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)L. XV. IANNING. S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1899. A BLUE OTLOOK. Capt. McQueston Returned from Manila Expresses Himself. MANY SOLDIERS NEEDED. During the Rainy Season Terri tory Occupied Wili Have to be Abandoned Ex cept Manila. A dispatch from San Francisco says Dr. Charles A. McQueston, who was on the staff of Gen. E. S. Otis, and who was health officer at Manila, has re turned home invalided by the climate. Capt. MAQueston made a close study of the conditions of the Philippine sit uation. He is cf the opinion that it will take from 100,000 to 150,000 sol diers to properly subdue and hold the islands. He also says that the peace commission was an absolute failure and that its from the start was without ef fect. He strongly supports the milita ry government of the islands, except that he thinks more men will be ne cessary than has been estimated. Dr. Schurman knows that the com mission is a failure and is coming home in July, added Capt. MeQueston. -Tnless troops, thousands of them, are sent to the aid of our men there they will be driven back into Manila in the course of the next few months, during the rainy seasox. Our men simply cannot stand the climate. Fifty per cent. of them will be incapacitated by sickness and the - territory overrun will have to be abandoned and Manila will be in a state of siege agam. "Our officers and soldiers have ac complished wonders and have proved themselves the best suldiers in the world. But nothing decisive has come of it because our men were not in great enough force." WANT TO COME HOME. Volunteer Troops at Manila Tired of War. Funston Will Retire. There seems little, if any, reason to hope for the reenlistment of even a small fraction of the volenteers in the Philippines. This is reluctantly ad mitted at the war department. No an nouncement so far has reached here of any wish or intention on the part of the volunteers whose time has expired to even consider such a proposition. Un doubtedly the men would be much in fluenced by the sentiment of their offi cord, and if the latter exhibited the least enthusiasm, the men could not help catching some of the spirit. But it is painfully apparent officers and men have had all they want. The intelligence which comes over the sea today that Funston and Hale and all the daring leaderi who, sword in hand, have charged at the head of their troops and cheered them on to victory have put by all inducements to remain and are coming home is a com mentary of the most striking charac ter. It shows that, to the patriot and the warrior on the ground, there is nothing in the situation which cojnveys an ap peal. These men, officers and privates have made their record, they have fought long and well, they have lived up to the letter and the spirit of their contract, and they leave behind them the bones of many comrades who. like them, never faltered. Now they are content that others fre-sh from homae shall take their places, if they can be found. Served Him Right. A special from Washington, N. C, says: Thursday morning just before the morning train left for Parmlee, .a considerable commotion occurred in the neighborhood of the depot, caused by the horse whipping of J. F. Wood ward, who has been is this city buying and soliciting shipments of potatoes to G. M. Snyder & Co., of New York city. The facts in the case that culminated in the whipping are about as follows: Wednesday a young lady of this city was passing down the street when she was overtaken by Wood ward, who made repeated improper proposals to her. On the young lady arriving at home she reported the facts to her family. This morning on its being learned that Woodward would leave on the train a party of gentlemen repaired to the de pot armed with a couple of whips and proceeded to administer the horse whip ping, after which he was ordered to board the train and never return. Railroad Building. The New York Railroad Gazette gives the preliminary figures of new building for the first six months of 1899. '[hey show a total of 1,1S1.45 miles. This is an advance of some 90 mile3 over the preliminary figures of last year. Penn sylvania takes the lead for the six months, with a total mileage of l06. Then follows Mississippi85S; Arkansas 83; Oklahoma 76; Louisiana 62: Ohio 61; Florida 60; Utah 53 and South Carolina 50 miles. The railroad which takes the lead in mileage completed is the Illinois Central, which with its new lines, in Mississippi and other States, has a total of 64 miles. Handsome Gift to Schley. Rear Admiral Schley was~ the recipi ent Wednesday morning of a handsome silver tea service, at the hands of the Baltimore Ladies Auxiliary of the Schley testimonial committee. The presentation was made at the home of Gen. Felix Agnus, in the Green Spring valley, by a sub-committee of fourteen ladies appointed by 31ayor 31alster. Admiral Schley accepted the handsome gift in a few appropriate words Five Young Ladies Drowned. Mrs. T. J. L'oyd, living seven miles northwest of Lampasas, Texas, five daughters and a visitor. M1iss Childers. went in bathing in a creek F riday. The three y oungest girls went bey ond their depth. Their eldist sister and Miss Childers went to their rescue and all five were drowned. MIrs. Lloyd saved her other daughter only by heroic aers The bodies were recovered. HE WAS IN LUCK. A Large Sum of Money Lost and Found. Some ien are born lucky: some be come lucky. and some have luck thrust upon th(l. This paraphrase of a Shakesperian platitude seemed to