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VOL -4 NI(i~S . ENSAAGUT4 ~7 ___ _ _-N.2 THE S PATE I.XCII LNG E ANNUAL REPORT OF MANAGER DUN CAN, CF THE EXCHANGE. TheFarmerb' Alifance E xchange Ras Don Good _Buneiss--Facts of !uterest to Allancemen-The Fa Year's Bueinrea In Full. Manager D. P. Duncan, or the Stale Alliance Exchange, has submitted the following report : I beg leave to --bmit this my an nual report as manager of the Farm ers' Alliarce Exchanee for the year ending July 2;th, 1897: The past year's busintss of your ex change will comre very favorably with that of preceding years. The bureau work as we may term it, has increased until now it is one of the leading features of the exchange business. To give vau some idea of the way in which the exchange is used as a bureau of information, we received during the past year 3,530 letters, all of which were on business matters. The members of the orgamnzaticn use the information furnished them to bring about competition in their lcc3l i markets, and are much Lcuefitted is this way. We re c-ived q95 orders for gccds, which we thIrk were filled in a satisfactory manier to the mem bers. We sent out weekLy price current, through The Cotton Par t, whkh cain -;; tains the wholessle prices of all arti cles commonly used on our farirs. Just one year ago e were confroat ed with tha ac: that the entire rrce uc - tion of cotton ties had passed under control of one combination, and ex tortionate prices were demanded for them. In my report to the State Allianc last year I recommended that vie use wire or some other substitute. The State Alliarce tcok such accon, and ycur exchange was instructed to see what could be done in the way of a substitute. After. considerable correspondence and a personal visit to New York, we arranged with Washburn & Moen Manufacturing company of Worces ter, Mass , for 10.000 bundles of wire t:s, The Cincinnati Wire Fence con pany made quite a lot of wire tie;, which were used in this state and .a the southwest, about 15,000 bundles were used during the last cotton set son. The combination on cotton ties was so well managed that we were not aware of it until it was so late in the season that we wereat great disadvant age in the fight made against the im position. From our correspondence with the Alliance in North Carolina, Georgia and Texas, much interest was mani fested, and the reason more active steps were not taken in those states was for want of business organiza tion. We were assured, however, that if the tie trust kept up, they would most assuredly join us another season. In November, 1896, the IllinoisSteel company sent one of their agents to Columbia to see us and to know if they would make flat hoop ties (they had never made any), at the old prices, if we would use tnem. They, at the same time, stated that they were not in the Cotton Tie trust, and had refused to be a party to it when invited to do so. In March we s'gncd up a contract for 5,000 bundles of ties, Columbia de livery, for 70 cents per bundle. This was for the same tie the trust demanded $1.35 per bundle for just one year ago. An av-erage crop of cotton for South Carolina is 750.000 bales, a bundle of ties will pack five bales. It, therefore, takes 150,000 bundles of ties to pack up an average ~crop. Thus we see with a demand of 65 cents per bundle, this combination oroposed to tax cottor. planters of the State to the amount of S97,500, when they consideted that they had us at their mercy . I do not want to mak-e claim for more than is due the action of the Al liance organization in cur State, but the facts are before you. One of the largest iron manufactur ers in the United States, withcut any solicitations on our part, sends their representatives to see us. to make ar rangements for cotton ties for the pre tent year's crop at figures as low .or lower than ties hsave ever been dehiv ered in the interior. I firmly believe this was due to the existence of the organization we have. I have reportEd the matter someWhat in detail as an illustration of the great advantage there is in having your business organizrtion in proper snap.e, -when any emergency arises I believe 1 can say without fear cf contradiction, that after the action of your State Alliance all the second nand and pieced tier~together with the wire ties, our farmers could get, '~ere used in our last crop, snd less bundles of new ties were used in proportion in South Carolin. tLan say other catton. State. Your Afliance orgariaation did it. I desire to call your attention to a light weight tie that is offer ed on the market tais sea'son. While I am not prepared to say that it is a fraudl, be cause it is offered on the market at just what it is, and no farmer need al iow himself deceived by it. It is a tie that weighs 30 pounds to the bundle of thirty ties, as against the 45 pounds to bundle. Where the price of the 45 poun d tie is fixed at 75 cents, the light weight tie is sold at 62i~ cents per bunole. We all know that we have to account for the 6 per cent. tare, and it stan ds to reason that if this is not consumed in some full weight covering, that the farmer will lose it in actual cotton. To illustrate, a bundle of 45 pound ties at 75 cents, you sell your cotton at 7 cents, and there is 45 pounds of ties at a cost of 75 cents, y ou beil it for 7 times 45 or $3 15 less the 75 cents, or net, $2.40. The 30) pound ties at 62i cents sold at 7 cents, gives $2 10 less the 62j cents, cost or net St.j (ents, ana you have lost 921 cenrts to every bun dIe of light ties y u use. This is what I suppcse might he termed fgir and legitimate robbery, as you are imform ed beforehand. A 500 pound relie of coton on its arrival in Liverpcol, the mar het that fixes the price of cotton for ..he world, is assessect 6 per cent, for tare, which simply means 3) pounmds to the