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m^*->:-^:' '*W$M - -" "" ^ - '"' f?Xi 1|H . _ .. .. ' VOL LIII WINNSBORO. S, C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 5, 1899. NO. 47 j| _ : -. :";-3?$| j| ONLY THREE SAVED. A Lak8 Steamer Went to the BotP torn Like a Rock. THE CARGO SHIFTED. The Captain's Wife and Child and a Woman Passenger Were Among the Twelve Who Perished. The steamer Margaret Olwill, owned by M. P. Smith, of Cleveland, went down in the storm off Lorain, Lake iSrie, Wednesday night. Twelve peo' . T .1 pie were lost, including uapt. uonn Brown, his wife and sod, and Miss (r Baldwin, a passenger. The Olwill, of j 554 tons, was bound from Kelly's Is| land to Cleveland with limestone, her i 1 cargo shifting in the heavy sea, send fing her down by the stern. Seaman Coyle was the only man ! saved. He was picked up by the steamer State of Ohio Thursday. Those lost were: Capt. John Browa, wife and child, of Cleveland. T?nninaar. AloT MnTurtP. Of i (JL1 ~1.0 C juugiuvvi ?? _7 ? Cleveland. ^ Second Engineer Rudolph Shinski, St. Clair, Mich. First Mate John Smith, Cleveland. Wheelsman George Heffron, Cleveland. B Watchman Frank Hipp, Kelly's Is II land. P Three deck hands, names unknown I to Dtincan Coyle, the sole survivor ? The Olwill left Kelly's island at 6 o'clock Wednesday night bound for Cleveland with a cargo of stone. There I was little or no wind blowing and everything was favorable for a pleasF ant run. At 8 o'clock the wind began ^ ^ i ?A I* to blow irom tne nortuweso auu me little boat with a thousand tons ca' pacity began to go at a lively clip. At 10 o'clock the gale commenced and the wind blew at the rate of 50 miles an hour. Suddenly the gale turned to the northeast, Capt. Brown found that the boat was making little headway and r concluded the only thing to do was to turn back and go with the storm. According to the story of Coyle it was 2 o'clock when the captain gave the order to turn about. The vessel . had turned half way round when the rudder chain parted and in an instant Aa Vkrtof waa af- f.Ti* mercv of the storm. She was caught between two waves and as she was borne along the top of one of them she rolled over on the side. The cabins were torn loose and floated on | the water, while the rest of the ship went to the bottom. Coyle caught hold of part of the after cabin and climbed I npon it. HefEron was clinging to part of the same cabin. Capt. Willoughby of the steamer State of Ohio sighted the wreckage about 5:15 in the morning directly in the course from Cleveland to Toledo. bThe big steamer put into service her .life-saving c.ew and, after sailing around the wreckage for an hour and 8L a half Coylo was rescued. Heffrou was K" thrown a line, but he was too weak to take hold of it and went down in the presence of a larc*; crowd on board the steamer. * Several attempts were made to get the yawl boa;, in the water, but the sea was still running high and the work was extremely perilous. Hebron's death was a pathetic one. As he grabbed the rope, encouraged by the crowd, he made a superhuman effort to put the rope around his body, but he was too weak and fell exhausted into the waves. TmtVF OV THE CREW SAVED. Smith, McRae and Schinski were rescued by members of the crew of the steamer Sacramento and taken into Lorain by the tug Cascade. The rescued members of the crew was found floating on the surface of Lake Erie clinging to bits of wreckage. Their rescue was attended by exhibitions of extreme heroism, for heavy sea was still running when they were picked up. Filipinos Fortifying. Advices from Hakodate state tnat Capt. Sakichi, of the steamer Hokoku, Maru just returned from the Philippines reports that in the southern islands the young Filipinos are constructing fortifications against emergencies. Every port is garrisoned by a thousand or so of volunteers, whose weapons, however, are very crude, only about 20 per cent. i being armed with rifles. They are, however, full of patriotism and state that they will not yield to the Americans though the whole of the islands --are destroyed. The Hokoku Maru was y warmly welcomed, by the Jnlipmos. wno consider the Japanese to be of a kin dred race and hoped for assistance from them. The Filipinos were prepared to i pay for arms and ammunition and said the Japanese vessels visiting the islands could take return cargos of hemp. Capt. Sakichi says he only sold the insurgents two revolvers and the cooks knives. j IThe South's Biggest Mill. The Union, S. C., cotton mills are having plans drawn for a new mill to be ' known as No. 3. It will be erected L about two miles away from their pres ent location on a creek so as to secure F abundant water supply. The new facr tory will contain 50,000 spindles and 1 90ft looms. The company already operates 87,000 spindles and 2,280 looms, and this expansion means a total of 137,000 spindles and 4,080 looms, or in other words the largest cotton H&l mill plant in the South. The Union Mills compony already have the largest " ~ ? ill ?"L. ^ "nrlor Ano rArtf I CO CIO D mill ill LilC UU UlU uuuvi vuv iwt in their No. 2 Mill which contains 72,000 spindles and 1,820 looms. Got Off Light. One of the queerest freaks of journalism we have seen is the plea of the Gralvestoa News that the villain who abducwd little Marion Clark, of New York, has received too severe a penalty. He should get down on his knees and thank the judge who sentenced he. He got fifteen years in the penitentiary. Hanging would not have been too bad. The gold bug press still insist that the silver issue is dead and buried. No doubt in this case the wish is father to HE GOT DAMAGES For Being Blacklisted by a Chicago Railroad. FredR. Ketcham, a freight conductor formerly in the service