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VOL. I. NO. 18. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 2, 1904. SI .50 PER YEAR. TEN UN KILLED IY IAS Hftj In Vmtt{Ita^ M Vka Hey Vtn (mom. ALL WEIE RBMU WCMSCNOS. Mystctfaas Fatally k a Taaacl ?( Ik* Saaait Braach Caal Caa^aay? ArrwMag ta Caa laai IW Mca Wen BtMil Oa* al Ik* Uttt* Mia* Ucaawdrn Wbta Mscavcry Waa Mai*. Wilkesbarre, Pa., (Special). ? A telegram received at the Susquehanna Coal Company's offices in this city states that ten miners were suffocated by gas and sulphur fumes from a small locomotive in the workings of the Summit Branch Coal Company at Williamstown, Dauphin county. The accident waa one of the most peculiar in the history of the anthra cite mines, and no reason for it can be assigned by the officials. The victims include Michael Gol den, general inside foreman of the company, and nine miners and laborers. The tunnel in which the disaster occurred is one mile in length and is used by the coal company to convey the coal mined in the workings of the Bear v;?lljy to the breaker in the Williams valley. The men employed in the mines iii the Boar valley who reside in Williamstown have made a firactice for years to rid?* to and rom their work on the trips of cars that are hauled between the two val leys by small locomotives. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon General Inside Foreman Golden and about fifty miners hoarded a loaded trip whicii was about to be hauled from Bear valley to Williamstown. Everything went all right until about half of the journey was made, when some of the men attracted the attention of the engineer, who at once stopped, and it was found that nearly every man in the party on the cars had been overcome by the gas and sulphur which emanated from the stack of the locomotive and floated I back over them. The engineer at oncc crowded on I all the steam possible, and the un- 1 conscious men were hurried to the j Williamstown end of the tunnel. Here help was at once summoned and the men were taken to the surface, where a corps of physicians made every pos sible effort to resuscitate them, but aid came too late for Foreman Gol den and the other victims. The tunnel has been in constant operation for more than forty years, and this is the first accident of any kind that has happened in it. It is perfectly free from mine gases and the ventilation is so perfect and the air current so *strong and steady that besides being ? usod *foe"4?afc|j^g the tunnel has formed one of the in takes that furnish air to the mines. No trouble has ever been ex perienced before from gas from the # small mine locomotives, and the offi cials are entirely at sea as to the cause ?f the tragedy. TYNER AND BARRET INNOCENT. Jury Brought la Verdict of Not Uailty Twenty Two Minutes After Retiring. Washington, I). (Special). ? | Within twenty-two minutes of fllie retirement of the jury in the ease of James N. Tyncr and Harrison J. Bar-! rett, tried on charges of conspiracy in connection with their duties as law officers for the postofficc department, a verdict of not guilty was returned. The throng which filled the court room throughout the argument to the jury hardly had time to leave the building before the jury was back and the foreman announced that a verdict had been reached. General Tyncr. ex pecting a much longer wait, had been wheeled from the room, and his nephew and codefcndant hastened to give an order which caused him to return. General Tyncr appeared greatly ex cited as he attempted to face the jury, and- when the verdict was returned he broke down completely. Several of the jurors wept with him and all of them shook hand with him. FLAO OF LEWIS AND CLARK. Official Symbol Chosen for Exposition at Portland. Portland, Ore .(Special). ? An offi cial flag for the Lewis and Clark Ex position has heen adopted. The de sign i< in four colors ? red, white, blue and \ ellow ? symbolical of Eng land, France, Russia and Spain, the countries which first sent exploring expedition* to the great Northwest. The yellow also firings out the Ori ental feaurc of the Exposition. The lari^e field is of bright yellow, crossed by red hars, with the ov,eial symbol of the Exposition, Sacaja-' ?? leading I.ewis and Clark to the West in the center. The small li.