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P:DGEFIELD, S. C" WEDNESDAY, JULY 20,1905.
I OF AUGUSTA.
? AUS?STA, GEOROIA.
'CAPITAL, - - 8200,000;
{[ Surplus & Profits. $140,0005
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NO. 37.
Frightful Loss of Life Ri
? Defective B(
NEARLY 100 BURT, MANY FATALLY
?There Were More Than 250 Men
Aboard the Vessel at the Time, and
Of These 15 Sailors Are Missing
The Accident Occurred in the San
Diego, Cal., Harbor Just Before the
Vessel Was Scheduled to Leave.
San Diego, Cal., Special.-Twenty
eight members of thc crew of the
United Sta?gs~ -^gunboat Benning
ton were killed and four-score
sailors were injured, 24 seriously, at
10 o'clock Thursday forenoon by a
boiler explosion that disabled the ves
sel in San Diego harbor. Fifteen sail
ors are missing. There were more
than 250 men aboard the warship
when the accident occurred, and many
men were hurled or forced to jump in
to the sea by the terifilc explosion,
which lifted part of the deck and com
pelled the beaching of the ship. The
Bennington, at the time of the acci
dent, was lying in the stream just
off the commercial wharf at H street.
The warship had received orders from
the Navy Department at Washington
to sail this morning for Port Hartford
to meet the monitor Wyoming and
convey the monitor to Mare Island
navy yard, San Francisco.
EXPLOSION TERRIFIC.
Steam was up and everything was
In readiness for the departure of the
Bennington when the starboard for
ward boiler exploded with a terrific
roar. The explosion was terrific.
People standing on shore saw a huge
cloud of steam rise above the Ben
nington. Columns of water were
forced high into the air. A dozen or
fifteen men were blown overboard by
the force of the terrific explosion.
Capt. Wentworth, who was looking at
the Bennington when the disaster oc
curred, says he saw human bodies
hurled over a hundred feet upward.
The air was clouded with smoke which
enveloped the ship. When the ha2?
*"clear2d away, only- a few could be
? seen cn the decks, while a number
; . were floundering in the water. A
boat, was lowered, from the vessel's
. side and most wfaw- foatwSfS
wyre pic?ea up ana
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: vessel - was already !
'list'" -^:?section : bf tl
was 'carried'away from- stem,
Blood and wreckage was distributed
over. the entire space, the after cabin
and that part of the ship adjacent to
the exploded boiler resembling a
charnel ho?se. The shock of the ex
plosion penetrated every section of
the ship, blood and ashes being found
as far as the stern of che captain's
cabin. Great damage was done in all
narts of the vessel. The boiler which
jded, it is said, was regarded as
.oafe. Commander Young stated
jiat during a recent return from Hon
olulu the steam pressure was kept re
duced in that particular one.
List cf the Dead.
San Diego, Cal., Special.-Saturday
night's summary of casualties aboard
the gunboat Bennington, in San Diego
Bay, gives a total of 60 dead and 50 in
jured, six probably fatally. A number
of mei. are still missing, some of these
may be dead, and probably a dozen of
the injured will die of their wounds.
Following is an official list of known
dead, v/ith ages, occupation and place
of birth or enlistment:
Ensign Newton Ki Perry, 26, Colum
bia, S. C.
Wesley M. Taylor, 28, seaman, At
lanta, Ga.
Bert A. Hughes, 19, seaman, Clarks
ville, Ark.
May Hinder Peace Progress.
Paris, By Cable.-Emperor Nicholas'
cruise in the Gulf of Finland to meet
Emperor William is the subject of
much momment in the press. Certain
newspapers express the fear that the
German Emperor will influence the
Russian Emperor over Far Eastern
matters and will hinder the carrying
out cf the peace programme, while
others are of the opinion that Emperor
William will seek to estrange Russia
from France.
Mine Superintendent Shot by Drunken
Man.
Bristol, Va., Special.-A special from
Big Stone Gap, Va., says: "This after-?
noon at Irondale, about five miles j
east of this place. Jasper Abshire shot
and fatally wounded A. M. Hall, sup
erintendent of Kelly and Irvines mines |
Mr. Hall is still living, but ?ho physi- j
clan says he cannot live but a j
short while/ Abshire was drunk andi
rowdy and was asked to leave. He j
refused and Hall lead bim to the com- :
misary door and let him go, whereup- !
on he shot Superintendent Hall three j
timbs in the breast. Abshire was dis
armed, but not arrested. A posse went i
from this place this evening to ap
prehend Abshire.'
Frank L. Kelley Missing.
Richmond, Special-The four broth
ers of Fr?nk L. Kelley, who has been
missing since Sunday, are endeavoring,
by the aid of his dog, to find some
trace of the man, whom they fear has ;
taken his own life. Soon after his j
departure his wife found a bundle on !
the knob of the back door containing j
her husband's watch and purse, as v/ell j
as a note, which bade farewell tr her'.1
and theip infant child, and said: "I i
am crazy; sometimes I don't know j
where I am."
