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HAMPTON'S STATUE Unveiled In Presence of Ten Thousand People OITY BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED ' Heyward Receives Monument on B half of State and Introduces GY. . M. C. Butler, Who Makes the Spe ch of the Occasion. A sp eial from Columbia, S. C., to h .h-. rlotte Observer says: The :mpressive ceremony of the unvil;sh of the handsome $:'0.00,) ronze e uestrain statue of sen. Wade Ha pton, one of the world's reatest cavalrymen and South Caro iia's grea est statesman and most lovable so brought '10,000 peonle to the city Tuesday. Main street, ate colors' s rdl shrdlu srdluushrdlu -eautifuly de oratid in Confederate aoIors, was th nged and the proces sion representi g the Confederate or ranizat ions of t e State, the schools and colleges, th National Guard or ganizations, th executive, judicial and legislative ches of the State government, was cheered to the echo as it moved dow Main street from. the capitol buildi g to the stand erect id for special ests. T'he 1unveil' ceremony proper opened with- prayer from Bishop Capers. Then after mutsic the un veiling was one by the Hampton frandchildren four girls and one boy. A great sho t went up from 10,000 voices as t e folds fell away from the handso e figure of Hampton on his steed. The e mission then formally turned th monument over to Gov ernor H yward, who received it in behalf of the State and introduced Gen. tier, the orator of the day, who - armed his audience with- a two hou s' splendid oration. Gen. Butle: is ne of the South's splendid speak. e s and his fascinating diction and puching eloquence held the attentio_ of the crowd throughout. . The Statue. The handsome eauestrain monument ihows the great chieftain mounted on a fiery steed, in the net of greetin; his troops. His hat is in his right sand. the left grasping the reins short and the charger's arching neck show in; how unwilling the steed is to stop. The wind of his forward movement is fanning his hair and the fringe of his coat is 'blown back. The expres ,'ion is one of love mingled with fatherly pride in his men. The artist, Mr. F. W. Ruckstuh!. has broken up his studio in New Yurk city and the work was, therefore <one in Pans. At Paris it was easy to et the handsome marble fron: Aisace, where the Vosges mountains spur off from the Alps and cut through the eastern part of France. Many of the world's famous works of art rest on bases of this marble. The plinth of the pedestal is made of Alsatian marble, but the basis be-. neathi were quarried from our Winns boro granite, in whose historic hills Hampton had hunted in his youth. when Fairfield was as full of wild game as Montana is now. The statue of Hampton and of hi; horse are east in hollow bronze and strikingly han'!some. Theface of the hero is turned to the West, whether by design or accident. In any case, there was appropriateness in the selec tion. since Hampton spent much of his time in the WVest, and it was fron -Mississippi that he came back to re deem South Carolina. He was facing* the West in 1S65 when he retreated from Columbia before Sherman' overwhelming force. 'Westward was the course of the old pioneers, and Hampton harked back to the old days of the republic. Description of Monument. A more particular description of the monument is given herewith: The figure itself is mounted on tha plinth with rests on the pedestal ar.d. the successive bases. The pedestia] <-ontains a deep grove into which is cemented the plinth supporting th'. horse. Nothing short of an earth quake can ever move the monument and even then the figure would not be damaged, so solidly is it east. The handsome metal plates on t.he base and pedestal show in brief th' career of Hampton and it is appro priat" that they should be surourd ed by filigree work of the leaves of the palm and oak-the for&er signify ingz glory and the latter strength and immortality. Here is a copy of the lnSeri'ptionls: West Side-Governor of Souti C'aroliia 187t-1S79. United State.s $ceuior 1879-1S91. Bentonvill. Brady Station, Sappony Church. Cold Habr ae'Shop. A & t.Side-Born March 118. 