-ld i* of blue. In the center is a spray of < )re gon grape, the State flower of Orc^"*' Around this arc five "stars, repre senting Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, the States of old Oregon. Shot (lnards and Killed Himself. Columbus, O., (Special). ? I'rank Green, a convict at the Ohio Peniten tiary, shot Guards Henry Gearhart and Albert Ilublcr and then killed himself. Gearhart is shot through both lungs and cannot live. Ilubler is shot in the arm and will recovcr. No one knows the cause of the tragedy or where Green procured the revolv er He laid in wait for his victims, and without a word fired on them. Two Qirls Drowned. Steubcnville, O., (SpccialV ? A dou ble drowning occurred in Itig Yellow Creek at llammondsvillc. The dead are Annie IMatt, aged t.j years, and Sadie Hardie, aged 1 2 years. It is not fully known how the drowning oc curred, but the girls are supposed t'> have gone wading in the stream, as they had their shoes otY when found. It is probable they ventured out too far and were swept away by the swift current. The bo-Jies were recovered. Tkt Latest ?-rfirtB| ^:r--||,|L< . I?j% ^l DmkiOc ence 8 ? the Inte?-church Confer Ka?LthcI!ii,d! ,hc convicted New York jt:rs ??"?? himo,h" in ?f Mnk,rxe I freight ??, " runn,n? '^o some /wU :?j;rn'n ltchh"g' "' 'rom , mjii c?T| #5'*ne,'?, Federation of Clubs at divoVce' id?P,cd '"?'???"? against tr^STo Tormfa,C,,rruVt' '? bt, lighl"?nJ?Wa flrn,"s "c" ki"'J by Safurda/:'"Vi?cled Dhr'i W,'? w',s ?n sssf'S'SVs-a ! his Accessor ne I p4',ir w:" ^;l' Wis . lions P """"^factory c.,?J,J A del" hdc'nSJ''-, SC'r,n" ''a,,ny I (or Ca pc Nome! was oTfif.T"''1' I 0 d^f^>^l'> ? a 1 " ^ n "i ^co . 1 ? the U a^r s j SS H theatrical '"isaSfc^sffiB" wiSr?g^'-0k?* county schoofs from JX? SI'"' <* nutted suicide in dlV. . ^V ,'"" Te'er-'o ?!r.^4,,r? caused a stir several' wl u crank who tlie White Hoiw* f amoi,? suicide in Minneapolis.10' ^mmit.ed David Rothschild, the New Vrti-L- I was sentenced* to state prison """ >'cars '?> the aliS <* Women-. i-'d f ^ "cafe r,,', CIThrt0 dr0'? t,lc name of Duiikarfh jtiagaSSarsK vic'i,?IUof a"na,a?k"htincd "'?t ,h<! assailant in vl. ,ry an ""known BMate SaS'j?,? C our! of New" \f "J ",e S?I>?c refer<>?? Irk . * ork, appointed a <>( fraud n.a'denbye /o!m "h char?cs ? he Nordic, divorce case C"'C '" h:r"S,i>Kcisr r'''~-^r| f^^^'^-por. Kil.j mid'Ihschar'i'ci' , "id'er," ??d the^F? i ?f (>4 soldiers who died ?! the l-in' .' I ippines. | Steve Iloltrich was killed and lii -4 , ! three cousins injured in a fight at ' tlieir shanty, at fenola, Pa Nine persons were seriously injur- j ed in a head-on collision on the Bos- j ton F.levaicd Railway. Richard C. Dale, a prominent Phil- j adclphia lawyer, died at his home, j in Chestnut Hill. The concluding session of the i World's Press Parliament and the j opening of the session of the Inter- 1 national Order of Machinists were j held on the World's hair grounds. , Joseph Humphreys, for 10 years j | general stage manager for Charles | I Frohman, died on the American Line ( steamship St. Louis of consumption. ) j John Kedcay and John Horst were' killed and John I). Weaver was in- 1 jured by an explosion of dynamite 1 in a stone quarry near Lancaster. Pa. Frank Davis, colored, under sen- j I tence of death in Fdensburg. Pa. f >r i I the murder of Laura Taylor, confess j cd that he also killed Susie BattL's. The flagship Kentuckey, with Ad : ? ? : ral Evans 011 board, which left 1 achat for New York May 1 2, ar ri' ed at New York afiJr a record " ".1.1. Foreign. A dispatch to the Paris Temps from , St. Petersburg says General Kuropat kin has cut the land communications ! between the armies of General Kuroki J ! and Oku. Of the complement of the cruiser Yoshiuo. recently stink in collision j with the cruiser Kastu 1, (?,i noncom missioned orticers and j-jo blue-jacket ? were drowned. Russian officials declare that the Si berian porta opened by imperial decree will not 4be closed upon the conclusion of the war. The French government has with drawn M. de Navenne, minister to the Vatican, as well as M. Nisard, the ambassador and the rupture between France and the Holy See is further increased. Morris Klciman, the naturalized American who was arrested in Rus sia, has been set free. A German newspaper states that the recent fire in a Cronstadt warehouse was started by corrupt Russian of ficials to conceal the fact that num bers of uniforms officially scheduled ' among the naval stores there never I existed. COSSACKS WORRY JAPS S?ae UtaIj Skiraiskiag ta thelitis tf lUadnria. JAPANESE AIE FEEUN? T1EII WAT. Tw? HaadrH CmmcIu RmIH at TMlMkn, L cartas z? Dw4 ? the FkM? KarayatUa Reports a