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| VOL LIII WINNSBORO. S, C., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 28, 1899. NO. 46 ? I TN-rr. *-rrrmnmT/VIT TIT nTT"P-D/virPT? I TTT TT i HH r\ k TT0T70 Trp r~i BLUE OUTLOOK. " Capt McQueston Returned from Manila Expresses Himself. It MANY SOLDIERS NEEDED. Dunne the Rainv Season Terri ? > J tory Occupied Will Have to be Abandoned Except Maniia. I A dispatch from San Francisco says Dr. Charles A. McQuestoo, who was on the staff of Gen. E. S. Otis, and who was health officer at Manila, has returned home invalided by the climate. CjldL McOueston made a close study of the conditions of the Philippine situation. He is of the opinion that it L will take from 100,000 to 150,000 solT diers to properly snbdne and hold the [ islands. He also says that the peace commission was an absolute failure and that its from the start was without effect. Be strongly supports the military government of the islands, except that he thinks more men will be necessary than hr.s been estimated. Dr. Schurman knows that the comi mission is a failure and is coming home in July, added Capt. McQtieston. 'Unless troops, thousands of them, are sent to the aid of our men there they will be driven back into Manila in the course of the next few months, during the rainy season. Our men f simpiy cannot siaxiu mc tuiuaw. , ) per cent, of them will be incapacitated j by sickness and the territory overrun will have to be abandoned and Manila will be in a state of siege again. "Our officers and soldiers have aci complished wonders and have proved themselves the best soldiers in the world. But nothing decisive has come of it because our men were not in great enough force." WANT TO COME HOME. Volunteer Troops at Manila Tired of "TTT? TS 4.? "Will W ST. ? niuiMMi?a Thert seems little, if any, reason to hope for the reenlistment of even a small fraction of the volunteers in the Philippines. This is reluctantly admitted at the war department. No announcement so far has reached here of any wish or intention on the part of the volunteers whose time has expired to even consider such a proposition. Undoubtedly the men would be much influenced by the sentiment of their officers, and if the latter exhibited the least entt asiasm, the men could not help catching some of the spirit. But ^ " it is painfully apparent officers and men k iiave Jbad. an tney want. Bg The intelligence which comes over Hfc the sea today that Fans ion and Hale Hf and all the daring leaders who, sword BB in hand, have charged at the head of their troops and cheered them on to victory have put by all inducements to remain and are coming home is a commentary of the most striking character. It shows that, to the patriot and the warrior on the ground, there is nothing in the situation which conveys an appeal. These men, officers and privates have made their record, they have fnno>hf 1m>?r?nH wfill. thev have lived I -UUS"" o 7 _ _ n up to the letter and the spirit or their contract, and they leave behind them the bones of many comrades who, like them, never faltered. Now they are content that others fresh from home shall take their places, if they can be found. Served Him Eight. A special from Washington, N. C., says: Thursday morning just before the morning train left for Parmlee, a considerable commotion occurred in the neighborhood of the depot, caused by the horse whipping of J. F. "Woodward, who has been is this city buying m and soliciting shipments of potatoe' fo G. M. Snyder & Co., of New York civ:*. K The facts in the case that culminated I in the whipping are about as follows: i Wednesday a young lady of this city was passing down the street when she was overtaken by Woodward, who made repeated improper proposals to her. On the young lady arriving at home she reported the facts to her family. This morning on its being learned that Woodward would leave on the train a a-mart tn frllA I VI ^gUUViUV/M 4V^MP?*V? ?V - ?w ? - , pot armed with a couple of whips and proceeded to administer the horse whip- Qing, after which he was ordered to ^ board the train and never return. ? Railroad Bnilding. The New York Railroad Gazette gives the preliminary figures of new building far the first six months of 3S99. They show a total of 1,181.45 miles. This is an advance of some 90 miles over the preliminary figures of last year. Pennsylvania takes the lead for the six months, with a total mileage of 106. Then follows Mississippi 85; Arkansas 83; Oklahoma 76; Louisiana 62; Ohio 61; Florida 60; Utah 53 and South Carolina 50 miles. The railroad which takes the lead in mileage completed is i the Illinois Central, which with its new * lines, in Mississippi and other States, has a total of 6-4 miles. Eandsome Gift to Schley. attefa Rear Admiral Schley was the recipiBwSsfeent Wednesday morning of a handsome Ililver tea service, at the hands of the Baltimore Ladies Auxiliary of the ichley testimonial committee. The presentation was made at the home of Ken. Felix Agnus, in the Green Spring alley, by a sub-committee of fourteen ladies appointed by Mayor Malster. kdmiral Schley accepted the handsome gift in a few appropriate words Fiye Young ladies Drowned. Mrs. T. J. I/oyd, living seven miles northwest of Lampasas, Texas, five daughters and a visitor, Miss Chilaers. went in bathing in a creek Friday. The three youngest girls went beyond t.heir depth. Their eldist sister and Miss Childers went to their rescue and all five were drowned. Mrs. Lloyd saved her other daughter only by heroic' efforts. The bodies were recovered. HE WAS IN" LUCK A Large Sum of Honey Lost am Found. Some men are born lucky; some be come lucky, and some have luck tbrus udou thtm. This