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Scraps and .facts.
.? Charters were filed at Austin, Texas,
last Friday, for the Houston Oil
company, with a capitalization of $30,000,000,
and the Kirby Lumber company,
capitalized at $10,000,000. The
first named has been organized to handle
oil produced In the Texas field and
is primarily Intended as a competitor
of the Standard Oil company, first In
Texas and afterward in the domestic
and export trade. Its articles embrace
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pi uvlaiun.i iui uniimg iouuh, p>vwrv..
ing for and marketing: oil, operating
pipe lines and steamships. The lumber
company will take over the holdings of
John H. Kirby, including more than
1,000,000 acres, embracing the larger
part of the standing timber in East
Texas.
? Says a Richmond dispatch of the
4th instant: Mrs. Matthew Gilmore,
who, as a girl, performed the daring
- deed of riding through the federal lines
and conveying to Colonel John S. Mosby
information that enabled mm to
save the Southern army from defeat,
died suddenly tonight. She was ill only
10 minutes. Mrs. Gilmore was a daughter
of the late Rev. Abraham David
Pollock, of Fauquier county. During
the war, when a mere girl, she rode
alone through the federal lines and conveyed
to Colonel John S. Mosby the
news that the enemy was going to
make an attack upon the Confederates.
It turned out that this timely warning
saved the Southern army from defeat.
On her mother's side Mrs. Gilmore was
descended from the Lees and the
Washingtons.
? Dr. William Sutherland, health officer
of Bolllvar county. Miss., on last
Friday gave out the following report
on charbon, which has appeared in his
county: "Anthrax appeared in this
community about three weeks ago in
virulent form and is causing wholesale
destruction of muies, horses and swine.
I have heard of only one case in man,
but fear its effects on the people before
it runs its course. The atmosphere is
full of the stench from dead animals.
They die so fast they cannot be buried
or burnt, and it is exceedingly difficult
to get men to undertake the job. The
infected district is from above Gunnison,
near Duson on the north to Bollivar
and Benoit on the south and east
to Bogue Phalia. I nver knew horseflies
so numerous and they are the
cause of the rapid dissemination of the
disease. House flies and mosquitoes
are also supposed to aid its spread. Dr.
Roberts, of the experiment station,
came here at my call, but can offer no
remedy except the injection of the serum.
I have without authority, put
this section in quarantine as to animals."
Senator Moore, of Bolivar county.
confirms the stories sent out about
charbon and says 90 per cent, of the
stock in the infected district is dead.
? Philadelphia Times: Austria is the
centre for the talk about a Pan-European
alliance against America. The
alarm wa^i first sounded by the Austrian
foreign minister, Count Goiuchowski,
and it is not surprising that
hints of the same sort emanate from
that neighborhood. The Vienna correspondent
of the London Times considers
the matter of so much importance
that he sends his journal an article
written to this text. While he thinks
that the realization of such a general
boycott against America is quite improbable
he says it is worth while to note
the fact that the idea becomes increasingly
popular in commercial circles in
central and eastern Europe. It does
appear unlikely that such a combination
could be effected. But whether it
could be or not is not the question that
nhmiiH muse nnxietv to the American
people. The very fact that it is suggested
and that single nations are
ready to arm themselves against the
competition of the United States ought
to be enough to put us on guard. A
people with whom other governments
are seeking grounds for dispute, can
ill-afford to parade up and down the
hallway of international politics with a
chip on their shoulders. Urbanity and
a friendly disposition to go half way
in all matters of trade should mark our
foreign policy everywhere.
? Details of the alleged offense of
Capt. A. S. Rowan, the burning of a
Filipino town for which he is to undergo
Investigation, have been received
at Leavenworth, Kansas, in a letter
from Private John E. Watson, Nineteenth
infantry, dated Jaqua, Bohul Island,
May 19. The letter says: "A native
spy came into the post and walked
over to Captain Rowan's tent and looked
in and found it empty. But when
he started to go away he saw Corporal
Daly standing a few yards away. The
spy took Corporal Daly for the captain
and walking up to him gave the
corporal a folded note. As Daly took
the note to read the spy drew out a
dagger and stabbed him to death. The
Insurgents had planned to rush in and
cut the rest of us down during the confusion
that would follow the captain's
death, but we cooly fell in under arms
and formed a skirmish line around the
post. The insurgents thought they had
gotten Captain Rowan, so when the
skirmish line advanced they met about
100 men in the bush. About 50 of the
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cucmj nac mucu aim auuui ?. uvavu
were taken prisoners who were killed
while tryin?- to escape. The men
caught the spy who murdered Daly.
They would have tortured him to death
but some men of cooler heads than the
others shot the wretch In the head.
The town was burned and a few Filipinos
killed."
? This interesting story of a wealthy
Negro is told in the Reidsville, N. C.,
correspondence of the Raleigh Post:
"Probably the wealthiest colored man
in America is a guest of his children
in Reidsville. He was born a slave in
Henry county, Virginia. 64 years ago.
