vV'V - / ' | , " v! ? ,' r ? - t ' s? . i i VOL. I. Nftt 2$. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11,19Q4. S1.5Q PER YEAR. ML FAIRBANKS NOTIFIEI Vet rraUMlU CaMM kofb CMBTTB AT BMilUNUS, DO. Indianapolis, Ind., (Special).?Char lea W. Fairbanks, senior United States senator from Indiana, was formally notified of his nomination for vice president of the United States by the Republican National Convention. The notification address was made by Elihu Root, former secretary of war. The exercises were held on the wide veranda of Senator Fairbanks' beauti ful home at Sixteenth and Meridan streets, in the presence of members of the notification committee, consist ing of one members from each state and territory, the governor and other state officers of Indiana. The program was similar to that arranged at Canton by Former Presi dent AlcKinley on the occasion of his official notification. The especially in vited guests were served with lunch eon ih large tents on the lawn, and the general public was served with light refreshments in the house. A photograph of the candidate and com mittee was taken from the steps of the veranda. The members of the no tification committee began arriving on early trains. Ex-Secretary Root took breakfast at the Columbia Club. Shortly after noon the journey of one and one-half miles north, beneath the overlapping trees of Meridan street began. One thousand members of the Marion Club acted as escort. In the first carriage rode Mr. Root and Governor Durbin and Harry S. New. The notification committee and other special guests followed in car riages. Several thousand persons along the line of march sent up fre quent cheers as the procession moved. Many residences along the line were profusely decorated. Gathered at the residence were 5,000 people. Senator Fairbanks and Mrs. Fair banks received the committee and es pecially invited guests, and with little delay Mr. Root and Senator Fairbanks led the way to the veranda, where seats were arranged for a!!. An enthusiastic greeting was accord ed .the two speakers as they appeared on? the veranda. The demonstration lasted for several minutes, during which the members of the committee were seated. Cheers broke out again and again, and several recognitions were necessary before quiet was se cured. Mr. Root, without preliminary addressed himself to the formal noti ? fication. Senator Fairbanks was given anoth er ovation as he arose to accept the nomination. VON PLEHVE'S SLAYER CONFESSES. Says He Was a It era! Schoal Teacher aod laterastrt la Mm Zeastva. St. Petersburg, (By Cable).?The assassin of Minister of the Interior von Plehve is said to have made a partial confession, in which he declar ed that at one time he was a school teacher in a rural district and was greatly interested in the Zemstvo, for the curtailment of whose powers he blamed the dead minister. He still absolutely refuses to disclose his name. A watch is kept on him day and night, not only in order to prevent fiis doing himself bodily harm, but in the belief that he may betray himself in his sleep. Thus far, however, he has only muttered two words in sleep ?endearing diminutives for Peter and ffatalie, probably the name* of a com rade and sweetheart. The police have discovered that a third accomplice was concerned in the murder plot, and that he was sta tioned on a quay on the Neva, where one of the imperial yachtJ was moor ed, on the chance that the minister might go to Petcrhof that day by boat. The Emperor will not reach a final decision regarding the successor of the late M. von Plehve until he con aults his uncle, the Grand Duke Ser gius. M. Witte, president of the minister, lal council, had an audicnce with the Emperor on the occasion of the sign ing of the German-Russian commer cial treaty. The audicnce was long, and before it ended M. Muravieff, the minister of justice, arrived and the Emperor discussed with the two min isters the proposed reforms for the ministry of the interior. It is consid ered more and more probable that M. Muravieff will become minister of the interior, but, if so, he will not be chief of the gejndarmeri*, which now in cludes the department of political po lice. which was merged into this port folio in the case of the late M. von Plehve. AlrsMp a Sacctss. Oakland, Cal., (Special).?Captain T. C. Baldwin made another ascen sion with his airship from Idora Park. He rose to a height of