of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway company, has recovered damages to the amount of $21,666 from that company for blacklisting him. Mr. William J. Strong, the counsel for Mr. Ketcham, has published an ar tide in which he states that the railroads centering at Chicago agreed with each other to employ no one engaged in the great strike of 1S94, in which 30,000 men took part. The companies agreed to keep each other informed as to the men who took part in the strike, and to require of every applicant for wnrlr a "fllearanee" from the railroad by which he had been employed. It was known that this "clearance" was actually demanded, and that when not given, though the man was of good character and had certificates of qualification by his former employer, he got no work. In one case where a clearance was given it stated that the man "had permission to secure employment elsewhere." 3Ir. Strong says of this condi uon: ,:This is slavery pure and simple, yet it is without exaggeration the condition < ? most railroad employes in the country today. The blacklisting system is also being adopted in neaily all other branches of corpoiate employment, such as the large packing houses, street railroads, clothing manufactories, and coal mines. It is one of the growing evils of the present era of combinations and trusts, menacing the liberty of a large class of our citizens. c,If a man who quits the employ of another cannot get work in his chosen occupation without, first obtaining the consent of the man whose employ he has left, he becomes a slave. He will not dare resist any oppression his employer may impose on him. "How long will it be, if blacklisting ia oilfa on/i cnroo lO OUVTT^U C\/ VUUUiUUV UUU foie the laboring masses of the country, having become the helpless tools of these mighty masters, will do their bidding in the exercise of the elective franchise? "We shall then have a government of corporations, by corporan-Pa* AA?T\A*?ofiAne LlKjllS auu 1KJ1 Wi^awivuo. ''The wage earner who feels his little children tugging at his coattails for bread will fear, in voting, to assert his manhood and resent oppression. Can a republic made up of such citizens long endure? Are such mere tools fit to be electors in a government by the people? These are serious questions which must be wisely answered by Americsn voters at the ballot box, or the answers will be blood and revolution." BATTLE OF THE BALES, In What Shape Shall Our Cotton be . Baled? The indications are that the efforts which are being made to get owners of cotton gins, who have not already done so, to alter their press boxes so as to make a square bale that will measure 54 inches by 24, will be successful. With a uniform square bale, known as the standard bale, it is probable that there will be a prolonged contest between the standard bale and the round bale. One great objection to the square bale now is its lack of uniformity which makes it more costly to handle as freight on cars and on ships. This objection will disappear, however, just as soon as the press boxes of all cotton gins are made to conform to the 54 by 24 inch standard. Mr. C. Menelas discusses the subject of the standard square bale and the round bale in an interesting article in the June nuaaber of the Southern Cultivator. A * he sees the situation, the square bale is bound to hold the field. ne gives several reasons ior tms view. Oae is that the square bale is more satisfactory to the trade, since it gives the buyer a better opportunity to see what he is buying, and another is that the square bale stands better the rough handling which a cotton bale gets. It is well known, also, that a very large percentage of cotton is exposed to the weather for weeks and often i.T j muutub aiter ii> is uaieu. n ia tiaiuicu [ that cotton in square bales will stand j this exposure better thaD cotton in round bales. The chief objection which Mr. Menelas offers to the round bale, however, is that the round bale presses are said to be held by a trust?that they cannot be bought by cotton growers; or by others so that there can be competition in making the round bale. T .e cotton growers have to pay so much per bale to * * " -5 - ? x - aI J Have their cotton presseainiotnerouuu bale. With all of the pr?ssiis for making the square bale out of use, the round bale trust would be in a pjsiti^n to charge what it pleases for making the rouad bale?in other words the cotton growers would be in the grasp of a mighty trust. Mr. Menelas thinks as long as the owners of the round bale presses refuse to sell their presses, it will be difficult for the rour d bale to | make much headway.?Columbia Record. Heavy on "The Sun-" Justice Brown in the United States district court, Wednesday handed down a decision awarding $65,000 damages, with interest from Nov. 1. 189S, to Wm. L. Moore, in the libel filed by him against the Sun Printing and Publishing company i'or the loss of the yatch Kanapaha, stranded in September of last year while off the north coast of CuDa. The jaeht was then in ihe employ of the New York Sun as a An Honest Woman. Mrs. Emmons Blaine, of Chicago, daughter-in-law of the late James G. Blaine and daughter of the late Cyrus McCormick, the great reaper man., has achieved distinction. She stepped up like a little woman and returned to the tax assessors for Cook county $1,560,000 personal property, the largest return ever made in that county. In doing so she incidentally remarked that she thought it was the duty of the rich as well as the poor to make honest re| turns of their taxable property. | A HORRIBLE STORY, Man Falls Under a Train, Bod Cut in Two. HE LIVESANDTALKS For Nearly two Hours Alive Tal With Those About Him. Drinks Water Freely. William Parsons, a