have a proof of its correctUess rIght in Augusta Tuesday. Amona the pa.senger. on the morn ing train from Charleston Tuesday was the Rev. Mr. Jeffeote who was comning to townI on brsiness. In an innocent lookina satchel on the seat beside him reposed .2,800 in good United States currency. The minister knew several passengers on the train ard chatted with them, paying little orno attention to the satchel. When the train arrived at the union shed he picked up a satchel and got off -then his troubles began. In a mo ment or two he realized that he had a traveling bag, but it was not his. It contained no money either; only such an assortment of articles as one uses on an out-of-town trip. le was frantic. The loss of the money meant much to him and he at once went to police head quarters and reported the robbery. The nachiuery of the law was set in motion, but there was small chance of recovery, there being littles clue to work ov. Among the ther passengers on the train, were Dr. A. E. Sally and his lit tie s ,j who also carried a hand bag. Wi. u they arrived at home the doctor diss- red that his sou had come off Siti the wrong "grip.'' After a little while he went out to the depot to get his own property which he found wait ing for him and at the same time learned of Mr. Jeffeote's loss. The preacher was not very well known in Augusta and as it happened Dr. A. E. Silly was, perhaps, better known to him than all other citizens. So after bemoaning his fate he be thought him to call upon the physician to tell his tale of woe When he arrived Dr. Sally was out looking for his own property. When he returned explanations followed, the minister came into his posession again and went away happy-the luckiest man in two states.-Augusta Chronicle. WANTED TO LYNCH HIM. The Slayer of a Negro Threatened by a Mob. A dispatch to The State from Conway says: "i homicide occurred last Sunday at Bucksville, a village six miles dis tant from here. A Negro known by the name of "Green" was stabbed and al most instantly killed by Sam Dew, a white boy. Young Dew, with a few companions, was walking along the public road in the direction of Hebron church, where a Sunday school celebra tion of some kind was going on. The Negro Green passed them several times on a bicycle. Finally he rode up be hind the boys at full speed and without warning of any kiLd ran violently against Dew. White man, Negro and bievele rolled into a ditch in a heap. In.the hand-to-hand fight which fol lowed the Negro received a stab from ew's pocketknife and died soon after. About 40 Negroes gathered at Pew's home on Sunday night, it is believed with intention to lynch him. Dew's father appeared at the door prepared to defend his home with a shotgun and the Negroes fied after making a few threats On Monday morning Dew quietly gave himself up tc the sheriff. A war rant had been issued, but the constable did not execute it, but the boy's father promising that he should be brought to jail early Monday morning. A warrant has been issued for the negroes who at temp'ted to invade Dew's house. An Outrage in Illinois Bleedinc. covered with tar and death ly sick; Ja'mes Bri ey, of Rossville, stag gered into the polize station at Panville, 1l., Thursday night. lie was the vie tim of a Whitecap attack at Rossville. Terrible marks across his back and breast showed where the lash of a whip had cut through the skin and deep in to the flesh. Briley said a crowd of twelve y oung men came to his home at Rosville at 10 o'clock Thursday night and took him out. They were masked but lhe recognized five cof them. They took him out of the town and tied him to a wire fence. He was then s:ripped and beaten with a whip. He says they wore the whip out on him and then smeared him with tar. lie finally was urned losse, naked and bleeding, and they told him to leave town. The night telegraph man at the railroad sta tion save him sonic old clothes, It is alleged Briley did not support his famn ily. ____________ -A Case of Leprosy. The British steamer Lombard arrived at Mobile Thursday from Ship Island quarantin~e with a case of well develop ed leprosy on board in the person of a Chinaman, a member (of the crew. This s the vessel which was ordered to Ship Island quarantine on June 14 with a ease of yellow fever on board. Collec tor Burke wired Washington for in structions and received answer that the leper should lbave been left at Mobile Bay quarantine, but ordering that the leper be quarantined on board and taken from the United States when the vessel leaves. Dying of Fever. In consequence of the outbreak of yellow fever at Santiago the garrison of' Unied States troops has been removed from the old Spanish barracks to a comfortable camp in the hills, on the road to El Morro. Thus far four soldi ers have died of the fever, and there are 1S cases in the hospitals. One civilian has succumbed to the disease. and there are three civilian suspects. Massacre by Filipinos Captain .Johuson Spicer, of the Brit ish ship George T. H ay, recently from Manila. has received a letter from his brother, Capt. George Spicer. of the British Ship Glooseap, saying that all the adult male Sp'anish residents of B~alabac. the extreme southwest island of the Philipines, had been massacred by the natives. The letter was given t J. F. Whitney &~ Co., shipping agents of 81 New street, and they sent it to the maritime exchange, where it was nasted on the bulletin board. A BLACK S0LOMON. Calmly Discusses the Race Ques tion and Southern Lynching. AN EVIL THAT IS BLIGHTING. Pleads Not for the Negro Alone, But for Southern Manhood. The Growth of Mob Murder. Brooker T. Washington, President of the Colored Industrial and Normal School at Birmingham, Ala., Wednes day furnished the Associated Press an elahirate discuszion of the race ques tion in the form of a paper. Prof. Washington begims his paper by saying that while it is true that there are cases of lynching and outrage in the northern and western States, candor compels him to admit that by far the most of the cases of lynchings take place in our southern States and most of the persons lynched are Negroes. "With all the cainestness of my heart.