11 DiedAnri 11.1902. Er'ected A . 19D6.I North; Side-Commnander of Hainp ton1 Legion. Lieut. GJen. C. 8. A. Trevil ian. Seven Pines. Bu rgess Mill, First Manassas, Gettysburg. The names refer to the battles it which Gecneral Hlampton took a prom mnent nart. Th'lere were so manny ways in wvhich Eamrittn has benefitted South CarQ limtin :tl it would he hard to enu mner:ue them. He put the soft-shell turtel into the Congree river, he stocked many streams with red-fiie tront. he filled South Carolina with bJloded stock and (cattle. even; bring ing ove.r pedizre ed hound". He was, in al senses of 1.he word, a pwbli bendfacto.r. Spain and France to Combine for Protection cf Foreigners. Pai: France. Special.-Spain and Fr'iance nave arranged to ma~ke a na val (l:nons1tratEionw n ad marines GIN. BUTLER'S SPEECH At the unveiling of the Wade Ham pton statue at Columbia. S. C.. General Butler said in part: -The story of Wade Hampton's life goes back to the founders of tha State. Those glorious men who had taken issues with the mother counu try had bepueathed the 'divine right to rule' to every citizen of this coui try. Among those men, battling for their country's rights was found a Hampton. General Wade Hampton, in whose honor this statue is erected, was one of those who opposed seper ate secession of a State, but when the long debate was adjoined to the bat tlefield he saw his duty to his State and did it. He had no doubt in his mind as to where his first allegiance was due. "It has been the speaker's purpose to review General Hampton's milita ry record, and to that end he has written to the War Department, re questing to be furnished with such in formation as the government possess ed on the -ilitary services of Gener a I Hampton. He had found on investigation and reflection that it would require a vol ume to .do justice to such a career as Hampton's. The battles mentioned on the...base of the, .monument werz but a few of the fights he was en gaged in. Want of space forbade mention of more, but as he thought of old days, what, an -array of bat tles rose up before him. He had often been asked if Ham ton were a tactician, and in the nar row sense of that word, he would answer, "No." He seriously doubted if Hampton ever read a book on tac tics in his life. He was first a cit izen, not a soldier. But in the broad er sense, General Hampton was a grand tactician. He knew how to seize the advantage points in a field of battle far better than most com manders, and the enemy was always guessing where he would strike next. He kept them mystefied. He said Hampton stalked the ene my like he was hunting big game. As an instance in point, he cited Trevil lian's station, where Hampton had de feated the enemy with odds of three to one against him. and had thereby checked one of Grant's grand move ments. "It was due to General Hampton, after General J. ]t B. Stuart's death in April, 1864, that he received the appointment of Lieutenant General, but for some reason the appointment was temperorily withheld and he did not receive it until the following year." General Butler here traced in de tail some of the stirring incidents of the war, citing instances of conspie uous gallantry, and mentioned Maj. Theo. G. Baker, as having been left for dead, when lhe was here on the stand, forty-odd years afterwards. In regard to the burning of Co lumbia, he gave a graphic account, never before made. He said that he (Butler) was ordered to remain in charge of the evacuation and see that no act of offense was committee. He remained in the city three hours af ter General Hampton had quitted it and personally saw that no fire had been started and when he left, just ahead of Sherman's advance guard there was no fire in the city. It was perfectly clear that the fire begun after all Confederate troops had left the city for many hours. General Butler gave a graphic ac count also of the nomination of Hampton in 1876 and cited the speech he made. He also called attention to Hamptor. message and letters as containing wise deliverances, in clas sic phrase. He predicted that Hampton would go down the centuries