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Vd~~~~.- Ii MA NN I N S. C, AVEDNESDA AUU 87 O 4 V A.j. XLI I PROSPERITY ID1-I"I. ANOTHER BIG CHICAGO CONCERN GOES UP. Three taauik% Fail-.-oi ExAipice of the Pro,.perlty tihe Ce utry Is Fxperiencing M11lloUS Involvtd in Falurt-. Cuesco, Dec. : -As a resuit of the voluntary liqui~ations of the At las National bank of this city. Wil liam M. and John S. Van Nortwick. who held 454 shares of steek in. that bank and were borrowers therefrom to the amount of , made an assignment yesterday to the Equitable Trust company of Chicago, who took possession of the Van Nort wiek's bank at Batavia yesterday. The failure involves the entire in terests of the Van Nortwick's, whose estimated wealth, according to their last statement, is 492,500 O, often es timated at three times that amount .and representin-. besides the Van Nortwick bank and other property at Batavia, large manufactut-rmg inter ests. The total liabilities will proba bly be near $2,000,000. The articles of assignment, three in number, were filed in the Kane county court at Ge ineva at 4 o'cleck y esterday afternoon. W. M. and J. S. Van Nortwick each assigning as individuals and the two as a company. The interests of the Vsn Nortwicks are large and diversified. They own the western paper bag factory at Bata via, employing several hundred hands with a daily output of 2,000,000 Large factories at Kaukana, Wis., for the manufacture of manila paper, and at Memphis, Tenn., for the making of paper -wooden ware", are branches of the Western Paper Bag company and are conducted under the same management. The Van Nortwick Pa per company owns mills at Combined Locks, near Appleton, Wis., which cost $800,000; also the Appleton Man ufacturing company at Van Nortwick, IlIl, with a capital stock of $200,000, with turns out wind mills and agri cultural implements. In Batavia so much real estate is owned by them that people are nften heard to remark: "The Van Nort wicks own Batavia." Besides the brick block in which the bank is loca ted, erected at a cost of $40,000, and other real estate, they own 400 acres of farm land there valued at $50, 000. Among their possessions are also thousands of acres of pine lands in Wisconsin. They are stockholders in the old Second National bank and the Aroia cotton mill company at Auro ra, and banks at Appleton and Kau kana, Wis. The Van Nortwicks probr'y are the most extensive paper manufactu rer in the west and the ramifications of their business extend all over the western country. Had it not been for the springout in this direction, it is thought the crash of yesterday would have been avoided. The Apple ton Paper and Pulp company and the Kaukana Paper company, under ftpqr interests in the river valley are consolidated, constituted one of the strongest paper combinations ever formed. The combination included the Appleton Paper and Pulp com pany, Kaukana Paper company. CoM1 bined Lock Paper company, Wiscon sin Sulphite Fiber company and Un ion Pulp company. These companies are combined under one management for the manufacture of book, print. manila and express paper, .suiphite and wood pulp and do an immense -business in these specials. The main office of the companies is the A pple ton. The Appleton Paper and Pulp company was irncorporated in 1873 and has a capi'al of $150,000. The buildings burned a few years ago, were never rebuilt. The Kaukana Paper company plant is lccated at Kaukana, Wis., seven miles from Appleton, on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad. This com pany was incorporated in 1879, and has an authorized capital of $lR0,0 Seventy-five workmen are employed and the output is ten tons of manila paper daily. The Combined Lock Paper com pa ny was incorpo ted in 1890 with a, capital of $15.~ and the mills have an output of 30 tons of pulp daily and 40 tons of paper. This company makes -prinlting iaper exclusively. The Wisconsin Sulphite Fiber com pany owns valuable woodland and suppiacs wood for making pulp to the mills named in the foregoing- il "zhe TJ'nion Pulp company hasmis a Kaukana. it was incorporated in I879 with $50,000 capital.The capacity: of these mills is 26 tons of pul p eacb working day. A ROANOKE- EAtK SUSPENDS. RicamoisD, Va., Dec. 29-A Roa. noke special to The Dispatchi says: The commercial National bank of this city, closed its doors this morning be cause of a run on that institution yes terday. This run it is believed was caused by the resignation of Cashier Davenport and his departure for West Virgin'ia on Sunday. The resigna tion was tendered on the 13th, but did not go into effect until the 2uth and for some reason the matter was i:ept -rom the general public for a week or more. Mr. Davenport had been in the em ploy of the bank for some years, ana -his books on settlement were correct in every particular. When it was known that he had resigned, the peo ple became uneasy and the run fol lowed. The total lhabilities of the bank amount to about $80,000u and the estimated assets exceed this by a bout $90,000. The amount due depositors according to the statement of the bank's condition published last Satur day was $61.557, but it is believed that at least $12,000 of this sum was with drawn in the run of yesterday. The capital stock of the bank is $100,1'u0 and as at least 75 per cent. of the stock is held by men of. large means they are believed to be able to meet all hia bilities and nay depositors in full. MLhis is the feeling among business nn~re sad it is safe to say the sus pension- has caused but little excite ment. e'-nk Examiner Sands is er pected here amnorrow from WVashing ton. Trwo IN E'NNEAPoLIS. MINNEAPOLIs, Mji..1., Dec. 2.