Sharp Rise in Wheat.
Chicago, Special-Alleged confirma
tion of black rust in the wheat fields
C of the Northwest sent the price of Sep
tember wheat whirling up to 88 here, i
The advance was 3M cents a bushel, j
compared with Thursday's closing j
quotations. The bulge was accom panie]
by scene:! cf much excitement in the
wheat pit, shorts frantically jcstUng j
. each ether in attempts to secure the,
coveted grain. Telegrams ?rot? Minne-j
ap?bs and Duluth detailing daradge t} ?
the -Kheat crop in South Dakota by the !
dreaded b-ight was the cause of the ex- j
?sults From Bursting of
riler on Board.
Andrew Kamerer, 25, fireman, Lon
donville, 0.
Joseph Newcomb, 27, seaman, Bos
ton.
Harry Mosher, 25, fireman, Newark,
N. J.
Wilbur W. Wright, 32, steward, home
unknown.
Michael G. Quinn, 31, fireman, K?1
, kenny, Ireland.
! Clyde Haggbloom, 25, Leadville,
Col.
Kirley F? Morris, 24, fireman, Ow?ns
boro, Ky.
Warren Pari?. 36, coal passer, Lan
sing, Mich.
Wm. C. Wilson, 19, seaman, German
town, Cal.
Stephen W. Pollock, 24, coal passer,
Honesdale, Pa.
Emil Dresch, 24, ?eaman, N?wark,
N. J.
Wm. Staub, 21, fireman, Bridgewater,
S. D.
John L. Burns, 20, seaman, Chi
cago.
Glen Brownlee, 24, seaman, Galves
ton, Texas.
"Wm. I. Cherry, 24, blacksmith, Salem,
Mont.
Walter G. Grant, 23, coal passer, Chi
cago.
John Goika, 18, seaman, Milwau
kee.
John McKone, 23, fireman, Leadville,
Col.
Edwin B. Robinson, 23, seaman, San
Francisco.
.Charl ? O McKeen, 25, coal passer,
Pueblo, Col.
Charles J. Kuntz, 20, seaman, St.
Louis.
Harry F. Saunders, 19 seaman,
Springfield, Mo.
Jodie W. Kempton, 18, seaman,
Loveland, Col.
Robert B. Carr, IS}*, seaman, Den
ver.
H?rry F. Smith, 23, seaman,- Harri
sonvillc, Mo.
Preston Carpenter, 20, seaman, Ara
pahoe, Neb. j
Robert L. Savage, 23, seaman, Waco, |
Texas.
Leroy B. Archer, 20, seaman, Fowler,
Col.
Don C. Archer, 19, seaman, San
Francisco.
Richard T. House, 21, seaman, Colo
rado Springs, Col,
Albert H. Schoregge, 21, seaman, New
Ulm. Minn.
John C. Barchus, 22, seaman, Clarin
da, Iowa.
L. J. Guthries, 25, - seaman, New
York.
Matthew G. Chambers, 23, seaman,
Lewiston, Idaho. _ jj? ;
Emile 'CT "Hoffman, 25, blacksmith.
?San Antonio. Texas.
Joseph Hilscher, 24, fireman, Seattle,
Wash.
Edward B. Ferguson, 36, chief ma- ;
chinist, San Francisco. .
Elmer U. Brunson, 20, seaman, Chi- :
cago.
Four unidentified men of the new
draft, who joined the Bennington at
San Diego.
Seven men, names uncertain, known
to be in flooded compartments of the
vessel.
Thomas Burke, machinist.
Joseph Hunt, oiler.
George L. Clarke, chief machinist.
C. W. Brockman, gunner.
Unidentified number of men still
missing.
San Diego, Cal., Special.-Forty-sev
en of the gunboat Bennington's dead
were buried Sunday in a common grave
in the little military cemetery on the
crest of the promotory of Loma, high
above the waters of San Diego Bay on
the one side, and within sound of the
booming surf the Pacific on the oth
er. Without the crash of drum or j
sound of brass, without pomp or pa
rade, yet'' with simple impressiveness,
all honor was paid to the nation's
dead.
Telegraphic Briefs.
Having been acquainted with the
recklessness of certain chaffaurs, an
owner of a residence at the corner
of two streets in England has pasted
upon the outside of his house this
placard: "Motor car drivers are re:
quested to leave this house where it
is."
President Roosevelt has ordered a
full investigation of the affairs of the
entire Department of Agriculture.
Fireman's Story of the Acc'denr.