about 500 feet and then sailed northward for a dis tance of about ten blocks in a slight breeze, made a turn, came back and descended in the park without any mishap. The ascension was entirely aatisfactory. Trace af AaJret. Christiania, Norway, (By Cable).? Dispatches received here report that ,a Norwegian whaler has found, north ipf Spitsbergen, a letter from Professor Vtndree dated 1898. The text of the (letter is not disclosed. ? ? Prof. S. A. Andree left Spitsbergen , Hi a balloon July it, 1897, with the Intention of crossing the north pole, fie has not been definitely heard from REVS M Thomas Taggart, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, an nounced William F. Sheehan, of New York, as chairman of the national ex ecutive committee. Special Inspector Robert C. Ould, of the United States Customs Service, a native of Virginia and a member of Colonel Mosby's command, died at Champlain, N. Y. Governor Blanchard has selected Miss Juanita Lalland, of New Orleans,, to christen the battleship Louisiana, which will be launched at Newport News August 27. Prof. Frederick Starr, of the Uni versity of Chicago, will visit Northern China next year to investigate a mys terious white race, said to be residing there. Dr. Brown Ayrcs, of Tulane Uni versity, New Orleans, has accepted the presidency of the University of Tennessee. John M. Jones, the oldest printing press manufacturer, is drad at his home, ^Rochester, N. Y., aged 85 years. W. N. Ferris, of Big Rapids, was nominated for governor by the Michi gan Democratic State Convention. The railway postal clerks are hay ing their annual convention in Chi cago. There is a great demand upon the Philadelphia Mint for subsidiary coin. One thousand nonunion skilled workmen have been employed by the Chicago packers and they will thus be enabled to operate the by-product division of their plants. The coming report of the Geolo gical Survey will show that the Unit ed States exceeded all previous re cords in the production of coal in 1903. A suit involving the possession of letters written by George Washing ton and Daniel Webster has begun in New York. Bishop Potter denies that the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury is j for the establishment of an American primacy. Mrs. George Law has been sued by' the widow of Dr. Lane for medical, attention rendered the defendant by her husband. Joseph Holtz, a retired farmer, of New Oxford, Pa.,^ was too shrewd for two bunco men who tried to swindle him. Mrs. Calystie Westbott. of Chicago, was divorced from her husband be cause she was addicted to the lec turing habit. A daughter of J. A. Rothrock, of Bellefonte, is in fear because her love mad admirer has escaped from jail. 1 Mrs. Dills Sternshaus, of New York died from heart trouble after being twice recued from death. Samuel Knell attempted suicide in New York so that his family could ob tain his insurance money. Efforts are being made to bring back the deported miners to the Crip ple Creek mining district. A newspaper reporter was arrested in Binghampton for theft just after lie finished writing the story. A Filipino boy was christened at thr World's Fair, ex-Governor Francis serving as his godfather. The dry goods store of High & Al len, Columbia, S. C., was destroyed by fire. John Knockers and Jacob Margo were drowned while fishing in Lake Erie. Two trolley cars collided near Cleve land and 23 persons were injured. Ninety-four men were arrested in a raid 011 a poolroom at West Mana yunk, just beyond the Philadelphia city limits, in Montgomery county. Spanish Honduras is on the verge of another revolution, according to recent arrivals in Mobile, Ala., from Puerto Cortez. Troops will guard Bonesteel, S. D., during the period of filing applications for entry upon public lands. The young man who was found shot in Central Park, N. Y., is Sanfliel G. Dana, and is a bank clerk. The Pima Indians are said to be on the verge of starvation because of the failure of their crops. Efforts to end the bricklayers' strike at the Washington barracks have failed. Two miners were killed and a ttard seriously injured near Windher. The famous old battleship Essex ar rived tu Ogdensburg, N. Y. The large independent operators of the Pocahontas coal region have en tered into an agreement to raise the price of soft coal. Rear Admiral George A. Con verse was appointed chief of the Bureau of Navigation, succccding the late Admiral Taylor. The peace prospects at the stock yards' strike received a black eye in the arrest of ^President Golden, of the Teamsters' Union, The manage: . of the St. Louis Ex position have ?"up, of the lar d,Vfict court? enjoining the larger packing companies from combining ? making the price, either as buyers of l,ve stock or tellers of v T"5 m th* stocky?rds here in vestigating conditions. The inspec tors presence is by direction of the Department of Commerce and Labor, from P SUtCd' by direct orde? from President Roosevelt, who is anxiou. to obtain exact information. oackS? ? 