- he says, "I want to appeal, not to the president of the United States, Mr. McKinley, not to the people of New York nor of N..:w England, but to the citizens of our southern States, to assist in creating such a public senti ment as will make human life here just as safe and sacred as it is anywhere else in the world." The paper then offers a review of the appeal that has been made through the press and prominent men that the Ne gro problem be left to the South. lie recites that the whole country from the the pre:ident down has been inclined to do this. By the policy of non-inter ference the South has been given a sa cred trust. Prof. Washington continues: "I fear but few people in the South realize to what an extent the habit of lynching or the taking of life without due process of law has taken hold of us, and to what an extent it is not only hurting us in the eyes of the world but injuring our own material growth. Many good people in the South and also out of the South have gotten the idea that lynch ing is resorted to for one crime only. I have the facts from an authoritative source. During the last year one hun dred and twenty-seven persons were lynched in the United States; of this number 118 were executed in the South and nine in the northwest; of the total number lynched 102 were Negros, 23 whites and two Indians. Of this num ber only 24 were charged in any way with the crime of rape. 'Within a period of six years about I900 persons have been lynched in our southern States. This is but a few hundred short of the total number of soldiers who lost their lives in Cuba during the war. If we could realize still more fully how much further this unfortunate habit is leading us-note the classes of crime during a few months which the local papers and the Associated Press say that lynching has been inflicted for-they include "mur der, rioting, incendiarism, robbery, lar ceny. self defense, insulhing women, alleged poisoning, malpractice, alleged bara burning, suspected robbery, race prejudice, attempted murder and horse stealing, mistaken identity," etc. The practice has grown until we are now at the point where not only blacks are lynched in the South but white men as well. Within the last six years at least a half dozen coloted women have been lynched. "I am not pleading for the Negro alone. Lynching injures, hinders and blunts the moral sensibilities of the young and tender manhood of the South. Never shall I forget the re mark made by a little nine-year-old white boy with blue eyes and flaxen hair. The little fellow said to his mother after he had returned from a lynching: 'I have seen a man hanged. Now I wish I could see one burned.' Rather than hear such a remark from one of my little boys 1 would rather see him dead. "There is too much crime among us. The figures for a given period show that in the United States 30 per cent. of the crime committed is by Negroes, while we constitute only about 12 per cent. of the entire population. This propor tion holds good not only in the South but also in northern States and cities. No race that is so largely ignorant and so recently out of slavery could perhaps show a better record, but we must face these plain facts. A large amount of the crime among us grows out of the idleness of our young men and women. It is for this reason that I have tried to insist upon some industry being taught our youug people in connection with their course of literary traiming." Prof. Washington concludes by ap pealing to school teachers, ministers and the press to arouse such a senti ment regarding the committing of crime against women that such a criime will not be charged against any members of tie race. lie says the Negro has among the southern whites as good friends as he has anywhere in the world and advises him to stay here and work out his salvation. Strangled in Bed. William HI. Hlux, near Brown Swamp church was found dead in bed, lying beside his wife on Tuesday morning, the 13th inst. Wesley llux, at whose house his grandson and family were living, returned from a ncighbor's Tuesday morning, where he had been spending the night, and in attempting to wake the occupants, found that William was dead. lying on his face in his own vomit, his wife lying by him and a young man. Hlamp Collins. lying nearby on the floor. The wife says that she was awakened during the night by her husband making a noise, but paid no attention to it. Dr. Galbraith, coroner, being notified, summoned a jury and held an inquest, the verdict being that the deceased came to his death by smiothe ring, or strangulation. T he indications point to Hlux's having gone to bed in a state of intoxication, with the above result.