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THE PLANTER'S LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUftUSTA, GA. VOL. 69. Pays Interest . on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. Ii. C. HATH?, President, CHAS, C. Ho VT ABD,' Cashier. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1904. THE MTHTAL BANK OP AUGUSTA? L. C.JrTArNB, FBAXK G. FORD, President. Cashier/ CAPITAL $250,000. Surplus ) Undivided Profits, f ?125,000 NO. 16. . tr* ?ll A HTTP. U IC DAV He Lived > in Raleigh and Charlotte at Different Times ~D?cD SUDDENLY OF PNEUMONIA Colonel Turk Was a Man ol Fine Sense ?nd Infinite Humor-An In teresting Character. Charlotte, Special.-The following .. telegram was received by Mr. P. I? '. McManus, superintendent of the Char ge lotte division of the Southern Rail way, Saturday night: "Mr. W. A. ^?-.Purk died Saturday afternoon about .6:45, of pneumonia, very sudden and ' very unexpected."- The message was ? from Mr. S. H. Hardwick. The people of North Carolina will S' jr?gret to hear of the death of Col. ix Turk. He was well known in the State, f; Fer many years he lived in Charlotte, and was in every sense of the word a : loyal ; Tar Keel. Col, William A. Turk was born in ^Augusta county, Virginia, about 65 V years ago. . He came to Charlotte 30 /years ago, and. helped the late Dr. Carter Berkley to work insurance^ jj&:They went from here to Raleigh two "x "years later. Mr, Turk continued in ^the insurance business until he secur ed a position as clerk at the Yar - borough House; there Col. A. B. An ^'vdrews discovered that he was a gen- j ??ius and took him into the railroad ser vice. Later he returned to Charlotte :?ind was assistant general passenger agent of the old Richmond & Danville ^Railroad. He remained herc in that " capacity for nearly a year and was v then transferred to Washington and i made general passenger "agent of the Southern. Three, years ago Col. Turk was promoted to the place of general traffic manager.. He was a capable '^business man. lt was not as a--'railroad agent that the people "of this section knew Mr. I' .Turk,; but jjs-the great, big-hearted $?iant tha./he w?sV He had a tremen :.;dpus body, fine intellect, a powerful ^wjain andja. keen sense of humor. He KL-of man that the other -ai_v/hen~vhe~ came Eo~when he talked. He Entertain any sort of au au He knew men-had a keen in |mto human'nature. The day W" so glomhy that Col. Turk dm j,ye a joke, or a jest. He laugh l^thc world. Men amused him; i-the best pf^them.. He was tactful'ii" dealing with people. He hr d splendid ability. Sunday Row in New York. i ( '?; ' New York, Special.-In^a feud fight here Sunday three brothers, Thomas j -^Williamand Michael Gilbrlde, were ' { ^seriously, if not fatally, stabbed, and ( ( Harry and John Mcshane, also broth- j t er?, were badly wounded. On Saturday ! * a fight occurred between Harry Mc- j j Shane and Thomas Gllbride,1 and both' j were.arrested. Sunday, meeting Gil- ? j bride and his two brothers on the j 3treet' with several of their, friends, t -McShane gathered abbut twenty of lils j . friends in the back room of a saloon " ] at the corner of First avenue and ? Twenty-thirds street. ' Then, according ! to the police, he approached Gilbriue. j professed regret over their trouble of r . the day before, and finally induced the j Gllbride party to go with him to the -y saloon to drink and forget their differ- ' s enees. As soon as all were inside the I ; saloon Mcshane is said to have given j a sign on which his friends began the r _' \\ " ?-- - Tornado Strikes Tex's. Calvert, Tex-. Special.-A tornado struck che country five miles west of here Thursday afternoon, unroofiug the ;.cresid?nce pf B. S. Peters, president of the Texas Cotton Growers' Association, and wrecking a number of tenant houses on his plantation. On the* T. J. Garrett plantation great damage was done td crops, many houses destroyed - and R. F. Drennan, the manager, was .