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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. President Roosevelt left Washing ton oui Ionday morning on a specia train for a trip through the south west. The special train was one o: the.finest the Pennsylvania road evei sent out of Washington. S. M. Nixon, a prominent politi cian and lawyer of Lockhart, Tex. died on Monday of apoplexy induced by nervous collapse. His trial on th< charge of murdering two men in z street fight a year ago had been se1 for the day on which he died. Some fifty miners were entombe( on Tuesday in Joseph Leiter's min< at Zeigler, Ill., by a terrific explo sion of gas. It is believed more thar thirty of the miners were instantl3 killed. The bodies of the dead, wher recovered. were so blackened thei could not at once be identified. The Alabama railroad commissioi has peremptorily ordered the South ern railway to build at Mobile, Ala. a union passenger station to cost ap proximately a quarter of a milliol dollars, and it is further ordered tha actual work on the structure shall b< begun within forty days from thi date of the order. President Roosevelt and part: passed through Ohio, Kentucky, In diana and Illinois on Tuesday, an< at 8.30 on Tuesday night, after spend ing an hour and a half in St. Louis left for the southwest. The most not able reception of the day was a Louisville., Ky., where the presiden spent two hours and delivered an ad dress. Judge Edward F. Dunne, democrat was on Tuesday elected mayor o Chicago, defeating John M.ynar< Harlan, a son of Associate Justic, Harlan, of the United States suprem< court, the republican candidate, b: more than 20,000. As a direct resul of the election the city is officiall: committed to the policy of the quick est possible cessation of private fran chises for public utilities. An insane man was arrested ii Topeka, Kan., within one block o the state house, where he said hi was going to kill Governor Hoch The man pretends to be deaf an< dumb and communication is hel< with him through written answer: and questions. He says he has swori eternal vengenance against all states men who say that they are sa'f-mad< men. He will be sent to an asylum. John Dow, a negro of Batesville Ark., went to Sulphur Rock on Tues day to see his wife, who was at he: father's home, and because she refus ed to return with him he drew a pis tol and shot her dead. Thena he sho and killed his wife's mother and an other negress. 'His father-in-law se cured a shotgun and shot Dow, bu not fatally, the latter being able t< return the fire, killing his father-in law. The New York police are investi gating the death of Mrs. Ruby Larn ed, which occurred in New York or Monday under peculiar circumstanc es. According to the story told by the husband Mrs. Larned becam< drowsy soon after drinking a glas! of claret given her by the ms.id. Mrs Larned was formerly of Americus Ga., and at the time of her marriag< to Larned he was employed on th< Atlanta Journal as artist and bore, i is said, a very high reputation. Not in His Line. London Telegraph. The sexton of a certain parish church would brook no interferenc< with what he was pleased to call his "special duties." "Every mon to his trade, sez I," h< would remark. "Let the passon dc the praichin, an' I'll do the rest." On one occasion the vicar was o: the opinion that John was neglecting his duties. John, who was not wanting in wil strenuously denied the charge anc said that he was "not goin' to stanc no meddlin' "with his affairs. "But, John," said the vicar, "it be hooves everybody to mind his p's and q's." "Everybody but me,'' retorted John refusing to be cornered. "P's an' q's is nowt i' my line. I've enough to do to mind the keys and pews." fOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Ine of bu, Items of More or Less Interest Con- m< densed Throughout the State. of at1 !resident Arthur T. Hadley, of far Yale university, visited Charleston on TI Monday as the guest of the Yale al- ed umni. ch A site has been secured in Orange- at burge for the erection of a cotton re warehouse by the coton growers as T1 sociation, and it is stated thatitserec tion is practically assured. as The Union cotton growers associa- St tion has taken steps looking towards Ca the erection of a cotton warehouse ab for Union county, toward which it is fa understood $1,ooo has already been in subscribed. fu Col. James T. Bacon has left Edge- so field for New York. where on Satur- co day. in company with his relative, Mrs. Spalding, *he will sail for the ha Old World and a cruise in the Medi. tu terranean. cil It Mr. W. St. Julien Jervey on Tues day defeated Mr. W. Turner Loban for solicitor in the new ninth cir cuit. The vote in Charlestoui was about evenly divided between the two candidates, but Mr. Jervey led in .the other counties. hi tu Jeff Donaldson, a young negro il brick mason, was shot and killed at wl -his home on the outskirts of Orange burg on Saturday night. He was rc shot through the heart just as his de wife opened the door for him to en- ot ter. It is not known whether the si shot came from inside the house or in t outside. th L-I hi - THE ISTHMIAN CANAL. Personnel of the New Commission th F Announced- Allotments of ra Salaries. S' ie The personnel of the new isthmian r canal commission, as reorganized i by President