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v.L. xV. MANNING S. C., WEDNESDAY. JULY NO. 13, NEWS DOCTORED. The Public Kept in the Dark as to the Philippines. THE CORRESPONDENTS KICK They Charge that the Facts Have Been SystematicallY Suppressed by General Otis' Orders. The constantly increasing strictness of.the censorship of press dispatehes from Manila, which has prevented the cabling to the United States of any thing that did not reflect official views of important events and conditions, re sulted in a united effort on the part .f correspondents at Manila to secure an abatement of the rigor of the ceuso; ship. The initiatiye in this direction was taken a month ago and resulted in the framing of a statement which was presented on July 9th to Maj. Gen. Otis, commanding the military forces of the United States in the Philippine island, with a request for permission to telegraph itto the United States. The correspondents also asked that they be allowed to cable to their respective pa pers all facts and the different phases of events as they transpired at 1anila. The correspondents had two long in terviews with Gen. Otis, in the course of which th.ey cowplained that the evi dent purpose of the censorship was not to keep information from the enemy, but to keep from the public a knowledge of the real condition of affairs. It was also asserted by the correspondents that newspapers printed in Mauila, which reach the enemy quickly, are permittea to publish statements similar to those which correspondents are forbidden to cable. It was made clear to Gen. Otis that the objection was to the system and not to the censor. Gen. Otis finally promised greater liberality, agreeing to pass all matter that he might consider not detrimental to the interests of the United States. Gen, Otis appointed Capt. Green. of his staff, censor. The statement of the correspondents is as follows: "The undersigned, being all staff correspondents of American newspa pers stationed at Manila, unite in the following statement: "We believe, that owing to official dispatches from Manilo made public in Washington, the people of the United States have not received a correct im pression of the situation in the Pnilip pines, but that these dispatches have presented an ultra-optimistic view that is not shared by the general officers in the field. "We believe that these dispatches in correctly represent the existing condi tions among the Filipinos in respect to dissension and demoralization result ing from the American campaign and to the brigand character of their army. "We believe the dispatches err in the declaratiom that 'the situation is well in hand' and in the assumption that the insurrce.ion can b., speedily ended without a greatly increased force. "We think the tenacity of the Fili pino purpose has been underestimated and that the statements arc unfounded that volunteers are will~ng to engage in further service. -'The censorship has compelled us to participate in this misrepresent ation by excising or altering uncontroverred statements of facts on the plea, as Gen Otis stated, that 'they would alarm the people at home,' or 'have the people of the United States by the ears.' "Specifications: Prohibition of hos pital reports; suppression of full re poi ts of field operations in the event of, fail. ure; numbers of heat prostrations in the field; systematic minimization- of naval operations and suppression of complete reports of the situation." (Signed) John T. McCutcheon, Harry Armstrong. Chicno Record. Oscar K. Das is, P. G. McDonnell, New York Sun. Robeit M4. Collins, John P. Dunning, L. Jones. The Associated Press. Tohn F. Bass, Will Dinwiddie, New York Herald. E. S. Keene, Scripps-MeRae Association. Richard Little, Chicago Tribune. CAUSES A SENsATiON. The publication of the above doi.u ment caused a sensation in the depart ments at Washington. Regarding the statement that war and other news had been censored contrary to the usual custom, Adjutant General Corbin to day said: "The censure of the so calleu cen sored press is without just cause: and evidently made under misapprehension of facts. There has been no imforms tion received from Gen. Otis that has not been given to the press promptly on the bulletin boards in the hall of this office. "The standing instructions of the president and secretary of war are that the public shall be given all informa tion we receive. This has been done and will continue to be done. Of course plans of campaigns that would be of help to Aguinaldo and other re bels have not and will not be pro mulgated, but tall facts of .events transpired have been given in full ness." ENGLIsIl COM1.