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r 1 i- i PAGES .3 TO 6. WINNSB3ORO, S.-C., WEDNESDAY, 'AVRIL 23, 19O2. 'PAE3TO. A STEAMER BURNED Awful Scenes On Board a Fated River Boat SIXTY PEOPLE REPORTED MISSING Passengers Awoke to Find Them selves Surrounded By Smoke and Flames. Cairo, Ill., Special.-The side-wheel steamer City of Pittsburg, from Cin cinnati to Memphis, was burned to the water's edge early Sunday morning, at Turner's Landing, 24 miles from this city. The early reports stated that 65 lives were lost and that many were bad:y burned and otherwise injured, but the list of casualties is not yet defi nitely determined. Two boats and all available craft from this city went to the scene for relief. Efforts were made to catch the New South, of the same line at Paducah, and have her steam back for relief, but the steamer had passed Paducah, upward bound, before the telegram was received. Most of the passengers were still in bed when See ond Clerk Oliver Phillips gave the alarm. The engineers at once started all the pumping engines, while the crew had broughtt all the hose into play. Amid the streams of water on all sides. the flames from the lower deck and dense clouds of smoke, the passen gers rushed from their state rooms and a frightful panic ensued. The appeals of the officers and crew could not ap pease the terror-stricken crowds that interfered with those throwing water on the flames as well as with those 'working with the life boats. Few could adjust life preservers or do anything else for themselves. The smoke was stiff!ing. Great clouds floated through the blazing steamer, choking the pas sengers and adding to their terror. Children cried pitifully, begging that they be saved. Life boats wc:e manned and every effort was made to save the passengers from the floating furnace of names. From the river banks the sparks from the burning craft and the guds of smoke, tinged with Same , de a most impressive and welrd spec cle. Boats were sent from mhore to he in the work of rescue. The steamer was qgni" headed to-the bank, but passengers were forced to jump from the stern and tried to swim ashore through the swift current and many were drowned. Many also per ished in the flames. Only one yawl was saved, without oars, and about 20 or '0 women were taken off in the yawl. The rest were picked up out of the water. Help, except from people living near by did not arrive until 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, and passengers with only night clothes and without food suffer ed terribly. Among the missing are a child of Pilot Al. Pritchard, and Clay. Breeze, his wife and son, and a son of Archie M. Allen, of Pittsburg. Captain Philipps says ;0 or 25 of the passengers are missing and the same number of the crew. Two women pas sengers were severely burned, but will recover. They are Mrs. S. R. Leach, of Bridgeport, 0., burned about the hands, and Miss Ellen Fenmore, of Arbuckle, 'W. Va., severely burned about the face. Mrs. Fannie McCulIum, of Leav enworth, Ind., lost thre3 children. Pat Burt, of Owensboro, Ky., his wife and six children, were all lost. The body of a child dressed in night clothes, was taken from the river at Mound City. Among the first boies recovered ;.'ere those of Captain Wesicy Doss, of Cin cinnati, and Miss Marie Tissim, of Canelton, Indl. Miss Marie Lisler, of Carrollton, 0., died after being brought on shore. Sylvester Doss 'died after getting to shore. 'The following is a partial list of those 'lost: Mr. Adams, of Ohio, bound for St. Louis; Mr. Dowvns, of Memphis; Tom Smith, steerman, of Memphis; Patrick Burrafe, of Owensboro, KCy.; Joe Ridding and Lud Jones, strikers' engineers, of Cincinnati; Win. B. Stu art, of Cincinnati; a little girl named Sweeney, of Owensburg, IKy.; L. L. Hunter, of Litinti, Pa.; two cooks and two chambermaids and most of the deck hands. The fire was discovered at 4:05 a. m. There were 60 passengers and 70 in the crew. General Strike in Prospect. Huntington, W. Va., Special.-The United Mine Workers of West Virgin ia, whose repeated efforts to bring about a conference between themselves and the coal operators of the State have been unsuccessful, will make a final effort to secure the latter's attend ance at a meeting called for the present 'week in this city. If no recognition or -satisfaction shall be obtair.e: at this meeting. it is said a general strike will be the result among the thousandls cf mine workers along the Chceapeake & Chio and Norfolk: & Western and the Baltimore & Obio Railrca:Is. British Consols in Demand. London, By Cable.