young white ma of Lenoir, was run over by No. 36, tt south-bound mail on the Southeri Sunday night at Bethel, a small sti tion several miles from China Groovi The accident occurred at 9.03, an the man lived an hour and 40 minute: The accident was one of the mo: horrible that has ever occurred on tt road. The wheels of four cars passe over the man's body at or below th waist line, completely severing th limbs and lower part of the trunk froi the rest of the body. That the ma lived for only an hour with his bod t r-k f rrn 10 o ?0 r? f CJULipiCtClJ IUU1U CMU AO a. luv/t huav the medical world will discuss with ir terest. The man's legs were picked u and placed in the baggage car; the his body was put in. The legs wei placed near the trunk. Seeing then the injured man inquired what hi legs were doing so far away from hi body. When the train reached Bethel Sam Ei win and Ben James, colored men en ployed in the baprgage room, moved th mangled trunk from the car to th stretcher and then carried the legs om placing same on the stretcher. Th sight was one that made old railroadei accustomed to witnessing accidents c various degrees of horribleness, tur away with a sickening shudder. A physician was summoned as soo as possible, but nothing could be don o ' ? tt: a : IOT cue man. ms suuerioga were su n. tense that he asked, on his wa to be killed. His system would nc absorb morphine, so he had to endui the agony until death came to his re lief. It was horrible to see a hum a being lying there talking with his bod cut in two. The man told his nam and that of his cousin, Charles Morrow who was with him. Parsons' parents were dead and h lived at Morrow's father, his uncle's Morrow persuaded him to go with hii to Columbia, S. C., where there is a r( cruiting office, and enlist in the armj They were beatings their way whe Parsons met his death. No. 35 ha gone in the side track at Bethel for tb vestibule to pass. The men had bee put off the train once. Parsons in at tempting to board it the second time as the train moved off, slipped and fe! directly across the rail. The wheels c four cars passed over him. Capt. Tucli er was conductor and Engineer Al Soloman was in the cab. The train wa stopped as quickly as possible. Th tttoo fvvnn/1 in fTio Tinrrihl#? nonfli UiOiU VT OtiS 1UUUU J. JUL V4JLW tion described above. He talked rs tionally up to within a few minutes c his death. The stretcher on which he lay wa left at the entrance to the baggag room. "I have not long to live; le me stay in the air," said the dying mar He asked to be fanned and wanted ic water every minute or two. He wa conscious up to the last. The body was taken to J. M. Harr & Co s. Tuesday morning, and was ic terred Tuesday afternoon. The case is one in which science wii be interested, as it is one of the few, i not the only case known to the medics profession in which a man has lived to so long after the severing of the aorta the main artery of the body. The fac is accounted foi in this way. Each ai tery has three coatings. The inne coating became contracted, forming a impediment so the blood could not ge out. The man bled little, compara tively speaking. He was about 22 year of age. In his pocket was a letter o recommendation, a photograph of hire self and a letter from his sweetheart. l?r. Albert snerrm, wno is reauin medicine in McManaway & Winches ter's office, knew Parson well havin taught him when in charge of a schoc at Lenoir. He says he was an honest steady young fellow.?Charlotte Ob server. Political Soldiers. General Otis has found time froi his military occupation in the Philip pines to compose a Republican cam paign document and cable it to thi country at the government's expense la this contribution to the bunch o literature which the Republican poli ticians are accumulating for next year' contest General Otis says: "The onl; v...no nf Jnanrcrpnt leaders in Unitei U jyu VA. - >. ? ? _ _ _ States aid. They proclaim the nea overthrow by the present administra tion to be followed by their independ ence and recognition by the Unite' States. This is the influence whic' enables them to hold out." This par of the latest Otis cablegram reads lik an extract from an editorial in an ad ministration organ, and we haye n doubt that nest year when the presi dential contest is on (for there is n + V,of Pfiilinninft war will h VAA V -V. over before then) it will be profuse!; circulated by the Republican campaigi managers and shouted all over the coun try by Republican campaign orators.Atlanta Journal. A Mayor Assassinated. Mayor James Bolbirnie, of Muske gon, Mich., was assassinated Thursda; by J. W. Tayer, a disappointed offici seeker. Tayer shot Mayor Balbirni< while the latter was standing in th< doorway of his store. The ball entere; his left breast above the nipple. Afce the shooting Balbimie turned and rai upstairs to his living rooms and droppe< in the hall. He expired 15 minute later. Tayer swallovrcd some carboli acid then turned the revolver upoi himself and fired. The ball enterec his left breast. He died at 1 o'clock John W. Tayer was ex-city poor direc tor. At the time of the shooting Wes tern avenue, the main thoroughfare oi which the mayor's store is situated wa filled with people. The affair aros< over the mayor's refusal to reappoin Tayer director of the city poor. Taye had held the position for some years. OPTIMISM 2TJJJ MAD. ? Some Facts Bearing on the Philippin< ^ Campaign. There continue to come to hand evi dences that the administration is sup pressing all unfavorable informatior about the status in the Philippines, k Here is a sample from a Washingtor dispatch: The report of Brig. Gen. T. M. An derson. which, army men declare, se^ verely criticises Maj. Gen. Otis's conduct of the campaign