-The Columbia National base, w hose presi dent is Charles Kitttleton, ex.State treasurer, and whose casher is Jospdb IBlobletter, al~o an ex-ttrurer, failed to open its doors this morning, andGerg M1. Cottin, deputy comp troller of the currency. who happen ed to be in the city, took charge. Cashier Bobletter said that the .bilities, not including the sock, etc,, and including ' deposits, amounted to sidi that he ha no 0& deposizors would in tme iu. The State is credit amount of and the aboit ,. The city had depos t. At the presenrt ti ing, to Cash.ier Dobletter, th 0it cash '- the vault and $I oe collecied within next :'0 suspension was ordered fort of protectingz the mqah-rity he susoenson of the Se ter daand th-e Columbia ing eroate c s seroatiot0 su'n a -ru i e sed th nk was compe'lit close it ort ly af:ter noonJ.Ditor beir chtcss directiv at th au through the clearing hc ch a rate that it was evident e in terests of ali the deposit and ed suspension of busines bank knew that its strength w be sore ly ta xed today, and had e arrange ments to get 3rW000 i sh, whicn would have tided it ove afely, but ,he money was not fort mmg this moruinz. and after a vai attempt to stand -he demands, Ca er Brecs - telephoned Bank Exm r kensou that the cilicials had de fed to cce the bann. and asked to t _e charge. Cashier Drec' stated .his afternoon that aside fron the 1) Atter of cash on hantd the bani was /n ex ce lent sh'ape. Exactl 'what will be o 13s n1ot ,et been'ee ied I s'eyhe y that the su sion w e orlv tem porary, as the resource, of the bank are in such shape, . ing to Mr. .SrEcke, that its depc can be paid in full in a compara: sbort time, ard 50 cents on the ao r within two inouhts. In round nu rs the liabil ities are .;w,000, and assets $600, 000. Of the latter onI '14-500 is real estate. The bank had me city de posits, $3,u00 of Stai money and ,4000 of the count3 . The bank oficials are: Presidei . A. C. Han gaU, who is at present itv treasurer: vriepresident. K. S. E. Johnscn; c-sshier, (. E >recke. . The bank's ioans ai discounts are $507,1-5. Is deposiL are S;4S.000 and its capitai stcci: tU0.00o. The sanouncement of the faiiute of the ohimbia and Wathington hanks cazsed-a considerable Ourry at nea.rly a,.1 of the other bank of the city. The bggest run was on the Farmers and chanics' bank. th"' largest savings insitution in tne no . eat. with de poits of over , " This bank is said to be entire! 'fe. It stood a coi:stant run of eig ays during the aicof 1Sq3. 1 .oLis, D The Wash ington bank of this s closed its doors. Its last S De 17, shows loans and dis an( deposits of $i54 is $100,00 and itssu U.- Hauaan, its pre? rer and it is like. an am nunt of cily fund .,ocked up-by the' failure. Mess is largely with worki. ple- The officers claim that the, ill be able to pa, them in full bia, national f t city closed ts doors this morning ing, to ina ility to make collecti s. i is a coiuaratively new bank aving been organized about five y Iago with x rtate Treasurer Chas. itteher as its president and ex% Treasurer Bobleter as cashier, 1 positions tey still hold. Its capit -n Decemn ber IS was $200,000, 7ith urplus of about $6 000. 1:s losas am discounts were -4S,,000 and its deposi $264,000. It has never been pron:abl-. Deputy Cotroller of the' Currency Joe W Cofin,. who happened to be in the city, took charge of the bank. its officers cam that they will 'be able to pay depositors in full. sNELLBDURGER & SON.AssIGN BALTIMoRE, Dec,3,- -L. Snellburf er & Son,'leading retail dry goods1 merchants of South Baltimore, made an assignment today. Lisabilities $5.000); assets about the same ampount. Pressure of creditors and slow collec ins eaused the suspension. INSoLvENT JEWELRs OscissAT', Dec. 29.-A petitiog was iled last evening by members of, the well known firm of Duhime & ., jeweers, t-or a dissolution and 4re eiver for the firm. They say he company is insolvent and unabi- to meet maturing debts. t'OO MUCH LUNDlER. SEArrLu. Wash., JDec. 29.-Thic B E Stetson and Post Saw Mill cc m pa ny closed down its plant yesterd.ay. thro wing ro) men out of employment. The over producion cf lamber, o geter with the recent failures of eas tern banks sh'ecting a number of wes tern lumber iirms, caused the s-uspen sicn. Will Confe-r w ith Foreign IlmetaliiAtM. W.sis';ToN, Dec. 31.-SenatJr Wolcott af Colorado, the chairma n of the special Senate com-nittee to ar range fora bimetallic cnferenc: of the tionsc of the worldt, i uig abroad to couer with European bi metalists'on the subject. The pur poss of ais visit arec known and ap prov ed by P'resident-elect McKinley, and his 1rip is made at the request of hi5 associacs of the Senatorial comn mitee. The attention of the Senator ws called to the Canton U., dispatch published today that he was going abroad for the'purpose stated and that he would tou with the endorsement of President-tIet McKinley and was em owered in a measure to represent his views. - The Se-astor was not in a pu sion to discuss in detail the state ments in t e dispatea. He did say, however. i.a reply to questions. that it was true that he was going to Euro-pe early in ,Jaauary at the request of his assc ates on 11e Rlepablican caucus committee for consultationi with Ea gih bimetalist. Hie addtd thal tere ereother- matters concernn hi ~sion in the inaterests of bimetai lis whib he pre-ferred not to tais abut? was evident that the Sena tor deoreciated the publication of an5 statemen; coyncerning the errand u pot which Le is about to depart, Mr. Wolcott was asited if the purpose o: his visit were known by Maj 3r Mc Kiney and approved by him, an~d h< aiswred that they were, but when Lpresstd for particulatrs declared tha he 'would prefer not to discussethi -u estion further. The Senator will h< aosr m, et-i some time in Fetbrpary Gee'-a1 Franels A. Wa ho, i wa stated, wou Senia - .