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PALMEI AffAIRS Occurrences of Interest from All Over Sotuh Carolina MANY ITEmS f STATE NEWS A Datch of Liv: Paragrapbs Cover ing a Wide Ringe-What is Going On in Our State. General Cotton Matet. 3alveston. qui-t-----.....11 -S New Orleans. duiet.... .. ..10 13-16 Mobile, steady-- -.--..10 5-4 Savannah. quiet.. .... .. ..10 7-S Charleston, qLiet..........10 5-S Wilmington. steady.. ......10 3-4 Norfolk. steay.... .... ...... 11 Baltimore. 110inal.. ....11 1-4 New York. qiet- ----..-. .11.20 Boston, quiet. - - ..11.20 Philadelphia, skady . - .11.45 Houson., easy.. . .- ------- 11 Au(Yrza. stEady ---.----i r Memphis. aiet..-.-.-.--.-.-11 Cinvinnati . ... '- -- -- Louisville. firm. . -- -11 3-S Qharlo'tte C tton Market, Tiese prizes re resent the prices paid to wagons: Good middling.. ..----''-. Striet middling...-.----.--.--11 Middling.... ..--. 4Good midling, tine d........111-8 Stains.... .... . ..9 to 10 ?!:ans for Te h Building. Newberry. Specia. The plans for the building donate to Newberry -oliege by Mr. And w Carnegie for the engineeuing depai tment were sub mitted to the commi ee and accept ed. The structure w 'll be three sto ries high, of a beaut ful type of ar chitecture, and will ha e a floor space in each story, 50x100 feet. It will be fully equipped with all modern ma chinery esential to a t chnical school, with cupola, forge, etc The corner stone will be laid next uesday after noon with appropriate ceremonies. Rev. W. C. Schaeffer, D. D., pastor o. the Ascension, Savanna Ga.. has accepted the invitation t deliver the address. .illed by Lig mug. -eeuwood,- Special.-Newton Y. Nauley, a Confederate veteran, agec -60 years, was _-ruck and instantly killed by lightning near Poplar Springs church three miles from Wares Shoals Thursday afternoon. A very heavy rain fell during the thunderstorm. Mr. Manley was an excellent citizen and is spoken of in the highest terms by his neighbors.. The burial took place at 4 o'clock in the afternoon at Poplar Springs. He left a widow and several children. Chester Man Takes His Life. Che.ster.. Special.-Willie Mobley. Jr., a youing farmer residing a few miles from Chester,. was found deac in his bed room with a discharged gun by his side and a ghastly wound in his abdomen. He lived alone. HE had recently been heard to declare that he intended to take his life. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that the deceased came to his death from gimshot wounds by his own hand. Governor Orders ?rosecution. Columbia, Special.--As a result of the disclosures before the dispensary investigating committee Governoi Heyward authorized the Attorney Genieral to prosecute H. H. Evans, L. N. Bovkin and J. B. Towell, Armer members of the dispensary board for malfeasazrce in officee. The committee djourned and the action of the Gov el. immediately followed. Farmers t Their Cotton. Spartanburg. Special.-President E. L. Archer of the Spartanburg county branch of the- Southern Cotton Asso eiation has issued a statement to the farmers that it is the intention this year to sell their cotton in bulk. It hias been estimated that there are about 5,000 bales to be marketed this year in Spa rtanbucg county, which will be held in 20 to S0 bale lots. Negroes Administer Poison. Chester. Special.-William Reighly was found dead two days ago in a field, near Fort Lawn. Coroner Leck ie made an investigation and found aba two strollig ngrees, Ed. Bai ley and Dennis Cole, have been ar rested and comminted to jail. A Negro Burned to Death. On thc premises of Mr. W. H. Har Sdin, near Chester. a negro cabin was burnedi in which a negro boy was . burned to death, arnd a child of the same family badly burned was res eued. Items of State News. The colleres of the State have mnostly heldi their commneme~nts dur Cgra~. 'aws w::s :arge and the intceet .o~ .l by ::) nulic in the exer vi'was unu:i. i~arge crowds at Struk by Lightning. Rorsv1ill, Special.-Durinz a heavy r.~:i and1 Celectrienl stormif Sat STARTLING REVFLATINS Thursday's Sessicn of South Carolina Dispensary Investigating Commit tee Brought Forth Some Sensation al Incidents Relative to the New berry Situation. Columbia. Special.