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?iIk VOL LIII WINNSBORO. S, C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 26, 1899. NO. 50 |J ^ NEWS DOCTORED. The Public Kept in the Dark as to the Philippines. ~ THE CORRESPONDENTS KICK They Charge that the Facts Havd Rpp.n Svstematicaiiv Suppressed by General Otis' Orders. H The constantly increasing strictness " of^the censorship of press dispatches from Manila, which has prevented the cabling to the United States of any" thing that did not reflect official views of important events and conditions, resulted in a united effort on the part of correspondents at Manila to sccnre an abatement of the rigor of the censo;JL ship. The initiatiye in this direction o wi/\n*]-> cork and TAsnltp.d in WciO A uivuvu u^v ? the framing of a statement which was presented on Jaly 9th to Maj. Gen. Otis, commanding the military forces of the United States in the Philippine island, with a request fur permission to telegraph it to the United States. The correspondents also asked that, they be allowed to cable to their respective papers all facts and the different phases of events as they transpired at Manila, v The correspondents had two long interviews with Gen. Otis, in the course ' of which tLey complainca that the evident purpose of the censorship was not I to keep information from the enemy, but to keep from the public a knowledge of the real condition of affairs. It was i-.l A (aiso asseneu u.v s.uc wiiwwuuvuwvU?, newspapers printed ia Manila, which reach the enemy quickly, are permitted to publish statements similar to those . which correspondents are forbidden to cable. It was made clear to Gen. Otis that the objection was to the system and not to the censor. Gen. Otis finally promised greater (liberality, agreeing to pass an master that he might consider not- detrimental to the interests of the United States. Gen, Otis appointed Gapt. Green, of his staff, censor. The statement of the correspondents is as follows: "The undersigned, being all staff correspondents of American . newspapers stationed at Manila, unite in the following statement: "We believe, that owing to official dispatches from Maniio made public in Washington, the people of the United States have not received a correct impression of the situation in the Pnilippines, but that these dispatches have presented an ultra-optimistic view that is-not shared by the genera! officers in the field. "We believe that these dispatches in correctly represent the existing condi tions among sue xuijuuus ixx icsf/cti <-v dissension and demoralization resulting from the American campaign and to the brigand character of their army. ""We believe the dispatches err in HI the declaration that ?the situation is well in hacd' and in the assumption Wk that the insurrection can bs speedily BP* ended without a greatly increased "We think the tenacity of the Fili pino purpose has been underestimated and that the statements are unfounded HP thai volunteers are willing to engage in Iff further service. V "The censorship has compelled us to --n tKis Triisronresentation bv WV * *-t ^ excising or altering uncontroverted statements of facts on the plea, as Gen Otis stated, that 'they would alarm the people at home,' or 'have the people of the United States by the ean-.' "Specifications: Prohibition of hos pital reports; suppression of full roports of field operations in the event of failure; numbers of heat prostrations in the field; systematic minimization of naval - operations and suppression of complete reports of the situation." (Signed) John T. McCutcheon. Harry Armstrong, C'hicaeo Record. 1 Oscar K. Davis, P. G. McDonnell, New York Sun. Robeit M. Collins, John P. Dunning, L. Jones, The Associated Press. Tohn F. Bass, Will Dinwiddle, New York Herald. E. S. Kcene, Scripps-McRae Association. ' Ilichard Little, Chicago Tribune. Iffi. CAUSES A SENSATION. B The publication of the above document caused a sensation ia the departH at Wsshin^tbn. Hegardicg the ./Statement that war and other news had pr been censored contrary to the usual W custom, Adjutant General Corbin toft day said: '"The censure of the so called cen (sored press is without just cause: ana evidently made under misapprehension of facts. There has been no information received from Gen. Otis that has not been given to the press promptly on the bulletin boards in the hall of this office. "The standing instructions of the president and secretary of war are that the public shall be gives all information we receive. This has been done and will continue to be done. Of course plans of campaigns that would be of help to Aguinaldo arcd other rebels have not .and will not be promulgated, but all facts of events transpired have been given in fullk ENGLISH COMMENT. A dispatch from London says most of the morning papers comment upon the joint statement of the American correspondents at 3Ianila regarding the ill pp VMV^V. The Times says: ';Gen. Otis cannot conceal nor explain away the great fact that he fails to bring the war to an end. He might just as well cease playIk ing the ostrich and allow the corres^ pondents to tell the public what they see." K The Daily News says: "The moral of ^ it is that the correspondent will turn ^ when you tread too hard up^n him and that his determination to let the cat out of the bag may still prove a blessing to modern states." WILL NOT BE REGARDED. The President and Cabinet has decided to ignore the complaint of the correspondents, and let Gen. Otis do as he pleases about the matter. r ' & i THE BATTLE OF BCNEY HILLAn Address to the Survivors of That Noteworthy Engagement. T; the Survivors of the Battle of Honey Hill. j On Nov. 30, 1S64. a battle was fought I at Honey Hill, _S. C., and won by southern valor. This was a particularly brilliant affair, in which about 1,500 Confederates defeated about G,500 norther^ troops, preventing them from seizing the Cbarleston and Savannah ! railroad, near Grahamville, and from cutting off retreat for Cren. Hardee's army from Savannah, Ga. In this engagement nearly 1.000 of the enemy were killed and wounded. It is due the men who won this victory that their achievement be placed on record in order that historians may find material in the future from which to construct a complete history of our country and State. ? . . i? ii:. it is nopea dj me wruer ox mis notice that survivors of the battle wili forward him through mail such information concerning this fight, that there may be prepar d an accurate narrative of Honey Hill, where Georg;ans and Carolinians, regulars and militia, officers and men, distinguished themselves and added to the lustrt of southern arms by defeating a brave and deter- j mir.ed foe, wnere the odds were four to one. A'; * rfort to this end has been made : by * ,;:ore worthy soo of Carolin" but abandoned through lack of information relating to the Georgia troops; not however, until he had contributed to history much of value and iutrrest. Of the battle day Capt. Courtenay .-ould ! a if V.cnjnt.r infnrmn W X itUj i Ui ii krvivub(t *imv< he was unwilling to lower his high ideal of what the battle narrative shovld be in order to meet the importunity of friends urging him on. Sorely survivors, of Honey Hill can be induced to break silence by a consideration of their obligations to their posterity, and will furnish information to place for them on record brave deeds of valiant aires! Also perfect histo< ^ - j o?ii, ^ nes 01 Georgia auu amtu vm'jiiua inquire tlie aarration of these deeds of patriotic sons. }?o time should be lost, for veterans of the war answering to roll-call here are fast crossing over that river from whose other side no message can return. Survivors of the fight at Honey Kill are earnestly invited to write clear r,ud accurate information of the battle, supplying names of their company, battalion, regiment, officers and men, that participated in the battle; time when each command ioined the fight; place occupied Fith referer.cc to the road in- i tersecting the breastworks; what service was rendered by his command and oScers: any instances worthy special mention of individual usefulness or valor, etc. Address - such communications to Charles^J. Colcock, Hayville F. 0., S. 0. A Pitched Battle. The report is confirmed that fiye men j were killed in a pitched battle in Clay j county, Ky., last week. The battle j occurred at Hacker's school house, on j Little Goose Creek Wednesday morning, Deputy Sheriff Hacker had arrested Robert Phillpott. While before a magistrate, preparing to give his bond, I snmAhnd? shot at hiia. from behind. The firing then became general. When it ceased Robert Phillpoti, Ed. Fisher, Asron Morriss, Hugh and Jim Griffin were dead. Green Griffin was mortally wounded and Granville Phiilpott was seriously injured. Nearly all the county is in the saddle, heavily armed and more battles are expected. What Hex':? The new uses which are being developed for glass are manifold. Church bells of the purest tone are now being made of slass: it is superceding gold for the filling of teeth; glass rails are said to be superior to iteel, giving a smoother running surface and being less affected by the elements: New York has a factory built of glass, slated .with glass, and with a 100 foot glass chimney, a part of the working machinery also being constructed of glass, and English cities are considering its adaptability for paving and roadway purposes, its advantages being sot forth as cleanliness, durability, non-slipperiness. and the retention of heat in winter and cold in summer. / All Drowned. A special to the Bee from Tckamah, Xcb., says: Word has been received of the drowning in Northwestern Iowa, near-she Minnesota line, on Monday night, of A. W. Blades, his wife and eight children while en route to Minnesota in an emigrant wagon. The family was encampcd for the night on a creek, when a cloudburts raised the creek twelve or fifteen feet, and the familv. team and wa?on were swept v A i> j.-L_!_ I? sway. ^.>0 truce ui IUCLU n-ia uccuiuuuu save parts of the wagon, which were found ia trees some distance down the creek. The First Bale. The first bale of cotton of the presant season's crop has been shipped from Sinton. Texas, to Governor Sayers to be sold for the benefit of the Texas flood sufferers. It is proposed that it shall be sent to various exchanges and onfl thp TDOnfiV thus j auvcivu^uj r*uv% ^ raised shall be devoted to the relief of the flood victims. It is expected that not less than $10,000 will be raised through these sales. Too Sensative. A Philadelphia murderer was so sensitiTe that ho committed suicide on July 9, because the jailer would not let him attend his wife's funeral. She was, says the Boston Pilot, the person whom he had murdered?whi;h rens n? PpAnfth narricide who pleaded for mercy "because he was an orphan." Long Lived Family. There is a long lived family in Coj lumbia. Little Pauline Green, daughI ter of Mr. Wm. Green and grand: daughter of Capt. Joseph Green, is the proud possessor of two grandmothers, ! two grandfathers and