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THE NATIONAL BANE i OF AUGUSTA' \ L. C.;HATNB, FBA?K Qr, FORD. 5 VOL. 69. EDGEF?ELD, S, C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 6,1904. NO. 28. TREASURY MATTERS Condition of Government's Finances At Close of Fiscal Year SECRETARY SHAW'S STATEMENT Comparison' Between Estimated and Actual Receipts and Expenditures - ?-Actual Receipts, $541,186,745; Ac tual Expenditures, $527,939,071 Available Cash. "Washington. Special. - Secretary Shaw gave out a statement showing - the- comparison between, the estimates x-which/he submitted to Congress in bis last annual repprt and tfc? actual re ceipts and disbursements during the fiscal year from which it appears that the actual surplus is only about three foui#hs of a million less than the esti mated surplus, when account is taken only of expenditures which were con sidered in submitting the estimate. Iii the. estimate submitted to Congress, . no account was taken of possible ex penditures in securing the right of way for the Isthmian canal, nor ot the loan of $4,600,000 to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company. The estimated receipts of the gov ernment for the fiscal year were $530 - J000,000; actual receipts, $541,186,745. . The estimated expenditures were S 5516,000,000; actual expenditures, $527,939,071. Surplus, estimated. $14, 000,000; actual, $13,247,674. The expenditures are exclusive of ?54,000,000 paid on account of the Pan ama canal and the lcnn to the Louis iana Purchase Exposition. The available cash, June 30, 1904, amounted to $166,965,872. As compared with the fiscal year ended July l, 1003, these figures show increases and decreases in re ceipts as follows: Customs^ decrease $21,823,235; in ternal revenue, increase $2,320,440; miscellaneous increase, $1,S02-,014. The civil and miscellaneous expen ditures for the year just ended ex ceeded those for the year 1903, includ ing payments on account of the Pana ma canal purchase and the St. Louis Exposition loan by $61,813,602. The ? expenditures on account of the War . Department were 83,211,897 lass than for 1903, and the expenditures cn ac count of the navy were $20.060,271 greater than for 1903. Pensions Show an increase of over * $4,000,000 as1 compared' with 1903. The ProhibltioN Ticket. -Indianapolis, Special.1-The Prohibi *?W???;.t?ky: in7. national convention ?sdjay /nominated; . Silas . C. Swal- J ?low, AofPennsylvania, /for? Presiffeni*n, :):^^^r^^^^^^^|?f?T_?.xas^.for^ without Argument attel^^Dis leadloct in the resolutions/committee., It was described by A/H.Ames of Ore gon, secretary of the committee as the broadest platform ever put before the people -by the party. In addition to the planks on the liquor question, it declares the party to be in favor of international arbitration, a suffrage law based on moral and mental quali fications, uniform laws for the coun . try and dependencies, popular election of Senators, civil service extension and the initiative and referendum. The trust question was recognized by a rigid demand for the application of ...the principles of justice to all organ izations of capital and labor. A re form of divorce laws is demanded, and polygamy denounced. Gen. Miles put an end. to the move ment to nominate him for President by sending to John G. Woolley a telegram from New York, asking that his name be not presented. The tel egram read: "Appreciating the good will of your self and friends, I muse earnestly re quest that my name be not used in the convention, and that my letter of June 20 be considered as final. "NELSON A. MILES." This was considered final and the movement to Mr. Swallow was unan imous, no other name being consider ed. _ ' Smallpox in Freight Car. Winchester, Special.-C. H. Jackson, colored, said to be from Martinsburg, W. Va., who arrived here on a Cumber land Valley train, was found to have a .virulent case of smallpox. He was arrested and. taken to the pest house: This evening he was placed in the same car he came here in, which had been sidetracked to be fumigated, and was sent back to Martinsburg. News of the Day. ; In a formal statement Senator Gor man denied that he is to enter a com bination against Judge Parker or- any other candidate for. the Democratic ' nomination. The Navy Department has acquired five of the longest wireless telegraph circuits in the world. Blain W. Taylor, a Democrat, and a West Virginian, will resign as chief clerk of tho Postoffice Department. Attorney-General Knox and Secre tary of Commerce and Labor Cortlyou attended their last meeting of the Cab inet. 4 The Bureau of Labor is investigating the_ labor