Roosevelt. is as follows: 9C Thoadore P. Shonts, chairman; w Charles E. Magoon, governor of ca- th C h - nal zone: John F. Wallace, chief en gineer: Rear Admiral M. T. Endicott, W United States navy; Brig. Gen. Peter nc C. Hains, United States army (retir- ur ed): Col. Oswald M. Ernst, corps of co engineers, United States army; Ben- K jamin M. Harrod. d Secretary Taft gave out for publi- of cation a statement showing the allot ments of salaries to the new commis- n~ sioners, and 'his own letter to the tr president and one from the latter ex- in plaining the plan of reoganization of the commission; the reasons therefor and the particular duties to be as signed to each commissioner. The N first reads as follows: "The president has made an order G allowing a salary of $7,500, with tray- M eling expenses, to each member of the commission, and to the chairman C' - of the commission the additional compensation of $22,500; to the chief D engineer the additional compensation of $17,500, and to the governor of the zone the additional compensation of $1o.ooo. The 'head of each depart- G ment is allowed the uses of a furnish ed house upon the isthmus, and his H traveling expenses when traveling on the business of the commission. "Thie total is $102,500. The salaries L and allowvances under the former commission amounted to $120,ooo. The total compensation of the gover nor of the zone and the chief engi- R neer are in effect unchanged. "Prof Win. H. Burr and Win. Bar- Si clay Parsons, civil engineers, will be: appointed as members of the con- Ti suting board of engineers." ANTIDOTE TO RACE POISON _______sa The Rev. Richard Carroll, Colored, is to Publish a Newspaper for I Colored People. ____ H The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier says a prominent cl1 business man and capitalist of Co- ne lumbia has assured the Rev. Richard "n Carroll, the well kncwn negro i preach-r, that he would :ack him fi- loi nancially in the plan to publish a pa per in South Carolina. The Rev. m: Carroll has long purposed to have a gu paper that would reach the class of wi colored people that desire informa tion along the line of farming. The of Southern Ploughman will be launch ed by 'him on May 1 and for the tui p..sent will be monthly. The busi- git ss management will be in the hand a white man, who understands the siness. but the editorial manage !nt of the paper will be in the hands prominent colored men. Special ention will be given to the coloret mer and the colored laborer, tere will be a woman's departmen' ited by a colored woman and a ildren's department. One of the Lin features cf the paper will be th( :ention given matters of religion-a tigion that will make men bettet e Rev. Ric-ard Carroll will hav< , invaluable assistance of such mer Thomas Miller, president of th< ate Negro college; Prof. Cyru mpfield and other men who know out scientific farming. A whit< rmer, whom the Rev. Carroll sav Georgia 14st week, has agreed t< rnis'h articles for the paper, an< me of the professors of Clemsor 11ege will contribute articles. It is expected that the paper wil ve a wide circulation in a shor ne. and an effort will .be made t( -culate it in every state in the south will be a paper that both race! 1y read with profit and interest. Richard Carroll has been advise( some prominent white citizens o >lumbia to get a competent colore< an to manage his institution fo m, while he takes the field as a lec rer and preacher. These gentle en thought that white people every iere would be glad to hear him. Another gentleman said that "Car 11 should be relieved from the bur n of runnnig the farm and of th, her cares of his institution and h, ould travel north and south in th, terest of his work." He als< ought that "Carroll should spen s whole time lecturing and he be ved., as Carroll stated in the oper; use, that God had called him t is work where he would help bot1 ces." A white preacher of Penn vania, pastor of one of the wealth ;t Methodist churches, w'ho ha ard the Rev. Carroll lecture twic South Carolina, has urged him t > north. He thinks that Carrol 11 not only bring help to the negr rough these leciures, but also t e white people of the south, if h uld give these lectures in th rth. The Rev. Carroll has beel ged to go to the Southern Baptis nvention, white, which meets h ansas City in May, and speak t at body. He will lecture in th iera house in Darlington on Apri and intended lecturing in Camde1 xt Sunday, 'but his throat has beel ubling him for two weeks, so hei doubt about speaking next Sunday Advertised Letters. I etters remaining in postoffice a ewberry, for week ending April B-P. B. 'Bailey, William Bridge: o. P. Birdwell, Jonas Bowmar rs. Lee Burgess. C-W. J. Cain. Vinnie Clark, Ton D-Mrs. Martha Darby, Elsie A E-M. L. Eichelberger. F-C. H. Foulcher. G-J. B. Gregory, Willie Gilliarr C. Griffin, T. H. Goethe. H-Frank Hearts, Miss Matti, enson, Mrs. Mary Hipp. K-Mrs. Alice Keeman. L-Drayton Lake, Miss Oma: M-Charlie Mathis. N-Lushia Nickles. R-C. R. Ro.berson, Miss Fanni' itherford. S-Johnie Spearman, Miss Emmi mpson. T-Mrs. Mary A. Taylor, Mis: W-W. S. Ward, Mrs. Bufor< aits, W. D. Wright. Persons calling for same will pleas< y that they were advertised. C. J. Purcell, P. M. Missed None of Them. trper's Weekly. 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