\WoI-otton ill n Soe b' tooon er en igenadlts. Otton' :dl.o .O dqmn day4 a-d will Un rii e mills~ might lhe tiS May ?8ov AR OF PROGERSS. IANS REVIEWS THE SI TUATION R A TRADE JOURNAL. dvantagse--Writes an A ccount of as Been and i4 Now Being Done .h Carolina. llowing is an advance sheet e Manufacturers Record for ExECUTIVE CHAMBER, COLUMBIA, S. C., Dec. 21. Editor Manufacturers Record: It would be impossible for me to give your readers in 2,000 words an idea of the material resources or the industrial and business progress and prospects of South Carolina. So rapid has been her industrial progress for the past six years that a book could be easily filled with the enumeration of the numerous and va ried industries. The results of the war and the severer results of the fi eancial policy of the national govern ,ment have not been without their ef fects upon our people and the material I development of our industries. They have taught us to practice economy, live at home and build up our own industries. South Carolina is more favoredi in her topography and climate thain any otherState in the Union, and it is due to these influences more than aay other, that her industries have uros nered while those of her sister States have languished. The State has been divided by nature into three distinct sections, with natural boundaries: 1. The hill, or up country, as it is familiarly known, begins at the Blue Ridge mountains and continues to the sand ridge extending across the State from Aiken to Chesterfield counties. This section abounds in mineral de posits, iron, gold and silver and lime stone being found to the most profita ble extent. Its water powers are suf ficient to turn the wheels of the fac:o ies of the world. The streams come bounding from the mountains, and the fall is so great that dams are un necessary in most instances. The cost for maintenance per horse-power is less than $50 This section has gone forward naturally with more wonder ful strides than the rest of the State, and it may be truly designated as the manufacturing section of the State. Cotton mauufacturing is our vrinci pal industry, and there is not a facto ry in tPe section that has not paid dividends ranging from S to 30 r cent. t iN mills o been csipelled to shut down on ac count )f the great depression in such he advantages of this sec tion are apparent. The streams never freeze, the laborers can work in their shirt sleeves 11 hours a day with per fect comfort all the year round, and the cotton is brought from the fields directly to the mills. The cost of liv ing is cheaper, and I may say better than that. gained by operatives in the east. Oar operatives are all native, Wriceic citi E, and a trike has never teen known in the State. In the last six years South Carolina has increased the number of spindles from 300,000 to 1,300,000, and enjoys tne honor of ranking first in the South in cotton manufacturing. Oar mills are engaged principally in manufacturing the coarser grades of cotton goods, but he mills now being constructed are putting in machinery for the manu acture of the finer grades, and it is nly a question o~f time when this en tire industry will be mohopohized by or section of the country, because we an do it cheaper, and the average Yankee has very-little sentiment when the question of dollars and cents in tervnes. There is a great field in this section for bleacheries: not a yard of the im mense product of our mills is bleach ed in the State. This seems anomalous and is only explained from the fact that cotton manufacturing has bsen so profitable that our pec ple have been content to employ their capital in this channel alone. That sueh an enterprise would be profitable goes without saying, if only to supply the home maiket. Wve man ufacture our cloth, ship to New York, where it is bleached, and then buy it back again, thus- paying freight two ways, whereas a home bleachery vo-1dsave thiexnense arnd necem -i - rive the eastern one out of the mrket. This is our easy and good atured way, however, and we con .irue to pay the tax in order to let our Ieaste'ra brother live. Oar cotton mills a-e 1argely owned by our own people. and"i is a mistake to thmnk that this ridity of development is due to out iec ca.pital. Most of the mills are bail on wgat is known as the install ment plan, thus enabling wage earn es and laborers to become stockhokd rrs ind interested in the success of the -'srrse. Many of the small accounts in&(l savings banks have been thus ~c?erted, and in every case to the <rea: Avoantage or the investor. The onversion of our electric power bids fair to further increase our manufac tories within the next year or two. There is nearing completion in the city of Columbia the largest ekectric power plant south of Niagara falls, and 1 believe the only cotton factory ant run entirely by electrir power isin this country, and is owned large ly by the same stockholders. In ;3U days this 111100 horse power _station will be running mills in this city. There is another company developing the immense power on the Cstawba river, an d contracts have already been entered into whereby the mills of the enterprising city cf Rock Hill are to be run by electricity. South Caro:ina will soon be an electric State in more senses than one. The iron mines in this section, al though rich, are worked on a small scale, but profitably. It will surprise most of your readers to know that South Carolina produces more gold than any State in the Union east of the Mississippi rivmr. We are willing. however-, to abandou this cnterprise for free silver. T wo gold mines are successfully operated in this State. Thle Piedmont section is well tim bercd with oak, hickory, waluut aric short-leaf pine, which is sawed at the Imills and shipped to the northerr u riture factories. A rich field i: offered her-e for such factories, therE beig but one in this section, an'd it i ouraed u pon a smiall secile Cotton is raised in this section, as well as the middle section and is of ver' 'ine grade. This industry p3y: aou't as well as anywhere in t1i soth in view of the low price of thi urodct, which is searcely suthicien o ay for its production. The yieh :jper acre in the State is larger thai at om any S a Wtn t he cotto! 