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THE VOLUME XV. 1 11 1111 f _ ? . Irylfl# to Formulate Plans to Keep l'p Prices Delegate Charged That o' Oclcf8at?8 Wer0 At to Inject Politics in the ?wt lmpol<M3|y doadlockod ia , ?Hr. terf ?V" 0' Mlbr adinin^i ^na Cott?N convention ^a? Sight Simit,U 8 ?'clock Mon ?>oJTIcerfi. electing permanent 8f rned^ hla Vj St ,)ehalf ot Lh? laaa, aud a2i l 8ates t() l/,ul? ? "Tho miS?8 !ithw thJn8? Haid: hero to hj'l thi? ?a'S brou*ht >'ou ? wot otm ure groat- convention Is xroJPZ aff(i,clin8 m?ve1y the cotton 1^'matelSr 4?i!h ?f^'e 8<>,,th- u "fleets toundl Ifr directly tho who! m to bl (]?l'ncu?0" rrop # tlie South ~ "S?wi^J?Sry?<l ,jy 1,1,8 Pe?t? If tho ?lurV in 5i if1 dH a commercial pro ?22tt Vft ?? 1? ceaa* aa tho -if vJiM ? -Invasion of this Insect? *iS ?ff5,?V6 ? ^'d-Wlde ^lamity. It IntPrl^ H m uft,y ,arRC- coni morilal 11 ?i?V ? <lff^rt disastrously ev interest and every llhe p thin In ^'or]d ovor- More- perhaps, 5l8f .7 r b,ni?lc Product of the ^ ', V(tou Pc?ttcate*s and. adjusts and trffe tlW ,)a,ano? of the world's ?'Its culture and ha vesting, its prep. ifrwi ^ fhc markGt- lts tratvaporta *? '"ffiShr ' ?marjftV ,,fi marketing. ltd man jufaetu.e ami lh?t k?Ic or its fabrics- give ^^,Wm^|JUu.iuli?iouH of people In our country..;! is' transportation abroad ? ir? . ^lI>, ^yait3,u '"any thousands ? t / Bhlp-))?|'dlng and seafailhg men, and - Us manufacture Into cloth in foreign landd, and the sale, of such manufac tures, give employment to millions of men and women there. "As a me^hcantablo produet, it la well-nig)?_ indispensable^!*) the world's trad* But nioro than tills. Tho con iiPUed growth of cotton in these South - Stat?s'seeicB absolutely Indispensa ble to tho concen icnce and comfort ? "^lWwHTnnsl K? thc existence itself *>f the people of tne world. In the far greater \>art the people of the world de cotton fabrics with which to ???mho themselves. Their relleuce la on stales of "tho great Am-* ? ?*'ca? TTepufollc for that which clothes tltein, for here In the South we have ww practical monopoly o? the growth J: ISS-M?.- cot toil plant.. ^Oreat effort and vast expenditures > of treasure have been made to develop its growth in other regions of the - jo^W'a surface, Jbut without success. -?--The.cottori Jo tiro world grown outside of the United States has scarcely an *n*recJable effect on the cotton mar- ' ^pe eyea ot all are on the South'g What I# the American -crop "Be? "What the price it will il?. bring? Theeo are the questions t a*k of one another the world floutti, gentlemen of the con tention, is Vhe clothier of the world. yilfi lfa? crop -of cottOft fall for three years coosecutltfly and the people of . tbtr.WOrid will ^ in rags and naked SiMtK4 ' Suppose, no^wts threatened/ by ~ ttito pest of thfi bqnw&yil, it fattfper > and what wllrtiwr^eople do ?g? Wool and silk and ramie >( go. round, as staple i . hlng, to more than # ? world's . population. Are . . le to go naked? That is not broad a, quesHon to ask, and to Itt Of! *ad now, in view of the ter rible menace which overhangs the 8o?th in thi* plaguy of the weevil. T^ -cotton cfOP 61 tbe Sou th ia ' eople of the doutb In the JOp^r annum. It.ls worth iea thfft when manufactured. -.J mines _h?Come -exhausted la The soll of ihe South that MMtfj . ? d^tictil 'the cotton does not exhaust. Toe | cotton orop? this mine of wealth, with ; Its output of tGOO.OOO.OOO? has been coming evyy*>|af. it wrtl continue to <s<HBe every year. on.ly Increasing an nnaliy, If saved ^rom destruction by ^tbls Insect Thls '."-cotton mine of oura Will ,^nake the South the richest ot cbuDtries if preserved, (t Is bound to be ao. ; With the monopoly here of the ^ growth of cotton and the dependence of the world tfpon it to clothe Ita nak edness, a golden stream must continue 44o-flow Into the \South. That golden. ? ptreapi turns the balance of the world's j. trade in favo^ of the United States, it J?ike# US a creditor nation. Let it fall and we become a debtor 'nation. The 4e*troction at the Mexican boll wa?vlj thus becomes a great natfonal ques tlow. and Congrea# and thf nation .- Should take hold of l^bet this con ?vVJVUOn point -the i bjv ? t SyntftJRt Ctoaatf. 3|\ N?V York, Special.? It was an llu^Med that J. P. Morgan ft Co. have mi, notice to member, of At lantlc Coast Line syndicate formed t b underwrite the bondg )MU6d to pay for .1, jQ?DLtrollin? inU>refet 4b the LuufstllUr ft*. Naahyino HailrQad Cojnpaoy. .that Tie syndicate has been closed' and .