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I THE COUNTY RECORD KLNGSTREE, S. C. fcOUIS J. BBISTOW, Kd. & Frop'r. POWDERLY CETS AN OFFICE. " fanner Labor Leader Nominated Fo* Commissioner General of Immigration. Resident McKinley sent to the Senate the nomination of Terence V. Powaerly, formerly General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, to be Commissioner Gen1 oral of Immigration. He will succeed Herman Stump, who has resigned. Secretary of the Treasury Gage, has issued an order rof reducing the salary of the Commissioner of Immigration at New York from $6000 to #4500 a year, and the salary Assistant Oom? mtesioner from $4000 to $3000. Mr. Pow derly's salary will be $4500. J Terence Vincent Fowderly was born In Carbondale, Penn,. In January. 1S49, of Irish parents. When thirteen years of age he became a switchman of the Delaware , and Hudson Canal Company, and later was t employed in the company's "machine shops. In 1870 he joined the Knights of Labor. In f,/ 1878 he was elected Mayor of Scranton, Penn., and was re-elected several times. He was elected General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor in 1879. He has been Eft.-.... practicing law recently. COLD FROM ALASKA. Treasure Ships Arrive From the Frozen Klondyke Flacers. Gold dust from the Klondyke River district coming to this country is measured not by ounces nor pounds, but by tons. On the steamer Excelsior that arrived in San Prtaclseo, Cal., on Wednesday was a ton of gold. Thesteamer. Portland" that arrived Saturday at Seattle, Wash., from 8t. Michael's Alaska. brought a ton and half of gold, owned by sixty-eight miners, who had dog It outrof the ground. Klondyke is now described as the richest gold location ever discovered. It is situated on the IJUonayge mver, not iar ifoUi .ilH I UU.U1J, lh j British territory, about forty miles eastward from the Alaskan boundary line. The ' stories told by the miners, amply confirmed ' by their heavy sacks of gold, have provoked a great "mining excitement." ' Throngs of people are preparing to leave for the remote gold fields of the Yukon to fa seek to repeat the fortune that has comes to others. The miners estimate that the ; Klondyke 'placers contain ?70,000,000 in eight." . MARYLAND PEACH CROP DAMAGED. AarafN of the Curcullo Reduce the Yield to a Quarter of Laat Year's. Boston and New York draw largely on the Delaware and Maryland Peninsula for their supply of peaches. From one hunirod thousand to two hundred thousand , baskets are shipped to these cities every ? season from the tidewater counties of Maryland. Agents of the Pennsylvania Road have just oompleted their estimates of the crop, and report that the yield will not be more than one-fourth of that of last sumjfcer. The June crop In the orchards was UusoallT heavy, but the failure is largely ranted by the ravages of the curculio, an !#' < uwm nm i?w uoanj oioij vivmuu (his great peach-growing country. The r*- ?me insect has done considerably'damage for (B the Delaware and New Jersey orchards. l thousands OF EMPTY FREIGHT CARS Heady to Carry the Big Wheat Crop of jfc\ the Middle West. Long trains of empty freight cars hare K rolled oat of Kansas City, Mo., for two ft; \ weeks and dropped off in two9, threes and flees on aide tracks along the lines of the % railroads in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, " Nebraska and Oklahoma. These cars, of whioh there are thousands, will be filled With new wheat within four or five weeks. tremendous grain rush is expected, and the best of management by ?. railroad officials will be needed to prevent * huge grain blockade or a grain-ear fhwine. Conservative estimates of crop statisticians place the yield of wheat for S? this rear in Kansas alone at (jO,000,000 bushels. if f , % a 'fatal heart blow. i" t~ A Friendly fioiint Match Ends in the Death Oae of the Principals, f \At Ootaxnbia. La., Carey Townsend and I*. match for the amusement of their friends. Whlrtington, who Is the smaller of the two, dealt Townsend a heavy blow over the region of the heart and he dropped to the ground dead. The Coroner made an examination and decided that death was dne to jMualysls of the heart, produced by the r 'mow received. Whitttngton Is now in Jail 'awaiting the action of the Grand Jury. ,V Boy Saves Three Lives, y ( Grafton Coffin, the sixteen-year-old son y ft Graham B. Colin, rescued three children > who were on the point of drowning In Brown's Lake, Wisconsin. Some women and children were bathing, and the children i were amusing themselves by playing on an <oM raft. Three of the children slipped off, and began to flounder in deep water, un*dlb either to swim or to touch bottom. Young Coffin jumped Into the water and succeeded In bringing all the little ones safely Jo land. Wheelman Killed in the Dark. Stephen H. Bartlett, a fireman, of Melrose, Mass., was killed by a