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OK'S WEEKLY REVIEW. Labor Tronbies dave Decided Effeot on Trade. Better Domestic Demand For Cot? ton Goods, But Offers. For Shina Too Low-Fail? ures For Half Year. New York, July 5.-R. G. Dun & Co's., weekly review of trade tomor? row will say : Developments of fresh labor trou? bles is a feature of the week that has made for conservatism in many direc? tions, but throughout the country jobbing and retail lines are busy and are handling goods at prices which yield fair profits. There is no reflec? tion of this activity in the continued improvement in the textile markets in ; the east and the uneasiness over the ? money market does not extend beyond ;?he ranks of speculators in stocks. Crop reports continue gratifying, much good having been done by rains ' .in the middle west. Harvesting of winter wheat progresses favorably. Mnnfacturing has been interrupted by the elements of labor agitation. !??< . Numerous prostrations from heat caused the employers to close the mills during the" most distressing hours, while.'the sheet and hoop work? ers were ordered to stop work until certain disputed points were settled. No immediate settlement is anticipat 4?* ed because many plants need, repair and others are taking stock. Until fife' the owners wish to resume their posi? tion will not be known. The reduc Bp tion of 25 cents on No. 2S sheets was i unexpected and not* accompanied by any general weakening of prices. Cot . tons are in better domestic demand, A but prices are held above bids of ship uppers to China, and sales in the brown |??%- goods division have decreased. Manu '. ?' factoring as a whole is unusually ae tive for the season. Staple products : ' are quiet, speculation being restricted " \ by depressing weather, and the lengthy Wt.::' holidays at most of the exchanges " prevented week commitments. News from the west was full of ^ promise as to the rgowing wheat yield, / causing a further decline in prices, al though foreign needs are known to be i&i heavy. ^ Corn steadied somewhat be cause of the reported damage from g-': heat and brought. Receipts continue \7\ light in comparison with last year's J.J' but exports are equally satisfactory. Cotton holds firmly at a point a little below 9 cents, the free movement into sigth being disregarded. Strength is :;"'V found "tn greater activity in the goods market together with rumors of rain in Texas and a few other States where V:. moisture is deefiient. Sales of No. 7 Rio coffee have been made below six cents which is not surprising since re . ceipts at Rio and Santos reports for the ?*?;'* crop year just ended were little short V of IL OOO, 00& bags. Even this record breaking crop will be surpassed if the - current yield is equal to expectations. ?>.V Compared with the prices of a year : - ago wheat shows a decline of about ll cents a bushel, cotton $6.25 a bale and <: > coffee 3 % a pound, while corn is not ^p? v higher than last year's-price and pork - products alone of these comomdities show any advance. Commercial failures during the first half of 1901 numbered 5,759, with lia? bilities^ of $55,804,690, against 5,332 \_" "last year for $74,747,R452. In manu ? -facturiag lines there were 1,265 de p/:' faults with $21,691048 liabilities, ; - . while 4,189 traders failed for 824,864, f 507.^ The improvement over the pre? ceding year was most striking -in ? '?. "brokerage and banking insolvencies f which were ?9,249,435 and S15,S39,554 Tespectiv??y , against $221,24,346 and ^$25,822,682 last year.. This is the most noteworthy because the violent agita? tion in Wall street during May was . -calculated, to cause serious disturbance ? and the last week of June brought other failures through the injudicious -speculation and poor banking methods. While the half year statement is gratifying the second quarter makes a much better showing, liabilities de? clining 87,602,282 compared with the rfirst quarter and $17,623,675 in com? parison with the second quarter of 1900. The average liabilities per fail v Tire was smaller than in the correspond? ing three motnhs of any year since these records were first compiled. The proportion of the bad to solvents pay? ments through clearing houses was ? v but 69 cents to each $1.000. and only one out of the preceding 105 quarters recorded a lower ratio while the av?r? ez v a?e amount of defaults to each firm in 't;.-- business as but $20.33, only seven other quarterly periods making small? er returns. TEXIS BIM FOB STANO&RO OIL Houston Oil Co. With $30,000,000 Capital Chartered. Houston. Tex., July 5.-Charters were todav filed at Austin for the Houston Oil Company with a capitali? zation of $30.000,000 and the Kirbv Lumber Company, capitalized at $10," 000,000. The first named bas been organized to handle oil produced in the Texas field and is primarily " in? tended as a competitor of the Stand? ard Oil Company, first in Texas and rafter wards in the domestic and export ?trade. Its articles embrace provisions tor owning lands, prospecting for and -marketing oil, ouerating pipe lines and steams! i ps. The lumber company will take over the holdings of John ??. .Kirby, embracing more than 1,000.000 acres, p-mbracin?: the larger part of the standing timber in iast Texas. increase in Postage. Washington, July 5.