Fireman E. G. Hopp makes the first
statement as to the cause of the acci
dent. He says that shortly before the
explosion one of the boilers was found
to be leaking badly, and the boiler
maker was sent for to repair the dam
age. Before the latter came the explo
sion occurred. Hopp saw men all
about him killed outright and he him
self was stunned for a moment. The
dead were given a military burial Sun
day afternoon at the military reserva
tion at Point Loma. Services were
held at 2 o'clock on the Point, and
launches will convey across the bay
the living officers and men able to at
tend.
Change of Management.
Raleigh, Special.-R. I. Cheatham,
assistant general freight agent of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway, with
headquarters in Atlanta, will leave
.that road shortly to take charge of the
Cape Fear and Northern Railway, to
extend from Durham to Dunn, N. C.,
with headquarters in Durham. The
Cape Fear and Northern is owned by
the Dukes, of the American Tobacco
Company. J. A. Pride, of Columbia,
S. C., commercial agent of the Se?
board, will succeed Mr. Cheatham.
The Disease Yellow Fever.
New Orleans, Special.-The official
autopsy on a patient, an I'.lian, who
died of what has been called suspi
cious fever, has disclosed that the dis
ease was yellow fever. President
Souchon, of the State board of health,
bas notified Governor Blanchard and
th? health officers of Mississippi. Tex
as and Alabama. Arrangements have
been made for a detention hospital to
treat the remaining cases. Application
cf tho same methods which were pur
sued at Havana is to be made sac
the authorities are hopeful that the dis
ease can he stamped out,
10 BUILD UP SCUPPERING TRADE
An Effort Will Be Made to Create ?
New Market Fdr These Grapes.
Columbia Cor. Charlotte Observer: .
Commissioner Watson's efforts to
. find a market for South Carolina scup
pernong!* aa initial step toward devel
oping th? scupper??flg industry on a
large scale- this State growing the fin
est type of these grapes in the world,
from the mountains to the seaboard,
has just resulted in an order for the
first car load from a big champagne
and wine-making concern at Hermann,
Mo,
"Of cours?, oil the success of the
marketing of this first car load," said
Commissioner Watson to The Observer
correspondent, "largely depends the fu
ture of the industry, and it is of the
highest importance to get the fruit to
its destination in good shap?: But I
" have no fear Of {fie results. The finest
.e'.^remona prunes in the world are
grown right ' here in South Carolina,
and the crop can be produced in great
abundance anywhere in either the
coast, middle or Piedmont sections. If
the fruit can be gotten to market in
good condition Splendid prices ?an be
obtained, I have every reason to be
lieve."
This first car is to be made up from
two well known South Carolina vine
yards, and if the experiment proves
successful Commissioner Watson ex
pects to se? a general revival and ex
tension Of thc indiiRtiyi BouppPrnong
growing has never been ah extensive
industry in this State, though the fruit
grows luxuriantly almost anywhere in
the State. Since the dispensary law
went into effect, forbidding the manu
factur? arid Sale of wine, the .few pay
ing vineyards that existed theil have
been allowed to run down to a great
extent. The Missouri people intend to
use the South Carolina scuppernong as
a basic grape in the manufacture of
champagne, and- if the hopes of the
manufactur?s are realized to even any
reasonable ?xteiit ? m?l'k?t w'iH be
promptly opened foi" dil that ?outh
Carolina can grow, and it is expected
that the success of thc experiment in
this State will promptly result in an
extension of the grape industry into
North Carolina and Georgia, particu
larly fin? scupperii?ngs beiiig growing
in North Carolina, where, it is said,
there is one vineyard whose ramifica
tions covers nearly ten acres.
One of the largest and most prolific
scuppernong vineyards in the State is
that near Columbia, now the property
of Lieut. Gov. John T. ?ioan. Up to
1891 this was operated with gf?at suc
cess by Mr. ?. M. St?vber, but with the
coming of the dispensary he had to
abandon the business. The Seaboard
now splits the plantation in twain.
In Darlington county there are a
number of large and productive vines,
as there are elsewhere throughout the
State, but there are few vineyards now.
,The scuppernong grape wSs introduced
into Aiken county ov?r flftv veiw ?<v>
??sut mues irom'Aiken court nouais,
near Croft stati??,
Commissioner Watson h?s a grati
fying report from hi? Belgium and
Holland special representative, Mr. C.
J. C. van Wyngaarten, who went over
the first of the summer with stereopti
con and literature to give lectures. He
writes from The Hague that he has suc
ceeded in arousing a lively interest and
is coming to America in a few weeks
to prepare for the coming of the immi
grants. Commissioner Watson has ap
pointed a special representative at The
Hague in the person of Oscar P. Schu
ler, and Mr. F. W. Grauert will sail
in a very few days on the Hamburg
American Line for extensive work in
Germany.
For Better 'Phone Rates.
Columbia, Special.-At a recent meet
ing of the railroad commission. Maj.
John H. Earle introduced a resolution
inviting the representatives of all in
dependent telephone lines in the State,
as well as the representatives of the
Bell company, to appear before the
commission on the 1st day of August to
give their views on certain matters.