paraphrase of Shakesperian platitude seemed to hav a proof of its correctness right ii Augusta Tuesday. Among the passengers on the morn ing train from Charleston Tuesday wa the Rev. Mr. Jeff cote who was comin to town on business. In an mnocen looking satchcl on the seat beside hiu reposed $2,800 in good United State currency. The minister knew severa passengers on the train and chattel with them, paying little or no attentioi to the satchel. When the train arrived at the unioi shed he picked up a satchel and got of ?then his troubles began. In a mo menc or two he realized that he had ; traveling bag, but it was not his. I contained no money either; only sue) an assortment of articles as one uses 01 an out-of-town trip. He was frantic mi 1 -^ ^ ~ "aaatt w<ior*f. Trmr?h j. He loss ui tue uiuncj ... him and he at once went to police head quarters and reported the robbery The machinery of the law was set ij motion, but there was small chance o recovery, there being littles clue to worl by. Among the other passengers on th< train were Dr. A. E. Sally and his lit tie s-'-a who also carried a hand bag When they arrived at home the docto disco'-'pred that his son had come of with the wrong "grip." After a littli 'Ko a?ont rmt-. to the der>ot to se *T UAiU uv HV"W v s- ^ WW fc- - - w his own property which he found wait ing for him aad at the same time learne< of Mr. Jeffcote'sloss. The preacher was not very wel known in Augusta and as it happene< Dr. A. E. Sally was, perhaps, bette known to him than all other citizens So after bemoaning his fate he be thought him to call upon the physiciai to tell his tale of woeWhen he arrived Dr. Sally was^ ou looking for his own property. VV iiei he returned explanations followed, th? minister came into his poses3ion agaii and went away happy?the luckiest mai in two states.?Augusta Chronicle. WANTED TO LYNCH HIM. The Slayer of a Negro Threatened b: a Mob. A dispatch to The State from Conwa; savs: "A homicide occurred last Sunda; at Bucksville, a village six miles dis tant from here. A Negro known by th name of "Green" was stabbed and al most instantly killed by Sam Dew, i white boy. Young Dew, with a fev companions, was walking along th public road in the direction of Hebroi church, where a Sunday school celebra tion of some kind was going on. Th Negro Green passed them several time on a bicycle. Finally he rode up be hind the boys at full speed and withou warning of any kind ran violentl; against Dew. White man, Negro an< bicycle rolled into a ditch in a heap In the hand-to-hand fight which fol lowed the Negro received a stab free Dew's pocketknife and died soon after About 40 Negroes gathered at Dew* home on Sunday night, it is bglievai with intention to lynch him. Dew' father appeared at the door prepared t defend his home with a shotgun am the 2segrocs"fled after making a fe\ threats. On Monday morning Dew quietlj gave himself up to the sheriff. A war rant, had been issued, but the constabl did not execute it, but the boy's fathe promising that he should be brought t jail early Monday morning. A warran has been issued for the negroes who at tempted to invade Dew's house. An Outrage In Illinois Bleeding, covered with tar and death ly sick; James Briley, of JElossville, stag gered into the police station at Danville 111., Thursday night. He was the vie tira of a Whitecap attach ac nossvme Terrible marks across his back am breast showed where the lasn. of a whi] had cut through the skin and deep in to the flesh. Briley said a crowd o twelve young men came to his home a Kossville at 10 o'clock Thuisday nigh and took him out. They were maskei but he rtcognized five of them. The; took him out of the town atd tied hie to a wire fence. He was then strippec and beaten with a whip. He says the; wore the whip out on him and thei smeared him with tar. He finally wa ' ^ 1 ~ ^ Vil cr a r> i ( urusu AJtiivuu auu wiv *?** they told him to leave town. Tb night telegraph man at the rnlroad sta tion gave him some old clothes. It i alleged Briley did not support his fam iiy. A Case of Leprosy. The British steamer Lombard arrive at Mobile Thursday from Ship Islan quarantine with a case of well develop lonrnsv r>ri hnard in the D2rson of Chinaman, a member of the -jrew. Thi is the vessel which was ordered to Shi; Island quarantine on June 14 with case of yellow fever on board. Collec tor Burke wired Washington for in structions and received answer that th leper should have been left at Mobil Bay quarantine, but ordering that th leper be quarantined on board and take from the United States when the vesse leaves. Dying of Fever. In consequence of the outbreak o yellow fever at Santiago the garrison c United States troops ha3 been remove from the old Spanish barracks to -u;iiCT fV comionaoie camy iu tur: umo, Vii *,JU road to ?1 Morro. Thus far four soldi ers have died of the fever, and ther are IS cases in the hospitals. On civilian has succumbed to the disease and there are three civilian suspects. Massacre by Filipinos Captain Johnson Spicer, cf the Brii T TTqt- fprtT XOIX Jmp JL. JLJLCfcj ivwuvi; - . ^ Manila, has received a letter from hi brother, Capt. George Spioer, of th British ship Glooscap, saying that x the adult male Spanish residents c Balabac, the extreme southwest islan of the Philipines, had been massacre by the natives. The letter was give co J. F. Whitney & Co., shippin agents of SI New street, and they sec it to the maritime exchange, where 3 was posted on the bulletin board. "A BLACK SOLOMON. 1 Calmly Discusses the Race Question and Southern Lynching. I e AN EVIL THAT IS BLIGHTING. a _ Pleads Not for the Negro Alone, * But for Southern Manhood. 1 The Growth of Mob u ? Murder. 