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THE BATESBURG ADVOCATE U , ' VOL 1. BATESBURG. S. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1901 NO 27 8 OHIO CONVENTION, i' o P Democrats Maet end Nam* Jamas o Kelbjure lor Governor. ft b\ b BRYANISM IQNORED. p : - f The Names cf John R. McLean o and Tom 0. Jshnsnn SpoK?n c q m of as Candidates to 8uc- fc ceed Senator Forakar. n Tho Domooratio Stato coavontioD f At Columbus Wednesday had more i orominont moil an delegates than any 1 convention of Djmoor&ts of Ohio in f many years. 8 Following is tho Domooratio ticket. Hnvernnr limns K ilnoilPnn. " Lieutenant Governor?Anthony How ^ oils. b .Judge of Supremo Court?Joseph 8 llidy. Clork of Supremo Court?Harry B 1 Young. u Attorney General?M. B McCarthy. Treasurer of State?11 P. Alahiro. 8 Member of Board of Public vVorka? ? James B. Holtnan. Tho nomination cf Col. Kilbournc 1 was appropriately called one of 4tspon ' 'aneous oomluiiion.'' llowells, llidy, 1 Alsh.ro and Ho'man woro favontot E trom tho start. Young was sprung as r a surprise and nominated over Saioots, 1 vho had been nuoh a favorite that 1 others would not previouly enter tho ( raoo for clerk of tho supremo court. 6 Nono of tho delegates, outside of x Cleveland, know loung asd h.i was named because Cuyahoga wanted him 1 Cuyahoga could get anything it wanted, cxcopt tho bead of thoStato ticket ' aftor tho Johnson atrcLdmcuts were ( engrafted into the McLean platform ' and that document as amended was * adopted with surh unanimity. < It was currently reported that John- I son desired the nomination of Monott 1 as attorney general and that tho Mo ! Loan uion wanted Monctt defeated. ' k t Tho defeat of Monott was so dcoisivo 1 as to be a foaturo of tuo convention. ' Monott as attorney general had 1 brought suits against tho Standard Oil company and other corporations to oanoel their charters unner the anti trust laws. Ho had sought a third - term nomination from tho llopubli jk can's on the issue that he should bo retained in that office to continue 1 BE these proseoutions. After Lis defoai for tho third nomination in 1SJ1) he 9H supported Bryan in 1900 on the anti j^B trust issue and canvasbcd Ohio and other States with Bryan ?**Act al riiririrr turn s\f t bin nrn I JIVJ 1UUDI> DUIAlUg IU1U VI VUU Vl/U vonlion was on Bryan. Tho.ypost bit icr things wore said of his lc&dorahip no reference to either of the natioaai platforms on which ho made his cam- 5 paigns. After this plan had been ' ? agreed upon, one of the 21 members of that committee offered a rniaor V lty report, reaffirming the Kansas City B platform and txpiesbing oonfidcr.ce in B Bryan. Ho received only six votes B irom the 950 delegates on his tubsti W tute for tho preamble. A few inmV uies after the platform was adopiod, uoo of thoBe six delegates called attention to tho faot that pictures of other Democrats wcro displayed in the hall and nono of Bryan as heretofore Ho started to carry a small Dooncr with Bryan's picturo on it to the pi a: form. Tho aisles wcro ordered cleared I but tho picture did not reach its dos tination. ll was trampled under fool " and spoiled during ti e wild demon titrations when Kilbourne was escorted into tho hall. It i" generally believed, however, that the inarching clubs did not know they wore walkitg over Bry run's picturo. Tho members of tho commute! on resolutions said over one hour was spent after last midnight in efforts to strike tho word "salablo" out of the plank on railway t&xatioo, and several hours in denouncing the Chicago and Kansas City platforms and the teador who stood on them. Tho platform caused muoh comment tonight over what it docs not say as will as cvnr what it does say. IJnsual interest is boiog taken in the seleotion of members of tho State oxooutive committee by tho State oon- * tral nnmmittnn fiinnn th> ft.invention I ooncludcd its work. The State central committee today ajoumed until .July 20, without selecting its chairman or secretary. It is said nono ot the candidates ior cither of these places can ^ . securo a majority of tho 21 votes, and that Col. Ktlboarnu will to compelled to coopcrato with either the MoLoau men or tho Johnson men, who arc not 1 talking froiodly to each oilier, to con ; trol the Stato cxt cutive committee. In this connection mere are all sorts of rumors about the senatorebip, for which tho convention endorses no ono fc- as the Democratic candidate to succeed Senator Foraker. The names of John 11. McLean and of Tom L. Johnson are most prominently mentioned iu this oonnootion. Tho convention was called to order about 11 o'clock by Uhairman Bruckor, and alter prayor Hon. Charles 1'. Salen, a member cf Tom Johnson's cabinet at Cleveland, was introduced as temporary chairman, whioh was later mado permanent. His closing deferences to ratlwaj taxation wcro loudly applauded. A lively fight caiuo when tho credentials oommitlco reported in favor of seating tho Dowhng delegates from tho Daytoa district. Tho lie was priced, and after a warm dtbtle, iu which Dowling and alIi Dowling delegates charged oco another with dofoat'ng Democratic nominees, tho anti- D jwling delegates were seated, thnJohohun do mcnt and later McLean's Cii oinoati foroea throwing thoir tu,?port ia favor of a minority report. Tho issuo really waa on looal control in Montgomery oounty, whore Dowling has been a ieador for twenty yearn. The platform was then adopted. Tho roport submitted by the, committco on resolutions contained nearly 2,000 words, it consists of a prcamblo uhd sixteen articl.n, undot tho follow ing heads: Municipal governments, taxation, oonduot of Stato affaire, etc , peoples' rights, tariff reform, monopolies, merotiant marine, imperialism and expansion, tho Boers, Monroodoctrine, ms . ') fie navy, civil service, election of sontors, agridulturo nod labor, K^publian responsibility and boss rule and olitiosl corruption. It is