baie, therefore you should put on a cheap covering ~as near this 30 pounds as pcssible, and whenever you fail1 to de so, you rob yourself. UWe only heavy bagging and standard ties, this puts your cotton in marketabie shape. think the thanas of the Allianee or ganrztion of theState are due Messrs. Washburn & :orn Ynfrceurse company of Worcester, Mu>s.. for their action in aii,' us in our nzht on the cotton tie trust, ard we earn estly urge our members to maie u'se cf the products of their manufactures whcnever they meet them in the mar ket. .r1 conclusion, we vill rnort rwhat w have urged upon tl-e mIembers of the organizati.n, ;a3e2?on and outof season, that in this ae of c'ombir.a tie' that you should stand by your ors nn-zato r. We have no k!ht to ma'e on any trade, profession. or business interest, siumiv to look after ,our ovn aiTairs: try to Imprse on n- oneand don't al lo- yourself robbed. Consolidate your orders for your fe-"l:izers, machinery, your ag;iutu ral implements througn your exchange ard deal directly for these things through it with the manufacturc r3. The casn business done for the cast year amounted to k6'S91.4t. This was done at an exoense of less than 5 per cent. for all current expenses. Al of which is resnctfully submitted D. P. Duncan, Manager. C!VIL SERVICE REFORM. Important Amencments to Rules Fromnni gated. Presiden. McL.inley bas promulget ed the following important amend miert to civil service rule 2: No removal shall be :sade from an ostion subject to competive ex a a'ion excett for -ust cause ar up.n written charges filed with ehe bea of the department or other Pp pn ing oflicer, and of which the c'ssed shall have full notice and an op.rtunity to make defense." ii also amen ded rule 3 so as to in cl; within the classified service the er. 'oyes of all custom house cfcers, wi h .jo re ard to nu tmber o f em po: es. Hitherto the classifcatiot eriraced custom officers where the nu iber of emrloyes was five or rore. This order brings into the classfied service sixty live hitherto unclassified customs cifiers The president has aIso amended rule 6 making exceptions to examinations, so as to read as follows: "Customhouse service-One cashiet in each customs district, one chief of principal deputy or assistant collector in each customs district, one principal deputy collector at each sub post or station. "Internal revenue service-One em plcye in each internal revenue dis trict, who shall act as cashier, o2 chief, deputy, or assistant collector, a: may be determined by the treasury department: one deputy collector in each internal revenue district where the number of employes in the office of the collector exceeds four: one deputy collector in cach stamp (o branch) cffie. "Anpointmen's to the position named in this rule in the customhouse service and internal revenue .service sball be subj:ct to an examination, tc be prescribed by the secretary of the treasury, nor disapproved by the com mission, equal to the examination held by the commission for positionsof like grade. Such examinations-shall be conducted by the commission in ac cordance with its regulations." The plan of the extension which was formulated by Secretary Gage and Assistant Secretary Vanderlip ha: tWe unqualified and hearty endorse mnent of the the civil service commis sion, 'who earnestly recommend to the president its approval. In speaking5 of the amendment, President Proctoi of the commission said that friends o: civil service reform everywhere con gratulate themselves on this advance of the cause. The commission in its last annual report had said that gov enent officers should have t be po w er of removal for the proper reasons. Tsplcal Texa Trsgedy. In the stc e brokerage cilice of C. E Trice & Co., of Kac>, Texa,. Wed. nsday, B. F. Kivett and W. W. Kiv ett were shot and killed by W. Lam. dea member of the firm. Bad feel ing has existed betwcen the Kiveti brothers and Lamnden for some time, growing out of charges made by the relatives of Lamnden arnd a sister o! the iKivetts. The shooting bet ween the brothers and Limden cccurred during the busiest part of the day, when the office was crowded, and it caused in tense excitement. T wo more of the T wo more of the Kivett brothers arm ed themEelves and prcceeded to tf.i scene of the shooting, threatening tc kill Lainden, but they were not allow ed to enter. The killing is universally looked upon as justifiable. About month ago the Kivetis attempted tc kilt Lamden, inflicting a knife wounc on him, and they had frequently th~eatened to kill him since then yhis morning they appeared in thi doorway of Trice & Co.'s o?1ee. Lam den was informeo. of their coming As they appeared in the door the' d&e r their pistols, but Lamden firec wih a shotgun before thoy connenc ed to shoot, killing B. F. Kivett in ssatly. W. W. Kivett rushed or Lamyden with his revolver and ther ,abb~ed it. The ment wrestled ove: te wveapoD, 'which Kivett succre-e I in ring several times without result L toden finally succeeded in drawiu. Iis revolver and shootin g Kivett threi imes. Lamnden was unin jared. The Unloaded Gnn. IA shocking trage d v ccrre d on M J. B1. Oates' place lie rie ,s south c Columbia Sundayv. While dem W il li ams, a colored tenant, and his fail:i were away frm home Thomas Eiot :rd, his little stepson, nine yearsod shot and mortally wour ded Williams little girl, Josie, who was just thre years old. The chilren were alct. ini the house, when Thomas, seeina sogun on the shelf, tack it dowr Observing that there we re not caps c: the tubes, pointed it at his little sie sister and cried "Look cut." Instani ly there was a loud ;eport and the ir ccent little girl fell back'.ard, he forehead perforated with. snot, whic penetrated the brain and caused deat after six hours of suffering. Wholesale Grc cery Trade. The Wholesale Grceir publishe Fru~y