-injured.' Severe VYlnd Storm. Natchez, Miss., Special-Natchez was thrown into great excitement Thurs day- night by a severe wind storm . .which ' amounted almost to a tornado. The wind, accompanied by a terrific rain and-hail storm, came from the northwest. Part of the city hall was unroofed. Several warehouses and a - number of residences were shorn of ' their roofs. Fences were blown down and huge trees were' torn up by the \ roots by the fierce wind. Si. Mary's "cathedral was damaged and hundreds of electric light wires are badly dis arranged. Horsemen coming from the coutry districts after the storm has passed, report that the growing crops have been destroyed. Democratic Chairman. Washington, Special-Representative W. C. Cowherd, of Missouri, was elect ed chairman of the Democratic con gressional committee without opposi tion tonight. About 20 members- of ?the congressional committee were pres ent at a meeting tonight in the mu nority roora at the capitol. Mr. Cow herd was not present The question of the election of a secretary caused con siderable discussion. Large Cotton Qlnncry. . Kingston, By Cable.-Under the di rection of theJraperial Department of Agriculture the largest and most ef fective ginnery in the West Indies was opened here yesterday by W. Bie?bro?k. an expert ginner from James-Island, S. C. The factory is a three-story building and the machinery consists, of six of the best gins op erated, ginning 3,600 pounds of cotton daily- The baling presses are of Amer ican' manufacture^-. The cotton indus try "here; is developing rapidly. The ?; steamer will take a large ship t o' cotton to England. LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. Many Matters of General Interest In Short Paragraphs. Down In Dixie. Convicts made a desperate attempt to escape from thc Missouri penit?^ tiary. Teachers in a Methodist college, near Tampa, were drowned, hy th? overturning or a boat in a gaie>. The nev.' hattleship Virginia was launched at Newport News in the presence o? a crowd of 30,000i In a lecture at Louisville Dr. W. M. Morrison, a Presbyterian missionary, declared King Leopold maintained an army of cannibals in Cbngo: Bishop Wilson announced the ap pointment of ministers of the Balti more Conference. Methodist, Episcopal Church South, at Alexandria. Col. Marshall Green, oiife of the most widely known histofltns in the South, rlie? at his home in Kentucky last Thursday. - Five persons, members of a pleaa ure party from the Methodist Florida College, "at Sutherland, Fla.) were ircwnful in the Gulf by the overturn ing ctf their boat. At The National Capital. In the Senate Mr. Morgan (Dem-.; Ala.) .spoke about the Panama banal :cncessicns and some amendments ivere made to the Postoffice Appropri ation bill. The House passed the Military iVcademy Appropriation bill after lis1 :ening to a political argument ,'tw?en representatives DeArmondand Gros venor. The Senate finance committee adopt ad an amendment which will allow lational banks to use Panama cahal bonds as a basis of circultioih The House committee on judiciry leard testimony against the alleged lews print paper trust. The Senate committee on education ind labor' resumed hearings for and Against the eight-hour law. In Washington lt is felt the; oil ly iarrlng note in ,the growing popularity >f Judge Parker for the Democratic :omm?t?on for President is ex-Sen itor Hill's advocacy of him. The Cabinet decided that if neces sary the "property of the Panama Railroad' Company will be protected i gainst strikers by a force of marines. Naval officers say the honor of the ;ewice is involved in the reports that 'high authority*' tries to influence the" Xmrt Of inquiry finding iii the Mis souri-Illinois collision. At The North. Chicago last week elected Aldermen md decided the question of city own jrship of street railways. Mormons held a thanksgiving ser ;ice at the annual conference in Salt .ake City. Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsyl vania, announces that he will not be i candidate for Justice of the Supreme Sourt. The Democratic State convention of iansas elected uninstructed delegates o the national convention. The dele rates-?.t-large are W. A. Harris. David )verm?yer, J. G. Johnson, S. I. Hale iud J. N. Haymaker, The delegation, tccording to personal preferences, will ;tand 6 for Hearst and 14 against him, t is said. From Across The Sea. Another bombardment of .Port Ar tair on April 3 was reported. The Hamburg American liner the j'uerst-Bismarck was sold to a Rus t?an firm. Count Tolstoi denounced the war in he Orient and all wars, but declared te was not entirely free from the er or of patriotism. The Anglo-French colonial treaty vas reported as being about ready for igning, the principal provisions hav ng been agreed upon. Three prominent Cubans were ar ested at Havana in connection with he riotous proceedings in the Cuban Jongress. Lieut. Mattasich, Austrian anny of icer, was reported to have tried to escue Princess Louise of Coburg from, .n insane asylum. Alisc?llcneou? flatters. Poor horses and inability to manage hem properly was pointed out as the ?use of much delay on the part of he Japanese armies in Corea. ,it being lelieved in Chefu that it will be a aqnth still before the real fighting legins. The steamer Discovery returned afely. to New Zealand with the Brit sh Antarctic expedition. The Havana Express, on the Cuban ailroad, was wrecked in a fire near Santiago? ' Senator J. R. Burton, of Kansas, vas sentenced, at St. Louis, to six nonths' imprisonment, and to pay a ine of $2,500 for using his influence lefore the Postoffice Department In lehalf of a St. Louis concern. Pennsylvania Republicans in con rention nominated J. P. Elkin for Jus Ice of the Supreme Court, indorsed Roosevelt, and named delegates. Ex-president Cleveland was report id as being' satisfied with Judge A. B. 3arker as the Democratic, candidate or the Presidency. Circuit Attorney Folk declared be vas not a candidate for the Vice Presidency. A stubborn fire in the New York ?ubway blocked traffic, crippled wire lervice and placed in peril fifty work nen, who were rescued with difficulty. The Continental Securities Company isked an injunction against the North >rn Securities Company from distri cting stock according to the plan. The seventy-four annual conference if the Mormon Church closed at Salt ^ake, Utah. Three reen wert? asphyxiated in Philadelphia. Five persons were suffocated in a ire at Mount Vernon, N. Y: Three men were reported drowned jy the overturning of a boat in Shark .Iver, near Delmar, N. J. iMembers of the Court of Inquiry vhich investigated the Missouri-IHi ?cis . collisslon deny that any tele rrams were received bearing upon heir decision. The House of Representatives pass id 17 bills relating to the District of Colombia. Shot Ci- Dispensary Officers Columbia Special.-Joiin Sulliva?; an employe of N. ?atiil?; iii Charles-' ton, was sflot arid perhaps ?atalb' wounded by a dispensary cbristablo Wednesday night. This is the first homicide of the kind under Governor HeywanTs administration: When the dispensary law was enacted Charles ton thought it an outrage on the lib erty cf th? citizens there, and the un wavering morai sentiment against the law has made Its enforcement diffi cult. The barkeepers, denied the right of license, continued in business in daring and flagrant violation of the law, just as the Moonshiners think the Federal law unjust. Ther? have been niaiiy clashes iH 'Charleston, but heretofore no homi cides at th? hands bf tiie constables. Sattile is tiie Italian and conducts a cafe near the postoffice. Sullivan and two negrees had gone io Mt. Pleasant, across the harbor, where the liqour in bulk seems to have been stored; There they were met by Constables Owens and Hud son, who confiscated a boatload of liquor. Sullivan started back tb the city, but carno back and attacked thc constables with ad oaf; It is stated that Hudson did the shooting, but hoth constables are in jail; Hudson had been chief of police of WalterbofO; Governor Hayward's home town, and has a good reputa tion. Bail Granted. R; W: McDaniel who killed Lee Neese; the town marshal of Swansea Christmas eve, ?902; has been granted bail in the -sum of $5,000 by Judge Ernest Gary. The case was heard- in the court house in Columbia. The ar gument in favor ci bail was that the jury had indeed found McDaniel guilty of murder but had recommended the convicted man to the mercy of the court and thus had put itself on record as believing ^the crime not to be de serving of capital