-Hlorry Hlearld. Fast Bicycle Time. Charles M1urphy, paced by a locomo tive, rode a mile on a bicycie in one minute and five seconds near Maywood. Long Island, Wednesday. The ride was a practice sprint. AFTER ATLAN1'A'S MAYOR. The Rev. Dr. Broughton Attacked Him Vigorously. In a sensational sermon recently Dr. L. G. Broughton, Pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle, Atlanta, Ga., called upon the city council of that city to impeach the Mayor, James G. Woodward. Dr. Broughton said the chiaf executive was a 'confessed gambler, a libertine, a sot and a disgrace to the city." At these words the audience of about 2.000 people, cheered. In the course of his remarks, Dr. Broughton said: "When the mayor was a member of an important committee to go to Washing ton on the matter of federal prison site, he was drunk most of the time, and there were other things that occurred in connection with him that I hesitate to mention from the pulpit. He should be impeached at once. If the members of the city council do not impeach him, I shall take steps myself. No such man has a right to be mayor of this city. The situation is indecent and disgraceful." When asked after the sermon why he moved against 31ayor Woodward, Dr. Broughton said: "I have given this matter much consideration and I be lieve I have taken a step in the right direction. I know what I am talking about. The actions of the present mayor of Atlanta since he has held of fice are a disgrace to the city and the people this man represents. 'Mayor Woodward was informed of Dr. Broughton's remarks. The execu tive said: "I regard the statements of Dr. Broughton as ridiculous. I ask the public to suspend judgment." - At a meeting of the city council on Monday night, a committee of five was appointed to investigate Dr. Brough ton's charges. After due consideration the committee reported that Mayor Woodward should be impeached. Upon this action of the city council Mayor Woodward plead guilty to all of the charges preferred against him, and promised to reform. A TOUGH YARN. A Most Remarkable Tornado Story Sworn To. The St. Paul dispatch says: "Proba bly the most astounding story regarding freaks of the New Richmond cyclone is that related by W. McShane, given be low. Your correspondent took special pains to carefully investigate this tale, and visited Mr. McShane at his resi dence. The story was so remarkable and all the facts for substantiating it being at hand, I requested Mr. Mc Shane to give me his sworn affidavit to the circumstances, which he did. I also verified the story by neighbors see ing the unbroken windows and pieces of the piano box lying about the yard. The affidavit follows: About the first of April, when I took the storm windows off my house, I put seven of them in an upright piano box, placed at the end of a chicken coop at the south side of the yard. I then se curely nailed on the front of the box with tenpenny nails so that there was no opening to the box. I passed the box five or six times a day, so that I am confident it was there in same cnn dition Mondiay night, June 12, before the cyclone struck. Mrs. McShane es caped the storm in a neighbor's cellar. When she came back to the house, im mediately after, she noticed the win dows lying on the ground. I found the seven windows with their double glass, turned around endwise stacked up even ly on top of each other. Not a pane of glass was ciacked, and the piano box had been torn entirely off. Pieces of the box I found scattered about the yard some distance away. The chicken coop was uninjured. W. McShane. "Subscribed to and sworn to before me this 16th day of June, 1899. J. B. Miner, "Notary Public, Ramsey Co., Minn." Pardons Granted and Refused. Gov. McSweeney Wednesday granted a pardon to A. H. Soil of Hampton, the man who took away a gun while drunk and was bringing-.it back when arrested. He had served two years of a five years term, being convicted of grand lar ceny. On the recommendation of the judge and solicitor backed by strong petitions the governor has also pardoned Joe Williams of Orangeburg who was con victed in January, 1898 of arson. He has refused to grant pardons in the cases of J. W. Carter, convicted in Colleton of obtaining money under false pretenses; Lee Bryant convicted in Clarendon county and Ben. Wallace sent up from Colleton for grand lar ceny. The Filipino's Cannon. According to Gen. Anderson, com manding the department of the Lakes, the heavy losses of the American troops in the recent engagements with the Fil ipinos at Los Pinas and Bakoor, south of Manila, were caused by the artillery which Admiral Dewey presentid to Aguinaldo last winter. The bitteries in position, Gen. Anderson says, are being operated by Spanish prisoners who have been released by Aguinaldo with the understanding that they en list in the insurgent army. Gen. An derson took the first detachment of troops to the Philippines last fall and was a prominent figure in the first ne gotiations with the Filipino govern ment. A Smallpox Cure. The governor gets all kinds of letters from all kinds of people living in all parts of the country. Friday he got one from a fellow who signs himself John G. Schultz of "Withrop Heights, D. C." He says he saw a statement in the Charleston Messenger of recent date that there was smallpox at Bates burg. Then he says: "I offer you a simple cure for the disease: One ounce of cream tartar; pour on the same one pint of boiling water; let it cool and then let the patient drink of it; will cure the patient in three days." Is it the best? Taste and see. Best in taste, best in results. No nauseat ing dose, but so pleasant an~d natural in effects that you forget you have taken medicine-Life for the Liver and Kid NEGROES SHOT Because They Were Willing to Work in the Mines IN THE PLACE