fall from his blcyole while riding on the Xahant Boad. Bartlett was going at a good pace along a dark stretch In the road, when ne ran into a woman who also was riding a bicycle, He was thrown heavily to the ground, and he died in the ambulance. The woman escaped without a scratch. The Vastest American Vessel. JLCO UCW CAUIC7U OVObCD fcVrj/OUVUUOW A/Upoat, built by the Herreshoffs, started from Bristol, B. I., on her official speed trial, but through an aocldent the trial was called off. The boat, however, on a six-mile run developed the remarkable estimated speed of S1.7 knots?the fastest made by any craft in American waters. Bash Murderer Batler Hanged. , Frank Butler, the Australian bush murderer, was hanged, a Sydney (New South Wales) despatch reports. He confessed to having committed four murders. This is the man who escaped to America, but was arrested at San Francisco after a pursuit j half way around the world. Insect's Bite Was Fatal. Christian Kutz, of Lower Mount Bethel, Penn., died in the Easton Hospital from the effects of an insect's bite. Ilutz, who was a wealthy farmer, was stung on one of his hands several weeks ago. He paid no attention to the bite until a few days since, when he went to the hospital, suffering from blood ooisonipf, "Be your own judge, Chumfey, but -can you show me one thing about Miss Richly that makes her attractive?" "No, It's in the bank."-Detroit Free > Press. rSa : -*v -y .... . mm mm seven. Disaster in the Winchester Arms Factory, New Haven, Conn. CHILD-BRIDE AMONG THE DEAD. The Accident Occurred In the Loading Room While In Fnll Operation?The Building Wrecked?Powder In Oiie of the Automatic Machines Exploded From Unknown Cause? Awful Scenes. New Hat**, Conn. (Special).?The most - . V.-A. .. | serious explosion in ine long ui?n>tjr vi mo Winchester Arms Company occurred at twenty minutes to ten o'clook Wednesday morning in the loading department of the cartridge faotory. Four women and three men were killed almost instantly. The list of the dead Is: Edward Bardoff, twenty-one years old, left hip blown off and side badly mangled, died In hospital; Mrs. Nellie Bauermelster, sixteen 1 J ears old, Hamden, killed instantly; ulius Borman. Jr., seventeen years ola, powder boy, killed instantly; Josephine Brennan, orphan, eighteen years old, killed Instantly; Mrs. Ida Brown, thirty years old, head blown off; Theresa Connelly, sixteen years old, left arm blown off, head burned and thigh crushed, died on the way to the hospital; Walter Hill, twenty years old, powder boy. spine broken and right shoulder crushed. Those most seriously injured are: George J. Bardoff.twenty-three vearsold, brother of Edward, right eye turn out, forearm broken in two places and bruised and'cut; in hospital and may recover. Miss Glass, left arm almost torn out. Edward Lehr, badly burned; arms filled with shot. The cause of the explosion is not known. The cartridge factory is about 100 feet long, twenty feet high and thirty feet wide. It is constructed of light timbers. The roof was rtanvna th? entire construction was made so as to lessen the danger from falling debris in the event of an explo: 'on. About 150 persons are employed a the shop, two-thirds of whom are girls, whose ages average from sixteen to twenty years. When the explosion occurred the shop was in full operation. The cartridge machines were filled with paper cartridges in which black powder is used. The loading machines are complicated structures and very heavy. The powder is poured into thehoppers from the roof. A single grain of powder getting out of its place ana being crushed in the machinery is likely to cause a spark that may result in an explosion, but a small quantity of the powder is poured into the hopper at a time and the machinery is arranged so that in oase of an explosion it would probably be blown through the roof. Such accidents have happened without loss of life. This explosion, however, did not follow this rule. Instead of the force of the powder going upward, It spent itself in all directions through the factory. The explosion came without any warning. Dozens of employes were knocked senseless at their benches seventy-five feet from the loading machine where the exp'oslon ffhon tSor nnt fn lrhArfltns tlm. VVWUilUU. ff UVU (>v* aw ?w w . bers of the building had fallen in, the room was blaok with smoke. Girls went screaming through the shattered walls, and never stopped in their flight until they were safe in their horn*0, blocks away. Some fainted as they reached i he open air and lay hall lifeless. The explosion set off charges,of shot and shell right and left, which, together with the burning powder, were embedded in the arms, bodies and faces of the workmen whc chanced to be nearest the death dealing machine. Many of these men rushed back to the building as soon as the dense smoke cleared away, and, with blood streaming