\ENT. A dispatch from London says most of the morning papers comment upon the joint statement of the American correspondents at Manila regardin~g the censorship there. The Times say s: "Gen. Otis canr~ot conceal nor explain away the grcat fact that he fails to bring the war to an end. He might just as well cease play ing the estrichi awu allow the corres pondentsto tell the public what they sehe Daily News says: "The moral cf it is that the correspondent will turn when you tread too hard upnm him and that his determination to let the cat out of the bag may still prove a blessing to modern states. WILL NOT BiE REGARDIED. The President and Cabinet has de ided to ignore the complaint of the correspondents, and let Gen. Otis do ah plneases about the matter. THE BATTLE OF hONEY HILL. An Address to the Survivors of That Noteworthy Engagement. T the Survivors of the Battle of I loney Hill. On Nov. :'), 1S4, a battle was fought at IHoney Hill, S. C.. and won by southern valor. This was a particular Iv brilliant affair. in which al out 1. 500 Confederates defeated about 6,500 northern troops, preventing them from seizing the Charleston and Savannah railroad, near Grahamville, and from cutting off retreat for Gen. Hardec's army from Savannah, G.. In this en ga-ement nearly 1.000 of the enemy were killed and wounded. It is due the men who won this vi tory that their achievement be placed on record in order that historians may find material in the futur., from which to construct a complete history of our country and State. It is hoped by the writer of this ro tiec that survivors of the battle wili forsvard him throual mail such infor mation concerning this fight, that there may be prepar- d an accarate narrative of Honey lill, where Georgians and Carolinians. regulars and militia, offi eers and nii, ditinguished thei.selves and added to the lustre of southern arms by defeating a brave and deter mir.ed foe, where the odds were four to one. A . ffort it this end has been made byv a - -r vthy S-. (f Carolin-- but aba iined througi lack of inforwa * .' !tia to the Ge'orgia tr.>ops; not hoaever, util he had contributed to history much of value and iat, rest. Of the battle day C t Courtenay .-ould not write, for which scanty information, he was unwilling to lower his high ideal of what the battle narrative should be in order to meet the importunity of friends urzing him on. Surely survivors of Honey Hill can be induced to break silence by a con sideration of their obligations to their posterity, and will furnish information to place for them on record brave deeds of valiant sircs! Also perfect histo ries of Georgia and So-ith Carolina re quire the -iarration of these deeds of patrio' ic sons. No time should be lost, for veterans of the war answering to roll-call here are fast crossinz over that river from whose other side no message can re turn. Survivors of the fight at Honey Hill are earnestly invited to write clear .nd accurate information of the battle, .supplying names of their company, bat talion, regiment, officers and men, that participated in the battle; time when each command joined the fight; place occupied with referer.c' to the road in tersecting the breastworks; what ser vie.: was rendered by his command and officers: eny instauc.:s worthy special mention of individual usefulness or va lor. etc. Address such cammunications to Charles J. Coleock, H ayville P. 0., S. C. A Pitched Battle. The report is confirmed that five men were killed in a pitched battle in Clay county, Ky., last week. The battle occurred at Hacker's school house, on Little Goose Creek Wednesday morn ing, Deputy Sheriff Hacker had arrest ed Robert Phillpott. While before a magistrate, preparing to give his bond, somebody shot at hima from tbehind. The firing then became general. When it ceased~Robert Phillpott, Ed. Fisher, Aron Morriss, Hugh and Jim Griffin were dead. Green Griffin was mortally wounded and Granville Phillpott was seriously injured. Nearly all the coun ty is in the saddle, heavily armed and uore battles arc expected. What Next? Thue new uses which are being devel oped for glass are manifold. Church bells of the purest tone are now being made of glass; it is superceding gold for the filling of teeth: glass rails are said to be superior to I~teel, giving a smooth er runniing surface and being less affect ed by the elements; New York has a factory built of glass, slated withglass, and with a 100) fo t glass chimney, a part of the working machinery also being constrne:ed of glass, and English cities are considering its adaptability for paving and roadway purposes, its advatages being set forth as cleanli ness, durability,~ non-slipperiness, and the retention of heat iu winter and cold in s'immer. All Drowned. - A special to the Bee from Tekamah, Neb., says: Word has been received o the drowningr in Northwestern Iowa, near the M1innceta line, on MIonday niht, of A. W. Blades, his wife and eiht childreu while en route to Mlinne sota in an emiizraut wagon. Th~e fam'i ly was encamped for the night on a creek, when a cloudburts raised the creek twelve or fifteen feet, and the family, team and wagon were swept away. No trace of them has been found save parts of' the wagon, which were found in trees some distauce down the creek. The First Bale. The first bale of cotton of the pres ant season's crop has been shipped from Sinton. Texas, to Governor Sayers to be sold for the benefit of the Texas flood sufferers. It is proposed that it shall be sent to various