OF STRIKERS. The Row Took Place at Evans ville, Indiana. Repetition of the Pana Riots Feared. The first bloodshed of the miners' strike, that has been in progress at Evansville, Ind., for two months, oc curred shortly after midnight. It had been decided by the proprietors of the Sunny Side mine that foreign miners would be imported to start the mines. This decision was made known to the union men when the Chicago scale had been offered them without recognizing the union. About thirty colored miners from Madisonville, Ky., came in over the Louisville and Nashville and were met at the station by James H. Moore, bookkeeper and a stockholders in the Sunny Side company. The .wagonette was driven by Edward Geiger, son of the priprietor of a large furniture store, and one of the most popular young men in the city. The company's plant is located on the northwestern edge of the city, and about a quarter of a mile from Salt Wells, and is reached by a road branch ing from the right of West Maryland street. Mr. Moore and Mr. Geiger were in the front of the wagonette. While the vehicle was passing a vacant lot just before -making a turn in the road to go to the mines, parties on the sides of the road fired in the dark upon the men in the wagonette. The volley produced great excitement among the occupants of the wagonette, and the driver, whip ping up his horses, hurried to the mine while those who had done the firng es caped in the darkness. A few minutes later Patrolman Rus ton appeared on the scene, having been attracted by the firing. It seems that one or two of those who had fired on the wagonette, remained in the neigh borhood, and seeing the policeman, opened fire on him. The shot struck against the back part uf'his helmet, and he was not injured. Three other officers reached the place soon after wards, but they were not fired upon. Physician3 were summoned immedi ately, the men were put in a place of safety and the wounded men given every attention. Moore, who was suffering intensely, refused to be given attention until the men were disposed of safely. He is at St. Mary's hospital and this morning is resting easy. with some hope of his re covery. Charles Smith, one of the wounded Negroes, is in a critical condition. John Smith, another Negro seriously injured, is in better condition this morning, with hope of his recovery. Ed Geiger, .thc driver, whose ear was clipped off has a severe wound. Henry Smith, colored, and John Norsweather, also colored, were slight ly wounded. The assault upon these men has caused a feeling of uneasiness to pre vail in the city. It is feared the scenes at Pana will be reenacted here if fur ther attempts are made to import min ers. The Sunny Side mine remains closed today, and the imported men are in hiding. The proprietors refase to discuss the affair at all and refuse to di vulge any plans. The serious wounding of Moore, their bookkeeper, has made a deep impres sion on the management. The mine is getting into a serious condition because of the lack of operation. It is a ma chine mine and'for this reason the lon ger it remains idle the heavier its loss. Fred Dilcher, the national committee man of the United Mine Workers of America, and State Secretary Kennedy, deny all knowledge of the shooting, and say they are as much surprised as anyone over the affair. A Tale of Horror. A story of possible cannibalism on the Yukon trail has just reached Circle City, Alaska. Three men left there in December last for Jimtown and were not heard of again till the steamer Ride out, which arrived today, brought a terrible tale of suffering and horror. The men were Michael Daly, Victor Ediar and M. Provost. They were from Providence, R. I., Woonsoc'ket, R. I., and Brockton, Mass., respective ly. Their bodies were discovered 17 miles from the mouth of Old Man's creek, they having lost the trail and become bewildered. Having left Dahl river with only three weeks food, but which was amply sufficient for the 150 miles to J1imtown, they were soon re duced to starvation. Daly's body was found partly eaten, on the stove in the tent just as it was left when death oQvertook the others. Some scraps of moose hide and mocca sin were found, of which they were endeavoring to make a stew. Daly's body was identified by the clothes. The other two men were found dead five miles away from the tent. The fact of the tent flaps being shut down when found, would seem to preclude the possibility of Daly's body having been eaten by animals. The other men doubtless were driven by hunger to the awful extremity of cannibalism. Four hundred dollars were found on the bodies. The Rights of the Dog. Following the decision of a few days ago on the rights of the dog the su preme court has handed down another decision relating thereto. This time the court takes the position that when a dog gets on a railroad track it is the business of the dog to get out of the way of the train and not of the train to get out of way of the dog. In other words if a dog is killed by a train the railroad company is not not liable for kamages as in the case of stock. Many sunstrokes in the North and none in the South during the recent heat wave again emphasizes the fact that the climate of this section is really milder than in higher latitudes, in summer as well as in winter. THE CROPS AND WEATHER. What the Department of Agriculture Says About Them. The following is the weekly bulletin of the South Carolina section of the climate and crop service of the United States weather bureau issued last week by Director Bauer: The