with increasing fame and that no brighter example could be chosen by the youth of the State. His peroration was pathetic and impressive. At the conclusion of the address the students of Winthrop, the Colum bia Female College and the College for Women and the school children from this and other cities sang the "Bonnie Blue Flag,'' and other pa triotic airs while the Daughters of the Confederacy banked the monu ment with garlands and wreaths. Hampton in History. Significant is the fact that just 30 years ago all eyes were turned to Hampton. At every railway station anxious crowvds were assembled to catch any news that might be afloat. Hourly messages came and went from one end of the State to the other.' Here in Columbia angry erowds surg ed to and fro. No man knew what an hour might bring forth. The one supreme figure, calm 'and uniruflied, that k2pt his head throughi all the storm, was Wade Hampton. On his brad shoulders rested the fate of a people. The people trusted not in vain. HIe rose to the occasion saw that cont flict with the Federal authorities must be avoided at all hazards, met the ex cited crowd of his fellow-countrymen at Democratic headquarters and told them to go home-that was all. "I have be2n elected Governor of South Carolina and by t he eternal God shall be Governor, or else there shall be none. Disperse quietly and go to your home.'' Thos2 were his words Now thirty years after. Wade Hampton sleeps beneath a gre'at live oak in Trinity churehyard, and what remains of him~is his memory and the memorials that a peonle's love have erected to him. President Roosevelt Arrives at Colon. Poc. Port o Rico. Specil.-Presi dent Roosevelt arrived here Wednes day morning from Colon and was re ei'ved on landing by Governor Win throp and otheri prominlnt insular oflicials. The town which waos pro fusely deC otd in hepresidecnt's honor. was c Iowed with peo.pie f'rom thei stur on~inz couintry eaiger to greet Pres 'DR. CRAPSEY GOES Quits His Church on Account 1 of Heresy Trial STILL CIPiMS- DEEP REVERENCE f Eefuses to Make Cc'.:dly Retraction ( of Belief Which Induccd Church to Terminate His Ministry-In Letter to Bishop Walker He Says, "I am Certain That You Will Be Glad to Acknowledge That I am Not Com pelled to This Action by Anything That Reflects Upon My Moral In tegrity or Calls in Question My Faithfulness as a Pastor." b Rochester. N. Y.. Special.-Bow- b ing" to the will of the Church. but t refusing to make a "cowardly retrac- 1 !on' of the belief wbich induced the t Church to terminate his ministry, the iev. Algernon S. Crapsey, rector of t St. Andrews churcb. of Rochester, N. t '.. renounced his ministry in the i Protestant Episeopal Church in a a letter to Bishop Win. David Walker. ,f the Western Diocese of New York. In this letter. the Rev. Mr. Crapsey. r'e-atfimed his belief that the "o lion of the origin of .Jesus. that a son Af man born without a iiutnan father is withotut confirmation in history.' He also asserts that "When I say of Jesus that he ascended to heaven, I do not meanc and cannot mean that with his physical body of flesh, blood and bones. he fl"rted into space and a has for two thousand years been ex- t isting" somewhere in the sky. in that cery physical body of flesh. blood and 'ones. Such an existence would seem to me not glorious. but horrible." Declaring that he is a bout to e~Ia ry the ease to the free intelligence t and enlightened conscience of the world. lie counsels "Then hundreds Af clergy and thousands of laymen in the Protestant Episcopal Church, who have reached the same conclu ;ion'' as he has, not to be dismayed ?nd to stay where they are. "I appeal.'' he says. 'from those place's of authoritV il the (hrcli :l it-elf. to the great body of people. He asserted that he does not blame l:is ,judges and thouglh he bows to their will and feels that it is final for him. he says. "I am equally certain f that it is not final for the Church. a When the great tribunal of free h thought has decided this contention. o the men who administer the Church I an earth will conform to this deci eion. Barricaded in a Mine. Linton, Ind.. Special.