in the Philippines, will not be made public by the war department. It is in the possession oi u Adjt. Gen. Corbin, who declares thai it is of no public interest. i, Gen. Anderson, who is now in comi mand of the Department of the Lakes, ? headquarters at Chicago, commanded "j the First division of the Eighth armj morris under Gen. Otis before beincr re 3- called. A dispatch to the Philadelphia 5t Times from Hong Kong is likewise enie lightening. The dispatch says: ^ The censorship at Manila is so strict ie that a meeting of correspondents was called for today to protest against the ie action of the United States military au31 thorities. Nothing is allowed to be n sent out on matters which affect the y administration at Washicgton, and unk )e?s dispatches are rosy aid optimistic l" they are not allowed to go. I have P ju?t:e u ned fro n Manila, and a corres n J ?-1- Ui.J \-r UUUU.UUL SUULLJlbLCU LLI3 IXidttCl UU1J tAj "e have it held up by the authorities. f> There is great anxiety on the part oi ,ls the volunteer soldiers to return home, LS although any mention of the fact is suppressed by the censor. The censoi r" also prevents the report of the terrible l" suffering from the heat being sent. e Our men drop like sheep from the overe powering influence of the sun. Noth^ ing concerning the movements of the ;c army is allowed to go. out, although the S Innol nonara PreftlTT f.Tiis TIPIPS C!a A iVVWi *AVV<J M.V ?V t. w " bling is extremely discouraging under 12 these circumstances, but it is not at all likely that any help will come from the n protest to be filed. The officers are e unhopeful of an early settlement of the l" war, and in their eagerness to keep the y public from obtaining an inkling of the ^ state of affairs, they make free use of e the office of press censor. 5" A South Dakota volunteer, Serjeant n Hugh D. McCosham, has written a lety ter to a friend in Marinette, Wis., his e old home. McCosham served in Caba r' and reenlisted last fall for duty in the Philippines. Ee is therefore no greene horn nor cry-baby. Under date of May ' 12 he writes in part: n Two days after San Fernando was 5" taken our regiment had but 190 men on r* the line, the remainder being dead, sick ? or wounded. Gen. MacArthur comd plained of the number of men sick, e other regiments being in the same Q shape as ours, and Maj Potter, with one surgeon, was sent into Manila to -- ^ -? 1 ^ ?. 1. -A A? rusQ men to tqc iruiiu avuug uuu? ? instructions, he sent 108 men to the )l front. Of these, thirty were unable to "reach the depot, a mile away, many of them fainting on the way, some twen3 ty-eis:bt or thirty ultimately arriving at .e San Fernando in worse condition than l" when sent to Manila, the others being ordered back by surgeons along the line of railroad, who saw at a glance that they were in a precarious condis tion. ^ i i n xi_ f arther along in tne letter, tne ooutu !t Dakota soldier saya: You Americans shudder at the tyre anny of Spain and the cruelty visited upon the natives of Luzon and Cuba, bet I want to tell you that bright, ^ brave, young Americans, who volunl* teered to defend their country in the ,, hour of peril, are giving up their lives by service in sacrifice to the vanity of | the star bespangled generals and a fog headed, dollar hearted bureau of offi'r oials at home. The fierce tropical heat, " the fever cursed atmosphere and the bullets of the insurgents are working Ihjttao nmnncr men that the r surgeons and nurses are absolutely un0 able to give the sick and wounded the care they should receive. You may I" publish this letter, and my name may ! be signed. I would face a courtmatial willingly, and prove more than I write, l" for I know that it is only by arousing the sense of the States that we can be S relieved, and to stay much longer will be the death of most of us. ? The three witnesses examined, an aimy officer of high rank, a newspaper '' correspondent, and one of the enlisted '* men who has seen service, prove that Gen. Otis has carried his optimism^to an extreme, if nothing else.?The State. a >- Shields Commits Suicide. L* Leroy H. Shields, 46 years old, pro3 mioent in Virginia politics, and who was collector of customs at Norfolk un;f der the Cleveland administration, suicided in his room at the Hygeia hotel, s Old Point, Tuesday night by sendiDg a 7 bullet into his brain. Melancholia, d induced by recent financial reverses, is r the cause assigned for the deed. He " had been at the hotel a week and was expecting a reappointment in the naval d service. During the Spanish war Mr. b Shields held the post of paymaster on the cruiser Buffalo, and since his dise charge had been seeking a similar assign ment. He is said to have lost heavily 0 in speculrtion recently, and is known tc have been brooding over his troubles. 0 A wife and three children survive him. - 1 ' "" * ' TTT i J il . w iYirs. smeias is in vv asamgtuu auu mc 7 children in Norfolk. a A Fruit Trust. It has been said that Armour & Co., and one or two other big concerns are in combination to control all the fruit and early vegetable trade of ihe country. - The houses concerned, however, deny 7 the truthfulness of the rumor. The 5 rumor was disturbing to "the colored e man and brother" as it included the e watermelon, and there was promise of 1 an early emigration, but the denial has r brought joy to many an anxious heart, j i Two Similar Cases. s Everybody has doubtless heard of the c rattlesnake that took two days in t^yi ing to charm a stuffed owl, but that 1 isn't a circumstance to a recent British . coroner's jury that sat on a mummy. - It was left at a railway station, and the "** - 1 TT, 1* coroner was duly notmea. 11 Deiog a 3 human body, the due processes of law s had to be executed. After an hour's ? 