-thai they ?*? prepare* to pay the. prtT ft accruing from (he opefatkms*of the eradicate to Us member*. This profit t? *ald to amount to about 7 per cent, on the luvestmrtit. locludtpj the dirl JQCSd declared some tttno wgo. The Time gxttnde^ MP**, caae * ?* Sonth Dakota. ? v% . UK "UttHtfc Car&H?,the~ Sofina ; THE DEAF DUMB AND BLIND ! Capt. N. F. Walker's Annual Report ?? Superintendent Submitted to State Superintendent of Education. 3iate Superintendent Martin ban re i ceivgil' the RCth auuual report of the j State iuntiiution for the education of , the <l??af, dumb and blind. The hoard of commissioners through tho chali inau, Col. T., J. Moore, have recom mended that tho legislature make tho following appropriation* for the year . 1905: For support, $24,000; for repairs, $500; for insurance, $1,444? The Institutions has departments for white and for colored children. There aie nine leathers of tho deaf and four for the blind. In addition there are teacher* of painting, drawing and mUfilc, forc'm^^g^* printing office, fore man of .f^jp^Snop, master of wood shop, / of shop for blind boys and* / atructor of industrial depart* or girl*. .smi hia annual report, t ho superintend debt, Capt. N. F. Walker, gives an in teresting historical sketch of the In stitution, from which he makes the de duction tk&t lesBymftR * hundred yetfra ago the dcMrt-KV* of oil classes were considered alike? mutes and imbeciles being regarded alike by the people at large* Bui tho work of the State In- , stltutlon at Cedar Springe has made it clear that the unfortunates defective in hearing and sight alone are people of a high order of consciousness and in- ' tfclllgenco. "Ills very gratifying for us to know,"' | says Superintendent Walker, -"that a large number of our alumni are worthy and self supporting cltigena and tax payers of the Slate? preacher*, tea<li hbltsekeepcrs, etc. The school is now well equipped in all its different de partmeuts for the advancement of the intellectual, moral and physical de velopment of the puplW1 During the last qcholastlc year 179 pupils were enrolled, 1 1 Q deaf and G3 blind; VIZ white and 57 colored. There was only one death, that of little Mary Jones of Saluda, n mute who had just entered the school. There was no other illness in tho school and there has not been a case of continued fever in the school for 30 years. The appropriation last year was a little more than #e amount Rfcked for in th? report, for a laundry, fully equipped.' ha* bees added to the plant.,' and other improve ments were made. General Cotton Market. ! Cotton futures steady: . j December 7.48(^7.55 J January 7.55@7.G6 j February ?>63<?.7.G5 March .7.71 <Jf>7.?2 April 7.77@>7.79 May 7.84(^7.85 June . 7.89(5)7.91 July t'-ri . . 7.95@797 Spot cotton easy; sales, 1,750 bales. Including 450 to arrive; quotations un changed. ; The future market opened. let and from 8 to 10 points down, influenced by bearish crop movement and lower Liverpool; also by dispatches from Texas exhibited by the bear element to the effect that country bankers of tnat Staate will only advance $25 per bale on cotton when well insured. Trading today waa very outeL- the usual Satur day (fullness being in evidence: the fluctuations were few and narrow, Jan-'' uary opened 12 points lower at 7.47, sold down 1 point then advanced to 7.57 aud finally lost 2 points to 7.55, The market closed steady with net losses of 3 to 6 points. Charlotte Cotton Market. ^ These figures represent prices ffafd to wagons: Good middling . , , , V > .1W Strict middling .7% Middling . . / .... " !7% Tinges ....... ...^U 7 to 7% Stains .^...! L....7.. 