By ownership his name would be Edward
Abingdon: but, like many others
of his race, he preferred that of his
slave father and took the name of Edward
Dillard?'Dr. Dillard,' as his
friends style him. he having been a
successful druggist in Chicago for several
years. He made his escape from
slavery in 1863 and made his way to
Pittsburg, where he made $2.50 a day
shoveling pig iron, and lived on 30
cents a day until he saved up $1,400,
when he bought a horse and cart and
began peddling coal, working in the
day and studying at night. He went to
Chicago, and opened a drug store. He
employed a capable drug clerk, whose
duties were to wait on customers and
teach the proprietor the druggist's art.
His establishment was burned in the
great Chicago fire, but he was saved
from the loss and made a little better
off by an Insurance policy of $10,000. He
again opened up in the drug business,
but soon sold out for $22,000 cash. He
J then went to Australia and embarked |
in the cattle business. In the meantime
he had purchased, years before, a piece
of suburban real estate, then near, but
now in the heart of the city of Chicago,
and for which he recently refused
more than $200,000. He also owns a
valuable estate in Australia. The other
day he deposited with a Danville bank
two drafts on the Melbourne (Australia)
bank, for $37,000. When he took
his departure more than 37 years ago,
he left behind him a son and daughter,
and his mission to this country was to
find them. They had not heard from
him for years. He found both living in
Reidsville, and they are to receive a
goodly share of his fortune. 'Dr.' Dillard
says he will not return to Australia,
but will dispose of his holdings
there and henceforth live in his native
state. He is an unassuming and wellmannered
colored man, and speaks of
his old owners and their relatives with
veneration, as 'marster' or 'mistress.'
He says that the greatest fault of his
race is that they do not know the value
of a dollar."
She ||orkriUc (Enquirer.
YORK VILLE, S. C.?
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1901.
Referring to our comment on a red
ink advertisement The Yorkville Enquirer
says:
"The idea that a bright colored red
ink advertisement could lend to the effect
of an advertisement may appear
absurd enough; but nevertheless it is a
fact that this very thing has made itself
the subject of a ten line editorial
paragraph in The Journal. If then the
editor of The Journal has been so perceptibly
Influenced by such a simple expedient,
how much more are the less
callous readers of The Press and Banner
likely to have been affected."
The argument is ill founded. The red
advertisement did not call forth our
paragraph, but the boost given it by
the Union Times. The red advertisement
itself provoked only a smile at rural
and provincial newspaper ideas.
Thanks for "callous."?Spartanburg
Journal.
With The Journal this seems to be a
case of can't or wont see the point. If
the red ink advertisement elicited the
boost of the Union Times and the boost
of the Union Times provoked the Journal's
smile, then it logically follows
that The Journal's smile is traceable
back to the red ink advertisement, and
it is not impossible that the business
office of the Abbeville Press and Banner
has received one or more requests
for copies of the paper under discussion.
If so, this fact, along with the
controversy of The Times, The Journal
and The Enquirer, is to be charged
up as among the results of the advertiser's
notion. There was no Intention of
being offensive in the use of the word
"callous."
A correspondent of the Spartanburg
Journal writes that paper as follows:
It has been a long time since the
Fourth of July in Spartanburg was so
generally observed and by recreations
so varied in character. The street railways
must have done a tremendous
business, the cigar trade must have
been unusually good; boys and girls
did a lot of courting, from the way
they were paired off, especially around
the suburbs of the mill towns under
the shade trees. In fact they were having
a good time generally, so it seemed
to one just taking in the situation in
common.
The main feature of the day was in
the grove on Kennedy street, where
seats were arranged and a stand erected
for the speaker, Senator John L.
MCL,aurin. XNODoay was aDusea; not.
one time did he use the name of his enemies,
but stated his views on the issues
of the day that he regarded of
more importance than personal abuse.
I had heard that McLaurin was a
radical, so gave him my undivided attention
that I might catch some expression
that would be evidence or convincing.
I must candidly confess that
had I never heard such a charge I
should naver have thought of such a
thing by his speech; but I am convinced
of one thing, and that is, that
his views and policy are in advance of
the ordinary mind and will not be appreciated
just now as they should "be
by the people most affected thereby.
Education along the line of political
economy is a thing greatly needed, and
such speeches as McLaurin's ought to
and will get the people to thinking and
acting for themselves.
I am no candidate for office?never
was and never expect to be?so am not
afraid to express myself. I do oelieve
there are just lots men among us that
are afraid to come out boldly for or
against a measure until they know how
it will strike the majority?afraid they
will lose a vote. How we do need
statesmen Instead of coat-tall swingers
and mud-slingers!
All this is very sensible and it indicates
that the writer is a man of intelligence:
but in our view he is worrying
himself unnecessarily. We have seen
the time when we feared that the general
public did not know as much as it
ought to know about such matters, and
afterward been very much gratified to
leurn that our fears were unfounded.