from their wounds, were the first to rescue the living and carry out the dead. The wrecked building took Are, and had it not been for the prompt work of the engines the dead would have been burned.. Alarms from the factory brought ambu- { lances and a half dozen physicians, and everything possible was done for the relief of those who still suffered. Gray-haired men and women, mothers Slth babies in their arms and little chllren, struggled, begged and became hysterical for news of their friends. As name* of the dead was sent through the polio* lines, women fainted in the street, and men, benumbed by the awfulness of the accident, walked away and forgot to rendet assistance. From every department of th< great factory employes rushed pell mell u soon as the gates were Opened. Terroi seized every 6ne and the entire factory wal shut down for the day. Those who had been at work in other departments joined the terror-stricken crowd in the street and added to the pathetic side of the scene. Several times the halfmaddened crowd tried desperately to break the police line. One pale-faced woman, with clinched fists, rushed up to a sergeant and screamed: "My Ood, man, my child Is there! I tell yon I will go int" With a wild rush the crowd started to force the gate and the police had to call the firemen to their assistance. As the ambulances came through the gates with their loads of dead the crowd fought for a glimpse of the bodies. As each one of the dead was identified heartrending scenes were enacted in the street. Nearly all the bodies were terribly man* gled. When the firemen reached Theresa Connelly the flames had burned her clothing off. Fire Chief Hubbard stripped off the clothing and helped to carry her to the street, where she died. The others, with the exception of Edward Bardoff,were dead when taken from the debris. Nellie Bauermeister, sixteen years old, was married to Fitch Bauermeister only a month ago. Her husband Is a mere boy. He was at work on the machine next to that at which his wife was killed. He wai knocked down and rendered unconscious by the explosion. As soon as he got to hit feet he found his young wife lying dead beside him. His grief was terrible. Mrs. Bauermeister was the daughter of William Martindale, of Brooklyn. 8he had been working in the Winchester shop only a few days. She had gone to work there in ordei to earn enough money to buy a bicycle. II is estimated that a dozen persons were injured by shot. The damage to the factory is estimated at $10,000. The Saltan Gives In. The Sultan of Turkey has issued an lrad? sanctioning the settlement of the Greek frontier question In accordance with the wishes of the Powers. Revolutionary Widow Dead. There are now only six surviving widows | of the soldiers who fought in the War ol | 1776. The seventh, Mrs. Levey Aldrich, j died in San Diego, Cal., on Monday night. Against Department Stores. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, signed the anti-department store ordinances recently passed by the Council. They prohibit the sale of meats, groceries, or liquors in the same establishment where dry goods are sold without a special license. After they have been published ten days the ordinances will become effective. Killed to Save Ills Father. Polk Burris, a candidate for sheriff at the Jast election, was killed on one of the main streets of Paris, Texas, by Luther Guthrie, who shot him while he was engaged in an i assault upon Guthrie's father. . ! '* V;'~ THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Items. *ln the House a resolution was adopted, requesting the President to investigate restrictions placed by foreign countries 1 npon the importation of tobacoo from the United States, The resolution empowering the President; to obtain the release of the Competitor prisoners in Cuba passed the Senate by a unanimous vote. Domestic, acooao or the lb&oci clubs. Per frt Clnh?. Won. Lo.t. ot. Club*. Won. T/>?t et. Boston....51 21 .708 Pittsburg.S3 37 .471 01ncinuati46 24 .657 Louisville 38 41 .446 Baltimore.45 24 ,652|Broolclvn.31 41 .431 New York43 28 .606 Chicago ..32 43 .427 Cleveland 40 31 .563 VTshing'n27 44 .380 Phlladel. .36 40 .474 St. LouU.15 68 .205 I The Cleveland (Ohio) Rolling Mill Company shut down for want of fuel. The company refused to pay the advanced price. Over 1200 men were thrown out of employment. E. V. Debs, the labor agitator, left West Virginia, his efforts to induce the coal miners to strike having failed. D. W. Caldwell, President of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, is dead. A conference of colored peopliwas held in Hampton, Ya.. to consider questions pertaining to the elevation of their race. At Morgantown, W. Va., William Jennings und his wife, of Cheat Neck, traded one of their eight children to a neighbor for a cow and left the 8tate to escape arrest. The absconding parents left five