tv*o great grand mothers, all living. What is more 3Ii#* Pauline lives in the same house with two great grandmothers and one of the grandmothers and one of the grandfathers!?State. THE TRUTH TOLD" As to The Doctoring of the News by Gen. Otis. FACTS ARE REVERSED. Creelman, Correspondent of i'ne New York Journal, Refused to Send Dispatches Because Forced to Falsify. Appearing simultaneously with the "round robin" of the American newspaper correspondents at Manila, complaining that General Otis is suppress ing the facte and keeping the people of the United States in ignorance of the alarming conditions as they exist in the i Dlv?1i?v^ir.Ae. Toniflc P.rDolman th fam a ous Wiy correspondent of the New York Journal, cables from London his observations during a recent two months' stay in Maoiln. and on the firing lines in the archipelago. He charges General Otis with incompetence, and with ''doctoring'' press dispatches to paint the conditions as optimistic, when in reality they are and have been just the reverse, and with reporting "imminent | success" when in reality, caused by his I o./ki mismanagement, "imminent failure" has been the result. Mr. Creel[ man's letter goes into detail. It follows: Yili. creelman's letter. After Laving spent several months with our troops in the Philippines, I am firmly convinced that unless General Otis is removed and a competent general put in command the whole campaign will be a failure. I have beeu in the Cuban campaign as well as in the Philippines, and I can say honestly without the slightest pre| judice that G eneral Olis is much more responsible for the disastrous humiliating condition of affairs in the east than General Shafter was for the calamities in Cuba, for the war department furnI CZ. /\n ATO 1 On's with a nerfftefclv j lOUCU V> v-r ? J~ w equipped, well fed army, ana he had months of dry weather in which to fight against an imperfectly organized enemy. J To be perfectly plain, General Otis is a fussy old man, unaccustomed to anything but regimental command, and saturated with the ideas and methods of a routine clcrk. He is a man who has grown old serving in a regiment, and his experience and abilities do not go outside of regimental lines. 2sow tbat he finds himself in command of a large army intrusted with the government of a large archipelago, it is no wonder that things are as they are. If. of this knowledge that Admiral Dewey, without consulting General Otis, privately cabled to President McKialoy asking him to send to Manila a small commission of men skilled in statesmanship and diplomacy. It was apparent to him. as to others, that General Otis was not competent to deal with the far reaching, intricate problems involved in a war with the natives. Again and again Admiral Dewey expressed at the beginning of the present hostilities his dissatisfaction over the failure to make any advance against the enemy. When finally, in despair of any ac tion by Otis, Dewey began to take possession of other islands, Otis wrote to the admiral ^ bitter letter complaining that the navy was forcing the campaign too fast. OFFICERS DENOUNCE OTIS. I was there then and I remember how generals and other officers on the firing line bitterly denounced General Otis in private for immersing himself in petty details of municipal affairs, army contracts and custom house cases, while j our firing line was stretched twenty two measured miles around. Manila, lying idly before an enemy growing stronger and more expert in infantry fire every day. while week after week of dry weather slipped away and the rainy season approached. Even before the first insurgent attack on our troops, Aguinalao was throwing up strong earthworks in sight of our lines. Major General Anderson, commanding the first division, insisted that his troops were being endangered, and asked permission to stop the Filipinos from building fortifications. "We will do nothing,''said General Otis, "unless the Filipinos commit some act of war." "But they are entrenching themselves against us," replied General Anderson, "and the moment a, man puts a spade in the ground with hostile intent he has committed an act of war." Anderson's arguments were useless. The entreaties of other generals to be permitted to put an end to the belligerent work of Filipinos were of no avail. When I reached Manila a few days after the bloody outbreak the whole army was laying in trenches, being fired at night and day, while General Otis was absorbed in routine details ' * ill 1 that an army cleric couia nave done- as well. He refused to allow the army to make any dlvance. So insistent was General Anderson that the only way to destroy the enemy was to fight them that General Otis treated him with open hostility and finally had this splendid soldier return to the United States. General Otis' principal thought seemed to be to prevent real facts being telegraped to the United States, and his abuse of censorship has been almost incredible. While the army in the field wa3 anxiously awaiting orders during the advance on Malolos, he spent a whole hour reading my dispatches to The Journal striking out names of officers mentioned for gallantry, changing de A?,f.,nrf rtll monflATl scripuve passages. CiaaiLis Ail of the part played by the navy and even occupying five minutes in selecting a single word. This is the same experience which other correspondents have had during the war. General Otis has wasted hours of valuable time during the most critical days in revising press dispatches, coloring them to suit