-There was a tre mendous rush to subscribe to the new loan of 232,000O.000 ($160,000,000') Wed nesday. At the Bank of England it was estimnated in the evening the loan had been ten times over-subscribed. The subscriptean lists will close prob SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAI For Practical Education. At the annual meeting of the Texa Cotton Manufacturers' Association la! week at Dallas resolutions wer adopted calling for a legislative apprc priation sufficient to establish and o erate a textile school. The adoption c these resolutions followed an addres by President E. A. Du Bosn, who calle attention to the necessity, whenever new cotton mill is organized in th State, for superintendents, overseer. engineers, machinists and electrician! and the present custom of sending out side of the State for such labor. He ir sisted that the greatest cotton growin State in the union ought to provide th means for equipping and qualifyin natives of the State for these lucrativ positions, especially as the time is n: far distant when the South will b manufacturing finer fabrics. Thus.th campaign for practical education in th South widens. It is natural that i should have its inspiration in the te, tile industry. But it should not sto there. It should extend into all line I in which the rising generation of th South may learn to labor confidently. Appalachian Park. The bill for the establishment of national forest.reserve in the Souther Appalachians has been reported favor ably in Congress. Nothing should b permitted to prevent its becoming a: act. It authorizes the purchase o 4,00.000,000 acres of 1 d in the mour tain region extendin from Souther: Virginia and West V rginia to North ern Alabama and Georgia, touchin; South Carolina and Tennessee and con taining not only the greatest variet of timber in the country, but what i of equal importance, the head spring of more than a dozen important river emptying into the Atlantic ocean, th Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi an Ohio rivers. The passage of the bill i of prime Importance to secure condi tions whereby the value of thes streams for transportation and irriga tion, and as sources of industrial ani I commercial power, may be maintained if not increased, and to give practice encouragement to the development o scientific f->restry, the necessity fo which is becoming every year mor recognized. From Wadesboro to Winston. Representatives of the Winston Salem (N. C.) Chamber of Commerc recently appeared before a special com -mittee and a number of members of th Charleston (S. C.) Chamber /f-Cn merce advocating the construction o the. proposed Wadesborof & Winsto] Railroad, which would .give a direc route from Charleston via the Atlanti Coast Line or the Norfolk & Westerl railroad to coal lands in Virginia ani West Virginia. It was stated that th financial plan of the proposed con struction was well advanced. The dic tance from Wadesboro' to Winston Salem in a direct line is about seventy five miles, and a line so constructe; would run through . Anson, Stanly Davidson and Forsyth counties, L North Carolina. It .might also touc) Rowan county. Big Oil Contract. It is announ"ed that the United Ga Improvement Co. has awardtto th Lone Star & Crescent Oil N. a con tract for the delivery of 1,500,000 bar rels cf crude Texas oil per annum fo five years. The oil Is to be used in th manufacture of illuminating gas, ani is expected to insure a saving in ex penses of about $750,000 a year. Thi contract, involving an expenditure o moetai$2,000,000, becomes effectivi at once. The oil will be sent from thi Lone Star & Crescent gushers in thb Beaumont field by pipe line to Sabio Pass, and ther.ce by steamers to Nes York and Philadelphia. To irrigate Rice Lands. Charter has been. filed by the Cal casieu & Mermentou Canal Co., witi capital stock of $25,000 for the con struction of an irrigation canal. Tb canal will connect the Calcasieu an Mrmentou rivers, and by taking ad vantage of natural water-courses it: length will be reduced to ten mile5 This canal will reclaim thusands o acres of overflowed lands and enabi the rice-growers to send their product to market at cheaper rates. L. Kauf man is president; J. A. Bell. vice-persi dent; H. B. Milligan, secretary, and H C. Drew, treasurer, all of Lake Charles 1*. Seaboard Air Line a Bidder. New York, Special-John W. Gate: and August Belmont were in confer ence with Morgan representatives Fri day. It was understood that severa large lots of Louisville & Nashvill< were deposited with Morgan & Co., il accordance with the Belmont-Gate: agreement. A report that the Gate: faction had sold a large amount c Louisville & Nashville stock to Morga1 & Co.. at 115 could not be confirme< and was generally discredited. Anoth er report to the effect that the Sea board Air Line had "bid" 130 cash fo the Gates' holdings 'in Louisville Nashville was also discredited. lieavy Damage Awarded. New York, Special.