children in the care of the poor authorities. The child that was traded is ten years old. At Moundsville, W. Va., two sons of Mardot ha Edwards, aged ten and Ave years, were attacked by an unknown man in the absence of their mother. Stanley, the elder, was killed, and Willie, the younger, was fatally hurt. A bloody grub hoe was found near the bodies. In addition to other horriblo wounds, tho throats of both boys were cut. Herman Paul Schultz, of New York, was sentenceAat Milford. Penn., to be hanged for the murder of his wife. The celebration of the Mormon settlement of Utah, fifty years ago, was begun, 650 survivors of the 2000 pioneers participating. W. J. Bryan was in attendance. Ellas P. Ford and Arthur C. Qault ran into each other while riding bicycles at Holyoke, Mass. Mr. Ford died soon afterwards. Mr. Gault was badly hurt. At Alientown, Penn., William H. Laabacli, aged sixty years, a prominent coal dealer of Catasauqua, tried to cross tho tracks ahead of a moving freight train. He was instantly killed. Chicago's chronio bears on wheat wore badly punished by New York bulls, who got early news on Europe's shortage and used it to push wheat prices up. A succession of terrible electrical storms, with heavy rainfall, passed over Marlon, Ohio, and its vicinity. George Stout, while driving a mower, was killed by lightning. Charles Seiter and William Sontag, mechanics, returning home from work, were struck Ar\**vy\ at* fHo ofraaf Wrvny m<vn boor Pari. nor, Ohio, were killed. A severe snowstorm Is reported from all the higher portions in the mountain districts of Colorado. Three inohes of snow is reported at Cripple Creek, Aspen and other points, and one inch at Leadville. The weather is uncomfortably cool even in ^Denver. The boiler at Brewster Brothers' sawmill, on Dry Fork, W. Va., exploded, killing H. 8. White, a sawyer, of Weston, W. Ya., and 8mith Hicks, engineer, of Petenivllle. Mouse, the Papute murderer, has been killed at Muddy Cjeek, in Lincoln County, Nev., by a party of pursuers. Mouse killed Sterns and Davis on the Colorado River last winter, near White Hills. Strikers, headed by a brass ban d, marched to mines near Canonsburg, Penn., and induced the miners to leave work. Similar missionaries marched through Illinois. Edward Pullen, a farm hand employed by Captain Edward Mount, of Trenton, N. J., committed suicide by blowing off his head with a shotgun. Pullen was sunstruck recently and had been acting qieerly ever since. District-Attorneys Olcott aid Youngs agreed to have the oases of Mr;. Nack and Martin Thorn, charged with the murder of William Guldensuppe, tried in Queen's County instead of in New York '3ity. Brooklyn firemen, while extinguishing a small blaze at 2S3 Snedeker avenue, discovered an illfolt still. The family occupying the house was arrested. Lieutenant Peary and his parsv sailed on the Hope from Boston for Greenland. E. V. Debs induced manv miners in the Fairmont region of West Virginia to strike, but the number of strikers diminished greatly along the Norfolk and Western Railroad. William A. Bellwood, a Frenchman, fortythree years old, is a prisoner in New York City on a charge of having swindled Marcus A Co., jewelers, out of jewelry valued at $25,000, which he secured on memorandum. He lost the money on the races. Dr. Richmond Cornwall, of Kansas City, Mo., who, while defending his father, killed his brother, Herbert Cornwall, was acquitted. The prosecution attempted to show that the killing was premeditated, but failed. No further action will t e taken. Frederick C. Billings, a bicycle rider, was run down and almost Instantly killed on Michigan avenue, Chicago, 111., by H. C. Wagner, a member of Troop A, Illinois National Guard. The fault was entirely that of Wagner, who, according to witnesses, rode his horse directly upon Billings. The latter was trampled by the horse and his skull was crushed. Foreign. The EightyHon^A. J. Mundel a, formerly meinuer 01 ine rsruisn uaoine., Qiea irom paralysis. Various sections of England were visited by terrible thunderstorms. In the northeastern part of London floods occurred, stopping railway traffic, and much damage has Seen done. Two boys were killed by lightning at Ipswich. A boy was killed by lightning at Bhymney, In Monmouthshire. Sir. Julian Paunoefate has talked over anoeher arbitration treaty with Lord Salisbury, having previously oon erred with Secretary 8herman. Two thousand German carrier pigeons were released at Dover, Er.gland, and reached Dusseldorf, Germany. The matter may become an international inoldent. Count Olcuna, the Japanese Foreign Minister, says Japan will oppose the annexation of Hawaii to the utmost. "Annexation must not be recognized," t.e said. A special dispatch from Berlin says that the fact that Emperor William of Germany is returning to Kiel for an examination of the eye, recently injured, confirms the lears I