2. The middle country. This section is more or less rolling, and is better known as the sand hills section of the State. It is the head of navigation of most of the rivers, and contains the most fertile lands and most beautiful farms and orchards. For the past five years a great deal of attention has been paid to the cul ture of fruit. The peaches and berries raised in this section command a higher price in northern markets than even California fruits. The industry is growin-, and the old cotton fields are 'ielding a more profitable crop. Several nurseries have been planted, and the home market is almost sup plied by home people. Tais section is now called the h-me of the peach. The watermelon is also grown to per fection, and is a profitable crop. The average yield per acre of cotton and other field products is greater than in the other sections of the Sate, the best farms yielding more than two bales to the acre. Tobacco has tecome the best paying crop in this section, and there are now G,000,000 pounds raised in the State. The timber is principally long leaf or Georgia pine on the rivers and cy press and juniper in the swamps. The climate in this section is warmer than the hill section, and may be called the temporate zone of the State. O mills, cotton factories and saw mills are the principal industries. 3. The low country, or coast sec tion, is the richest naturally, in the State, but, like all higbly favored countries, the people are lesz energetic than those of the middle or up 'oun try. Col. A. K. McClure, in writing of this section, very truly said: "There is no other part of the south where so little labor will produce so much. In a good portion of this section the soil will average seven feet i n deoth, and is practically inexhaustible. Veg etation is usually checked for not more than six week;: seed time and harvest oc::ur in every month." 1 have seen a second crop of pears hanz ing from the trees in B rkeley county during the presen month over hail matured, and had it not been for the seye-e storm that has just visited us, I am sure ere this they would have been redy for shioment to the northern markets. Olives, oranges, bananas, figs and all tropical fruits may be had here, with vegetables Dearly all the year round. The most important crops of this section are the rice and sea island cotton crops. Great num bers of the old rice plantations were abandoned during the war a onaires. Here will be found the negro in his I riginal state, as happy as though he 1 were in the Garden of Elen, speaking his own language, and contented to 1 live on what dame nature so gener- 1 ously provides, and many a million aire would envy him did he but know his bill of fare. On a recent hunt in his section a party of gentlemen de voted one day to their ability to pro vide food with gun and canoe. They wre in Berkeley county nw (oe Romain. Arising at 5 o'clock a. m. they tcok the canoe and went off into the marshes, and returnned at 8 o'clock for breakfast with 32 mallard ducks. After breakfast the hounds. were turned in the deer drives and they returned to lunch with three handsome deer and four wild turkeys. A fer lunch, at 2 o'clock, a trip was made to the snipe bogs, and returning to dinner at 6 o'clock they counted 12 woodcock, 27 snipe and twvo marsh ens. A negro had been given halIf a dollar, and he returned from the 0 .vendah river with three barrels of oysters and a basket of mullet. After dinner a coon hunt was arranged, and before 10 o'clock our party returned with four raccoons and two opossums. Every negro raises his rice, coro and potatoes by simply planting them, as nature does the rest. Verily,this is the land of milk and honey. The pastures are ever green, and 'hogs and cattle are fed only to keep them tame. These lands can be bought from $t to $2 per acre, and the pine ridge is as healthy as the Piedont section,. No country possesses greater natural facilities for producing grasses, hay and live stock, and their products of meat, butter and milk. This is also the nome of ~he dia mondback i~erraoi'u, so toothsome to te epieure. Tne developinent o Port lloyal, will soon make this th garden spot of the world. This sec tion is also rich with phosphate de posits. South Carolina, with these p hosphatic deposits, mnanu ~nctures mre fertilizers than any other State. It wlll thus be seen that one taking the train in the early morning at Charleston or Port R oyal,arrives at Co - lumbia 11 and at Spartanburg at 2,har ing breaktasted in the tropics, lunched in the plains and dined on tne highest peaks east of the Rlockies. The taxes in Soiuth Carolina are owe'r than any in the Union. We spend more for education in propor tion to our wealth than any people la the Union. Uur State debt is about SG5)0,0CU, refunded at 4 1-2 per cent., and is being decreased every yea~r by a sinking fund. Our farmers. although severely oppressed by low prices, are making no debts and decreasimg their old ones. In 18tiu the per capita dett of the State was $11:35; today it is less than $i, a recluctior.