troubles in Colorado. ~ President Roosevelt will be notified of his. nomination for the Presidency July 27 at Oyster Bay. ' It is stated in Wilmington, Del., that If Judge Gray is nominated for Presi dent at St. Louis Mr. Cleveland will consent to run for Governor of New Jersey. Secretary of War Taft declared in a speech at Harvard that he was against : promising Independence to Filipinos, and Mr. Olney answered him at a din-. ; ner. . Another sortie by the Port Arthur . fleet is expected. The National Education Association convened In the World's Fair Grounds, in St. Louis. : The. coroner's jury in the Slocum dis aster Inquest rendered a verdict holding I that it was due to misconduct of the di >.recfors of the steamboat company and . holding the captains criminally respon sible. . " . General Kuropatkin, threatened by the combined Japanese armies, has de " ;cjaed to retreat. ?-King Edward received a cordial wel le, on a visit to Hamburg. "Pope Pius received Bishop Horst lana, 'Ot Clevelag?^gfc ?^?r Amori- j LIBERTY OF THE PRESS He says that Abuse of Liberty of tho Press is R?r?-Punlshatle Contempt )? Defined. Asheville, N. C., Special.-Judge J. C. Pritchard, of the United St?t?s Circuit Court, has flied his opinioh in the case &? Mr. Josephus Daniela, editor of the ?eleigh ?ewS and Observer, who had .'been fined $2,000 for contempt of court by District Judge Themas BL Purnell. The case carno tip on a writ of habeas vorpn? sued out by Mr. Daniels, who refused to pay the fine and was ordered committed. Judge Pritchard^ opinion is ? careful fthd c?mpr?he&siv? review of the law as applied 15 newspaper utterances that might be construed as contempt \oi court. The opinion says that in order to determine whether the petitioner is entitled to the relief prayed for in bia writ it is necessary t? determine two ?uesti?nst (1) Did the court which im posed the sentence in his case have jurisdiction and (2) Does this court have jurisdiction to h??r and determine this case on ? writ of habeas corpus? "The force bf public opinion in this country in favor of the freedom of tho press has restrained the free exercise of the power..to punish this class of contempts, and in many jurisdictions statutes have been enacted depriving the court of the power to punish tliem. It was taken from the Federal courts by the act of Congress of 1831, which act deprives these courts of the com mon-law power to prote-t by this pro cess their suitors, witnesses, officers and themselves against the libel of the press, though published and circulated during the trial of a case therein. "The newspapers sometimes engage in unwarrantable* criticism of the courts cannot be denied.," continues the Judge. "In some instances they con strue the liberty of the press, as a li cense to jiuthorize them to engage in wholesale abuse of the court, but these instances are rare and do not warrant a departure from the well-settled prin ciples of the law as declared by Con gress and construed by the courts. If judges charged with the administra tion of the law are not to be criticised on account of their own conduct the j liberty cf the press is abridged and the rights of individuals imperiled. "There may be instances where the publication of editorials or other mat ter in newspapers would bring the au Abor within the limitations of the stat ute. For. instance, if a newspaper should, publish -ah article concerning' a trial, which was \b?in? considered by a ;^uiy - a^^budfj^)t^tN copy of th? ,.pafier.c:?bn^aing':' such.s:ar.ticle. to the :dW0LV^mm?x4j^Teo?.,during ;the ;, ^rogr?sa-,o?^e>txial :?or-the-'purpose':of-. .influencing decision, it .would present a.question whether such conduct would not be misbehavior in the presence of the court or so near thereto as to obstruct the administra tion of justice. "It appears that the distinguished Judge who adjudged the petitioner to be in contempt of court," he concludes, "exceeded the authority granted in the act of 1831 and that the Court was without jurisdiction. Such being the case, the judgment of the court is void and therefore a nullity. "In view of the foregoing, the Court finds that the petitioner is unlawfully restrained of his liberty, and it is there fore considered and ordered by the court that the said Josephus Daniels be discharged from the custody of the Marshal of the United States and that he go hence without day." Good, if Not Popular Teaching;. In his address to the young Black stones and Mansfields of Maryland Uni versity's Law School John Brooks Leavitt taught a doctrine that will not commend itself to some very eminent and opulent members of the profession. "No lawyer," he said, "is justified in devising schemes by which, under the guise of evasions,- his clients may real ly commit breaches of the law." No Peace Overtures. Washington, Special.