that the accident is more serious than has 1 been admitted. The danger is growing out , f the general low health of the Kaiser , Under-Secretary Curzon said in the British House of Commons that tho request < of the United States for a conference to consider more adequate measures for protec- ( tingthe seals had been declined as premature. Sir Edmund Monson, the British Ambassador at Paris, his wife, and their whole household were seriously poisoned by eating shellfish, and only the most drastic measures saved some of their lives. The negotiations between the American Bimetallic Commission and the representatives of France and Great Britain have now reached a stage which renders t extremely probable that Great Britain will agree to participate in a conference to be held in Washington next fall. 7 ' KLONDIKE mcm! I Country Fabulously Rich With the Yellow Metal. THE '49 EXCITEMENT OUTDONE. Commander Tnttle, of the Ur Ited States Be venue Cutter Bear, Telle of the Scones at St. Michael'*?Deckhand Had 150,000?Made It All in Seven Months ?Gold Enough to Tarn One's Mind. J Seattle, Wash. (Special).?The population of Alaska and the northwestern section of the Northwestern Territories will be 1 multipled tenfold insidj of the next six , months. The exodus of e::oited gold ( hunters from all over the Paclllo coast has begun, and trains, arriving twlc 3 daily from the south, bring hundreds of eager and 1 anxious men, who would gladly pay the j transportation companies double for berths on the three outgoing steamers One of the most significant u iterances in j corroboration of the stories of immense gold finds in the Northwest 'Territory is J found in a letter received from Captain Francis Tuttle, commander of the United j States revenue cutter Bear, who was at the 1 time of writing at St. Michad's on the 1 Yukon River. Captain Tuttle cannot, by i those who know him, be accused of being a ] dreamer. It is the first communication svit ( down from the far north by a United States officer relative to the gold cxcil ement. The ' letter was mail 3d July 1, and if graphic in * its description. Captain Tuttle says: "The days of '49 in 1 California are a mere side show compared 1 with the excitement in the Yukon country. < Imagine my astonishment on r< aching here j yesterday to ran across a man who, last j September, was discharged as l deck hand from a steamer on Puget Sonne. The fel- * 1/\t? mo do hia vrnv into Alaska, worked ' seven months on the Klondyke and has t now reached Sc. Michael's with $150,000 in < gold. I coul.l hardly bclievf my senses, j but there was his gold, sure enough. t "As I write St. Ili.-'haers is full of miners t awaiting an opportunity to jet down to Puget Sound and to California. Nearly s every other man of them has 510,000 worth of dust, and there is not a man hero with ; t less than 815,000. The latter nre referred e to as 'poor fellows' who have bjon hard hit i with bad Juck, and it seems to be real sym- j pathy that the more fortunate ones show . for these $15,000 fellows. "The deck-hand, with his $150,000, had 1 the largest amount of gold of any one in * the crowd. The whole business is almost t incredible, yet one must believe what he c sees. . g "It is enough to turn the mind of any r person, and particularly when one learns i + with what comparative ease i his gold is j mined." Captain Tuttle adds that ho cannot af- ! 1 ford to lay long in St. Michael's or his t whole crew will become daft, and he con- t tinues: , t "I almost feel as If I would like to go up the river myself, and I certainly would do ^ so were I twenty years younge:*." The thermometer at St. Michael's regis- ? tered eighty-seven degrees at t le time Cap- ? tain Tuttle penned his letter. I e At St. Michael's Captain Tuttle received t instructions from tbe Government to assist i g in the transportation of reindeer from Si- v beria into the Yukon country. , I c F. G. H. Bowker, one of tie returned Yukoners, who brings back nearly $40,000 ? in gold dust, the result of six months' * work, Is authority for the stf.tement that Q on the American side of the international g boundary placer fields have been found t which even put those on the KJondyke Into ? the shade. TENNESSEE'S NEW SENATOR c 8 Thomas B. Ttirley Appointed to Succeed n the Late Isham G. Harris. p Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, has ap- o pointed Thomas B. Turley, of Memphis, * United States Senator to succeed the late * Senator Harris. In the fall of 1896 Bourke Cockran went to Memphis and made a powerful speech In behalf of the gold st indard to an audi- p ence of 7000 people. T. B. Turley replied e to him, and his reply made his reputation, xi Mr. Turley was born in Memphis In 1845. He enlisted in the Confederate Army at the n age of sixteen and fought through the war a as a private in the 154th Tennessee. He b has never held an office. He is a lawyer. (] p SHOT BY A POSSE. 