-in less th ~x years of f4 per cnt. In 1890 the taxable property State was in round nu-nbers,*1 000): in 1$fi1 it was nearly U u00, an increase of $25,000.00U riodl during whi'.h the wiealth of sections of the country showed a de crease. The increase in prope-rty iu 194 over 1893~ was '3.:Noyco. Our sister State of Georgia for trie same period show ed a decrease of over $53, The annual products of the State for 1530 were valued $12')'0,.00, t wo tifths of wbich was in manufactured p:oducts. In 189G the value of agri caltural products alone amounts to $16.00,00t-more than all products conbined in 1890, and cotton is one third less in value. No southern Istate can compare with Soath Caro lira in t he advrance that has been made since 1890. The assessment of property for the past yea2r will showva slight de crease over the preceding year by rea son of the reduction in the assestment of railroad p'roperty. Not a railr'oad in this State is now in the h~ands of a rce-ver. and al show good earnings. in the >:ali::Z scale our State stands forty second in the amounlt of motgaged indbtedness. In her edu catinal fa.cilhties th.> State is no .'x the eqal of any in i he L'nion. TnC pub lie school- are we-ll attemled an'. tb Iclegesare full. There are 5,000 tuo; ctiden in the school this year than last. WXe have homes and' faru:s for .j. nvmes time nombe-r ni our ihab ita ats- and we welcome good suoman tial citizens. There is no room, however, in South Carolina for unpatriotic pauper immigrants. We are American, pre serving our individuality and institu tions, and believing in the rule of the majority and equal rights to all. South Carolina will survive and prosper on her natural resources, and by the .ndefatigable energy of her people. while those to whom she now pays tribute will languish and decay. We wish the Union a happy and prosperous New Year. JoNs GARY EVANS, Governor. FLANNAGAN A FIEND. Murders Two Old People and a Girl Near Atlanta Georgia. AT.LATA, Dec., 31.-Elward C. Flann.igan, an employe of the Stand ard Oil company, attempted to exter minate the Allen family at Poplar Springs, Dekalb county, tonight, and did kill thrEe members. His victims were Dixon E. Allen and wife, an old couple, both more than 70 Tears old, and Miss Ruth Slack. Flannagan seems to have been in love with Leila Allen, the 11-year-old grand daughter of Dixon Allen. The ld couple's married son, G. W. All-n, and his wife and two chil dren 1 .ed with them in a neat little cottage four miles from the city lim its. Plannagan had been boarding with them for six months. His ac tions today were not quite natural, but he did not cause any alarm. It was noticed though that he was anx ious to get the members of the family to leave the house. Lite in the after noon he returned, and when supper was armounced he ate with the fa-ni ly. When be had fiaished, he asked Mrs. G. W. Allen to give him a drink of water. She left the ro->m to get it. Her husband was standing by the table talking to his father. Flanna gan went to his own room, and return ing in a moment, thrust a pistol through a portiere close to the son's head and fired. Allen dodged and the ball :uck him in the back of the head. Re fell to the floor. Flanna gan stepped over his body and knock ed the lamp from the table with a wave of his pistol. This left the room in darkness. Old Mrs. Allen,Miss Slack, who was a sister of the young er 3rs. Allen, and the children ran into a room in terror. Flannagan clubbed the elder Allpr a - 1- . , .. Jlien was shot through the 0J_ .wice and killed. Miss Slack was shot hrough the back and mortally ounded. At this moment the daugh er-in-law who had gone for the wa .er. returned and rushed into the -oom. where she heard the firing. 3hr found that Flannagan was trying o Ikill. Leila, her daughter. She str-Luck the pistol and then clinched mt'i the murderer. He struggled and ;he h.d to him until he had dragged e -.-t of doors. Tbere she, by al nost superhuman strength, threw nim he ground. Flannagan fought Like a -nad man and tried his best to ;hoot her. She succeeded in keeping aim from doing so for a minute or ore. By this time her hushand had recovered consciousness and he ran ut to his wife's rescue. Together they were able to hold Flannagan and disarm him. Mrs. Allen then :alled for help, and when neighbors arrived Allen was holding the mur derer on the ground. Flannagan was bound with ropes and held until Seriff Austin of Dekalb county ar rived. In the meantime a large crowd had assembled and they talked of lynching liarmgan. The sheriff did not wait to give oppi;tnty; but immediately hurried the prisoner off and brought him into the city, where e was placed in the county jail. Flannagan would not talk, except to say that he was drunk. A bottle of whiskey and 85:35 were found in his pockets. He had evidently prepared himself for Ilight. Flannagan came to Atlanta from Louisville, Kly., last spring. He was a carpenter by trade, but of late had some connection with the Standard Oil company. Miss Siack, who died about midnight, was from ;Birming ham. She was to be ma'ried next weea. G. W. Allen, who was not dangerously wounded, is a contractor. He thinks that Flannagan was in love with his daughter, Leila, and wanted to kill the entire family because he could not marry the child. Flannagan retained Judge Hillyer to defend him. The attorney had an interview with the prisoner at the jail tonight, but refused to talk and askcd the jailor not to allow any one to see Flannagan. Tough on the Spanlahi Cons::l. JAeK-muIL:, Fla.. Dec. 3.