1 BrookerT. Washington, President of 3 the Colored Industrial and Normal School at Birmingham, Ala., WednesF day furnished the Associated Press an - elaborate discussion of the race quesa tion in the form of a paper. Prof. ^ Washington begins hi3 paper by saying 2 that while it is true that there are cases . of lynching and outrage in the northern ^ and western States, candor compels him - to admit that by far the most of the cases of lynchings take place in our i southern States and most of the persons f lynched are Negroes. ? "With all the earnestness of my heart." he says, "I want to appeal, not a nMoiJant rtf fVio TTnitAf} " LU kiiC ^1^91UbUv V*. ~ Mr. McKinley, not to the people of New York nor of New England, but to r the citizens of our southern States, to f assist in creating such a public senti ruent as will make human life here just t as safe and sacred as it is anywhere else - in the world." 1 The paper then offers a review of the appeal that has been made through the 1 press and prominent men that the Ne1 gro problem be left to the South. He r recites that the whole country from the the president down has been inclined to - do this. By the policy of non-mteri ference the South has been given a sacred trust. t Prof. Washington continues: "I fear i but few people in the South realize to 3 what an extent the habit of lynching i or the taking of life without due process 3 of law has taken hold of us, and to what an extent it is not only hurting us in the eyes of the world but injuring our own material growth. Many good people in the South and also out of the - - . M.. a.i 1 v. South nave gotten tne iaea mat ijuuuj ing is resorted to for one crime only. I have the facts from an authoritative 3ource. Daring the last year one hundred and twenty-seven persons were 7 lynched in the United States; of this 7 number 118 were executed in the South - and nine in the northwest; of the total e number lynched 102 were Negros, 23 whites and two Indians. Of this numa ber only 24 were charged in any way r with the crime of rape. e ''Within a period of siz years about a 900 persons have been lynched in onr southern States. This is but a few e hundred short of the total number of <5 ttrVirw Inct. tTipir lives in Cuba D uuv. + \s*v ?uw? ?. ?, - during" the "war. If we could realize t still more fully how much further this ? unfortunate habit is leading us?note i the classes of crime during a few . months which the local papers and the - Associated Press say that lynching has a been inflicted for?they include "murder, rioting, incendiarism, robbery, lars ceny. self defense, insulting women, i alleged poisoning, malpractice, alleged s bam burning, suspected robbery, race 0 prejudice, attempted murder and horse 1 | stealing, mistaken identity," etc. The v I practice has grown until we are now at the point where not only blacks are r lynched in the South but white men as - well. "Within the last six years at leak e a half dozen coloied women have been r lynched. o "I am not pleading for the Negro t alone. Lynching injures, hinders and - blunts the moral sensibilities of the young and tender manhood of the South. Never shall I forget the remark made by a little nine-year-old white boy with blue eyes and flaxen * hair. The little fellow said to his I ~Iva Vio/1 -retriTnpr} from a JUULUCI auu JUO uuu I lynching: 'I have seen a man hanged. Now I wish I could see one burned.' j Rather than hear such a remark from one of my little boys I would rather see him dead. ? "There is too much crime among us. t The figures for a given period show that t in the United States 30 per cent, of the j crime committed is by Negroes, while we constitute only about 12 per cent. ^ of the entire population. This proporj tion holds good not only in the South but also in northern States and cities No rane that is so largely ignorant and so recently out of slavery could perhaps ^ show a better record, but we must face these piain facts. A large amount of the crime among us grows out of the s idleness of our young men and women It is for this reason that I have tried to insist upon some industry being taught our youug people in connection with their course of literary training." Prof. Washington concludes by ap j* pealing to school teachers, ministers ? and the press to arouse such a senti" ment regarding the committing of crime ? agaiDst women that such a crime will s not be charged against any members of P tne race. He says the Negro has a among the southern whites as good friends as he has anywhere in the world l" and advises him to stay here and work e out his salvation, e St-rancrlprt in "Red. e -v*?^ d William H. Hux, near Brown Swamp il church was found dead in bed, lying beside his wife on Tuesday morning, the 13th lnst. Wesley Hux, at whose house his grandson and' family were f living, returned from a neighbor's if Tuesday morning, where he had been d spending the night, and in attempting a to wake the occupants, found that e William was dead, lying on his face in i- his own vomit, his wife lying by him e and a young man, Hamp Collins, lying & nn the floor. The wife says !. that she was awakened during the night by her husband making a noise, but paid no attention to it. Dr. Galbraith, coroner, being notified, summoned a jury and held an inquest, the verdict n being that the deceased came to his 's death by smothering, or strangulation. e The indications point to Hux's having gone to bed in a state of intoxication, with the above result.?Horry Hearld. d d Fast Bicycle Time, n Charles Murphy, paced by a Iocomog tive, rode a' mile on a bicycle in one it minute and five seconds near Maywood. it Long Island, Wednesday. The ride was a practice sprint. AFTER ATLANTA'S