0 S Daniels Attempted to Aisanlt His Employ- j| er'i Wife and Was Pu rsued For a Week. g "Jim" Daniels, a colored farm laborer, tl entered tbe room of M -s. John Baker, the wife of his employer, near Goodwater, Ala., . a week ago and attempted to assault her. ^ The woman's screams brought her husband r( from an adjoining room ana ine miscrtxtut fled. Baker organized a posse whosearched with dogs for Daniels, chasing him forty ? miles. He was pursujd so close by the p dog3 that he was forced to olimb a tree, o; When the posse arrived he prayed from the p top of the tree for me:.-cy, but in response rj got twenty bullets from as many guns and f fell to the ground dead. . XI Mystery of a <Joverness. . P Beima Larsen, a young Swedish gover- ^ ness employed at 8taateburg, N. Y., started Ir for New York City to vbiit a married sister. ' S Miss Larsen was apparently in the best of 11 health and spirits. En route she lost her reason, and at Flshkill nhe was taken from a the train to a hospital. Her reason re- ai turned, but an Illness, the cause of which is y, not publicly known, s sized her, and she Bl died within twenty-fou:r hours. I T Killed by Llghti.lnf In Her Own Home, j Mrs. Horace Noble, a prominent woman of Erie, Penn., was instantly killed at Gills B Park, near Erie, by lightning. She was sit- n> ting in the parlor with some companions when the home was struck, killing her al- p most instantly. None it the others were hurt. g, Mica Deposits In New Jersey. ^ What are said fo be rioh mica deposits have been discovered in New Jersey, and preparations have been made for mining .. - ?. , il tno mineral ou a mx^c w Minor Mention. J? Queen VIc.oria la said to have twenty-five *r state carriages. " A pet cat bit the finger of a little boy in ei Jasper County, Missouri, and he died ten 8fl days later of blood poisoning. In Bombay, India, the plague is carrying off over 500 persons a week still. Jerusalem's Garden, of Olives, has eight ai trees known to be 1000 year old. n< TheMa: Im gun has only one barrel, yet cc it can discharge 600 shots in one minute. m A tragic elopement occurred near Monclova, Mexico. Macedonia Fransta, aged P' seventeen, before eloping with his sweetheart, Anita Moras, shot dead two of her Ja brothers and two other men. w In her castle Patti has a phonographic S' apparatus, and into this she frequently re warbles. S. ' occasionally lends the cylinders to h?r i- >nds at s distance who have phonogn.ohs, : hat they may listen to her ' melqdio:stra. :s. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Report of the Proceedings from Day * to Day. SENATE. July 10th.?The opening session of the Senate was brief and uneventful. The Harris resolution relating to the Union Pacific railroad was discussed. At 1:30 the Senate went' into executive session, remaining behind closed doors until 6 o'clock, ana then adjourned until the 17th. July 17th.?Senator Morgan, of Alabama, occupied most of the time in the Senate in support of the Harris resolution relating to the Union Pacific Railroad. He severely arraigned the executive officials connected with the sale of the government interest in the road. Final action on the resolution was not reached. The Senate soon after meeting went into executive session. July 19th.?The day in the Senate was principally dovoted to a discussion Df Harris' resolution relating to the Union Pacific Railroad. Morgan, of Alabama, concluded his remarks in favor of the resolution, and Stewart spoke in opposition to it. Thurston, of Nebraska, was speaking in opposition when, at 5 o'clock, the Senate went into executive session, and shortly thereafter adjourned. July 20th.?The indications when the Senate adjourned today, were that i vote would be reached upon the conference report on the tariff bill some time doring the week. There may be . i change in the condition, which will postpone a vote, but it is difficult to j^ee what could cause it. The opponents to the bill realize that there is 10 possibility of preventing the adopiion of the report, and their present purpose is only to secure what advan- j :age they can t>y exhibiting what they : jlaim are the inconsistencies of the l measure. Senators Tillman, Jones, , Butler and Bacon made a protest ] igainst restoring cotton bagging and ( lies to ine autiaoie list, inuring tne lay, Tillman, Democrat, of South Car>lina, openly threatened a filibuster intil next December, if cotton bagging ind cotton ties were not restored to the ree list, but the threat was regarded as lomewhat facetious. July 21st.?The Senate concluded he formal reading of the tariff confer>nce report The debate was spiritless n the main. Allen, of Nebraska, durng the debate referred to the present ;oal strike, contrasting it with the iromises of prosperity. The strike rould be arbitrated, he said, and arbirated in but one way?namely, in favor