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ENGINEERS GO OUT. Serious Tr:::b:c in t:ie Pennsylvania Alining Regions. SIRiXE G? STATIONARY FIREMEN'. ! ?? 1 Thirty Thousand People Are Thrown \ Out of F-inlr.vment- Ei^ht Hour ! S Day Demanded. m 1 Wilkesl-ar:?. Pa.. Special.?The 1 strike order of President Mullahy, oi the Stationery Firemen's Association of Pennsylvania, directing the men tc , ^ strike for an eight hour day, was ? obeyed by the men. Nine hundred i members of the organization in this i section of the State refused to go to < work. Most of the strikers are em- 5 ployed as firemen at the coal mines ( and their failure to report for duty caused nearly all the collieries in the ' northern anthracite region to sus- j pend operut ps, throwing out of work. t it is estimated, 30.000 men and boys, Some of th individual coal operators conceded the demands of their em- ? ployes on condition that the short 1 lour day was not to hold if the men j employed by the big companies did not get the same concessions. The ? u;- hntrovrr Ul? Wdl .. v. . . to make a ay concessions. The officials f claimed that the demands of the fire- I men were unreasonable; that they 1 had received a 10 per cent, increase when the wages of the miners were ;' raised, and that their demands made ' upon the companies was equal to a | j 20 per cent, advance. The strikers held c. meeting in this j city shortly before noon. Reports were received from all the districts , and they showed that the strike from j Pittston to Shickshinny in this i (Luzerne) tounty were general, and I that the coal companies were unable to secure n*\v men to take the places ? of the strikers, although it was claim- c ed they had. made desperate efforts to ? <lo so. The lest they could do. It was J said, was to press the firemen and fire . bosses into the service. This was j dene at a great many of the mines. ' Somebody itaa to <10 11. ut*i tilVi v j was danger of great damage being 11 done by water and the accumulation ' of gas. Most of the large companies were successful in getting a sufficient cumber cf men to keep the pumps running. Other small companies were not so fortunate. They wore left en- * tirely helpless when the firemen quiet : i For Cumberland River. j Washington, D. C., Special.?The i 1'nited States army engineers are . transmitting :h?ir annual reports :o , the War Department. Lieutenant : Colonel M. D. Adams, who is m ' charge of t.te river and harbor work : in the Nas'.r.'iilc, Tenn., district, in his annual report to tbp Secretary of Wtr | i recommends an appropriation cf Si,. ! 714,500 fcr the Cumberland river below Nashville. Ho estimates that this amount (wh: a is sufficient to com- t plete the txistiag project) can be prof- i itably expended during the fiscal year : ending June oO. 1903. For the Cum- : berland river above Nashville he re- : commend an appropriation of $1,203,- ; 740. s r A French .Minister Shot At. f Paris. By Cable.?P. Baud a. Minister or Public WorivS. was shot at while driving to a cabinet mating at the Elysee Palace by a woman, who was 1 accompanied by a tea-year-o!d chi u. j at p.-nrttn w.s not hit and proceeded ' to the Elysee Palace. The woman was ' arrested and pave her name as Olzcws- 1 k>. and said ;he lived at Nanterrc. | Mine. Olzewsky appears, according to later arc turn t?. to have fired her p.sto! : In the air when M. Baudin's carr'age ' was passing. She said she thought M. 1 Dclcasse. Min ster of Foreign Affairs. 1 was in the carriage and fired It to call ' attention to a grievance. Her grievan e ' was brscd upon the fact that 1S96 h; r husband. Count Olzwsky, was inveg e! < from Nice across the frontier to the ' Italian territory, where he was arrested ( in false denue'ation, as a spy. ' i North Carolinian Murdwed. Cleveland. Miss., Special.?Louclus Reed, manag' r of the W. L. Pearroai plantation, was shot and killed Tues- ) day by Charles Paillips, a negro em- ! ^ J nwilin- 1 ploye<l on the ram. noea iavi ru Xliiyo I eating at a lunch stand during the ' morning and told him he should be at 1 work. Words passed between them an;l Phillips shot Reed twice, one ball pa-s- ' ing through the heart. Phiu.ps escaped ?' and it is believed he is in hiding in tbo I can brakes near here. The citizens are i f highly wrought up over the murder and < if the negro is captured, it is believed < he will be lynched. Posses with blooJ- I hounds are searching for ^he fugitive, t Reed came here from North Carolina ! and stood well in the community. i i Moulders (ialn Victory. Chicago, Special.?Important victories were gained by members of the Iron Moulders' Union, eight firms signing the agreement. One erf the eight concerns was the American Tin Can Company, known as the "tin can trust" Of the 12,#00 moulders who struck