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Intelligencer. Published every W ednesday. JL F. CLINKSCALEB, \ Epiions AND C. C. LANGSTON, S PROPRIETORS. TE11M8 ; ONE YEAR, - - - - $1 50 SLi MONTHS. - - - 75 WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1904. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVEN TION. The National Convention of the Democratic party met in St. Louis on the Otb of .July for the purpose of nominating candidates for President and Vicc-President. and for adopting thc platform upon which the party is to go before ihe people of the country. Thc conservative clement was in full control, the Bryan-Hearst faction be ing unable to hold together a suffi cient number of delegates to obstruct the plans of the reorganizers. The sessions of the Convention were mark ed by many dramatic incidents and at times by much disorder. General satisfaction is expressed throughout the country that a platform was adopt ed on which all good Democrats, re gardless of past differences and affili ations, can stand. No reference was made to the money question. It is not an issue in this campaign, but Judge Parker, the nominee, is a gold standard man, and this fact was con veyed to the Convention by a telegram from him after he learned that no financial plank was put in the plat form. He offered to decline the nomi nation if his views on the money question proved unsatisfactory to thc delegates. The receipt of this tele gram oaused the most intense excite ment, but the Convention, by an overwhelming vote, accepted Judge Parker's statement, declaring that thc money question was not mentioned be cause it was not an issuo. Nominations for thc presidency were called for on Friday night, and the names of Judge Alton Brook? Parker, of New York, William R. Hearst, of New York, Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, Judge George Gray, of Delaware, E. C. Wall, of Wiscon sin, Senator Francis M. Cockrell, of Missouri, and Judson Harmon, of Ohio, were presented. The first bal lot showed that Judge Parker lacked only nine votes of the two-thirds re quired to nominate. Other delega tions began to change to his standard, and his nomination was then made unanimous. On Saturday night tho Convention again assembled to name a candidate for vice-President. Henry G. Davis, an Ex-Senator from West Virginia, was nominated on the first ballot. This ended one of the most remarkable Conventions in the history of American politics, and the .final adjournment was reached after midnight on Saturday. Judge Alton Brooks Parker, the nominee for the presidency, is Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of New York. He is 52 years old. Since 1885 he has been on the bench, first sitting as a member of the Su preme Court of his State, and finally being elected in 1897 to the Chief Justiceship of the Court of Appeals. While always participating in the coun cils of his party his duties as Judge have drawn him away from the life of the active political leader. He has twice declined to become a candidate for Governor of his State, and in 1892 deolined the nomination of his party for the United Stutes Senate, standing aside in favor of David B. Hill, who was elected. Judge Parker is a man of the highest eense of honor, of irreproachable character, of sound and conservative views on public ques tions, and just the type of man to put np againat the raah and impetuous [Roosevelt. Henry G. Davis, the nominee for Vice-President, is a former Senator from the State of West Virginia. His nomination was a o onceo Dion to the Gorman forces who supported Parker for President. He is an old man, is very wealthy, and his nomination will probably ensure the States of Mary land and West Virginia bci?.? Demo cratic He is regarded as a strong running mate for Judge Parker. The platform adopted is a strong ex position of Democratic principles. No mention is made of the last two na tional platforms. It demands ''re form and the resoue of the adminis tration of government from the head strong, arbitrary and spasmodic" methods of Roosevelt ; recognizes the rights of capital and labor ; fa vors the development of our internal waterways by a definite and continu ous plan of improvement ; demands economy in administration, dedaring that "expenditures can be out down without impairing the efficiency of any branch of the public service" ; eritioises the President