-While the of ficials here are satisfied from their pri vate advices that the recent visit of King Edward to his nephew, Emperor William, was not brought about by a purpose to initiate a movement toward the restoration of peace betw?en Rus sia and Japan, there is reason to be lieve that some very careful and dis creet inquiries as to the opportunities of some such overtures at this time have emanated from Washington. It may be stated that the result has been to disclose tho fact that neither of the belligerent powers is yet in a humor to sue for peace, nor even to entertain overtures from any third power on that subject. Tax Rate Reduced. Tallahassee, Fla., Special.-Governor Jennings, "by proclamation, orders a re duction on State tax proper from three mills on the dollar, as provided by leg islative enactment, to one-half of one mill on the dollar, the lowest in the history of Florida, made possible by the splendid financial condition of the State. Governor Jennings left today for St. Louis, where he will take part in Flor ida day exercises, which will he held ?oturday, July 2. A Fatal Explosion. Johnstown, Pa., Special.-A locomo tive boiler exploded on the Pennsyl vania Railroad while going up the mountain 50 yards from Ehrenfield station, killing three men and injur ing two others, one of them fatally. The dead: John Wissinger, engineer; Conemaugh, aged 45; D. C. Crouch, fireman, Conemaugh, aged 28; Walter Ros3, flagman, East Taylor township, aged 21. The injured: Conductor Archibald Boyle, Conemaugh, cannot recover; Brakeman J. D.-Smith, seri ously hurt. Lite Insurance for Creditors. Macon, Ga., Special.-The executors of the Plant estate having endorsed, ac cording to the order of the United States court, the life insurance checks payable to creditors, Receiver Corbin was put in possession of $736,484. The court ordered this money deposited in 13 banka in different parts of the State. Of. the amount/about $400,000 13 placed la Macon banks, and the remainder in Aurait?, Savannah an? V&Jdoste. PALMETTO POINTS GIVEN IN BRIEF Wiil Finish the Dam; . Columbia, Special.- The govern ment dam on the Gong?re? will be finished in the next day or so, so fai as the actual work in the water is con cerned. It is expected that the wick ets for the last half of the dam will be put in either today bf tomorrow, and the putting iii of these wickets practically completes the dam work, although there is much yet to be done on land. These wickets - are wooden gates about four by ten fee and are movable sections of the da to be rais?d iii low water and to let down in high water. As soon these wickets are installed ? pracC cal test of the dam will be made, a from then the work of getting riv navigation up to Gervais street wi be a matter for the Chamber of Co merco and the city. For years th is what the city has been workin for, and through the work of th State's, representatives in Washingto this appropriation from" the gover ment w?s increased not long ago. There will now be the remainder of the work on the dam and the keeping of the river clear by the government dredge boat. The wickets go on thp last half of the dam, or Oh the Rich land side, the Lexington end being completed first. As soon as the defin ite hour of putting up the last wicket is known it has been suggested that Columbians go down in a body and have some appropriate exercises. The river is unusually low just now and the water cannot interfere with thi3 work. Capt. Mobley Passes Away. Rock Hill, Special-Capt. E. B. Mob ley, who for many years has resided in Rock Hill, died suddenly of apo plexy last Wednesday about five o'clock. He had been- talking with friends at the Western Union Tele graph office for an hour or more, his mood being cheerful and his physical condition as good as usual. Going to the sidewalk he complained of feeling badly and fell to his knees, death fol lowing almost instantly, Mr. Mobley, or Captain Mobley, as he was best known, was born near Chester, but after the war, in which he. served, he. removed to Lancaster county, coming thence to Rock Hill. H? was about 65 years of age, an elder in the Presbyterian Church and a wel come guest in every .circle by reason ?01!