punishment. Thc case hfts attracted attention because the defendant is of good family and connected with some of the best fami lies in the State. He had gone to the penitentiary to servo his term when mainly through the efforts of Mr. Le roy Fi Youniahs he secured a stay of sentence pending an appeal to tho Supreme Court. His case in the Sit-1 premc Court was handled with skill and the petition for a new trial was ? granted. McDaniel will have no trou- j We to secure bail. Court meets in Lexington within a few weeks. - Want Sunday Train. Bishopville, Special-Petitions are : being circulated in Bishopville. direct- j ed to the ra'lroad officials and the rail- j road commission, asking that a Sunday j train be put on between Lucknow and ! Sumter. Under the present schedules. ! there Is no possible way of either get- I ting away from town or coming Into ' town on Sunday by rail. The petition tUate3 that the rapid growth of the town of Bishopville and Increase of i business Interests demand transporta- . tion for passengers, and also the Sun- , day newspapers and other important mall. The train <-ould leave Lucknow , early Sunday mornings, connecting with trains in Sumter for other points , and then Immediately return to Luck now, bringing passengers and the mall. , This ls a much needed Improvement and would he greatly appreciated by ? the citizens and business people of thc < town of Bishopville and adjoining com- ? munity. j i Closing Telegraph Offce. The railroad commission will grant a hearing in the matter of the closjng jf the Western Union Telegraph com pany's office at Johnston. The com pany refused to pay a license of $10 ! per annum, saying that they did not ; do $25 of business in-a year. The town authorities closed the office and the telegraph company is willing. They must, however, obtain the consent of the railroad commission. ninor State Notes. A special from Fort Mill to the Co lumbia State says: The statement is made that Mack Steele, a young white man whose home is in this place, has,' ' entered suit against the Southern Railway Company for $5.000. Steele, it is seid, claims that he was ejected from a passenger train cf the com- . pany some time ago between Rock Hill i and Fort Mill because the ticket agent of the company at Rock Hill punched thc year 1905 instead of 1904 in a ticket which he had bought for transporta tion between the two points and which the conductor refused to accept. A large addition is planned to the building and equipment of the M?lfort Mills at Fort Mill. The State Farmers' Institute will be held at Clemson in August, beginning cn the 9th and lasting all the week. The committee ol the trustees having the matter in charge is composed of the following: Col. R. W. Simpson, Col. M. L. Donaldson and Hon. L. A. Sease. It was decided to have those wishing to attend to make application lor tickets which xviii secure board and lodging. These tickets will oe transferable. It was thought necessary to do this because ot' the immense crowd there last year. The State Agricultural and Mechan ical Society will hold a special meet ing in Columbia on the 12th of April . for the purpese of confirming the re cent action in regard to the sale of the fair grounds property and ? the acquisi- j tion-of the Marlin tract on the south-, ern boundary cf thc city. On account of the death of W. T. Martin it may bc necessary to get the court, lo give some order of transfer so thar, the Agricultural society may acquire thc property in accordance with the agree ment with W. T. Martin. The Enoree Presbytery held its w-o ?lons at Gaffney Ir.s! week. 1 BURTON SENTENCED Be Declines io Say Anything in De fense of Himself DEGRADED FROM tildi! POSITION Judge Adams 5a?s the Verdict of th? Jury b.'rtiortStatesif Hat Publ.'C Of* fice Canndt Be Prostituted' td ?slfr Sei'ving Purposes. St. Louis, Special.