-The most start la2, revelations that have yet clgra-e tLeized the dispenary iivestigation were made when the much-talked of Newberry situation was entered upon for the first time in a really aggres -.ive manner. Bribery direc and fla rant is charged against ex-Directors Evanz, Boykin and Towill. C. C. Davis, a Newberry contrac tor who had worked on ex-Chairman H. H. Evans' fine new house in New berry, in a cool and somewhat relue tant manner, told of Evans admitting to him, that, on various occasions, he had been getting presents of various kinds and great wads of money from the whiskey houses he took care of on the dispensary purchasing board. Evans showed him, on several occas ions, big bunches of greenbacks of all sorts of denominations, bills as high. more than one time, as $1,000 and several of these in each bunei Or. one occasion when witness told Evaii a certain door in the house had better be moved, Evans pointed to a beaver hat sitting on the floor full of greenbacks of large denomi nations, and asked if he did not think that would move it. Evans never did call it rebates or graft, but ad mitted he got the cash as well as the presents and said they were in consideration of his services on the board to these houses. Among the presents was a handsome suit of fur niture with a $500 poker table among the pieces, which Evans admitted get ting as a present from Blthexathal & Bickert, of Atlanta. Witness denied that Evans told him he bought the big Kinard plantation in 'Newberry with dispensary graft. and also denied that Evans said he used poker play ing as a blind, denied that Evans told him that on one occasion he won 10,000 in a poker game with some whiskey drummers. A whiskey man. Jonah Loeb, told him that, in order to get a showing, he paid Evans $2 a case on several thousand cases. A Direct Case of Bribery. The most important part of Davis' testimony was perhaps that involving a direct ease of bribery against Evans associates on the board. John Bell Towill and L. W. Bovkin. Witness said Evans told him that Evans was not getting the proper showing for his friends in the purchases and he and Bridge Wilson. of the Richland Distillery here. laid a trap in which they caught Towill and Boykin. Evans' whiskey friends got Tow'ill and Boykin in a hotel room here and Evans and Wilson standing on a table in the hallways, saw the other two directors paid the money. Parkers: Statements Corroborated. E. W. Robertson, president of the National Loan & Exchange Bank and of a number of other Columbia enter prises and interested as director in a number of cotton mills throughout tthe State, wvas on the stand. He cor robated the testimony of L. W. Par ker, as to Samuel J. Lanahan having Director Rovkin as his State middle man. but there was a decided differ ence as to what Lanahan said about having a middleman now who is a State offeer but not connected with the dispensary. Mr. Parker said Mr. Lanahan 's statement was made in New York in the nresence of Mr. Robertson, but Mr. Robertson did not rememb~er this and though Mr. Parker must have been mistaken as to this point. The committee did not insist on Mr. Parker giivng the name, al though the Supreme Court had just ruled that he could be compelled to answer questions. Evans Says He Bought Newberry Del egation. Contractor Davis went back on the stand. He testitied that ex-C'hairmnan Evans told him that the Newberry delegation of his r'e-election but that lie "fixed' them all, and bought 'em 1mighty cheap. Evans said he bought Senator Blease by employingr him as his attorney and that he paid for the balance and got 'em at bargain prices Dr. McIntosh. of the Newberry Say ines Bank. was on the stand but he had a poor memory and Mr. Lyon did not get much out of him. He saidl Evans never did have a cent on dteposit in his bank in his own name and he was not asked as to whose name he did have (deposits nor the amounts. Mr. Lyf'n reminded Drt. McIntosh that he had said Evans told him he got the horseshoe diamlondi era vat pin lie wore from a whiskey man,. but the doctor couldl not remember having told Mr. Lyon that. However. if he did tell him it was so.. Secretarv Wicker of the F'armeris' Oii Mill a't Newberry, of which Ev ants is president. testified that Evans Iha negoi itiated a loan of $-d.UOO for th i'll at live per' (cnt. tromP A. and N. M. Block .thie wvhiskeyv mn iiter e-ted in the Ri4hlanld Dist illery and thec brc ing conicerni at Macon. ( a. The mil, capitalized1 at $90.000f. stood tor the loan. Interest on the loan i' in regunlarly paid. Jr. Lyon read an affidavit fr'om an msurance an amed Norenulf. 