declared that the municipalities f the State shcu'd bo radically ttorincd, a d that no franohiso, ex'eaion or renewal thereof shall borcafter o granted except upon vote of tho ecplo. Oa thefubjoct of taxation, tho platorrn ?ays: 4 The acceptacce of fooo passes or ther favors from railroads by public ffijero or emplayrs shall bo made ado uato grounds for vacating tho offices icli bv thciu. All pub ic service oor icratious snail bo required by law to iiako sworn pubiio reports, and tho I - J I i jwer ana uuiy 01 visuatiuu ?na puuio report shall be conferred upon tho iroper State aad looal auditing othjors, 0 tho end that tho truo value of tho irivilegcs hold by those osrporationa hall be tuado plain to tho people. '"Steam aud oluotrio railroads, and itbcr corporations possessing publo rar.ohiacs, Buall bo assembled in tho (tuio proportion to their salable valuo is are farm* aod oily real estate. The Ropublioau administration and bo Republican majority of tho geueral issombly are denounced. Tariff reform is demanded on tho ;round that production of the oouniry ar exoicds its po*cr of comumptiou. Tno enactment add rigorous onforee neat of measures to frovent monopoics and cembinations in restraiut of' rado ant cemutoroo is domandod, as is iso tno suppression of ail trusts and a eturc to 1 Industrial freedom." As a ueans to that end tho platFcr.11 declares hat all trust produc s should be placed in the free list and tho gov ramcnt ihouid exeroiso a more rigid super r'ts'on of transportation. Restoration of the merchant marines s favored wi h jut subsides, hewevor. Oj tho buoj iot of "Imperialism ai.d Expansion" the platform saye: "Po# :ro granted tho Federal government were not mcaat to bo usod to conquer tr bold in subjection tno people of jtfccr oountries. The Democratic party opposes any oxtensioj of thv av.tooal bouudaries not meant to carry specduy to all inhabitants full, equal rights wuh oursclvos. If those are unliut d by Iceaticu, raco or character to bo formed into te;t gorermcg torrito110.0, and then incorporated into tho Union of States, they should bo permitted to wor* out their own doatiny." Maintatnonoe of tho Monroe Doctrine is demanded, a navy adequate to the protection of Amerioan citizens and property the world over; oleetion of senators by direot vote; and tho ri^ht 01 lab jr to combine for ibo assertion of its r.gbts and tho protcotion of its interests, It it declared that tho bur dens of the "Uojustand d sjriminat.ng laws for which the Republican palty is responsib o, fall obteUy on those whi till tho toil or labor at other forms of production. Tho Demoeia'.io party pledged its ttijrt to iciicve tno ouraens ABioh tjiua Kt-- * igjEmp Ou the eubjsot of 4'Uepubiican rotpenbibiliiy" it is declared the "li'put) loan party always has upheld olasu interests, aud canuot bi iruetcd to deal wuh (hi evils ol iis own creation." (Ji "lioss rule, cto," the party pledges itself to 4 K:souo our govorn-I xiutit from the ^ranpol beifishnt-jb ai.d sorrupuon, aud roatoro it to its former fairness, purity aid simplicity." Widespread cuiruptiou," the art>oloa ieoiaroe ''Now throa ena our frcemstiiu.lous atid menace the destruction of public virtues." The K publican national bdministra.ion is ueoouaccd for "(Jovious sympathy" with aud aid to the lintish government in its efforts to destroy tho iouvh African republics. W. L Finley made an unsuccessful flirts to have tho Kiesa. tdty pUt;orm reafS.incd aud continued conti lenuo id W. J. Byan expressed. 11 j laid ho wanted to aso.rtain whether .his was a 1) mocratio convention and whether the Ooto l).moorats were looltng backward. Fioley's tuotioa was )verwhelmintly defeated. When tho platform w;h adopted hero were again throe ohcers for Torn Johnson. Nominations were then made and the .ickets ohostn, tho onief fight being ivcr the attorney generalship for which Vlonctt was a oandidsto. Tho candidate for goyornor was born in Columbus in 1S41, is a lawyer and interested in a number of banks, railways &ud other enterprises, lie rose from private to oiiont.1 m the civil war and is vice president cf tho Army of Tennessee, lie was a o oso friend of late Senator Alien G. Thurmaa. Peabody Scolarships. An examination for tho scholarships in the Peabody Normal oollego, nanounood some lime ago, will be hold at tho following places: Columbia, Spartanburg,Uroonvillo and Charleston. Tho quoations will bo furnished by the Peabody Normal college committee at Nabhvillo. They will bo sent to tho State superintendent of education, who . _: 1 I -J it - - it win sonu mem to uio various commit lets. The questions wiil bo answered by the applicants, in the prosenoo of the ooniuiittecs, and the papers all forward cd to the central committee in Columbia who will dotcrunno tho successful ap plieants. Thiro arc four appointments to bo uiado, Tho tcholarships are good for two years, ar d are worth $100 per year and the stuiont's railroad faro to Nashville and return. After tho first year tho amount may be reduced from $100 to #51). The cxaminaions will begin at 9 o'clock, Tuesday. July 23rd. Too following cou:nuttoeM will have charge of the examinations at tho v.?ri ous points: Columbia, Professors A. G. lieuibcrt and 0 W. liain; Green vtlle, Mr. O. li Martin and Prof. B. ft. Grocr, Spartanburg, Mr. ft. C. ftlmoro acd Mr. Goo. 8 Bnggs; Charleston, Mepsrs. VV. K Tate a-.d (Jiaudo L. liOgko Instructions havo bocn received fro a Mr John M. UftiB, eoorotary of the college, that tho appoiutco ohall be re quired to mak i an average per cent, not lower than (15. Bags of Gold Missing. A few months after N<.oly took o'iAr*n of the po.