-W. A. WVat son. a merchant of Midland. Ind.. is dying at a hiospital, and Louis Shuley, uin egedl miner, who shot him is at i bay in the Tower Hill mine at Mid- u land. The shooting was the result ofa t rival puarrel duiring a game of c'ards. Aftet' shootiing Watson. ShaLlev went to the home of his .sister in-law and( f,r(eed her' to give him a 55. Shuley then entered the mine, a 200) feet deep. armed withI a shot-. et.n and( plenty of ammunition. A party is guarding them inc. Killed in Dispute Over Board Bill. Knioxville. Tenni., Special.-John i E.pton was shot and instantly' killed 6 near Cumberland ~ Gap. Tennr.. by s; James Herrell. The two men had i a dispute over a board bill which3 Herr'ell owed him. Her'rell' elaims 1i that Upton was holding him by the 'I throat andh thbreatening to kill him when lie pulled his pistol and fired.e The ball pierced Upton 's heart. Her- u rell was jailed at Tazewell, f'aiing to 1 give a five thousand dollar bond. I Catholic Bishop Dead in Bed. Posn. Prussian Poland. Byr Cabl. Manager Stabledeki. Roman C'ath:'- a lie archbishop of' Posen, who recently b had been active in combatting thet German government 's order to teach 'E the children of Poland religion in the v (erman tongue, was found dead in a r (hair in his studhy here. His death ii was caused by heart dlisease. b Virginia Supreme Court Declares 2 Cent Rate Illegal. R ichmoiid. V:t.. Spec'ial.-lin t he I Virinia Supreme (COutt. of Appea! ,Judge~ ('a rdwellI han ded down a def cision:1 adiri-ng th In e9isioin of thler ing~ t he 1w w'-cent passenger rate act - passed by the Vii'gi nia Le'gislature cottrary' to thle Ionurteen th Amend-j merm (of the (Cons titin of thi: Unit- e ed States. The ecase was a test, one invol ving t he req:u iremients thait the railroads place' on sale .500-mile 2-t cent ratec books. News Notes. \A vit ness in thle t rial of' Chester Gil!ette sa id she hi arid ascrecam from the direction where Grace Brown's body was found. F.nrico ('artiso. the famous tenor.] had a hea:ring' on the charge of pinich n wotmani ini ('ent t'ui patrk. In the United Stat es. there are not" 25.00; documented merchant v'essel.s of (i.ti7.9)39 gross t'ons.I Aged Woman Mrdered. Shamokin. Pa.. Special.-With 're head horribly battered by a club and with her thruat black and blue. Mr's. Sarah Klinger. azed (30 years, the widlow of a civi! war veteran. wa~ found2( dead in heri ho me ht'e. The wona l:i vedl al' :w . Th 2 authIor(it ieS ::u:e nb eine to the~ nmt'reer. and( ar' ;RANTED INCREASE [he Cotton Mill Operatives Get a Substantial Increase :ALL RIVER STRIKE AVERTED otton Manufacturers Grant Their Employes the 10 Per Cent Increase Asked and Monday 30,000 Opera tives Will Come Under the New Scale-The New Schedule Affects 70 Corporations Operating 92 Mills, Besides an Iron Works Plant. Fall Rivek, Mass., Special.-Fall iver's cotton mill employes won a attle for an increase in wages and n Monday -next 30',000 operatives rill come under a scale giving them Q per cent more than the, present ate. The granting of the advance by he manufacturers prevented a strike, he workmen having voted at meet ags recently to stop work in all iills next Monday if the new sched le was not accepted M. C. -D. Bor en. an independent cot'ton manufac arer. employing 5;00 -coperatives ook the lead 1n meeting the de iands of the mill hands by announe 2g that the scale of wages in his iills would be raised 10 per cent. [o demand had been made upon the roprietor of the Fall River Iron rorks mills and his action practic lly forced the other mill managers > grant the increase. 70 Corporations Affected. The new pay schedule affects 70 orporations operating 92 mills, be ides the iron works plant. The man facturer's association's agreement pay the increase is for a period f six months, but provision is made or extending it. Between November, 1903, and July, 904. the Fall River operatives suf ered reductions aggregating 22 1-2 er cent. Last spring a part of the ut was restored. and in view of the nntinued prosperous business con ition. the operatives demanded a omplete resumption of the 1903 eale. It is considered probable that oth r cotton mills in New England will ollow the. lead taken in this city nd that thousands of outside mill ands ultimately, will be benefitted y the determined stand taken by the 'all River unions. MILLION BALES GAIN. rovernment Eeport on Cotton Gin ned as Compared with Last Year. Washington, Special.