Japaaesc Mncacal WcstwaNljr Altai Km Halcbcaf Road. Six Miles From Fcag Waag Cheat Liaoyang, (By Cable). ? There is contiual skirmishing between the Rus sian cavalry and the Japanese. Cos sacks are harrassing the Japanese in the hills and byroads, generally driv ing them back. Several recent en gagements have resulted in losses on both sides. The general plan of the Japanese has not been divulged. They are apparently making time, awaiting the arrival of reserves from Korea, who have been delayed owing to the im passability of the roads. Apparently there is good warrant for the belief that General Kuropatkin has a strong line extending south from Liaoyaug and west of Haicheng pro tecting an advance upon Kaichou and Niuchwang The Chinese report the destruction of another Japanese batttleship off Port Arthur, but the report is uncon firmed and is not credited. Several Japanese who lauded from the junks near Port Arthur and started toward trtie town with the intention of dynamiting the docks were captured and shot. General Kuropatkin has just in spected seven new city mates, which will enable the garrison to more easily concentrate and meet an attack on any side. Natives have brought in news from Feng Wang Cheng that cholera in a particularly virulent form has broken out among the Japanese troops. In some cases death has occurred within three hours. A report has been received from Xiuchwang saying that on May iX, five battalions of Japanese troops reconnoitered to the south almost as far as Kinchou and ran into Major General Fock's artillery, which was strongly posted on the heights, in a narrow section of the l.iaotung Penin sula, and that the Japanese were en tirely wiped out. The report lacks confirmation. It is reported from a Chinese source that the Japanese have evacuated Feng Wang Cheng, and are occupying vil lages in the surrounding territory. There is no explanation of this move, thatf gn&'fthah? be onto nccted with the prevailing cholera epidemic. A Defeat tor Cossacks. T*okio, (By Cable). ? General Kuroki reports that a section of Japanese in fantry encountered and defeated 200 Cossacks at Toutaokou, eight miles northeast of Kuanpticn. The Cos sacks tied to Aiytiang Pienmcn, leaving 20 dead. The Japanese sus tained no losses. Additional details of the fight at Wang Chiitun, near Takushan, May 20. indicate that the squadron of Cos sacks was almost annihilated by the Japanese infantry, which surrounded and completely routed the enemy. All the Russian officers were killed, wounded or captured. Natives report that some of the Cossacks escaped on foot, abandoning their equipment. Many killed and wounded were found on the battlefield. Tried to Turn Russian Flank. St. Petersburg, (By Cable). ? The following dispatch from General Kuro patkin to the Kmperor, dated May 2.t. was received: "'Our cavalry outposts 011 May 22 and May 2,t observed a movement of | a portion of the Japanese forces west wardly along the Haichcng road, near ! tlie village of Daliandiaputse, six | miles from Feng Wang Cheng. | "On May 21. a Japanese detachment. I consisting of six companies of in [ fantry and three squadrons of cavalry, ! attacked some sotnias of Cossacks on I the height* on the right bank of the j Sed/.i River, near the Village of Poouteikha. When the engagement began the Japanese cavalry remained I under cover, and the infantry, which declined to cross the valley, main tained a distant and almost harm less fire without sparing ammunition. A small party unsupported tried to cross the river for the purpose of 1 turning our left flank, but was driven back by the charge of half a sotnia of | Cossacks, and the fire of the sotnia occupying tin: heights. % Toward even | ing the Japanese retired. Our losses | were to Cossacks wounded. "Details of the engagement May 20 and 21 at Sitkhoutchind/a have not yet been ascertained." .The prevailing opinion at the head-] quarters of the general staff is that the withdrawal of the Japanese upon Peng Wang Cheng means that the enemy has decided to devote himself primarily to operations against Port | Arthur, and that the present object of General Kuroki, with the first army, I supported I >? General Nadya, with the Shan, i* t>? watch General Kuropatkin and prevent a move southward which would take General Oku and the sec ond army, on the Liaotung Peninsula, in the rear. A direct attack upon General Kuro patkin'"* main force apparently is not considered to be impending. Noth ing more than outpost