- ??!sppsition^and,..uniail;. ing humor. : He was also a colonel on the staff of Gen. Thomas W. Carwile, U. C. V. Capt. Mobley leaves besides a widow, twp sons, E. L. and Hazel Mobley, and one daughter, Mrs. G. H. Green, of Chester. Two New Land Companies. Two big land companies were com missioned by the Secretary of State Thursday. The people back of the concern are Pittsburg capitalists, who have been in correspondence with the Secretary of State for over a year. The first company is known as the Co-operative Land Co., of McClellan ville, in Charleston county. The capi tal is $300,000 and the petitioners are M. W. and C. W. Biggs, both of Pitts burg. The other was known as the Matthews Land Co., the same petition ers and the same capital, the-concern to have headquarters at Tillman, in Hampton county. The Carolina Kaolin Works,, which company will work the clay beds of this county, has decided to increase its capital from $200,000 to $250,000, and yesterday filed a ne wcharter with the Secretary of State. The incorpor ators are M. Rich and W. B. Low rance. Slocum Responsibility Fixed. New York, Special.-The coroner's jury in the Slocum inquest has return ed a verdict finding: That the im mense loss of life on the General Slocum was due to the misconduct of the directors of the Knickerbocker Steamboat Company; that Captain Van S?haick'is criminally responsible; that Captain Pease, of the Grand Republic, as captain of the steamboat company's fleet, is criminally responsible in that he failed to properly equip the Slocum with fire apparatus; that Mate Flan nangan acted in a "cowardly manner;" that the action of Inspector Lund berg should be brought to the atten tion of the Federal authorities. The arrest of these parties will follow. An Interesting Statement. . Margaret Sherlock, resident worker at the Berkeley social settlement, makes this interesting statement to the Daily Call of San Francisco: "Mrs. Hearst did not withdraw her bene factions on. account of financial losses, but because she discovered that she had been imposed upon. She there fore decided to cut off all her contri butions at one time." Minor Matters. Hon. John Sharp Williams in an interview scored the national Republi can platform. Tho only portrait to be placed per manently in the Democratic conven tion at St. Louis, it was announced, will be that of Jefferson. The Prohibition national convention met at Indianapolis and a marked sen timent in favor of nominating Gen. Nelson A. Miles for President devel oped. Ex-Senator John L. Mitchell di ?d in Milwaukee. Dan Emmett, author of "Dixie," died at Mount Vernon, Ohio. "Dr. William Osier, of Baltimore, was given the degree of doctor of laws by Harvard University, and Yale conferred the same degree upon Dr. W. S. Halstead, of Johns Hopkins University. A committee report to the confer ence of American rabbis, in session at Louisville, Ky- recommended the formation of a Jewish synod for the alvera men t of tho obuxoh. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Terrible Shooting Scrape In Which Man's Head is Shot Off. Dillon, Special.-The old school house, on? mile south of Latta and oc cupied by a Croat?h family by ta? name of Jacobs; was the sc?ne of a fearful tr?g?dy Friday hight about $ o'clock. Bob Wallace, for?m?n of the Dillon Herald office, lies dead with the whole back of his head blown aw?y; his young wife ? widow and his four little children fatherless; Friday ?t ternooh Wallace, in company with a Mr. Biggs and a young man by the name of Jackson, all riding in one ve hicle, left Dillon. One of the party claims they went to Latta, and on death within the twelve months, all citizens of Dil! 3 State College Expanding. There is a growing sentiment at the South Carolina college to restrict the age of admission of students to 16. The minimum age is now 15, but it is thought with the better advantages of fered in recent years by the schools of thc State there is no good reason to encourag? ? young man to l?ave home before he is 16. It is argued that this raising of the age requirement i? espe cially a proper move on the part of the South Carolina college, whether Or not it should be followed by other colleges in this State, since the South Caro lina college should seek more and more to raise its standards and develop into a university of recognized leadership and headship in the State. The most practical way to raise the standard is to raise the age of admission and, with mature students, accomplish more work each year. As some progress towards the uni versity idea, it may be noted that the South Carolina college has already de veloped two professional schools of ac knowledged standing, the law school and the normal school. The enrollment in the former during the last session was 24, in the latter 38, besides ten teachers who took the short spring course. This shorter course for teachers begins each year-about the -fl/st of -April and is designed-specially to meet. >^e"Trcer?8'-tof-';teachers.:o?.v3hoi?i;i?mm.;: schools who will avail themselves of .six weeks or two months of college work. Taken From Train and Lynched. Scranton, Special-Three months ago Cario Williams, a negro ?of Lake City, killed Thurston McGee of the same place in the court at Kingstree. About eight men, armed and disguised, boarded and searched the local passen ger train passing Scranton at 7:07 o'clock and found the prisoner. They suspected he was being taken to Flor ence. The men held a consultation and about eight men were stationed at the cattle pen at the north end of the de pot. One of the mob flagged the lim ited train, No. 32. Then about eight men, armed and disguised, boarded the sleeping car. The conductor shouted from the door that there was nobody lr? there and the mob searched the whole train and took the negro from the sheriff in the day coach. They then put the negro in a buggy and with fiendish shouts made for the woods. Not a single shot was fired. The party who boarded the train were all disgusted. The agent at Scranton leu the depot a few min utes before the limited arrival and re turned after the train was brought to a standstill. He left, he says, to avoid being compelled to flag the train. The mob was in town 45 minutes before the arrival of the first train. A New Isothermal Mip. Commissioner Watson, with the as sistance of Section Director Bauer of the weather bureau, has prepared the first thermal map of the State ever published. The map shows the mean temperature of the entire State, which is divided into three sections. The map when compared with California, the great fruit growing State, shows the superiority of this State in the fruit growing section. Several years ago California had a map of this kind printed and used among the northern capitalists with the result that thou sands of dollars were brought into the State and invested not only by the fruit growers but by truck farmers and others interested in planting. In California there is only one sec tion of the State in the same class with tris State, and that is a small area around Los Angeles. The figures are as follows: Annual mean for entire State, 63; lowest. Greenville, 59; highest, Eeaufort, 67; annual mean for spring, C3; annual mean for summer, 79; an nual mean for autumn, 65; annual mean for winter, 46. Several thousand of these maps will be printed and used in the north. Suicide at Spartanburg. Spartanburg, S. C., Special.-W. H. Lowe, night watchman at the Whitney Mills, committed suicide Friday after noon by shooting himself through the heart with a 38 calibre pistol. Coro ner Foster conducted an inquest and the verdict of the jury was that the deceased came to his death by a gun shot wound inflicted by his own hand. AL the inquest no facts were adduced ay to the cause of the rash act. 20 Killed in Wreck. St. Louis, Special.-A special to The Globe-Democrat from Litchfield, Ul., says the Chicago limited on the Wa bash Railroad, due in Gt. Louis at 7 p. m., Sunday and half an hour late, was wrecked inside the city limits. Tho train struck an open switch and was over-turned and seven of the nine cars were burned. It Is believed that 20 per cions perished in the second and third coaches and that 40 were injured. Some men cry "Stand aloof, I am holier than thou/' lest you should como seor and JRQ?U tkeir fcreaib. 700 PEOPLE DROWN Another Frightful Horror of the Deep With Terrible Loss of Life PASSENGERS MOSTLY EMIGRANTS The Danish Steamer Norge, Bound to Ney/ York; With Nearly 800 Dan ish and Norwegian Emigrants, Strikes a Reek In the North At lantic/ and Sinks; ! . . ' London, By Cable.-Over 700 Danish and Norwegian emigrants bound for New York are believed to havp been drowned in the North Atlantic on June 28: Out; of nearly 800 souls on board th? Danish steamer Norge, which left Copenhagen June 22, only 27 are known to be alive and for the rest ho hope is held out. When last seen the Norge was sink ing where she struck on the Islet of Rockali, whose isolated peak raises it self from a deadly Atlantic reef, some 290 miles off the west coast of Scotland. Early on the morning of last Tuesday the Norge, which was out of her course i? heayy weather, ran onto the Rockall r??f: The Norge was quickly backed off b?t the heavy seas poured in through A ient.-in her bows, The.