The principal reason for issuing this
summons is to get the charge of $2.50
per annum per 'phone whenever they
make connection with the Eell com
pany's long distance line.
Fifteen Injured in Collision.
.Portsmouth, N. H., Special.-Fifteen
persons were injured, eleven of them
seriously, and three of them probably
fatally, in a collision between two elec
tric cars on the line of the Portsmouth
electric Railway, near this city, early
Sunday evening. The cars crashed to
gether on a steep grade and while
rounding a curve, neither motorman
seeing the other car in timo to pie
vent a collision.''
Spartanburg Postoffic*.
Spartanburg, Special. - There is
much interest being taken by local
contractors in thc Federal' building
which will be erected in this city and
which will cost $60,000. The sealed
bids will bo opened by the government
architect, James Knox Taylor, on July
26th, and the contract awarded. So
far there have been 16 bids submitted
and these come from all over the
country, this city included. One bid
is from New York, another from Wash
ington, still another from Richmond,
one from Greensboro, on efrom Green
ville, and so on. The plans and speci
fications call for a modern pcstolfice
building, one story, with basement.
Death of Mr. Thompson.
Rock Hill, Special.-Mr. Jack Thomp
son, son of Prof. J. W. Thompson, died
at the family heme here Saturday
night of fever, after a brief illness. The
news of his death brought a shock to
the friends of the family. Thc r?mains
will be taken to Abbeville for inter
ment. It was known that thc youth was
suffering from fever and it was thought
that he was recovering. Just before his
death, however, there was a sudden
change for the worse and, despite every
effort, he succumbed.
Prominent Florida Man Convicted of
Manslaughter.
Pensacola,- Fla., Special-John B.
Vaughn, one of the most prominent
citizens of this county, who has served
as a member of the Legislature, chief
deputy sheriff, constable and ether po
sitions, was convicted of manslaughter
in the Criminal Court. While shooting
at J. C. Nicholas, at Century a few
weeks ago while tilt; latter was run
ning, a bullet from the revolver of
Vaughn went wild and instantly kill
ed B; T. Nalle, a drummer. Attor
neys gave notice of a motion for a
new trial.
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Occurrences of Interest in Various
Parts of the State.
Geneal Cotton Market.
Galveston, quiet.10%
New Orleans, quiet .10%
Mobile dull ..10%
Savannah,- quiet.10%
Oh?rl?gt?ii; quiet itu i ti?4,10%
Norfolk, steady ...; ; ; : ; ; : : ;. 10%
Baltimore, nominal ll
New York, quiet .. .ll
Boston, quiet.ll
Philadelphia, quiet..'.11.25
Houston, easy.10 11-16
Augusta, Steady tm. tmnn.10%
Memphis, steady .- ...- ; i ? i. t .-. 10%.
St. Louis, quiet M..10%
Louisville, firm. 10%
Charlotte Cotton Market.
These figures represent prices paid to
iv?g?r?sj
Strict good middling ?.?..''/? ?r. ??< . .10%
G?Od middling ; :. ;.10%
Strict middling ; ; :10%
Middling.t i:f ?;10%
Tinges .... ;.8% to 10.10
Stains.7 to I
fit Sensational Report Current
? D?flingt?ii sp?cial id th? Charlotte
Observer of Saturday,- giv?? ?h? fol
lowing strange story:
"I don't know what went with the
money," confessed the attorney for
Robert Keith Dargan, the man whom
? cbrQ?ef'Kjafy profio'iiilc?d a suicide
oh July lith: "W?. ti?v? fi6| heed ?ble
to discover much but debts.- it does
not seem that he had $100 when he
died."
This whole section of South Carolina
\b under ^intense excitement over the
report that tii? .??ijpG??'ct SH.?CW? is not
dead at all and that the alleged &.wful
tragedy of July 10th was a farc?. They
say that a man who was connected
with the Independent Cotton Oil Com
pany and who is now in France, car
ried the money ?Vf?y, with him. The
Gorupahj1 was Capitalized at $j ,000,000
and w?s supposed ?3 Wjjj fr?r? ,-niore.
rt was ? tremendous conc?rfi.-.T?e im
posing sign, hung above the first stair
landing to its offices, read:
"General Offices the Darlington Oil
Com nany*. Anson Oil and Ice Company,
Chesterfield - OOiiiity 0)1 Company, the
Marion Oil Mill Company, Manni?g Oil
and Illuminating Company, Farm?fs'
Cotton Oil Company, Robert Keith
Dargan, General Manager."