exchanges and auctioned, and that the money thus raised shall be devoted to the relief of the flood victims. It is expected that not less than $10,000 will be raised through these sales. Too Sensative. A Philadelphia murderer was so sen sitie that he committed suicide on July 9, because the jailer would not let him attend his wife's funeral. She was, says the Boston Pilot, the person whom he had mardered-whi ;h re minds us of the French parricide who pleaded for mercy "because he was an orha n. - Long Lived Family. There is a long lived family in Co lumbia. Little'Pauline Green, daugh ter of M1r. Wmn. Green and grand daughter of Capt. .Joseph Green, is the proud possessor of two grandmothers, two grandfathers and two great grand mothers, all living. What is more M114 Pauline lives in the same house wth two great grandmothers and one of' atherandmothers and one of the grand THE TRUTH TOLD As to The Doctoring of the News by Gen. Otis. FACTS ARE REVERSED. Creelman, Correspondent of the New York Journal, Refused to Send Dispatches Because Forced to Falsify. Appearing simultaneously with the " und robin" 4 the Ainerioan news I -.per correspondents at Manila, com plaining that General 03s is suppress ing the factq and keeping the people of the United States in ignorance of the alarming conditions as they exist in the Philippines, James Creelnan, the fani ous war correspondent of the New York Journal, cables from London his obser vations during a recent two months' stay in Naoila and on the firing lines in the, archipelago. 1le charges Gen eral Otis with iUeomipetence, and with "doctoring" press dispatehes to paint the conditions as optiwistie, when in reality they are and have been just tie reverse. and with reporting "imminent success" when in reality, caused by his own mismanagement, "imminent fail ure" has been the repult. Mr. Creel u:a's letter goes into detail. E follows: MR. CR.EmMAN s LTTr. Afte'r having spent several :uonths with our troop in the Philippines, I am firmly convinced that unless ""en eral Otis is removed and a competent general put in command the whole cam paign will be a failure. I have beeL in the Cuban campaign as well as in the Philippines, and I can say honestly without the slightest pre judice that General Otis is much more responsible for the disastrous humiliat ing condition of affairs in the cast than General Shafter was for the calamities in Cuba, for the war department furn ished General Otis with a perfectly equipped, well fed army, and he ha< months of dry weather in which to fight against an imperfectly organized enemy. To be perfectly plain, General Otis is a fussy old man, unaccustomed to any thing but regimental command, and saturated with the ideas and methods of a routine clerk. He is a man who has grown old serving in a regiment, and his experience and abilities do not go outside of regimental lines. Now that he finds himself in command of a large army intrusted with the govern ment of a large archipelago, it is no wonder that things are as they are. It is because of this knowledge that Admiral Dewey, without consulting General Otis, privately cabled to Presi dent McKinley asking him to send to anila a small commission of men skilled in statesmanship and diplomacy. It was apparent to him. as to others, that General Otis was not competent to deal with the far reaching, intricate problems involved in a war with the natives. Again and again Admiral Dewey ex pressed at the beginning of the present hostilities his dissatisfaction over the failure to make any advance against the enemy. When finally, in despair of any ac tion by Otis, Dewey began to take pos session of other islands, Otis wrote to the admiral a bitter letter complaining that the navy was forcing the campaign too fast. OFFICERs DENOUNCE OTIs. I was there then and I remember how generals and other officers on the firing line bitterly denounced General Otis in private for immersing himself in petty details of municipal affairs, army contrats and custom house eases, while our firing line was stretched twenty two measured miles around 3Manila. lying idly before an enemy .growing stronger and more expert in infantry fire every day, while week after week of dry weather slipped away and the rainy season approached. Even before the first insurgent attack on our troops, Aguinaldo was throwing up strong earthworks in sight of our lines. 