4. - Minetta. Ga.. is hic Noretum dem~iiled a coner btith had~ wi ; members of thle Itu're C omp any of Atla1nta who 144 id it of funiture-.a]~ hipd 4 ti' tewerr ..E.an. ' The funi\r peiopl sai S(IJH CAROLINA CR(WSF Condition of South Carolina Crops for Week Ending Monday, June 4, 1906, as Given Out by the Db. partment. The weather was generally cloudy A ind showery over the State on the arst day, and on the last two days -f the week while the intervening T1 four days were generally clear, wth light to freh southerly to southwest rly winds. There was a wide range in temper ature during the week over the en tire State, except along the immedi ate coast, the first half of the week of having been unusually cool and the po iast half was quite warm with daily de: maximum temperature generally wc above 90 degrees except in the ex- stc treme northwestern cunties where gr they were between S5 and 90 degrees. alt The highest temperature for the week ga was a maximum of T degrees at tic Bowan, Florence and Sumter on seD Jne 1st; the lowest temperature for soi the week was a minimum of 49 de- -n grees at Greenville on May 30th. The ye avarge temperature was slightly be- th lo.: normal. th There were showers over nearly the in whole State on the first day and on to the last two days, the precipitation having been heavy in Barnwell, Lex- Th ington, and in places in adjoining counties on June 3rd. with amounts ranging from one inch to over two Mi inches of rain in one hour. The Cc week's average precipitation was be- sp low the normal amount for the same to peri 4, with the least rainfall along th the immediate coast and in the north- 'tb eastern counties where the weekly pr amounts ranged from a trace only no to slightly more than half an inch. of The weather was cloudy and threat- in ening as the week ended. tic th4 Union County Parmers to Pool Their y Cotton. Union, Special-The Union County pr farmers g:nerally are in better con- mi dition financially than they have been Th in decades, if ever, for at a meeting sh< Saturday ot the county cotton asso- Ch ciation it was brought out that there . are still on hand, scattered in differ- 1s ent sections, about 500 or more bales tei of cotton, the owners waiting for sh< higher prices, the number of bales the these farmers still have varynig from to 1 to 100. That they are now able to . be independent enough to hold back and sell when they think they are get- re< ting a good price speaks volumes for tic the effectiveness and value of organiz- A ed effort among. them. The regrular of monthly meeting held Saturday was nor largely attended, the farmers wise na ly staying at home to devote att en- we tion to their crops, only those being shi present who had to be in town or- sui other business. Perhaps the most im- ti portant feature of the meeting was tie decision to have a special ineeting a ~ of nil farmers, who still have cotton m on hand, on next S'aturdar. June .9. an, at 12 o'esock at the court liouse. for ne the purpose of listing everv bale re- s maining unsold now, confirming the. authority given Judge J1. M. Greer to represent all holding farmers to re- B ceive bids from cotton buyers and noQ close out the cotton when the desired wi price is reached, it being so mutch : easier to get better prices if cotton is ~ sold in bulk than when sold separate- re< ly in small amounts by different per- pa sons. The matter of a warehouse was st: taken up. and the committee recently fr< appointed has acured an option on a be, large buildine near Rice's Mill, and ter the question of purchasing will be de-. du finitely settled within twvo weeks- no Killed by Infuriated Bull. co Greenville, Special.