for his execu tive usurpation of legislative and ju dicial functions. The protective tariff system is condemned as destroying equal opportunities in trade and busi ness, and giving special privileges to the few. The tariff plank is a restate ment of tire old Democratic doctrine of a tariff for revenue only. Trupts and unlawful eombinatious monopc Using any branch of business should be prohibited, and whenever such monopolization cxi?H "such prohibi tion should bc cui'orced through COLU cotnprehensive laws to be t-uacted on the subject." The platform favors the reclamation of thc arid lands in thc West: favors an intcr-oceanic canal ; condemns the practice of polygamy. The Republican adninistration is con demned as "spasmodic, erratic, sensa tional, spectacular, and arbitrary. It bas made itself a satire upon the Congre&B, the Courts, and upon the settled practices and usages of na tioual and international law." It is evident that the bitter differ ences of thc past are at an end. The liryan element may be lukewarm in its support of thc candidates, but there will be no bolt. A gratifying feature of the Convention was the prominence of Southern men in its deliberations. The temporary chair man, .lohn Sharp Williams, of Mis sissippi, and the permanent chairman, Congressman Champ Clark, of Mis souri, arc Southern leaders. In the address of Mr. Williams reference was made to Crover Cleveland, and this called forth one of thc most nota ble demonstrations of the Conven tion. It showed the strong hold that this great Democrat has upon the party. Bryan was a delegate, but ho was in a hopeless minority, and he was made to set that his leadership was u thing of the past. The nation al ticket is a strong one, aud if all Democrats pull together the chances for electing a Pemocratic President are very bright and encouraging. Latest War News. St. Petersburg, July 5.-Tho thirteen companies of Russian troops sent out by Lieutenant General Count von Keller in a reconnoissance in force to ascertain the strength of the Japanese column's advance force moving on Liao- Yung, came into collision with the Japanese between Mo-tien and Feng-Chui passes yesterday. Sharp lighting resulted and the Russians re tired before overwhelming numbers, after ascertaining the exact strength of the Japanese torces. The Russian losAoe ure o Hi ci ?Ul y stuted to be 200. St. Petersburg, July (J.-A few nights ago Admiral Tugo attempted to repeat tho Japanese exploit with the torpedo boats at Wei-Hai-Wei during the Chi nese war by sending torpedo boat de stroyers into the harbor of Port Ar thur for the purpose of sinking ships at their anchorage, but the attempt ended in disastrous failure. Four torpedo boat destroyers, suc ceeded in creeping into the harbor, which was not protected by booms, bot only one escaped. Two were sunk by the shore batteries and one was crip pled. The reckleBB bravery of the Ja panese in going to almost certain de struction excites nothing but admira tion here. Tho chaunelut Port Arthur is so tortuous and strewn with wreck age without that evidently it was re garded as unnecessary to use a boom. The ndmirnlity has no confirmation of the report from Liao-Yang of an engagement between the Viadivstok squadron and Japanese warships oft' Gensan. There ls good reason to be lieve that the Russian squadron is safe back in port. Ta Tone Kiao, July 7.-The Japanese swarmed over the mountain crests ear ly this morning and advanced on Kiao Chou, compelling General Chirkoff, with the center of the Russian van guard, to fall back. A whole brigade of Japanese, with masses of cavalry, fallowed and occu pied the village of Nan-Ty, driving out two companies of Russian intantry and two companies of Cossacks, who were intrenched there. The Japanese ar rived within ? mileB of Kiao-Chou. lt was then nightfall. General Samsonoft' made a heroic at tempt to cheek the Japanese, galloping out with guns to shell the Japanese lett and inflicting great loss on them, but fearing his retreat would be cut oil', he fell back and is now holding Kiao Chou. General ChirkofTs force is sta tioned southeast of Kiao-Chou. The plans of the Japanese remain a mystery to the Russian commanders. Washington, July 7.-A cable from Minister Allen at Seoul reports the ex istence of a great danger to both bel ligerent armies in Manchuria. He says he has learned from a missionary sur geon that cholera has crossed Manchu ria and appeared at Anfang. Condon, July 7.