Monday over 300 have already returned to work at the advance demanded when the strike was ordered. SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS, Cotton Small But Responding to Cu'tivatlon. The week ending 8 a. m , Monday Tilly 13fh. had nearly notmal temperiture, but was slightly cooler than tsual over the southeastern port on. ivhere there was also a deficiency in sunshine. The week's maximum was 100, at Blackville on the 12th, and the ninimum was 05, at Greenville ar.d Spa^anburg. on the 9th. luth and llrh rhere was one severe local storm in Pickens county, and high, drying .vinds during the middle of the week .hroughout the State. Showers were frequent, and some luite heavy, along the southeastern oast and over the southeastern counties. and there were light scattered showers elsewhere, but generally hrcughout the State there was no -ain until the 14th, when showery conditions prevailed over the whole 3iate. Rain was badly needed for all rop3, although the absence of rain vas favorable for cleaning crops and giving them much needed cultivation. ;ome fields are still grassy, and will Mther he abandoned or allowed to nake what they will in their fcul conlitlon. Cotton Improved under cultivation, ind. although 6till very small. Iooks jealthy and is fruiting better than ast week. Most of the fields have )een cleaned of grass, and the plants ire growing slowly. In places cotton NMitinues to have a yellow color, and :here axe reports of shedding leaves md squares. Sea- Island is thriving. Jut the plants aro dwarfed, and blight s present In spots. Old corn is extremely poor and will icarcely make half an average crou, while later plantings are more promslng. Bottom land corn is praeticaly a failure. In certain widely sepa ated sections, the corn crop is excelent, but its average condition is low. Tobacco cutting and curing made apid progress. In localities an lmirovement in condition is noted, while ?enerally the crop remains poor and | nferior. Rice is thriving and responds 'o ultivation. but in Colleton county i io*fli.nlllorc H rxf r> cr trront HfimflPP Unions are only bogining to ripen and vill have poor yields. Sugar cane, jorghum, and peas are doing nicely. Iry weather caused pastures to fail apidly. Peaches and grape-s are still otting but not so extensively as hero ofore. Apples continue to drop. A Fatal Excursion. Spartanburg, Special.?The excursion rain which left Charlotte for Spartan- j mrg Saturday night was the scene of j l terrible tragedy, and two men lie ! lead as the result of the affair. Upon | saving Spartanburg for Charlotte Sat- j irday morning, three employes of the Ipartanburg street railway?Messrs. Julligan, W. W. Stedman and Dexter Cirby?were authorized to act as poicemen to preserve order. Everything lased off quietly on the trip to Charotte and returning until GafTney had leen passed. A few miles south of that j ilar^ n*nr Thirkptv Station, a neero. Wallace Hayae, entered the ear which was reserved for white passengers, and tegan to act in an unruly and boisterius manner, whereupon Mr. Steadman j equested him to leave the car. The ne- i ;ro drew his pistol, a 32-calibre weapon I ind fired, the ball striking Mr. Stednan in the arm. Then it was that Mr. i virby received his death wounds, for ! n attenpting to take the pistol from ' he enraged negro he was shot twice. >nce in the region of the heart and in :he groin. The unfortunate man died instantly lu the arms of a friend. The .rain was not stopped but proceeded to his city, and the remains of the dead nan were taken to the undertaking esablishment of J. F. Floyd & Co. Sherifl Vernon and his posse early Sunday morning proceeded to the neighborlood where the negro left the tiain and 'ound him lying dead about twenty5ve feet from the track. He had fallen under the moving train and had been dragged a considerable distance. He was horribly mutilated, both legs anc in arm being almost severed from the Qody. Another negro, John Pratt, a companion of Hayne, had been arrest;d, and when found had in his possesion a 3S-caiibre Smith & Wesson. The New State's Prison. The new main building at the State penitentiary has been practically completed. It is one of the handsomest and best equipped prison buildings in the south. In a short time the concrete floors will be completed, and the work will be done. Last week most 01 ine ronviots were moved from the old building, where they have been quartered since last fall, and they are niw as comfortably fixed as a set of prisoners could be. The new building has all modprn and up-to-date equipment and conveniences, as well as being as secure as it is possible to make it. Contractor Miladay has taken much p'ride In the work?