his own views. XE1VS COMPLETELY REVERSED. On the night of the charge at Talihan river I went to General Otis' palace, having ridden in from the battlefield. The general insisted on changing the dispatch I submitted to him, and actually struck out the name of Colonel Funston, whose regiment swam the river under fire that day, saying: "I propose to make all the heroes that are made in this war." Colonel Thompson, the press censor, has refused to allow me to mention regiments distinguishing themselves in battle, saying he was ordered to do so by General Otis. During General "Wheatson's advance to Pasig and beyond with the Flying i ^ r\Li I origaQC vjiis oruureu an yieaa u13pa.LV/utj stopped unless they described the j enemy fighting furiously and said enormous losses were inflicted by our troops. As a matter of fact on this occasion the insurgents were contemptible in numbers and ran away except in eases of one or two small bands, and their losses were very slight. General Otis' conditions for press dispatches were so outrageously dishonest that I refused to se_nd any dis patches, preferring to let The Journal be beaten rather than to telegraph official lies. The most extraordinary thing is that up to the time I left Manila, which was after the capture of Manolos by McArthur and Santa Cruz by Lawton, General Oris had never been at the front. Imagine this jealous clerk, who never went outside the city, directing with ?bsolutely tyrannical exactitude the operations of divisions commanded by cnl(i;/ir<5 lil'p Lawtnn and MeArthur! L know from my own association with both division in the field that General 0;is treated the generals as though they were school boys. When it was announced that Lawfcon was on his way to the Philippines to command all the troops m the field as corps commander, every member of the litte clique surrounding Otis was busy belittling Lawton. When Lawton arrived Otis refused to assign him to any command for five days, although there was heavy fighting. Lawton begged permission to take part ia it, offering even to carry a musket if necessary. I asked Otis what Lawton's status was and why be was not assigned. "General Lawton is merely an officer reporting to me for orders," he replied, "and when I get ready to give him orders he'll know what his status is." Otis' jealousy of JLawton was so plain as to be childish. For several weeks Otis never consulted him, nor gave him the slightest information regarding the plans of the campaign. The truth of the situation is that General Otis is regarded by practically the whole army, officers and privates alike, as an incompetent officer who sacrifices everything to serve his own vanity and jealousy. I do not speak with the slightest feeling against Goneral Otis, whom I believe to be painstaking, industrious, and, according to his own light, patriotic otis simply a clerk. He has accomplished a great deal in regulating the municipal affairs of Manila, but his conduct, or rather nonconduct of the military campaign has " ' i 1 - - LT_ A_ been a series 01 Diunaers, aue paruy lu timidity and lack of experience, partly to jealousy of other officers and partly to his incurable habit of wasting his time correcting press dispatches and doing a clerk's work, while generals in the field, powerless to move without his orders, are waiting for him to make up his mind in his office how to fight the enemy. "When I complained to General Otis that he was striking out of my disJ^T hn/3 rtrifnocoarl unt.1l mv J. UAU ?T ituvuuuu. IIAKU ^ own eyes and which the American people had a right to knnw, he said: "I don't propose to allow the American public to know anything about this campaign that will agitate or excite it. So long as I am in command here the people of the United States will know only such facts as I deem advisable to be known. "Any man who writes anything ab'cue this campaign contrary to my wishes will be expelled from the Philippines. We are not going to have any public agitations about this campaign if I can prevent it." Scorches Alger. The London Times editorially says: "Alger has run the war office as a political machine. Military posts have been bestowed upon political fnends without regard to "fitness or the interests of the country. Dishonesty and corruption have been rampant whereever there was public money to be handled. American soldiers were 'killed by thousands on American soil by such agencies as embalmed beef and scandalous neglect of elementary sani tation. As tue neaa is, so we expect subordinates to be. They were chosen without regard to fitness with every regard to political service. Naturally they act as the politicians they are rather than as soldiers and administrators, which they are not, The new imperial policy of the United States is thus discredited by association with a system of more than common corruptions. McKinley, for some reason or other, is incapable of ridding himself of the incubus of his secretary, who, J evidently regarding himself as having I the president in his pocket, serenely | defies the public indignation that has | been aroused by his mismanagement." Causes Many Deaths. The returns from the Fourth of July celebrations all over the country demonstrate that it is time our people were instituting some more rational manner of observing the day. The Chicago Tribune s casualty list include returns from 250 cities and towns. The leading figures are: Dead 33, injured 730, fire lossss $233,070. injured by cannon crackers 731, injured by powder explosions 257, injured by toy cannon 259, hit by stray bullets GO. : Another LessonA ' lA C?