MAYOR. The Rev. Dr. Broughton Attack Him Vigorously. In a sensational sermon recently I L. G-. Broughton, Pastor of the Bapti Tabernacle, Atlanta, Ga., called up rtiptr fr* imuMi II1C Ulty UUULKJll Ui tuat vjlvj wv the Mayor, James Gr. Woodward. I Broughton said the chiof executive w a "confe?sed gambler, a libertine, a s and a disgrace to the city." At these words the audience of abo 2,000 people, cheered. In the cour of his remarks, Dr. Broughton sai "When the mayor was a member of i important committee to go to Waehin ton on the matter of federal prison sit he was drunk most of the time, ai there were other things that occurs in connection with him that I hesita to mention from the pulpit. He shou be impeached at once. If the membe of the city council do not impeach hii I shall take steps myself. No su man has a right to be mayor of tl city. The situation is indecent ai disgraceful.'' When asked after the sermon why! moved against Mayor Woodward, I Broughton said: "1 have given tl matter much consideration and I I lieve I have taken a step in the rig direction. I know what I am talkii about. The actions of the prese mayor ol Atlanta since he has held c fice are a disgrace to the city and tl people this man represents. Mayor Woodward was informed Dr. Broughton's remarks. The exec tive said: "I regard the statements Dr. BroughtOD as ridiculous. I ask t; public to suspend judgment." At a meeting of the city council < Monday night, a committee or nve w appointed to investigate Dr. Broug ton's charges. After due considerate the committee reported that May Woodward should he impeached. Upon this action of the city coun< Mayor Woodward plead guilty to all the charges preferred against him, ?i promised to reform. A TOUGH YAElT A Most Remarkable Tornado Sto: Sworn To. The St. Paul dispatch says: "Prol bly the most astounding story regardii freaks of the New Richmond cycloae that related by W. McShane, given fc low. Your correspondent took speci pains to carefully investigate this tal and visited Mr. McShane at his rei dence. The story was so remarkal and All the facts for substantiating nor o >iand T rennesfced Mr. M . , _ Shane to give me his sworn affidavit the circumstances, which he did. alse verified the story by neighbors se ing the unbroken windows and piec of the piano box lying about the yai The affidavit follows: About the first of April, when I to the storm windows off my house, I p seven of them in an upright piano bo placed at the end of a chicken coop the south side of the yard. I then i curely nailed on the front of the b with tenpenny nails so that there w no opening to the box. I passed t box five or six times a day, so that am confident it was there in same cn dition Monday night, June 12, befc the cyclone struck. Mrs. McShane < caped the storm in a neighbor's cells VViien sne came Dac? to tne nouse, u mediately after, she noticed the wi dows lying 011 the ground. I found t seven window3 with their double glaf turned around endwise stacked up eve ly on top of each other. Not a pane glass was ciacked, ana the piano bi had been torn entirely off. Pieces the box I found scattered about t yard some distance away. The chick coop was uniDj'ured. W. McShane. "Subscribed to and sworn to befc me this 16th day of June, 1899. J. B. Miner, "Notary Public, Ramsey Co., Minn Pardons Granted and Refused. Gov. McSweeney Wednesday grant a pardon to A. H. Soli of Hampton, t man who took away a gun while drui and was bringing >it back when arreste He had served two years of a five yes term, being convicted of grand li ceny. On the recommendation of the jadj and solicitor backed by strong petitio the governor has also pardoned J Williams of Orangeburg who was oo victed in January, 1898 of arson. He has refused to grant pardons the cases of J. W. Carter, convicted Colleton of obtaining money under fa] pretenses; Lee Bryant convicted Clarendon county and Ben. Walla sent up from Colleton for grand 11 ceny. The Filipino's Cannon. According to Gen. Anderson, coi manding the department of the Lak< the heavy losses of the American troo in the recent engagements with the F ipinos at Los Pinas and Bakoor, sou of Manila, were caused by the artille which A<?- \*al Dewey presented Aguinaldo last "winter. The batteri in position, Gen. Anderson says, a being operated by Spanish prisom who have been released by Aguinal with the understanding that they e list in the insurgent army. Gen. A derson took the first detachment troops to the Philippines last fall a: was a prominent figure in the first e gotiations with the Filipino govei ment. A Smallpox Cure. The governor gets all kinds of lettc from all kinds of people living in i parts of the country. Friday he e one from a fellow who signs hims< John G. Schultz of "Withrop Heighi I). C." He says he saw a statement the Charleston Messenger of rece date that there was smallpox at Bat< burs. Then he says: "I offer you ? ? j; A Simple care iur me uxocasc. vug uwj of cream tartar; pour on the same o pint of boiling water; let it ceol a then let the patient drink of it; w cure the patient in three days." Is it the best? Taste and see. B< in taste, best in results. JNo nausei ing dose, but so pleasant and natnral effects that you forget you have tak medicine?Life for the Liver and E neys. See ad. tf yS NEGROES SHOT ed Because They Were Willing to Work in the Mines >r. / LSt IN THE PLACE OF STRIKERS. on V I CXI >r. The Row Took Place at Evansas 9 i ville, Indiana. Repetition of the Pana Riots ut se Feared. d: an 'The first bloodshed of the miners' 8* strike, that has been in progreos at Evansville, Ind., for two months, occnrred shortly after midnight. It had ,te been decided by the proprietors of the W Sunny Side mine that foreign miners irs would be imported to start the mines. S THist rWisinn was made known to the Lis union men when the Chicago scale had ad been offered them without recognizing the union. fe- -.