6 to 7 8outh Carolina Items. & Thejftllroad commission's ? decision "JtjfKtj pftwlc last week practically dis THTssea the petition of the various com mercial bodies of*the State for the re duction In inter-Statee rates on the ground that theso rates are excessive and oppressive and noove what they are in North Carolina and Virginia, and therefore give Virginian cities un due advantage in this territory <tver Charleston and other South Carolina distributing points. Tho decision is a great surprise to thoHe who have been working for a reduction In the rates now for over a year,. as they had been confidently expecting a victory, in the standard cotton tarifT a straight rate of 35 cents is made .for over ten miles, in the fertilizer tariff the rate is made straight $2,75 instead of a rate ranging between $2.75 and $3.05 antl lqj the rate of flouv In. barrols there is a parnjli* radyctton of two cents on each haul period of ten miles. The Secretary of State Friday Issued a commission to the Carolina Water, Light and Power Company, a $250,000 concern at Marlon, which proposes to put up power plants "in South Caro lina and elsewhere." ? The corporators are J. W. Johnson and W. J. Mont -gomery.' A commission also went to the Bank of Starr. in'Xndereon county. =T-he ctpita! Is f 15,000 and the corpora tors ate: AU>ertS,-Bo wie. J. H. Pruitt, J. W? Bowie, J. T. Stuckey, M.Qj. Bowie. Bessie Alleu and J. R, Vandiver. A charter -was Issued to the People's Building and Loan Association of Dll loo, capitalized at $120,000. T. A, Dll J*m Is president. J. H. Davis, vlce-pres { ideal and W. A._j?itzard. secretary^, .1 Negro Bay Shoot* Father. Lauren*. Special. -San IMuilap, col <*?4. waaibot very serionsiy, possibly fatally, Vyhlabov, Sam Dimlap. aged! kjk torn# two mitea cast of ?jb? ?tght 4a the result of a two. Ha waa ahot ^Woat' ^'av; ittHU ills j Many Newty Items Gathered From all Sections. ? Wilt Order ''Calhoun" Election. At a Into hour Thursday night Gov. I Icy ward i.nnouncetj that he had decid ed to order an election for the new county of "Calhoun," which is to bo taken if ustablished from the counties '>t KdjjeflOld, Abbeville and Greenwood rhe coqniy soat of Calhoun will be McCormick. Gov. Heyward issued a statement as to the election Krlday. IL Will be held on tho first Tuesday In January, which la the third. Tho State board of health held a meeting last week to consider the prop osition inado by the federal govern mont in regard to turning OVel- tho quaraflUue stations now under State control to the government. The gov ernment pro poso? U> maintain the sta tions at lis own expenso and equip them without "oat to South Carolina. After a. full discussion it wu4 (tucidod to refer tho matter to tho attorney gon eral, who \%*?ll draft a bill so that the general assembly may give, Its consent [ to the plan. This will iloeple the mat | tor finally. Met Peculiar Death. Edgefield, Special ? Mr. T. B. Bailey, a son-in-law of the late Hon. G. D. Tillman, met with a tiaglc .tfeaLL last week while out hunting. He shit u squirrel which lodged in tho limb of a tree. Mr. Bailey climbed tho Iree for the ytifppso of getting the squirrel! and foil, striking the ground and crush ing his skull. He hailed a companion ju?t before falling that he was sick and it is thought he was solzed with apoplexy, tfhfch caused him to loosen his hold on tho treo. He lived at Clarksvllle and was a prominent clt? laen-of (he county. Palmetto items. Fuel* and information brought out at the annual meeting of the Slate board of health Show that the small pox situation is rapidly growing moro serious (hrougnout the State. The mortality percentage has been more than trebled since the first of Janu ary, and there are cases now in prac tically every county in the State. The situation la at present prirt.ifcuiafrly se rious in deoFgctdttn and AidCoU. in the lower p$l:t df the State. , Secre tary Evans Reported that the mortali ty has Increased to 3 1-2 por cent., since the first of January, as agaltUl a highest previous record of one per cent. The vlrulonce of tho disease is also rapidly increasing In the Norths ern States, the mortality in some be ing as high as 20 per cent, fjo far this year tho secretary repots 1,332 eases ami 33 deaths, as agamst 1,992 cases the previous year. The Marl boro County Medical 'Society bits pe titioned both tho Governor and tho State board of health to quarantine the town of McColl, la that county. Secretary Evans reported to tho board this morning that when he was at McColl about two weeks ago, he saw two men at work in the knitting mill In the seventh day of eruption. Ho warned the authorities 'then that the town would soon be full of the disease, but the physicians disagree ing as to the dagnosls, nothing was done to prevent the spread of tho in fection. Tho board is without ituthori ty to order a place quarantined unless there are instructions" to that effect from the Governor, but the secretary was directed V& call the attention of the town authorities to the fact Hhat the