-.t office at Havana ho sent to New 1 rk i largo quanity of gold ooin in matl pourohos 10 tho Sevonth N'a ticnal bank. Tho sum amounted to $9<i I 009 So far tho investigation into the affairs of tho Sevonth National shows that tho sum mysteriously disappeared and no rcoord of it has been found. ASSAULT AND MURDER Upon a Young Girl and an Old Woman. .Jessie Kinport, the 14-ycar-oM daughter of Mrs. Carrie Kinport, who resides at 11W West Nint\ avonuo, Denver, Colorado, was ave lulled and horribly mutilated in hor re-im, during tho absenoo of her mo' "ve: Tu day night. Mrs. Kinport upo i ra' ring home found tho doors oprn and in her daughter's room tho bed clothes wero strewn about and blood spattered over therociu Sho aroused the neighbors, who about midnight found tho girl in a vacant lot nosrby, unconscious and with numorous cutB on hor body. Tho authorities were notified but not boforo Chris Jcnson had bocn brought to tho station by Poliooman Limbcrt, who had arretted hinn on the outskirts of Donvor. AsL.mbrrt approached Jnsen whipped out a knife and shouted to the officer that ho would not bo taken to j ail Limbert disarmed the man and brought . .V,? k. LI 4 LiJ VV tilU DIOVUU. V/U WUU T* O Jr UU 1U poatodiy Rpoko of having boon com polled try defect! himself from a woman, Buying that ho had out hor up pretty bitliy. Ilia knife was oovored with blood. Ho ia believed to bo demented and to bo tho man who lately oornmit tod numerous assaults ou (vumeo. Jensen confessed to the polioo that ho assaulted Jesaio kinport and ako said ho biaboed another woman during the night near tho ond of the Uuivcr-ity l'aik cur lino. Searoti was at oecj begun and the dead body of Mrs. Armenia A. Bullis, about 60 yean old, who conducted a dairy, was found Wednesday morning at the plaoe described by Jonsea. She had bcou stabbed in tho breast an! tho blade of 'ho knife had penetrated tho heart, causing instant death. Tbo body lay in the roadway and there was no evidence of a strugglo. Jensen said the woman was ''after hiui" and for that reason he killed her. Sho lived ou a ranch roarby. Later reports from Colorado says. It has developed that a young wan was at the Kinport home calling ou the girl aod ri m lined until after 10 o'clcck J onsen was arrested about 9:45 o'clock in tho evening making it impossible fci him to have committed tho assault. A crowd of several hundred gathered outside of the city j wl Wednesday Digit and made throats of lynching Jensen. Tonight ho was taken tc Colorado Spring*. Some Census Figures. The census offijo issued a Lull, tin Thursday concerning tho urban popula tion of the country. It shows that23,411,61*8 people in the Uaited States live in cities and towns of over 1,U00 popu j'.iion This is 37 3 pur cant of th: I ?"?irn population, a gain of almost per cent binoc the census uifdiftP, ttie percentage was 32.9 Compared with the returns of 1830 iiic report shows a gain in the uroau population of more thau a third in percentage and of considerably more thau double in ac.ual numbers There wore in 1830, 581) places of moro than 4,100 persons cajh, with an aggregated population of 12, 936,110 or 25 7 pt r cent, of tho then population. About ouo-haif of thu urbaa population of 1900 was contained ?u cities of over 100,000 people, Tnore wurs .10 .uiLiitt wilu commend population oi 14,206,847. '1 here are now 1,158 places of over 4,000 peopio 1a tLe country as agasinst 800 in 1800. The population 01 the District of Columbia is regarded aa urban, in the Siatua and territories tho per ccntage of people hviog in cities and towns aa compare with tho population 0? tho places ranges from 01 (> to Khoae Island to 2.5 in inuian Torruory, the entire list being as fol lows: lltiouo Island 01 0, Massaohu Halts 80 !?; Njw Vork 71 2; N itt .Jersey 0 75; ConncotLu. 05.5; I'wnmylva'.ii 51 1; Illinois 51.0; California 48 0; Maryland 48 2; New Hampshire 10 7, O.110 418; Delaware 41 4; Coloiadn 41 2; Micntgan 87 2; Washington 80 1 Maine 8(5 2; Missouri 81 1); Wiscon-m 34.5 Minuosota 810; Indiana 80 0, Utah 20 4; Montana 28 8; Wyoming 28 8; Oregon 27 0; Hawaii 25 5; Ljuisi aca 25 1; Vermont 21.U; Nebraska I 20.8; Iowa20.5; Kentucky 10 7; Kansaj, I 19 2, KiOrida IB.5; Vngiota 10 .5; i'exas 14.0; Tcnncssco 111; Georgia 18 0, rioutn Carolina 117; West Virginia 11 0, Arizona 10 0; Njvada 10 0; Ala bama 10.0; North Carolina 8 0, South Dakota 8.2, Arkansas 0 2; Idaho t? 2; Now Mexico 0 I; North Dakota 5.4, Mississippi 5 8; Oklahoma 5 0; Indian Territory 2 5. More Gets 10 Years. Tho court of appeals has confirmed tho oorviotion of robbory in tho first degree found against William A. R Moore, of Now Vork city, and Mjore must Fcrvo out his scntonoo of 10 year: at hard labor in Sing Sing pnaon. Thil is tho closing chapter in the MooreMahon "badger" ease, whioh oicated much interest two years ago. Martin Mahon, a Now Vorkor, wts entimd, according to his testimony, by Faync Moorer, to apartments in a N sw Vork oity hotel and wa^Burpris. d by William A. K M joro, her husoand wao, at the poiai of a pistol exrorted $170 ;n money and a promissory nolo for $5,000 frou Mahon. Moore was tried and c jqvioi cd of robbery in the first degreo in L'o ceuibor, 1808, and sentenced to 1!' year: id prison. Tno court of appoa's bas af tiruiod the conviction and rcfuici hi: petition tor a now trial. Hard on White Slaves. Serious charges are brought againsi oiran labor c mtraotora in securing tucu to work on tho llm<i"iiu plant a lions in \ uoatan Mexico. lHocntly i is al'ogcd 18 married uion with thei families and 22 single tnen wore ODgag cd to go to Yucatan under a promise o receiving $2 per day. They wero om barked at l ampiao and it is olaimei woro kept boiweon decks during th< voyago, being fod on bard tack atd rioo On reaching Yucatan they wcri taken to the plantation, where tboj claim that their wages woro but K" oonts a day. Several men with thoi wives and children ran away bu wore pursued, caught and it iH re portod brutally whipped, tho mei roociving 50 lashes each, the women 2 and tho boys six. PYTHIAN SCANDAL. A Deficit of $225,OOC That Muit 8n Made Oord. I HIN5EY REBI0N8. His Prosflcu'ion In Civ.I Court Seems Certain. H?w the Croat