-The cabinet was in session about two hours today and devoted the entire time to minor matters. Postmaster General Smith explained how the revenues of the pos? tal service were being kept at a point far below what they otherwise would be but for the fact that under the present classification a large class of periodicals were handled at the rate of one cent a pound, which was a great financial loss to the servrice. It was bis purpose to modify the regulations so as to compel this class of publica? tions to pay eight cents a pound in? stead of one as now. These new regu? lations, it is said, will be issued m a feff days. TIGERS CAUSE TROUBLE. State Board Asks Mayor and Chief to Show Cause-Radi? cal Action is Taken. At the opening session of the regular monthly meeting of the State board of control* yesterday afternoon a good sized bombshell was dropped upon the matter of the enforcement of the dispensary law in Charleston. It came in the form of the following resolu? tion which was promptly adopted : "Resolved, That the mayor and chief of police of the city of Charles? ton are" hereby accorded the privilege, and are so requested to appear at the office of the State board of directors in Columbia, S. C., on the 16th inst., at 110 o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any j they have, why the dispensray profits accruing to said city should not be withheld under Sec. 9 of the dispen? sary law, to be used for the better en? forcement of said law." This step on the part of the board seems to be entirely unexpected. There was no intimation of the matter until the resolution was presented and adopted so far as the public is aware, The resolution is, however, very plain and emphatic in its terms, and has the ring of "something doing"" about it. No doubt it will create quite a stir in Charleston. It may mean the inauguration of a new plan to bring about the enforcement of the law in Charleston. Its possibilities are many. -The tate, July 3. AN AWFUL DAY IN-NEW YORK. New York. July 3.-Rain storms of today, with consequent fall in temper? ature, were a Godsend to the : bulk of sweltering humanity in this city. As soon as the last storm of the afternoon had passed over the temperature im? mediately began to ascend. The wind, which blew during the storm, also commenced to abate very rapidly, un? til it assumed the proportions of a* slight breeze only. These atmospheric conditions, coupled with the very considerable humidity which as an af? termath of the downfall of .water from the clouds, made the suffering almost as intense as it was when the ther? mometer had registered several degrees higher. Most of the hospitals are already crowded to stheir utmost capacity and many of them have erected tents on their grounds for the accommodation of the heat victims. The death rate has increased with such rapidity that the morgue is being taxed as it never was before and every available foot of that institution is now occupied by corpses. Hospital attendants are collapsing under the ex? traordinary strain to which they have been subjected, and were it not for the volunteers who have come to their aid, the situation would be greatly exag? gerated by enforced neglect of heat patients. BRYAN AT MOUNT EAGLE. Mount Eagle, Tenn., July 4.-Hon. W. J. Bryan, who spoke here this af? ternoon, declared the constitution and th? declaration of independence insep? arable and said the constitution with? out it would be dead. Mr. Bryan said the nation will never outgrow the dec? laration until it forsakes the doctrine of the consent of the governed. The abolition of the declaration, he said, would cause us to lose the re? spect of all nations and the adoption of a brute force policy would ultimate? ly lead to the downfall of the rep no? lie. Imperialism, he said, is the log? ical outcome of the commercial spirit of the country. The tendency of the times, he said, is toward the creation of an aristocracy of wealth and the re? linquishment of those virtues that are essential to the well being of a free and respectable constitutional constit? uency. And Now-Oil Main Street. We are informed that in consequence of the apparent success of the oil sprinkling experiment on one block of Blanding street an adjoining block of macadam roadway 'will soon be treated with petroleum. It is easy to foresee the extension of the improvement to other blocks and streets. One of the Blanding street experi? menters, a business man having a stand on Main street, suggested to us } yesterday that if the city authorities I should still continue to ignore the dust nuisance and thereby leave* the Main