answrers from jabers all ove the country to ques:sons regardin trade. Replies were from jouersi twenty seven states, and fifty pcr care shows an increase in the volumec business for the first half of 18S 7 coxpared with the same perica l: year, thirty per cent. report the ye ume about the samec and twerty pt cett. no a decrease. The cu'-stio of definite improvement wss aL~swie sairmatively by seremty per cen Sec' onally, sixty four oer cent. of to jobbers ia the sou theru tatesr, sixtI ive in the eastern, seventy fromn to western and ninety-:hve per ceLt. frc: - the central states said "y es" to tee IL! ow HE aPPENED TO SAY . it r!c Obe tv'ttcn of severnrr of N.C. to Governor :r 1. C. Every man in the United States supnosd to know what the Gv nor of Norih Carolira sai- to ice .ocernor of o n ut -r d.r:what circlmstances te 'i-m .up ri nt ' rk was made. I v Near v a c""uv" 'ago a manV' moF - i unt in Ioliiica a sire in Nr Clina moved across the borrier ad s t tied in South Caroli.a. He hid been Aber:. onl a short i-e when he com r:itted some small c:.me. :or rhc he was indictd. o escape arrest he returned to his old home in Nor:' Carolim In due course of tim' the 1'overuor of South Caroina isswd his requisition on the governor of North Caeroia for the fugitive crininat. The fugitive had rich and influen il friends in his native State, and 1hev interceded with. ;e govern un til .e refused to grant the rcquatsion. A long oticial correspondence fol :owed. Prominent ien in South Car Jina told the governor that he had not been treated with proper oi~cial cour tesy by the governor of North Caroli na. The result was that the South Carolina governor, sccomnanied by a large party of friends and advisers. journeyed by stage to Releigh, for a con ference with the governor of North Carolina with a large party of distin guised friends mpt the goyerror of South Caro!!ia and his psrty sex eral mites fron town aed escorted t' to the gcvernor's mansion wit all the . " "'rt e:tremenv dL suc diC: stinguis-hed ri itors Beore 'he obIct of his visit -as sttd the entire assemo e :a. down to an elaborate d iner. Af%' dinner wine w 's served and after wine came brady-thesappiejack for which the old North State is lanious. After nanv rounds of drink! the de canters and glasses were iemoved and the governor of South Carolina states the object of his visit. He detanded the surrender of the fugitive crininal. 'be governor of North Carolina re fused. Then followed a long and heated discussion. in which the attorneys general of the two States took an active part. Finally the gov ernor of South Caiolna grew angry, and rising to his feet said "Sir you have refused my just demand and offended the dignity of my oflice and my State. Unless you at once surrender the prisoner, I will return to my capital, call out the militia of the State, and returning with my army, I will take the fugitive by force of arms. Governor, what do you say?" All eyes were turned on the gover nor of North Carolina, and his answer was awaited with breathless interest. Tne governor rose slowly to his feet and beckoned to a servant who stood some distance awe... His beckoning was firm and dignified, as bt.came his position. He was slow about answer ing, and again the governor of South Carolina demanded: "What do you I say, governor, that it's a lonr time between drinks." The reply restored gcod humor. De canters and glasses were brought out again, and while the visitors remained if any one attempted to refer to the diplomatic object of the visit, he was cut short by tne remark that it was a long time between drinks. When the visiting governor was ready to re turn home he was escorted to the State line oy the governor of North Carolina, and they parted the best of friends. The fugitive was neversurrendered. LATEST IN CUBA. Wyler Will again Tak~e the Field Againet the I sargenlts. Captain General Weyler, it is an nzunced, will take the field in a few days to personally direct military op erations in the Havana province against sweeral bands of inasurgents from 50 t~o 20)0 strong. Thuis step is due to an adtempt on the part of these bands to reunite. Orders have been issued from Maj-r Justo Ojda, and the perfect of te ranch El Portugese shall be shot for trying to prEvent the surrender of Maj. Juan Calaugas, the iuisurge:: chief, and a numnber of cavalrymen, who recently gave themnselves up to the authorities. It is reported that Ma.Calagas, after his surrender, toktefeld with his forces and sur prise i nisretcamp, macheting several members of the force stationea there. Two respectable ladies, the Misses Niadenon, have been arrested at Gu nabacoa, charged with hiing ammu nition. Emnilio Saboarin, a Frenchmen,who was servin g a sentence of t welve years at, Ceuta for having been implicated in a theft of ammunitton from the government powder magaz'ne here, The audi ir in. the Amnerican SChfln ner Compettor case, Domingo de Mi I uel I as been sue:a-ed from 00 or an nn for falv to c~rry outI an~ order of the suren curt of jus LIt su udrsol thatin ennrquence of a claim mat e by th' British conu es;upreme cor'in Madrid ais sued orders :ba: American ~ra d British sueccts shall be triedt by th'e "atme cour tTis order is due to .i catpture mae uner the Armeea Cia . ill return to Seaiu on' Novembr 2 a w ich da his term.. of servic wii. exore .A letter received by Ra'fae! Rorgu from his brother Jose, ene of te local insurgents leaer is h Remedics district, expiresses a gloc'my. viewv of the situationa and speaks of he;suirerin's of the revolutionists, wh, e declare:s are without eloting or shees and hiav.. a vrey snort sun ply of meaL. ______ An Old1 a-an Murderta Thomas Jones, an old and respected citizen of Mobile, A l., Iiving o.n P. ametto strert, was muidere Wednes. day right by a negro ,amed Josia Davi. Davis was arrested and lodge 'a prion, where a great cro d gath ered. Apprending an ates: t al onhi Lte loca iitisr weVre 01 statcd ttea'r at hiad. Davi'a e-o as utte and d y je old man namdi omn 'The tilEa of Capt~ -Philipcy~o.:s, e ietdca. i r 'remtar:d o: Bagaritad re polEce Noveics,. i er redarue, en neci-eofr r i . Anna Szimo9, a ib.ui i war e Badavicost and tae mistress f i e -whici an onc July' '1twa cci e ciuded Thursdat. *a beceti a B ioitcaeff and.' Novellas gua of mur -der and Wahilieff cf being a.ccessor: to the crime. TINE ALLIAN EMEN. THE ANNUAL MEETINC !N THE SEN ATE CHAMBER. Thn Vr-'denr .Jumpy tits Eitor of the Coton ailrt axra( s the :ianco Or gn Hps iein Proited lInto a Parti ha.