3Major General Anderson, com manding the first division. insisted that his troops were being endangered, and asked permission to stop the Filipinos from buiiding fortifications. "We will do nothing," said General Otis, "unless the Filipinos commit sonc act of war." "But they are entrenching them selves against us," replied General An derson, "and the moment a man puts a spade in the ground with hostile intent he has committed an act- of war." Anderson's arguments were useless. The entreaties of other generals to be permitted to put an end to the belliger ent work of Filipinos were of no avail. When [ reached MIanila a few days after the bloody outbreak the whole army was laying in trenches, being fired at night and day, while General Otis was absorbed in routine details that an army clerk could have done as well, lIe refused to allow the army to make any advance. So insistent was General Anderson that the only way to destroy the enemy was to fight them that General Otis treated him with open hostility and finally had this splendid soldier return to the United States. General Otis' principal thought seemed to be to prevent real facts being telegraped to the United States, and his abuse of censorship has been al mist in credible. While the army in the field was anx iously awaiting orders during the ai vance on 31alolos, lie spent a whole hour reading my dispatches to The Journal striking out names of officers mentioned for gallantry, changing de scriptve passages, erasing all mention of the part played by the navy and even ocaupying five minutes in selecting a single word. 'his is the same experience which other correspondents have had during the war. General Otis has wasted hours of valuable time during the most criti cal days in revising press dispatches, coloring them to suit his own views. NEWs COMLETELY REVEIsED). On the night of the charge at Tali han river I went to General Otis' palace, having ridden in from the battlefield. The general insisted on changing the dispatch I submitted to him, and ac tu1.ally stuc ou he name of Colonel Funston, whose regiment swam the river under fire that day, saying: "I propose to make all the heroes that are made in this war." Colonel Thompson, the press censor, has refused to allow me to mention regiments distinguishing themselves in battle, saying he was ordered to do so by General Otis. Daring General Wheatson's advance to Pasig and beyond with the Flying brigade Otis ordered all press dispatches stopped unless they described the enemy fighting furiously and said enor mous losses were inflicted by our troops. As a matter of fact on this occasion the insurgents were contemptible in umbers and ran away except in cases of one or two small bands, and their losses were very slight. General Otis' conditions for press dispatches were so outrageously dis honest that I refused to send any dis patches, preferring to let The Journal be beaten rather than to telegraph of ficial lies. The most extraordinary thing is that up to the time I left Manila, which was after the capture of Manolos by Mc Arthur and Santa Cruz by Lawton, General Otis had nevcr been at the front. Imagine this jealous clerk, who never went oUntside the city, directing with absolutely tyrannical exactitude the operations of divisions commanded by soldiers like Lawton and McArthur! I know from my own association with both division in the field that General Otis treated the generals as though they were school boys. When it was announced that Lawton was on his way to the Philippines to command all the troops in the field as corps commander, every member of the litt.e clique surrounding Otis was busy belittling Lawton. When Lawton arrived Otis refased to assign him to any command for five days, although there was heavy fight ing. Lawton begged permission to take part in it, offering even to carry a mus ket if necessary. I asked Otis what Lawton's status was and why he was not assigned. "General Lawton is merely an officer reporting to me for orders," he replied, 'and when I get ready to give him or ders he'll know what his status is." Otis' jealousy of Lawton was so plain as to be childish. For several weeks Otis never consulted him, nor gave him the slightest information regarding the plans of the campaign. The truth of the situation is that General Otis is regarded by practically the whole army, officers and privates alike, as an incompetent officer who sacrifices everything to serve his own vanity and jealousy. I do not speak with the slightest feel ing against Goneral Otis, whom I be lieve to be painstaking, industrious, and, "acording to his own light, patrio tic oTIS SIMPLY A CLERK. IHe has accomplished a great deal in regulating the municipal affairs of Ma nila, but his conduct, or rather non conduct of the military campaign has been a series of blunders, due partly to timidity and lack of experience, partly to jealousy of other officers and partly to his incurable habit of wasting his time correcting press dispstches and doing a clerk's work, while generals in the field, powerless to move without his orders, are waiting for him to make up his mind in his office how to fight the enemy. When I complained to General Otis that he was striking out of my dis patches things I had witnessed with my own ey as and which the Amierican peo ple had a right to know, he said: "I don't propose to allow the Ameri can public to know anything about this campaign that will agitate or excite it. So long as I am in command here the people of the United States will know only such facts as I deem advisable to be known. "Any man who writes anything aboue this campaign contrary to my wishes will be expelled from the Philip pines. We are not going to have any public agitations about this campaign if I can prevent