-Mrs. Lottie C D!Non, widow of Heonry G. Dimon, wb was killed in the Park Avenue Tunne accident on the New York Centra Railroad several months ago. wa awarded $60,000 damages against th railroad .campany by a jury i:: Whit Pains N. v Friday. MSTOCKS WENT WILD Southern Railway Securities Brought et Fancy Figures f MORGAN BROKERS LEAD BUYING d - a Shares Representing O.ie-Fourth the Capital Changed Hands in Forty Minutes of Trading. i- f g Washington, Special to the Chglotte Observer.-Wi L hying of Southern Z Railway stocks was begun Tuesday as i t soon as the stock exchange was called t e to order in New York. The fact that ( e the Morgan brokers were prominent t in buying was interpreted to mean that Morgan & Co. had taken -Louis p ville & Nashville off John W. Gates' t s hands at his own price and that he had e e done this with the consent of the , Rothschilds. More than 250.000 shares of Southern Railway, common and preferred, were c a traded in in the first 40 minutes, amid' 1 .. scenes of great excitement. These ( e shares represented about one-fourth of 11 the capitl stock of the road. More than $10,000,000 cash was Involved in c Q their purchase. The price of the com - mon stock rose under this buying from r 34 1-2 to 37 1-2, the highest price at t - which Southern Railway has ever sold. e The preferred also made a new high t s record, rising from the closing price of s 95 to 98 1-2 under enormous transac- f e tions. At the same time Louisville & s I Nashville was bought quietly in very t s large blocks. The street believes that s the buying now is merely to strengthen t the control of the Morgan party in the Southern territory. It Is said that J. t P. Morgan, in London, and George W. t Perkins, in New York, spenc: all Mon r day night In cable conversation regard e ing Louisville. Concerning this deal an afternoon + edition of The New York Journal says: s "It was learned from very high author - ty that Mr. Morgan at first refused to e negotiate with the Gates party, fear e ing displeasure of the Rothschilds. thcid in Loen- t ment whereby they gave their consent t to the acqusitica of the Louisville & $ s Nashville by Mr. Morgan. It is under I stood that Rothschilds' control cost un- o e der $60 a share, and that they have dis- t - posed of it at enormous profits. The, Rothschilds' willingness to let the road t - go is said to be due to their belief that : I the wave of prosperity in America has t reached almost the top and that they s can get back control if they should ever desire it at much lower figures. t Mr. Morgan, by buying only with their consent, has diverted from himself the t s proverbial wrath of this family and has t e centered it on the heod of John W. h S - Gates, who henceforth Is a marked -man. Intimate friends of the Roths- g r chlds said that no matter how many l1 millions John W. Gates might accu- s mulate for the time being, he was ruin- l1 ed from the day he antagonized the t sRothschilds; that it is the rule of the p family never to forgive the man who c outwits them." Details Meager. Washington, Special.-The Navy Department has received but meagre I details of the reported murder or kill- It1 ing of Agnes Williams, a water tender t - aboard the United States steamship] SLancaster, by James Paine, 'a black- r smith, while the ship was lying atc I Charleston. The court-martial, headed - by Admiral Cooper, which has been 0 trying Surgeon Marsteller, at Port ~ LRoyal, will be held there until addi- ~ ftional details of the Paine case can enable the law officers of the Depart E ment to prepare charges and specifi cations. Word was received at thed - Navy Department that Marsteller0 -court has been concluded, though the a ,finding of the court, as is customary, c was not given. Insurance Suspended. e SVicksburg, Miss., Special.-The spe- t - cal agents of fire insurance corn panies doing business here met Tues-t day and later all local fire agents re- I ported that they had suspended busi ness. It is hoped that a second con- t 3 ference of the special agents, the e r board of trade, cotton exchange and e bankers may cause a re-consideration of this action. The trouble grows out Iof the failure of the city to reorganize t the fire department, which It is c claimed, Is incompetent. The com- t panies demand a new fire chief and a general reorganization Killed Man Who Ran Over 11ls Dog. a Newport News, Special.