-United States Senator J. R. Burton, of Kansas, was fi?ntenc?d to six months imprisonment in jail and1 e fine of S2.500 for using his influence before t?ie Postoffic? De^ partment in behalf of the Rialto Grain, and Securities Company, of St. Louis, and for having received payment from the company for his services. When Senator BuHoil, ?cetf ni pained by his attorney, came into th? United States District Court, Jiidgfe Adams spoke of the motions that had been filed for ? new trial arid for arrest of judgment. The court,-after briefly re viewing the motions, overruled them both. The court then said to the de fendant: "Have you anything to say as to why sentent fchoul?l not 'ie passed ?poh you?" k Evidently suppressing his emotions with ? strong effort. Senator Burton ?iood leaning willi both, hands on a chair back as he said: ''Your honor will please allow mc to respectfully decline to say anything." The court room was almost empty with the exception of a lew persons who had remained out of curiosity and the silence 'A S almost oppressive as Judge Adams, iii a iow tone, began de livering the sentence. The court said: ,JI ain satisfied that the jury reached the just ?nd true result. The evidence abundantly warranted their verdict and I fouud no reason, either in the law governing the case or in the pro ceedings attending the trial, for dis turbing it. "Your ?x?ited station ih life, arid the character bf your offense, give unusuai significance to your conviction. It de monstrates that the law of the land is equal to any emergency and that it can be administered regardless of the personality and station of the accused. It also- demonstrates to all "the people that public office cannot be prostituted to self-serving purposes, and that pub lic office Is not a sure or safe passport to private thrift. "The humiliation attending your conviction and the statutory, disqualifi catious resulting therefrom which for ever incanaci tatos_yoi*^-^'^-^J^i4g_ any office of "honor, trust Or prone under the government of the United States are in themselves heavy punish ment for. your offenses, and l^ave bul little iii the way of severity which could be added. "It is neither my pleasure nor pur pose to Impose any m/nccessary pun ishment. "I think the majesty of the law will be sufficiently vindicated ana, the pub lic welfare sufficiently* aafeguraded by imposing a single vmtence, warranted as lt is on any one of the six counts of the indictments on which you were convicted. "This sentence will be that you be confined in the Iron county jail for a period of six months, and that you pay a fine of $2,500." At the conclusion of the sentence Senator Burton, who had not taken his eyes from the court and who had scarcely moved, as he supported him self by the chair back, turned and sat down, with his head bowed and his eyes on the floor. His attorney, Judge Kruni, immediately filed n bill of ex ceptions in the case and offered a bond for $10,000, which was accepted. 1 Senator Burton declined to discuss the sentence. The case now wiri be appealed to the United States District Court of Appeals. i Wound in ll?art Mealed. Philadelphia, Special.-Thomas Em erson, the negro who was stabbed in the heart about three weeks ago and was treated at Jefferson Hospital by Dr. Stewart, who closed the wound with six stitches of silk, will leave the hospital in a few days none the worse for his injury. Although he has been strapped to his bed ever since he has been In the institution, to prevent him from in any way destroying the ef fects of the operation and thereby bringing on his death. Emerson has grown stout and is said to be in better physical condition than when he first entered the hospital. fleeting of nil! Men. Wadesboro, Special.-At. a special meeting of the stockholders of the Wadesboro Cotton Mill Company on Wednesday afternoon arrangements were made by which to raise the neces sary funds to meet the immediate in debtedness and resume operations. An order was issued on the courts to dis charge the receiver. The stockholders will hold another meeting in a few days to re-organize compfete. '. Farmer Kills Himself. Danville. Va., Special.-News has reached this city of the suicide at his home, near Milton. N. C.. several days ago, ot Mr. Royal Foster, a well-to-do farmer. Tho man shot himself in the | right temple while lying in his bed in the early morning. He covered his head with the bed clothing so as to keep the sound of the report from reaching the other rooms of" thelioufae, In one of which his wife was preparing the morning meal. Mr. Fost?r was cold in death when his wife went to the room to call him to breakfast. Republican Delegates. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.-The Republicans of the third congressional district met here Wednesday morning and selected H. S. Chamberlain, o! this city, and Frederick L. Mansfield, of Athens, as delegates to the nation al convention. Gus Cale, of Bradley county, were uamed as alternates. The convention instructed the delegates to vote for Theodore Roosevelt. SOUTH CAROLINA NOTES -'i Many Item* Cleaned From ?"\ountai.-. < to Seashore, . . -w Make^P/f pairs on Stale,Hous?'.' The commission appointed by the general assembly to see to the comple tion of trji? fltate house met last week to confer^ with Architect C. C. Wilson tn regard1 io the repairs to he made to "save tb?. building from further dete riordtlottf its the bill appropriating $45,000 f?fr this' purpose reads. The re pairs to ?be made are to the roof and the iflstaTiiitlori of a fiew heating and lighting; v apparatus,- .arid several smaller. ijtefails. The meeting j?sterdity was of a pre llmlnaryieharact?r ant/ HO definite busiuess^was transacted. Mr. Wils?ri submitted some rough drawings and specific?ti?up of the work to be done, and aftefche had ex'jij2ri?*d Ideas with the committee they adjourned tb if?ter here aga^n about May 1, when he will submit plans, , The ??riey for the work hi now in * the* halie's of the se?r?t?ry of thc ?ink' lng Ilind- commission and will he used as soori"'jas it is.wailted; The commit tee wii?^not wait for the su'its against Architekt Milburn and Contractors Mcllwaiti, UriMfer & Co; to be con cluded; # The imbers of the committee ?r*?' Senators- J. Q. Marshall of this city, and' George F. von Kolnitz, Jr.. of Charleston, and Representatives Alta mpflt looses of Sumter. C. J. Coleock bf Beaufort; arid S: T.- tfc. Lftneaster cf Spkrt^burg: . Senator Mai-shall waa ab?e'nV.y^sterd?iy bri account of con tiriuedj;^ illri?s? dud Se^iat?V vori Kolinit?&was elected acting chairman iii .S?najpr* Marshal's absence. Mr. Wiisohjwas elected architect and Mr. A: D. M&Faddiri war. elected secretary. j Hred tile Jail Edgefteld. Special.-On Thursday night about 8 o'clock the jail of E'l^f field wak found to be on Ure. lt wa? first discovered by Dr. .T Y. Pattison, who yf?s passing on his way home. The ?l?tjin1 was glvfe'ti arid the acting j?ilei^ jMr.- .. John Faulkner', wjit?n awakened, fourni the ?e?i iii Which' Jesse ^Henderson, colored; .was. confined,- was on fire. Hen derson^had used his lamp to set fire to his cell. When his cell doer wai opened3ie was lying on the floor dead from suffocation, A hole was burne:l through'the Moor and but little dam age other thdri th'S fffts, done. Ile was evidently trying to biirri ? hole through:- which tb niako . his escape, but suffocated before he hdd accomp lished his object; Henderson is the negro; who on last Sunday night ri??de an effort' to escape by. throwing cayenne Tapper into the jailor's eyes. He was'ubder life sentence for killing a uegrrj.;in a church last year and was to have7 been sent to thc penitentiary in- Columbia. ; Trac?dy al: Boyk'n. Colunia. Special-J. McRac Whit 4.?k?y -.?ffi??mdcn. 'waa shot and killed bli the TO!;them Railway by J. E. Gil li?. The two men hail some trouble some time ago, nbot.'t a fire, which Whittaker chat ged Gillis with setting or. his mother-in-law's 'plantation. This afteYuooh Whitaker met Gillis and his father on the Camden road, the trouble was rec owed when they reached Boy kin station. Whitaker called io W. A. Ecykln, a merchant, and telling him of the trouble, suggested that they turu over their pistols to Boykln and tight lt out fairly with their fiats. At this juncture/while Whitaker was about to pass the pistol to Boykin. Gillis fired, the ball penetrating Whitaker's breast over the heart and causing death in a few minutes. The elder Gillis was arm ed, but didn't shoot. Whitaker was about 25 years old and Gillis Is about 3u. Both are progressive farmers. Charleston Gets Her Money. The board of dispensary directors concluded their meeting