it." Scorches Alger. The London Times editorially says: "Algrer has run the war office as a po litical machine. Military posts have been bestowed upon political frzends without regard to fitness or the inter ests of the country. Dishonesty and corruption have been rampant where ever there was public money to be handled. American soldiers were -kill ed by thousands on Americ-an soil by such agencies as embalmed beef and scandalous neglect of elementary sani tation. As the head is, so we expect subordinates to be. They were chosen without regard to fitness with every regard to political service. Naturally they act as the politicians they are rather than as soldiers and administra tors, wvhich they are not, The new im perial policy of the United States is thus discredited by association with a system of more than common corrup tions. McKinley, for some reason or other, is incapable of ridding himself of the incubus of his secretary, who, evidently regarding himself as having the president in his pocket, serenely defies the public indignation that has been aroused by his mismanagement." Causes Many Deaths. The returns from the Fourth of July celebrations all over the country de monstrate that it is time our people were instituting some more rational manner of observing the day. The Chicago Tribune s casualty list include returns from 250 cities and towns. The leading figures are: Dead 33, injured 730, fire losses $233,070. injured by cannon crackers 731, in jured by powder explosions 237, injured by toy cannon 259, hit by stray bullets 630. Another Lesson A dispatch from Savannah, Ga., says Mrs. Annie McGuire, white, and Anna Cook, colored, are dead as a conse luence of two stove explosions. In each case the woman started to light the fire in the store with kerosene oil. Both were horribly burned. Pretty Good Pay. Admiral Dewey's salary amoun ts to $37.50 per day; President McKinley's is equal to $131 a day; cabinet officers, the vice president and the speaker of the house get $22.22 a day; senators and congressmen, $13.90, and the chief js of thesureme court $29 a day. NEW ENTERPRISES. Chartered in the First Six Months of the Year. INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR. Over a Million Dollars of Increase in Stock. A Number of Cotton Mills Pro jected. Since the first of the year charters have been issued concerns in this State representing an aggregate capitalization of nearly five million dollars. Of this amount $2,226,700 represents new con cerns, and $2,613,000 the capital of or ganizations increasing their capital stock; a total of $4,839,700. These fig ures were obtained from the semi-annu al statement of Mr. J. T. Gantt, chief clerk in the office of the secretary of State. There was great progress in the State last year, but Mr. Gantt's com parative statement shows that, between Jan. 1, 1898, and July 1 of the same year, charters were issued to concerns capitalized at $1,889,700 aganst $2, 226.700 this year-a gain of :337,000. But while the aggregate capitalization of new concerns is very encouraging, there is even greater reason for con gratulation on account of the wonderful amount of capital stock increased. The first six months of this year South Car lina enterprises increased their capital stock from $1,347,000 to $2,613,000; a total increase of $1,226,000. In order to obtain a charter, the orig inators or "corporators" must first ob tain a "commission." This instrument authorizes them co solicit capital stock, etc. After a certain per cent. of the capital stock has been subscr'bed, a charter may be obtained. It is under a charter that a joint stock concern can do business. A commission is rarely obtained, however, unless the company means business and does afterwards ob tain a charter. So much in explana tion of the fact that the figures above quoted represent joint stock companies which have actually raised the capital stock. There were 117 proposed com panies which filed "declarations" for commissions and have not yet sent in their "returns" for charters. Last year in the same time there were 66, repre senting a proposed capital stock of $3,049,560, against $5,338,400 this year. This does not include the socie ties, etc.. which are chartered but have no capital stock. ENTERPRISES PROJECTED. The enterprises projected and not yet chartered are listed as follows: 1898. 1199. Warehouses ............3 10 Lumber companies .......1 4 Land and improvement com panies ................. 4 1 Building and loan associa - tions...... ........ 5 4 Telephone companies ..... 4 5 Oil mills...... ........0 11 Compress companies ...... 1 2 Water, light and power com panies .. . .... 4 Hosiery and carpet mills... 1 1 Mining companies........3 2 Construction companies.. .. 0 2 Banking and investment companies............. 9 6 Cotton mills............4 7 Other manufacturing plants 10 20 Mercantile establishments, etc ... .. .... .. .. ..--.19 18 CHARTERS GRANTED. Charters were in the first six months of last year issued 52 concerns capital ized at $1,889,700; against 71 compa nies with an aggregate capital of $2, 226,700 this year. Following are the enterprises put on foot since Jan. 1: 1898. 