-Joe Hautz, -a dairyman, was shot and killed by I thomas Cox, a Warwick county farm- 5 1'er, in the public Toad near Cox's farm Tuesday afternoon. Hautz accidental- b Sly drove over Cox's tog, killing It. The farmer who was intoxicated, fired upon the dairyman, fatally wounding him. e Cox was arrested and lodged in jail r ClEMICAL COMP,NY IN COURT. Judge Buchanan, ides That Cas Cannot. Be Removed. From the Columb' State, 18th. Judge Buchanan as declined t grant the petition for the removal o he case brought by the State agains :he Virginia-Carolina Chemical com )any for violation of the State anti rust act from the State to the Unitei states court, and other moves of in :erest in the now famous proceedinj tre expected in short order. It wa: luite an array of distinguished lega alcnt that faced -Judge Buchanan tiednesday afternoon at 3 o'clocl when argument on the petition was t )cgin. It looked for a long time as i he counsel representing the Virginia ,arolina Chemical company intende< o rely solely upon what was concretel; et forth in the petition-that the pro eeding involved a federal constitu lonal question, but after the thre trong arguments on behalf of th tate, Mr. H. A. M. Smith briefly ad ressed the court for about 15 minutes When the court was ready to pro eed ' -with the healing Mr. Henry A d. Smith, representing the Virginia ,arolina .Chemical :company,- read the etitlon on which.,he asked for a re noval of .the cause,to.the United State. ourt and then present,ed a bond of the Lmericn_ Bonding company of Balti aore, w kh he said had complied witt he la 'of the State and was dul3 .uthori ed to issue' and grant suck onds. Under the petition and bond he askec or an order of removal under the tatue law of the State. The peti ion and bond fully complied with*the tatue.Jaw and he therefore askee hat the cause be removed. Attorney General Bellinger stated hat the case, was not removable is he opinion of the. opposition. HE rould undertake to show that the case ras not removable and he did not takc t that the mere statement that the ase was removable made it so. He herefore wanted to know the order o1 peaking. Judge Buchanan held that the actor the Virginia-Carolina Chemical com any) should have. the opening and eply. Mr. Smith said hq:had nothing four ter to say ,than Was contained in the ide to show wherein. his petition .of ts bond was defedive. Mr. J. N. Nathans, wIo is associates rith the. attorney general in the case hought it peculiar that the actor. hould have nothing to say when the tate had concurt ent'jurisdiction wit5 he United States- courts. It . wa! lainly a case for judicial determina on and not one in which the judgE at as a figure liead. The distinguish d counsel had recently in the case of he Empire Minig. company argued his very point. j Mr. Smith sai , he had nothing fur ber to say at t time than was con ained in the p ion, which set forth is position and authorities, 'and the tate should open. Attorney General Bellinger then be an his argument. It was a particu irly able one, .but purely legali' and bowed thorough familiarity with the iws relating not only to removals'but a trusts. It was lengthy and comn lete, hundreds - of authorities being ited. He dealt for' some time with the iw as to the construction of Federa] idiciary acts, and to the statement of be principles governing the case, quot 1g first the constitution of the United tates, then dealing exhaustively i urn with the situation prior to 1875, be judiciary act ef 1875, and the ju iciary act of 1887-1888. Mr. Bellinger then sum-marized the esult of the examination of the judi lary acts as follows: "From the foregoing examination 0f ases decided under the acts of 1875 nd of 1887-1888, the following conclu ion necessarily results: In citing caseu > the point that no federal question 1 the case at bar appear's In such a ray as to give the circuit court juris. Iction, it Is Immaterial whether the ases thus cited were originally rought- in the circuit court under the et of 1876, or originally brought in the ircuit court under the act of 187-188g r removed into the circuit court undei be act of 1887-1888; while, on the oth r hand, no cases of removals undei be act of 1875 can be cited against the laintiff on the motion to remove i be case at bar, because the change in be federal statutes makes them nc nger In point; and lastly under th( ct of 1887-1888 now governing remov ls, averments in the defendant's pe. tion for removal are to be entirely xcluded from consideration, In deter ilning-whether the suit tenders a fed ial question." He held that the federal questior lust arise actually, not merely poten ally. "It is a well settled rule that it rder to constitute a suit arising under be constitution of laws of the United tates the 'case must show a question bat does arise, or will necessarilly rise, under the constitution or laws of be United States. and not one that ly or may not arise.' Though Messrs. James Simons, P. A. Vilcox and Holman were present ith Mr. Smith. only that attorney poke for the Virginia-Carolina Chemi al company. His remarks were brief, aj his argument was clear and force al. Mr. Smith said the question was nar ow and clear cut. He admitted the ight of the State court to pass upor 11 nnsonsn submitted to It. The no.. t':cn should be passed upon by th court first having jurisdiction. Th filing of the petition and bond complet e ed the preliminaries. The allegation of fact-non-residence, etc.