1 A- - i.! 4.1 "-"J ? rr?A o m TTAn e consultation tiis usuai Yciuiuu noogiigu t ?came to his death by means unknown r to the jury at a time and place not discoverable. MEET IN BATTLE; " 3 T Armed Negro Miners Under Ed * Ellis Lose Four. "KNIGHTS OF AFRICA." 1 Vi 0 1 Result of Attempting to Prevent f< Lynching by Force of Arms, ?' as Recommended by u Northern Blacks. ? Three negroes are dead and one is not a expected to live as a result of a riot be- ? . tween the white and negro miners ac ^ , the ore mines near Cardiff in Jefferson d ^ county, Ala. . o The dead are: Ed. Ellis, Jim Dill, , Adam Samuels, The wounded: Ru dolph "Williams, George Thomas, mor- a tally wounded. J si : The races came to a clash in the late c, ! afternoon in Glasgow Hollow, where r< s the negroes congregated, armed with e< Winchester rifles. A white man pass- o ! ing along the road was held up and ti 1 abused and was roughly handled. This tl " news soon spread, and an armed body f( of white miners moved toward the hoi- t< ! low. It is supposed that they went tl around by a circuitous route in the si ' mountains ana came upon tne negroes a: , unexpectedly. Ed. Ellis, the ring- g : leader, armed with a rifle and Colts re- v: volver, fell at the first volley. A riflle 1 bullet did the work. There was anoth- d er volley and four of the other negroes w ; fell. Jim Dill and Adam Samuels died ti in o fsirrr Twimiffla )of Koinff AT7P/1 pi iu a, iv/rr iuiuu^vo inwij &vwv ? w? ' to a negro house. Geo. Thomas was ti shot through the abdomen with a Win- fi 1 Chester bullet. He is not expected to m ! recover. Rudolph Williams will live. i< The trouble started Tuesday when it r< was thought that John Shepherd, who, si on last Wednesday afternoon assaulted di 1 Mrs. Monroe Jones near Corona, was c; in that community. The negroes arm- oi ed themselves to prevent his capture, si 1 Both sides were aroused and only the a] ; timely arrival of a sheriff's posse pre- g: vented an outbreak. This morning the fc negro miners held a mass meetiag and vi 1 refused to go to work. They all belong ti to a secret organization known as the ei ' Knights of Africa," or the "Mysteri- T 1 ous Ten." They keep rifles and ammu- tl nition on hand at all times. It was in ei the afternoon that they gathered in la Glasgow Hollow, although with what ol intention is not known. qi 1 Influential citizens say that the ring- fe leaders are now out of the way, and ki they hope to manage the negroes. Ed. b< Ellis, the head of the band, and holding u; the chief office in the secret organiza1 tion, made a speech to the negroes just ts before his death telling them not to be- p: liotro TpViat- the nfflnprfi Tiad told ni them, and swearing that he, for one, di would get even with Sheriff O'Brien, ai who, the day before at the point of a ci shot gun, ordered hia. to disperse his b; gang. p< Shortly after the riot Sheriff O'Brien qi left Birmingham with a hundred armed a men. He now has the situation in hand st for the time being, although late re- m ports say the situation is extremely tl critical and that the negroes are talk- li ing of avenging the death of their lead- ta ers. w WILL FIGHT THE TRUST. : a] al The Farmers of Texas Organize Against 01 the Bound Bale. QThe Farmers' Anti Trust Union was organized in Navarro county, Texas, in ai May. The aim and object of this union V( is the mutual urotection of the farmers t arid cotton raisers against the blighting ^ influence and power of the round bale cotton trust in particular and other p] trusts, monopolies, syndicates and com- 0. bines of whatever name, character or a formation, the workings of which are detrimental to the interest of the pro- jj, ducers of the products of the soil, m' rtAnafifnfao oil r*?/ia1fr.ll a n/3 t-\ to destroy honest competition and trade ai in commerce. Section 4 of the agree- 0I ment declares that "all persons who are st opposed to trusts and monopolies in any and all forms, and who believe in cj honest competition in trade, and who cc believe in the inalienable rights of man ? to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as guaranteed the citizens of this great Republic by the Constitution, and who are willing to subscribe to the obligation hereinafter set forth, are eligible to membership in this union." The following is the obligation: "We, whose names are hereunto subscribed do most solemnly obligate th ourselves not to encourage, support hj or patronize the round bale cotton m system in any way, shape or form, and vi we further agree to patronize our home cr gins and ginners with the flat bale, pro- se vided that our ginners will reduce their eq presses to conform to the uniform or l(i standard bale of 24 by 54 inches, and w< we further agree that we will not insist bj or require our gin men to use or put in nc any more cotton than is necessary to wi make an average weight bale of 500 ui pounds." th The obligation was signed by nearly wi every man present. R. J. Wright was elected president; R. F. Johnson, vice 65 president; Sam C. French, secretary en and treasurer. A committee consisting ar of J. S. Ponder and R. J. Davis, was 10 appointed to organize the Xegro farm- mi er3 of the precinct. vo This organization is not a temporary he affair, but will continue in existence as long as there is a trust to fight or, un- St til the State officers shall have enforced w? the constitutional laws of the State. be ___?_?