State law compels them to adopt preventive measures against* tho spread of an infectious <11^afe- In the matter of the quarantine stations at. Charleston, Georgetown, BeauNrt, Port Royal and Helena, t|ic board de cided to memorialise the next Legis lature to give the board the authori ty to transfer by lease or sale those stations to the Pedeial g6vernment, the Slato to bo relieved of the ex pense of keeping^tbem up, but to re tain a supervision over them, a? was done in tho case of the Florlda^eta tlons. The South Carolina "irtations arc worth in the aggregate about $75,* 000. The annual report of Wiuthrop col lego was received Thursday by trus tees and turned over to the Statu su perintendent of education. Most of the facts and. figures in tho report have already been published and are famil ial to tho public. Tho cost of the college last year was *>64, 689. 63 and tho receipts, were$65,691. 68. The col lege next y?xr ulll ask for a State ap. propriation o f 157,435.73. Edwards, the alleged Eutawvllle lyncher, who has turned State's ovl dcnce, gave important testimony at the hearing before Magistrate McCoy at George's. Edwards was brought in by a penitentiary guard and immedi ately after giving his testimony, loft the place in a buggy. His evidence resulted In Andrew Martin, Easlons, Piney Martlu and Policeman Palmer being held for trial. Tho' prisoners will at once apply for ball. Edwards said that Butler and Piney Martlrt woro not present at the drowning ol the negro Bockbardt. but he Impli cated Piney Martin, who had not been arrested. According to Edwards, Eastons, Palmer and the Martins tied the" bar of Iron to Bockhardt'u l>ody and rowed him_QUk_lnto. tlic-aU%au? ~an<T t?rew him ovorboard f _! Charter? and Cvmrniwuni. A comotUdlonwaa iaauod to the Farr Vf Nowberry, *??tUkils?4 it |50rOOO. The tncorpo ?tor? are H. U Parr.Z. P. Wright, w. G' *? OwMion. aod W, K. 81l?fc of Newberry and A. U Scott ot of Green ?-.Tfco. i? i of lock ! CONGRESSIONAL DOINGS House Gtts Busy. j The House transacted quite h largj ! | Amount of _firtlseb'ilmloouf> business j Monday, starting ^ i? li pension hllla and considering the Hill financial hill later In iho day. A number of bilh j of local character were passed, ami j an adjourn ment was fore* <1 for iat-it o| ; a quorum, wheu an attempt whs mnd$ ; to pass the Joint resolution granting the uso of the Washington monument tot for th;j Amcrlcun Hat I why Ap ! pllaheo exhibition. The bill transferring the Portal ilo- | serves from tho Secret aYy of the In- j tcrlor to |he Agricultural Department, which has been pendiiig Congrfs.i , for sovoral years, w?u panned. During dlscilssioh of the financial hill j Mr. Hill said wo must got ba<-k to tho gold standard, which he learned ftom \ery high authorities bad been "irre vocably established," Mr. Willjhms Kfllij there wan an in fluenco at work to displace govern im^l provided money with bank-pro \ ldod money, and thereby enabled the bauktf to make the profit on II. "It la no wander," be said, "that nine-tenth* of t.he bankers are Republicans," add lr-g chat s<? nu* *t*crs u^i?o?ii.ories and other? were hoping to be. During a heated colloquy with Mr. Hill Mr. Wil liams said the bill under consideration would double the possibility of tho [?erpetration of tho "mfquitouB wrong." He predicted that it simply would lead to socialism. The speaker at this time announced a number of ??oinui1tteo assignments, Including Mr. Keflln, of Alabama, to ir.lnos and mining; Mr. .%Croft, of South Carolina, to manufactures and | to expet^litureS In the Navy Depart ment. The House adjourned. t we Bills irt the Senate. The'Scnate had under consideration tho pine- food and Philippine govern ment bills. Tho debate on the former was confined to calling attention to the inadequacy of tho protection af forded the pSbple of the United States | Rgalnst Impure foods and. drug*. Tho discussion of the Philippine bill related solely to tho quest Ion hW. the guarantee by the Philippine govern ment of the iucpmef or intorost on bondaMof railroads in those islands, Mr. Spooncr, or WlfleoL slii- and Mr. Bacon, of Georgia.. leading in the criti cism. The suggestion wa>i made by Mr. Newlands, of Novada, that the Philippine government should^ con struct the system of railroads pro posed. Tho debate brought out the first reference In the Senate this ses sion to Judge Parker's views of tho Philippine qheslldfl. caused by Mr. Newlands quoting from certain ut terances of William J. Bryan and Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Foraker inquired why he had Ignored Judge Parlcer, and Mr. Newlands replied that Mr. Bryan for eight years r.tocd ??