Mr. Dargan has been general mana
ger for years. The by-laws, adopted,
by the director's, gav?" llinl virtually un- |
limited. pOwerj ?ild ??b6dy k??w much
about th? business except himj??lf.. At
each successive meeting of t?i? direc-:
tors, even at their late meeting iii June,
they adopted resolutions affirming and
re-affirming their complete confidence
in Dargan. The stockholders thought
the big combination immensely pros-.)
perous Oil account of the handsome'
in the North; the fact that the coro
ner did not go in with His jury to view
the corpse' and the rumor that he said
after the burial that he could not swear
that-Dargan was dead; tbatW. F. Dar
gan ordered out of the mansion two.
men who had come with the jury to see
the body; that the grave was bricked
and cemented; that there was a gener
al effort to avoid publicity on the night
of the tragedy, and other rumors and
reports too numerous to recount, con
stitute the basis for the widespread
suspicion that it was a put-up job.
So frantic has gossip grown that a tel
ephone message went abroad that the
grave had been opened -and found
empty.
Thc coroner tells me that on the
night of thc 10th, when he got to the.
office where thc deed was done, he
found the front door and partition door^
locked. In the back room were Pegram"
Dargan, Dr. Edwards and thc dead
man. The dead man's jaws were tied
with a towel to prevent his mouth from
falling open. He was sitting in an
easy chair with his feet upon a book
case. Dr. Edwards said that he was
dead when first examined by him.
Both W. F. and Pegram Dargan asked
the coroner if he recognized the corpse,
and he replied that he did, and that it
was Robert Keith Dargan. They told
him that they did not want a crowd
to collect or any publicity, and he
agreed that they might remove the
corpse to the mansion. When they
were taking it up to bear it to the car
riage at the door, the coroner offered
to assist them, but Pegram objected.
The coroner thrust an arm under the
body anyhow while they were lifting it
into thc carriage . It had not yet, he
said,., grown cold. This was the last
time the coroner saw the dead man.
"If I had the authority," he said, "I
would have the grave opened. "It's
the shortest way to stop all this talk."
Must Serve His Sentence.
. The State supreme court last week
handed down a decision in the case
of the State against John Reeder,
charged with murder. The accused was
tried for having shot and killed How
ard Stevens in the city of Newberry on
the 14th of June, ]904. The case was
tried before James Y. Culbreth, special
judge, and the,accused was convicted
and, upon recommendation to mercy,
was given a life sentence. A motion for
a new trial was overruled, and an ap
peal was taken. The supreme court yes- .
terday handed down its decision sus
taining the lower court, and the con
victed man will be brought to the State
prison to serve his sentence.
30 Years For Attempted Assault.
Sumter, S. C., Special.-Jesse Nelson,
the negro who was arrested Monday
for an attempted criminal assault on
a white woman Sunday, was found
guilty and given the extreme limit of
the law, 30 years, besides the unexpired
part of a sentence f: >m which he es
caped recently for a ther crime. The
trial lasted the enti;- lay and Nelson
was represented by unsel. Nelson
was hid in the wooi londay by his
captors and kept in ealment until
the judge promised a 'mediate trial.
To Meet in Spa anburg.
The commission authorized by the
general assembly last winter in regard
to the workings of the dispensary sys
tem met in Columbia and proceeded to
make arrangements for the first of the
open sessions at which testimony will
be taken. All of the members of the
commission worn present but nothing
was done at the meeting except a state
ment was given out that a meeting will
be held in Spartanburg on the 8th of
August and that the meeting will be
open, as this .will -be^'n the examina
tion of witnesses,
MCLAURIN ON THE DISPENSARY
?*--??fi?t?r Seores The State Liquor
Institution fr? ?trdttg Tnrms.
Columbia State.
fj A great meeting- wa ? held at Dillon
jpu?sday, It was a farmers' meeting,
and was .addre'ss?d *>y several promi
nent speakers, who discussed the
questions of the day. At length the
dispensary came in for a share of in
teresting talk. " .
? ; Tfiii? wft?. occasioned by the reply of
former Senator MGLtttirin to some
questions which were submitted to
bim during the course of his speech.
It was understood by some that th?
in?etiiig was to be held under thc aus
pice's ?tiri in the interests of the South
ern Cottoii A?s??ifitiiSn, with politics
entirely eliminated.
;Thi?i rule h?d been adhered to by
Mr, R. P. Hamer and Senator R. I.
M?nning, the two first speakers.
Th? Dispensary.
: F?fiB?r k?riater M?Laur?ri had spok
en for about ten minutes', following
these lines also, when a gentleman
from the audience approached the plat
form ?hd handed the speaker a paper.
Havliitf finished his sentence, Mr. Mc
laurin r??'i Ihn paper, then read it to
the audience, and the p"fipGf ia quos-'
tion was as follows:
?, "Senator: At our committee meeting
yesterday we decided we were all of
;bn?' ?cord on the cotton question, hav
ing read" iii?'cft tm the" subject and hav
ing many able sp??fc'?ff* who will fol
low you here today. For that reason
we decided that we would remind you
that the burning question of the hour
wJtii ii?? te and will be for thejmmedi
ate f?t?f?/ _4isppnsary or no dispen
sary-, and if yoi: h?ve fis gerious ob
jections we would like id ftiWy your
views on the subject. What do yoi!
think of the dispensary laws as it is
writ On the statute books of this State,
an?i ?s it has been, is, and probably
will hS, ns long rts it is a law, executed
by those' iii a??HoHty?"