affairs are an ticipated. although some of these may be quit sanguinary. Infernal Machine la Refinery. Watikegan. III., (Special). ? A care fully made infernal machine was found Monday in the yards of the big War ner sugar refinery and the police are convinced an attempt was made to blow up the factory. An explosion followed by a $300,000 fire occurred in the plant recently and it is now be lieved it was incendiary. Four lives were lost then and there would un doubtedly have been more victims had the bomb exploded. Nearly 9I.OOO.OW Messages. According t<? a bulletin issued by tbc Census Bureau 90,844,789 telegraphic messages were sent over American wires in 1902. The bulletin places the number of telegraph companies in the country at 21 and gives the total mileage of wires operated as i.24K,(x)2. The par value of the authorized stock was $90,870, 225. The gross income for the year was $28,490,210. The total dividends for the year amounted to $6,084,019 and the net surplus to $2,977,812. The capitalization of the Postal Company, which is only $100,000, being merely nominal, is excluded from the total capitalization as given by the bulle tin. Virgioia Company's Claim. Attorneys representing to Bon sack Company, of Virginia, have ap pealed to the State Department to prefer a claim against the Mexican government for $7,500,000 and the case is under consideration, with the pros pects that it will be referred to Am bassador Clayton for preliminary re port. The company's claim is based upon the use by Mexican companies of its patents for manufacturing cigarettes, and. it is alleged, the Supreme Court of Mexico has denied justice in this matter. Leaving Brazil's Coffee Fields. The Senate committee at Rio, Bra zil, reports to the State Dcparment that the station laborers, who consti tute half of the workers on the coffee plantation in San Paulo are leaving Brazil for the United States because they arc not paid their wages, owing t<> the depressed state of coffee-grow ing interests. To Condemn l.and for Senators. I The Senate committee appointed during the last session of Congress to supervise the construction of a new ofticc building for Sena tors decided to proceed to the con demnnation of the land necessary for the structure. This process is made necessary by the refusal of sonic of the owners of property to sell. Congressional and Departments. Chief Wilkie, of the Secret Service, reports tlf. arrest of three person ac cused of smuggling opium between Seattle and Portland. The diet kitchen of the Department of Agriculture li a - been suspended for the summer months. The State Department has been ad vised of the appointment of Morteza Khan as Persian minister to the United States. The State Department has instruct ed Consul Gumtncrc to demand of the Moorish government that it takes the Moorish government that it take sweeping measures to secure the re lease of Ion Perdicaris, the Amcrtaan citizen captured by brigands, even it necessary to acceed to the captors' terms. Admiral Chadwick will receive orders to proceed to Tangier with the whole South Atlantic Squadron. The board of trustees of the Carne gie Institution effected a reorganiza tion under the new incorporation as the Carnegie Institution of Washing ton. LIVE WASMCTVM AFFAIR Otjicti ? ? mUtotr. To the regret of the officials here the Colombian government maintains it* attitude of coldness toward the United States, and in spite of the un official efforts of United States rep resentatives to restore the diplomatic relations to the old cordial basis, the Bogota government insists on holding aloof. It was supposed that when Mr. W. YV. Russell, a native of Rockville. Md., and charge at Panama, was ap pointed Minister to succeed Mr. Ar thur M. Beaupre at Bogota the past would be forgotten and with new rep resentation for the United States 111 Colombia Dr. Thomas Herran would return to Washington, and there would be full restoration of the diplomatic relations. Now, however, the State Department has learned that an inti mation had been conveyed to Mr. Sny der, United States charge at Bogota, that the Colombian government would rather not receive Mr. Russell as min ister. It is distinctly stated that there is nothing personal to Mi*. Russell in this attitude by the Colombians, for any minister would be objectionable at this moment, but it is simply an il lustration of the resentment felt by Colombia toward the United States. It s said at the State Department that Mr. Russell