^?migrants, who were then await ing tlii?lr^ breakfast, ran on deck. The hatchways were scarcely built for these hundreds of souls and became clogged. The;?orge quickly began to go down by the, head. Eight boats were lowered and into these the women and children were hurriedly put. Six of these boats smashed against the side of the Norge and their helpless inmates were caught up by/the heavy seas. Two boat loads got away safely from the side cf the sinking Ship and many of the emi grants' who Were left on board seizing life belts, threw themselves into the s?a add were drowned, Captain Gun dei? so say the survivors, stood on the bridge"'. Of the doomed vessel until it could'be seen no mote. The.boats kept together some hours. Practically all of their occupants were passengers and not used to handling such^braft. The boat occupied by the survivors ianded at Grimsby was a life boat. Gae account ?jays that, three boats were successfully launched, the other two holding about ten persons each. The lifeboat made faster progress and fell in with the Salvia. What became of tile other boats^ is not known. The res cue of those on the lifeboat took place at 8.o'clock on the morning OL' June 29, the survivors consisting of 20 men, one of them a seaman, six women and a girl.-'" . .On^-Of the survivors said that when he* got on deck the Norge was half sub merged and was rapidly getting lower in the water. Half mad with fright the survivors all struggled for ..places in thej=boate. They fought their way to jih^^'lifeboat and: an officer,. stowed ??'.<?"h~e ???'-wom?h- aba' the glrl and then - "told the.men to get: in. The officer then took charge and got the boat to the side pf the Norge. Seing that the boat was already overladen, the officer with : great heroism jumped into the water and tried to board another boat which was not so full. He failed and was drowned. In the sea by this time was a mass of struggling men, women and children grasping and choking from the effects of the water. They tried to get in the already overladen boats, but were beat en off with oars. The boat rowed clear of this seething mass and just as she drew away the Norge went down. Peter Nelson, one of the survivors, described as a young American, said: "For some hours we rowed in company with the other boats, but the strong tide drifted us away from the others and nothing has been seen of them since. The Salvia picked us up and we were well cared for on board the Traw ler. All of us lost our entire belong ings;. He had no time in that fierce fight for life to think of anything but the getting of seats in the boat." The only hope except for those known to have escaped is that some few of the emigrants might have been washed upon the barren rocks. Their chance of being rescued even then is practically nil, for vessels sailing the North Atlantic give Rockall a wide birth as possible. Prominent Attorney De;id. Montgomery, Ala., Special.-Capt. Edward Alfred Graham, district attor ney for the Southern and Seaboard Air Lin?i Railways, a former member of t?he Stita Senate and of the constitutional convention, died here early Friday. He also served as mayor of the city and city recorder, and was a prominent member of secret orders. News by Wire. A Russian torpedo boat destroyer, damaged and crowded with men, reached Niuchwang from Port Arthur. The Japanese took the Fen Shin Pass after a hard fight, in which the Rus sians were outmanoeuvred. A tornado that passed over Moscow, Russia, caused 195 deaths, hundreds of Injuries and a vast amount of damage. The daughter of Levi P. Morton se cured a divorce from the Duke of Val encay in Paris. A French warship arrived in Haiti, but the recent stoning has been atoned for by apology. King Edward sailed for England from Kiel. Without the canal and St. Louis Fair expenditures the Treasury closes the fiscal year with $13,247,674 surplus, but including these expenditures the deficit will be $41,352,325. Lou Payn, of New York, discussed the political situation in that Slate with the President and Chairman Cor telyou. The Prohibition National Convention nominated Rev. Dr. Silas C. Swallow, of Pennsylvania, for President, and Dr. George W. Carroll, of Texas, for Vice President. G. W. Williams, the negro who was identified by Miss Knode as her assail ant, was recaptured near Hagerstown. Police Inspector Shinberger, in Rich mond, was shot and wounded by a ne gro he was trying to arrest In Richmond Judge Scott decided that a Heptasoph policy was invali dated by suicide. The Vermont Republican Convention declared in favor of the reduction of the South's representation in Congress. With an s.rch of triumph and proces sions, Zion. City welcomed "Prophet" Do wie. ) PROGRESS OF THE WAR. Assaults on Various Positions Around the Beleagured City-Re pulsed Last Saturday. St. Petersburg, By Cable-The fol lowing dispatch has been received at the War Office from