga Ienn., just before the curtain rose for the performanc:. Three shots were red at close range, all taking effect in Leiden's head. He sank to the floor and was dead in a few minutes. The woman was arrested and taken to the :ity jail. A coroner's inquest was held at which is was developed that :rouble had existed between Leiden and Hiss Morrison and today she slapped him. It appears that they quarreled ver the woman's alleged had acting, Leiden accusing her of being an ama teur. The woman claims Leiden re peatedly insulted her and that she shot him in self-defense. The verdict of the coroner's jury was to the effect that the murder was premeditated and wholly uojustifiable. The woman :aims to be from New Orleans and the ma-i with the company named James, she says, is her husband. Tames has been arrested as the instigator of the rime. The company has been on the road three weeks and. was unusually sucessful. Preachers Live Long. The life insurance companies go to reat expense in endeavoring to ascer tain as definitely as possible the average leth of life for men engaged in differ ent professions and the various lines of business. An expert for one of the large companies has prepared diagrams which illustrate the comparative longe vity of elergymen,. farmers, teachers, lawyers and doctors. Wvhich of these lasses do you suppose makes the best showing of longevity?* Most persons would siy the farmers, but the clergy men excel them in the art of reaching old age and beat even worse the other lasses mentioned. According to the expert referred to 42 out of every 170 miisters of the gospel reach the age of 70. The farmers come next, their proportion for seventy years of age be ing 40 oat of 17'0, Next come the teachers with 34: the lawyers show 25. and the doctors are last, with only 24 >ut of 170. The reasons given for the greater longevity of preachers are vari Us. In the first place, they are like ly to lead temperate live's and to have 3 careful system in the management of :heir work. They also get more or less utdoor exercise, and are not subject to :he strains which constantly beset the itive business man. -Atlanta Journal. The Universal Language. A century ago Grimm and Candolle, he former a German and the latter a Frenhman, declared that the language > Shakespeare would ultimately be ~ome the universal tongue. A similar udgmnt has just been passed at the erlin academy of sciences by Profes or Diels. a well known German lin ~uist. lie declared that independently f the political iafiuence which the Jnitcd States. Great Britain and the ritish colonies were having on the orld, the simplicity of strueture of the :nglish language gave it the promise of iniversal use. Death of an BUsign. }:asirn Noah T. Coleman of the bat leship'Iowa died Thurs~day in a private ospital at Sai Francisco as a result f a complieation of troubles and a bul et wound infieted by himself somne ie ago in an attempt at suicide. ~oune CAian was to stand trial by :ourtartial for various offenses, and *ttempted suicide. The wound would lot have caused death under ordinary ircumstances. but his vitality was so reakeecd by wo'rry that he could not urvive. Ensiih Colem:.n came from ino of th e ldest and mos: respected amilics of New York. lie entered the aval academy with the brightest pros >ets. The Killing Season. Cornelius Triplet, colored, was kill d at Singlcon. Winsten county. 315. 7hurday nighlt. n:aking four vietim1s -- wo white ami tswo colord-of the feud acine in that county. The friends of SI. . Johnson. the man killed with -i. Triplet Monday. were at Macon on 'hursday, laying in a supply of arms .nd amnmunition. More trouble is iroale. TRIED ONCE 31UWM. Mrs. Mattie Hughes"Faces a"Jury a Third Time. DYING HUSBAND'S:STORY. In Ante-Mortem Statement Mrs. Hughes is Named asthe Mur- J deress. The:Accused on Witness' Stand. Mrs. Mattie Hughes, who-is accused of murdering her husband at Greer's in Greenville county, and who has already been tried twice, which resulted in a mistrial each time, is now on trial for the thrid time for the same offence. Interest in the case is not near so in tense as on former occasions. The-oase commenced in Greenville on Wednes day. There were only two instances where there was any material deviation from the proceedings heretofore. One was a statement of a witness, J. L. Carman, as to what Hughes said on the night of the shooting with reference to the cause of the trouble between himself and wife which declaration was made while she was absent from the room a short time after the fatal shot. Some one