wilt avail himself of a leave of absence already granted to him to return to his home in Wash ington, and at the expiration of the legal time, if the Colombians are in the same state of mind, another, and perhaps better, diplomatic post will be found for Mr. Russell. Aaerlca Win Wars. The State Department is preparing to make representations to St. Peters burg regarding the carelessness of the Russian authorities in Manchuria in allowing mines to float on the high seas, to the great danger of all peace ful shipping. The question of how far Russia had violated the rules of international law in sending floating mines to sea with out proper guardianship was recently considered by the General Board of the Navy, of which Admiral George Dewey is president, at the request of the State Department. At the same department's request Secreary of the Navy Moody has instructed t lie United States naval attaches in Tokio and St. Petersburg to ascer tain definitely whether the mines which have been reported afloat in the Gulf of Pcchili belong to Russia or to Japan. The inference is that they are Russian, and when it is definitely learned that such is the case repre sentations will be made by the State Department to the St Petersburg gov ernment through Ambassador McCor tnick. It had been the intention of the au thorities to wait until some accident happened to a neutral ship through one of these mines, but upon further con sideration it has been decided best to take action before any serious Catas trophe occurs. In the meanwhile it is understood that Great Britain is pre . pared to take similar steps, and there is also a possibility that Japan will make representations to the neutral nations in regard tr? the case. YAZOO CITY BURNER i?jw Mats bjmf aaiAMtterlaa DM htllag Witt FUacs. T*i IVNMtM KJILMNiS WSTMTE). Tk< Flra Sorted at td? c'ctock A. IL. ui Iwtl Usui S a'clack P. AL, Dtitnylai a Tatal at 2M H?mm ? Tkt rhwchl Lmi WWBelfct Heaviest la Ike Ntetery at Mu l?l>H Slacc Ike War? Caartkaasc Saved. Jackson, Miss., (Special). ? AH the business houses of any importance, a large number of private residences, the principal hotel and the passenger depot in Yazoo City, a town of 6,000 people, forty-five miles from Jackson, were destroyed by fire. The fire started at 8.30 o'clock A. M., and burned until 5 o'clock P. M., destroying a total of 200 houses. The financial loss will be the heaviest in the history of Mississippi since the war, and has been estimated to be from $1,250,000 to $2,000,000. The fire was three blocks wide and twelve long. The city was putting in a new sys tem of witer works and the old sys tem, which had been wooden mains, was wholly inadequate to meet the de mands. Pipes burst all over the city | and it was impossible to get the water, j even to the first Hoors of buildings. | The fire stated in the residence of ! Mr. Wise, and though there is some j dispute as to how it originated, the j general belief is that it was caused j by defective electric wiring. Early in the day the authorities of ; Jackson were callcd on to render as- J sistance, and did so by sending a hose- j cart and one of the large engines, the j run of forty-five miles being made in j forty minutes. The Jackson firemen ' worked hard, but could do but little 1 good. A man named Chambliss. a e.iti/.cn ; of this place, was killed by falling j walls, and Mayor Holmes was very 1 badly hurt. I Among the homes destroyed was i that of Hon. John Sharp Williams, i the democratic leader in the lower branch of Congress. In the afternoon the fire jumped a j bayou and reached Latonia, a r?-si- j dcnce suburb, where it destroyed some ' of the finest homes. Governor Vardaman ordered out the flrecnwood militia company, directing it to go to Yazoo City to protect prop erty. He ami Adjutant General Fridge followed on the next train and are doing what,they can to relieve tl|<? sttujtf ion?f ? V- ^ jr. # The only communication with Yazoo City is by means of a long distance tel ephone which District Manager Naff rigged upon a fence. Among the buildings which were 1 not burned are the Yazoo courthouse ' and the Ricks memorial library. Both were in the path of the fire, but for j some reason escaped. According to the latest advices re ceived the banks succeeded in saving 1 their money and securities, the vaults j of the banks in which they were lock - 1 ed being fireproof. The government | funds in the postofTice were saved j in a like manner. 