General Zilinsky: "The following reports have reach ed here (Liao Yang) from Port Ar thur: 'On June 26th the Japanese dis played great activity at all their out posts, and in the hope of recapturing the mountains of War-Tsei-Laza (?) which had been taken from them, they attacked, but were again repulsed and our troops now occupy the village of Beikhohoon, northeast of Sia-Ping Tao. The enemy maintained a heavy fire at long range on our left flank from their squadron, which lies in Talien-Wan Bay, in full view of Port Arthur. It consists of a cruiser, two torpedo boat destroyers, and seven merchant ships, which evidently brought cargoes into the bay. " 'On the night of June 24th-June 25th the Japanese torpedo boats re approached the fortress, and at four in the morning of June 26th the ene my began to cannonade from their vessels in Siao-Ping-Tao Bay, direct ing their fire towards the whole coast towards the north, from the bay to Mount TJit-Selo, and then attacked iii great force, firstly heighi No. 131; secondly, height No. 126. " 'The latter were attacked by a small detachment landed for this pur pose. These two positions were held by our riflemen, who, after driving off three attacks with heavy losses, retired, and, being pressed by the en emy, sought refuge on the heights of Loun-Van-Tian. The enemy attacked this position in great force, employing at least a division, but the assaults were repulsed. "'At 3:30 p. m. the Japanese ap peared on the Port Arthur road in great strength and attacked Kwin Shan (Guin-San-Shan). The riflemen who held the right with two battal ions, retired. The Japanese turned them from the rear, losing heavily in the manoeuvre. Our torpedo boats were of small assistance to us, advan cing on Loun-Van-Tian and bombai d -ing the coast occupied by the enemy. " 'Our losses were seven officers and about two hundred soldiers killed or wounded. Our mines exploded at the proper time, blowing up at least fifty Japanese. Their losses were evi dently considerable. '"According to the latest advices, large columns of. the enemy are marching from Dalriy towards the vil: l?ge of Suan-Tsan-Hon and Khouint Mountain. " 'On June 27 there was a fusilado at the Japanese outposts, due to the Japanese establishing themselves on the summit of Luon-Van-Tian Moun tain. Our gunboats proceeded yester day towards Loun-Van-Tian and bom barded the shore. " 'Yesterday evening the forts and batteries at Port Arthur opened fire on tho Japanese torpedo boats."' Arrested in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Jack T. Bone, who shot and killed Z. T. Hall, in Floyd county, near Rome, Ga., June 9. and who was supposed to be hiding on Rock Mountain, was arrested in this city Sunday. Boue stated that j he had been with his people here for ' three weeks and denied the reports that had been circulated to the effect that he had fortified a position on Rock Mountain and was prepared to resist arrest. He was placed in jail to await the coming of the sheriff! of j Floyd county. No Ambassy at Vatican. Paris, By Cable.-The budget com mittee of the Chamber of Deputies voted Friday for the suppression of the appropriation for the French em bassy at the Vatican and also passed a resolution which will be incorporated in the committee's report to the Cham ber censuring Premier Combes for his refusal to express the views of the gov ernment on the subject. Tel-graphic Briefs. Joseph R. Ryan, National Democratic Committeeman from Nevada and head of the Nevada delegation to the Demo cratic National Convention, died at the ! Jefferson Hotel. St. Louis, of pneu ! monia. Rev. Wilbur F. Corkran and Rev. C. S. Baker, of thc Wilmington Methodist Episcopal Conference, were convicted of gambling in stocks by a special committee and were suspended until the next session of conference. Booker Washington was the princi pal speaker at the National Education al Association. Baron Speck von Sternberg delivered an address at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. Justice Robert W. Steele, of tjie Col orado Supreme Court, filed an opinion dissenting from his colleagues who sus tained Governor Peabody in the Moyer case and declaring that the Governor by his course has violated the Consti tution. An important naval battle, according to advices from Chefu, is in progress midway between Port Arthur and Chefu. # Rev. Dr. Silas C. Swallow, who was nominated for President by the Prohi bition party, has not decided whether he will accept the nomination. A Paris dispatch states that M. Wal deck-Rousseau, ex-Premier of France, attempted suicide, but was saved by his wife. George Frederick Watts, the famous English painter, is dead. Members of the Salvation Army greeted King Edward on his return to London. President Nord, of Haiti, apologized to France for the recent insult to the French Minister at Port au Prince. Establishments of the Premonstrant and Capucine monks at Nantes, France, were forcibly closed by the civil au thorities. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Speaker Cannon, who hus a touch of malaria, will tnkc a sea voyage. King Alfonso of Spain will visit the courts of Europe this summer. Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans is a baseball enthusiast and seldom misses an opportunity to see a game. A. W. Payne, of Bangor, Me., is credited with being the oldest practis ing attorney in the United States'. Chief Croker just celebrated the completion of twenty years' service in the New York City Eire Department. Earl Roberts has definitely accepted Ambassador Choate's invitation to visit America before thc close of the year. Paul Kruger is living in a villa at Clarens, on the Lake of Geneva, with his daughter, his grandchildren, his secretary .Ind Iiis physician. James Gordon Bennett carries with him on his yacht, on every long voy age, two fine cows, in order that he may avoid condensed milk. Sir Thomas Lipton is to nuilee this country a visit this year. He will confine himself on this trip to an in spection of thc St. Louis Exposition. Ramon Corral, who is to be the Vice President of Mexico, is known as the "baby" of President Diaz's Cabinet, being now but forty-six years old. Sir William Turner, who was long au expert adviser to Darwin on an atomical points, is still wonderfully active at his more than seventy years. Jean De Reszke has set up a singing school at Paris, which promise* to pay him "beyond the dreams of avarice," as lie charges $40 an hour for classes of four. Oxford University (Eng.) conferred Hie honorary degree of doctor of civil law on Lord Curzon of Kedjeston, the Viceroy of India; M. Caiiibon. the French Ambassador, and W. D. How ells. LAJBOK WOKhD. According to Mr. Crooks, M. P., everybody who lives twenty years in Lordon without a blemish on his char acter goes to Heaven without dying. So far. however, there has been no marked deer?'se in the death rate on this account. Boot and shoe workers of Petaluiua, Cal., have formed a union. There is a strike for the free Sunday among the Wisconsin paper mills. Portsmouth (N.. H.) musicians are planning the organization of a union. Membership in th** Amalgamated ! Society of Engineers now .otals about !)"3,300. Memphis, Tenn., will entertain the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in 190?. Slate loaders flt the Penrhyn (Wales) quarries are on strike for an increase in wages. The Association of Bureaus of Labor Statistics will meet at Concord, N. H., July 32 to 10 Wages for common laborers in Ire land are almost double what they were twelve years ago. 'Longshoremen and other trades threaten to go out in sympathy with the striking bakers at Brest, France. Locomotive engineers in Germany I receive a gold medal and $300 for every ten years of service without accident. In 1903, S57.04G immigrants landed on our shores, of w'hich 1S5,6G7. over fourteen years old, could not read nor write. Of each 1000 immigrants who reach America it is said there are only seven girls who desire employment as house servants. Wages of skilled laborers at the Portsmouth (England) dock yards are to be increased to twenty-four shil lings a week. Terence V. Powderly may again be the Head of the Knights of Labor. It ls understood lie will accept If unani mously elected. Street railway employes at Leeds, England, have objecte-l to the "swing" system, after having given it a trial for almost four months. If one judges by tba salaries paid In some other cities and throughout the country, the Teachers' College is building better than it knows In in structing its pupils how to live on thirteen cents a day, observes the New York Herald. Farrand Organs The Bese in the world. The Factory does three quarters of a million dollars worth of business a year. Quality considered they are tde CHEAPEST ORGANS made. Over fifty now in stocke Terms accommodat ing. Write me before buying elsewhere. Other magnifi cent organs in appearance at -Forty-Five- ; Dollars, with - stool and box. Freight paid J. A. Holland NINETY SIX, S. C. THIS SPACE IS TAKEN BY The Leading Grocers of Augusta Ga.5 ARRINGTON BROS. COMPANY, 839 Broad gjgfW. F. SAMPLE of Saluda County and H. H. SCOTT, JR., of Edgefield County are with us and want to see you. W. J. Rutherford & Co. 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