-should a] ways be looked into. But when the pe tition sets forth that there is a fed 3 eral right involved then the cour f merely passes on the right of removal t THE JUDGE'S DECISION. Judge Buchanan said: "As I take it the person who undertakes to transfe - or remove a case from this court, th I case already on the calendar for tria . on the ground it should not be here must establish itfii make out all thos things necessary to have a remova made. Here it is sought to be done be cause it is said that this case ought t< be in the United States court, the Fed eral courts have jurisdiction over i > and the State courts have not jurisdic tion over it. Upon the showing mad here I don't think a removal case ha! been made out. I think the State court. have jurisdiction, and do not think I should be turned over to the othei courts, upon the showing made here. "Therefore I will sign a short order.' The proper order was then signed and the hearing was ended. The Vir ginia-Carolina Chemical company wil now very likely begin a proceeding it the federal court in shrvt ord^t. New Orleans Cotton Market. New Orleans, Special.-Cotton fu tures took on additional strength Fri day, the first figures being 7 to 11 points over Thursday's close and con. tinued upward until May showed gain of 13 points. July 12, and Augus1 10. There was a loss of a few pointf from the extreme advance, but at the closing hour there was a strong under tone, net gains being registered of 1V points on April, 7 on May, 8 on Jun( and July, 4 on August, while Septem ber and October were 102 points low 2r. Zoo Chinese Soldiers Killed. Hong Kong, 'By Cable.-A courie who arrived at Canton reported tha over 200 imperialist soldiers, sen by Marshall Su against the rebels were ambushed in a narrow defile an all were killed or captured. The situs tion in the rebellious districts. o southern China is increasingly alarz ing. The viceroy of Canton has te1 graphed to Pekin, urging the imme diate forwarding of re-enforcement; Lack of news from General Ma an Marshall Su is taken to- indicate tha the rebels have surrounded the in perial troops and cut off communics tion with them. A Sunday Shut Down in Boston. Boston, Special.-Never before -hal see a vigorois enforce ment of fny as that given the 'unday 1a Drug store, fruit dealers, bankers and laundries were the objects of the polica I attack. From one end of the city to thi other soda fountains were silent, cand3 counters covered and idle, and frail stores closed. Liquor could be sold al hotels by patrons ordering somethinl to eat, and they did a rushing busi ness.. Trouble Over Six Cents. Wilmington, Del., Special.-Joseph P. Nichols has refused the final award of six cents for his share in. the bed of Park avenue, near Seventeenth street. A force of workmen from the Street and Sewer Department toolk forcible possession of the desired street bed, and removed a fence that had been erected there. It is expected that Nichols will invoke the law In his behalf. _________ North Carolina Wins Debate. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-The lasi of the series of three inter-collegiate debates between Vanderbilt University and the University of North Carolins occurred here Friday night, the vlsi tors from North Carolina gaining the decision. The question, of which North Carolina took the negative, was "Re solved. That the Federal government should own and operate the raiIroads in the United States." The following were the speakers: North Carolina: T. A. Adams and Charles Ross; Van. derbilt: Frank Seay and W. M. Board. Newsy Notes, A Havana dispatch says: "The An dencia Court accepted the bond of $100,000 offered by a fidelity compan: for the appearance of Ester G. Rath bone. The court requires, however that this bond be drawn before a no tary." 0. Parker was appointed general sup erintendent of the Virginia & South western Railway, with headquarters ai Bristol, Tenn. He was formerly gen eral superintedent of mines for the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company. Ex-Senator David B. Hill was the chief speaker at a "harmony reception of the New York Democratic Club. It is reported that the change in con trol of the Louisville and Nashvilli Railroad will complete the "commun ity of interest" among all the big rail road systems. Snow and rain west of Denver Col., are retarding railway trafic. Governor Taft sails for the Philip nines from New York, May 17. President Roosevelt has selectet the Guaranty Trust Company. of New York, as the American fiscal agenti in the Philippines. It has been officially decided to al low sixteen inches of space for eaci Iguest at the coronation of King Ed ward VII. The corpulent man ani the fat woman will suffer a squeeze iI the cowd on this allotmert. DEFEAT FOR LEADERS S Ruling of the Chair Overthrown By t Aid of Republicans. PASSAGE OF RECIPROCITY BILL rI. e The Alleged Bargain of the Republi cans to Sacrifice the Crumpacker Resolution. Washington, Special.