* i'ue leader of the Democrat ?n party. No action was taken on the bill and the Senate ad journed. The Smoot Matter. Tly-ce-. witnesses *rere hoard Mon dayiin the case of Senator Reed Smoot before the Senate committee on privi leges and elections, the committee re suming its- investigations after a loug recess. The first was Uov, J. W. Buck** ley, oditor of tho Christian Advocate of New York, who told of a Mormon meeting he attended in Salt Lake, Utah, last summer, in which President Jos. Smith declared ho would not give up his plural wives. George Reynolds, a high official of ^ the Church, testified in regard to cer emonies that have taken place in t?e Endowment Ifouso and concerning eccleslaetlcal divorces granted hjr the' Church, and John Henry Hamlin toid of J he plural marriage of his sister, Llnian Hamlin, to Apostle AbraiH Cannon, which ceremony, hp said, he understock to have been performed by President Smith slnco tho manifesto ol 1890. Most of the testimony rolat- ~ eo to the inBide Church policy, but did not connect Senator Siuoot with any of tho alleged - violations of State or national ' statutes, Dr. Buckley told of a speech of President Smith on the subject of marriage.- The witness said Presi dent Smith defended tho Ajiortnan mar riage. and declared that polygamy was not adultery, but. wa-j a system of carriage. President Smith was quot ed by the witness as Haying that he could not give up any of his wives. In answer to questions by Senator Overman, Mr. Reynolds said marriages wore performed with dead persons In the Endowment House. Subcommittee Named. Washington, o Special. ? Chairman Tawney, fti accordance with tho ac tion which the House Committee on industrial arts and expositions took last week, providing for tho appoint- j menC of a sub-connnlttee of which be I is to be chairman to" consider ant! re- ! port some suitable plan "for the coul- ! nn/noratlon of the aettlomeiit of Jonestown, Va.. other than by holding irfr industrial exposition, named the . following members of the aub-coim j mittee: Mesdrs. Dodenburg, of Jill- I nols; Howell, of New Jersey; Bartlett, ! of Georgia; Maynardr'of Virginia. Printed by Franklin. ? Dr. JamGs II. Canflcld, librarian o: j Columbia University, has just re 1 eelved a valuable, addition to the col , lectfon of Americana, says tho No* > York Sun. It is a translation of Ci cero's /'Cato Major; or, De Senec tutc.'' ,'The book was printed by Ben Jam in FVsnklin in Philadelphia it 1&74. It bears the autograph ot Thomas Heyward, Jr.. one of th< South Carolina signers of the Deciar* TlOfi orTndep'endencc, and it w*? writ ten. by James Logan, chief justice ot the Province of Pennsylvania, In tfc? early part of tho eighteenth century. In the opinion of Franklin, tM book is. the earliest translation ot I ?lassie in tho Western . Hemisphere The volume - opens with an tntrodttC tlon by Franklin, entitled "The Print m r to the Header." * ?' : Ls ? .. . ? - / i,k;ht-h?adRI>. (UxiM w?*r* (?*rfu?> CZAR'S FLEET OESTROVEO ] Port Arthur Squadron Annihilated by Metro Hill Guns# NEARLV EVERY VESSEL IS SUNK Four Gum of n?e Anuy on tOd ftlett-H 1 1 1 1 1 Tuik ilfgun by Thflr Navy WookS (lie Hutbor Now nt Mfi'cy of Koit'i <'?u IHMl? ,)W|> l.dlict IleMVjr, Toklo, Japan.? A bulletin from tieii cral Nogl's hcadqitfilleis Indicate* dial the Russian fleet in fori Arthur Ima been wholly destroyed. The army has accomplished that which Admiral 'lo go's fillips c'tHlld not ?lo. The dfsl ruc tion of the fleet makefi it unnecessary for the commander of the Third Army to ?>aerlflee his soldiers in storming the remaining land forte. There is now n?