-Thie steamer D~auntless, which the govern ment has granted permission to clear for a Cuban part with a cargo of ammu nitions of war, is not in port at pres et. The owner says it has gone on a "wreeking trip, and may not return for a week. The Dauntless gave the revenute cutters the slip yesterday, go ing out of the river from! one of the shallow channels, and this has aroused the suspicion that the vessel is again on a filibustering trip. The owners say the vessel will be formally cleared for Cuba as soon as it shali returin. The Commodore has also been granted permission to clear with arms, and will do so in the morning. Several .car loads of arms and ammunition are Ei- the city awaiting ship-nent. A ratner anomalous fact is presented in that, if either boat shall clear for Cuba the Soanish Consul or Vice Consul will have to sign the clearance papers. this being re-y ired when a vessel clear, for a foreign port. In this imstance it would be a case of a Soanish oilleer aixing his signature to a document permitting a vessel to carry war mate ral to a people lighting against gov erment. Consul Solis was asked if ie would refuse to sign the clearance paers of the Dauntless. H~e said that he could not refuse, as it was his duty to sign the p apers. The eago of both boats will be shipped to Silvado Cisn eros. President of the Cuban Repub lic, the Dauntless cargo consigned to Nuevitas and that of the Commodore to Santiago. 'I he lague I in ubay. Bo~MmA', Pec. 2s.- -The health sta tistics show 1at up to today there hare bec 2.K94 cases and 1,5#4 deaths from the bubonic plague, which is epirnmi ini this city. People are stil. Ileeing from the city, but the la rue continues to increase. Mar tiau law is threatened upon tne na tJ es failing to obey the satitary reg ul.nas to the ltter. MANY COTTON M LS. THIS STATE FAST FORGIN 0 INOUSTRIOUSLY. The Record of a Tear-Minh Ca vested In all Kinds of Ente Figures Given- Execelln' The preparation o! that port the annual repc- of the secretary of state which shcws the number of char ters issued to Pew enterprises during the past year, ending yesterday, was completed last evening and it makes a showing that indicates that South Carolina is making rapid strides in the matter o industrial development. Particularly indicative are the figures showing the number of cotton mills started and the capital invested in them. It should be remembered that a charter is not issued to a company until 50 per cent. of the entire capital has been subscribed and 20 per cent. paid in. The report shows that 131 compa nies were chartered during the year, of which 12 are cotton mills with a capital stock of $1,050,000; six cotton oil mills with a capital of $97,000, and 113 other companies representing a capital of *1,646,710. The grand total of all invested capital for this period is $5,793,710. In addition to this some 56 commissions have been issued for which as yet no charters have been ranted. Here is the list of the c:mpanies chartered, showiog the location and amount of capital invested in each: Williamston Oil and Fertiliz-tr co., Williamston; capital stock $20.000. Stewart Constracting co., Colum bia; capital stock $40,000. Arcade Cotton Mills, lHck ijIB; capital stock $200,000. The Orangeburz Mercanti~e associa tion. Orangeburg;capital stock $3,000. Pee Dee Telephone co.. Marion; capital stock $SOO. Queen Investment co , Charleston; capital stock $25,000. Acme Investment co., Charleston, capital stock $10,000. Charleston Knitting Mills; capital stock $25,000. Cherokee Lind co., Gatraey; capi tal $10,000. South Carolina Midland c>., Barn well; capital $150,000. SHirs~ jrenc Drug co., capital $4,000. Hope Building and Loan associa ion, Charleston; capital $150,000. Carolina Mutual Telephone and elegraph co., Charleston; capital 30,000. Mutual Advertising co , Charleston; apital $1,000. Spartan Grocery co., Spartanburg; :apital S3,000. Fairfield Cotton Mills; capital $65,I )00. Ingleside Supply co., Columbia; :api"' ;.-,' i 2. Guardian Building and Lan asso :iation, Charleston; capital $150,000. Hickory Grove and Lozkhart Shoals ransportation co., Blacksburg; capi :al $10,000. W. F. Googe co., Aliendale; capital '10,000. Newberry Grocery co., capital $2, )00. Beverly Granite co , Easley ; capital l0,000. Carter Merchandise co.. Westmin ter; capital $25,000. Spartanburg Iron Works, capital .50000. Sumter M anufacturing co., capital 3100, 000. A nderson Mattress and Spring Bed .,capital $2,500. Winhnsboro Bank, capital $150,000. Abbeville Telephone co., capital $1,000. Darlington Mercantile co., capital 5,000. Barnwell and Blackville Telephone Exchange co., capital $500. Anderson County Telephone co., capital $1,000. Tue Barnwell Oil Mill, capital $20, 000. Produce Excwhange of Charlestem, capital $2,500'. The Souitiern CoLu ea., uniaries ton, capital $3,009. Thbe Greenwood Telephone and Elec tric Light co., capital $2,000. The Ducker & Bultmnan co., Sum ter; capital $12,000. The Commercial Bank of Ne w berry, c pital $50,000. Manchester Cotton Mills, Rock Hill, capital $200,000. Dreifus & Co., G reenville; capital Elorence Prize House co., capital $,00". Carolina Bond and Investment Co.. Columbia; capital $5,000. Charleston Mattress and Wood ware Manufacturing co., capital $2i1,V00. Mallard Lumber co. (iimitedi, Greenville; capital $:V,'''0. The Jonesville Knitting mills; capi tal $5,000. Cudworth HTar-ness and Saddlery co., Charlestot'; capital $s,uou. The Rock Ilill Athletic association: capital $1,500. The