__. gQ Sentence Commuted. The governor today commuted the br sentence of R. C. Wyatt, of Spartan- mi b'arg, who was sentenced to the peni- vis tentiary for seven years for killing a ed man. He has served five years, and the vo sentence is commuted to five years and be seven months, so as to allow Wyatt to be free at the end of the month. A numerously signed petition, including the jurors, induced the governor to act. On ja] conviction the jury recommended the ln. prisoner to mercy. hi de Five Fatally Scalded. co Five men were scalded to death by ab the coMapse of a steam flue Wednesday se: night on the steamer St. Paul near St. fr< Louis. th LOSSES PROM LIGHTNING. 'acts Gathered by the Official "Weathei Sharps of this CountryFew questions are of greater interest whether considered from a practica r theoretical standDoint than the mani ^stations of energy in lightning dis harges. The practical side of th< roblem appeals directly to a great por ion or the population, but more cspeially to the people who live in th< ountry and the smallei towns and vil iges. By the practical side is meani working knowledge of the charactei f the lightning flash, the kind of ob ;ct most frequently struck, method: f protection and the distribution oi flpfm/ifiro kn+V? in timo onr gowi uvtiy & u\j k.ix iu viuiv uuv ver spacc. It would be of manifest advantage tc now the precise character of theordin ry lightning flash?whether, for ez mple, it approximates a condition oi Leady flow or partakes of an osciilatorj baracter, i. e.. a current which rapidlj itc nn A hotter Irnmrl. y ? uv>j aug uii wvAvut ** t.'v v w* a&uvtt* ige than we now possess of the kind oJ bject most frequently struck, whethei *ee, dwelling house or bam, might be le means of saving human life. If, >r example, certain trees are more api ) be struck by lightning than others, ley should be avoided as a place of helter in time of thunderstorm. There re other lines of inquiry in which reater precision of methods and de li;ca wuuiu jiciu vaiuauig iciuiuo. A little over a year ago the Illinois epartment of agriculture, through its eather Bureau, undertook the collecon of statistics of loss of life and prop:ty, especially in farming communies, by lightning. The results of the rst year's work and considerable inforlation of s general character are given 1 bulletin No. 26 of the weather bu:au just issued. The bulletin conaf-a nf f-.cm narfa Thp first is larcftlv evoted to a discussion of the electrifiition of the atmosphere and the meth1s of investigation that have been purled by different experimenters. The pplication of the knowledge thus lined to the construction of apparatus >r protection from lightning is reiewed, and, finally, methods of protecon are discussed and rules for the rection of lightning rods a;e given, he latter are intended not only for le guidance of persons desiring to ect rods themselves, but more particujly for those who may contract with ;hers to do the work for them. It is aite essential that every person who :els the need of a lightning rod should -l: 1? _u.ii? i,?0 LIU W UlUJaeiJ. WUCLLLCr 'Jl uuo 11 JLioa sen properly constructed and placed p'on his premises. Part II., by Alfred J. Henry, contins a summary of loss of life and roperty in the United States by lighting during 1898, and, so j;ar as known, iiring previous years. The statistics e not by any means complete, espe.ally as regards the loss of live stock y lightning. The fact of greatest ^'mjrtance developed thus far in the inliry is that about one-third of all tses of fatal lightning stroke on liveock in the fields occurred in the imediate vicinity of wire fences; indeed lere is evidence that in some cases ghtning struck the fence at some dismce from the place where the stock as killed. The statistics, incomplete i they doubtless are, show that the irmers of the country lost by lightning one during 1898 live stock valued at jout $50,000. Dnrinp- samp tima there were rer 1,800 cases of destructive lighting strokes on buildiugs, causiog a oney loss of about $1,50^,000. Three indred and sixty-seven lives were lost id 494 persons were more or less seirely injured by lightaing stroke, he killed were in various conditions : environment?in dwellings, barns, l T -r \r oaertrees ana in tne open, _uore peue were killed under trees than in the )ea. It is not safe to seek shelter from thunderstorm under a tree. The regions of greatest danger from ghtning stroke appear to be in Wyoing, Montana, Colorado and North akota, although more extended records e required before a definite expression 1 this question can be given. The atistics confirm the general belief that mger from lightning stroke is least in osely built cities and greatest in the luncrv. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. ''ill be Enlisted Right Along and 20.000 Rushed to Manila. As a result of a conference between ie President and Secretary Alger, it is been decided to begin the enlistent of volunteers for two years' serce in the Philippines. Orders to reuiting officers to this effect have been nt out. It is proposed to arm and [uip at once three brigades, or about 1,000 men, and then to continue the Drk until the whole 35.000 authorized r the law are secured. There will be > call upon the States. The regiments ill be organized as United States vollteers. Officers will be appointed by e President and assigned to regiments ithout regard to State lines. The maximum of the regular army of >,UUU men has been secured, and now .listments will be for the provisional my to make up the total strength of 0,000 men. Gen. Otis has 29,300 an on the ground or under orders, and lunteers will be rushed to him until : has an efficient force of 50.000 men. In the enlistments for the United ates volunteers, veterans of the late ir, including those who did not get yond the home camps, but were seaned, will be given the preference, and e same will be true of the officers. A igadier general for every three regijnts and a major general for each dision of three brigades will be appoint. They will be part regulars and