street merchants to the mercies of "private monopoly" watering carts, the people doing business on that thor? oughfare would "soon find it expedient to adopt the plan of oil sprinkling. He maintained that it would be a great economy for them to do so, be? sides enabling them to attain the ob? ject for which they have spent money vainly for many years. As the case stands now, he said, the street water? ing does not lay the dust effectively. The sprinkling makes mud for several hours, and then, as the . moisture evaporates, the mud is converted again into dust. Instead of relief, those who . contribute to street watering now get but the alternative of two nuisances- . mud and dust. The roadway once soaked with oil, however, would re? main free from|both dust and mud for a long time, and even repeated appli? cations during the season would not cost as much tu each merchant as he now pays for watering. Let us figure this out. According to the statement of our informant, ten barrels of road oil, costing is sufficient for the first and heaviest ap? plication to a block of macadam. The street watering service costs each mar? chant contributing to it 612 per an? num. A count of the store fronts on the blocks whereon our informant does business showed 30 of them. The annual contribution, therefore, toward watering this block, providing all the business ^establishments- join? ed in it, would be thirty times ?12 or 8360. Now, even if we allow that four applications of pe? troleum would be necessary each year, each application costing as much as the first-and this is a very liberal es? timate-the annual cost of the oil would be $220 against 8360 for water? ing, a saving of 6140 annually. More? over, the dust would be entirely sup? pressed, and so would the mud. Both in winter and in summer the relief would be felt-The State. THE PLAGUE IN MISSISSIPPI. Horses and Mules Dying of Char? bon by Hundreds. Jacksonville, Miss., July 5.-Dr. William Sutherland, health officer of Bolivar county, today made the follow? ing report on Charbon which has ap? peared among cattle in that part of this State : "Anthrax appeared in this commu? nity about three weeks ago in virulent I form and is causing wholesale destruc ? tion of mules, horses and swine. I have heard of only one case in man, \ but fear its effects on the people be I fore it runs its course. The atmos I phere is full of the stench from dead animals. They die so fast they cannot be buried or burnt, and it is exceed? ingly difficult to get men to undertake the job. The infected district is from above Gunnison, near Duson on the north to Bolivar and Benot on the south and east to Bogue Phalia. I never knew horse flies so numerous and they are the cause of the rapid dissemination of the disease. House flies and mosquitoes are also supposed to aid its spread. Dr. Roberts of the experiment station came here at my call, but can offer no remedy except the injection of the serum. I have without authority put this section in quarantine as to animals." Senator Moore of Bolivar confirms the stories sent out about Charbon and says 90 per cent, of the stoc? in the infected district is dead. A Chapter of Misfortunes. About the only person who cannot appreciate the humor in the following situation described by the Charlotte Observer in an account of a suit" for damages at Raleigh is the plaintiff in the original suit. The vestibuled train from Atlanta was bowling along Toward Raleigh, on a down grade at the rate of fifty miles per hour at 1 o?clock in the morning. Mr. William Watlington was on his way to a wild-turkey blind which he had baited and had his double-bar? reled, breech-loading gun on his shoulder, two cartridges in the cham? bers. On reaching the railroad track, which was on an embankment about ten feet, high at this place. Mr. Wat? lington heard the train in the dis? tance, and stopped on the side of the track about fifty feet away to view the train as it passed by. He could not see over the embankment to the other side oft he track. Along bedside the embankment on both sides of the track are the usual ditches, which were filled with water. Mr. Watlington was standing on the north side of the track with his gun on his shoulder. On the other side of the track were a number of cattle nip? ping grass, which Mr. Wtlington could not see. Just a few seconds before the train swept by these cattle com? menced to straggle across the track to the side on which Mr. Watlington was standing. The bovines all got safely across except one Jersey bull. He was caught on the cowcatcher and hurled away with terrible velocity, and, as misfortune and luck would have it, he struck Mr. Watlington about mid? ships and knocked him down into the ditch and plante dhimseif on top of him. The bull was stunned. He struggled, but could not get up, and the water was drowning both man and beast. Mr. Honeycutt, the engi? neer, who was watching the cattle, had not seen Mr. Watlington, and when the