> iu rne Kasl for the Baltic war ships sent to ftsslst Itushla'i naval pow er at the Krone of ho'slllitio*. Th<? lluve Vladivostok cruisere are shut In t?y ti e, and with the . Japanese kiiiis domin ating Port Arthur harhor the Baltic fleet will have no place of rfjfu^e and no biiBe from which to ilylit The announcement from the I'ldnt Army Corps headquarter* (hat the bat tleship Sevastopol was /unk hv the stem and that the battleship jvrcx , vlet was under water to her sell led si! question of dan^ej ipim (tie once formidable warship* in tiie har hor. Admiral Togo has now four bat tleship^ soveti. armored rrultfei's add fourteen protected cruisers lit addition to n fleet of torpedo t>oat destj oyer* and torpedo boats, and with these ho can either wait for the Baltic fleet or Ball to meet tiie division wlileh has come through tiie Suez Canal, tn any event, Port Arthur ha? ceased to ho the main objective oPUapan. The 4000 or 6000 Russian soldiers imprisoned there me not a menace In the Japanese situ ation, and with the fleet destroyed there Is little doubt thai two- -thirds of Henerat Noyi's army either Ik on the way or soon will be despatched to rein force Marshal Oynma's divisions oh the left bank of the Slia. In Ave days four naval puns oti 208 Metre Hill have destroyed battleships and flrat class erulsers whose Cut liua led value 1b $10,000,000 in money. It Wilis Impossible for these ships to esoapo sea. For a month past the entire outer harbor ha* been so mined that no war ship could avoid destruction jn ail at' tempt to pass 0U(. All the small Jap anese warships were engaged ill tills work, and so successfully, it now turns out, that the three Russian ship* -which attempted to drag the mines were de stroyed, A bulletin announced that the famoua cruiser Hay an was 911 tire. Another dlsplifch said thut the Biiyan was sunk to her topmasts and that the Pnllada, a cruiser of the first class, had also gone down by her stern. I11 thlg dispatch the new? was confirmed that the Retvlzan was under water and that the battleship Poltava had shown ? h?fcvy list. No account was made of the torpedo boat* and torpedo boa$ destroyers, tior of the two harbor m lens* boats, but it was assumed tha^ they have been destroyed. N ^ -FAMILY SLAIN, HOME BUlJNED. Farmer Supposed to Have Killed VTS^c, .Cllris and Himself. \_ . ?? HJ5r ? , Columbia* s? ?,? Arouse# by a tire that was destroying the house of lien* Jamln B. Hughes, at 0 o'clock In the tnorn^pg, the inhabitants of Trenton a Tillage In Edgefield County, rushed . to the scene and found themselves in the presence of a tcrr<ole tragedy. Hughes, his wife, aid two daughters were found dead, the man shot throuKh the head aud the wife and girls with their heads crushed In. All four bodies were badly charred. ? Emily and Hattie Hushes, need nine teen and fifteen respectively, luid been murdered as they slept iu ths.? snme bed. The wife, In h room across the ball, was alao killed in her bed. The father lay on. the floor near by, a pis tol, one chamber of which had been discharged, resting near his right hand. Hughes was foi^y-two years old, and a merchant and farhier, supposed io be prosperous. There la 110 reason khown why he should have been murdered, a a he was on Rood terms with the' people of the community. The circumstance* would seem to Indicate that he slew bla family aud aftev sett lug fire to the house committed suicide. Bloodhound# were brought to tho :cene, but could Qnd no troll, and in th'* absence of a j motive those who hold to the theory ! of murder oould not solve the mystery. There was no sign that anybody left 1 the bouse after the lire fit.iHed. - TO USE BIO HOSPITAL FUND, Agreement lias Been Made Between Harvard and Briglmm Trustees. Boston, Ma*?.-l.U> agreement be tween tho Harvard Medical School and the trustees of the $f>,000,0Q0 Brlghum hospital fund, Just released by a deci sion of the United State* Circuit C-ovrt of Appeals, has been made, and tbo hospital will be ercdud 09 soon as pos sible on land iu the Back Bay adjoin ing the new Medical ttchool buildings, which are gift* of J, P. Morgan and others. The two institutions will be separate, but tber hospital will have the j benefit of Harvard laboratory work,] research and tklJlcd ?cicnU*t*y wtote "TTSrvarH will use- the hospital for din tea and demonstrations. lodlcted For noomnn^e'? Muulor. ? Curio' CiarUl, who wa<? h?M?Mily A8 4 Coroners. wlt??w In rnprrmwiV trithth* kltttnsror LnigfTtif$Tiu"TRI^ Ian laborer, wn? imitated bjr the<]r*#4 Jlnry at 'Ithaca X. t., for uoritr la the Itrat degree. ? Put*! was cbofcod W death by i\ belt *tr*% nnd robbed. 