week ending Monday, June 19th, was intensely hot during the first four days and abnormally cool the remain der of the week. The extreme maxi mum was 103, and the minimum 53 de grees. The rainfall was general on the 1Gth and 17th, and in places heavy. The week's rainfall exceeding four inches at Blackville, and over three inches at a number of points, with few places only that had less than an inch of rain. Over the greater portion of the State, it came in the form of a gentle soaking rain. The extreme heat and dryness of the early part of the week were detrimental to the development of all crops except cotton, and caused much suffering among workmen and animals in prose cuting the cultivation of field crops, but the cooler weather and generally copi ous rainfall of the close of the week have changed the conditions materially for the better. Cotton made rapid growth during the week following the rains of last week and the high temperature-favorable conditions for it. Tie early planted has excellent stands and is fruiting well, and some is blooming. Late planted has neither good stands nor seasonable size. Sea Island cotton is very promising. Grasshoppers are eat ing cotton just coming up in the ex treme western counties. The condition of corn was improved by receiving the much needed moisture and by the drop in temperature. Old corn is in silk and tassel, and is being laid by. In the southeastern counties some corn was ruined by the drought. Wire or bud worms continue to destroy corn in a few counties. A few localities report the crop very promising. Tobacco was greatly improved by the rains, but it has poor stands, and has been seriously injured by worms in Marion; transplanting just finished in Newberry: contemplated acreage re duced in Darlington. Topping has be gun. June rice about all planted. The crop is generally doing well, but cater pillars continue to infest it in locali ties. Wheat and oats threshing well under way. Yield of wheat below the aver age, while oats are very poor general ly. Pastures have started new growth. Melons bearing and growing well. Wild berry crop very poor. Peas being sown on stubble lands and with corn. Dane and sorghum vary in condition accord ing to previous rainfall. Grass fatten ed cattle now being marketed. Gold and Silver. Director of the Mint Roberts on Monday announced his final estimate of the gold and silver production in the United States during the calendar year 1898. It is as follows: Silver in Gold. fine ounces Alabama.. . . 5,000 $ 100 Alaska.....2,524800 92,400 Arizona... 2.465.100 2,246.800 California... 15,637.800 642.300 ColoL'do.... 23,195 300 22,815,600 Georgia... 128.600 500 Idaho....... 1,716,900 5,073,800 Iowa..... 100 Marland... 600 Michigan... 100 32,400 Minnesota.. 100 Montana.... 5,126,900 14.807.200 Nevada......2.994400 805,000 New Mexico. 539,000 425 300 N. Carolina.. 84 000 700 Oregen...... 1,117600 130.00 S. Carolina.. . 104 200 300 S. Dakota.. -.. 5, h9.700 152,300 Tennessee...-. 900 Texas..... 300 472.900 Utah.......2,285,400 6,485,900 Virginia... 4.500 Washington.. 766,200 254,400 Wyoming.... 5300 100 Totals....- $64,463 090 $51,438,000 Total for 1897 $57,333.000 $33,860,000 A Good Showing. Administration economica, which is charged with the disbursement of the finances ef the provisional government of Havana, and the province, published a statement showing that from January to May, inclusive, the receipts were $763,194 and. the expenses $178,228, the balance being cash on hand. This causes general astonishment among the Cubans and is unprecedented in the history of Havana. Never before have the figures been published openly. The ofiials, formerly, merely made semi oficial statements, which were not itemized. No two years of the Spanish regime have yielded as much as the past five months. The English La Lucha, in an editoriel based on this fact, says the Cubans and Americans are watch ing the results of military rule, recogniz ing the irnmense influence which will be exerted in the future political strug gle by the present campaign, and adds: "The greatest praise is due to the Am ericans here at this evidence of their intent to maintain methods of the strictest honesty." Drowned in Lake Waccamaw. Two bright boys, Edmond McLaurin and John Murphy, aged respectively 14 and 15, were drowned Thursday in Lake Waccamaw, Columbus County, N. C. They went to the lake on an ex cursion, run from Wilmington, given by St. Andrew's Presbyterian Sunday school. The remains were brought to the city on the excursion train at 6 o'clock and were met at the depot by members of the respective families. Edmond McLaurin was the son of Mr. W. S. McLaurin, a well-known busi-, ness man of Wilmington, and John Murphy was the son of Mrs. Sarah Murphy, a widow lady, who resides on Walnut street. Serious Riots. The riots in southern India have spread to Travamoore, where the police have been severely beaten and forced to retire. The rioters have seized a num ber of guns and a quantity of ammuni tion. They are cutting off the ears of their opponents in order to obtain their ear rings more expeditiously. About 450 houses have been burned at Sam-I DISAFFECTION IN CHEROKEE. Seceders from York County Long for Old Conditions. The Spartanburg correspondent of The News and Courier recently men tioned the fact that people living in a certain strip that had been cut off from Spartanburg and used as a part of the new couuty of Cherokee were very much dissatisfied with the new arrangement and would probably make an effort at an early day to have