7** exPer*enced by the c"rowd o?fr?h "chicairby'l eJs hid iLIS? Work,n* The pack fr?iJ K Mer ??ccess with a special strikfKr'1^11^ '^5. raen and women Italuns Th" "??Hy negroes and I nM.J " rere switched direct ly iUi a ?t<^kyards and unloaded houses ?ArS 2* various Peking-, houses. A short time previous 100 for inrrca QOit or were discharged '?f incompetency. Pikers appealed for police pro tecting for fheir distributing plants at1 street nt?nf|nd ??*** ,*trCets and George hr" . *nd Lincoln avenue. The su?rounj!.HU,tS ?f the Packcr? were. turn^HK^ Un'?n PtckeU, who wa^n,bi? a" the, rctai] butcher, with w??,?a V *uPP1,es of meat Police *Jre. dispatched to prevent further interference with the retailers. ? stockv.rH5.1 C^ltion resultjng from the nftM stnke made- A crowd ot strike sympathizers stoned two constables who put Mrs. Mary An derson out of her home, in Forty \frl aSIjeet? nonpayment of rent. hln iAn(i^u*on# husband, a striker, had left Chicago m search of work. hJrC^!.fe ,n,bcd whcn she and her household goodj were carried out by constables. Mrs. Anderson was cared for by neighbors. A patrol throwers! P?lk* #t0ppen, about twenty-five miles from Chi cago. Several H th - passengers were robbed, and it is sai l that one person who resisted was seriously injured bv tiie robbers The bandits, of whom there were five, had revolvers and all were masked. The man who was wounded was ?truck on the head with an ax. j ROBERT E PATTISON EwMfciMiauMtaafrf i*i U Burt Veitau. was $m rain at sr. lkih Ewortlw at h?j|?mIb ?I Ms tUma, Or trim, a W?t ?f Pttt ta m Attack * Pt?ni Wwrt Wnkmi Nmttv al Swtmt, Naw Wlcaalca CMaty.RU. Philadelphia, (Special).?Robert E. Pattison, twice Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania and twice Comptroller of Philadelphia, died early Monday at his home, in Overbrook, a suburb of this city. Pneumonia, complicated with a weak ness of the heart, was the cause of death. Mr. Patiison was taken ill on last Monday, when a sudden chill subsequently developed into pneu monia. He was only 53 years old. That Mr. Pattison was rapidly fail ing in health was apparent to his many friends for the past year. He was always more or less afflicted with heart trouble, but never gave any ser ious attention to any of these attacks. Tall and sturdy in build, with a marvelous capacity for hard work, Mr. Pattison deceived himself into the belief that his constitution was able to withstand the severe strain to which he subjected it. Always evincing a lively interest in politico, Mr. Pattison was one of the first Pennsylvanians to start for St. Louis to attend the Democratic National Convention. His laborious duties in connection with his position as one of the members of the special subcommittee that drafted the Dem ocratic platform proved too much for his nervous system and he returned to this city with his health shattered. His friends who accompanied him to the convention declare that Mr. Pattison accomplished the work of at least five men. Conscientious and un tiring in everything he ondertook he usually devoted his entire attention to it until things had been brought to a satisfactory consummation. As an evidence of his conscientious scruples and willingness for severe mental work it is known that for 19 hours, without sleep and with only a meager luncheon, he sat up all night and the best part of the following day with the subcommittee in cnarge of the plaform, advising his colleagues and making halpful suggestions. This is only one instance of how hard Mr. Pattison toiled and manifested his in terest in the Democratic party. During the deliberations of the sub committee Mr. Pattison devoted ex actly 39 hours of his fime to the question of preparing a platform. Mr. Pattison was a candidate for Governor on the Democratic ticket against Governor Pennypacker