-The Central News reporta a night attack on Japanese out posts near Lauzisnn by a force of Rus sians under General Kashlalinski, in which a thousand Japanese were killed and wounded. The attack was made during darkness and during a heavy downfall of ram. Strong Japanese re inforcements came up out they were three times repulsed. The Japanese tried Hanking movements but Russian reinforcements arrived and the Czar's forces were enabled to retire. The Russian losses were thirteen officers nnd three hundred men killed and wounded. St. Petersburg, July 8-With the return of three days of fine weather, drying the roads at the theater of war, the military authorities here are once more inclined to believe in the proba bility of heavy fighting and even in the possibility of a general engagement. The Japanese columns appear again to be pushing forward at all points, but the stragetic plans of the Japanese as well as the location of their main force and the place where their chief blow will be struck are still puzzling ibo Russian authorities. In a general way the Japanese seem to be withdrawing their pressure southwest of Kai-Chou and Liao-Yang, bot to be maintaining it northeast, as if contemplating a com bined attack of Ta-Tche-Kiao and Liay-Yang. The success of the Ja panese flanking operations is discon certing the Russians. One by one the passes in the mountains which the Rus sians had fortified have been attacked and captured by the Japanese. Cheefoo, Jnly 10.-Chinese junkmen who arrived here to-day from Port Ar thur say that on Tuesday, July 5, a Chinese carrier brought into the town over 800 Russian dead, two of whom were high officials. They state that a part of the Japanese force advanced to within 6 miles of the besieged town, taking another eastern fort. St. Petersburg, July ll, 0.03 p. m. Details of the Russian retirement from Kai Chou, which is bailed as a great victory at Tokio, show, according to the official report of Lieut. Gen. Sak h ar off, commander of the eastern army, that it was little more than a aeries of skirmishes. The Russian losses were . about 200 men. The Tokio report that ten guns were captured is unfounded. , The Russians retired in perfect order before Gen. Oku'sarmy, consisting of four divisions. . 1 Staff Capt. Count Neered, who w/is killed, was a brother of the midship- I man of that name, who was killed at the time of the sinking of the Russian! protected croiser, Variag, off Chemul po. Capt. Nee red waa in command of thc rear guard, winch is the post ot' honor. A H uss i an ollicer occupying this post most l>?* behind his men and it was while follow ?UK the troops that Xecred met bis death. (icu. (?ku's advance continues. His main loree, which the general stall'be lieves to be almost 60,000 strong, was yesterday abont live miles north ot Kai Chou. H is skirmishers were about three miles further north. Tho Japan ese cavalry is proceeding to .\'ow Chwang, and a heavy forceof Japanese is converging upon Siadiama, half way to Ta Tchu Kiao, on tte Siou Yen road. Atabout noon, July ??, a Japanese force of six companies of infantry and two guns, was observed marching southward from the Black mountains, in the vicinity of Siadiama. At tho samo time a brigade of Japanese infan try, with two batteries, advanced from \\ illa pass, concentrating at Siadiama. Firing commenced in the afternoon and lasted until dusk, when a few Rus sian officers anil 1"* men were injured and l l men were killed. STATE SEWS. - Kain is in much need in New berry and other counties in thia State. - Puring the past ten days hail storms have badly damaged the crops in various sections of the State. - lilias Richardson, a drunken ne gro, was run over and k?!!?d by a freight train at Sumteron the -Uh. - A farmer of Newberry County still has his entire cotton crop, for which he was offered lt) cents and re fused. - Dr. 1*. H. Mell, president of Clemton, has declined a call to the presidency of the Florida Agricultural College. - Mike Meadows,- the new?boy who got his leg cut off some time ago by the Columbia trolley, ia suing for $30, UU0 damages. - The presidency of the Florida Ft tte Agricultural College was recent ly offered to Dr. Mell of Clemson, but be decided to remain at Clemson. - Pickens has forty-four candi dates already announced for the vari ous county offices. There are seven candidates for