1 Banker's Widow Commits Suicide. LaPorte, Ind., (Spcci.il). ? Mrs. Ju lius Conitz, wife of a Wanatah bank er whose fortune was wrecked by rail road speculation and who went West and died in a hopeless effort to re trieve his lost fortune, has committed suicide at Wanatah by hanging her self. The act was the result of de spondency over the death of her hus band and the loss of their fortune. Sally's Assets. S4.II9.6Z7. New York, (Special). ? The sched ules of Daniel J. Sully & Co. were filed in the United States District Court. The show liabilities of $.1, 5(>d,0.?<> and assets of $4.1 19,027. < )f the liabilities $1. 309,46.! is secured, $2,147. 960 unsecured and $50,000 of inorsed paper which should have been paid by others. The assets consist of notes of $50,000 stock margins, $-'9,100 rep resenting $1,298,250. ??Alkali Ike" Is Dead. Grand Encampment, Wyo. (Special) ? Daniel Burrows, familiarly known on the frontier as "Alkali Ike," ir, dead in his cabin, near l'ort Steele. lie! came to Wyoming 40 years ago from Independence, Mo., and was a friend I of I* ill Nye. As "Alkali Ike" he* was I a well-known frontier character and was with General Miles in many- of his Indian fights. Sbol Her Tormentor. Indianapolis, I ml., (Special).? Jos- 1 epli Hastings, 45 years old, was shot1 j and killed by Mrs. Frank llicks, 831 Washington avenue. She says she had known Hastings about two years. I He came to see her this afternoon, she says, and she could not make him go 1 away. She says he insulted her and she got a revolver and li ?t him. Kilted His Son and Himself. 1 Pasadena. Cal., (Special). ? Terrell Thomas, local manager of a lumber j I company, killed his eight-year-old j son Paul, paralytic, by stabbing him | in the back with a hunting knife, and then took his own life, shooting him- ' self in the head. Thomas is supposed | to have been temporarily insane. Three Killed In Fight. Myersdale, Pa , (Special) In a dispute over dandelions at F.Ik Lick mines, one mile east, three Italian miners met dea'h and the fourth par- 1 ticipant escaped. An Italian named I I.otiie was gathering dmdelions at I dusk in the rear of a boarding hou?e run by Dmninick Dill*. Hills ordered Louie away, jestingly. Lottie cursed Bills, at which Bills pulled a gun and shot him. An unknown Italian inter fered, taking Louie's part, shooting Bills and hi* cousin. Samuel Bills, who was coming alon* on a bicycle. fab mum hunmsl Aankaa PNiacti N?t F?i Stock W??th KjUMyHt Washington, D. C. (Special). ? The Department of Agriculture has issued a report on "The Nation's Farm Sur plus," prepared by George K. Holmes, chief of the division of foreign mar ket. It gives $4,500,000,000 as a con servative estimate of the value of the farm products of this country not fed to live stock in 1903. on the basis of the census valuation. The value of the exported farm products of this country was, in 1903. $378,479,451. and the highest value reached during the last 11 years was $951,628,331 in 1901. due chiefly to cotton. The value of the exported farm products of this country is concentrated mostly in a few principal products. Of it in 1903 cotton constituted 36 per. cent., grain and grain products 25 per cent., meat and meat products and live animals 24 per cent., these product* equaling I over 85 per cent, of the exports of farm products last year. Adding to bacco. whose exports were valued at over $.<5,000,000. oil-cake and oil-cake meal $19,839,270, fruit and nuts over $18,000,000. and vegetable oils over $16,000,000, gives a total of eight classes of products, each with an ex port value of over $ 1 0.000,000, that comprises almost 96 per cent, of the entire farm exports of 1903. Within recent years, ending with 1903, the cotton export* have been be tween three ami four millions of pounds, and the exported fraction of the crop lias been between (?2 and 71 per cent, for a long series of years. The fraction of the wheat crop ex ported in t lie last dozen years has I been about 31 to 41 per cent . and the exported wheat and wheat tlour have I yearly averaged somewhat more than 200.000,000 bushels since t8o7. before which period for many year- the quan 1 t it y was t'sually 5o.o<io.ooo to 100. 