themselves restored to their first love. Well, they had just better not, because there is no possible chance. Such an arrangement would destroy the new county altogether, as there are other sections equally as dis satisfied as those taken from Spartan burg, and if it should be allowed to withdraw from Cherokee there would be a general revolt. Several days ago, while on a business trip in Cherokee Township, which is now a part of the new county of the same name, but was originally a part of York county,your correspondent learned the sentiments of the people who had voluntarily left an old and tried friend for a new and untried cne. They do not approve of the methods in vogue in the new county and also claim that taxes are considerably higher. They also make the charge that the county seat, Gaffney, is in the saddle and is using all her power to build up and im prove herself and immediate vicinty at the expense of the balance of the coun ty. Several citizens of Cherokee Town ship claim that if it was possible to have the question voted on again as to whether or not they would stay in Cherokee or return to York there would not be twelve votes in the town ship in favor of remaining. There is very little sympathy for former fellow citizens in what is left of York county. They were thoroughly warned as to what they might expect before they took the step. Following were the leading inducements held out to them by the advocates of the new county: "Unless you come with us a new county will be made out of a part of Chester, Lancaster, York and a strip from North Carolina. with Rock Hill as the county seat, and then your taxes will be so high as to virtually amount to confiscation." The second inducement was the mat ter of great convenience for those who had business at the Court House. The third was that Gaffney would, all alone by herself. build a handsome Court House and mob proof jail, and last, and this was the winning card, Chero kee Township should forever have the privilege of choosing the State Senator, one Representative, the clerk of Court, sheriff and auditor. This proposition was of sufficient breadth, height and depth to include the leading aspirants for political preferment in Cherokee Township, and they forthwith went to work to carry the election in favor of the change. At the election that followed one of their number was elected sheriff and another as auditor. At the election last fall the sheriff was a candidate for reelection, but was defeated, and the auditor made a narrow escape, and your correspondent's informant said that it is the understanding at headquarters that he is to be retired in 1900. le is a one-legged Confederate soldier and is said to be competent. Cherokee Township politicians are thoroughly disgusted. Instead of build ing a Court House in accordance with the written agreement, a town hall, which had been erected several years previous and was not well adapted to the purpose, was palmed off on the new county by the town of Gaffney, and matters have been so arranged that the necessary jail is to be erected by Chero kee County.--News ind Courier. Dangerous Hypnotist. Patrolman 3Mahoney, of Buffalo, N. Y., recently saw a man and a woman walking round and rourd the block, neither speaking to the other, the wo mans eyes being intently fixed on the ace. When the policeman took hold of the woman she came out of an apparent hypnotic state and asked him to take her out of the man's power. She said she had never seen the man before. He had approached her on the street, she said, turned her face toward the light, made a few passes before her eyes and without a word walked up the street. compelliag her to walk with him. She tried to leave him but could not. The woman. who is Miss Lillian Beaton, told her story to a police justice. The man, who is known as Joseph McAuley, refused to say a word. Police Sergeant Nah reported that another woman had made a similar complaimt against Mc Auley a few days before. The justice sentenced McAuley to 25 days impris onment, which he received without breaking silence. lie is about 30 years A Good Hot Weather Item. Something new in trusts is the liquid air trust, for which articles of incorpora tion have been filed in Delaware on a capital of $10,000,000. Few of us had supposed that .the liquid air business had reached that stage. It is only a step to an air trust that shall control the atmosphere and rent air meters to go with every pair of lungs. The liquid air chaps. it may be added, propose to supplant the ice dealers. One gallon of the liquid air is equal to a ton of ice, one ton will keep a house down to 60 degrees on the hottest days. Such is the talk of the incorporation. A gal lon or two of the stuff would have been a great boon to us during the recent hot wave. Death of H. B. Plant. Henry Bradley Plant, president of the Plant Investment company, con trolling the great system of hotels and railroads on the west coast of Florida and the line of steamers from Tampa to Hlabana, died suddenly Friday night at his residence in New York. Mr. Plant, who was in his S0th year, had not been in the best health for several years, but, except brief intervals of ill ness, was actively engaged in the direc tion of his vast enterprises up to within a few hours of his death. It is said that if lamp chimneys. tumblers or other glass dishes are placed in cold water, with half a cup of water. which is brought slowly to a boil and boiled a half hour, then allowed to cool in the water, they will resist any sud den changes of temperature