the office of sheriff. - Three of the South Carolina Congressmen have no opposition this year: Legare in the first. Johnston io the fourth and Lever m the sev enth. - T. B. Tbackston has been trans ferred by the Southern railway from 1 Chicago to Columbia, where he will have charge of the land and industrial department. - Two children of Jesse Evans of Williamsburg County were badly burn ed while kindling a fire with kerosene. (Joe of them died and the other seri ously injured. - Corrie Green, a negro, is in Sa luda jail charged with saturating a negro house on Jacob Long's place with kerosene and trying to burn it with its occupants, an old blind ne gro woman and another woman and her infant. - There are eight candidates for sheriff in Colleton County. It was from the Colleton jail thats convicted murderer esct.ped a week or so ago, and it may be that Colleton needs a sheriff as well as a jail.-Greenville Mountainer. - Fred Taylor, the negro who shot a Seaboard conductor several weeks ago in Georgia and was afterwards oaptured in Hampton County, will be sent back to Georgia at once. Gover nor Heyward honored the requisition of the governor of Georgia. - The trial in Spartacburg of Harry Dean, charged with the murder of Miller McKinney, has resulted in a mistrial. The jury remained out all night on the case and failed to agree, whereupon acting Judge \V. H. Hunt ordered a mistrial to be entered. - Commissioner of Immigration Watson has practically olosed ? deal for a 25,000 acre tract of land in Ai ken County for homes for a colony of immigrants and he will confer with parties in New York, who are to set tle these people in South Carolina. - Two wagons coming towards Greenville with cabbages were search ed by constables, who found 20 gal lons of oom liquor io one of them and 10 in the other. The drivers, who are white men, were arrested for trans porting and the whiskey was confis cated. - W. H. Lowe, night watohman at the Whitney mills near Spartanburg, committed suicide by shooting him self through the neart with a 38-cali bre pistol. Coroner Foster eonduoted an inquest and the verdiot of the jury wr.a that the deceased came to bis death by a gunshot wound intiioted by his own hand. At the inquest no facts were adduced as to the cause of. the rash not. - The sum of $45,350 has been paid to Treasurer J. K. Kay, the same be ing the proceeds of the sale of Ooonee County bonds authorized by act of the last legislature in the sum of $45,000. The honda were sold by. the Board of County Commissioners to the Robin son Humphrey Co., of Atlanta, Ga., at a premium of $350. The proceeds of the sale will be used for the pay ment of past indebtedness of the county.-Coonee News. -S. Clarence Edwards, a white man aged 21 years, has been placed io the .Spartanburg jail to await trial for for gery. Edwards secured -a blank check and filled it out, using the name of A. B. Groce, one of Spartanburg County's wealthiest citizens. The oheok was for $200 and ras presented at the First National bank, where the signature excited euspioion and Mr. Groce was oommunioated with and the forgery discovered. The young man attributed his crime to drink, saying that he was intoxicated at the time of the forgery. - John Taylor, a negro laborer on the Seaboard Air Line work train, was taken from the train at Middendorf, a* station 20 miles south of Cheraw, at 6 oj clock Tuesday morning, 5th inst., by a mob of over twenty-five men. He waa carried about half a mile away where he was to bo shot, but broke away from his captors and ran 300 yards, and there he was literally shot t) piece?. Taylor . attempted an as sault upon a 9-year-old child of Er wine Donehew, and later upon the wife of Noel C. Johnson, both of prom inent white families of Chesterfield County. ... m - Through the efforts of Mr. S. C. McCullough, Mr. .Juhu II. Karie, can didate for railroad commissioner, was saved from drowoing Monday after noon, -Uh inst., in Mack creek, near Darlington, where he went with sev eral friends to take a swim. Shortly after going in the water Mr. Karie was seized with cramps and, though he made no outcry, it was fortunately discovered that he was drowning, when Mr. C. S. McCullough plunged in the dark water aud rescued him from a watery grave. The water was deeper than UBual, there having been a considerable rise in the creek. In a few momentB longer Mr. Earle would have g'ne to the bottom. MENEKAL NEWS. - Newbern, N. C., voted for prohi bi.'