^.g~n TM .a sutaact met %Wensday nhti n i in the serte cam ed immediateit got down to busineir. Beyond th- orgauizP Iion. the annual address o: the presi dcI t and reports of oiicers, little e1 e i vas done. Tne ;Yature of tie Dres. dent's rddrb-s was the way in which he scored Ei tor Crews for his parti z3, conduct of i e Coton Plant. t ednesdy right the- rlicers pres ett :ere: Joseph L Keitt. nresident; . C. \Wilborn,' ice president and. lecturer: 1. W. Reid, secretary and treasr . Eider, Me:nber of execuuive co mnittee. J. L. Smith was appointed chap fain; W. N. Elder, steward; door beeper. H. D. Metcalf; assistalat door keeper. V. H. Stewart: sergeant-at arms. E. P. W hitman. The president rotd his annual ad dress, which was referred to a com mittee consisting of Messrs. M. L. Dncaldon W. T. O'Dell, J. S Graves. The' 1 u*iihing committee on Cot to' PIrt made is report, whicn was r.derred to a ccmmttee consisting of .t I Do"-i .en. W . T. O'Dell, J. S. G'Cy-s W. E Like, L E Parler. Tne execmiute comsmittee reported han t:.ev had exs-iied the books of * -c ary u reasurer and found it c oCrr:ctrtdihe fnanc-s of thc ord-r in .good Conditiou. The press committce consists of W. Eider, . P. Codwin and 0. B. )rile: who duty is to giv> for pub lic goon what the al.licce wan:s made A commiite on constitutional am.da ents was appointed as fol iows: J. P. Glenn, H. H. Crum, J. S. Smith. A charter was gransted to the Dor choste r C uanty allianc?., The fo:owing otiicers were elected for the next year: J. C. Wilbrn, president; J. R. Blake, Jr., Abbeville, vice president and state lecturer; J. W. I Reid, Soartanburg, secretary and treasurer; Joseph L. Keitt, member of executive committee for the three year term - national alliance delegate, W. N. Elder. These officers were installed, and with some other business a recess was taken until 9 a. m. Thursday. The delegates preent were: Abbeville, J. S. Graves. Aiken, P. H. Timmerman. Anderson, J. P. Glenn. Barnwell, H. H. Cram. Colleton, L. E. Parler. Florence, W. B Gause. Greenville, M. L. Donaldson. horry, James A. L- wis. Kershaw, Wm. Halley. Lancaster, J. it. Knight. L-arens. A. B. Goodwin. Lexington, J. W. Eargic. New berry, W. E Lake. Oconee, J. L Smith. Orangeburz, 0. B. Riley. Pickens, W. T. O'Dell. Richland. E. P. Whitman. Spartanburg. H. D. Metcalf. Saluda, W. E. Bodie. Union, J. F. Bailey. York, W. H. Stewart. .Nothing of great importance was done, though, ce course, the part not given, pcssibly, has much bearing upon the prosperity ot the members and the order. The Cotton Plant s'ems to have been pretty ttboroughly disussed and about : be 1st of Sep tmerMr. Cre-ws will have to step down and out of the editorship. A member of the Alliarice, in speaing of the miatter Thursday, ai that the connation of the ed or in his course did not mean that th Alliance endorsed the casndidates he mighnt be ihting, but. on the contrary, it was done to emphasize the remark of the prz <lent that the Alliance w-as to te ~cnducted on a r onpartisan bss A't the meeting Tnursdaiy morning Con gressm~an Stok s, H H. Cruun and 0 P. Good wIn we-re appointed a comn mittee to confer with tbeir exchange in reference to certain features of the business. fhe committe to whom was referred the President's address, reported the following ie~olution, Which was adopt ed: Rescl-e d, That we enderse the stand taken by President Keitt against par isan political action both in the Alii ace and in the Alliance organ. This was adopted with practical unanimity. The publishing committee was endorsed and was conumnued for aoher year. A vote of thianis was also tenaet-ed them :or their etlicient T fe !allo r P r slution w-as unan -ously ado*ed RI.i..d, IrTat th'e r apositionl of heril 's to ire e-s thle freight '' e t.)n s -ed weid be detri n ~1 ia to th interes5 of the farmners, a aditional tax upou cur in daty uht we ask the that railroa~d comi-i not grntthe requiesto: endo'se th'e act-on ofthe railroad comisson i reucing th rate cn A ruli was introduc-d and rI c o te r-duc: oa of s-.:aries I:- 7. FitzSimmo wasi grantedi fo i hour on ~ teOIL industry -r frti" -rs. He made some propo siio7i reference to exchanging meal and ferilizers fob- cotto2 seed. yh- e usual vote of thanks was pass ed for couiresies receivedi, an~d the Al lI ace adjourn~ed to meet ia Culumbia agin next year. Thia Prr hiet't vaction. President cKinley eft Wa.ishing toll WedeOs'a for 10'a vacation that ay kee 'im awa fiom the city for s x eeks. He was acc'p.anied~ by Coeya. Te hite Hous stew I winso.i. ewfro a hto a a camer are orki wir doubleC force on e::count of .elegraphic Iorers rectis-e'd since the Kioncyke FILED A PROTEST. The First R'gmente Recent Elcction far Colonel. The ma' ir of the electicn of a colo nel of the First realrent is excitino coaae puoiof interest in vie. of Gn. Watt's netion in disbardin the E'feid R:l-s. Gen. Watt's jer^ Nen~h ' i the ' ccmpcany had been ditended rnd rot to send an election ord:er to it. He said further that he had rot noticed the company t.t it had been disbanded. Major NwrhamL says :at .o far as the dec i.rat or f the election ipon a plural ity vote is concerned he asked the