The people of this state are not as
hnflrwnrrt as mnnv of our better read
people seem to think, and really do
think. They are fully capable of taking
In and considering Senator McLaurin's
views at their full value and
in putting a proper estimate upon Senator
McLaurin himself.
"Do not allow a man to be placed
upon any committee, precinct, county,
state or national, unless he Is a believer
in the Kansas City platform. If a man
opposed to the Kansas City platform
is sent as a delegate to any convention,
he should be bound by instructions and
should have associated with him a sufficient
majority who are sound on the
platform. If a man objects to instructions
leave him at home; no Democratic
delegate will object to an expression
from the voters whom he seeks to represent.?W.
J. Bryan.
From the foregoing it would appear
that Mr. Bryan sometimes writes without
taking into consideration a possibility
that his readers might attempt to
do a little analyzing on their own account.
"If a man objects to instructions,
leave him at home." That
sounds very well. If Mr. Bryan means
"Instructions" from the rank and file
of the party, we agree with him; but he
must not expect the rank and file to
take "instructions" from an individual.
Yet he is evidently presuming on that
very thing, when he gives Instructions
himself. The rank and file had little to
do with the making of the Kansas City
platform. Mr. Bryan made It for the
most part. There has not since been
much indication that the rank and file
endorses that platform. There is little
reason to believe that this platform
gets general endorsement now. Not
WlUlHlOIlUJUg, IIUncYcl, nc i?
with all the arbitrary assumption of an
autocrat that whether we believe in the
Kansas City platform or not [we are
not even assumed to have the right to
disbelieve] we must see to it that no
man who is not a believer must be chosen
to any representative position. We
must set up before men of honest, intelligent
conviction, hypocritical ignoramuses
who might be willing to pledge
themselves to anything in order to secure
preferment. Out with such stuff!
The time has been when we believed it
impossible that Mr. Bryan could say or
do anything that savored of the demagogue;
but no one else would have effrontry
to tell people to act without
knowing, thinking or approving. For
those who approve it, the Kansas City
platform is all right; but from our understanding
of that instrument, we
think that unless there are some very
material amendments, the Democratic
party may as well disband. It will
certainly never get another commission
to run the government because a
majority of the people of this country
have too much sense.
Dr. j. Win. Stokes.
Thousands of people all over South
Carolina who were well enough acquainted
with the 4ate Dr. J. William
Stokes to appreciate his character as a
man, citizen and patriot, realize that
in the untimely death of this gentleman,
South Carolina has suffered a distinct
loss that will be more or less severely
felt.
It cannot be said with truth that Dr.
Stokes was what is known as a brilliant
man; but he was pure, able and patriotic,
and the one great aim. of his life
was to merit the love and esteem of his
fellow citizens of South Carolina by
conferring upon them practical benefits
that would add to their happiness. He
thought of this more than he did of
his own advancement or personal advantage.
Coming into politics during an era
of prejudice and abuse, the like of
which had never been known in this
state before, and which, it is hoped,
will never be known again, Dr. Stokes
suffered severely at the hands of smallsouled
scribblers, who, by silly apologies
for ridicule, succeeded in bringing
him under the contempt of many of the
unthinking people of the state. But '
notwithstanding all the things with
whirh he had to contend. Dr. Stokes
accomplished much in his comparatively
short public career, and left in the
hearts of his people the foundation of a
monument that will grow taller and
taller as his true character and abilities
are better understood and appreclatated.
It is a conceded fact that while Dr.
Stokes had much opposition in his own !
district and at his own home on his
first election, this opposition had long i
since disappeared, and that there was
every reason to believe that had his <
life been spared he would have contin- ]
ued to represent his people in the halls i
of congress for many years to come. '
It was because he measured up to all I
the requirements of a thoroughly efficient
representative that Dr. Stokes i
won the general good opinion of his I
people, and it was through the practi- i
cal nature of his patriotism that he i
won claims to the gratitude of the peo- l
pie of the whole state. His most nota- i
ble achievement probably, was his sue- I
cess in securing free delivery of mail 1
along star routes in South Carolina, a 1
convenience and benefit that is as yet 1
enjoyed by no other state in the union, i
The doctor was also an earnest and 1
persistent worker along with others In I
behalf of rural free delivery; but the <
free delivery along star routes is an 1
achievement, the credit of which be- '
longs to him alone. '
In addition to his character as a pa- '
triot and statesman, Dr. Stokes was an '
earnest, hard working, practical Christ- I
ian. He lived his profession and his re- !
liglon had the sincere respect of all 1
who knew him.
As we have previously remarked, in <
the death of Dr. Stokes, South Carolina
has lost a great and good man?a man ,
who may well be taken as a model by ,
which other public men should be ;
measured. (
MERE-MENTION. .