*TAr?r??li d-G QO T7Q J.\. mspatcil JLXULLL uavuuuuu, \xft.j ?jujw Mrs. Aanis JIcGuire, white, and Anna Cook, colored, are dead as a consequence of two stove explosions. In each case the woman started to light the fire in the stove with kerosene oil. Both were horribly burned. Pretty Good Pay. Admiral Dewey's salary amounts to $37.50 per day; President McKinley's is equal to $131 a day; cabinet officers, the vice president and the speaker of the house get $22.22 a day; senators and congressmen, $13.90, and the chief justice of the supreme court $29 a day. ' NEW ENTERPRISES. j r Chartered in the First Six Months of the Year. INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR. J * ] Over a Million Dollars of increase J in Stock. A Number of Cotton Mills Pro- ^ jected. ] Since tie first of the year charters ] have been issued concerns in this State representing an aggregate capitalization ( of nearly five million dollars. Of this amount $2,226,700 represents new con- ] cerns, and $2,613,000 the capital of organizations increasing their capital ] stock; a total of $4,S39,700. These figures were obtained from the semi-annu- ( al statement of Mr. J. T. Gantt, chief clerk in the ofSere of the secretary of , State. There was great progress in the knf Mi? hf f'a rtAm. / UldLLKJ J cai J L>UU XX. VACfrXlVVt? VV&XA ^ parative statement shows that, between Jan. 1, 1898, and July 1 of the same year, charters were issued to concerns capitalized at $1,S89,700 against $2,226,700 this year?a gain of $337,000. i But while the aggregate capitalization j of new concerns is very encouraging, ( there is even greater reason for con- t gratulation on account of the wonderful i amount of capital stock increased. The /??A e i.1.: ? c ? n?,. nrst SIS. U1UUI/I1S Ul tills >eai UUUI.11 vailina enterprises increased their capital stock from $1,347,000 to $2,613,000; a total increase of $1,226,000. { In order to obtain a charter, the originators or "corporators" must first obtain a "commission." This instrument authorizes them to solicit capital stock, etc. After a certain per cent, of the j capital stock has been subscribed, a t charter may be obtained. It is under a charter that a joint stock concern can 1 do business. A commission is rarely ! obtained, however, unless the company ' means business and does afterwards ob- ] tain a charter. So much in explansi- 1 tioo of the fact that the figures above ? quoted represent joint stock companies j which have actually raised the capital ( stock. There were 117 proposed com- ! panies which, filed "declarations'' for j commissions and have not yet sent in * their "returns" for charters. Last year 1 in the same time there were 66, repre- t senting a proposed capital stock of * $3,049,560, against $5,338,400 this year. This does not include the socie- ( ties, etc.. which are chartered but have ( no capital stock. ENTERPRISES PROJECTED. The enterprises projected and not 1 yet chartered are listed as follows: 1 1898. 1899. J Warehouses 1 3 10 k Lumber companies 1 . 4 ( Land and improvement com- \ panies 4 1 ] Building and loan associations 5 4 J Telephone companies 4 5 1 Oil mills 0 11 1 Compress companies 1 2 J NATTfAl* /JATT1 _ X YY j iigULl AJiU j^UTTCl vviu , panies 2 4 j Hosiery and carpet mills... 1 1 s Mining companies 3 2 J Construction companies 0 2 Banking and investment companies 9 6 Cotton mills 4 7 ] Other manufacturing plants 10 20 ^ Mercantile establishments, etc 19 18 j CHARTERS GRANTED. Charters were in the first six months i of last year issued 52 concerns capitalized at $1,8S9,700; against 71 compa- ? nies with an aggregate capital of $2,- < 226,700 this year. * Following are the enterprises put on ? foot since Jan. 1: 3 189S. 1S99. < Warehouses 2 9 ] Lumber companies 1 5 Land and improvement companies 4 4 Building and loan associa- 1 tions 2 4 i Telephone companies 0 3 ] Oil mills 0 5 ) Cotton compress companies. 0 1 < "Water, light and power companies 2 3 Miaing companies .... 3 2 OUU XUTWI/MVUV companies 5 2 < Cotton Mills 2 5 < Other manufacturing plants 8 6 i Mercantile establishments, ] etc 23 22 < STOCK INCREASED. ( The following gives the names of the ] concerns which have increased their j capital stock; the figures given first rep- i resenting the amount of stock at pres- 3 ent and those given second showing the j increase over the former capitalization: ; Gec.jetown Grocery Co. $75,000; increase of $25,000. Daggett Printing Co. $10,000; increase of $2,000. 1 Clover Manufacturing Co. $200,000; < increase of $50,000. 1 Whitney Manufacturing Co. $350,- j 000; increase of $S4,000. i Abbeville Cotton Mills $400,000; in- 1 crease of $100,000. \ Farmers' Loan and Trust $75,000; in- ] crease of $25,000. < Palmetto Ice Co. $75,000; increase ] of $40,000. j I. J. Phillips Co. $23,000; inoease < of $5,000. Anderson Light and Power Co. $175,000; increase of $75,000. Mills Manufacturing Co. $550,000; ] increase of $450,000. J Warren Manufacturing Co. $500,000; 1 increase of $300,000. i Excelsior Knitting Mills $50,000; in- \ crease of $40,000. 1 Carolina Manufacturing Co. $30,000; j increase of $20,000. j Marie Mills $100,000: increase of t $50,000. c Total, $2,613,000: increase of $1,226,- j 000. NEW COTTON MILLS. The following are the cotton mills chartered and those projected since 1 Jan. 1: 1 Capital s Stoek. f Vesta Mills, Spartanburg.. .3 ZDU,UUU a Valley Falls Mfg. Co., Lolo. i Spartanburg county 75,000 1 Springsteine Mills, Chester. 