<loae on this prison stnn> lure. t ' Fire at Calhoan, fla. Calhoun, Special.?Calhoun- was rlsited last week by the most disastrous fire in its history. The fire broke out at 3 o'clock in the store of J. A. Nea! & Co., in which the postoffice was located, and in a short time seven brick buildings were in ruins and stocks of goods and other prop ertv flo the value of many thousand? of dollars was destroyed. DISPENSARV AFFAIRS. Salaries of Local Dispensers Fixed for the Year. The directors cf the State Dispen-, pessary have rearranged the salari s of the diprnsers. In many eases th^re were no changes, and in no case was there a reduction. The Increases were based on the increase of business during the fiscal year 1900 and the first half of 1901. i ne rotiowmg are rne tuspensns T/hc3e salaries are to be increased wli'a the amount of monthly salary stipulated in each case: Adam's Run $40 to $50; Anderson $75 to $80; Bishopville, $63 to $70; Blacksburg $30 to $55; Cheraw. $.35 to $70; Charleston (Percival). $65 to $75; Darlington, $75 to $80; Eutwvllle, $50 to $60; Fort Matte,$35 to $40; Gaffney, $65 to $70; Georgetown $75 to $83.23; Hampton. $37.50 to $40; Kershaw, $60 to $65; Lancaster, $60 to $65; Lexengton, $45 to $50; Livingston, $35 to $10; Luray, $25 to $30; Manning, $70 to $75; Marion, $65 to $70; Mayes villa, $45 to |5o; Monck's Corner. $40 to $5); Mount Pleasant, $50 to $55; Olar. $30 to $35; Pickens, $33.33 to $37.50; Ridgeiand, $35 to $37.50; Saluda, $5'J to $55; Seneca, $50 to $55; St. George's, $40 to $45; St. Stephens, $25 to $30; Summer .'ille. $C0 to $55; Toddville, $35 to $45; Union. $70 to $75; VarnviUe, $30 to $35; Wagner, $35 to $37.50; Walballa, $40 to $45; Willis ton, $40 to $42.50; Winnsboro, $60 to $65. The dispenser's clerks who girt raises are: Anderson. $40 to $50; Bamberg, $20 to $30; Barnwell, $30 to $35; Camden, $35 to $40; Charleston (Perelval), $40 to $41.06; Darlington, $10 to $50; Gaffney, $30 to $33; Greenvills (Hill), $40 to $15; Kershaw. $30 to $35; Lancaster, $30 to $33; Manning. $30 to $35; Orangeburg, $40 to $30; Summerville, $30 to $33; Winnsboro. $30 to $35. From the statement of the board the dispensary at Georgstown does more business than any other single institution. The Anderson dispensary comes close to that of Georgetown. Lightning's Fatal Work. Williainston, Special. ? At 3:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, during a severe electric storm, Henry Davenport and Ezel Harvey, two industrious farmers, living three miles abo\e Williamston, who were at work In the Held, iook sneaer rrora uic ram unusr gome pines, when they weie struck by lightning find both killed instantly. The bodies were removed to Mr. Davenport's residence an hour later and Dr. Frank M. Lander did everything possible to resuscitate them but their Jives were extinct. Mr. Davenport was 41 years of age and leaves a wtfe and eight small children, the eldest being but 14 years old. Mr. Harv-y was 25 years of age and leaves a wife with three children,the youngest being a babe two months old. By that fatal bolt 11 children are fatherless, two wives are widows and two homes a. a wrecked. New Enterprises. The Secretary of State has issued a commission to the Cross Hill M'.ll Company of Cross Hill, Laurens county. the corporators of which are J. H. Miller, J. A. Davenport, J, G. Williams, and W. C. Rasor. The capital stock is to he $15,000. A commission has also been issued to the Edwards Lumber Company of Dovesville, Darlington county. The corporators are J. L. Edwards, of Darlington, and H. A. Edwards, of Hartsville. The capital stock is to $5,000. Summer School Closing. Spartanburg, Special.?The State summer school which has been in session here for the past month is drawing to a close. Outgoing trains are crowded with the departing guests. There is a desperate effort being made by persons not directly connected with the State summer school to have some other city get the meet next year. But if it is left to the vote of the teachers themselves there is no doubt but that Spartanburg will be selected for the second time. New Dormitories at Clemson. C'emson College, Special.?Extensive auditions are being made to the dormitory capacity of the college. The new dormitory buildlDg will have 80 rooms and will accommodate 160 students. The college had last year about BOO students and will hare this year mpre ap plications than can be aeoommodated, oven with the nrw addition. Prof. W. tj. Rlggs, formerly In charge of the ilectricaJ department, has been promoted to hare charge of the mechanical department also. He starts tonight for a trip North. The textile department is preparing some exhibits of Its work for the Charleston Exposition. Dawson SoncJs Out Qold. t Seattle, Wash., Special.?Lifte advices from Dawson, under date of June 28, state that the gold shipments