England has arranged to add three 1
immense battleships and six new cruls- 1
ers to her navy President and Mrs. >
McKinley left Washington Friday for a <
short visit to their home at Canton <
There were 30 deaths from heat In '
Washington during the first three days '
of July Comptroller Dawes, of the !
treasury department, has tendered his 1
resignation in order to enter the Illinois 1
senatorial contest in a Fourtn 01 '
July speech at Chicago last Thursday,
Eugene V. Debs denounced the supreme
court of the United States as the tool
of unscrupulous capitalists Richmond
Pearson Hobson says he expects
to live to see tne day when the Fourth
of July will be celebrated by all the
nations of the earth Mrs. Carrie
Nation is still smashing saloons out in
Kansas The navy department has
sent two recruiting parties south to
drum up recruits for the navy. The recruiting
of farmer boys from the west
last year has resulted so satisfactorily
that the navy department is desirous
of continuing work in the same direction
General Wood is much better,
but his condition continues serious.
President McKinley has issued a
proclamation opening up certain government
lands in Oklahoma for settlement
on August 0. Thousands of people
surround the borders of the land
awaiting the day of opening to join in
the rush for claims Pierre Lorilard
died in New York Sunday. He is reputed
to have possesed a fortune of
$25,000,000 A number of Japanese t
warships will be present, says a Yoka- 1
hama, Japan, cable, in addition to the f
four American warships under Rear \
Admiral Rodgers, at the unveiling July c
14, at Kurlhama, of the monument to \
commemorate the landing there of ?
Commodore Perry, July 14, 1853 1
The financial secretary of the London t
war office, Lord Stanley, In the house g
of commons last Monday, In an answer r
to a question, gave the total number f
of Boers killed, wounded or made pris- d
oners, from the active commands re- 1
cently, as follows: March, 1,472; April, s
2,434; * May, 2,640; June, incomplete, c
1,538 A temperature of 108 degrees 1
is reported from Maryville, Kansas, c
This record was made on Monday 11
The official reports to the bureau of t
vital statistics of death from heat for z
the week ending July 6, show that the t
actual numbers for five, burroughs of a
greater New York was 989 James t
G. Stone, consul general at Cape Town, a
has resigned because the salary of his s
office was insufficient for his support. \
SOUTH CAROLINA NE\*\/ t
Death of Dr. J. Win. Stokes. A, C
Dr. J. Wm. Stokes, representative In c
congress from the seventh district, died g
at his home near Orangeburg last Sat- 1
urday morning, at 5 o'clock, after a e
long illness. t
Delegate* to Mining Congress. '
Governor McSwe'eney has received 1
several requests to appoint delegates to r
the International Mining association,
which meets at Boise City, Idaho, July
23 to 25. The promoters of the conven- c
tlon ask for 30 delegates to be appoint- r
ed. Governor McSweeney has announc- r
ed the names of some who are authorized
to represent the state, and oth- r
er names will be added as they are 8
suggested to the governor by parties interested.
Those already named are
Alonzo Her, of Union; Dr. James Mcintosh,
Col. Jos. Y. Culbreath and O. M. r
Jamison, of Newberry; W. B. Smith 8
Whaley and Colonel Wilie Jones, of 1
Columbia; Augustiii T. Smythe, of
Charleston; Colonel John B. Cleveland, 1
Mayor A. B. Calvert and Hon. V. C.
West, of Spartanburg; Major Jas. F. r
Hart, Yorkville; Colonel John L. Black,
Blacksburg; and Mr. A. C. Latimer, of
Belton. /
The Late Joseph LeConte. / ^
Columbia correspondence News and ^
Courier: Prof. Joseph LeConte, whose t
death was announced in The Sunday t
News, was one of the most distinguish- i
ed scientists of America. From 1856 to (
1869 he was a professor at the South 1
Carolina college, and in 1869 he left ^
here to go to California, where he has r
been engaged in the great university I
since that time. He was succeeded at ii
the South Carolina college by Dr. Jas. *
Woodrow. Dr. LeConte and Dr. Wood- 1<
row, perhaps the two greatest profes- s
sors of science who have labored in this p
state, were close personal friends and t
admirers of each other. During the fl
war Dr. LeConte was in charge of the v
Confederate laboratories at the Fair o
grounds here, and when he left here for I
other work he was succeeded by Dr. B
James Woodrow. Dr. LeConte has vis- t
ited South Carolina often in recent f
years and came hefe especially to see 1
his daughter, Mrs. R. Means Davis, e
Mrs. Davis went out to California last n
month to visit her parents and to at- s
tend a wedding in the family, and was a
near her distinguished father at the a
time of his death. b
Still MlarepreaentInN; McLanrln.
-Greenville News, Thursday: Referring
to the story that he had opposed c
the appropriation for the Charleston
exposition on the ground that that the
passage of the hill would have added ^
too largely to the prestige of Senator '
Tillman, Senator McLaurin denounced
the report as an infamous lie. He said: .