as sistant attorney general for an opinion on i at and was advised that simply a plurality vote was necessary. The foi ieing protest was Wednesday sent' General Richbourg by cilicers and menbers of the Srst regiment: Brim. Gen. :. N. Rich bcrg, care Ad jutant Charles Newuham, Colum d1ia, S. C. W hereby give notice o, protest in election of colonel Fist regiment of infantry. held on the 23d inst., on these grounds: First. That by unlawful assumption of authority Adjutant General Watts tbrew cut the vote of the Edgeaeid R:es, which should have been count ed for Tiio^. Second. That the vote of the Saluda Rifles was not counted for Tillman, although they had nassed inspection and properly belonged and were ver Daily sssizned to the First regiment. Third. That the vote of 35 as return rd by the R chards-n Guards for Ca1 iiy ere ?ot ir fact casr, but to the conrary seven n'-" were present and the f'll imy rol -as voted un dier ' prehemien by said com pany. Toat h;e senti:xet of the same is our-. heirigly for Timllen. Fo.urth. For:y v-otcs counted each by the Tiliman Volmteers and tde Elisto Rifles for Cl iy were not in fact eat. Fifth. That thro.:inn' cut all aliened illegal votes cest for Tillman. Cibffy never received a majrity of th so called legal votes of the regiment, al though he hss been commissioned as colonel. In all military elections here tofore head a majority vote has been required to elect and we respectfully cioe the electiba of Col. Hall, the for mer colonel of the First regiment, who did not receive a majority in the first race and a second election was ordered. Sixth. That Adjutant and Inspector General Watts, in participating in the race in the manner he did was guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer of his rank. This was signed by A. Otis Sally, msjor First regiment; Havelock Eaves,captain of the Bamberg Guards; the Edgedeld Rifies, the Capers Lig? Infantry. B. R. Carroll, captain Gov ernot's Volunteers; by all of the ! Richardson Guards except four; by six officers and nine privates out of 17 in the camp of the Palmetto Rifles, gnd 3. E. Brodie, orderly sergeant of Gary Evans Volunteers. $500,020 Fire. Fire at Yonk.-rs, N. Y., Tuesday af ternoon destroyed two factory build ings occupied by W. A. Reed & Co, hat manufacturers,- Rouland Bros., hat manufacturers, Pass Brothers, silk manufacturers, and the lonkers Silk company. The loss will probably reach half a million dollars an.d S00 people are thrown out of em ployment. There were no casualties, though the buildings were crovded with emplcyes wnen the fire was dis covered. The fire originated in the blowing ron of the hat factory of William Reed & Co., on the lower floor of the Sheitiard building. T wo large gas meers exoloded imnmediate ly after the~ ilamres carst forth, and the escaping gas helped to feed the flhmes. Witn a fewv minutes the are was breasing through the wiodows of the fire and s'coni stories. Tiee were t600 men ac d girls in the building, the third, fourth and fifth Iloors o: which were cccupied by the sk factories. Intense excitement prevailed w bile the empicyes left the baildings by tee dre escapes, the girls being taken out first, all losing their s-.reet clothes, so little time was given. The fire soon ate out the heart of th a building and then portions of the walls fed with the wind, carried the flames to the building occupied by Howland Bros. hat factory, and the interior of this structure was destroyed. Just across the street from the build ing in which the fire started are the big works of Alexander Smith & Sons, the largest carpet manufacturers in the United States. For some time it looked as though these would go. T wo thousand perso~ns were at work in the carpe. iacoOris when the fire broke out. Tey were dismisted and the woks c osed. The lowest estimate of the j-ses is q 3,000, and others run as Ligh as 550U,000. Reed & Co., noree their le-ss roughly at $c;0,000; It~-oland D-,s. Pss~ Bros , and the Yk rs S k coompany are set -down for 500) U ach De loss on the t wo buiic.ings to:e:y destroyed is estimat ec d ~ at --Jo The insuranIce will prob)ably nearly cove-r the ioss. A sPECial to :'e S>. Inuis Globe-De meerat fromi Lo As 5e, Cal., says: A ltter wr itte by- a Japanes'e oil in Japau :o a frmer- Jananese oiicer Jirir~-" in thi ci -cavys the infor :ration that te J.caanese governmeLt wil forar to: .olulu, in the 1i?6 te pr:ciJuy 1,500) Japanese imnmi Le gario at Neegt, rkitg soldiers a thedapamse emee andwill g on shore in ooll mim ple citizens but drilled and ready for miliiary duty at one. The steancrs which are to cne he menha eae chartered by thn Japanese'venmnt and will carry, in additior to the 1,50J0 passen e-ers, ar'ms, smmunition and military stores of sa~llient quantity to makte it interestirng fr any party trying to orevent the: landing. In addition, ihree largre m'en o -war arc alren'dy prepared to icare~ Yokohamsa, to ar rive at Honolu'u at about the same~ time as the an.in of t oe-ed im i c-eponda, who has been educaed i the nia' t', usedm t1 exrc o podub cvpie doitYoufor it, an rmar ~.ked P caicie::s re'd~ :n e u -Pirel' with the brokers," says the lnoenn Trnrint CUT IN TWO. BARKENTINE FLORENCE RUN DOWN BY A STEAMSHIP. Five Lives Lost, One of the Lnfortunates Bein; the Czptain's wife-She Sank in 'hree M1nutes-Ail Happrned During a Derae Fog. The Allen Lire steamer Scandina vian sr -ivd at Boston Wednesday af terncou from Glasgow and brought with :. r r four survivors of the crew of the British barkentine Florence, Captain Henry Olsen, which was sunk in a colhsion with the Scandinavian last Saturday while in a dense fog 2C wiles south of Cape Rac3. Four mem bers of the crew were drowned, to eether with the wife of Captain Olsen. The Florence was bound from Sydney. S. B , to St. Johns, N. F., with a cargG of coal. The men wro lost