Ordtr Will Raise Deficit. .John A. Ilinrcy, former president of the board of control of tho endowment rack, Knights of Pythias, appeared before the supremo lodgo Thursday and admitted the report f-ubmiltcd Tuesday to bo true showing a deficit of $225,000 which u,u3t bo made good if tbo icsur _ iL. i _ _ x a: aaes icaiureB 01 lac orucr ah 10 gominuo This roport shows that the ?.ffairs of tho ondcwtncnt rank under Hinsoy's uiati agemoat drifted into practical insolvency. The former president of the board of oantrol deolarod ho had done his host to keep tho treasury in a sound oouditon but that death olaim9 had mounted up, investments had turned out failures and it had been frequently neeossary to overdraw tho rank's accouat at tho bank. Tho report, which was compiled by the presont board of control. excepting Hinscy. doob not ohargo the latter and others with misusing the funds, but states that they were misused. Hinscy occupied the floor dur ing the ontiro forenoon session of the investigating committee. To reporters Hinscy said: ' I am proparod to defend my ad ministration anainst any and all omors. My conduot of tho office was perfectly open and above beard 1'ho invett uionts wcro good and 1 gitimite and all will turn out all right. ' John A. Hinscy was ordered Wedncslay n:gbt bv the supremo lodge of th-. Knights of Pythias to appear bo foro that body and bhow cause why be should not bo expelled. This folio *t as a direot re: ult of tho alleged irrogulariiiei which ihc new management ol the ocdowment rank has fcund in the books under his twolvo years' adminis tra'iou as president of the board of oon trol. Tho supremo lodge of the Knithts of Pythias adopted by a vote of 130 to 1 the report of tho supreme r ohaaoolior, with all its ori ioisms of Mr Hinscy o management, and ordered il i published as an effioial record of the condition of tho endowment rank. Thonch $500,000 ac sot 8 aro tn b?c o?ndiiion, and though almost $500,00( behind hand in the payment of deatl i olaims, tho supremo lodgo docs not pro lo.i ; that it shall loso s'&ndiug because of tho trcublos that have been diaoLsod By a unanimous vote of tho lodgo a: ! order has been mado that in the futur? :. . . u_.i l. w. iuv l u'?: z vinculo auan uu uiftuu n#vu uj tho written crder of five oat of (b ') I coven in mbtrs oT tho boirTT oT~eyniro a' This was formally adr.pt i d Thursday and no one man management will bo possible in tho future. L i addition to this a resolution is bo ing oociidcrod to raise the rates of payments on insurance abont 5C per cent., o that more fuads will Do irovided o m^ot death ohims and enough in addition to make good tho losses and create a surplus in the futuro. 1 this additional burden on benefiriarics of insurance policies shall not be enough, the supreme lod?n -rill also oonsi ier a plan to .assess ail Knights ol L'ythias 50 cents or $1 eajh for the benefit of the rank. Too lower ar-sc*sment on $500,000 members would bring in $250,Putt. Turkey Pays Uncle Sain. Tho State de utmost at Washioglcr has received tho amount of tho American indemnity oiaim against Turkey, $05,000, .hroug1 the- American legation at Constantinople. As is always the case tho claims in the aggregate oonsider bly exeeed tho amount of the in domnitj aotaally paid, but our government ha-f xprossed itself satif-tl <d with , the payment. it assumes full responsibility for tho distribution the Turkish government leaving u to the state doparducnt to distribute tho mono) am <Dg the claimants at its discretion and after its own f tshion. These claims t irj principally bas.d upon looses susi taiucd by American mi.-socary anc ouueationa! institutions in Turkey, cot ably those at ilafpool ani Maosh, bul thrro ore a number of inividual claims, suci for instanco as thst of tho family i of 'in unfortunate bicyobst, Lsnz tho Pittsburg man who was killed by Turk ish soldiers while attempting to g< J around tho globe on his wheel. Tn< state department officials feel th< groatcst satisfaction at tho settlc-monl of tbopo claims. Sooretary Hay had been told by diplomats skilled ir i oriental diplomacy and in tho politi oal conditions of southern Europo. that ho ue v-r would be able to collect them i Not only was thcro extreme difficulty i in bringing any pressure to boar be i cause cf tho remoteness of Turkoy, bit wo had to contend with tho jealous) I of the groat Kiropcan poword, most o! i whom had claims ?gaiust Turkej vastly larger in amount than ours, an i i whose total was boyonl the ability ; of tho Tuikish govemm"nt to mce; i For more than a docaio these Amor i iean claims have been ponding. Tht) Sinews of War. A statement prepared at iuteraal ro vonuo bureau shown that the total ro , ooipti from the war rovouuo aet frou July 13, 1898, the date tho act w.. n , iato effect to niay 31, 19U1, amouotot to $310,053,363, as follow- Sohodah A, documentary stamp), $108,722,674 schedule 14, proprietary stamps, $13, 922,138; boor, $97,717,971; spooia ! taxes, $11 095,636; tobacco, $17 274, 5 780. snuff, $'2,697 818; oiitars, $9,180, 027; cigarettes, $3,818,991; loyaeies 1 $8 96 420; excite tax. $2,652 982 r mixed fl >ur, $2i 536; adiitioaal taxoi on boer and tobacco, $982 385. f Kills His Wife then Himself. 