"I never heard the story before; but
anyone who makes that statement utters
an infamous lie." It was reported
that he consulted Speaker Henderson ^
and Senator Hanna with a view of defeating
the appropriation. "I never
mentioned it to Senator Hanna, except
to ask him to help it through. It is
true I was not prominently identified
tvlth the original effort to have the appropriation
passed. Senator Tillman, ^
as a member of the committee on apP
propriations, Introduced the bill the ^
first day of the session and took charge
Df it in the senate. Mr. Latimer was
c
Its recognized sponsor In the house, enl
Congressman Elliott, in whose district .
Charleston is, was allowed to have but
?
little to do with the measure in the
(louse. But the statement that I opposed
the appropriation or wanted to
see it fail, or endeavored to secure its ^
- ? 11
failure, is untrue in every senae m mc
word."
Uolnmbia and Charleston TUeri.
si
Columbia special of July 6 to Green- j,
k'llle News: Governor McSweeney to- ^
3ay in speaking about the dispensary p
situation in Charleston and the action h
>f the state board o^directors, said that
Chairman Williams had called on him u
ind that the governor and the board
were in thorough accord as to what C)
was to be done. The governor, talking f(
ibout Columbia blind tigers, said in ef- ^
feet: "If the police force of the city Q1
Joes not make an effort to stop the i'- tj
icit sale of whisky the profits from Co- jc
lumbla will be taken away and an 8,
imount sufficient to employ contables t,
to enforce the law will be used. The r|
emainder will be turned over to the Q]
county and the city will get nothing."
rhe governor thinks the police here a *e ^
lot doing their duty. The Charleston ^
police make raids constantly and, al- n
:hough it has been charged that they
were fake raids, that remains to be tj
shown. The policemen in Columbia, ir
However, pay no attention to this mat- w
ter at all and unless more activity is ^
Jlsplayeci it may De tnat tne cny win r(
ose all of Its profits. The whole mat- r}
ler will come up again at a meeting of B
the state board of directors on the 16th w
nstant. It is said that then some t(
startling revelations will be made as to a
Charleston and the constabularies' t(
Jealings with the blind tigers. It Is intlmated
that the constables are openly tj
said by blind tigers and that proof can
ue produced. It is not charged that t?
inythlng of the kind is done in Colum- y
>ia, though a very thorough investiga- ^
ion is to be made all around. But the p(
>oard and the governor have the power B
:o withhold profits and that fact is par- tj
icularly interesting just now. hi
I'o Ite-OrKnnizc the Alliance. n
Columbia State, Monday: The timeltl
'or the annual meeting of the state Al-' 01
lance is rapidly drawing near, and
rom present indications it seems that
dgorous efforts are to be made to thor>ughly
rejuvenate the Noble Order
vhich has figured quite prominently in
South Carolina affairs in recent years.
Che meeting is to be held in Colum>la
as usual, and the sessions will berin
on the fourth Wednesday in this
nonth?the 24th instant. Owing to thei
act that the state capitol is now unlergolng
remodeling, the hall of the
louse cannot be used as usual, and the
ession will be held either in the city
ouncil chamber or in the county court
louse. Senator Alexander, of Oconee
ounty, Is now tne president or tne ailance,
Railroad Commissioner Wilborn
teing president of the national organlation.
There will be several matters
o be considered this year. One will be
i. proposition to proceed at once with a
horough reorganization of the sub.lliances.
To this end it is proposed to
elect a wide-awake state organizer,
vho will be paid a good salary and who
vf 11 be required to give his whole time
o the work. It is also proposed to
hoose earnest congressional district
irganlzers. The salary of the state organizer
will be paid from the funds on
land belonging to the State Alliance
exchange, it is said. The farmers of
he state have been gradually losing inerest
in the Alliance organization,
irobabiy because class politics have
lot been much in evidence in the past
ew years, and at present many of the
uballiances are practically dead. Some
if the members think that the Alliance
un on basic principles can in this pelod
be of Incalculable benefit to the
arming classes, and they wish to see it
evived. It is not unlikely that some
iction will be taken at this meeting
ooking to the good roads movement.
Apropos to the coming meeting it may
>e said that as yet no date for the anlual
encampment at Tlrzah has been
ettled upon. It will, however, take
dace sometime in August, and the
Clemson faculty's farmers' institute
vill, as last year, be one of the chief
eatures of the gathering. Much good
esulted from last year's Institute.
Congressman Talbert and others will be
nvited to deliver addresses.
Inother Woman's Baby.
Greenville News, Tuesday: Mrs. L.