in 190.2 and bad not been a well man since his laborious campaign in that year, when his tour of seven weeks cover ed nearly every county in the State. He remained in St. Louis a few days after the Democratic convention to rest and, returning home, resumed his business, dividing his time be tween this city and New York. Sunday his condition was encour aging, but late at night he collapsed. Saline injections were re9orted to. but the patient sank rapidly and died shortly after 6 o'clock. The funeral services were held at 11 o'clock Thursday morning at the late home of Mr. Pattison. Rev. G. W. Izer, of the Church of the Coven ant, Eighteenth and Spruce streets, officiated, and interment was at West Laurel Hill Cemetery. MINERS ADJUST GRIEVANCES. EimHiw Caaalttu Preparing a Ptaa lor Lac a Is' Consideration. Scranton, Pa., (Special).?The ex ecutive board of the United Mine Workers, District No. 1, held a ten hour session here. District President Nicholls declined to make any statement as to the bus uess transacted, explaining that an of ficial statement will be made later. It seems assured that there will be no strike. Neither the mine workers ?nor operators desire one m present and it seems rather a question for the mine workers to devise some modus oper andi whereby the differences can be overcome. They will probably refer the disputes to the various locals with a request to vote on a proposition which is now under consideration. President W. L. Connell of the con ciliation board has not received a re quest to call a meeting of that body, President Dettrcy of the llazelton district mine workers not yet having actcd upon the instructions received from the employees of Coxe Bros. & Co. Mr. Dettrcy was in Scranton, but took no part ir. the meeting. lie will await the result of the executive board meeting before making the re quest to Mr. Connell. FINANCIAL All Japanese bonds arc strong. Money in New York loaned at x/t of 1 per cent. Cambria Steel sold ex-dividend, which amounts to 75 cents a share. New York banks presumably gain ed $7,500,000 of cash during the past week. A large number of anthracite col lieries wijl be shut down during Au gust in order to curtail the output. Winter wheat harvesting in the West is completed. "Modern Miller" says the total crop is better than ear lier estimates made it. Copper exports for the year ending June jo were 142,000,000 pounds, an increase over the previous year of 1,378,000 pounds. Canadian Pacific's June net earn ings increased $203,000. The United States Leather Com pany has put up the price of *ol?? leather 1 cent a pound. This i* equi valent to a net profit for the company of %2,000.000 a vcar. Hit; inma MM. Altoona, Pa. (Special).?P. F. Camp, bell, superintendent and paymaster of the Puritan Coal Mining Company, at Puritan, Cambria county, and Chas. Hays, a stable boss for the same com pany, were held up on a public road a mile out of Portage at 10 o'clock A. M.. shot in twenty-five places and rob bed of $2865 which they were taking to Puritan to pay the miner*. The ?''ree highwaymen, who were apparently Italians, escaped, but the whole mountain top was scoured for them -'iiitl a number of suspiciouf characters were arrested. Campbell and Hays, in a buggy, drove from Puritan to Portage and at 9 o clock received the money in a bag from the Pennsylvania Railroad station master at that place. It came by express on an early train from aa Altoona bank. With the money un derneath the buggy seat they started for Puritan. A mile out of Portage at a turn in the road is a clump of trees. Reach ing the turn, the three men stepped from the woods and without a word opened fire. One shoved a revolver into Campbell's face and fired. The ball struck Campbell in the neck. The other two highwaymen were armed with shotguns loaded with buckshot. They also fired on the two men in the buggy, both shots taking effect. The man with the revolver reached under the seat and snatched the bag of mon ey just as the horse ran away. Campbell and Hays were thrown out into the road and the horse continued on to the stable. Discharging two more loads of shot at the pavmaster and his assistant, the robbers fled in the direction of Lloyd ell. Campbell got to his feet and walked toward Puritan. Meeting a farmer with a spring wagon, he told his story and was driven to Portage? where he received surgical attention, and gave an alarm 01 the