: Signed: W. T. Bethe?, W.- M. Hamer,
E. L. Moore, E. R. Hamer, Wade S'tadk
house.
Mf.- MjcLaurin said that he had been
charged hy borrie as being a politician,
and this subject wfts ??? that politi
cians are now dodging pretty Skill
fully, but that he had stayed in Wash
ington long enough to get above that.
.He had flev?f failed to expressed his
..opinion upon ?ny phillie question, and
. if they wanted t?i hear Kihi discU3s the
dispensary law he wo?id 6fi so.
~.: The crowd at once vociferously Sig
nalized a desire for this very thing._
reproach that time could not^effacer
He paid sarcastic reference to "the
sage of Trenton and his quiet dairy
farm," and drew a parallel from Louis
XV and his guillotine to "our 'grand
monarch' whose destruction is before
him." The chairman called time on
the speaker twice, but amid great ap
plause he was asked to continue. The
second time he was called the crowd
again shouted for him to continue and
when Mr. F. H. Weston gave him five
minutes of his time and Mr. F. H.
Hyatt followed with a similar state
ment, the speaker continued amid re
newed cheers and applause.
Farmers Rally at Aiken.
?Vikcn, Special.-There will be a
'^ming-ijf^tlre- Ctotton Growers' Asso
ciation of Aiken county ajmio^ztyari
house next Saturday at-fl o'clock. All
the Aiken county clubs are invited to
attend and every citizen, no matter
what his calling may be, who is inter
ested in the prosperity of the South,
-is invited to attend and join the as
sociation, the cost of doing so being
only 25 cents per annum. The matter
of buildine a cotton warehouse in Ai
ken will be discussed and it is believed
that the plans for doing so will be
perfected. If this warehouse can be
built, it will greatly reduce the
chances of a repetition of the losses
recently sustained by the farmers of
Aiken county. Other matters of vital
interest to the people will be discuss
ed. Mir. W. W. Woolsey, president of
the association, extends a cordial in
vitation to all and hopes that every
.farmer Ia Aiken county will be pres
ent. It is hoped that President Jordan
and others will address thc meeting.
Wofford's New Building.
Spartanburg, Special.-Work on tho
new building, which will be an ex
tension of th? Wofforci College Fitting
school, has begun. This will be a
very attractive and substantial struc
ture, two stories high, of brick, con
taining five class rooms and an as
sembly hall. The old building will be
used as a dormitory. The attendance
of the fitting schcol for the pict sev
eral sessions has been so decidedly
Increased as to necessitate more
room, and the college authorities wise
ly decided to have adequate facilities
furnished by erecting the new build
ing.
Cotton Warehouse Companies.
A charter was issued to the Dillon
Storage Company, which is capitalized
at $3,000. R. P. Stackhouse is presi
dent and Wade Stackhouse secretary
and treasurer. The purpose of the
company is to store cotton. Another
organization having the same, purpose
is the Orangeburg Warehouse Com
pany, capitalized at $6,000. This com
pany was chartered yesterday, the of
ficers being J. S. Harby, president, and
Robert Lide, secretary and treasurer.
Negro Baby's Death.
Aiken, Special.-A negro boy baby
was found dead here Tuesday morning.
It is thought that its death was caused
from ill treatment or criminal neglect.
It was a month old and had whooping
cough for about a week. Its mother
was arrested and tried about two
weeks ago for deserting her child in
Langley. She was cleared of the
charge and forced to bring the child
back to Aiken. A coroner's inquest
will be hold here, at which it will be
decided Whether the child came to its
death by- foul play or from p?turai
.causes.
SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN
Conditions For Past Week as Given
Out by the Department.
Columbia, S. C., July 18.-The week
??ct??f Monday, July 17th, waa slightly
cooler than norine!, The temperature
extremes were a maximum of 94 at Al
lendale on the 10th, and a minimum, of
65 at Greenville on the 11th and 14th.
The temperature conditions were fa
vorable. There were a number of
damaging high -winds, especially in
Greenville and neighboring counties,
accompanying thunder storms. There
;was an excess of cloudiness over the
entire State.
"With an exception of a deficiency in
the central counties -where there were
numerous showers but little rain, the
precipitation for the week was copious
and in many places excessive, ranging
?rom one to over five inches. In the
extreme western and places JIL the
northeastern counties lands were wash
ed and bottom lands flooded. The rain
fall was heavy along the coast and ex
cessive in Beauforrt county.