-Major John lal Ferguson, formerly a merchant of this du eity, was gored to death by an in furiated Guernsey bel early Thurs day morning at his country home in Piekens county. Mr'. Ferguson was ya 65 years of age. At one time he ke was prabably thie largest merchant in th South Carolina, outside of the big '~s wholesale houses in Charleston. da 'a, Politics in Pickens. p Easicy. Special.-Pickens is ex- ma peting lively times in the political pri campaign this suimmer'. Hfon. C. H. the Carpnter is in the race Lotr reelec- Co. tion to'the Sente and he is to be op- ap prisd by Hon. Laban Mautldin atnd ri Hon. (hatrles E. Robinson. Mr'. Car- ins penter is a dispene~ary candidate while ing Muldin and Robinson at'e both anti- the dspens-ary men. Judge James P. foi C(rv will be' in the race for the hottse vi Msr.Robinson and Cary represent- ins ed Pie~kens county in thte supreme me court last winter when~ the dispensaryv St: elec(tion wa- conitestedl and( wont for fie rohibitioni against thle dispensarv . a May Help the Boat Line. su Columbia. Special.-The cfficrs of e the Columbia boat line are veryv muchl ne impressed withi the~ scheme to buili to a trolley line in Orangeburg county in hat will t ap a ric sectiton to conn eci to withI t he boa;t l i'. andl piresidenit WV. J. MJurrav 'aid thr as soon as' th Ia line was :m as.,a~ c*? l' t a cnrenclCe en would bo held 'ith t' l)rD"nver's andl .t le N'ew Enterprises. ft ('hicorat (ollee, of Greenvtiille. was th ohrf rb the sertar y ';~'(b of *tate th This os tht femin semnar 'of th an. PG raian of e othern par. p EEKJNG WITH fILTH ig Packing Houses a Menace to Public Health BLOT ON CMMON DECENCY w Report * Gmkr Pwlimipary, the President Ee2ig Anxious for Spe eia Legslation-More is to Come -Revelations That Will Concern The Peopl. - Washington, Speciale-The ieport Messrs. Reynolds and Neill, ap inted a special committee by Presi nt Roosevelt to investigate the >rkings of the packing houses and >ck yards, was presented to Con ss by the President. The report t hough confined to personal investi- i tions and giving only sgh informa *n as come under the personal ob .vation of the e-mmittee, reveals ne startling facts. Messrs. Rey Isds and Neill explain that the in stigations are not yet ended and it inany reports in cGnnection with unsanitary conditions of the pack- v houses and stock yards are yet come out. The Presidents Message. t . Senate and House of Representa- s tives: I transmit herewith the report of r. James Bronson Reynolds and j mmissionr Charles P. Neill, the ecial committee whom I appointed a investigate into the conditions in stockyards of Chicago and report ireon to me. This report is of a fliminary nature. I submit it to you w because it shows the urgent need immediate action by the Congress ' the direction of providing a dras and thoroughgoing inspection by Federal government of all stock rds and packing houses and of their )ducts, so far as the latter enter a ;o inter-State or foreign commerce.. ,e condition shown by even this yrt inspection to exist in the p icago stockyards are revolting. It n imperatively necessary in the in- C -est of health and decene- that they >uld be radicalLy changed. Under f existing law it is wholly impossible secure satisfactory results. When my attention was first di sted to this matter an investiga 'n was made under the Bureau of ilmal Industry of the Department Agriculture. When the prelimi- t ry statements of this investigation re brought to my attention they >wed such defects in the law and ~h wholly and unexpected condi-t ns that I deemed it best to have further immediate investigation by n not connected with the bureau,t d secordingly appointed Messrs. 