robbery. Posses were quickly organized and sent in all directions. The populace is greatly excited ove? the daring outrage, and the robbers will not stand a ghost of a chance ol escaping alive, if captured. Campbell was brought to Altoona on the express. He is desperately wounded, there being fifteen bullet wounds in his face, head and body, Two shots pierced his right lung, an other hit him in the mouth, and two struck his forehead. Just as the train left Portage bearing Campbell, his as* sis tan t, Hays, was brought into town. He died before he could be placed on the train. Hays was terribly wounded in the head and chest, five shots picrc* ing his lungs. Campbell, who is 36 years old, H one of the best known mining ex perts in the central Pennsylvania field The robbery was committed by per sons who knew of the paymaster's regular trip* to Fortage every two weeks for the money to pay his men. ROB TRAIN IN TEXAS. Maafestf Mm Relieve Passengers of ValaaMes ?Fall la Attack oa Safe. Delhart, Tex., (Special).?Rock Is land pascnger train No. 4, eastbound, was held up about seventy miles west of Delhart by three masked men at a small station named Logan. Engi neer G. E. Walker made the following statement concerning the hold-up: "We had made our regular stop at Logan when both myself and firemae were covered with guns and ordereq to move up. We did as ordered, and stopped the train at the end of the switch. The robbers then made ua uncouple the mail and express cars and riui a short distance up the track, where they again ordered us to stop, when they proceeded to enter the expres? car and attacked the through safe with explosives.. They exploded two separate charges of dynamite on the sate, but faileJ to effect an en trance. Having used up all their ex? plosives, they made off in the darkness, The mail car and passengers were nod disturbed. The explosions badly wrecked the express car and snfe. The local safe did not contain any money, consequently the robbers did not se cure anything." Templars' Qift to King Edward. San Francisco, Cala., (Special).? The California Knights Templar are preparing a gift for King Edward of England in appreciation of the honor 1 conferred upon the Catifornians ir sending a personal representative with the delegation of the highest officer! of the great priory of England and Wales to attend the conclave at San Francisco. The souvenir consists oj a volume of the history of the con* clave, especially bound and ornament* cd for the King. Will Pay (iovcrameot. St. Louis, Mo., (Special).?The sec ond $600,000 instalment to liquidate the $4/>ooooo government loan* will he paid promptly this week, according to Secretary VVr.ltrr !'? Stevens. Thif will constitute the fourth payment, making t years. Perhaps the finest oaks of great antiquity in the land are to be found in the dukeries. About half a mile from Welbeek Abbey i;? Creerv dale Oak. credited with 1.T00 summer* and now a' mere ruin sustained by props. Through its hollow Interior a coach and four has bei'U driven.?Tl" London Daily Chronicle. l?r?!*kliig Kfr in Kanim*. The breaking bee of Thomas Mo I/ean, near Meredith, Cloud County, which was noticed in the Delphos items, was. we are informed, an occa* slou oT considerable note in that seo tion. There were engaged in it 114 horses, twenty-two mules, twenty seven yoke of oxen and eighty-eight plows. Highly acres were broken l>e? fore noon. The Delphos item stated that un ox was killed; it was also cooked, with many other good things, for dinner. Fifteen more acres were broken in a short time after dinner, and twelve teams, on their way home, broke the same amount for a widow who lives near there.?Minneapolis Messenger. I>?rkfttnlth School*. There are seven industrial schools In Saxony which have been founded for the Hole purpose of training young men to become competent and skill fill locksmiths ami blacksmiths. Theso schools ure supported In the first In stance by the blacksmith ami lock smith guilds of Saxony. They also receive annual subventions from the Saxon Government, and private Indi viduals from time to time aid them with voluntary contributions. Only On* "A Shipwreck" was the subject glve? the clans, and the children were to write a composition. The teacher waa much amused, while reading them over and correcting them, when she csma to vne that ended thns, "There waa but one life lost, and that was found afterward." ? ? ? -*