said to Hughes that those around his bedside were friends and brethren, to which he made an emphatic dissent, saying-that one who was present had been the cause of all the trouble with his wife and charging him with unfaithful conduct. Judges Townsend and Gage did not al low witnesses to testify in regard to Hughes' talk about his wife during her absence, but Wednesday the latitude was a little greater and Mr. Carman told the story that was quite well known in the community but was not brought out under the former ruling. When the witness had divulged the matter, Judge Gary ruled the evidence out as incom petent, and it will not be considered by the jury in making up their verdict. The other point of deviation was the admission of the dying statement of Hughes, which was written by the Rev. D. B. Simpson, and which was ruled out at the first trial, partly intro. duced at the second, and with the ex ception of a single sentence was admit ted as evidence this morning. The dying deposition of Hughes is'as fol lows, the words, "Leo pleaded for my life" being omitted: "Personally appearedbefore'me'Geo. W. Hughes. who being Auly sworn de poses and says: That after supper I said: 'Mattie, there is no way to settle our trouble unless you tell me every thing you know and all'that they have said to you.' She said, with an oath she was going to kill me and twould give me two minutes to get ready. I said: 'Mattie, I would not hurt you for anything on earth.' I got up, aiming to get ahold of the pistol, and she shot me when I got'up. I made no effort to hurt her at all. There is not a wo man on earth I cared.forbut..her and I've told her that a hundred times. I had a pistol in my pocket, but not for her. I make this statement realizing I cannot possibly live. She has pulled a pistol-on me at least a dozen times. I never pulled one on her' 'once. I would not have killed her even in self defense." (Signed.) G. W.rHughos. Subscribed and sworn to .before -me this 18th day of November, A. D. 1898. R. L. Tapp. Notary Public, S. C. Chesterfield Girl's Adventure. Miss Virginia-Massey, 21 years old, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Messey of the-Dudley section'of Ches-. terfield county, left her home the morn ing of the 5th inst. to-go to her married sister's home, about two miles away, to assist in putting up some kraut. Fail ing to come back on the day she was to return, her father went after her, and was more than astonished to learn that she had not been there. Search. was instituted at once, but no trace of her was found until lasts Tuesday, when friends of the family living in Wades boro, N. C., -notified the parents.Pthat she was there. It seems that on leav ing home-her mind .. became affected, and she wandered to Wadesboro, a dis tance of about twenty miles from her home, and was seeking employment when she was 'recognized by friends of the family, who notified the parents, as stated._________ A Fatal Wreck. Train No. 3 on the Baltimore and Ohio due m'.Cncinnati at 5:15 p. in., was wrecked near Petroleum, W. Va., Wednesday. Engincer Win. Meyers was killed. Three postal clerks and three trainmen were injured. The engine, mail and baggage cars left the trck. The passengers were not hurt. Starving in Porto Rico. A dispatch from San Juan, Porto Rico, says-the board of charities' tabu lated statistics' show that out of a population of 916,184 there are 291,098 indigent and 11,838 sick. The num ber of deaths as result of the recent hurricane was:. *2,619. One week's rations were issued to 283,147 persons, and the number of those working for rations was 11.713. Soldiers~Occupy.Churches. The war department has received the following cablegram from Gen. Otis re arding the military use of church prop erty in the Philippines: "Referring to -our cablegram of Sept. 10th, 16 hurches, different localities, occupied by United Sate's troops. Four only )artially occupied and religious ser -ices not interfered with. Also three 3onvents occupied. These three ap it of the 165 churches formerly occupied by insurgents. Church property en spaced and protected by our troops." Disastrous Earthquake. There was a disastrous earthquake Wednesday morning at Aidin, a town an the Met der, eighty-one miles south est of Smyrna, Asia. Hundreds of prsons were killed in the valley of Mrmnderrez. Big Fire in Alabama. l'~nt Rock, Ala., was devastated by ire Thursday afternoon. Every store, meX~pt that of W. J. Keel, on the south kialf of the busmness portion, was 2rned. Nearly all the merchandise as lost and there was nj insurance