'ynolds and Neill. It was impos le under the existing law that sat actory work should be done by the reanu of Animal Industry. I am w, ho'wever, examining the way in ti the work actually was done. Before I had received the report of ~ssrs. Reynolds and Neill I had di sted that labels placed upon any ekege of meat food product should ite only the carcass of the animal >m which the meat was taken had mn inspected at the time of slaug~h-a -If inspection of meat food pro ets at all stages of preparation is C secured by the passage of theI ~islation -recommended I shall feel Enpelled to order that inspection >es and certificates on canned pro ets shall not be used hereafter. Premises not Kept Clean. Tha report shows that the stock rds and packing houses are not pt even reasonably clean, and that Smethod of handling and prepar-t i food products is uncleanly and1 ngerous to health. Under existing I r the national government has no wer to enforce inspection of the Lfny forms of prepared meat food >ducts that are daily going from Spacking houses into inter-States nmeree. Owing to an inadequate propriation the Department of Ag- a ulture is not even~ able' to plaee ~pectors in all establishments desir ; -them. The present law prohibits shipment of uninspected meat to reign countries, but there is no pro ion forbidding the shipment of un ~pe'eted meats in inter-State com ree, and thus the avenues of inter ate commerce are left open to traf in diseased or spoiled meats. If, has been alleged on !seemingly od authority further eils exist,t eh as the improper use of chlemi Is and dyes. the government lacks I wver to remedy themr. A law is eded which will enable the inspec cs of the general government to ;pect and supervise from the hoof the can the preparation of the ~at product. The evil seems to be .ch less in the sale of dressed ear-c ses than in the sale of canned and 'icr prepared p)roducts.t In my judgment the cxpense of the spection should be paid by a fee ried on each animal slaughtercd. If is is not done. th2 whle. purpose of e law can at any timnehedef'eated rough an irnfTleient aprpiain d wherever there wa noi particular t .bice interest in the subjest- in woulid not .only eas: but nai:Vral thns to 1 ike the apporot ion inuffiicien t. it we're not for this considerat ion should favo~r the go-:erent p~ay-t t fr it. Th alC armr expressd in certain i law, will the cost of inspection ex :eid 8 cents pe head. I call speoial attention to the fac that this repor$ i6 preliminary, an< that the investigation is still unfinish d. It is not yet possible to report o th.e alleged abuses in the use of de eterious chemical compounds in con 'ie-tion with canning and preservin meat products, nor on the allege( iortoring I'n this fashion of taintec neat and of products returned to tho ackers as hving grown unsalable )r unfsable Pfom age or from othei e.;sons. Grave alltations are mad( n reference to abuses of this nature Can't Mop Abuses. Let me repeat that under the pres Eir law there is practically no metho )f stopping these abuses if the3 ;hould be discovered to exist. Leg slation is needed in order to preveni he possibility of all abuses in the ulure. If no legislation is passed hen the excellent results accomplish d by the work of this special com ni tee will endure only so long ai he memory of the committee's worli s fresh, and a recrudescence of thE Lbuses is absolutely certain. 1 urge the immediate enactment in 'o law of provisions which will enablE he Department of Agriculture ade u.tely to inspect the meat and meat. ocd products entering into inter stz.te comnerce and to supervise the nethods of preparing the same, and o pre'eribe the sanitary conditions incer which the work shall be per oped. I Therefore commend tc ro r favorable consideration and irge the enactment of substantially he provisions known as Senate mandment No. 29 to the act making ppropriations for the Department of Lgriculture for the fiscal year ending rue 80, 1907, as passed by the Sen te, for this amendment being com ao:aily known 4s the Beveridge imendment. THEODORE ROOSVELT. The White House, June 4, 1906. The Report. The report of the special commit ee is quite lengthy, dealing with the arious phases of the work of pack g houses. It shows that they are nutterably filthy and unsanitary. 'he revelations brought to light show ha. unwholesome and decayed meats re packed: that deleterious chemicals re employed to freshen and prevent anri her decay, and that the govern .ant inspection is used as a blind to erjetrate a fraud upon the custo iers. It is enough to shock the en ire American people, and doubtless 'ongress will be quick to enact leg laEion to remedy the great evils Duid. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Tie crater of Vesuvius is falling In. Thae Coffin Trust has raised prices we nty-five per cent. Greek remains a compuisory study at labridge University by a vote of 747 o :41. A mong 42.390 stude..t:- C t Germany's niersities this spring there are 3555 oreign. A seaside hospitaI'b cost $100.000 is o i.e built at Santa Mlonica. Southern >iforni". The pay of the Vice-President of the uban republic has beei' fixed at $15, K0 per year. Mayor McClellan says the city of Ce York has yet a bocrrowing capac ty of $132,000,000. David Rankent. .Jr.. has given $2.000. )00 to found a great industrial train'mg ;cht~I at St. Louis. Mo. It is proposed to construct subways mdrneath crowded streets ini Paris *or the use of pedestrians. The United States Gohvernmlent is bot to take a hand in 1the investigal ion of the Lumber Trust in Miseis ipp. H. E. Iu-xingtoni gave 6.%t.000 for he r elief of the professionmil ;-asses in >overished by the San F-rancisco dis It has been1 discovered that 125.000 olumes of the Sutro Library, in San ~racisco. supposed to have beeni de troed. have beeni saved. The demands of the colored inhabit ts of the Trainsvaal and Orange liver colonies for ful! politient rights re tecomaing more insistent. It was annonnewed at the laying of the ornr-stone of the new Red Cross Hos ital. New York City. that alcohol ould not be used in it except in baths. By a decision of the Supreme Court he Wisky Trust must par' the Sugar Trust $141,000 for stopping the mann acture of whisky from inoiosses by be t tter. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Jui:tice Brown reached th'e age- of evety last March. Rbert Hunter. a social worker, is oing abroad to study. Mark Twain wp1l work two hours aily 4n his autobiography, his final Maor McCiellan. of New York City. as taken to old-fashioned qluill pens a signing public documients. K~ir.g Alfonso of Spain is devoted to he pleasures of the table aind keeps a ook on duty until 4 in the nforning. Former Presideait Castro. of Vene uela. has issued a pyroclamationi to an oune that he has retired permanently o pr.vate life. President Woodrow Wilson. of 'rineston University. is bing talked bout ai good deal nouwadahys n' a pos ible Demora:tie candidate for Presi The 1Rev. Henry Wmnder, pastor of t. Uaurs Evang~eli! Lutheran :lurchi. of Chica. h..nSt Ccluded ifty-lour yearS ats pastor of that :burc. Pat:iek I-'. Mc~owai. Pres~denit of e Board ft Aldermien. will he. Acting .Iaro- of New York for more itn tfwo ton ths this su:nmner whiile Mayor Mc :;ellan ii s in E-urope'. Thomas Shjaw, the new Lord Advo ate if London. is a self-maide man. 'he s n of a baker. he earnied his own fring as a Ilawyer's clerk while at ndig the university. Net to IPr. J. Brachtieid, of Pity murg. who is the talIlest maa In the irtnnthl Congress. is "Cy Sullo vay, of Newv Hlampshire. wvho is six et three inches, or two inches less ~a :3rachficid. ~iard Burton. lecturing at Boston >n G Bernard Shiaw, satid: "Hie i -eait a seriouS hlinker,. who puts On e nisik of thle fool and humorist: but iderying~ his cap an'i bells are really ~ogi .ad serious purpose.'' A. P. GORMAN DEAD - Maryland's Senior Senator Is Taken Away WAS A SPLENDID TYPE Of MAN When He Suffered Last Atta He Had Taken Nourishment an our Before. Washington, Special-Senator Ar thur Pugh Gorman, of Maryland, died here Monday morning. At 9 o'clock the Seator was stricken with an attack of heart failure similar to the series of attacks suffered a week ago. A physician was immediately summoned, but the Senator expired before relief could be administered. He was conscious when stricken with the last attack and had been taking nourishment and hour before. A week ego Saturday he suffered an attack, but recovered under prompt medical attention. After that time conditions improved and Sun day plans were made to remove him to his country home at Laurel, Md. There were present at his bedside when the Senator expired, his wife, daughter and nurse, and messages were immediately dispatched for the other ehildren, Senator Gorman had not been out of the house since Junuarv 16. His ailment was diagnosed as a