j >f the coal baron and against the miner, ind if the miner protested he would be net with the baton of the policeman oiv ] he bayonet of the tin soldier. Jci/r 22nd.? In the Senate, Allison, ( n charge of tjie tariff bill, endeavored ] o have a time fixed for the final vote, 1 tut failed. During the discussion of , he agricultural schedule, Tillman was , Lriuwn into a vehement argument on ' he benefit of an export bounty on agri- j ultural products. This the Senator 1 ieclared with emphasis, was the most ffective means of destroying the in- ( ire protective system, for if the farmer . :ot one drop of blood in his mouth he ( rould want to swallow the whole car- ^ ass, and it would end in a scramble, 1 verturning the whole system. The , louse joint resolution was passed re- } uesting the President to make investi- j at ion as to the exclusion of American obacco from foreign countries under j he Regie contract system. Tillman's | esolutioc for an investigation into the ^ hnnges of senatorial speculation in ( ugar stock was rejected by the com- i littee or contingent expense.. The j eport was couched in decidedly vigor- ( us language. Thomas B. Turley, who ( ucceeaed ihe late Senator Harris, of 'ennessee, was administered the oath f office. I HOUSE. . J'clt 16th. ?The House agreed to the ] artial conference report on the gen- 1 rt.l deficiency appropriation bill, and j hen concurred in the Senate amend- 1 lent, fixing the limit to the cost of ? rmor plate for three battleships, now ' uilding, at $300 per ton. Davis ; Dem.), of Florida,'made a strong ap- : eal to the House to concur in the $50,- J 00 appropriation for Cumberland ound, Fla., but Mr. Cannon resisted ! ;. The House finally concurred in the 1 mendment,and at 6:35 adjourned until 1 he 19th. ( .TTttt.v IQtit?Tho onnfflronro ronort on * i? tariff bill was adopted by the House ' J hortly after midnight by a vote of 185 * > 118. This eclipses* all previous jcorda. The result was accomplished Iter 12 hours of continuous debate. J !nt two speeches were made by the Re- * ublioans, one by Governor Dingley in ? pening the debate, and one by Mr. c ayne, of New York, in closing it. 1 be Democrats were thus forced to pnt 1 >rth speaker after speaker, but f ieir bombardment of the Reublican position was unanswered. a all 10 Democrats and one Popnlist y i6.de speeches. The sugar schedule [ as the main point of attack. Every ? :?publican in the House who was pres- c ot voted for the report The . Demo- ? rats, with five exceptions, voted \ gainst the report. The exceptions ^ ere Messrs. Slay den, of Texas; Brous- c ird, Meyer and Davey, of louisiana, and Klemser, of Texas, he Populist and silverites I id not vote solidly. Messrs. Shafroth, f Colorado; Newlands, of Nevado, and " 'artman, of Montana, a sil verite, did 0 o t vote. The Pc pulists who voted' ? gainst the report were Messrs. Baker, * arlow, Botkin Fowler, Jett, Lewis, ? [arshall, Martin, Peters, Simpson, 11 trowd. An analysis of the vote shows 0 tat 184 Republicans and 5 Democrats * )ted for the report, and 106 Democrats id 12 Populists against it Jflt 21rt.?In the Honse Evans, iep., Ky.) from the committee on e ays and means, reported a join reso- v ifcinn. which was adoDted. reauestinar I1 le President to make such investige- J3 ons as will elicit all the facts in refdfice to the restrictions put upon 'the r ile of American tobacco in foreign r t mntries, nnd6r what is known as the Begie" or government edict. It also ithorizes the President to enter into . Bgotiations with governments of those mntries with a view of obtaining a ^ edification or removal of these re- * rictions. Clardy (Dem., Ky.) ex- ? ained the necessity of it, saying that a 1 reat surplus of tobacco was raised in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, hich must find a foreign market wanson, of Virginia, supported the isolution. i July 23nd.? In theHo\ise a bill was 1 issed from the committee on W ays < id Means to authorize the President ? ' ^r --4__ ' __ .. . x ^ , to suspend, in part or in whole, the die* tl criminating duties imposed on the Tee* sels of foreign countries which impoeee A similar duties on our vessels. A bill was also passed creating a civil govern* *8 ment in Alaska. _ m ;? Will DEFY FEDERAL JUDGES, 1 * > ;j Judge Watts' Attitude as to the Original Package Business. SOUTH CAROLINA HAPPENINGS. | ' ? Gold Mines of Carollna--Low Rates to the Encampment--Woman Ac- '* cused of Murder. A an?rikl frnm GrA?r>vill? tn tlia a ister ot the 19th, says: The court of sessions opened this morning, Judge 'i R. C. Watts presiding. The judge, in his charge to the grand jury, took < strong States rights grounds when dis- rj cussing the dispensary entanglement He called attention to two erroneous views concerning the dispensary sitaetion: first, it was thought that any one | had the right to retail liquor in the . '[' State; second, that State courts were .7J bound by tLe decisions of federal conrt. judges. After stating the points of the decision of Judge Simonton on the original .? package contention, he said: "1 am not m bound by the decision of any federal circuit judge, no more than tbey are ft bound by my decision. I am governed alone by the State and federal consti- . S tutions, and after that the State an- *\$ preme court decisions and United States supreme court on all questions apper- . 