Anderson Fire and Mutual Life Insurance Co. The Sun Co., Charieston, capital $10,000. Waccamna ' line of steamers, capital $15000. The Farmiers Warehous2 co., Harts ville; capital $3,500. The Sout hern L-umber and Fruit co., Charleston : capital $5.000. Clinton Telephone Co , capita! $1 o Mercantile 13. & L. association, Charleston: capi)tal 8 5 ),iJ00. Clinton Cotton Mills,capital $50')'. Pedople's B & L . associition, Rck Hiil:; capita! $50,00)0. Columbia and Eau Claira :iectric Railway co., capital $5,.a Paudd'ing Swamp TobaCco Ware house co., Sumte~r; capital $1.000. Samnter Cotton Odl and Fertilizer co., capital $20,000. Pythian Hall co., Charleston; capi tal $15,000. Enterprise C )tton Milis, ):ange burg ; capital $9,W0. Chneraw Loan and Improvement co. capital $21,00".. Monetta Mills, Laindo, Chester co. capital $50,000. Orangeburg Iusurance Agency capital $100. Kersghaw B-uid u~d Loan asso ciaion,ZV,> - -'~ Charleston water wfgs capita Clarendon Tobac~o A Wareho-:se "nc Supply co.. cap~titl9,. Charleston Fire and Marine 1vsur ance co., capital $2 0K. lion, Georgetown: capital 4t1,01it. Lancaster and Chester Railway co., capital M50,000. - Kerrison Dry Gocds co., Charleston, capital 10,006. The Southern Wll Fixture co., ' artanburz; canital $1,000. ohn C. Ferguson co., Charleston: tal $4,(00. th Carolina Braiding co., Che ital 85u, 40. lachuela club, Garnett; cap itai ".."-. The Ke - 2 Inslitute, Columbia: capital 35,0c0. Spartanburg FerUiier co., cap-al $20,000. The Citizen's Fire Insuraece co., Columbia: capital ;!200,007. Farmers Prize House ca., IKorence. capital $l,25u. Arkwright Mills, Spartanburg: cap ital $200,000. Saluda Land and Improvement co., capital i4,000. The Coastwise Steamboat co., Char leston; capital 1,000. North and South Island and Annan dale Telephone co., capital one thou sand dollars. Carolina Broom and Manufacturing e ., Charlestcn; capital five thousand dollaIrs. Kathwood Manufacturing co., Aik en county; capital fifteen thousand dollars. Home Telephone co., Greenvilie; capital four thousand dollars. Pluiner Water Elevator co.. Colum bia: capital fifteen thousand dollars. Beaufort water works; capital ten thousand dollars. Charleston Shoe Manufacturing co., capital t wenty-five thousand dollars. Simpsonville Oil Manufacturing -o., capital ten thousand dollars. Steadman Lumber c., capital five thousand dollars. Benjamin Adams co.. Charleston; cauLtal five thousand dollars. Carolina Telephone Exchange co., Aiken; capita! one thousand dollars. Florence Mercantile association; capital one thousand dollars. Sumter Tobacco Board of Trade, capital sixty dollars. Blacksburg Cotton Mill ca., capital fifty thousand dollars. The Greers' Cotton Seed Oil and Fertilizer co., capital twelve thousand dollars. Heins Furniture co., Charleston - capital five thousand a tnlousand olars. J. D. Craig Furniture c3., Sumter; capital six thousand dollars. The Germania Brewing c:., Char leston: capital one hundred thousand dollars. Glenn Jones Hardware co., Abbe rille; capital five thousand dollars. The National Fire Insurance cc. of Marion. C. G. Mathews co.. Charleston ; cap ital ten thousand dollars. Progressive Investment Co.,Charles ton capital ,ive thousand dollars. Bee Hive M rarire i bia; capital two thousand five hundred olars. The Adams Cotton Co., Charleston; capital thirty thousand dollars. Southern Loom, Harness and Reed Manufacturing Co., Spartanburg; capital ten thousand dollars. E. M. Moreland Co., Charleston; :apital six thousand dollars. The Heriot & Stoefer Co., Charles ton; capital twenty fire thousand dol lars. Paris Mountain Land Co.; capital ten thousand dollars. The Mutual Savings association, Columbia; capital one hundred thou. sand dollars. Charleon Iporting anid hysrt ing Co. ; capital one thousand dolV The Greer Drug Co.-, Charles. capital thirty thousa::d dollars. Charleston Basket and Veneer Man. uacturing Co., Charleston; capital forty thousand dollars. Pringle Brothers, Charleston; cap ital sixty-five thousand dollars. Chesterfield Telephone. and Tcle graph Co,; capital tire hundred dol lars.I Hartman Colony Co.. Abbevilel county. capitgi thirty thousand dol Spartanburg Knitting Mills; capital ten thousand dollars. - Domestic Building and Loan asso ciation, Charleston; capital one hun dred and fifty thousand dollars. The Immaculate Kaolin Co., Lang ley: capital it fty thousand dollars. Charleston Street Railway Co. ; cap ital two hundred thousand dollars. Theria st Carolina Loan and In dsraInurance Co.; capital ten thousand dollars. Thne Coronaea Milling Co ; capital afteen thousand dollars. The Giranby Mercantile Co., Colum bia; capital ten thousand dollars. C. W. Pitchford Co , Walhalla; epit-al ten thousand dollars. Buyck Supply Co., St. Mattnews; capital fifteen thousand dollars. Spanishl !nutcheries. 1 Lo~,Dec l1.-G uanabacoa city. on the other side of the harbor is ter ribly excited by the crimes of the no torious.Major Fondeviela is commit ting daily. Families are moving to Habana, belag horror stricken. Since being o'ace~d in command of the gar rison.v-ce Count U'Reilley, released, bing a Cuban, tihe former is made re s'onsible for the entry of the rebels. Te daily batcheries ~made by Span 'rds are s-kid to exceed :su. It is hard oobtain facts as the people, fear to speak. Dat herewith is a complete lis and dates ol those killed: On the -:!the same day he took command. he odered the brothers Rtuiz killed; onteSth, one named Sotolongo: o'n the ., Nuenz and others; on the -ib Morales, So years of age, on the farmn of Noi~ia and seven more besides voune 1Patorin, well known in Ha Ian-'a aS b aseball player. it is said thtduring the iast three nights~more wee 11lld. All were taken at night from thneir homes, bound an~d broug~ht to the outskirts of the city. s -ase du with machetes and their bodies lef t ini the tield. Their families were pro hibited from burying them 'N\o for m ual trial was gi-ven, n-t even a semn bance of the same. Al we e ied at once on Fonder:ela's orders. Sme More 1'rosperty S-:N o i1 ., Dec. 28.Notic was3 pos' -. 