their livei ere: Noah Myers, cook, aged 53 years; William Yabsley, aged 25 years nephew of the captain's wife; Jame Norman, seaman, aged 32 years William Fry, seaman, aged 33 year of Poole, Eng. The former three were from St. Johns, N. F. Captain Olsen said: "We left por on Tuesday, the 20th inst., for St Johns N. ., Thinking we were ap prosching land, the vessel put abou on the starboard tack. At 12:28 p. m a shrill blast of a steamer's whistle wa heard right abeam and before the sound died a way, there loomed up rcaking directly for us, the huge hug of a a oceian s:t'amer. "i was below when the first intima tinn cae:c of the steamer's approacl I and was hurriedly called on deck by Ithe lookcut. Oa the way out of th< cabia I calledi to my wife and she ii turn aroused First Mate Elward Brcd nick, who had come off watch at nool and was in his bunk. Hardly had hi reached the deck when the steamer which proved to be the Scandinavian was upon us. She struck us on the pert side betwsen the main and miz zen rigging. and before her head wa was stopped, she went half wag through us. While the vessels wer+ locked together, we were in no immedi ate danger except from falling spars which were dropping all about us or the decks. The order to reverse thi steamer's engines, which had beet given when we were first sighted soon had the effect of breaking he: away from us and in about three min utes after she pulled her sharp bov out of the gaping wound in the sid, of our vessel, the Florence went dowi stern first in 90 fathoms of water. 0 the vessel's crew, Norris, the cook Yabsley and Norman were never seer after the vessel struck us. They wer probably asleep in the forecastle. "When the impact came Ole Olsen the boatswain, and Seaman Rober Essens jumped into the main rigging and were soon followed by Mate Brod nick and all three men swung them selves onto the steamer's deck b; means of the lower guard, being at siated in doing so by the carpenter o the steamer. Poor Fry appeared a the side of the vessel just before him by his shipmates on board the steame and was pulled half way up the steam er's side when he relaxed his hold, fe] into the water and was never seer again." The captain was too much overcom to tell of the drowning of his wife any Mate Brodnick took up tha thread n the captain's narrative. After tellin, of his being summoned from his bun] by the capotain's wife and jumping 0: deck clad only in his shirt, he said: "Im~mediately af ter reaching th deck of the Scandinavian I got a coi of rope and threw it to Capt. Olsen who by this time was standing nea the galley of the bankentine with hi; 'arms; around his wife. Mrs. Olsel was crying and I heard the captai: say that if need be they would die tc gether. The captain secured the en' of the rope and attempted to makei fast about his wife, but the rope wa rnot long enough and the steamer, jus then backing away from tbe wreck pulled the line from his hands. calisd to those on the steamer to lowe the life boat and Olsen, Sensin an< Imyself assisted the crew in gettin; the boat out of the davits. In the ex to know just what to do. No iif' could be found to cut the lashings o the life boat and finally the carpeite was obliged to sever the grips with, hatchetr All this was valuable tim lost and before the life boat had beei gotten into the water the vessel wen down. When the vessel took her las plunge, the captain became separates from his wife. Both were drawn int the vortex caused by the sinking craf and 1.s. Olsen never reappearei above the water. The captain soo; came to the surface and swam to a li! buoy thro wn from the steamer, an< this, with the life belt which he after wards teceived and adjusted, kep him afloat until the life boat mannet oftescnd officer of the steamer IWhen it was found that there was ni hope fort the remainder of the crew ti:e steamer was headed west and sb continued on her way to Byston." The Fiorence registered 199 ton net, and hers dimensions were Length, 114.8 feet; breadth., 21 5 feet deeta of hold. 13 feet. She was bui] at 'Brixhal, Egland is 1873. Bloody Deeds la Alabama. Jack Knizht, the regro who shc and killed Jack Dantzler Wednesda; night near Mobile, Ala., and shot an, probably fatally wounded Policema: Joseph Tucker in attempting to escapf was captured at Hurrican Bayou, o: heLouisville railroad, by the sectio: foreman, and was brought to the cit; by two deputy sheritrs and lodged i jail Thursday afternoon. There wa no demonstration. T wo murders an' possibly three, were committed ther Wednesday night, but no lynching are probable. The victims were Thon: as J ones, a Con federate veteran, Jac: S. Dantz'e-, colored, and Policema: fucker. World'a Record Broken. Ia the free for 4.11 pace at the Dris ng park a.t Ot~tawva, Ill., Thursday bree world's rec >rds were broken, be 'ng the~ fastest three, four and fiv reats ever paced on a half mile traci P earl G. by Roy Wilkes, took th t..o first, and Coleridge, by C. F Cla"y, the three last heats. Time-2 :10 1 2:10 2:00 i . 