V. Harris, of Fairfield, Anderson couny,
had a peculiar experience aboard
he southbound fast mail Sunday
norning. Shortly after the train left
Charlotte, a strange woman asked her
o care for her baby a few minutes,
'he woman never returned. Mrs. Har1s
had been on a visit to relatives in
lock Hill and was on her return home
n Anderson county. She said to a
lews reporter that after leaving Charatte
about 11 o'clock Saturday night
he was rather tired and sleepy and
iaid little attention to who was on the
rain. She noticed, however, as she
[rst took her seat, a handsome young
/oman with a small baby in her arms,
ccupying a seat Just in the rear of her.
lefore the train had gone very far,
frs. Harris said that this woman came
o her and asked her to watch her baby
or a few minutes until she returned,
'his, Mrs. Harris very kindly consentd
to do, thinking, of course, the wonan
would return for the child in a
hort time. The baby was then asleep
nd was not noticed until it awoke
bout half an hour afterwards and
egan crying. Mrs. Harris quieted the
hild and waited patiently for the reurn
of the woman who had left the
aby in her charge. Upon reaching
ireenville Mrs. Harris says that the
.'Oman had not yet put in her appearnce.
She took the baby in her arms
ogether with a grip that had been left
n the seat and got off the train to
pend the remainder of the night here,
efore leaving for her home on the 9.40
!. and G. train. She was met at the
epot by her husband, who had come
ver from Anderson the afternoon beare.
Mr. Harris notified the policernn
of the lost baby. He said Sunday
lorning Just before leaving the city
hat he had a number of applicants
ar the child, but that he didn't care to
ive him up. The little fellow was
bout a year old, with brown eyes,
imples in his cheeks and apparently
ossessed of a very sweet disposition,
'he valise which Mrs. Harris brought
rom the train with her was found to
ontain a number of fine baby dresses,
milk bottle and everything necessary
ar a baby's toilet,
harleston's Striking Machinists.
News and Courier, Monday: Aside
pom the clashes which have occurred
etween the striking machinists and
tie new men brought here to work in
tie Southern Railway shops there has
een much interest on the part of outIders
to know just how the strikers
ave been able to keep in touch with
tie movements of the railroad comany.
In this connection many stories
ave been told of tlie ease with which
le strikers have learned of the nonnionists'
movements. Every special
-ain sent to Charleston has had its
iming known to the strikers long be>re
it ever crossed the state line. The
ead men of the order are kept thorughly
posted on all labor matters and
ley lose no time in notifying the
>cal machinists whenever a train
tarts in this direction. The regular
alns coming in over the Southern
lilway are met by squads of strikers
r their friends, who stand around and
irefully scrutinize the face of every
lale passenger who alights. The other
ay the railroad appealed to a city
lagistrate for authority by which
lese people could be kept away from
le station. The magistrate refused to
iterfere and gave as his reason that it
as a matter for the police. The police
epartment has jurisdiction at all railiad
stations and complaints from the
lilroad should be acted on by Chief
oyle. The strikers deny that they
ent out merely because they were told
) do so and when they had no grievnce
against the company. They con
;nd that the grievance has been a big
ling and they acted in justice to
lemselves when they quit. A case in
oint, however, will be a matter of invest.
One machinist, a member of the
nion, said before the strike was orered
to take place that he did not exect
to go out, as he had no grievance,
[e said that his salary was as high as
lat of the men In the shops who held
Igher positions and he had absolutely
9 reason for quitting. He said he
lought he would stick to his post. The
ther men told him that unless he
struck he would not be allowed to return
to the shop with them, provided
they came out victorious from the
fight. They said furthermore, that In
the event of winning, they would go on
another strike If he was permitted to
return to the shops with them. In view
of all this the machinist struck. The
railroad has announced in positive
terms that the strikers will not be allowed
to return and the man who did
not want to strike, but who was forced
to, is out of a Job. Another story talked
of yesterday concerned the effort
made by the railroad to get in a number
of machinists unknown to the
strikers. It was said that two machinists
had been sent here, dressed In the
regulation "dude" outfit. They moved
from the train with the unconcern of
English tourists, but the strikers "copned"
them out. The ruse did not fool
the strikers, and they thought it a clever
piece of work on their part.
ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS.
Work on the Water* Hill?The Road
Prom Rock Hill to the Bridge?
Other Notes.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Rock Hill, July 8.?The roller mill in
this city, which has been doing a fine
business, has closed down for a week or
ten days in order to repair machinery.
Several of the enterprises in this
town paid very handsome dividends
during the present month. Among
them were the Arcade and Manchester
cotton mills each of which paid a semiannual
dividend of 4 per cent.
A congregational meeting will be
held at the Presbyterian church next
Sunday, to call a pastor. Your correspondent
has had no intimation as to
who would receive the invitation.
Mrs. J. B. Ferguson and Mrs. T. B.
Reid are both sick at their homes near
Edgmoor.