-The' amount f cotton of the crop of 1906 ginned p to November 14, according to a ulletin issued by the census bureau n Wednesday was -8,531.4S6 bales, ounting round bales as halt bales, s against 7,501.1S0 last year. The umber of active ginneries is giveni s 27,881 against 28,210 last year. The amount given by States is as ollows. Alabama, S34,870; Arkansas, 45S, 72; Florida, 42,S31; Georgia. 1,190. 27; Indian Territory. 23S,242; Kan as, ; Kentucky. 835; Louis ana, 539,721; Mississippi, 7S9.484; .56: Oklahoma, 243,338; South Caro na. 633,373; Tennessee. 142.970; 'exas, 2,9S2,698; Virginia. 7,576. The number of Sea Island bales in luded are 29,133 for 1906, distrib ted by States as follows: Florida, 4,977; Georgia, 12,65S; South Caro l.a 1.498. Minister Shoots Farmer. Newton. Special.-As the result of ,quarrel which followed upon his aving forbidden Rev. J. J. Payseu~ o hunt upon his lands, Mr. Ezel] urke,- a Catawba county farmer, ,as shot in the face by Mr. Paysuer. eeiving both barrels of' a shot gun a his f.ce. His wounds are serious, ut are niot considered fatal.. SWIFT JUSTICE IN TEXAS. )ick Garret, Tried, Sentenced and Executed in Half a Day. Center, Tex., Special.-Diek Gar. et, the negro who killed Dr. M. M. aul here last Saturday. was legally anged Wednesday afternoon. The rand jury returned an indictment 1uesday morning.. thle seaffold wvas onstructed Tuesday night on the~ >ublic square, the trial was held ednesday morning and the execu ion took place at 1:20, that after ~tnchor Line Steamer Hard and Fast Detroit. Mich., Special.-The An ,hor Lines package steamer. Cone naugh. upbound with a valuable car :o of packaze freight is ashore or Point Pelee, in Lake Eric. pounding hard and filled with water. The Cone uaugh went on the point late at nigh Kuring the gale. The crew of 2: zen were rescued. The steamer is ni dangerous condition and may be a total loss. Peary Arrives at Sidney. Siney. C. B., Special.-Flying the ag of the United States. which has been placed nearer thec Pole than an; >ther national standard, and weather beaten and disabled, the Peary Areti steamer licst-vel t a rrired here undr sail and ste':a n ater 10h months' vait A IIORRIB[[ MURDER Grewsome Murder of Aged Widow by Villain in Search of Gold. Gaffney. Special.-Once more the fair name of Cherokee is stained by one of the blackest crimes committed in this section. Tuesday between 12 and 1 o'clock at her home. two and a half miles from this city, Mrs. Hor tense Morgan. a widow living in her little house on the top of a hill over looking Gaffncy. was murdered and robbed of her savings of a lifetime., The murderer. with one slash with a sharp knife, had cut her throat from ear to ear and. after robbing her person. had ransacked her house. The dead body was discovered 1;. mg on the bed between one and two o'clock by a neighbor with whom the old lady spent her nights, Mrs. Callie Webb. From neighbors it was learned that Mrs. Morgan was seen in the yard hanging out some clothing she had washed, and about 11 o'clock she fed the pigs. Just before 12 o'clock Mr. Cicero Price passed the house on his way to Gaffney, and saw her on the porch seemingly sewing. and saw a man going in at the gate. Soon after this a Mr. Whelchel saw a man sitting on the porch talking to her. After the murder became known these gentlemen told of seeing the man at the house and pointed him out to a policeman. Officer Coyle, who, with Deputy Marshal Phillips, ar rested him. He proved to be Tom Harris. Harris was taken to the city prison and searched. On his person was found two rolls of money. one wrap ped in a long white rag. In this roll was $466. A further search revealed another roll, which appeared to have been wrapped as the other one. Before the last roll was counted Harris was asked how much money