1 A farmer named MoGrath, livin a noar Hrockport, N. Y., killed his wif laitnir.ht and then comuntttcd suicide a Their badioa wcro found in a fieli i Thursday. The woman had a tci 7 riblo wound over tho left eye r whi h is supposed to have rondorcd he t unoonsoious. McGrath then probahl - stabbed her till sho was dead and thoi n out his throat. A common two blade 5 jackknifo w*s used. They "have fiv children; all under 16 years of ago. WAR 8TAMP ON BONDSIt Falls Hard on Rural Free Delivery Hail Carriers A spooiai from Washington Friday nays. An indigDant and vigorous protest has boon madn to the Postmaster General because of the heavy internal revonuo tax levied upon every now appointco in tho rural froo delivery carrier service. It appears that in tho establishment of a now routo tho carrier appointed is required to furnibh bond and said bond must bo freightod with 50 centB worth of internal revonuo stamps. Somo of the victims do not hrnitato to character zi tho imposition of this heavy and onerous tax as a bunco gamo on the part of UdoIc Sam This heavy acd apparently unjust tax is levied under the terms of tho war rovenuo measure. Although the amount acetun small it is uujust lo tax a poorly paid official like a rural delivery o&rricr fifty cents for bis appointment, when all of iho other salaried officials of the Gevornmcnt, from tho President down, arc exempt from a revenue tax in congidera'.ion for thoir commissions and a place on tho Government pay-roll. As tho salary of these rural oarriers is only $500 per annum tho tax is a hardship, but wlion, as is tho oaio in many inrtauecs, tho proposed route hangs firo in tho department and is indefinitely sholved, it is adding inault to injury. Tho would bo carrier has paid out his fifty oents, but ho cover roooivts one cent of pay. Mr. 11. CoLqucst Olark, tho chief special agout in charge of the rural free delivery servile, said Friday: "It soom3 to mc a great hardship for these men to bo forced to pay this tax. Ab the routes are almist, if not eutiroiy laid out in the farming distriots, men of very limited circumsta .oca are usual ly appointed as carriers. To them this half dollar means a great deal. They invariably appeal to the postcffica department for reimbursement when tho route to which they have boon ap pointod is held up, lu wo have no ! power or authority to return the amount , ext ended for this revenue stamp. "In several cateB," continued Mr. f Ciark, "the iuFpeolors and special , agents of tbo rural delivery systems have been led out of tho kindness of their hearts to refund out of their own , pojkets to those men this rovoune tax , Special Agent Acinic, of tho Wostorn , divison of jural fico delivery, is one of this kind-hearted class. lie reported . to mc the other day that it was tho rule , rather than exception for him to 'cough up this ainouut to tho meD whose 1 routes bad been tied up in the depart) ment. Ha said he was simply forced t to do so by the way the carriers oomplaincd of tho great hardship it was for , them ?o bo thus deprived of half a doirnl",r,i In in ' 3 "Sinoo too 1st of July, when 6ocue 3 stamp taxes wero repealed," added Mr. j Clt-k, Numerous inquiries havo r> re?Lhtu.^H cfciy d*y ?sk;ng if this its ...Uw- ?.i miu wit) CtilCI alhesiveT^tamp tax?s. When Con"H'llu.iuu ilji'i'llk u^iUua'ji ing many of tho special war taxes this one impo?l on lu-al oarricrs was left unchanged In almost every case the taxes which wero imposed on men of modera o means, snoh as the stamps on j bank eheoks, express packages and telegrams, vrero taken off under this Aot to take effect oa July 1, but this one, which is especially onerous to iural carriers, was retained." , it is likely that the Postmaster Gen 1 cral will call the attention of Congress , at tho next session to what appears iq have boon an ovorsight in retaining , this tax and make a requcBt that it be repealed. Kalis Through a Bridge, i A epocial to the Ptain Pjalors from Conneaut, Ohio, says: Just after 10 o'clock Friday, three cars of the oast and local lreight went through tho i Nickel Plato Bridge at Springfield, Ponn. Tho traiu left Conneaut only a few minutes before the accident, in charge of Kcgin&ur William Griffith, of Beti *lo, and Conductor Pail A. Mooro, of Buffalo. Tho latUr was killed outright. The bridge gaDg was at work on tho bridge, and tho ten men ' icjurcd aro mostly workmen. A fill was being made at the bridge and about i twenty-fivo workmen were about the structure. Tho horr.ble affa;r oroured I just after Passenger Train No. 3 had pulled through. The local, after the t passing of tho passenger traiD. pushed , three oars heavily loaded out on the ' btruoture to unload stono for tho masont i wotking boueath on tho largo stone foundations. Tho work of unloading > had hardly begun when without an) s warning tho wholo structure, bearing j tho throo oarp, fillod with laborers, fel t with an awful crash into tho valley. 3c i ruddoo was tho affair that only cm i man had a chance to leap in time tc save himself from injuiy. The list of dead inoludos Conductor Phil A . Mooro, Buffalo; J. Scaboss, workman /il l J- n .? ? i/icvoiaaa; ujorgo a.vart, workman Springfield; Humor Beck with, Jforeuiaa t Conneaut; fivo Kalians, Dames ua r kcovn; Randall, West Springfield Two Italian* Murdered. A special from Greonviilo M?as , says Two Italians wore killed aod anolboi was seriously wounded at xirwin, iH miles south of Grecnvillo somo tiini Thursday night. .John Sjrio, aged 51 years, and his son, Vinoont Sorio, woro . killed, and Salvadator Libcrto was . dangerously wounded. Thoy all oamc i from Cefaula, Sioily. Tho thieo hat t beon living near (Hen Allen, but on ao I c juul of some trouble wore ordered t< j leavo Lv tho oilizens. Tho inen looatcc at I'lrwin While they were asleep al Erwin tho throo men wcro riddled witl \ bullets, two being killed outright whih tho third was soriously shot. Gov . I< jiigino was notified of the ooourronoe w iilo tho Italian consul at New Orlcan was also apprisod of the killiug. A Shower of UlasH. Breaking glass at the plate glass works Kokomo, Ind., Friday night irflicto* g frightful injuries on fivo of the 10 mci 0 who wore oarrying tho sheot uprigh i. from the annealing oven to tho grindini 1 tablo. Tho plato which measured 12: by 11*0 inches and weighed 2,200 pound i, broke and oamo showering down oi r tho hoads and shoulders of tho work y mon. Tho \iotims' soalpa woro out am a tho tlosh was literally eorapod from th d bones of 'Loir shoulders and arms. Al o fivo will loso thoir anus if not thoi lives. j WILLING TO BALANCE