without WHAT CAUSES IT. Evidence as to Depression of Agricultural industry. DUE TO MONOMETALLISM. Witness Interrupted by Oppon ents of Silver and Was Not Allowed to Pro. ceed on That Line. Joseph B. Ager, president of the Maryland State Grange, was before the industrial commission at Washington Thursday. He said that a trust among the farmers such as was suggested by Mr. Havemeyer was impracticable, owing to the difficulty of getting the farmers to hold up prices. Speaking of colored labor, he said it was unreli able because of the natural indolence and indifferEnce of individuals of the colored race. Liquor he regarded as the great bane of that people. and re sponsible for nine-tenths of the crimes committed by them. Mr. Ager con sidered the condition of the average farmer as worse than it was 20 years ago, but he believed money invested in farming safer than in other lines of business. L. W. Youmans of South Carolina occupied the witness stand during the afternoon session. He said the agri cultural interest of the south was great ly depressed, and he attributed the de pression to the fact that silver was not recognized as a money metal. He said there had not been an increase of the volume of money to correspond with the increase of population. As a conse quence there had been a general de preciation of values. He was proceed ing to develop his views upon this point when Maj. Farquhar made a point of order against the character of the tes timony, and this point was sustained by the chair (Hon. A. L. Harris) after a somewhat spirited encounter between Representative Livingston and the Re publican members. Mr. Youmans then proceeded to other considerations. He thought the tariff also an obstacle to progress, say ing that while the cotton grower of the United States was compelled to com pete with the cheap labor of the world in sales abroad, he was not allowed to buy the product of that labor in other articles abroad withing paying a duty of 40 per cent. upon it. As remedies he suggested the free coinage of silver, a lower tariff and local banks of issue. He had tried the diversification of crops and had not been successful. Mr. Youmans said he had no fault to find with colored labor, and thatie preferred it infinitely to importe& la bor. "I employ 300 or 400 Negroes, he said, "and I find them docile and willing to work. I go away and leave my family among them, feeling confi dent of their safety and protection." He thought, however, that the Negro as a rale irresponsive to the efforts to educate him, and while he willingly paid his- share for such efforts at edu; cation, he considered the money so spent as thrown away. Death-Dealing Storms. Tornadoes have been known in Amer ica for a century or more, and thou sands yf persons have been killed and injured by them. A record of these visitations since 1794 shows tremen dous loss of life and property. On Feb ruary 9, 1884, the country from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic was the dancing ground for sixty terrible tornadoes, which killed 800 people, and injured nearly 3.000, while they reduced to ruins 10,000 buildings. Dur ing the period from 1794 down to the present time the most disastrous tor nado wa0 that at St. Louis on May 27. 1896. The precise number of persons killed has never been known, but the dead were several hundred and the in jured many more. One of the earliest tornadoes on record was on May 7, 1840, in Adams County, Mississippi, when 317 people were killed. The same place was revisited two years later when 500 were killed. The property loss was very great. Louisville was stricken in 1890, but the same csity was visited by a whiriwind as long ago as August 27, 1854. At that time twen ty-five persons were killed Collided With a Whale. The Cleveland Leader says: "Lieut. F. L. Chadwick of the United States navy is visiting his uncle, Dr. L. S. Chadwick, of Euclid avenue. During the war with Spain Lieut. Chadwick served on the cruiser Raleigh. He en tered Manila bay when Dewey made his famous dash into the harbor. Lieut. Chadwick said recently that on his return trip there was a collision with a huge whale that was sleeping on the water. Lieut. Chadwick was on watch when the boat gave a luich. "I thought we had run on some hidden rocks," he said. "I rushed to the rail and found that the ram of the cruiser was fast in the side of a whale forty feet long. The engines had to be reversed before the whale was released. He floated away dead. You may think that is a fish story, but it is an actual fact, and the cruiser's log will verify it." Schley and Wheeler Honored. The honorary degree of LL. D. was Thursday conferred by Georgetown University on Rtear Admirals Winfield Scott Schley and Geo. WV. Melville; Major General Joseph 'Wheeler, Hon. W. Bourke Cochran, of New York; Dr. Samuel Busey, District of Columbia; Dr. Daniel Bower, of Illinois, and Hon Thomas, Herran, United States of Co. lumbia. General Wheeler, Dr. Bower and Honorable Thomas Herran were unavoidably absent. A Substitute for Cotton. Consul Makin, of Reichenberg, Austria ports a process in vogue there for mak ing artificial cotton from shavings of the fir trec. The shavings are steamed, soaked in sodium lye and heated under pressure, with the result of converting them into celulose. This has castor oil. caffeine and gelatin added to it, and is then reeled off into threads, much after the manner of artificial silk. Lo cal authorities expect to compete with the cotton product of America, but the South will probably still make cotton