stomach trouble with heart complimations. The Senate, at 12:10 o'clock, ad journed out of respect to the memory of the last Senator German. Senator Gorman, in a written re quest addressed to Mrs. Gorman, ask ed that no State funeral should be held. He said that he did not wish his body to be brought to the cap itol, as he wanted his colleagues al ways to think of him as they knew him in life as an active Senator. There he was always cheerful and in variably smiling, and it is regarded as characteristic of his disposition I that he should desire to be so remem bered. . I Senator Gorman had long been a notable fieure in the national Con gress. He first took his seat in 1881 and served continuously for eighteen years, and nearly all of that time he was the leader of his party in the r Senate. Winning an early reputation j for sagacity and the keenest judg ment in congressional affairs, he at tained prominence, not only as a lead. er in the Senate, but in the country 1 at large, and by many men was con sidered thie most available man in hise party for the presidency. He was chairman of the executive committee and managed the campaign that re-i suited in the election of Cleveland ini 1884. Defeated the Force Bill. The most notaable contest of his congressional career, and one which attracted to him wider attention than, anything else, was when he led th?e Senate minority in 1S90-.91 and de feated the Federal election bill. To his sagacious leadership and adroit . management his party friends attrib uted the defeat of the measure whichr was so obnoxious to the South. r When the Democrats had control of the Senate Gorman was the recogniz ed leader of that body. It was at that time that the tariff bill of 1894 was passed, and although the Mary- 3 land Senator was not a member of the finance committee, he had so much to to do with shaping that measure that his name is often given to it and in fact it is frequently called the Wil son-Gor-man tariff. ' Natiornal Grain Dealers' Convention. Chicago. Ill., Special.--The annual convention of the National Grain Dealers' Association open'ed here I at the auditorium, with a large' dele g-ations from nearly every state in the Union. Ohio practically controls< the organization and has a larger del-I egation than any other state. Many. matters of great interest to the grain trade will be considered.t Confict Han Been Obviated. St. Petersburg, Special.--The pos-1 sibility of a conflict between the low- i er House of Parliament and the gov- I ernent over the abolition of death penalty, accordir.g to The Rech, has been obviated by the decision of the misistry to support such a measure, due to the inititiative of Minister of Justice Chteheglovitoff. It is dou.bt ful. however, the paper says, whether this will extend to cases under mar tial law, which is exactly the point desired by the House. Landlord is Buried Alive. Venna, Austra, By Cable.-A land owner named Labonie, at Szilzeghun da, refused to allow peasants to use land caused the outraged tenants to make an attack on him. He. with 33 servants was seized and buried, head dwnward, in ground, leaving the legs protruding. A great many peasants have been arrested. and the authori ties are 'tying to place the blame for the outrage. To Stamp Out Anarchy. Washington, Specia.-The United States will enter into an international compact for the obliteration of an archy. Many American statesmen would endorse angl actively se pport any movement, international or ir:di vid::a!. asomii the powers, whiah loo to the suppressio: of~ the comn~r evil and Congress wo uo:less pa'ss lines supplemer;tal to leiczsla ti.1 nic fe.iowed Mcile' de~at'i la fatr:>.ra..ce of such mneasu:es. Jff Of SENATOR GORMN I Prominent Factor in Political an& Financial Affairs.