to the ou^ide this year hare amounted to $5,000,000. Hams, potatoes, cream and all kinds of fruit are selflng in Dawson at exceedingly low rates and traders are losing money. Peaohe,s. apples and cherries and other fresh fruits arc plentiful. ' r NEW LEMl'RRAGE RULES. Important Action By the State Railroad Commission. The Slate rai'roail commissioner has made pnl;ii> it-j new storage rules.. The commission has hoen working on j i:u: maiu.i' sc?r some unit auu uas i over all the rules cf the southern States. There have been several conicror.tes with the railroad officials and the officers of the car service association. I'ne new rules are em- ! MKh-1 in the following action of the I.' ard: Whereas an u< t va- passed by the general assembly cf South Carolina at the regular session of 1901. and thereafter approved bv the governor of the 15th day of February, A. D. 1901, authorizing and requiring the board of railroad commissioners, "to tix and prescribe a schedule of maximum rates and charges for storage made and charged by the railroads doing business in this State, and to fix what time after the reception of freight at place of destination such charges of storage shall begin" and for other purposes. Now be it Resolved, That we, the board of railroad commissioners do by virtue of the authority conferred by said act, fix the following rules and maximum rates for storage charges to apply to all freights stored by the railroads doing business in this State: i ill iro ?rht roroivprl for delivery Is subject to storage regulations. 2. All package freight not removed by owner i from the custody of the railway company, within seventy-two (72) hours after legal notice of the arrival thereof has been given to consignee. computed from 12 o'clock of the day following the oate of sucty notice of arrival, shall thereafter be subject to a charge for storage, as set forth in rules 4 of these regulations. 3. Prompt notices shall be given to consignees of the arrival of freights, and the said notice must show date of its issue, and the time allowed tot removal without charge for storage. 4. The maximum charges for the storage of freight by the railroads j when stored in the warehouses of the ] said railroads in this State, shall be ; as follows: For five days and under, 1 cent per hundred pounds per day. For 10 days and over 5 days, 6 cents per hundred pounds. For 20 days and over 10 dhys, 8 cents per hundred pound*. For 30 days and over 20 days 10 cents per hundred pounds. For 40 days and over 30 days 13 cents per hundred pounds. For 50 days and over 40 days, 15 cents per hundred pounds. Each additional week and fraction thereof thereafter, 1 cent per hundred pounds. The minimvim charge for any one shipment shall be five cents. Not more than $1 per day shall be charged for any one consignment not in excess of a car load. 5. A consignee living four miles or over from the depot, and, whose freight is destined to his residence or place of business so located, shall not be subject storage charges allowed in the above rules until a sufficient time has elapsed after notice for said consignee to remove said goods by the exercise of ordinary diligence. 6. Shipments detained because billed to order and awaiting bills of 1- J: i?of T-i,/-.t(nric as tn disilOSitiOn. IclU 1 II ? ui 1UOU UVI.IVUU m shipments held for want of billing instructions, shipments held for inspection, change of billing or for any other purpose, by owner or his agent are subject to storage charges, and if such freights are forwarded to any other point accrued storage will be added to the billing as back charges j 7. The rates herein prescribed are maximum rates, but these regulations will not be held to be violated, if low er rates are made Ijy the roads provided that all shippers at the same point are assessed similar rates without discrimination. 8. Legal holidays and Sundays shall not be taken into account, in reckoning the 72 hours herein allowed for removal of freight without charges. 9. Due diligence on the part of the shipper or consignee to remove freight promptly shall be deemed by the rail roads a sufficient ground upon which to remit storage charges accruing by reason of bad weather or impassible reads. 