he had. He said that he should have about $600. A count revealed $726, and on the autside bill on one of the rolls there were blood stains. Harris also had a new and large knife with a very sharp blade. This knife was stained with blood and had clotted blood in ' the butts. On his wrists and hands were other blood stains. When asked where he got so much money he said at first that he labored for it, and afterward said that he labored and gambled for it. Harris' wife was arrested at Blacksburg Tuesday night as an ac complice. It is said that she was in that section recently and visited Mrs. Morgan while there. She is supposed to know something about the case. Deatth of Editor Brice. Columbia, Special.-Paul M. Brice, editor of the Columbia Evening Rec ord, died early Wednesday morning at the home of his parents in Winns boro where he was taken Saturday afternoon. He had been suffering in tensely for months from cancer of the tongue. He was about 42 years old and a splendid newspaper man, hav ing worked on the Charleston World, Savannah Morning News. Columbia Register and Columbia -Record. NVER AGAIN, SAYS HEARST. Declares That He Is Done With Be ing a Candidate. San Antonio. Texas, Special.-Wil lam R. Hearst passed through San Antonio today on his way to Montery, Mexico. where be has mining prop ty. In reference to politics in New" York, he said: "I will never again be a candidate. I shall continue to live in New York and advocate and support the prin iples of reform which I have always stood for, but these principles are now sufficiently understood by the general public for it to be no longer necessary for me to be a candidate, and on that account to be attacked with,.much bitterness.'' Mrs. Davis' Will riled. Vicksburg, Miss., Special.-The will of Mrs. Varina Jefferson Davis. wife of the President of the Confederate States, was filed here for probate. It leaves to Mrs. Davis 's daughter, Mrs. Margaret Howell Davis Hayes, of Colorado Springs, Col., all of the estate with the exception of $10,000 life insurance, which is divided into numerous small bequests. Blizzard at El Paso. El Paso, Texas, Special-Snow has been falling steadily since Monday night. It is very cold, and as the storm is general in this vicinity heavy damage to live stock and sheep in West Texas and New Mexico is feared. It is one of the severest storms ever known in El Paso and telephone and telegraph service is badly crippled. Street cars are running with diffi ulty and trains arc late. The snow is drifting badly. People suffer sever ely going even a fewv blocks in the bfizzard, which is almost blinding. Small Fortune Hidden in an Ald Car pet. Detroit, Mich.. Special.-During an auction sale here of the household ef. fects of the late John Mullin at his former home. 233 Vinewood avenue, $15,000 in gold was found hidden away under a dusty old carpet whieb the ~auctioneers had just sold as it la on the floor. When the purchasez ri'pped it up the money was fouri Mr. Mullin was one time prominent in the iron industry in Pittsburg. Sugar Trust Fined $108,000. New York. Special.-The Ameri can Sugar Rlefininz Company was found guilty by a jurv in the Unhited States Circuit Court on T uesday of accepting rebates amountingz to -?2(3 000 from the Nev: York..entrl 1?ai! road. The New York: Centrztl was re ently founrd gilt of -:ii rebates to the Aneia Era:- lenning Com pany and finedl --M.Mf. Tlhe de fEARFUL COLLISION Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse and Orinoco in Compact FRIGHT AND DEATH THE RESULT )n Orinoco 3 Were Killed, 6 Injured Five Drowned. . Four Killed and 12 Injured on Other Steamer. Cherbaurg. France By Cable.-Thc letails of the collision on Wednesday >etween the North German Lloyd ;teamer. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and the British Royal Mail Steamer, Drinoco, show that it occurred at 9 >'clock on Wednesday night. The shock is described as having )een terrific. causing a panic among the passengers on board the two yes ;els. especially among the emigrants an board the Orinoco. On the Orinoco three men and wo men were killed. six women and men injured and five persons knocked ov ?rboard and drowned. Of the two steamers Kaiser Wil helm der Grosse is said to have sus iained the most damage. Four of the crew of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse are reported to have been killed and 25 injured, but the exact number of killed and wounded on that vessel is not report ed. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse 258 first-class passengers, 389 in the second cabin and 697 in the steerage, As soon as as the accident occurred a number of small boats from Cher bourg put ont to the scene and sue eeeded in rescuing some of the sail ors and pasengers who were strug ling in the waves. The responsibility for the accident has not been fixed. Five Perish in Storm. Grand Rapids. Mich.-Special. Four of the five men who were caught by Wednesday night's storm on the crib work of the new break water, at the entrance to Holland Harbor on Lake Michigan, were drowned. The dead are: Tom Bennett, of Muskegon. con traetor. George Lechiase. of Holland. Alvid U'elson. of Muskegon. Martin Woodward. of Fennville. When the life saving crew sue ceeded/ in reaching the crib the dead bodies of Bennett, Lechaise and Nelson we-re found in a pocket of the rib. The body of Woodward had been washed away. .* Lost With All On Board. Quebec. Special.-A -vessel sup posed to be the bark Magda has been lost on Red Island reef with all on board. She carried a crew of 14 men. When she sailed from Quebec she carried as pilot Charles Pelletier, of St Michael. Pelletier has -not been landed anywhere and unless he has beeni carried to sea, the indications are that it is the Magda which strtuck on Red Island reef and that sihe went dwn with all on board. Barge Goes Down With Her Crew. Sandusky, 0.. Special.-The barge Athens, in tow of the steamer Pratt, went down in Lake Erie in the storm. The captain anid six men of the crew were -probably drowned. Captair' Mackey was in command of the barge. Captain McPherson. of the Pratt. stv.s that the sea was running so high that he was unable to render any as sistance to the Athens and the barge went down about 10 o'clock at night. Six Drowned From a Small Boat. Toronto, Ont., Special.-Six of the crew of the steam barge Resolutior of Erie. Pa., were drowned, their boal swamping as they were endeavoring to escape from the barge which had sprung a leak and was sinking. On4 beat containing five of the crew rea.h. ed the shore safely. Seven Trackmen Killed. Near Bluefield, W. Va.. sever trackmen. of a gang of 19 engaged it removing a slide on the Dry Fodi brnch of the Norfolk and Westeri Rirav. were killed on Tuesday at the result of a higr landslide. Thi men were swept down th'e mountail side~ into the river. Twelve escaped The bodies of four of the victim: wer recovered and three of the bod is are buried under hundreds o: tos of earth. All of the victim: were Italian laborers, and were known only by nurrbers, not names Boy Shot Teachers Who Refused t< Grant Request. Punxsutawney. Pa., Special.-Be -cause his teacher refused to gran him permission to go hunting, Jame! Dougherty, Jr.. 16 years old, shot and seriously wounded Prof. J. E. Kohler principal, and Meade Snyder, his as sistant. Professor Snyider's condi tion is critical and Dougherty was ar rested. Big Guns Contributed. Albany. N. Y.. Special.-The R< )ubl ican State commit tee filed statmenut of its receipts and -'spet ditres dluring the recent camapaig It certitied1 that it recived 833 P23 of whh-h 8: 2.!)23 was in contr i::ir: v :: $2).00) was horrowC rmTimo;h LvI. Wondru:fi. ei:ai n:zu of the Republie: <-mmnitte PALMETTO AffAIRS Occurrences of Interest from All Over South Carolina MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ing a Wide Range-What is Going On in Our State. General Cotton Market. Golveston steady.. .. .. .. ..10 5-9 New Orleans steady.. ......10 5-S Mobile steady.. .. .. .10 1-4 Savannah dull.. ...... ....10 3-4 Charleston firm.. .. .. .. .. ..10 1-2 Norfolk quiet .. .. .. .... ..10 3-4 Baltimore nominal .........11 New York quiet ............10.90 Boston quiet .. .. .. .. ......10.90 Philadelphia steady.. .. ......11.15 Houston steady.. .. .. .. ..10 9-16 Augusta steady.. .. .. .. .. ..10 7-S Memphis steady .. .. .. .. ..10 5-.S St. Louis steady .. .. .. ....10 3-4 Louisville firm .... .. .. ....10 7-8 Charlotte Cotton Market. These prices represent the price' quoted to wagons: Good middling.. .. .. .. ....10.70 Strict middling.. .. .. ......10.50 Middling.. .. .. .. .... ....10.50 Tinges and stains .. .. ..9 1-2 to 10 Charlotte Produce Market. Chicken-Spring.........22 to 25 Hens-Per head.. .. .. 