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.GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Outside of the State. Some of the Nebraska populis have bolted the state ticket put out by the fusioistS. The bolt is hea(l ed by Thonas If. Tilbles. callddate for vice-pre idenl -1n the P1,punIL t ticket. The report comes irom Chelfon that during severe nghting at Por .\rthur one Japanese shell struck the corner of a building in the place and killed or wounded two hundred people. Caesar Young, the proprietor ot a colored restaurant at Toms Creek. Va.. as the result of an attempt to burn his way out of the town lock-up. was roasted to death before assistance could reach him. It has been learned that the flood ing of the Barringer gold mine, near Gold Hill, N. C.. in which eight lives were lost, was catsed by a terrible waterspout such as has not been wit nessed in that state for years. *The engineer was killed, the ire man mortally wounded and a negro) employe killed in the wreck of a pas senger train entering the yards at Texarkana, Ark.. caused by the train running on a defective rail. The arrest and imprisonment of a British subject at Tangier has caused much indignation among European residents there, who say that life and property. especially where British subi,--ts are concerned, are unsafe. Bailev "M. 'McGowan. former assis tant post master of Ohoopee. Tattmall county. Ga., has been bound over for trial on the charge of iraudaleatly nis appropriating postotice funds. Dur nig the absence Of -he postml_ster he went on a spree and when the Post) master returned the funds couId not be accounted for. Willie 'Mlungen. alias Frank Davis. colored. was hanged at Ebensburg. Pa.. on Thursday afterncwon :cr the murder of Laura Davis. .lungen had slashed the woman's throat with a razor and then turned the blade un himself. Davis recovered and entered a plea that the wo.man had atvempted to kill him. Ten persons -were drowned by the capsizing of a naphtha launch on the Potomac river off Georgetowvn. near WVashington, during the annual Po tomac regatta on Saturday afternoon. The races kept on in the midst of the tragedy, nor did it dampen the ardor of the enthusiastic thousands of spec tators. There was a wvild stampede ot the residei'ts of an Italian district of New York on Saturday migh:. caused by fresh paint on a big ga.> tan~k'catchit'g fire, the explosion of the big tauk be ing momentarily expecLA The teir rible explosion wvas p.evemied only. by the intompt action of ihc lire dle partment, and fortunately no one was hurt. Tony Rodi. 2- years old, and John Doncelo, aged 23. of New York. had a quarrel in a tailor shop in which they wvere both employed, when one challenged the other to right a duel with pistols and he agreed. -It. was fought in Fourth street in sight of many people. Neither of -the duellists was hurt. but a bullet struck a small boy, passing through his shoulder. The boy was not seriously injured. The democrats and populists of Nebraska have combined on a fusion state ticket. The division of offices gives the populists five and the demo-! crats three. George WV. Berge, pop ulist, of Lincoln, was nominated for governor. The completion of fusion was a victory for Bryan. who was op posed to Thos. E. WVatson. of Geor gia, the populist candidate, for pres .ident. Four little negro children were burned to death in DeKaib county on Friday night while their parents. Charles Pitts and his wife, were,away attending a negro big meetinig. They had locked the children in the house and during their absence the lamp which was left burning on the table is supp)osed to have been knocked .'ff. causing an explosi' n whnich set the house on ::re and caused the burn ing alive of the .fon:- children. who were p)owx'eriers to escape. Eight men were killed by the Rowan county. N. C.. on Thur:~da night. Nine men were in the mine shaft when a large pond l,cated near the entrance to -0he gold mine sud denly br,ke lose. the breakage being caused by exces,ive rains. the waters rshi in Iterre and deadly f t rc e a depth of A.b a hundre. e tp' I ni~ th en who w \ere poweria -aetl cin-e.lve- . I-xn.aae thei planit was thie alfly n,le 1") cape death. \\hile standing 4n his dkor step a Thursday night J1oh n Schuman, a strike breaker of Chicago empllbyed h) Swift & Co.. was attacked by riot el-s and severely beaten. Bef-re the police could reach the disturbance a crowd Of 400 rioters had gathered artuind the-llace. and Schuman was thrown to the ground and every one of the disturbers who could get near enough administered a kick to the prostrate man. The crowd scatter ed upon the approach of the police. and while Schuman was seriously hurt. it was not thought his injuries were fatal. The Georgia legislature adjourned at midnight on Thursday night. The session increased the salary of the governor from three to five thousand dollars. those of the supreme court justices from three to four thousand dollars and those of the superior court iudges from two thousand to three thousa.nd dollars per year. The ap propriaton for school purpioses will bring the total sum available for that purptse during the coming year up :o twtt million dollars. The session refused wlt adopt the Australian ballot ysteir. Cingressman Champ Clark. of Mis Znr. during a oint political debate with Charles B. Landis. of Indiana. beftre the Chataluia assembly at New Albany, In(.. (,n Saturday made the z.Iatemet that the repulicals want ti rule this country by assassi nation. Some one in the audience called him a liar, when 'Mr. Clark said: "i the man who J.st called me a liar wll meet me outside the )ark when 1 finish my speech. 