1i te hladelp.ia and fi.e-e hend in th~e-vciitu heia. anxd a~ -tanubr. fi dar- evenmn unal -oay. .;aur I. This Aron's -' *u men am y A TERRIBLE WRECK. THIRTY PERSONS PERISH NEAR B1 MINGHAM. ALABAMA. A Rail Was Removed Ly Wreckers and the Train Pluuiged a Hundred Feet Thro a Treatie-A Second Aeciden . Bil a 'IN- 1AM , Dec. 27.-One of most disastrous wrecks in the hist of Southern railroaas happened miles sou l of here this mornin 7:50 cclock, in which 23 persons w killed outright and 10 others injur two of whom will die. The- :I fated train was a Louisvi and Na:-hville accomodation, whi ruf from here to blockton, a dis of .es The train left here :: ierafge of Engineer Frauk whte and Codector A. P. Connell. north of Blockton, the entire -ain . up an' engine, ba gage and .o passenger cpac crashed through the bridge 7 k long and 120 feet high, into the taha ba river. A rail had been r-moved from the track and when the ingine struck this, 360 feet of the bridga gave way and went down with the *rain. Tminediately the wreck took fire the weter being only about three Feet deep, and before sufli:ient help co' d be secured, the unfortunate passe ge-rs and trainmen who were pinion ed under the debris were burned to death in sight'of other unfortunates. Some of the passengers, not so bad ly hurt, managed to crawl out and do all they could in assisting others, out with little avail. The dead are: Fank White, engineer, of Birming nam. George Carney, fligman, of Birm ingham. A. P. Connell, conductor, of Birmi ingham. Tom Streetor, colored porter, of Birmingham. Jordon Powell, wife and eight chil dren, of Blocton. Mrs. Henry Banberry and two chil dren, of Birmingham. James Boling, express messenger, of Guthrie, Ky. L. W. Martin, Brookwood. Bruce Phillips, Blockton. S. W. Tibbs and wife, Camb! internally, will die; Stan arm broken. The bridge was a ponder structure with an iron span of In the center and just at th ning of the iron work trpU. had pulled the spikes ..ud one of the rails. When the e discovered this, as was evid the Dosition of his throttle a lever, he immediately Ettem stop,bWas running at such of sbeed as to carry down the Every evidence showed that th mreckers had been at work. As soon as news was receiv both the Louisville and Nash Southern railroads sent otu trains loaded with physician others, and everything possibl done for those who had been nate enough to get out of reach flames, which quickly consume the coaches and a par-t of the~b Many of the killed were compl charred beyond recognition. The exact number who perish never be known, but it is th that it will reach 35. To cap the climax, one of the trains which left here ran int rear end of the workin ea which was stopped about 150 fe .sbrilge, and came near knock, in on top of _the burning train. In this accideli Zhe following we, injured: Sam Easti's,Wi).1 die; Wil iam Rast, will die; Wood, Campbl, leg broken; Charles Elston,TIgesltad ly hurt; John Rittenberry, ankle bro ken. The scene at the wreck presented a most heart rending and sickening spectacle. The cars were smashed to splinters on the rocks fully;100 feet haow the 'rack from which the train had been hurled. The groans of the injured and lamentations of those who crowded around were pitiable in the extreme. Remarkable Jewish Opinion. Sars the Chicago Tribune of Friday: Dr. ~Emile G. Hirsch stood before a engregation in Zion Temple last night and for nearly an hour and a half pleaded with them to ohrg Christmas day as the greatest of holia days. Among his hearers were men and women; who had grown gray in the belief that it was their religious duty to scoff at the celebration of Christmas day and to consider it mere ly as the anniversary of one of the greatest Jewish persecutions in his tory. Dr. Hirsch among other things said: "We rabbis have never asked you business men to close your stores on Christmas day. We did not need to ask you, for on this day you could not do business. We live under new conditions. Today is a universal holi dar. and is neither Christian nor Jew ish. Suppose this is the birthday of Jesus. There never lived a better Jew than Jesus. The. Jews did not crucify Jesus-at least, the Jews of the people did not. They had no rea son to crucify him. Rome had him cruciid as a conspirator against her dominion over Jerusalem. There may have been Jews who took part in His cruciiixion, but there are bad and tratorous men among all peoples. So wemay celebrate his birthday. No oeha; revoutionized humanity so much us Jesus. We of the liberal church of Jews have no reason to pro test at tne name of Jesus. The name of Him made it possible for a daugh ter religion to conquor the world. We Je s are religion poor and race proud. I1 would have Jews enter into the spirit of tbh. of peace on earth and good will ard man. The birthnighat of Jesus was a night of nerseution to the Jews, and this fact as causedI us net to celebrate Christ mas day. But woe to a generation of Jews which turns that night toa nmght of frivolity and scofling. If we can n ot 'veiccme, let us at least be silent on a day so sacred to others. It is a :uman day '.o mren. It is the dawn of uonamong muen. Is c:erut i with Your Lamps. oda. Th.ie building was partially