fireman told him what had happened he stopped the train and hurried back and "got there in time to get Mr. Watlington and the bull out of the ditch before they were drowned. Striking Mr. Watlington and knock? ing him into the water saved gthe life of the bull, and the water saved the blow by the bull from killing Watl? ington. ' Further examination showed that when the bull struck Mr. Watlington the shock knocked the gun some dis? tance, and when it struck the ground it was discharged and killed one of the cows and wound? ed another so badly that it had to be killed. The gun was not injured. On these facts Judge Brown held that the railroad company was not liable in damage to Mr. Watling ton. Since the trial the owner of the two cows has sued Mr. Watlington and recovered 8100 in full of damages for their killing. Mr. Watlington was knocked down ; by a Jersey bull, which was hurled at him by the train, and nearly drown- . ed, and his gun was discharged and '? killed two cows, and he gets no dam- . ages and is compelled to pay 8100 for : the luxury* of being principal ;n the : most celebrated case in the history of accidents to animals and man by railroad trains. But since all this hap? pened Mr. Watlington has had a great piece of good luck befall him. He has been working for Mr. H. N. Snow at High Point in the furniture busi? ness for many years. Snow is getting old, and, being rich as? tired of business, he retired and gave the whole plant and business,, worth 820, - OOO, to Mr. Watlington, who was of no kin to him, but simply a faithful employe. So Mr. Watlington had some recompense for his experience with the bull and the trarn. NEW YORK AT CHARLESTON. Albany, N. Y., July 5.-The New York State commission ;to represen*; the State at the South Carolina In? terstate and West India:-. Exposition, to be held at Charleston, S. C., met at the executive chamber today and organized. S. Chrisry Mead was elected president, and Jas. B. Town? send secretary. The commission has 815,000 with which to properly represent the State ac the exposition. It decided to erect a building at the exposition and en? tertainment of New York State visi? tors. As the exposition opens rn De? cember, it was determined not to at? tempt to prepare any State exhibit, the time being too brief, but to pro? cure, if possible, a part of the State educational exhibit at the Pan-Amer? ican Exposition for the Charleston Ex? position. A white boy eleven years old was drowned at a Fourth of July picnic near McCormick. He was a son of Mrs. C. F. Creighton. His nine year old brother was rescued as he was sinking for the last time. ?OOO is hard enough as it is. It is to her that we owe our world, and everything should be mace as easy as possible for her at the time ot childbirth. This is just what MOTHER'S FRIEND will do. It will mak e baby's coming easy and painless, and that without tak? ing dangerous drugs into the sys? tem. It is simply to be applied'to trie muscles of the abdomen. It penetrates through the skin carry? ing strength and elasticity with it It strengthens the whole system and prevents all of the cliscomforts of pregnancy. The mother of a plumb babe in Panama, Mo., says: "I have used Mother's Friend and can praise it highly." Get Mother's Friend at the Drug Store, SI per bottle. The Bradfield Regulator Co., ATLANTA, GA. Write for our free illustrated book, " Before Babv i-j Born." Life and Fire Insurance. Call on me, at my residence, Liberty Street, for both Life and Fire Insu rance. Ooiy reliable Companies rep resented. Phone No 130. Audrena Moses* Oct 25-0. AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS THE EXAMINATIONS for the award of vacant scholarships in Win? throp College and for the admission of new students will be held at the comi? ty Court House on Friday. July 12th, at 9 a. m. Applicants must not be less than fifteen years of age. When scholarships" are vacated after July 12th, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination. The cost of attendance, including board, furnished room, heat, light and washing, is 89.00 per month. For further information and a Cata? logue address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. May 22 Eggs and Chickens? Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs, FROM FINE STRAINS OF FOWLS At $1 per sitting of 13 Also a few young Cockerels for sale. 1ST. GK OSTEEJST. L mm ? SON, Fire Insurance Agency ESTABLISHED 186?. Represent, among other Companies LIVERPOOL k LONDON & OLOBF NORTH BRITISH ? MERCANTILE HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. t. LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000 Feh 28. Estate of John Holland, Deceased I WILL APPLY to the Judge of Probate of Sumter County on July 12th, 1901,. for a final discharge as Administrator with Will annexed on Estate of said deceased. R. J. HOLLAND, Admir. C. T. A. June 12.-it DAVIDSON COLLEGE DAVIDSON, N. C. 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