2:09 :2, 2:10 2. Shot is WVife and Her t'.ra~mour. Nrar Ciarendon, Ark., Thursday Efonton Wilson, on returning how found John Galvin with his wift Ho istn fired a load of buckshot int hi wife's side, inflicting fatal wounds and then shot Galvin, lkilling him it By Governor Ellerbe on the Sobjiect ce Lynchlng. Governor Ellerbe took occasion to very plainly state his position in re gard to mob violence Tuesday. About noon the committee of negrces ap pointed by the mass meeting held the evening before to wait on him called at his office. They presented to him the paper they had teen instructed to 1 t lay before him. The governor listened attentively to the reading of the docu ment. The committee consisted of the Rev B. W. Baylor. C. F. Holmes, H. E Lindsay and E. B. Thompson. The paper was read to the governor by Lindsay as follows: To His Excellency, the Governor of South Carolina: As chief executive of our govern ment we realize most forcibly you are in a position to render much relief to a much abused portion of our citizen ship, and in consequence of the con- . tinual reign of moz violence we are 1 forced to call upon you to exercise all. law within your power to suppress this growing evil. i That the colored citizens are chiefly the victims of these outrageous prac tices, cannot be denied: the habit of lynching negroes for the usual crime has led to the taking of life by mobs for small offences, such as petty lar ceny, fighting, shooting or insulting, etc. We would not have you believe that we do not discountenance all crime, for there are among us thousands who are just as sincere in support of law and order as any citizens. We forever condemn mobs in a civilized country with established courts and laws. We look upon the matter as did your pre decessor, the Hon. B. R. Tillman,who said in his inaugural address in 1890 that he did not see the use of mobs when the j udgcs are white, jurors white, sheriffs white and jailers white, there was no earthly chance for a ne gro who was guilty to escape. We felt much pleased at the efforts put forth by the members of the Con stitutional convention in passing the anti-ly och laws; we thought the effects would have been to prevent the recur rences of such acts, but to our sad sur prise we have witnessed a reckless dis regard of these laws by mobs. We feel that you are in a position to crown your administration with lasting impressions and we appeal to you in the name of humanity, justice, the sacrel laws of our State and in the name of the six or seven hundred thousand colored citizens of our State to uphold the law; and suppress the lawless acts of the mobs. We commend your act in making an effort to remove the victim, Gray, from Laurens to the State piter ia i ry, and regret very much that your efforts were not successtul. But we hope you will make some strong ef forts to overtake the lynchers and vindicite the law. We also hope that if the negro Chris Harris is overtaken you will afford sufficient protection to secure him from violence. We feel t that this appeal is but a legitimate and 1 lawful way of bringing to your atten r tion the distressed condition of the negro citizens of the State, with the Ihope that the evils may be checked and the disastrous consequences of the continuance of such practices averted. Trusting that younwill do all in your power to correct these existing evils, we will ever pray, etc. When the paper had been read, Gov ernor Ellerbe proceeded to state to the 1committee that when it was thought that Harris had been captured at Ben nettsville he had promptly taken such steps as would have prevented the possibility of a lynching. Governor Ellerbe then stated to the committee rtat he was very much opposeid to lynching and said further: "And as 1long as Iam governor I am going to~ Sdo all I can to suppress it. I[ am goings to do everything possible to put a stop As_ and aoverno concluded, Baylor ros, ad aterthanking the governor Sfor 'the courteous hearing gtven the committee, said they would nave tue governior to understand that they were as much opposed to the usual crime for which lynching was resorted to as any race of people upon the face of the earth. "Bat," said he, "we have a law, and by that law the men who are guilty of such crimes should die. We, as law-abiding citizens and lead ers have advised our people not to re sort to any other means than those of fered by the law, and to appeal to the Sgovernors of the several states to see that those laws are carried out." SThis ended the hearing. Female Gold Hunter. tPauline Kellogg, the daughter of Jadge Kellogg, an old miner of SColorado, no no w h:ves in Chicago, is about to start for the Kiondike to engage in mining on her own accunt. Sue was born at Breckinridge, Col., and lived all during her youth in an atmosphere of mining speculation SAlthoagh young and delicate, she i determined to brave the hardships of camp lire on the Yukon, and is only waiting till she can start in the com pany of some friends. She says: "I am not going to look on tnere. 1 shall take up a claim, hire help, and' superintend the work myself. Of course, I know it is a life of hardship. I can rememember some of the things we used to go through in the cabin at Breckinridge when the country was new. There is an element of danger in it, but I feel able to take care of myself. I have known of women in C .oiorad~o, who did juist this thing, and grew rich. My expectations are mod erate, out I do net see why I could not1 do the same" A Consul Commite SuIcide. SUnited States Minister Baker has ca bled the state departoent that United States Consul Otto Munchmeyer at SanSalvador committed suicide there Tuesday night. Mr. Baker says tnatf he will appoint a vice consul to tak charge of the ollice. Munchbmeyer was appointed from West Y&iginia oIn 1895, first to the vies constusteaet Acajular and later in the came year to SanSalvador to fill the vacancy~ caused by the death of his f-er few daysago Mr. Jensic -:ara was nominated for the plc hl~db eMuraehmeyer. eG'adstone's weddllg ?aniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Gidstone Moda ce1,-rated the 5sin annive~rsary ov their wedding. Alany vesjie in trc family rejcieiug at He wou. and mores of the towns -pe. sal d the venerable couple whi c en- thr'~ way to church. Bcth are in excellent healta. Mr. Gladstone wait:ir os with as much vigor as s any iime i the last ten yers shaking hends ener gatically and conversing with greatj animatin. RE YORK JOURNAL'S EXPEDITION SAILS FROM SEATTLE. Ha zardous Route to be Pursued-Some of the :arty-. Fine O ntfit--Wil Rush Through the Summer. The New York Journal expedition o the gold fields