100,000 1 Olympia Cotton Mills, Co- t lumbia 1,500,000 i Drr Cotton Mills, Anderson. 400,000 Belton Mills, Belton 350,000 rhe Florence Cotton Mill, Florence 200.000 $2,875,000 SEVERAL OIL MILLS. There has been an unusually large lumber of cil mills chartered and comnissioned. They are located as folows: Fair Forest Oil Mill Co., Fair Forest $ 25,000 Victor Cotton Oil Mill Co., Gaffney 25,000 Fountain Inn Oil Mill Co., Fountain Inn 15,000 Lowndesville Cotton Oil Co., Lowndesville 12,000 VIcCormick Cotton Oil Co., McCormick 15.000 Jross Anchor Oil Co., Cross Anchor 12,000 [jishopviiie Cotton Uil L'o., Bishopvillc 20; 000 Sonea Path Oil Mill, Honea Path 15,000 3ampobello Oil Mill, Campobello 15,000 Atlantic Cotton Oil Co., Sumter 100,000 Clinton Oil and Manufacturing Co., Clinton 20.000 Total capital stock $274,000 The whole State seems to be swingng forward and upward to resume its iccustomed place at the front. The to *-?/\f tA nnA CAA AO 10 UUU WUUUVU vv Vy" ;ion, but every county seems to be sending upward.?State. F&0ZED OUT AT LASTsecretary of War Alger Has Resigned from the Cabinet. Secretary of War Russell A. Alger esigned Wednesday from the cabinet, ;he resignation to be effective at pleasure of the president. The resiglation of Secretary Alger is believed to lave been sought by the president, as public opinion had almost crystallized n a desire for the secretary's retirenent. Alger called upon President \IcKinley at the White House Thurslav morning shortly before noon and *as with him for a few minutes. When ic left he was in excellent spirits. His ; ?ace was wreathed with smiles as he es- . pressed to several newspaper men who ;athered about him his appreciation of ;heir good wishes. "You feel relieved of a great bur- ; len?" one of them suggested. "Yes. I do," replied the secretary.J-i 'Hereafter I will only have my own jurden to carry. The secretary said that lie would reinquish his portfolio as soon as the < pending routine matters of the depart- i nent were closed up, and Assistant Secretary Meikeljohn, to whom the war )ffice is to be turned over pending the ; ippciutment of Gen. Alger's successor, s ready to assume charge. "I shall retire before August lst,': < >aid the secretary. Gen. Alger said he yould go back to Michigan and for the present at least devote his attention to 1 lis health. The secretary said he ; :new nothing about his successor, isked as to whether he would press his < ' 1 J ' J xt, i. senatorial canaiuaoy, tue aeuretaiy ic* j ?Iied: "I cannot tell now." i A Good Way to Die. : A devout colored preacher, whose isart was aglow with missionary zeal, ! ^ave notice to his congregation that i?: :he evening an offertory would be taken 1 !or missions, and askei for liberal gifts. ' A. selfish, well to-do man in his congre- ! Ration said to him before the service: ; 'Yer gwine to kill dis Church if yer ; ;oes on say, 'Give! Give!' No Church ' ;an stan' it. Yer gwine to kill it." Af- ; :er the sermon the colored minister jaid to the people, "Brother Jones told ne I was gwine to kill dis here Church ;f I keep a-asking yer to give; but my arethren, Churches doesn't die dat way. Ef anybody knows of a church dat died cause of its given too much to the Lord, I'll be very much obliged ef my brother will tell me whar dat Church is, for I:se gwine to visit it, and I'll climb ip on de walls of dat churc ., under de light of de moon, and cry, 'Blessed am le dead dat die in de Lord'." Victims of a Poisoner. A special from Dallas, Texas, says: rwo girls, one eight years old and the * it ^ _."J Dttier ten, aaugmers ox me wiuuw m JohD Moore, lost their lives by drinking poison, which, it is claimed by the police authorities, was prepared for their mother, who is an important State witness in the case against the men accused of lynching the Humphreys. The poison was placed in a water pitcher in the house of Mrs. Moore. Her lit:1c girls became thirsty ana their mother gave eacii a cinnt trom tne pitcher. Death followed almost instantly. Walks from Pole to PoleA force of telephone linemen is at present busy stretching a heavy lead jable along the line of tall poles running down Main street. With the force Is a man who was regarded by many with wonder. He moved along the ca3le between the poles at will, fixing irst this place and then that. When ip. had anv distance to so he would stand ereot and walk tlie swaying cable. Eis daring and recklessness caused nany to stop and wonder what manner )? man he was.?State. Nine Men Killed A dispatch from London says an ex- ! jlosion on board the torpedo boat de- . itroyer Bullfinch, on the Solent, during . ler trial Friday killed nine and injured 'our of those on board. It was the rorst naval accident of this nature that J las occurred in the British navy in 20 rears. The victims were terribly in- ( ured, steam and Doiling water filling ; he engine room. The Bullfinch is me of the latest designed 30-knot tor)edo boat destroyers. T TT vr^ ( iie j&jiows iiuw. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll died at his lome, Walston-Hudson, Dear Dobbs ?erry, N. Y., Friday. His death was ;udden and unexpected, and resulted J rom heart disease, from -which he had 1 uffered since 1S96. In that year, dur- < ng the Republican national convention, < le was taken ill. and had to return 1 lome. He never fully recovered from t he attack of heart disease, and was 5 inder the care of physicians constantly, i A FIENDISH CBIME. There is Likely to be Another BtrrninsrOver in Georgia. A dispatch from Brainbridge, Ga., says Decatur county has been stirred from its northern limits to the Florida line by the enormity of crimes heaped upon J. E. Ogletree and his wife Thursj in fchft little sta uay ui^uLt av tuuu ~ tion of Saffold, on the Plant line, a few miles from Bainbridge by two Negroes. About S o'clock two Negroes entered the stoie of Mr. Ogletree which adjoin3 the depot and made a few trivial purchases. When the sales were completed >Ir. Ogletree asked for his money. At his demand one of the Negroes presented a pistol at the agent's head and said: "I owe you nothing. We are robbers and want your money." Ogletree emptied his pockets, the other Negro standing guard at the front door. Then the two Negroes ordered Ogletree to march up stairs, where Mr3. Ogletree was and they ordered her to crivo nr? what money she had. She ? . gave them $4 and while one of the brutes held a pistol to Ogletree's head, the other assaulted her. Then the other committed the same deed. About this time a train was heard coming to the station and the Negroes fled in the direction of the Chattahooche river. ' When Ogletree managed to bring himself to a realization of what had happened, he took his wife and boarded a train for this city. Sheriff Patterson was informed of the crime at once and fnnl- action at davlisht. Several posses were immediately sworn in and with does in the lead started in various directions to find some clue to the Negroes. Everybody in the vicinity has quit work and is assisting the posses in their search. If the blacks are caught their quick death is a certainty. Mrs. Ogletree is a sister of "Wm. Buchanan, county treasurer, and conies of a well known familv. ST2LA.NGE TALE OF A DYING MAN. He had Concealed his Identity for Forty Long YearsThe death of Leonard B. Bleeker aged 72 years which recently occurred at Yates Centre, Kas., has revealed a case of self-sacrifice seldom heard of outside the domain of fiction. Three years ago Bleeker went to that country peddling a few cheap articles and, too old aad weary to proceed farther, a kind hearted farmer took him in and cared for him until he died. To the family ; whifih hefriended him he told the story of his life, reserving for the grave the specific names of persons and localities. He stated that in 1361 he left a wife 1 and five children in Michigan and answered the first call for volunteers. The : fortunes of war -were Against Mm and for month? he lay a prisoner in Andersonville prison. For some reason he was led to believe that a certain other ; batch of prisoners would soon be ex- 1 changed. Among them was a dying : man and the two comrades exchanged 1 Dames and military designations. The : soldier died and the death was reported : as that of Leonard B. Bleeker, and is so recorded in the war department. The 1 real Bleeker was released after a time, rejoined his regiment and served until the close of the war without communi- 1 eating with his family. Then he went back and found Ms. wife married to another man. He ascertained that his ; children we well cared for and then left : the community without revealing his identity. Throughout his life he carefully guarded his secret and since going to Yates Centre, was often urged to apply for a pension, but stoutly refused. F>en when near death he would not 1 reveal the location of his former home | or permit anyone to communicate with ; old associate. He was a man of more tfiaa ordinary education ana tne trutn. of his story or the possession of a noble purpose in his long sacrifice cannot be j doubted. Wheat Growers Convention. The following call has been issued for the Wheat Growers' convention to be held at Greenwood, S. C. To the Farmer and Wheat Growers of South Carolina: The undersigned committee appointed at a meeting of the citizens of Greenwood to fix a date and make the necessary arrangements for a convention of fheat growers, do earnestly in*. *i - o 2 _ii ? vice rue iarmers auu an peiavua iuici~ ested in the prosperity of the State to meet at the court houses of their respective counties and seleet a delegation to meet at Greenwood on the 15th of August next for the purpose of forming a permanent Wheat Growers' association, and taking such action a" will, in their judgment, better secure the independence and prosperity of the agriculturalist, and there rith every otherinterest of the State. We hope to have with us on that occasion prominent farmers of this and other States to addres: t'^e convention. Let each county send a good delegation. yv /> r\ ri u. \j. unrre, N. A. Craig, J. K. Durst, J. T. Simmons, S. H. McGhee, Committee. A Good LawGeorgia has a law regulating the standard of illuminating oils. Recently complaints have been made and the inspectors have been ordered to make . thorough tests and confiscate all oils that fall below the regulation standard. It is not known whether there are any inferior oils on the market, but rigid , tests are to be applied and all oil that ! does not reajh the 120 point will be ' 2onfiscated. The South Carolina Legislature has an idea that any kind of oil is good enGugh for our people. They . leciare tnat tney aesire no inspection !aw. More than 200,000 gallons were * confiscated. j Five Lynched- j Five Italians were lynched at Tallu- ( ah, La., Thursday night for the fatal ? mounding of Dr. J. Ford Hodge. The j lead men are of a class which has been ( :roublesome for some time, and it is be- j ieved that they had planned to kill ] :he doctor. Some of them, it is said, ] lave families in Europe, but they have \ 10 relatives