01 ai4l was hla ivouma^. _? TREASURY REPORT ISSUED Secretary Shaw Informs Congross of the Nation's Financial Standing, j SiiXK^tli A iftiliTrtl l.i?rf For All Truit i I'0iu|iaul?i-Vli?i l)?ll(it 111 1004 ?ii<l It* C'Mine? I(*|K?rl uii Washington, P. <'. ? Sivivtaty o I I in# i Treasury Hhaw, In his report on tho | It nil noes of the Government, which j Wflifl sent to the House, suggests a law giving (nisi companies of large cap italisation in large cities the privilege of incorporating under I^otlt?r?l hi wf with corresponding supervision, On1 this point lu* say*: W'ithiii the last fo\\ ..^^ars trust com panies have mad<s ti relatively much larger growth In nil tho largo cities than natlonnl hanks. There were twenty-seven trust companies and for* ty nine national hanka in New York < 'Itj* ton yeat'S rtfio. The same elty now ha* t'orty-?f?von companies and only forty-one national bank*. Ten years ago tho aggregate capitalisation of the New York city trust companies was WUoo.innj ..ml v? national hanks of tlm Vow York City trust companies arc capitalized at *5i,SMU,tj(>0 ami (ho national hanks r.t si lO.tfotMNU), show* lug about (he eatfio illative increase. Bui (he difference in (lie growth of de? posits is marked. Trust- companion in New irtrlt City held less tluiii $200,000,0<h> (en yoai'3 ago and ||?e$ jiXitw libld more than $ST;?.??H),n<Hl. while deposits? in national bank? have in creased fro ill more than .?r>.~t0,000,000 to a ft'nrtion less than $1, ino.ooo.noo, Thus, t rii^t company ?'eposlis show mi. aggregate growth of $<>5,000,000 more than natlonnt bank deposits', and a growth of 24o per <\MU, as agnlust iOO per cent. In national banks. Otliei* huge cities exhibit similar con. dittons. Many (rust companies hold commercial accouiilu and arc regularly engaged in discounting paper, ami they bold In (ho aggregate more than *2.000,000,000 111 deposits. Kow. If anv, of the Htates have any statutory i'e qulrenient respecting reserve. ami few of (he companies arc members of t ho clearing houses. ? ? I suggest the propria . , therefore, of a law giving trust companies or large capitalisation In large el tie# ihe privi lege of incorporating Under Federal taw. with corresponding supervision. If sueli right were extended, the mora conservative would probably avail themselves thereof, and this would, compel others to cultivate conserva tism. Here is what fiecrctay Slmw has to say on the ctiiTencyi "* ? Our currency *Vs.tfem, though some ivhrtt complicated, haf4 bepu ' proved xafe and reliable under every practical test, The exchange of gold for nil forms of money' Issued or coined by the Government on demand, author ised by act of t'ongicfia- -approved March- 14, 1000, removes every sug gestion of public distrust or doubt. The system has one recognised weakness* however, It Is mm-elasNe. This ertti clBin is fiometimea Answered by th$~ statement that national banks possess the power to lncrM^ cireniatfon nt~ wm, . Actual experience demonstrates the Jnsuflloleucy of this prerogative td Correct recognised evil, To meet a demand /or paper money 'Of small denomlnqXlons, (I recommend r tbat national banks b<v permitted, to** la?ue a larger p^tpo^lqfq of their itfthr orized circulation iff denominations of five dollars, and thfrt authority be giv en tojgsue one-eighth of the aggregate -*oW?ne of gold certificates In -denouu Inatlons of ten dollars. The report shown that the receipts from all scources for the. fiscal rear 10<*4 were $084,214,373.74. *! of wiikjh $143,582,024.34 were postal revenues, Cttstdln* contributed $201,274,504.81 and Internal revenues $232, 901, 110.4.%, The expenditures forrflie sitme period were $725, OW, 913.05, (he postal Item being the same ns In the receipts. Tills shows o ticfielt of $41,770,571.91. The sum of $50,000,000 was paid for the right of way of the Panama Canal. The nnry cost $102,95(1,101.55 and the military establishment $115,035,410.58. The pension Item is $142^0,200.30. There Is no opportunity* apparent to the Department where greater econo my In administrative departments can be practiced without Injury to the pirb. lte service, and economy which injures the public service Is parsimony and not economy. It Is the opinion of the Department that a large sum conld be profitably invested In public buildings within the District of Columbia. MINE OWNER MURDERED. Dalian Policy Relievo lie Wan ftlalii I'V>i* .Revenge? flayer* Rob Victim. Dallas, T?*x??^ ? 