The rock crusher recently purchased
by the county, is at work near the Waters
hill stockade. The machine seems
to be doing very fine work, and the
convicts are now engaged in blading
the broken rock on the bed which has
been thrown up for a distance of nearly
a mile and a half. The force of the
stockade was augmented today by the
addition of two law-breakers who were
sent there by Mayor Waters for 30 days
each. Ernest Massey, colored, one of
the convicts, is an old olTender and
was sent up for very indecent behavior
on the streets. He ought to have been
given a year, and would have been if
the mayor had had the authority to
send him up for that length of time.
W. L. Merritt, white, the other convict,
was sentenced for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct. A warrant was
also lodged against him in Magistrate
Beckham's court, the charge in this
case being driving another man's horse
without permission. It seems that he
made a trip to the North Carolina blind
tigers, and stole the horse for that purpose.
At a meeting of the county commissioners
to be held in this city on Thurs
day, of this week, it is reported that an
effort will be made to change the proposed
new road from Rock Hill to the
river bridge, via the state farm, and >
thence direct to the river, to a route '
that will run from the old Berry house
in Oakland, via. the Matthews mill
pond to Dutchman creek, and thence
by the old Neely's ferry road to the
river. Such a change would be a mistake,
as your correspondent believes
the commissioners will conclude after
Tiding over the grounds, and examining
the conditions. The commissioners
are advised to go slow in this matter
of changing the road, (if any road is to
be built). There is something back of 1
this which the commissioners will un- '
derstand later on.
Two young white men by name, Walter
and Fred Hansom, were before
Magistrate Beckham today, charged
with killing and carrying off three 1
chickens belonging to an old neighbor. :
They were given $5 or 20 days on the 1
chaingang for the annoyance. They '
will appeal to the higher court. 1
The Musical club of this city, gave a 1
royal reception to a number of their 1
friends at the home of Mrs. B. M. Fewell,
in this city, on last Friday night. 1
It was an affair of much eclat, but it [
was nevertheless, homelike in the hospitality
so lavishly dispensed.
Now and then, your correspondent '
meets a farmer who says that his farm
prospects have Improved considerably,
but usually the cry is that there has
been no change in the unfavorable condition.
The extremely hot weather following
the protracted rains, has had a
bad effect. Much vegetation has been
scalded and there will not be much
outcome, it is feared.
Trade conditions are as satisfactory
as usual at this time of the year in this
city. The merchants are not busy.
They are doing a fairly satisfactory
business, however.
There were no Fourth of July casualties,
but the North Carolina whisky
dealers had a fine trade from this section,
and the glorious Fourth was made
less glorious in many instances, by the
too free use of the ardent.
Killed By a Cannon.?Mrs. Emma
Ryley, 57 years old, was instantly killed
yesterday afternoon while sitting in
her room on the third floor of 122 Morris
avenue, Newark, superintending the
packing of a trunk which she was going
to take to Europe tomorrow. A
slug of lead, weighing three or four
ounces and of irregular shape, tore :
through the inside blind of the open
window and after passing through her
head, buried itself in the wall. Mrs.
Ryley's daughters, Clara and Fannie,
were in the room, and another of her
six daughters was in an adjoining
room.
The mother was sitting on a low
bench near the window, darning a
stocking when the missile crashed
through her head. The daughters
screamed and a physician was called
in. ine ponce learneu inui luur uuyo ?
had been tiring a cannon at the corner .
of Bank street and Morris avenue, and 1
that Josepn Ruduman, 17 years old, i
was the owner of the cannon. They J
found the cannon in the yard of the jj
house occupied by Rudmann's father,
John B. Rudmann, at 387 Bank street, 8
and took it to police headquarters. It 1
was 18 inches long with a calibre of i
one and a half inches. The slug was a
piece of lead pipe pounded together.
A general alarm was sent out early
in the afternoon for tfie arrest of Rud- (
mann and his companions and all four .
were locked up last night and paroled
until this morning.?New York Sun, 1
5th. ?
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Jas. F. Hart, Atty. at Law?Gives notice
of sale under chattel mortgage,
of one dynamo, now located in the
Sutro mill building. Sale takes place
at the mill on July 20th.
F. P. Venable, President?Gives Information
of interest in regard to the
University .of North Carolina. The
fall term begins September 9, next.
VY . D. OIIIIIII /IgCIIV?MMCO IIUUVC VI
the sale of a lot of cotton saved from
. a Are at Clover. The sale will take
place on Tuesday, the l6th.
J. Q. Wray?Telis about his stock of
white goods, which he is now offering
at and below New York cost. . .
J. F. Pursley, Clover?Tells you something
about groceries, and says that
at his store you will find a good variety
of choice edibles at the right
prices.
J. J. Keller & Co.?Tell their friends of
Ruchter's paints, hardware, tools,
building supplies, screen doors and
undertaking supplies.
Riddle & Carroll?Offer for 10 days to
sell Middleton's choice Ceylon tea in
pound boxes at 75 cents a pound, and
say that this tea is usually sold at
$1 a pound.
H. C. Strauss & Co.?Talk to their gentlemen
friends about being well dressed,
and invite them to come and see
them about being well dressed at. a *
low cost.