last week. The profits taken from Charleston be cause bf the alleged non-en forcement of thc dispensary law were restored. .As the annual revenue of Charleston amounts to about $30,000. thc sum returned is between $4.500 and $5.000. being for the months of January, Feb ruary and March and part of Decem ber. The expense of the litigation will be deducted from the money for December, but this will not amount to much. It ls the purpose of the boaVd, so one of their number stated a few days ago, to buy only what, stock ls absolutely necessary until the dead stock now on hand is exchanged or sold, according to the plan reviewed In The State a few days ago. But one purchase was made yesterday that being 100 cases of Silver Spring corn whiskey from J. W. Kelly & Co., of Chattanooga. New Enterpirbss. The Stevens Mercantile company of Bethune received a charter. The cap ital is $10.000: the officers are: Jno. T. Evans, president; LeRoy S. David son, vice-president, and B. M. Bruce, secretary. A commission was issued to the Horry Joint Stock Company of Con way. The capital is $5,000 and the corporators are: G. Fred Stalvey and S. A. Causey. It is proposed to do a mercantile and real estate business. The Effingham Ginning Company of Darlington filed a. declaration. The capital is $5,000 and the corporators are: Robert Keith Dargan and W. E. Dargan. Committed Suicide, Dothan, Alabama. Special.-W. W. Milliken, who was in thc Abbeville jail charged with criminal assault upon his sister-in-law. committed sui cide at four o'clock Sunday afternoon hy shooting himself through the head. He was postmaster at this place, uud stood high lu Republican politics. The alleged assault was committed a few weeks ago. Milliken was arrest ed, escaped and was re-arrested . Palmetto Notes. The Secretary of State recently is sued a commission to a new Columbia firm, tho Ong-Trowbridge Company. The capita*] is $.1.0.000. the business general contracting and the corpora tors are: J. F. Our,'. W. E. Trowbridge and W. Boyd Evans. Mr. J. P. OUR is well known as the . con tractor who creeled for Mr. G. C Wilson, architect, the now famous hotel Park In the Pines near Aiken. A large new enterprise IK to be started in Summerville lu the shape of the Summerville Rrick Company. (WARF4KE IS SLOW _,_ j Neither Russia Nor japan Making An Effort to Fight -. j NEWS SCARCE AND CONTRADICTORY -o ? $i+ss!a Trirs to Explain That She Hos Sust&nad No Serious Losses Up j; to This Time. ? St. Petersburg. By Cable.-The gen erally anticipated attack on Port Ar thur (dil not occur, although a tele gram received from Grand Duke Cyril reports that the enemy's ships were sighted rm the horizon, lt is presumed j that the Japanese were warned o? the .' extra precautions which had been j taken to guard against a surprise. There was no Easter merry-making j nt the fron*tv By special dispensation i tho soldiers and sailors there were re I lieved of all religions exercises on ac i count of the necessities pf the military j si tua t (oil. r Vice Admiral Makaroff's torpedo flotilla patrolled the open sea. while the warships, wi*b full steam up, re mained outside Port Arthur, Elsewhere throughout the theater of war all is reported quiet/ A high uiili ; tary authority, in conversation with j the- Associated Press, explained why j Oje?!.- Kur/tpatkin's plan of campaign j docs not contemplate a heavy resist ; ance ?o the Japanese advance at the j Yahl, ssyi.rig: '.Either defeat tit victory in a battle ? there would be disadvantageous to uS. i If we lest vl'?f? WQTfld have to fall b?cfc i through a difficult country- If we won j -and I say to you that Russian i?iv'at , egy is i'jaitfcl on the idea of victory, j and not on that tu* defeat-success . would b? rruitlesa. We could Ml fel j lew it up without exposing the army to j too gi tal risks. On account of the I Japanese control of the sea. Jf we piir ! sued th? enemy into the peninsular of j Korea we would open boin flanks to a I possible attack ?u ffie ?-ear.