^About thirty colored miners from '? came in over the 113 Louisville and Nashville and were met ?e- ? tlia clotinn Vitr .TomM TT ATnnrp _ au UUV ObUWiVU WJ V UIU4VU MI wv- wj ht bookkeeper aad a stockholders in the D2 Sunny Side company. The wagonette ^ was djiven by Edward Geiger, son of !*" the priprietor of a large furniture store, and one of the most popular young men in the city. ?* The company's plant is located on the n" northwestern edge of the city, and about a quarter of a mile from Salt Wells, and is reached by a road branching from the right of West Maryland 3n street. ?s Mr. Moore and Mr. Geiger were in "" the front of the wagonette. While the an ?w -{not v CUlUC vrao yaooiug a *v* juw.v or before making a turn 111 the road to go to the mines, parties on the sides of the road fired in the dark upon the men ?* in the wagonette. The volley produced ad great excitement among the occupants of the wagonette, and the driver, whipping up his horses, hurried to the mine while those who had done the firing escaped in the darkness. A few minutes later Patrolman Rus^ ton appeared on the scene, having been attracted by the firing. It seems that one or two of those who had fired on ,a_ the wagonette, remained in the neighas borhood, and seeing the policeman, is opened lire on Mm. xne snot strucK )e. against the back part of his helmet, ial and he was not injured. Three other e officers reached the place soon after3j' wards, but they were not fired upon. >le Physicians were summoned immediately, the men were put in a place of ;c_ safety and the wounded men given t0 every'attention. I Moore, who was suffering intensely, >0. refused to be given attention until the 'g3 men were disposed of safely. He is at d St. SHajy's hospital and this morning is resting easy, with some hope of his reot coVv-ij"4s Charles Smith, one of the wounded Negroes, is in a critical condition. at John Smith, another Negro seriously !e_ injured, is in better condition this ox morning, with hope of his recovery. .as Ed Geiger, the driver, whose ear was jje clipped off has a severe wound. t Henrv Smith, colored, and John ,n. Norsweather, also colored, were slight)te ly wounded. ;g. The assault tpon these men has [p caused a feeling of uneasiness to prevail in the city. It is feared the scenes n_ at Pana will be reenacted here if furbe iher attempts are made to import minJS ers. The Sunny Side mine remains closed today, and the imported men are 0f in hiding. The proprietors refuse to ox discuss the affair at all and refuse to dinf vulge any plans. jjg The serious wounding of Moore, their en bookkeeper, lias made a deep impression on the management. The mine is getting into a serious condition because )re of the lack of operation. It is a machine mine and for this reason the longer it remains idle the heavier its loss. u? Fred Dilcher, the national committeeman of the United Mine Workers of America, and State Secretary Kennedy, , deny all knowledge of the shooting, ? and say they are as much surprised as anyone over the aSair. A Tale of Horror. irs ir- A story of possible cannibalism on the Yukon trail has just reached Circle ge City, Alaska. Three men left there in no T)er.?mV>f?r last for Jimtown and were oe not heard of again till the steamer Rideii ont, which arrived today, brought a terrible tale of suffering and horror, in The men were Michael Daly, Victor in Ediar and M. Provost. They were !se from Providence, R. I., "Woonsocket, T? T 1 T-l _Ll._ A f Ill H. 1., ana JOroCKton, iuass., icapeui/ivc ce ly. Their bodies were discovered 17 ir- miles from the mouth of Old Man's creek, they having lost the trail and become bewildered. Having left Dahl river with only three weeks food, but m- which was amply sufficient for the 150 js, miles to Jimtown, they were soon rev ps duced to starvation. il- Daly's body was found partly eaten, th on the stove in the tent just as it was ry left when death overtook the others, to Some scraps of moose hide and mocca:es sin were found, of which they were ire endeavoring to make a ' stew. Daly's >rs body was identified by the clothes, do The other two men were found dead in- five miles away from the tent. The " * a T- _! 4. ii- iact 01 tne tent naps uemg auut uuwu of when found, would seem to preclude ad the possibility of Daly's body having le- been eatea by animals. The other n- men doubtless were driven by hunger to the awful extremity of cannibalism. Four hundred dollars were found on the bodies. The Eights of the Dog. ;ot Following the decision of a few days >lf ago on the rights of the dog the suts, preme court has handed down another in decision relating thereto. This time nt the court takes the position that when ;s- a dog gets on a railroad track it is the i --1. ?J. il._ i a business ot tne aog to get out ui iuc ce way of the tram and not of the train ne to get out of way of the dog. In other ad words if a dog is killed by a train the ill railroad company is not not liable for kamages as in the case of stock. >st Many sunstrokes in the North and at- none in the South during the recent in heat wave again emphasizes the fact ei that the climate of this section is really id- milder than in higher latitudes, in : summer as well as in winter. i TfiE UKU.TS AJIU WJSAXlUiJ&. What the Department of Agriculture I Says About Them. The following is the weekly bulletin , of the South Carolina section of the climate and crop service of the United * States weather bureau issued last week j by Director Bauer: The