000,000 bushels less Only a small portion of the corn or mai/.c crop is exported as corn, the highest per centage, 11 per cent., being for 1S98. Notwithstanding the small percentage, ; the exported bushels reach 100,000.000 to joo.ooo.ooo. The beef exports J weighed 3K3.000.000. pork exports 551, 000.000, lard exports 4<x>.ooo.ooo, oleo | oil exports 126.000,000 pounds, and tobacco 3(>S.ooo,ooo. Butter and cheese exports have decidedly declined with in two or three years. '1 he report aUo takes up the com petition of this country in foreign markets, showing that this country furnished 32 per cent, of the United Kingdom's imports of farm products, thus leading in these imports. The United States has a long lead over its competitors as a purveyor of meat and meat products and live animals, is likewise pre-eminently conspicuous in the United Kingdom's .imports of cereals and cotton, but is far behind its competitors in dairy products. In German imports the United States : leads, with 22 per cent., in all farm ; products. 58 per cent, iu cereals, fur- [ nishes barely three-quarters of 1 per cent, of dairy products, contributes the principal portion of imported maize, two-fifths of the oil cake and oil-cake meal, but is exceeded iu wheat-flour supply by Austria-Hungary and makes a bare showing in barley and only little over 2 per cent, in fruits. ENDED WITH A BULI.ET. Suicide of ? Ruined Georgia FitMder ? Two Banks Failed. Macon, C.I., (Special). ? Robert H. Plant. president of tin* First National Hank and owner of the I. C. Plant's Son Bank, both recently placed in the hands of receivers, committed sui cide on the back porch of his home in College Street. He had been ill for two months, during which time came the collapse of his financial institu tions, the oldest in the city. He had told his nurse that he wished to lie down. Twenty minutes later he ask ed to be assisted to the bathroom. This she did, and waited 15 minutes I on the outside, when she heard a pis tol shot. She rushed into the room, but Mr. lTlaut was not there. The bath room had two doors, one open j inn upon the porch. There she found j the capitalist with a ..iS-ealibcr pistol j in his hau. I dead. The bullet had , passed through the right temple and! out of the I ?ft. flattening itself upon the wall. Death probably was in stantaneous. The < "r >sier w is at once summoned, and upon the te,t:ino^y of the nurse and a phy-icrm a verdict of death by his own hand* was rendered. Mr. Plant leaves a wife and nine children. Wallace Mcl'aw, presi dent of the McCaw Manufacturing | Company, :nd M. Felton Hatcher, a prominent attorney, are sons-in-law. j The I'I'int banking institutions arc the oldest tu the city. Mr, Plant. i : 1 audition fo being identified with various manufacturing enterprises and formerly largely en I gaged with the New York Life Insur | me* Company, wa> known throughout the trofti:*; wor'd, and his h >rs'\s for year.- have raced i:i the (irand Circuit. 1 '|e owned Cirattan l'?oy, l>t:lce Cor, Miss Wil.amont and other well-known horses. George II. T'latif. viee-presi |en? of 'he 1 -" 1 r - 1 National, is a br >'!ier. Has been Sleeping 24 Days. M- 1 1 :. ??.il >, 111, (Special). ? The case of Mrs. W. I?. Caldwell, wife of Dr. W. H. CI idwell. is attracting the at tention of physicians through "?ut Cen tral Illinois, She h.is been ".leaping, for 2 1 days and night?, and a 1 2 efY irfs to awaken her have failed. She is ' much cma< iated and little I ?;>e of her recovery is entertained. financial. ? _ Western report-, arc all favorable on the wheal crop. I The Panama Canal payments, both to France and Pan air. 1, arc completed. 1 Porto Rico wishes to borrow $5,000.- | I 000. Another chance f ?r the Ameri- | I cm investor. It 1-. said fh*t 'he F.lkins e*ta?e i* now trying t > market a very large* block of Philadelphia Traction at 'f> If Lehigh Valley d ?e?n'l get that j 1 dividend in July, those who ire pay-! ing ,tS for the stock now wi'l b.' d:?- j I ii)? liutcd. DABiHTEt TELLS STORY! of Late Ttjtar InnM tj Ida 4e Ka j. SAW FAUCI'S tEMAINS MSUDEH9L Tto OW Related tkc Details at the DtapaaMaa at tkc Body Wklck Were at tke Maat KtnU* la( Ckaracter? Her Mather, Ska SaM, Cat all Taytar'a Head Wltk aa Asa aad Pat It la tke Stave. Monticello, N. Y., (Spccial). ? Ida May de Kay, daughter of Mrs. Kato Taylor, who is undergoing a second trial for the murder of her husband ? Lafe Taylor ? told the story of the killing of her step-father as witnessed by herself. In her testimony the girl aserted that her uncle, Peter Yerkins, was at the Taylor house on the night of tha murder and assisted Mrs. Taylor in dismembering the body. She testified that she was awakened from sleep by a shot. Going into the next room she saw Taylor holding the door lead* ing into the kitchen