?rer the greater part of the State
the numerous showers and the cloudy
weather kept the ground too wet to
work, and delayed the laying-by of
field crops. Some fields of corn and
cotton have again become grassy and
ard in urgent need of cultivation.
Cotton grew very fast in all sections,
but did not fruit in proportion. The
plants have generally attained normal
growth and in many places have grown
too large, but, with the exception of
Hampton county, where the rains caus
ed the plants to tura yellow, they have
a good, healthy color, but are soft and
sappy. There are some complaints of
Shedding squares, and of black-root
and mst on 3andy lands, and of dam
age from insects, but on the whole a
general improvement is noted. The
crops need fair weather.
Some bottom land corn was damag
ed, otherwise there was a general im
provement in the condition of corn,
especially of late plantings. Tobacco
curing is general; late tobacco made
rapid growth, but the crop promises,
to he short June rice is receiving its
first cultivation. Gardens improved.
Peas doing well. Peaches rotting.
Pastures have improved. Cane grow
ing well. Watermelons generally plen
tiful and shipments heavy.
J. W. BAUER,
Section Director.
. A Big Se?fld?l Developing.
Columbia, Special.-The special in
yestiga?ng : committee appointed by
to board a train for "North Carolina,
of young Arthur Speegle, son of the
ex-supervisor, whose books are said
to show various forms of criminal ir
regularities, on a warrant sworn out
by Chairman Avery Patton, of the in
vestigating committee, charging young
Speegle with obtaining money under
false pretenses by fraudulently draw
ing more salary than the act entitled
him to, Governor Hey ward has receiv
ed a request from the committee for
requisition papers for the father, Mr.
J. E. Speegle, who is at Henderson
ville, where he is said to be in a dy
ing condition. The committee did not
mention any particular charges against
^I^JJ.^Speegle: The Governor was
merely infonncjgjjjiat t?i7Heqifisiiion
was desired irT connection with the':
investigation. Young Speegle has
been released on a bond of $1,000.
Half a dozen other arrests of promin
ent people are expected to follow at
Greenville this week.
A storm of local politics has been
raging about the supervisor's office for
some time. At the last election the ,
friends of the defeated condidate,
Walker, who was counted out in the
primary, and in whose behalf neither
the State executive committee nor the
courts would interfere, went into the
general election, after Senator Till
man had taken a hand in the matter
and advised them not tc do so, and
elected Walker on the independent
ticket. Speegle's friends claim that
the work of the committee is largely
inspired by politics and that he will
be abli! to satisfactorily explain every
thing i'.nd account for all moneys. In
the meantime the committee is pro
ceeding, to unearth things.
A liveryman called upon to explain
why he was given $1,145 for a certain
job, showed his books to prove that
he had received only $340. The com
mittee is looking for the $S05, and is
also trving to find out the wherefore
of an employe of the county receiving
pay, at $20 per month, for 19 months
in 1902 and 18 months in 1904. The
committee is also trying to find out
why 40 bushels of corn meal a month
was charged to the county alms house,
whereas the present supervisor only
uses 1G bushels at this place; why
Blacksmith J. Rowley Smith, son of a
well-koawn politician, was paid ?1,CS9
for 750 pairs of shackles and how it
was a county physician got in $2,000
worth of services to a gang of 20 men
in the course of a year.
Taken to Columbia.
Columbia, Special.-Sheriff Epper
son of Sumter county, arrived in Co
lumbia Sunday night with Jim Faylor,
a 19-year-old negro boy, in custody.
The ne?ro is charged with attempting
criminal a assault upon Miss Wilson
at the Betts lumber mill about three
miles from Sumter, and was brought
here and placed in the penitentiary
for safe keeping.
Expected Lynching Averted.
Columbia, Special.-Governor Hey
ward received a telegram from Sumter
stating that thcro was danger of a
lynching there, that the mob searching
for assailant of Miss Wilson, at Betts*
lumber mill, had captured a suspect,
who, it was satisfied, was the guilty
man and that the sheriff had gone to
the scene. A suspect named John Tay
lor was brought here for safe-keeping.
There was no lynching at Sumter, gs
this message received later shows,
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Mod.io.ska. it is said, will sell ber
ranch in California.
Sarah Bernhardt will make an Amer
ican tour next season.
Miss Ellen Stone recently returned to
lier missionary work in Eastern Eu
rope.
A crocodile eight feet long was re
cently captured near Cape Florida in a
fish-net, :
On a crow hunt held in Elgin, ?ind
Kane Counties, Ul., (he record was
1181 crows.
About forty varieties of fantastic fish
from Hie Bermudas are to be neut to
Hie New York Aquarium. ~^??>
The italian Goveninieiic" wur^psiirt"
$23.000,000 io improve navigation on i
the River Po, Italy, and its tributaries.
A mo verne nt to colonize a tract of
land three miles from the campus has
been started by the faculty of the Stan
ford University, at Talo Alto, Cal.