- No. the I Japanese must come on to a point in the interior which we have selected, j where we can follow up a ?crushing de : feat to the bitter end with blow after ?.blciw and seal the fate of the campaign. "Dur plans on sea and ipti'd will con* i verge at a time next Limmer when Vice Admiral Makaroff's fleet will be ; relieved by the arrival of reiuforce ? meals. Then, if successful on laud, wt? cap. clear the sea of the enemy, cut his i communications, and the Japanese in : Korea and Manchuria will th^r. he at our mercy. ''.'.The world must not be Impatient. , The prelude to this war is not yet fin ished." .V-iVtgkmd?y?tjboj'cher? that as Ahe re sult of Gen. TviWp"atlvrn^_T?sir-ir/-Tfr^ : Ch wang, re-inforcements of lCKVOOO men will be sent forward from Li-?o Yang. Berlin. By Cable.-The Tagleblatfs war correspondent', Maj. Gaedke, writ ! ing on a train while nearing Harbin March 19, said: "Only six trains daily pass east on the railroad to Manchuria aud only : four thence to Harbin, but these con ; Etsi of aa many as 38 cars. The rail ' road apparently I* able to meet the . military demand?," Tho. Japanese Fleet. , London, By Cable.-A correspon dent of the Times at Wei-Hai-Wei : cabling under Friday's date, says: "The result of a week's cruise leads i mo to believe that the Japanese fleet is engaged covering arrangements for j a new landing of the troops recently i mobilized. A close blockade of Port j Arthur is not maintained, presumably because of information regarding thc : state of the channel. Certainly up to j the present no Japanese transports ! have enetered the gulf of Pechi Li." t Mobilization ot Black Sea Reserves. St. Petersburg. By Cable.-The mob ! ilizatiuu of thc Black Sea reserves is i necessitated in order to fill gaps caus ; ed by drafting sailors to the far East, lt ls expected that a similar mobiliza tion will come into effect ?ti the Baltic j provinces within a month. ? An authoritative denial is given of the rumor cf n Russian reverse on I the Yalu. No official telegrams were j received from the front today. ; The steamer Suminoye Maru called j in at Chemulpo Friday to take on j board 300 men -belonging to the first I division'. The newspaper correspon dents on board the Suminoye Maru j were not. permitted to land and a cor I respondent who was here waiting lo ; go forward with thc Japanese troops ! was refused permission to embark on ? the steamer. The Russian Plan. Paiis, By Cable.-The Russian plan | for retrieving the?reverses at Port Ar- ' thur and Chemulpo has been commur?- i i coted to one cf the embassies through j official channels having access lo "he i 'nighest naval authorities at St. Peters I burg. The plan is explained as fol I lows: Russia recognizes that the Japanese i now has preponderating naval strength ! in the far East. Therefore it ls essen j tial to reverse the present Japanese j preponderance. This will.be attempted ; by two distinct moves, j First, urgent efforts will be made to ; have a naval concentration at Port ! Arthur, the Baltic. Red Sea and .Vladi vostock Heels joining Vice Admiral Maknroff's command, if possible, and thus giving the combined fleets prepon deran:::: over Vice Admiral Togo. Second, it is foreseen thal it will be difficult and probably impossible to ftffcct this concentration, as Admiral Togo may intercept the Baltic fleet be fore Us arrival at Port Arthur. In that event the Baltic fleet, which is com paratively small, will attempt the peril ous tasit of engaging the large Japan er' licet in the hope of disabliug some cf the Japanese ships and thus re ducing (he Japanese effectiveness. Ac cording to the Russian calculation I he nattie fleet may suffer annihilation in such an unequal combat, but il will have served a valuable end if it is able to cripple a sufficient number of Japan ese ships to reduce Admiral Togo's naval strength below that ai Admiral Mn karo ff. The foregoing information la no par; of current speculative report, but credited from official sources. Tho authorities at Washington will receive similar information shortly. MENEUK A REAL MONARCH. /IB YYMH I tu nit? uvi Abyssinian Ruler's Chief Interest Lies in Military Affairs. Meneiik of Abyssinia is a man of hark complexion, grizzled whiskers and beard, a pleasant smile and a very determined jaw. 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