1-11 cut his throat from ear to ear." Thi very violent stat .nent was hailed with hse The har t: his section are prepar ing to investigate the charge against Roland E. Chase. of Clinton. Va.. that -e obtained alleged fraudulent jndg ments in the circuit court of Dicken son county against numerous non-res idents, aggregating nearly $3o.000 >oo. The circuit cotirt has issued a rule against himt to show cause why he should not be disbarred. The object of the suits, it is said. was not to obtain executions, but to borrow money on the judgments. A decision adverse to WVilliam J. Bran in his contest over the will cof the late P. S. Bennett. of New Ycrk. ad New Haven. Conn.. has been banded dlown by the supreme court o errors of Connecticut. The de cision virtually denies that Mr. Bryan is entitled to the Szo.ooo mentioned in the sealed letter wvritten by Mr. Bennett and addressed to his widow to be read after his death. By this letter the widow was asked to give 50.ooo to MIr. Bryan and his family. Former Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith. of Georgia, was the prin ipal speaker on Thursday night at the annual outing of the democrats of Queens borouigh, New York. held 'n Thursday afternoon and,.night at College Point. Long Island.. Over three thousand democrats were pres ent. Mr. Smith in his speech em phasized the point that Roosevelt is a standing menace to the peace, the prosperity arid the liberties of the people, and the people want his op posite, a man wvise but not conceited:' trm but not obstinate, brave but not reckless, devoted to law and its en orcement, ready to discharge his legitimate duties, but not prompted b overweening ambition to assume the rights and duties of others. Such a man. c'oncluded M1r. Smith. was Judge Parker. Governor H-eyward has expressed hiimself as much p)leased with the ac :eeptance speech o,f Judge Parker. .\s to the one ternm idea advocat el Sst rongly by Judg~e Parker he sidc that s far as the 'tnice 'f governor . li he state was conicere hlille t hought that the term I ughit to b for IlIur years and that there oughtt to be a provisionIi again t re -election after one SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed in the State. 1 - dge if Kihlits -f Pyti:a- i membersh7-- anld brigh-p11ec1o Ii. rep,rted! that at pr'esenti th. The State Far1ers instIute Z Clieim:,in clised --ni Thurday iru ing1V. Ihe session was largely attend ed aid verv successful. A numbe -f interesting and instructive adres:e were delivered. State cnstables seized seven hun dred galloins of beer and a large quan tiy (If rum and wine in the ice hous at Glenn Springs. just in the rear the hotel. The raid was coiducte (juietly, and no arrests were made. During a ball game at -Mullins Jim mie Yarborough was struck by bat which slipped frum the hands a player and was seriously hurt. few minutes later the accident hap pened to another young man. Gar: Smith. but he was not very nmil hurt. (JIseph R. louyer. a white mai was seriously burned by an explosio if a gasoline tan.k on board a smal launch in Char!est,,n harbor and snb sequentlv died from his imjuries. I seems that he struck a match to ligh a cigarette and that the explosii: almost' instantly followed. Among severai resignations receiv ed at a recent ineeting of the boar, trist'ecS of Clemson coIleg-e wa thi of )r. George E. Nelson as vet erinaV surgeon. Dr. Nesom goe t,, the PhiilippineS to be assist an 1 1 the bureati of animal indui tryv 0here.. Editor Richard 11 Edmunds of th \ianufacturers Record. delivered I I he cst interesting addressc b fl tie State Farmers nztitute las week. le started out with the as e rtion that the zuth did n,it appre ciate the supreme impIrtance ,i im iigrat ion. Pre-ident ). H. Mell. --f Cleiso cllege, gave out a statement on Sat urdlay saying that the list of student in file in his office filled all the avail able space in Clemson college for th next session, and that no other ap plications coulId be received. As a result ofr the dliscontinuanic oif the operation of the Ashby cottoi mill, in \larion, the business men o lariion have got together and dletermr ined to build a mill twice the siz if the Ashby mill, and it is reporte< that already more than half of th' p Iroposed capital stock has been sub scribedi and a chartet will be applie< frin a few (lays. The first bale of new cotton waL received in Charleston i.n Saturday being con signedl to F. WV. Wagner d Cii.. by H enry C. Folk, of Bamberg Foir a number of y'ears MIr. Fo lk ha benthe first man in the state t< snip new cotton. The bale is eigh (lays in advance of the nirst bale ship ped by M1r. Folk last year. Two merchants of Beaufort cash ed postofnce orders for a negio ser' eral days ago for twventy dollars eacd and upon presenting the ordersi was found that they had been raise< from fifty cents to the amount o twenty dollars. Detectives and posto flice inspector were put on trai of the negro. Jt has been decided to hold a bis ratification meeting of democrat: from all sections of the south. ii Charleston. about the middle of Oc tober, and to which MIr. Parker. M1r Davis. John Sharp Williams. Bourk, Cochran and other prominent dem(i crats will be invited. A regular old fashioned barb)ecue will be serve< at night, and a splendid b)an(quet wil be given the dlistingtuished visitor.s The state campaign closed iniC hmbia on Saturday. At the meet i: in h 'tr oni last Thursdayth chrg\as miade by Mlr. TI.. Y.. W\il lame caniidate fir c' ngress, ma r.ra fe delivery agrent s in the dis C' ngre.,man Finlev. \I r. Finice' replied that if this was bein.g din i i - r . wa - - - -riday after - mr . th a t rck rner er. int tk-ee( "f1the --- m 3,!el . . .. h r. r,>m hi in. i . 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'IDA TE ce ourselves as a * * usiness and pledge * ll customers.+ JG STORE.+ nan's suffrage. ucioninle! t many Summer are offering at -.awns now 5c. id Lawns now 7c. .awns now 8 I-3c. ..awns now lic. .awns now 13c. * ngs 50e., now 35c. 40c., " 28c. 35c., " 221-2c 25c., " 1 6 l-3c :hildren's Oxford -1 $1.90; from $2.00 to >c.; from $1.00 to 69c.; conds, but first class IOOTEN.1