5-Clint'lo>i tioldaleiu* the owner of larg.j burinL'SiT and mill* Injc Interests Iti Dalla# and In Dawson 1 City, Alaska, wan murdered in Dalla* and robbad of $'#KX) lu money, dia mond* valued at $500, a costly watch and other valuable?. The body was found in tig W?theru nuburbs of the city. The too gi tfco head bad been blown off. and ? largo plbtol wUh two- chambers empty wa* lying uear. . PANAMA JUBILAN'l?. . . . . - _j Doiuoiibtrntton In Honor uf United State* Secretar}- of War Tuft. Pa uaniu.- There wa? a great demon stration to the Cathedral plaza In honor of Hecieturrof War Taft, con?e (iuwt vpoo the Htlsfactory termina tion QfyjtUl-nPffOtii tlonw -wWr Pananin on beftalf of the United Stat*^ Mr. Taft ?pok? to; tbr cfowd from a bal cony of the ffintral Hotel. Decline* Ware'* Job. ^MAjor. b?j for tht Wo?tern District of Mlu*. ?ouri.b** i?cos offor?4 I bo <^ce HL (femmlMlowr of Ftrotoi* to ??cc?ed WwvNt fci? dttHnid. >* RIOT IN SI PETERSBURG j Troops Called Qjutto Quell Oomon , stration of Students. ' / MOUNTED POLICECHARGE CROWD II I ?il< or ill* Muilont Hprltliiff Hnvturf Cum* lo ilia follwi Warning* W*r? JilUtd Through !!?? I'mm to tho Hi-? At (lltcil HIkuiI Kcd Fltil W?r* ltnlifirt hy Throng-. ? . Bt. Petersburg, popular nntl?Goveffttaenfc demembration, tho participant* In which included largo numbers of students of both ?oxet>, be gan at midday In t Nevsky Prospect and laalod n bout two hours. Hundred* of police and mounted gendarmes, whfc wore hidden In the courtyard of tho public building*, emerged suddenly and ciuiiKeu i ho crowd at full gallop, driv ing the demonstrators lit headlong con fusion and ?cr earn lug with terror "Upon the sidewalks ami into adjacent KtreaU. Thl# led to seriotur encounters, fifty persons being more of lew se verely injured. Largo number? were arretted. < Not since the riois of 1901, wheiY'~ ?Oos?aoka stretched across the Wevsky Prospect from building lo building* chaj'gcd down Ihe boulevard from th? Moscow Htotion to the Novo, has tho Itu^ian capital lived through su,cu a .. day of excitement as this. The au thor nier got, wind of the big antl-Oovern inenl; demonstrtniou planned by tho Nodal Pemoi'tatlc Labor party tu, da? ? ma ml an Immediate end of the war ~ the convocation of a National Assem bly, and loading ?fo> very paper ..itf the morning In black raced type was an ex plh-U warning to the public at'tiiebr . peril to desist from congregating^ fp the Xevsky Prospect nea* the I?b4art ~ Cathedral. .ty. tho samo time exten sive preparations were wade to quell any disturbance. " , , 5 The pcltco on tho Xevsky Prospect - Were mxtupted, and. tho dvomllsa ov house porters Weld marshaled 4n frpnt of their re?pt4cllvo building?. Half C dozen., squadrons of mounted1 gerrdfttfT merle were massed In the. war Jft i At mm Kazaty Cathedral,, and . but reserve police ^verestafioneflTti' courtyards, out of eighth illfl Interior tivlatopoik-MtrS strict orders, however, that too should bo used, and Fulori* tJfi Police, issued explicit directions to avoid hiyfh measures unless U should become- absolutely necessary, newspapers' warnings, however, giving notice t& those not apprised the pitwpect of a demoi\str?r feated the very object for were designed# attracting s the whole ponuhitlQiL of ?thi* [. to the brdaiL. thoroughfare before the hour Ax Ing of the police, who the sidewalks, the throngs on mwitH wertr sTr 'detl wag almost Impose!1 coveted Bwfemd iri tangled mass of- M with Ihe eur sidewalk were prac student body of~tbr many young women, been prominent In ; revolutionary moTemeots, thousands ' Ihe Social Labae planned the'de: Toward J, Y<a?t students seemed to si Hotel . Kurope, Cathedral, The police; the critical moment tried iripyitli*i& te tide. Then/Mien' gleinounted policeman stroke of 1,- from the thickly-wedged crowd like ft .Jet of. It whs the signal. peared lu other parti wavigg frantically ova) wero greete&wttfevra "Down with autocracy/ Tho students surged singing the "Marosl cent spectators, seeking themselves, \ qravrf and hugged walls. Di made a way IntoVtlfl from tho d^ dents and. sticks, stood asM4 Hants. 1 hind the wheeling a Tho doors of-iv thrown book came out. A doubt iho flank oftbo drawn sabre*.--?1 circled tho *m>ht cw fringe of spectator*, ri*l to cover. There o L cudgels land Vounds a hawed ' ?tpnlly with the I Those coined V were recogniasd rested,- butf other quietly ha lug their J^gwlea ' ?C'" 1 KILL HOBBfB8 ! into' SUatigo Trouble , . ' fttatx City, alarming spw dUeato bt Vrttfi&e to UiitttU to m Davidson, of tl douiiX-Jtti* oy?iMU6 In its Gov ? ~ hor*es lp*v? r**