ACCOUNTS Russia Will Vacate Raised Tariff ii U 8 Will Do the Same. Another important chango has oocur.d botwocn tee Russian government and the Uoiled S'atca rolaiive to the tariff. The Russian minister of fioanoc M. DoWitto, has proposed that Russia will vaoate all tho additional duties lovidcd on American goods sinoo the imrofitioD of the sugar differential if the (Jailed States will vaoate its aotion oc he tugar differential To this Secretary Gage has replied that the offer of a. I U f a. l L . __ me i\ubbi?q ^overuiurui c?tjdoi do ao coptod *s tho question of tho sugar differential is now in tho hand) of the oourt. thus preoluding action by the executive branch. The proposition of tho Russian min ister of finance was the result ol Socretary H^y's note of about twe weeks ago. In that noto Mr. Haj poiatod out that tho aotion taken a) tc petroleum was not new, nor was il meant to have any oonuootioc witii tin previous aotion of tho government 01 sugar. This appears to havo rooon cilod Russian officials in their viov that the pnotrolcuin ordor was only an other s:ep in tho policy previously takon respecting sugar. M. DcWitto's response is not long but it is quito to the point, it makci no further issue as to the pctroleua ordor. Tho ohicf attontion is givon t< sugar and the specific ordor is mado t< vaoato immediately the increased du ties whieh Russia has levied, if the United States will vacate its action 01 sugar This would amount to re establishing tho status quo whioh cx isted bofore tho United Siates took it initial aotion relative to Russia. Tho Russian proposition was com municated to Socro ary Gage, who?ro sponded promptly that as the suga question is no w before tho courts it i not possible for him to avail himself o Che Russian suggestions. ThuB th matter stands. Tho reductions whioh would havo re suited under M. DeWitte's tender ar those affecting cast iron wares, manu faelurcs of iron and Btcol, boiler wor tools for artists, factories and work shops, ga3 and water meters, motor and dynamos, 6ewing machines, pott ablo engines, not including thrcshin machines, tire onginee, acd other mi obinery of iron and steel; also whit rocio, galipot, brewers pitoh an bicycles. Port Royal's Station. Port Royal is to bo made ono of tb i prinoipal recruiting stations for th Navy. Secretary Long has adopted th report of tbo board of naval officers ri oentlv appointed to examine viriou sites along tho Atlantia coast acd : rrinmmnnil tho molt donir&blo locatio for the cstabhshuiont of ? naval rei i dezvous. The former naval station : Port Royal is to be transformed into rcoruiiing station for "'landsmen," an : it ip to be n^yisted on the same lil eraltealo tliat the rcorurci'iiytrtkuon te aval apprentices is maintained at Nov '' ' ' ' charge of the rcorui'ing bureau of th navy, says the secretary has decide that Port Royal shall bo fitted up as first-olass station. All of the building 'ormerly used in connection with th Port Royal dry dock will bo oonvertu into quarters for rooruits. It is ala desirable and necessary tbat a numbo of additional buildings shall bo erootod Negotiations are already pending b which the government proposes to ac quiro ownership of the entire island o which the station is located. Tho ad dilional space is required to allow am plo accommodation for quarters and a the Barue time afford plenty of facilitie for training, exorcise aod rccroatior while the recruits arc undergoing pr< lim'.nary instructions. Three hundrc appront'eo boys and landsmen are a ready located at Port Royal, and tli training ship Topeka is thero for pra< tico in practical seamanship Returns to Work. A special Irorn Newport News Va says: fho strike ni the machinists is i i an end. Tho climax oiuio sudden] i Thursday at a mooting attended by pra' tically all tho machinists from tho shi| yard when by unanimous consent, tl men deoided to return to work Monds i at tho old scalo. Tho facts that tl machinists could doL obtain funds wit which to support tho idlo men, and th i tho ship) ard management demonstrate l its ability to fill the vacant plaocs a ? responsible for the defeat of tho stri! i crs. Tl.is morning a oomruittoo waitc i on Acting Superintendant Hopkins i ; tho yards, and ask. d that the men 1 ' allowed to return to work Monday I tho old wages. This request was gran I cd, Mr. Hopkins informing tho con i mittoo, that tho men many of who i havo loft tho oity would ho giving the > old places back and would bo allowi tou days in which to return to wor He told the committee that immcdia , action was nccsfsary on the part of tl , machiois.s if they would head off tl , new men destinoi for this place. Th immcdiato action was taken Fridi night and telegrams wcro sent stoppii the shipment of outside machinists this city. Tho ond of the strike is hai cd with joy here. Bund iigers Worried, j Tho two squads of oonstablos und< , Chiefs LiFar and Howie arc giving tl blind tigera considerable trouble i Charleston. Tho Equ&ds aro oompotii against etch other and as a result tl j liquor dealers aro having a hard tin of it. Tho Calhoun hotel bar was rail } ed Friday, and tho plaoca of Chios [ Sohiadaressi and othors wore visit! , but no very largo amount of liquor wi ( soized. The liquor dcalors have hidd< t away tho groator part of thoir goods anticipation of tho visits of tho oo stables, sinoo the prosont aotivity w ^ starnd and the raids consequently < not yield much of a haul tothooffioer In several show cases glasses and oth fixtures and furnishings of tho ba have boen removed. Tho bukeopo ' aro worriod, but thoy wear a bold iro ( and attomp; to mako light of tho wo t of tho oonstablcs. g biight Men Blown to Pieces. Tho migszino of tho Burlington ai H Missouri railroad, filled withdynauiif D exploded and oight men wore killed a many injured. Men woro blown a piooos, parts of their bodies being strei 0 over tho prairio for hundiods of yar< Buildings a mile away woro damagod r tho concussion. It is thought tho < I rem 3 heat eausod tho explosion. FOURTEEN KILLED, 1 Two Trains Oollid* on Chicago and Alton Road Fourteen person* aro dead, three 1 others probably fatally injured and more than a score of others less soni ously hurt is the result of a head-ond collision between a passenger and a , fast live stock train ou the Ohioago and ' Alton railroad, near Norton, Missouri, at7o'olook Wednesday morning. Si* woro killed outright, four died on a train convoying them to Kansas City . and four died at a hospital in this oity. , The dead are: , P. J. Andcrsoo, Slater, Mo., engineer of freight train. Frank Briggs, engineer of passenger f f train. I , 1 8. Rogers, Ch'cago, U S. ExprosB < r company messenger. < , Mrs Gilland and daughter of Good. t land, Ind.; both killod outright. 