James M. Starr & Co.?Tell of the good
qualities of velvet talcum powder,
and say It is a perfect sanitary powder.
They have other talcum and
toilet powders.
John B. Williams?Talks about his ci-'
gars and tobacco and names over the
different brands which he has in his
stock.
RESOLUTIONS.
After completing their month's work
last Saturday the teachers in attendance
on the summer school held a special
meeting and unanimously adopted
the following resolutions: ,
1. That our thanks as members of
the summer school of York "cdunty;1
for the session of 1901 are due our pre-'
ceptors for their patient and skillful in-,
struction.
i. That it is our ardent wish and request
that the same corps of teachers,
if available, be alloted to those of us
who attend next session. , . ..
3. That we tender our sincere and
heartfelt sympathy to Prof. J. W.' Thomson;
and while we would not intrude
upon the sanplty of his grief, we
would beseech for him the consolation
nf tho nivlno nnmfnrt^r
the: confederate monument.
Since the publication of the list last
Wednesday, Captain W. B. Moore, of
the Jasper Light Infantry, reports the
following additional subscriptions to
tne York County Confederate monument
fund:
J. S. Brice * 25 00
Robert Witherspoon 2 00 :
John Caldwell 1 00
T. J. Bell, Savannah 1 00
John F. Gordon 5 00
H. Fay Gaffney, Gaffney.I 00
Up to this time Captain Moore is very
well pleased with the manner in which
people are meeting the call to erect a
monument to the Confederate soldiers
of York county. The undertaking has
met with unanimous approval in all
parts of the county and so soon as all
the different committees get down to
steady work, it is expected that subscriptions
will begin to come in with
sufficient volume to make short work
of the task.
J * ' 'f> ^ "
a suit against the woodmen.
A damage suit that promises to be interesting
has been instituted against
the Woodmen of the World, and three
of its members at Hickory Grove,, by'
Mr, S. W. Mitchell, for 115,000. The
suit has grown out of alleged injuries
alleged to have been sustained by the
plaintiff during initiation on the 22d
de- of March last.
The individual members being sued
are Messrs. J. W. Leech, S. W. Leech
and D. A. Whisonant. The plaintiff
nrtmnlolno that no fho fOQlllt ftf milch
handling by these defendants he has
been injured to the amount named. G.
W. S. Hart, Esq., represents the plalntifT
and D. E. Flnley, Esq., represents
the defendants. The reporter learned
yesterday that Mr. Hart had drawn up
and served the complaint in the case;
but there were no papers on record'
and as both attorneys were out of town
no definite details other than have been
stated could be secured.
As one of the results of the suit,
should it come to an issue, it is expected
that some of the secrets of the
Woodmen will be exposed to publicity;
but as to this, it will probably be better
to await developments.
^^BOUT PEOPLE.
Mr. Thos. J. Bell returned to Savannah
last Saturday.
Mr. John Plaxco is hauling up his
wheat crop, preparatory to threshing.
^Congressman Finley went to Orangeburg
Sunday to attend the funeral of
Dr. J. William Stokes.
^Mr. W. Mason McConnel, the popular
clerk at J. Q. Wray's store, is off
>n a month's vacation.
Mr. H. H. Beard and family went up
:o Piedmont Springs Monday afternoon \
:o remain about two weeks.
^Misses Edith Draffln and Miss Louise
rhompson, of Riverside, Lancaster \
:ounty, are visiting In Yorkvllle, the v
quests of Mrs. M. W. White.
Rev. B. H. Grier preached his farewell
sermon to his Yorkvllle congrega:lon
Sunday morning. He and his famly
expect to leave for their new home
n Laurens county next w?pk.Mr.
A. F. McConnelL-r^ports having
leard the first katydid of the season
3undav nlerht. According to a DODUlar
aelief the first frost of next season
ihould occur within ninety days.
rMr. Samuel R. Moore, of Washington,
D. C., is In Yorkvnle for the summer.
VIr. Moore is connected with the gov. rnment
engineering department.
J. S. Brlce, Esq., was recalled to Due
tVest again last Sunday on account of
he illness of his mother. Mrs. McCaw
eceived a telegram Monday night statng
that Mrs. Brice was dying.
Mr. Ross Love, who lives near Sharon,
has a better cotton crop than at.
his time last year, and also a good
:orn crop. As a reason for having such
i fine prospect for cotton Mr. Love says,
le does not undertake to cultivate
nore than he can handle.
^Misses Willie and Lee Williams ex>ect
to leave Yorkville on Thursday for
l visit to Rutherfordton and Chimney
*ock, N. C. Miss Willie Williams will
>e absent from H. C. Strauss & Co.'s
itore for a month.
Says a Seneca special of July 8 to the
Columbia State: Rev. W. G. Neville
>reacned two fine sermons yesterday
nornlng and last night to a large congregation
in the Presbyterian church.