1 * taining or arising under the constita- . $ tion of the United States. Now the man who ships the liquor may hare it & protected from seizure by injunction, '1 but that will not save the seller from the clutches of the State courts, and I . w| intend to attach for contempt every one V& who violates my injunction or that of any other State judge. I don't apprehend any conflict of State and federal anthorities, but if it comes I suppose the State will be able to take care of itself." Mr. M. V. Richards, the wide-awake land and industrial agent of the South- ' 2 ern Railway, has taken advantage of the revival of interest in gold mining by the discoveries of the Alaskan fields - J to get up a most valuable little work de- I | voted to (told mining in the Southern States?North and South Carolina, Yir- v?| ijinia, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama JO md Maryland. The article contained J] therein on the industry in the Caro- . iinas is by Messrs. Holmes and Nitze, Df the North Carolina geological stir- ;'J vey. The records show that South Car- JH phna has mined more gold since 1890 than any other Southern State. In 1695 ^Jf the output of her mines was $198,408, 2 while Georgia's output was only $100 y more. The total amount of gold mined 4 in the Southern States since 1779 is placed at $45,565,48a Of this South Vfjj Carolina mined $3,709,566, and takes Jlj :hird place among the States, North Carolina coming first and Georgia sec- . 1 )nd. The bulk of both Georgia and e| STorth Carolina's output was mined, lowever, prior to 1879, while nearly all - ? >f South Carolina's mining has bees' , < i lone since. Considerable interest is being mani- . * 'ested in the coming trial of Solicitor rhurmond upon the charge of muraar | f? at. - t-.-iii? tit ri or rue kiuuig or n. u. nwno. xub , xial is to commence the first week in i August at Edgefield. It will be a legal \ i jattle from start to finish. Mr. Thar- % nond will be represented by the lead- ng members of *the, Edgefield bar, .M Messrs. Sheppard A Sheppard, Croft k 1 Tillman and others. General Butler wl jas been engaged by the relatives of 1| he deceased to assist in the prosecu- 'ja ion. Attorney General Barber will be n charge of the prosecution and will J ippear in person. He is now at work >n the case. The trial promises to' ba 'Gfl >ne full of public interest, in view of he fact that one of the State's prosecn- '/I ing officers is on trial for his life. A few weeks ago an infant's body vas found in Pacolet river, near Clifon, sewed up in two sacks. Investi- .9 jation developed that it was a male .*3 .'hild about two years old. The head- .9 vas horribly bruised, presumably by larties before the body was cast into the jjj iver. Since then, however, snspioion t fl IAS been directed toward Lillie Black, 9 , white woman about 25 years of age, ' fl rho recently worked in the Clifton --9 nil Is. She feft the mills shortly after a he discovery. So strong did the facto J| ?f the case point to her that she was sr ested at Henrietta. N. C., and lodged tU n the oounty jail at Spartanbnrg. She/ >he will have to answer for the infanticide at the November term of court Dr. E. S. Jovnes has been invitedto - ^ larticipate in the induction of Hon. W. -V-i j. Wilson as president of Washington .. nd Lee University at Lexington, Va.t in September 13. Presidents Oilman if John Hopkins and Patton of Prinoe-; fca on with other distinguished educators rill take part, and an imposing program 'j ias been prepared, ut. j oyaes ?h ., nee professor at Washington and Lee, ? ,nd is warmly remembered there. ?The , | Itate. Adjutant General Watts has saooeed(1 in securing excellent rates for those ishing to attend the military encamp < .nt at Orangeburg. Tho tickets will e on sale from all points from the 33th o the 30th. The remarkably cheap ate of 1 1-3 cents per mile for the ijgfl onnd trip has been allowed for,the ailitia and a rate of one full fire for 'S ho round trip has been given for civiians who wish to attend. The Columbia Phosphate Company .'' ^ ias just begun the erection of addi- 3 ional buildings by which the capacity f their plant will bo doubled befort ^ he fall season opens. English Papers lu Asia. . ^._4yS Seventeen daily and weekly papen ire published in the English language n Japan, and over 100 on the Asiatic '1 ontiuent. In the whole of Asia there s but one paper printed In German. ?