5 D W. Hooker, Syrecaso, N. Y.; died : , on train. Mrs. 0. W. Snyder, Jaspor, N. Y.; ' j died on train. G. L Roy, casbior of the Wilming. ton, Ills., bank; died on train. , Sydney Jones, Kansas City, died in the hospital, as did Daniel Donnelly j of Mexioo, Mo., fircman-of freight train ! and R J. Curties, Gonesoo, N. Y. 3 Miss Lala llidor, 20 years old, of 3 Kent land, ind. Mrs. Dickson, 67 years old. , The passenger train was traveling in 3 three sections on account of tho heavy . Epworth Ljaguo business to San Fran* . oisoo. Too wrooked train was tho first s section, and contained no L?aguers. Conductor MoAnna of tho freight . train, castbonnd, had been ordered to meet the second section rf the passonr gcr train at Slater, the next station B east of Norton, but apparently overf looked the fact that tho first section, o which was 55 minutes late, had not pat-s:d. Tho head brakeinan on the i. freight, who was about four oars from c the engine, says Conductor MoAnna L asumod the throttle himself on leaving ^ Marshall, and was running tho engine when the collision ooourrod. Tho trains 9 met two miles west of Norton, on a curve surmounting a high ombankg ment. k. A relief train starlod from Kansas 0 City at noon and returned hero with tho injured at 6 o'clook Wednesday evoning. Those who died on tho way thers woro delivered to tho undertakers, while the others wero distributed beo tweon two hoepitialB. e The trains collided while going at a o good rate of speed. The engines wero j- pushed to either side of tho traok and is practically demolished, while the fcr,o ward UHH v^lhe passenger train teleu Hooped etch other, i- Ttie forward Pullman and the tourist at sleeper in front wero burned. The baga gage oar was wrooked and freight cars d were piled up on both engines and >- hurncd. Tho traip. whioh was Wrooked ir was one of the finest passenger trains r- in the United States. Tho equipment n,_was_all__new, inolnding the sleeping olcars7ooa3hca^h7vcaff(^ar^arrrtr!nnmrtlHi d tivo. T a Tho injured suffered mostly froqp s 60*lde, due to esoaping steam from the o wrecked locomotives, t ero being no d broken limbs. Some of tho victims had 0 inhaled steam and wore in worse eondir tion than the first examination indicated. Soon after the arrival here, y t :rcc of the iojurucd died at Uaiversi1 ty hospital. Identification of the dead n was difficult, because the clothing had been removed to apply relief to tho i- scalded surfaces. it Mrs. Hilda Ilasslip, of Chonoa, 111., !S T. C. Bray, of Chicago, a shoe dealer, i, and Mrs. Franoos Walker, Brook'yn, 3- N. V., and an elderly woman unidentid tied, are in a critical condition. I. te Navy Recruits. 3" lloeiuits for Fcclo Sam's navy are arriving almost daily at the Port Koayal Training station. Some forty men and boys from the uppor section of Sonth > Carolina who had been enlisted as Landsmen and apprentices by a reoruitly iog party which left Beaufort for ?* Columcia, S. C , a week ago havo boen P* assigned to duty aboard the training 10 ship Topeka. Many of tho apprentices ky are mere boys in their toecs who have ie beon resigned by their parents or guar dians to the government until thoy at arrive at twenty ono years of age. Most of these men and boys hall from tho re Pieumont seoiion of South Carolina ^ and havo never before seen salt water ^ and consequently their observations are often very atnmusing to their more exporienoed ship mates. One incident that caused a deal of amusement was l' related to your correspondent by an eye witness. A number of landsmen wero m instructed to get into a small oenter >r whioh lav along tho port side of the !l* Topeka, they oomplied in an awkward ^ manner and when a botswain's mate 10 took his soat in the storn of tho oroft 10 aud gave the command. "Up oars each 10 of tho eight landsmen seized a metal in i.-.i, i. i,;.. l > i i 1 - J Kftai ata 1U UIO UAUU AUU 11UI1CU II 1U *7 the bottom of the boat with such foroo 3& as to almost spring the outten boards. 10 The lads aro being well treated, howcvor, by their superior effiosrs on ship board and will soon learn the ropes in hpile of their awkardnoss whioh is not surprising when the faotthat they havo or ncvor scon the oooan is taken into con10 sideration. in >8 A Strange Suicide. 10 le p' k. Kingslcy, a oivil engineer oomj mitted suicido at Blaoksburg Friday 0 afternoon about 4 o'olook in his rooms at tho Iron City hotol by taking an M ovoidoso of laud mum. Ho loft a note ,D giving instruotions for his burial and in money to defray the expensos. Hisina. struotions wero to bury him in a cheap a9 coffin and at night, whon no one was j0 eround, no preachers to bo present and to employ fonr negroes to carry his or body to the grave, eaoh to be paid one rs dollar for their cervices. Mr. Kingsrs l?y was a r?3idcut of Blaoksburg for a Dt numbor of years and was regarded as a r)t fine oivil engineer, well eduoatod and a man far abovo tho average intelligence. Ho would oooasionally got on asproo, but was ai parontly sober when he oom* od mitted this aot. Little, if anything, is :o, known hero of Mr. Kingsloy's family nd oonneotion, but it was gonerally sapto posed his pooplc rosidod at llaleigh, sn N. C., and that he oamo from there to is. Blaoksburg a9 a oivil engineer in the by employ of tho Augusta division of the )i- old Charleston, Cinoinnati and Chicago railroad. A.FTER THE TIGERS. 