week endingMonday, June 19th, 1 was intensely hot during the first four ( days and abnormally cool the remain- 2 der of the week. The extreme maxi- 1 1 AO ?J,1 .19 J/i 1 mum was j.uo, duu luemiuiujuui uu uc- . grees. The rainfall was general on the lGth * and 17th, and. in places heavy. The { week's rainfall* exceeding four inches ' at Blackville, and over three inches at ' a number of points, with few places ' only that had less than an inch of rain. | Over the greater portion of the State, ' it came in the form of a gentle soaking rain. 1 The extreme heat and dryness of the 1 early part of the week were detrimental ! to the development of all crops except cotton, and caused much suffering 1 among workmen and animals in prose- ' cuting the cultivation of field crops, but ^ the cooler weather and generally copi- ] ous rainfall of the close of the week 1 have changed the conditions materially 1 for the better. Cotton made rapid growth-during the ' week following the rains of last week -1 and the high temperature?favorable ) conditions for it. The early planted 1 has excellent stands and is fruiting 1 well, and some is blooming. Late ! planted ha3 neither good stands nor > seasonable size. Sea Island cotton is ' very promising. Grasshoppers are eat- * ing cotton just coming up in the ex- 1 treme western counties. 5 The condition of eorn was improved , by receiving the much needed moisture J and by the dro? in temperature. Old corn is in silk and tassel, and is being ' laid by. In the southeastern counties ' some corn was ruined by the drought. Wire or bud worms continue to destroy ( corn in a few counties. A few localities 1 report the crop very promising. 1 Tobacco was greatly improved by the ( tsitiq Vmf- if-, has nnnr stands, and has * been seriously injured by worms in Marion; transplanting just finished in 1 Newberry; contemplated acreage re- ! duced in Darlington. Topping has begun. J June rice about all planted. The J crop is generally doing well, but cater- ' pillars continue to infest it in locali- ' ties. "Wheat and oats threshing well under ' way. Yield of wheat below the aver- J age, while oats are very poor general- i ly. ' Pastures have started new growth. 1 Melons bearing and growing well. "Wild berry crop very poor. Peas being sown ] on stnbble lands and with corn. Cane ; and sorghum vary in condition according to previous rainfall. Grass fattened cattle now being marketed. 1 Gold and Silver. 1 Director of the Mint Roberts on Monday announced his final estimate of the gold and silver production in the United States during the calendar year 1898. It is as follows: ! Silver in : Gold. fine ounces 1 Alabama $ 5,000 $ 100 : Alaska 2,524.800 92,400 ' Arizona 2,465.100 2,246,800 California... 15,637.800 642.300 Colorado 23,195 300 22,815,600 : Georgia 128,600 500 : *" * * " Sk AAA AAA Idaho i,<io,yuu o,u<?-.} suu Iowa 100 Maryland... 600 Michigan... 100 32,400 1 Minnesota.. 100 Montana.... 5,126,900 14,807,200 Nevada 2,994,400 805,000 < New Mexico. 539,000 425,300 N.Carolina.. 84,000 700 Oregen 1,117,600 130,00 S. Carolina... 104 200 300 S.Dakota.... 5,699,700 152,300 , Tennessee 900 . Texas 300 472.900 , Utah 2,2S5,400 6,485,900 , Virginia 4,500 Washington.. 766,200 254,400 , Wyoming 5,300 100 j < Totals.... $64,463 000 $54,438,000 | Total for 1S97 $57,333,000 $53,860,000 , A Good Showing. 1 Administration economica, which is J charged with tne disDursement o: tne ( finances of the provisional government ! of Havana, and the province, published 1 a statement showing that from January to May, inclusive, the receipts were $763,194 and the expenses $178,228, the balance being cash on hand. This ' causes general astonishment among the Cubans and is unprecedented in the (' history of Havana. Xever before have the figures been published openly. The j offieials, formerly, merely made semi official statements, which were not itemized. .No two years of the Spanish regime have yielded as much as the past five months. The English La Lucha, 1 in an editorial based on this fact, says ' the Cubans and Americans are watch- 1 ing the results of military rule, recogniz- { ing the immense influence which will ! be exerted in the future political strug- ^ gle by the present campaign, and adds: ! l<The greatest piaise is due to the Am- 1 ericans here at this evidence of their ! .IT A , 1 _ , intent to maintain metnoQ3 or tne < strictest honesty." ! < Drowned in Lake Waccamaw. Two bright boys, Edmond McLaurin 1 and John Murphy, aged respectively J 14 and 15, -were drowned Thursday in Lake Waccamaw, Columbus County, '< N. C. They went to the lake on an excursion, run from "Wilmington, given by St. Andrew's Presbyterian SundayThp remains were broueht to the city on the excursion train at 6 o'clock and were met at the depot by members of the respective families. Edmond McLaurin was the son cf Mr. W. S. McLaurin, a well-known business man of Wilmington, and John : Murphy was the son of Mrs. Sarah Murphy, a widow lady, who resides on Walnut street. Serious Eiots. The riots in southern India have I oi^oorl +n T?iromnnrp wllfrp thft nolice Qyiuau bV X1M r WU4VV* wj v w - ? , J. ? have been severely beaten and forced to retire. The rioters have seized a number of guns and a quantity of ammunition. They are cutting off the ears of their opponents in order to obtain their ear rings more expeditiously. About 450 houses have been burned at Samboovadagarai. v uisiir rijuxiuii AH vojmuimu. Seceders from York County Long for Old Conditions. The Spartanburg correspondent of rhe News and Courier recently mentioned the fact that people living in a lertain strip that had been cut of from Spartanburg and used as a part of the lew couuty of Cherokee were very much lissatisfied with the new arrangement md would probably make an effort at in early day toliave themselves restored :o their first love. Well, they had just Detter not, because there is no possible chance. Such an arrangement would lestroy the new county altogether, as :here are other sections equally as dissatisfied as those taken from Spartanburg, and *f it should be allowed to withdraw from Cherokee there would De a general revolt. Several days ago, ffhile on a business :rip in Cherokee Township, which is aow a part of the new county of the same name, but was originally a part of i'ork county, your correspondent learned :he sentiments of the people who had voluntarily left in old and tried friend * - ? / ??