-The Demo - crats and Republican insurgents rode 3 roughshod over the House leaders Fri - day when the voting began on the Cu ban reciprocity bill. They overthrew the ruling of the chair in committee of the whole on the germaneness of an amendment to remove the differ ential from refined sugar during the t existence of the reciprocity agree inment provided for in the bill. The vote to overrule the decision of the chair, made by Mr. Sherman, of New York, was 171 to 130, Republicans to the number of 37 joining with a solid Democratic vote to accomplish this result. Having won this preliminary victory, the amendment was adopted in committee. 164 to 111, and later in the House by a still larger majority, - 199 to 105. On this occasion 64 Re - publicans voted with the Democrats ) for ,the amendment. The bill was then - passed by an overwhelming majority, 247 to 52. An analysis of the vote shows that 124 Republicans and 123 Democrats voted for the amended bill, and 42 Republicans and 10 Democrats against it. Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, was one of those who voted against'the bill. The voting on the bill was the culmina tion of a long struggle which began almost with the inception of this. ses sion of Congress, and after two weeks of continuous debate, during which 1 much bitterness was aroused. The i day's debate was of an exceedingly lively character, the feature being the echoes of last night's Democratic caucus. To that caucus the defeat of i the Republican leaders who sought to pass the bill without amendment was atributable. Previous to the holding of the chair, the Democrats were di vided and the opposition of the beet . l sugar men showed signs of disin i tegrating. To-day when it became ap parent that the Democrats would act together, the beet sugar men. decided at a meeting attended by 32 to take. the bit in their teeth and - overrT i the chair. As soon as this comb tion was effected the blcan les& era realized that ty tented Mme f sugar colleagues that in sno,ig- ," differential they were taking off abfL , Y of protection placed In the. 1il especially for'thi' benefit of the beet sugar producers. Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, the Democratic leader, was the first speaker. He stated frankly that he doubted whether the enactment of the bill would do much to bring about the reciprocal trade relations between Cuba and the United States which was earnestly to be desired, but he had voted for it In the hope that he might accomplish something. It would at least reduce by 20 per cent. the outrageously high rates of the Dingley law so far as Cuba was con cerned. Those high rates could not stand and he said that Mr. Gros venor's speech a few days ago was a warning of the coming storm. He thought the time for a revision of the tariff was at hand and the fact that the pending bill was so in a modest way commended it to him. Mr. Rich ardson called attention to the district of M~r. Babcock, of Wisconsin, en dorsing the latter's bill to remove the duties',from steel, and amid Demo cratic applause' said that the D'emo crats proposed to give Mr. Babcock an opportunity later on to vote for the bill his constituents had en dorsed. Just before Mr. Richardson tool his seat. Mr. Bromwell, of Ohio, asked. him this question: "Does -the gentle man from Tennessee know anything of a reported bargain between the leaders on tbia side and the Demo crats on that' iy which the *Crum packer resolution tis to, be smothered in order to-'aid the passage of the pending bill?" "Absolutely nothing,".. replied Mr. Richardson. The Cotton C-op. New Orl'eans, Specal.-Secretary Hester's statement of tie world's visi ble supply of cotton, Issued Friday shows the total visible to be 3,886,517 bales, agaInst 3,993,336 last week and 3.389,878 last year. Of this the total American cotton is 2,746,510 bales against 2,861,336 last week and 2,777, .878 last.. year, and of all other kinds, including Egypt, Brazil, India, etc., 1,140,000. against 1,132,000 last' week, -and 1.052,000) last year. Of the world's Svisible supply of cotton there is now - afloat and held In Great Britain and -continental Europe 2,109,000 bales, against 1,899,000 last year; In Egypt 186.000, against 533,000 last year, and in the United States 980,000, against .1 ,224,C00 last year. Strike Settled. Roanoke, Va., Special.-Thedier .. ences between the machinists of the Norfolk & 'We stern Railway shops at Bluefields and the officials of that road have been amicably settled. It is not known what concessions were made on Ieither side, but it has been given out that there will be no strike, the comn -mittee which came here from Blue jfields to confer with the Norfolk & Western officials having reached that conclncionn