of the Klondyke, via )yea and the Chilcoot Pass sailed on he steamship City of Mexico at noon uneday, from Seattle, Wash. The expedition consists of Joaquin Miller, the "Poet of the Sierras," E. Livern ash and C. L Kreling, the atter being the photographer of the arty. The party is equipped with upplies such as the miners carry, and vill proceed is the same fashion and ver the same route taken by those who proceed via Jeneau or Dyea, the atter point being 100 miles further aorth. The object of the expedition, which sin charge of E. J. Livernash, is to nake observations of the weather con [itions, the nature of the obstacles to e overcome, the state of the trail lead ng over the mountains to the chain >f lakes connecting with the rivers unning into the Yokon, the various nodes of transportation by land and ater, and the cost of the same, and he requirements per man for making his trip in the way of food, tools and ,lothing. In fact, to obtain complete nformation, which will be given to he people through The Journal. This trip which the expedition un ertakes is the most hazardous route to the mines, though it is the shortest. rue longest and safest route to Daw ;on City, the centre of the Klondyke ountry, is by way of the North Pa ific cean and the Yukon river. The atter route, it is said, will close in Au ust, but The Journal's second expedi dion, consisting of Charles G. Yale, -tatistician of the mint at San Fran isco and the best mining authority in the west, E. H. Hamilton, an accom plished newspaper writer, and Helen Dare, a well known woman writer, ill make the trip before the Yukon :loses completely, even though the river may be partly frozen before they reach Dawson City. The second ex pedition will also get other data that will be invaluable. Joaquin Miller, who accompanies .he first exped ition, will write on min ing camps as te sees them. He was one of the argoia uts of '49, and was a miner in Caliiernia in those days. housands of persons witnessed the de parture of the steamship and cheered The Journal party. Among the freight were 60 horses for the mining coun try, which may be used to haul sup plies, orfailing in that capacity, will furnish food,~ wieh Promises to be scarce in that country ttes winter. The people of the city made t- day a general holiday, and from all quar ars poured down to the dock of the Pacific Coast Steamship company, where the Mexico was docked. Some were there as early as 5 o'clock in the morning and waited around while busy laborers completed the work of loading the ship. The Mexico carried about 400 passengers, 80 horses, 1,200 tons of freight and a number of dogs. With a few exceptions, the passen gers are bound for Dawson City, and they hope to reach there before many weeks go' by. Men of every walk of life were among the passengers. There were more people present to see the Mtexico leave than have witnessed the. departure of any other steamer since the news came down of the great finds in the Klondyke country. Judge Bond sent t wo of his sons on the steamer to represent him. They ad fine outfits. Judge Bond is well known in New York, as he spends most of his time there. He is a great lub man and a personal friend of Thomas C. Platt. Tobacco M4en Mad. The Dingley law has caused a panic among importers of tobacco, who de clare that one short paragraph in the new law means a loss to them of thousands of dollars every year. The paragraph is a part of section 33 of the act, which compels importers to pay duty on tobacco at the weight it goes into the bonded warehouse. - This takes from the tobacco men a privil ege that has for many years been ac corded to them by the tariff laws. Under the Wilson act and previous saws, importers have had their tobac co reweighed at the time of its with drawal from bond warehouses and one weight's duties were collected. The weights of tobacco is greatly re duced during the bonded period by evaporation. When tobacco arrived from a long voyage it is frequently insufliciently cured and has absorbed a large percentage of moisture. This moisture evaporates in the warehouse. Eperts estimate that the importers save $25 to $10 a bale on Samatra,and sometimes as high as $70 a bale on H avana leaf by paying on the dried ut tobacco. Importers will now gain nothing by delay, but must pay du ties at SLS5 per pound .of the weight on tobacco at the time of its arrival. They estimate that the loss u' import ers in New York alone will be $500. '00 a year. A ?,oonshiner suicides News of a remarkable case of suicide re-ached Columbia, Tuesday. Frank lin Lynch, a noted moonshiner, living ten miles above Pickens C. H., in the moutaias, took his life Suinday morn in at t o'clock by shooting himself ~hruah the head with a Colt's revol vr. 'yncha's still had been r-aided by revenue cUicer3 and destroyed. For at wee-k he had been druniz, and on the watch for revenue raiders. It is staed tuat he had determined to kill aUv reveiae o!Beer cn sight. It is also reported that he had family trou bles. It is rupposed that his disap nointment in not being able to get egenance on the revenue officers, added to~ his family troubles, led to the seiefide. Eis wife claims that the shoting was accidental. His little d~uhter was the only withness to the sootng. He lived six hours after te shot, but never recovered consci ousness. Hanged in PhiladeT phias Pasqutelle DAdrio was hanged in the. count y j:ail at Philadelphia Wednesday ocriig. The drop fei at 10:08 i o' icck. 'The physicians stated that Da'rio's neek was broken in the fall -d t eatlt was instantaneous. i -metorn es successful in every 1ai as d iolly de void of unusual Thio '' --rime for which Dad riof r*fi'el :n life vwas a particularly bo oe O a Jsmary 23, 1897, he cou a asaul~t upoin 3 year old M~odestino Mcffo an then strangled im. Al the parties involved were ntn~an