10. Freight and storage charges must be billed in seperate items though they may be billed on the samt ??heet. J. C. WILBORN, Chairman. C. \V. GARRIS. J. H. WHARTON. Commissioners. D. P. DUNCAN. Secretary. io? American cnici pi lav ? City of Mexico, Special.?Exchange on New York has reached a premium of 1.15 above par. This is a whoily unprecedented rate. There is continued talk of the consolidation of the great banks in order to offset growing American financial and business influence It was reported that the entire street railway system of this city and the Federal districts will soon pass intf the hands of American capitalists. TELEGRAPHIC TERSITIES. Ninety seven in the shade and 108 to 110 in the sun were the temperatures in Chicago Saturday. All but two of the New Orleans breweries have suspended work owing to the strike of 180 skilled men for recognition of the union. The corrected state censns returns I which were completed Saturday show J that there are 517.035 people in Baltif more city and 1.1SU749 in the wholf; state. I | Ex-Se: itor Pough. of Alabama, was not so weft Saturday. He suffers a | great dpal from the heat. His physij cian, however, doe3 not consider him in immediate dangar. i , ?, ? CLEVErt DIAMOND THIEP. He Steals a Sparkler Worth $250 With an Apple's Assistance. Men who are more than six feet tall and who eat apples are regarded with distrust by every jewelery store in State street. The reason for this is a theft that occurred last week in one of the most prominent stores. The work was neatly done, and the combination of a tall man, eating an apple, makes every clerk and door detective suspicious. A distinguished looking stranger with white hair and white beard strolled into a State street store last Saturday and asked to sec some diamond rings. The clerk reached tor them, leaving one try filled with expensive rings on top of the show case. "Here they are," he said, placing the reccr.d tray beside the first. As he did so the tall man, who had been munching at a fine russet apple, threw the core into the street. ; He and the clerk went over the ringa jn the trays, but he could not find none that he wanted to buy. As he turned to go the clerk discovered that a ring worth $250 was missing. The clerk disliked to accuse the distinguished looking stranger of having stolen the ring. There was prospect of a suit for damages against his employer and his own discharge if the accusation should be found groundless. Still, if he let the man get away with the ring it would mean that he would have to pay for it. Torn between these positions the clerk finally hinted that the customer must have seen the ring. "Of course I saw it. I had it in my hand only a moment ago. Ah. I catch your meaning. You want to infer that I . Be careful, sir; you do not know who I am. I won't put up with any such v nonsense." The stranger, despite his protests, was searched, but the ring was not found. The jeweler was apprehensive of a big suit for damages until the detectives found that the tall man is an old-time hotel thief who wins out often on the strength of his impressive appearance. The way lie got away with the ring was to slip it into the half-eaten apple he held in his hand and then to throw the apple into the street, where a confederate picked it up and got away, and the tall man could stand a search with lafety.?Chicago litter Ocean. The Size of Raindrops. The Paris Meteorologist Society has undertaken the laborious task of measuring the dimensions of raindrops. It is found that the largest are about one-sixth of an inch, and the smallest one five-hundredth of an inch in diameter. They are larger in summer than in winter and larger in hot than in cold climates. At the moment of condensation of the lining cfuffl rrroi ? V.olll >dJJU| iu 11 iv. iiijiiivj oiaiv ?iva? numbers of extremely small drops are formed in close proximity. . 1 As they fall they come together, and coalesce in consequence of mutual attraction, and so what we call raindrops are formed. In the summer the lower strata of air are warmer than in winter, and therefore clouds are formed at a greater height where conditions are favorable for rapid condensation. The drops falling from these high . summer clouds have more time to grow, and therefore become larger than the winter drops. , In winter, as is well known, clouds often exist very near the ground. The velocity with which raindrops fall depends both on their size and on the wind, which makes them fall obliquely. Other things being equal, a drop of medium size, say, one-fifth of an inch in diameter, may strike the ground with a velocity of some 13 feet a second, while a very large drop, measuring onesi x.th of an inch, may attain a speed of 38 feet a second.?London Express. An acre of bananas will produce, it* weight, 133 times as much as an acre wheat. Banana flour is coming into ise. Brewers are experimenting with bananas as a substitute for barley. Prom the fibre of the plant, rope, can?*a3 and thin clothing are being made. The I argest and Most Complete hestablishment South. GEO. S. HACKER & SON, ? MANUFACTURERS OF ? Sash. Doors. Blinds* Moulding and Building Material, Sash Wei (jilts and Cord CHARLESTON, 8. C. Purchase cnr make, which we guarantee superior to any sold South, and thereby save money. Window and Fancy Glass a Specialty, I