/* TKnrr r?n .ur a liew <iuu uuu?u jl uvj aot approve of the methods in vogue in Lhe new county and also claim that :axes are considerably higher. They ilso make the charge that the county seat, Gaffney, is in the saddle and is asing all her power to build up and improve herself and_ immediate vicinty at :he expense of the1)fla&C?_&f the coun:y. Several citizens of CheroEeeTwa--.. ship claim that if it was possible to aave the question voted on again as to whether or not they would stay in Cherokee or return to York there irould not be twelve votes in the township in favor of remaining. There is xery little sympathy for former fellow citizens in what is left of York county. They were thoroughly framed as to what they might expect before they took the step. Following were the leading inducements held out to them by the advocates of the new county: "Unless you come with us a new county will be made out of a part )f Chester, Lancaster, York and a -a_:_ r vt?n 1;? strip irurn i^urtu v><uuiuja.; nun Bill as the county seat, and then your taxes will be so high as to virtually imount to confiscation." The second inducement was the matter of great convenience for those who bad business at the Court House. The third was that Ganney would, all alone by herself, build a handsome Court Souse and mob-proof jail, and last, md this was the winning card, Cherokee Township should forever have the privilege of choosing the State Senator, Dne Representative, the clerk of Court, sheriff and auditor. This proposition svas of sufficient breadth, height and iepth to include the leading aspirants For political preferment in Uherokee Township, and they forthwith went to work to carry the election in favor of the change. At the election that followed one of their number was elected sheriff and another as auditor. At the election last fall the sheriff was a candidate for reelection, but was defeated, and the auditor made a narrow escape, and your correspondent's informant said that it is the understanding at headquarters that he is to be retired in 1900. He is a nne-le?eed Confederate soldier and is said to be competent. Cherokee Township politicians are thoroughly disgusted. Instead of building a Court House in accordance with the written agreement, a town .hall, which had been erected several years previous and was not well adapted to the purpose, was palmed off on the new county by the town of Gaffney, and j matters have been so arranged that the necessary jail is to be erected by Cherokee County.?News and Courier. Dangerous Hypnotist. Patrolman Mahoney, of Buffalo, N. Y., recently saw a man and a woman walking round and round the block, neither speaking to the other, the woman's eyes being intently fixed on the face. When the policeman took hold of the *oman she came out of an apparent hypnotic state and asked j him to take her out of the man's power. She said she had never seen the man before. He had approached her on the street, she said, turned her face toward the light, made a few passes before her 2yes and without a word walked up the street, compelliag her to walk with him. She tried to leave him but could not. The woman, who is Miss Lillian Beaton, told her story to a police justice. The man, who is known as Joseph :>lcAuley, refused to say a word. Police Sergeant Nash reported that another woman had made a similar complaint against McAuley a few days before. The justice sentenced McAuley to 25 days imprisonment, which he received without breaking silence. He is about 30 years Did. A Good Hot Weather Item. Something new in trusts is the liquid lir trust, for which articles of incorporation have been filed in Delaware on a japital of $10,000,000. Few of uS had supposed that the liquid air business had reached that stage. It is only a step to an air trust that shall control the atmosphere and rent air meters to zo with every pair of lungs. The liquid lir chaps, it may be added, propose to supplant the ice dealers. One gallon Df the liquid air is equal to a ton of ice, one ton will keep a house down to 30 <focr#><?s nn the hottest davs. Sucb is the talk of the incorporation. A gallon or two of the stuff would have been a great boon to us during the recent hot wave. Death of H. B. Plant. Henry Bradley Plant, president of the Plant Investment company, controlling the great system of hotels and railroads on the west coast of Florida and the line of steamers from Tampa to Eabana, died suddenly Friday night at his residence in New York. Mr. Plant, who was in his 80th year, had not been in the best health for several years, but, except brief intervals of illtt-cc ortfivoltr f>n(rfl?rorl in the dirftC i-ltCOj M Uk> UW* I \/v ? - ? tion of his vast enterprises up to within a few hours of his death. It is said that if lamp chimneys. * -- j--i 1 i tumblers or otncr glass uisnes are piaceu in cold water, with half a cup of water, which is brought slowly to a boil and boiled a half hour, then allowed to cool in the water, they will resist any sudden changes of temperature without cracking. WilAI UAUjMLD 11. Evidence as to Depression of Agricultural Industry. DUE TO MONOMETALLISM. Witness Interrupted by Opponents of Silver and Was Not Allowed to Proceed on That Line. Joseph B. Ager, president of the r?i . r\ i_ .f Ai.