An Englishman says that the people
of the United States are nerve-racked,
bald-headed, gray-headed, eaturrhal
people, wiio do not know how to live.
Tho Jersey City authorities have fin
ally voted the Erie Railroad the privi
leges of using about a dozen streets
for its ???,000,00? terminal improve
ments.
President Flitler, of Columbia Uni
versity, announced details of a plan
for establishing a faculty of fine arts
with the co-operation of the National
Academy of Design.
Mrs. Sarah Ann Woolf, of Utah, who
has died at Hie age of ninety-one, ?eft
ten children, eighty-one grandchildren,
18!) great-grandchildren and twenty
three great-great-grandchildren.
For tlie first time in many months
work in the anthracite coal regions
was suspended during the first week
in July, when Ibo Lehigh Valley Com
pany shut down its eolleries for the
week.
lt Pays to Advertise.
When James Gordon Bennett the
elder was editor of the Herald, Rob
ert Bonner, publisher of the New York
Ledger, was struggling to build up its
circulation, and decided to try a little
advertising. He wrote an announce
ment consisting of eight words: "Read
Mrs. Southworth's New Story in the
Ledger," and sent it to the Herald
marked for "one line." Mr. Bonner's
handwriting was so badi that the
words were read in the Herald office
as "one page." Accordingly the line
was set up and repeated so as to oc
cupy one entire page. Mr. Bonner
was thunderstruck thc next morning.
He had not to his name money enough
In the bank to pay the bill. He rushed
excitedly over to the Herald office,
but was too late to do any good.
In a short time the results of the
page announcement began to be felt
Orders for the Ledger poured In until
the entire edition was exhausted and
another one was Tj..lnted. The suc
cess, of the Li?deer was then estab
A woodpecker last summer bored a
hole In a dead limb of an elm tree in
Augustus Bailey's yard at Gardiner,
Me. This year a pair of English spar
rows have utilized the place as an
abode and have built their nest in lt.
Wagons
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PERSONAL GOSSIP:
Dr. A. V V. Raymond is pr?sident
of Union College.
The Pone receives between 22,000
to 20,000 fetters every- day. . :|?
Maxim Gorky is said to ha ve, made'
?125,000 in the publishing business.
Sawn Morosoff. the Russian "wool
king," is dead, aged only forty-four
years.
Alexander Beaubien. the first white
child born in Chicago, is now eighty
three years old.
Dr. England, of Moulton. Jsonlh Lin
colnshire, still wears a pair of shooting
boots.thirty years old.
I!. B. De. a fcill-blooded Brahmin of
high--degree," ?ri;~New H-avcn-.-Conn.
to study tobacco raising. -
The first volume of the unpublished
writings of the late Theodore Momm
sen has been prepared for publication.
Charles M. Bailey, of Baileyville,
Me., has made from $5,000,000 to $10,
000,000 as a manufacturer of oilcloth.
Cy Perkins, the New Hampshire mil
lionaire, who died the other day, never
drove anything swifter thau a pair of
steers.
No modern occupant of a throne has
traveled more frequently abroad .?ince
his accession than Prince Ferdinand of
Bulgaria.
Rastamji Manekji. a native of Bom
bay, India, is a visitor in New York,
and complains of the heat he is com
pelled to endure there.
? Dr. Ludwig Boltzmann. Hie eminent
mathematical physicist, of Leipzig, will
lecture before the summer school of
the University of California this year.
The bouse in which .\arriet Beecher
Stowe lived for a number of years lu
Hartford is now being torn down to
make room for the advancing factories.
Pope Pius X. recently gave audience
to a poor man living at Tivoli, near
Home, who personally presented the
Pon ti ff with a bundi of asparagus of
bis own growing.
Asking Advice.
The sheriff of Santa Cruz county,
Ariz., has received the following let
ter from one of his constituents:
"Mr. Charles Fowler-Dear Sir: I
thought I would write you a few lines
to ask you a few words, and I don't '
want to do anything until I hear from
you. My stepfather is chussing (prob
ably chasing or cussing) my mother
all the time, and she don't want him
around here any more and she wants
him to leave hut he won't go. He is
just chussing her all the time and
once he was going to hit her with a
rock hut I made him lay it down. She
is washing all the time and trying to
do right with him and I am going to
stop this. I am asking you what I
will do and be sure and tell me what
If I would shut (shoot) him . I think
I would he in the right because I don't -
care for him and if I do kill him I
w?Tshow you that I was right Well,
I will close for this time. Be sure : .
np A writ? and' tell me what to do^' .Soi
met wini, c ?fu^unu. a?<?w*.*%Mftvj vTi?iv
digging up a tree. A blow from his
ax cut a root so deeply that the strain
caused it to give way and th<SMnd of
the severed root struck Mr. Bridges
on the jaw, cutting an ugly gash.
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