here. ] WHAT IT COSTS ' 1 In Valuable Lives to Subjugate the Filipinos. VOLUNTEERS' HEAVY LOSS. "M Al\Comparative Statement that Show the Deaths and Wounds Suffered by Our Gallant 33a Troops. The return of the Oregon volunteers and the prospective home-coming of all the other State troops who have been helping te down the Philippine lebellion gives additional interest to a resume of the casualties in the insular campaigns. Full records of the losses by death, wounds, sickness and otherwise since the beginning of operations there early in the summer of 1898 show that the Minnesota regiment was most susceptible to the baneful influences of the tropical climate, 34 of those volunteers having expired in the hospitals up to the last Fonrth of July. Oregon was next, with 24, and Nebraska thud, losing 21 men from sickness. The Ne- N braska regiment lost more men in action than any other organization engaged, except the 14th infantry; 26 members losing their lives at the front from that State, against 28 of the regulars. A comparative showing of the regiments which lost most heavily, as compiled from the press reports, is as follows: Killed?14th infantry, 29; .Nebraska, 26; Kansas, 25; South Dakota, 25; Washington, 19; 3d artillery, 19; Oregon, 14; Pennsylvania, 13; 18th infantry, 13; Montana, 11; 22d infantry, 9. Wounded?Nebraska, 182; Montana, 132; Kansas, 124; Washington, 109; 3d artillery, 93; South Dakota, 87; Minnesota, 80; Oregon, 76; Pennsylvania, 69; 22d infantry, 67; California, 56. Exclusive of the deaths on the transports, the total number of men to lose their lives in the Philippine war was x 693. Of this number 650 were killed or succumbed to wounds or disease. The number wounded in action was 1,591. Five committed suicide; one, the colonel of the Tennessee regiment, died of appoplexy in an engagement and 19 were accidentally drowned. In detail the report, as giyen in the Associated Press dispatches from June 30, 1898, when the first military expedition landed at Cavite. to July 4,1899, shows the following items: , Killed in action, 283; drowned, 19; accidental deaths, 14; suicides, 5; apoplexy, 1; sickness, 275; wounds, 92. Total deaths, 689. Wounded, 1,591; missing, 4. Total casualties, 2,284. Nearly twice as many volunteers as regulars werejrilled, although the volunteer regimests were only one-third more numerous than the regulars. The volunteers were, however, engaged for a longer period than the regulars, numerous regiments of the latter not having arrived in the Philippines until after some of the most serious engagements had occurred. The number of regulars wounded was 513, against 1,078 volunteers. Sickness carried off more than tvricc as many volunteers as regu~ Wala ISA ftXIll IdklBj tilC ico^cv/bivg iVMio yvwg, *wv ??. 95. Tabulated as to branches of the 3ervice, the showing of killed-.and mounded is as follows: Beg. VoL .: Killed : 114 169 Died of wounds 24 68 Died of sickness 55 180 Total dead 233 417 Wounded 513 1,078 Among the regulars, the 23d infan- try lost fifteen by disease and the 14th twelve. A tabulated statement of the losses by organization by disease follows: Regulars?23d infantry, 15; 14 infantry, 12; 18th infantry, 10; 3d infantry, 3; 4th infantry, 8; 22d infantry, 8; hospital corps, 7; 20th infantry, 5:3d artillery, 4; 6th artillery, 4; 12th infantry, 4; signal corps, 2; 9th infantry, 2; 1st artillery, 1; 8th artillery, 1; 4th cavalry, 1; 17 th infantry, 1; 19 th infantry, 1; 21st Infantry, 1. Total, 95. Volunteers?Minnesota, 34; Oregon, 24; Nebraska, 21; South Dakota, 16; Colorado, 15; California, 13; Montana, 10; Idaho, 8; Washington, 8; Kansas; 6; Pennsylvania, 5; Tennessee, 5; North Dakota, 4; Iowa, 3; Utah, 2; Wyoming, 2; Astor Battery, 1; Nevada, 1; unknown, 2. Total; 180. It is noticeable that the only casual, ty in the Nevada troops was the single death from sickness. None from that State were eitheir killed or wounded. THe proportion 01 volunteers to succumb tc their wounds was nearly three to one regular. As in other casualties Nebraska leads in this feature, having lost twelve men from their wounds. Montana lost ten from injuries, and Kansas and "Washington eight each. The greater loss among the regular army men was in the 3d artillery, five members of which died from the effects of their wounds. Heavy Bains. The war department today received the following cablegram: ?f *1 _ f?1? OA iuanua, <juiy &v. Adjutant General, Washington. Storms still prevailing; barometic rising indicating improving weather conditions. Average rainfall July several years, 14 1-2 inches; for 20 days fully now closed, 41 inches. Country flooded. Troops on outposts have suffered and former lines of communication cut in some instances; not serious. No material increase in sickness reported. Telegraphic communication maintained between San Fernando, Bacoor, ani nearly all other points. Unable yet to coal returning transports, (Signed) Otis. Shot as a Spy. A special from San Francisco says: Efforts tr? disnnvar thfi wherftabonta af 3-rant Cullum of this city, who was with the Tenth Pennsylvania in Manila, iave resulted in word being received aere from a comrade of his that Cullum was shot as a spy in sight of the Amirican outposts near Caloocan. He was sent by Gen. Otis with a message. It .s said that a rain storm destroyed his lisguise, and he was captured by the latives and put to death. He was a nember of Charity lodge of the Odd Fellows of this city, and it was through ;he efforts of the lodge to find him that lis fate became known.