2S to 35 Ducks.. .. .. .... ....... 25. Eggs.. .. .. .. ............ Rye.. .. .... ... ..... Corn... . . . . ... ....72 to 75 Cotton seed.. .. .... ..... ..24 Oats-Feed.... .. .. .. ...50 to 55 Oats-Seed.. .. .. .. ..55 to 57 1-2 Baltimore Produce Market. Baltimore; Nov. 26-Flour quiet, un changed. Wheat very dull; spot con traet 74 1-4 to 74 1-2; Southern by sample 58 to 67. Corn dull spot old 49 1-4 to 49 1-2; new 48 1-4 to 48 1-2; new Southern white corn 41 3-4 to 48 1-2. Oats firmer; No. 2, mixed 38 1-2. Rye firm: No. 2; Westein 75 to 76. Butter firm and higher; fancy imi tation 23 to 24; fducy creamery 30 to 31: do late 20 to 21; store packed 1S to 20. Eggs firm and higher 32e. Cheest active and unchanged, 13 5-S to 14 1-8 Sugar steady and unchanged. Coyotte Attacks Lad. Greenville, Special.-Tearing itsel f loose from its chain, a half-tamed coyotte ran at large on the . streets here ,attacking several people. among them. Luther Rogers, a 12-year-old white lad, whose leg was fearfully lacerated in several plae'es. The wolf was caught by a big negro blacksmith while in the act of chewing the lad!s leg. The blacksmith stunned the in furiated animal with a blow from his fist a.nd later stamped it to death. Several negro- men attacked earlier in the evening had their clothing torn by the wolf but suffered no injuries. The wolf was brought here about a year ago from a Western State. It , has generally been regarded as tame and docile, and it is feared that- the animal was suffering'with rabies- when killed, The head will be sent to a pasteur institute for examination. Inquiry Into Flowers Murder. .Georgetown, Special.-Some de velopments have taken place as re gards the murder of Bell Flowers on last Saturday night. It has been an nounced -by the physicians who view ed the body that the man's neck was broken. Blood stains have been found in his house, and there were signs that something had been -dragged - through the back yardi. A wagon was heard going away -from the back gate at about 2 o'clock that night. The supposition is that the man was- kill ed in the house and taken away .and ,hot afterwards. The coroner's jury will convene again and some startling disclosures are expected which will throw some light on the perpetrators of the dastardly deed. Wants Cheat r Gas. Charleston. Special.-dharlestonl is' ia fair way to secure cheaper gas. In fact. assurances have beeni prven by President P. H. Gadsden of thC Consolidated Company that a redue tion will be made. but the new sched ie of rates has not yet been mutual l agreed upon. Charleston now,.pays a rate of .$1.60 per thousand feet, which is considered by city council to be too high and hence the movement, inaugurated by a resolution of Al derman Peters, passed at the last meeting of city council for a reduc tion. Wheatley Gets Two Years. Spartanburg. Special.-J Wheat le. the young white man who dur ing last summer shot Conductor JoQ Brunson and Newsboy Williarns of Southern train No. 10 from Asheville to Columbia plead guilty 'to .two counts of assault and battery, of .a high and aggravated nature, and was gven a combined sentence of two v ears in the penitentiary. Wheatley' crime wvas unprovok ed.. Resigns After 22 Years as Clerk of Court. J. C. McFadden. for 22. years eltrh of court of Chester and the' most in -fluential man ini politics there in that time, has resigned on account of h2is health. He is a sufferer from heart d isease. Governor Heyward wVi lap pit his successor upon the recom. medaton of. the deation. Mr. M Fac:en is a tine tvpe of sturdy intel ie!t citizenship such as any comn numity weuld do well to keep in pol