with one hand an trying to pull on his boots with the other. She saw her mother trying to open the door in order to get at her husband. The witness said she went out on the stoop for a few minutes. She told I of hearing a second shot, and going in saw he'r father's body on the floor with her mother standing over it with a revolver in her hand, which she tried to tire again. The girl related the details of the disposition of the hod)', which were of the nurtt revolting character. Her mother, she said, cut off Taylor's head with an .ix and put it in the stove. Then the older woman took a lighted lantern and swung it around three limes from the doorway. Tim brought Peter Yerkins to the house, t lie wit ness continued. He asked if I .ate was d?*ad :?nd received an affirmative answer Mrs. Taylor again took the ax and tried t<> cut off one of Taylor's legs; then laid the ax down before she had succeeded. Yerkim took the ax and finished cutting oft" the leg. Ida says she went to bed and left Yerkin> and her mother together with the body. When she arose the next morning Yerkins had disappeared and her mother was still burning the body. At the previous trial tt was brought out that Mrs. Taylor cut up the trunk of the bodv and put it in a cloth sack and placed the sack in a wash tub. which was put in the cellar. Mrs. Taylor took the ashes and bones from the stove and pounded up the bones and fed them to the chickens. The skull was not burned' and it was brought back to the house and put ia the stove :<gain. SEVEN BLOWN TO DEATH. Plvc Others So Seriously lojored That Tbeir Recovery is Impossible. Findlay, ()., (Special). ? As a result of an explosion in the two drying rooms of the Lake Shore Novelty Company's plant here, seven person* arc known to be dead, fivo are so seriously hurt that recovery is believ ed to be impossible and twelve or fit teen arc injured badly. From reports of the physicians tea of the less seriously injured may die an a result of blood poinsoning from the potash that was driven into their bodies. The Lake Shore Novelty Company works covered nearly ten acres o? ground in the southwestern yart of the city and employed nearly 200 men. women and children. Railroad torpe does and Fourth of July explosives were manufactured. Owing to the large rush of orders the official-* of the plant requested the employes to report for duty Sunday. About thirty complied with the re quest. Sunday morning the residents of Findlay were startled by two explo sions that shattered windows through out the city. The concussion was felt for miles aroun I. Two magazines, in separate rooms at the novelty works, let go simultaneously with terrific re ports. The exact cause of the explo sion is not definitely known. It is surmised that one of the Sherwood brothers, who were the only persons in the drying rooms, dropped a large box of torpedoes, but this theory can not !>?? confirmed. The explosion occurred shortly be fore the employes assembled for duty, At least twenty persons were on their way to the factory when the ex-' plosion occurred. Human forms were strewn consid erable distance s apart on the fvtory site. The remains of the Sherwood brothers were found in drying room No. 1 mangled and almost unrecog nizable. Their clothing was blown from their bodies, save a stocking on the right foot ? >f Jay Sherwood. The body of Kdith I>illon was pick ed up two hundred yards from whero' the explosion occurred. The news of the e ato strophe spread; like wildfire throughout the country.; Kvery train and int-rurban car that has arrived in the city for the past ten hours was crowded The ! i; g ? plant' is shattered into fragments, not one single wail rcma:uing llri'ks and' timber can he found for half a milo^ around. Ten KillcJ oa Ore!. London. ( l?y fable). The Si. Pe-. ter-bnig < ?re*p?n -lent of the Central News civs was damaged, and it will take weeks to effect repairs. The ex plosion, according to the disp-iteh, was the result of an accumulation of gas in the bunker-. Man BuriwJ to Death. Vineland. N J < Special. ) ?Alfred Morgan, ag.'d seventy-live years, said to be a r .dative of J l'i.o pont Mor gan. was buvue.l to dea'h at his home here. His hoitso wa < discovered on lire, and an af'emp' was made to rescue hiir., but t!ie I'iutm spread so rapidly that this was impossible. Mr. Morgan was a graduate of the Uni versity of I'ennsylv.tni 1. lie was a lawyer, and gave up his practice thirty years ago. when he cagnc hero to live a retired life.