-A Successful Life. Mr. Gorman was a native of the State in whose service he died. har ng been born in Howard county, Maryland. -His early sdralntazes ieem to have been few. and it isprb ible- that he was inii q;-aliiteI to be inown as a "self-made nii.'' Aner ittending tie pubiic schools of his na ;ive county for a brief period, he was, :n 1852, appointed a page in the Sea Lte of the United States, in which ea )aeity he served until 1866. when he became postmaster. On the 1st of September he was removed froin this position and immediately appointed sollector of internal revenue for the ifth district of Maryland. which of lce he held until the incoming of :he Grant administration. in 1869. In he same year he was appointed a di -ector in the Chesapeake & Ohio Ca ial Company. In 1875 he was -elect -d to the State Senate and was re lected in 1879 for % term of four rears. In January, 1880, M. Gor nan was chosen United States Sena :or to- succeed William Piukney Whyte, taking his seat March 4, [881. He was re-elected in 1S86 an& [892, and was suceeeded by a Repub iean. In -1902 he was again elected, mcceeding George L. Wellington. Re publican, and took his seat March 4, L903. His term would have expired kfareh 3, 1909. Senator Gorman was for a number )f years a national figure in Demo -ratic politics and his name i.as on nore than one occasion mentioned for ?resident. He had no time for Bryan )emocracy. but managed to tolerate t to the extent of remaining in pretty air standing even with the extrem. sts. Senator Gorman was fully as sue ,essful in business ventures as in poI ties, .is estate being worth at least P2,000,000. This he made in real es ate, railroad and general investments. :e has been describsd as loving pow r a great deal more than money, and or this reason he became a politician -ather than a mere captain of indus ry. MTx & 00.'8 COTTON REPORT Lcreage and Condition of the Crop to June 1, 1906. Through the co-operation of a large tumber of correspondents, widely cattered and disirterested, Messrs. filler & Company find that the con ition of the cotton crop up -to May 1, averages 82.9 per cent., with a net nerease in acreage of 6.1 per cent.' Th increase in the use of commer ial fertilizers is about 10 per cent. [he general condition as compared eith last year, would indicate a slight mprovement over the same. This mprovement is based upon the better hape of the crop, letter stands and 'etter cultivation up to~this time. Burton Besigns. Topeka, Kan., Special.--United itates Senator Joseph R. Burton. of Lbilene, after a conference here Mon av morning, with several close riends, placed his resignation in the ands of Governor Hfoch. The resig ation, which was sent to the Gover or shortly before rnoon, was extreme ~brief, and read: "June 4, 1906. "Sir: I hereby resign as a UEnited tates Senator for the State of Kan as. to take effect immediately. "Very respectfully, "JOSEPH R. BURTON. To His Excellency, Governor hE. W. Hoch." Governor Hoch appointed F. D. Co urn Senator to succeed Burton. Coal Car Disenination. Philadelphia, Special.-The Inter tate Commerce Commission resumed ts investigation into the alleged dis 'rimination in the distribution of coal ars. E. V. 'W. Rossiter, vice presi lent of the New York Central and {udson River Railroad, in charge of he financial department, was the first !itness. Commissioner Clemients ques ioned Mr. Rossiter concerning the >olicy of thae New York Central as to ts officials holding stock in the coal nining companies. 'He said that here was no absolute rule, but that t was tacitly understood to be against he policy for officials to hold stock Cardinal Gibbons Presides. New Haven. Conn., Specia.-Fol owing the celebration of the Pont& aol High Mgss at St. John's church, >resided over by Cardinal Gibbons, he National Convention of the Knighits of Columbus assembled at :he new national headquarters. The ~onvention was opened by the Sn yreme Knight Edward L. Hearn of his city. The Dewey Goes Forward. Washington, Special-The Navy Department received news of the safe progress toward Manila of the dry dock Dewey, through a cablegram un der date of Colombo. Ceylon, June 5. from the commander of the tow in' fleet. It is estimated that the Dewey wi'J touch for coal and suip p6ies at Singuapore about June 21st. Shreveport Also Coamemorates. Shireavepor~t. La.. Specia .-Con fed erate MeImria! Day' was fittingly o'o :erved in Shreveport by veteran. of the civil war. Daughters of the Ccn :'ederacyv and local miltary coacmanies. Ai nartici) .s in the c'zermon:es~ at the oper'a hcase and at Oak.iwn