part lunteers, and Gen. Joe Wheeler will among the number. v rrr many warn unices. Governor McSweeney has received a :ge number of letters from young men various portions of the State asking m to use his influence with the presint and war department to get them mmissions in the volunteer service out to be organized for the Philippine rvioe. He has yet to receive an offer )m any one desiring to volunteer for is service in the ranks.?State. STEAMSHIP BURNED AT SEA. Was Plying Between Brunswick, Charleston and Boston. The Georere "W. Clvde steamship. Capt. Robinson, of New York Clyde Line, arrived ict Wilmington, N. C., June 27, at 11 o'clock with Capt. A. D. Ingram and crew of the steamship Pawnee on board, the Clyde having picked them up from the small boats very soon after they abandoned the j Pawnee, leaviDg her wrapped in flames. | An Associated Press representative ' called upon Capt. Ingram soon after his f arrival and vras told that the Pawnee was abandoned oS Currituck on the ' coast of North Carolina a little past ? midnight on Sundiy night. L mi.. c J: j _i i j. ue are was uiscoverea aoout midnight and had gained such headway that every effort to check the flames * was futile. They leaped in great volume from the forward hold of the P vessel and dense smoke completely enr veloped the decks. When the alarm was made OaDt. Tnrram was aslpAtv and no sooner had he rushed out and S taken in the situation than he saw that " it he saved his crew he must get them ; off at once. However, the pumps were set to work and the two streams of ; water upon the flames for several minutes before he gave the order for the ; boats to be lowered and the ship abanWV>i1a /I AWATT" TTTAVA TW/v *1/* uuutu. TT vug VXCVV VfCiC lUiiUillLl^ the small boat. Capt. Ingram rushed into his cabin for some valuables which he hoped to save. When he reached the ship's side the boat had drifted out of reach, and about that time the smoke shifted so as to envelop that side of the vessel, and the captain ordered the crew to row the boat to the windward side. This they did, but in the meantime the wind shifted again, the heat and smoke forcing them to pull away without their captain. There were three vain eftorts of this kind made, the boat being rowed to first one side of the vessel and then the other, in attempts to reach the captain. Finally Capt.Ingram leaped into the water and swam -200 feet or more toward the boat. One of the crew held an oar out to him and pulled him in 1 completely exhausted and almost unconscious. In the meantime the George W. Clyde had sighted the Pawnee in flames and bore down upon her in time to pick up ihe captain and crew within a few minutes after they abandoned the burning ship. Capt. Ingram says the Pawnee had a full cargo on board, prineiDallv lumber, of which there was. be tween 500,000 and 600,000 feet. There was also a quantity of cotton on board. The Pawnee, in command of Capt. Ingram, - left Brunswick, Ga., on Friday and Charleston on Saturday for Boston, laden with lumber and general cargo. The Pawnee was a freight steamer plying between Boston, Charleston and Brunswick, and had a crew of about 34 men and had no passengers. THE PARDONING POWEB. Gov. KcSweeney Exercises it in Sev eral Cases Others Refused. Got. McSw^eney Wednesday acted upon a number of applications for pardon. A pardon was granted John Dill convicted in March, 1895, in Spartanburg, of 'maoslaughter and sentenced by -Judge vvichersspoon to seven years imprisoument :n the penitentiary. The pardon was recommended by the judge, solicitor and jury. He also pardoned Robert "Witherspoon, now in jail at Lancaster. His sentence would expire ia October. The county phjsician certified that the man is dying in jail and the solicitor asked the pardon. The governor refused to interfere in tne case ot l. Hi. ihackston of Greenviile, who is serving sentence for killing a negro woman with whom he was intimate. This was the second time Thackston had killel a person in a bawdy house, his first victim being a man. The governor could find no mitigating circumstances. Geueral Evans JDavis, who was convicted in October, 1896, in Clarendon of manslaughter with a recommendation to mercy and was sentenced by Judge Benet to serve four years at hard labor in the State prison, got a pardon. Davis was a mere boy at the time and the killing occurred at a general row at a negro hot supper. The deceased struck him and he used his knife in defense. The judge and solicitor both said they thought the ends of justice had been met. A pardon was given Dave Murdock of Marlboro who was convicted of assault and battery in November, 1897, and sentenced to two years on the chaingang. His term is not out and he recently assisted in preventing the escape of prisoners. He is in bad health. He assaulted his father-in-law in a family row. Solicitor Johnson and the Marlboro Delegation endorsed thfl annliftatinn. The commutation to six months in the case of Irving Williams, Richland county, heretofore mentioned, was granted. The governor refused to pardon Robert Crockett, convicted of larceny of live stock, although the prosecutor asked it. The main reason a pardon was desired was the use of Crockett as a witness in another case. The solicitor said he would need the testimony.? State. It Cured Him. A Cincinnati man recently advertised his desire to sell a valuable secret for 50 cents. He stated that he would tell ho\v he was cured of drinking, smoking, swearing, staying out at night, going to the races, gambling, and how he gained 20 pounds in weight in two years. Severol persons sent him 50 cents each. and here is the secret they received: ' 'Just cared of all the bad habits named by an enforced residence for two years in the Ohio State