.ioo on Wednesday by ?U9 to 117. - The Navy Department has ac quired five of the longest wireless telegraph circuits in the world. - Tho officiai count bbows that the total number of lives lost by the burning of the steamer Gen. Slocum at New York was 1,031. - Col. Jacob ll. Plain, cashiei of the German- American National bank of Aurora, 111., is charged with mis appropriating $00,000 of the bank's funds. - Chalmers Dale, Jr., of New York, is being sued by Albert T. Fos ter for $2U0,U00 damages for alienat ing his wife's affections. Foster is 22 and recently inherited a million. - Bobby Waithour, the bicycle champion of Atlanta, was thrown from his wheel while making a 20-mile race in Atlanta and two ribs, one arm and a collar-bone were broken. - Steve Rcnfoe, of Fayetteville, Ga., an aged maa 711 years old, shot his daughter-in-law through the head, killing her instantly. The old man and the woman had disagreed about a cabbage patoh. - The city budget of New York is greater than the oombined budgets of any five other cities iu the connery. New York pays salaries to more than 46,000 person*, amounting to about $50,000,000 a year. - Charlotte, N. C., has gone dry by a majority of over 400 votes. Over fifty votes were recorded in favor of dispensaries. There are sixteen sa loons in the oity, eaoh paying an an nual license of $1,000. - Tho Populist coo\ jtion at Springfield, 111., on Wednesday nomi nated Thoo. E. Watson, of Georgia, for president and Thou. II. Tibbies, of Nebraska, for vice president. It is understood that Mr. Watson will not accept. - Eleve persons dead, 1,167 in jured and a property los? amounting to $140,000, is the price which the United States paid for its Fourth of July celebration, and the deaths from lockjaw will probably double the num ber of fatalities already listed. - Miss Stella Snyder, a Missouri school teacher, was recently sued for $1,000 damages for whipping one of her pupila. She won the case, and as a result of the publicity attending the trial-she Fccured aa appointment ia the .State Reform School for Girls. - The navy department has pur chased over ?70 aerea of land adjoin ing the Norfolk navy yard at a price of $400,000. This purchase is part of an improvement to be made on an ex tendive scale there whioh if all plans are carried out is expeoted by naval officials to make the Norfolk navy yard the largest JD the world. - The limb of a tree tied in a per fect koot is one of the interesting ex hibits iu tho Alaskan Buiiding at the World's Fair. The supposition is that some native ir. passing through the forest tied the knot when the tree was a tiny sapling. The knot was ac cidentally discovered by lumbermen. - H. S. Hart, senior member of a local jewelry firm and a prominent cit izen of Shreveport, La., was fined $1,000 and, in default of payment, sentenced to two years on the public roads, in the Shreveport city court, on the charge of sending an insulting letter to a young woman of good re pute. - A new form of missionary work has been organized in Japan. The Epworth League Union of St. Louis has agreed to support Rev. K. Milto, of Uwaii, Japan, to travel in his own country and organize Sunday Schools throughout thc Empire. He has promised "to put his whole soul into the work," and hopes to save six mil lion children. - University Place, a few miles east of Lincoln, is the only town in Nebraska where tobacco is not sold. Not only are liquor, billiard tables, dance balls, saloons and every other form of "questionable" amusements barred from this town, but now the oigar store and the cigarette counters have been added to the prohibited list. - A representative jf a a wholesale firm of Seoul, Korea, has arrived in this country to contract for idols to be used in the heathen temples of his country, as well as in China. It seems that a fetv years ago an Ameri can firm sent some idols to one of the Korean sacred orders, and the results were so satisfactory that there is now a widespread demand for American idols. - The 11-year-old son of Henry Gill, a farmer of Graham, Tazewell County, Va., accidentally discharged a shotgun with whioh he was playing, and instantly killed his brother, aged five years; fatally wounded another brother, aged seven years; seriously wounded his sister, aged three years and mortally shot a boy by the name of Holbrooks, aged