^ uiaryiana otaie vxraoge, was Deiore me industrial commission at Washington Thursday. He said that a trust among the farmers such as was suggested by Mr. Havemeyer was impracticable, owing to the difficulty of getting the farmers to hold up prices. Speaking of colored labor, he said it was unreliable because of the natural indolence and indifference of individuals of the colored race. Liquor he regarded as the great bane of that people, and responsible for nine-tenths of the crimes committed by them. Mr. Ager considered the condition of the average farmer as worse than it was 20 years ago, bnt he believed money invested in farming safer than in other lines ef business. ?Iu. W. Youmans of South Carolina occupTed'-fehftjwitness stand daring the afternoon sessiQnT~~fi6^aaid the agricultural interest of the soutWsS^a^tly depressed, and he attributed thede^^ pression to the fact that silver was not ?? ? recognized as a money metal. He said there had not been an increase of the volume of money to correspond with , the increase ot population. As a consequence there had been a general depreciation of values. He was proceeding to develop his views upon this point when Maj. Farquhar made a point of order against the character of the testimony, and this point was sustained by the chair (Hon. A. L. Harris) after a somewhat spirited encounter between Representative Livingston and the Be- I publican members. Mr. Youmans then proceeded to nnnsidprafihTJH. TTP fhrmfrhfc the tariff also an obstacle to progress, saying that while the cotton grower of tie United States was compelled to compete with the cheap labor of the world in sales abroad, he was not allowed to buy the product of that labor in ether articles abroad withing paying a duty of 40 per cent, upon it As remedies he suggested the free coinage of silver, a lower tariff and local banks of issue. He had tried the diversification of crops and had not been successful. Mr. Youmans said he had no fault to find with colored labor, and that he preferred it infinitely to imported labor. "I employ 300 or 400 Negroes," he said, "and I find them docile and" willing to work. 1 go away and leave my family among them, feeling confident of their safety and protection." He thought, however, that the Negro as a rule irresponsive to the efforts to educate him, and while he willingly paid his share for such efforts at education, he considered the money so spent as thrown away. Death-Dealing Storms. Tornadoes have been known in America for a century or more, and thousands yf persons have been killed and injured by them. A record of these visitations since 1794 shows tremendous loss of life and property. On February 9, 1884, the country from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic was * ? i . j *11 _ trie dancing ground ior sixty terriDie tornadoes, which killed 800 people, and injured nearly 3,000, while they reduced to ruins 10,000 buildings. During the period from 1794 down to the present time the most disastrous tornado wa? that at St. Louis on May 27. 1896. The precise number of persons killed has never been known, but the * dead were several hundred and the injured many more. One of the earliest tornadoes on record was oa May -7, 1840, in Adams County, Mississippi, when 317 people were killed. The same place was revisited two years later when 500 were killed. The property loss was very great. Louisville was stricken in 1890, but the same city was visited by a whiriwind as long ago as August 27, 1854. At that time twenty-five persons were killedCollided With a Whale. The Cleveland Leader says: "Lieut. F. L. Chad wick of the United States navy is visiting his uncle, Dr. L. S. Chadwick, of Euclid avenue. During the war with Spain Lieut. Chadwick served on the cruiser Raleigh. He entered Manila bay when Dewey made his famous dash into the harbor. Lieut. Chad wick said recentlv that on his return trip there was a collision with a huge whale that was sleeping on the water. Lieut Chad wick was on watch when the boat gave aluich. "I thought we had run on some hidden rocks," he * "? "T 1 5 X . A l M J ? _ 2 said. "i rtDnea u> me ran auu iuuuu that the ram of the cruiser was fast in the side of a whale forty feet long. The engines had to be reversed before the whale was released. He floated away dead. You may think that is a fish story, but it is an actual fact, and the cruisers log will verify it." Schley and Wheeler Honored.The honorary degree of LL. D. was Thursday conferred by Georgetown University on Rear Admirals TVinfield Scott Schley and Geo. W. Melville; Major General Joseph Wheeler, Hon. W. JBourke Cochran, of New York; Dr. Samuel Bueey, District of Columbia; Dr. Daniel Bower, of Illinois, and HonThomas, Herran, United States of Co. lumbia. General Wheeler, Dr. Bower and Honorable Thomas Herran were unavoidably absent. A Substitute for Cotton, Prtricnl Matin r\f Austria v*. ?07 f ? ports a process in vogue there for making artificial cotton from shavings of the fir tree. The shavings are steamed, soaked in sodium lye and heated tinder pressure, with the result of converting them into celulose. This has castor oil, caffeine and gelatin added to it, and is then reeled off into threads, much after the manner of artificial silk. Local authorities expect to compete with the cotton product of America, but the South will probably still make cotton the chief crop for some years yet, . . ?/p&3kHb