3ov McSweenoy Sands Naw Off (cars to Charleston. THEY FIN J VIOLATORS tnd Procaad to Salza Fixtures and Liquor and Show the B ind Tigers a Thing or Two. For the first time since the dispenary law was put into operation blind .igers in Charleston had to turn away justomers. It was a reccrd-breaking lay for tho outlaw liquor dealers, and whon the constables finished there was not even a whiskey glass in many plaees in whioh a drink could have been jerved. Everything was seized. JCizInrna trorn ? ???? ?VM nwav ivuiviou, 11UU UVUUbCID WUTU nailod to the floor, and big refrigerators were turned to tho wall and sealed, handsome mirrors were oartod away with tho oontraband liquor. The wholesalo raiding wrecked business for the time and oausod suoh oonatornation in tho blind tiger ranks that tho "talent" got frightened and refused to sell until it is known what is up the oonstabulary Bleeve. In tho raiding Thursday tho small dealors wore not oaught bo much as the big establishments, but all suffered in a way. When tho state board of dispensary directors passed the resolution about the enforcement of the law in Charleston the blind tiger dealers saw that trouble was in store, and there was proof of this Sunday night when a squad of constables arrived in the oityanu began to look around. Tuesday night four other constables roachod the city. They did not make their business known until yesterday morning and by noon tho news had Bpread to every shop and every bar that there would be something doing in the afternoon. The constables were all new in Charleston. They oame hero under tho command of Chief LaFar, who had instructions to smash the head of overy tiger that was stuok from tho dark. During the day it was not known just why tho extra foroe had been sent hero, although it was stated that tho dispensary management in Columbia had heard of the alleged "friendliness" whioh it was allogod existed hero between tho raiders and the tigers. There was nothing friendly ) about the work Thursday, hwwevrrr. and _ * it was cot until Cue officers had crossed tho threshold <of. the. bus. that their identity was . discovered. And then there was a scramble for cover and a rush to got the liquors safe from the hand of the law, but it was too late and everything in sight and sonnd was > seized. Whc t^tho oon&ablc^bagan tp seize the n.-rnxuure AaJ made men J with the stuff a pout the rooms the keepers rtSjjraod that the end of their hoin^^^^^VI^Fioorswh^^m^^^^^^^N^Hj morly a welcome for the thirst^w^W^H^^^^? oloiod and looked. When the wiser tigor keepers heard that others in the business were being dosed they promptly had all stook on band removed and their doors shut. One OBtablishmont which has been famous in tho history of beer and whisxey drinking in Charleston was closed at 2 o'clock and the regular patrons who went thero were disheartened when they saw tho sad outlook. After 4 o'clock five constable visited the place. The man who looks after tho needs of the thirsty recognized the officers and promptly offered them tho keys. The tfficors went through tho place, peeped under tableB and into closets and then ion in iuo ommncys. i tie most tney saw a half dozens helpless bottles of ginger ale that were left alone to stand tne danger when the stronger bottles wero quiokly removed to spots that oonstaoles could not fathom. It was really touching to look at the lone bottles of gingcraie. In another ioo box two moro bottles wero found. When the lid was raised one bottle fell down as if from fright and then slid quiokly under the uneven chunks of 100. The constables saw the flan* movement, lie fished out a thirty-pound ohunk of the ice, had the other offioera rush up and help him, and when the little bottle, looking sheepish but innocent, was putlcd out and was flung back with a silont oath and then the raiders loft the room. Justjas fast as ono place was oleaned out the officers hurried to another until nearly ovcry bar of any prominence was made to fool tho sting of tho law. It was about the only successful raid over mado in Charleston. While the amount seized was not as largo as might hnvo been expected, tho oonstables for onoe wero masiors of the day, and thoy lot tho tigers know that thoy would oall again in the evoning. This kopt the talent guossing. Those raids wero different from somo others, inasmuch as thero was an absenoe of tho friendly grooting. Whon the officers left it was not with tho assuranoe that they would not oall agaia for a week or a month. Heretofore tho tigers have boon on Kasy street. One raid was all that they oould roasonably cxpeot in the oourse of a week, and about the only thing accomplished by tho law was in seizing what little liquor was showing on tho counter. It was significant of many, many things that the tigers wore closed last night. This was nevor done after any other raid, for, on the other hand, it was after a raid that a tigor got on its happy spirits.?Mews and Courier. c u: i . -\ ? v^umicu iui omgiu iuun. Hose 0. Davision, Hawaiian oommissionor to tho Buffalo Pan Amerioan Fair is at tho Sherman Honse in Washington. With her are two Hawaiian womon, >1. Mapsuano Smith and Hi Karpo Phillips. Miss Davison said: "1 have oomo to learn something that might add to the fclioity of onr island people. Frankly, I don't expeot to find it. Wo are snfiioient unto ourselves. Your overworked Chicaao youths ought to oome out to the island and marry some of tho nioo Hatvaiin who have plenty of money and who want white husbands. They are lovely as dreams and as rich as the ordinary Amerioan heiress." jr~*