ll years. - Again the athletic American girl has demonstrated the value of musole io her sex. Miss E. K. Aymar, of Philadelphia, is a guest at her uncle's cottpge in Newport. She was sitting on the piazza in the darkness when a, tall man suddenly appeared, seized her by the wrist and demanded money. Miss Aymar wrenched herself free and swinging the ohair on whioh she had boen sitting, brought it down on the fellow's uplifted arm. With a cry of pain he fled, tho girl following, but he escaped. Miss Aymar shines in ten nis, basket ball, rowing and other ath letio amusements. Grand Summer Sale. Everything Reduced Come to Our Store and See the Largest Stock and Lowest Prices ever quoted by any ??rm. f We are now preparing for our Fall campaign and desire to sell all Summer Goods at a great reduction. To this end we ignore all profits. NOTICE REDUCTION. All Calico, Talue 5c.now 4c. Black Duck, value 10c.now So Black Yard-wide Silk, value $1.25.now 90c. Black Brilliantine, value 75c.now 45c. Heavy Sheeting, value 7c.now 5c. China Silk, value 60c. .now 42c. Parasols, value 76c.now 40cv Apron Linen, value 15c.now 10c. Heavy Cotton a do, value 15 c,.now 10 c, Ladies' Underveat, value 10c.now 5c. Ladies' Silk Gloves, value 35c.now 20c. Colored Lawn, value 5c.now 2c. Gents' Black Worsted Suits, value $7.00,.now $4.0fr Gents' Two-Piece Summer Suits, value $5.00.now 3.50 Genta' Imported Suite, value $10.00.now 7.00 Genta' Colored All Wool Suits, value $8.50.now 5.50 Boys' Knee Pants Suite, value riOo.now 25a Men's Sox, all colors, value 10c. .now 5c Men's Straw Hats, value 50c..now 25c Men's Oxford Shoes, value?2 25.now $1.50 Men's Neck Ties, value 25c.now 15c Men's Leather Belts, value 25o.now 15c Men's Undershirts, value 25o.now 18e . Men's Best Overalls, value $1.00. .now 80c Men's Fur Hats, value $1.50.now $100_ Our stock of Ladies' Hats is very large, stylish and nicely trimmed. We have cut the prices to just half. Remember, we are located on Granite Row? Look for our large Sign. GLOBE STORE. To See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of DRESS DOODS Ever shown in Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, come to Our Buyer hasJust returned from the Northern markets, and values in Goods are arriving daily that prov? to the] most fastidious dressers the result of careful selections.* See our Stock of the Celebrated Strouse & Bros. High Art SPRING and SUMMER Which wiU interest those who wish to dress well and SAVE| MONS Yr A new and complete line of- . OXFORDS; Men's, Women's and Children's, at prices unequalled else? where. .? We extend to aU a cordial invitation to visit our Stores, inspect our Goods, and be convinced that what we say is true, Successor to Horn-Bass Co., itO,116,12?,EaatBoi^oaSt" - - - - . .Andersen,J|iC 1 Going to Fact is, we are moving every day, but within the next few days ue are going to move piles of Summer Goods, for we have made prices that will move them. Dry Goods. 600 yards Plain and Polka Dot Crash, worth 10o, at 60 yard. 2000 yarda Linenized Sailing, cheap at 10c yard, our price 7 lo yard. Simpson's 6c Calicoes at 5c yard. Poe Mills Bleaching, 10c kind, at 7ic yard. Silks, Dress Goods, Etc. China Silk, 27 inches wide, only 46c yard. \ 36 inch Black Peau de Soie Silk, worth $1.50, at $1.16 yard. 36 inch Black Lining Silk at 50c ya:d. Nice line of Wool Skirtings, Brilliantine?, Voiles, Mohairs, Etc 36 inch all wool White Albatross at only 48o yard. A Few Remarks About Clothing. We have a big Stock of hot weather Coats on hand we will close at under price. Men's Summer Coats at 25c each and up. Wool Alpacca Coats at 98c to 84.00 each. Men's AU Wool Worsted Suits, worth 810.00, to close at $5,00 Suit Better Suite at $6 50, $8.00 and $10.00. These Goods are worth 25 per cent more than our prices on them. Men's Odd Pant?, nice grade, at 49c pair and up. Straw Hats. Well, we will let you name the price, if in reason. 50c Straw Hats at 25c each. Misses' 50c Sailors at 35c each. Ladies' White Sailors at lOo each. Boys' Malaga.Hate 60 each. Notions, Etc. Silksteen Embroidery Cotton at 80 Spool. Two Balls Sew ing Cotton lc. Men's Hose Supporters 60 pair. live Sticks In digo Blueing for 3c One Lead Pencil lc. One Box Paper 5c 15a siss Bizby's Shoe Poli?h 10c. Two Spools Machine Cotton, guaranteed, 5c 8ilk Mitts, worth 25c, at 16e pair. No matter what you want we will save yon money. THE HIVE, G. H. BAIL?8.