prison." Bryan the Man. Col. Henry Watterson does not feel like chasing rainbows these drys. He says in his journal that Mr. Bryan will be the Democratic nominee next year on a free silver platform and that "the Eastern Democrats who undertake to control the wild horses of the West and Seut-h. will fare no better in 1900 than they did in 1S96."' GOOD ROADS. v. i i. Supervisors Invited to Attend: a Road Institute. CIRCULAR TO THE OFFICERS. * ' The President of Our Association Advises All of Them to Keep Up With'the Times. The following circular letter was i?sued Wednesday: To the Road Supervisors of the Counties of South Carolina: The undersigned deems it his duty as president of the South Carolina Good Roads association to call the attention of the South Carolina road supervisors to the annexed invitation from Mr. J. A. Holmes, State geologist of North Carolina, as given June 21st last in The State. It is respectfully sagisted that as many supervisors attend as possible. The Road Builders' institute is a moat useful and a most timely conception. Tne work proposed looks to the material uDbuildine of South Carolina. Let us hope that our State will keep up with North Carolina in her onward march im the line of good roads, with all that they imply for the prosperity of our people, especially our farming population. The following is the statement from the State geologist of North Carolina: "Two of the greatest factors in the good roads problem in this country are money to cover the expenses and trained roadbuilders who know how to spend this money judiciously. Boad builders will not multiply unless there is money with which to pay them, but the existence in every county or township of supervisors who know how to expend every dollar 01 road money to tne Dest advantage, for permanent results, will very greatly increase the willingness of the people to vote taxes ior load building. "With a view to aiding in bringing about this result, by awakening an interest in this subject, a road builders' institute is to be held in Charlotte, the centre of that excellent system of macadam roads in Mecklenburg county, for ten days or two weeks, beginning July 11th. next. It will be conducted by J. A. Holmes, State geologist for North Carolina. Gen. Boy Stone, di rector of the government office of road engineering, will be with the institute for several days and will give it the benefit of his wide experience. Mr. D. P. Hutcheson, manager of the Charlotte _ township road work, and Mr. 0. A. Spratt, engineer for the city and county road work, will take part in the diacussions of good roads problems and explain their system of road building. "Ihe county, township and city road authorities will cooperate with the institute in every way possible in making the instruction given of a practicil nature. Persons attending will be given r r_ i i. i ... t_ -li j iDsiruuciuu la uow to locate, dullu sua repair both earth roads aad macadam roads; the'handling of road machinery and the management of convicts. Road supervisors from every part of the two Carolinas and all other persons who desire to learn something about the metis.--?ods of modern road building, and who may wish to see the methods followed in buildiog the splendid macadam roads of Mecklenburg county, are cordially invited to attend this institute." The only expenses necessary are the cost of traveling and board while in Charlotte. Persons desiring further information should write to either Mr. " D. P. Hatcheson of Charlotte or Prof. J. A. Holmes, Capel Hill, N. C. Jno. P. Thomas, Pres. S. C. Good Roada Association. A Revolting Crime. A A dispatch to The State from Bates* burg under date of June 26 says: James Attaway, white, was arrested here this afternoon by Sheriff Canghman of Lex ington on the charge of rape. The sheriff is looking-for Ed. McCloud on the same charge. The affidavit in the warrant is - made by L. H. Leitch and David Meetze, charging the assault on the persons of their wives^ Mary Ann Leitch and Laura Ellen Meetze. ? ? It seems that the women have not borne the best of reputations and that the defendants have been in the habit of visiting them as lovers. Recently the women were married to the' above named men and it is presumed that the husbands objected to the continu ance or tneir past lives. On May 16 the parties visited the house where the parties were living, but the husbands objected to their presence. Attaway and McLeod are said to be pretty bad men, and it is ? said that at the point of the pistol they made the husbands leave the house. In some way Attaway's pistol was discarged and the ball took effect in the groin of one of the women. Dr. Crosson of Leesvillfi nrnhed for hall Twit. was unable to find it, as it had lodged in the pelvic cavity. The woman ia not yet out of danger. She claims that Attaway deliberately shot ner, but he claims that the shooting was accidental. The prisoner had a pistol and a pair of knucks on his person when arrested today, so he will have to answer to the charge of carrying concealed weapons. The scene of the alleged crime is in the northern part of Lexington county near the Saluda river. Must Like Hi<; JobGeneral Leonard Wood has refused an offer of $30,000 a year to hold his post a? military governor of Santiago at one^ fifth that salary. Wood is one of those men who realize that there are some things in this world better than money. sucn men are the salt of the earth. Too True. Henry Timrod is another deadgenirs who after being neglected and scoffed at during his life is now having flowers strewn upon his grave and all sorts of people to arise and call h?m blessed. What a fraud fame is! We seldom kiiow who aremost worthy of our praise until they are gone beyond its reach. ... %