1899. Warehouses...... .. ....2 9 Lumber companies.......1 5 Land and improvement com panies .... ........ ... 4 4 Building and loan associa tions..... ............ 2 4 Telephone companies.. 0 3 Oil mills................ 0 5 Cotton compress companies. 0 1 Water, light and power comn panies.................~ 3 Mining companies.. .. ... ..o - Banking and investment companies.............5 2 Cotton Mills............. 2 5 Other manufacturing plants S 6 Mercantile establishments, etec................. 23 22 STOCK INCREASED. The following gives the names of the concerns which have increased their capital stock; the figures given first rep resenting the amount of stock at pres ent and those given second showing the increase over the former capitalization: Georgetown Grocery Co. $75,000; in crease of $25,000. Daggett Printing Co. $10,000; in crease of $2,000. Clover Manufacturing Co. $200,000; increase of $50,000. Whitney Manufacturing Co. $350, 000; increase of $84,000. Abbeville Cotton Mills $400,0)00; in crease of $100,000. Farmers' Loan and Trust $73,000; in crease of $25,000. Palmetto Ice Co. $75,000; increase of $40,000. I. J. Phillips Co. $23,000; ic ase of $5,000. Anderson Light and Power Co. $175, 000; increase of $75,000. Mills Manufacturing Co. $530,000; increase of $430,000. Warren Manufacturing Co. $500,000; increase of $300,000. Excelsior Knitting Millo $50,000; in rease of $40,000. Carolina Manufacturing Co. $30,000; increaso of $20,000. Marie Mills $100,000; increase of $50,000. Total, $2,(;13,000; increase of $1,226, 000. NEW COTTON MILLS. The following are the cotton mills chartered and those projected since Jan. 1: Capital Stoek. Vesta Mills, Spartanburg. .. $ 250,000 Vallev Falls Mfg. Co., Lolo, Spartanburg county........7,000 Springsteine Mills, Chester. 100,000 Olympia Cotton Mills, Co lumbi....... 1,500000 Orr Cotton Mills, Anderson. 400,000 Belton Mills, Belton....... 350,000 The Florence Cotton Mill, Florence........... ... 200.000 $2,875,000 SEVERAL OIL MILLS. There has been an unusually large number of oil mills chartered and com missioned. They are located as fol lows: Fair Forest Oil -Mill Co., Fair Forest .. .... .... ...$ 25,000 Victor Cotton Oil Mill Co., Gaffney ...............25,000 Fountain Inn Oil Mill Co., Fountain Inn........... 15,000 Lowndesville Cotton Oil Co., Lowndesville ...........12,000 McCormick Cotton Oil Co., McCormick............... 15.000 Cross Anchor Oil Co., Cross Anchor ............... 12,000 Bishopville Cotton Oil Co., Bishopville............. 20.000 Honea Path Oil Mill, Ilonea Path .................15,000 Campobello Oil Mill, Campo bello ...... .............. 15,000 Atlantic Cotton Oil Co., Sam ter..... .............100,000 Clinton Oil and Manufactur ing Co., Clinton.......... 20,000 Total capital stock.........$274,000 The whole State seems to be swing ing forward and upward to resume its accustomed place at the front. The development is not conifned to one sc tion, but every county seems to be tending upward.-State. FROZED OUT AT LAST. Secretary of War Alger Has Resigned from the Cabinet. Secretary of War Russell A. Alger resigned Wednesday from the cabinet, the resignation to be effective at pleasure of the president. The resig nation of Secretary Alger is believed to have been sought by the president, as public opinion had almost crystallized in a desire for the secretary's retire ment. Alger called upon President McKinley at the White House Thurs day morning shortly before noon and was with him for a few minutes. When he left he was in excellent spirits. His face was wreathed with smiles as he ex pressed to several newspaper men who gathered about him his appreciation of their good wishes. "You feel relieved of a great bur den?" one of them suggested. "Yes, I do," replied the secretary. "Hereafter I will only have my own burden to carry." The secretary said that he would re linquish his portfolio as soon as the pending routine matters of the depart ment were closed up, and Assistant Secretary Meikeljohn, to whom the war office is to be turned over pending the appointment of Gen. Alger's successor, is ready to assume charge. "I shall retire before August 1st,' said the secretary. Gen. Alger said he would go back to Michigan and for the present at least devote his attention to his health. The secretary said he knew nothing about his successor. Asked as to whether he would press his senatorial candidacy, the secretary re plied: "I cannot tell now." A Good Way to Die. A ddvout colored preacher, whose hart was aglow with missionary zeal, gave notice to his congregation that is: the evening an offertory would be taken for missions, and askeai for l'beral gifts. A selfish, well to-do man in his congre gation said to him before the service: "Yer gwine to kill dis Church if yer goes on say, 'Give! Give!' No Church can stan' it. Yer gwine to kill it." Af ter the sermon the colored minister said to the people, "Brother Jones told me I was gwine to kill dis here Church ef I keep a-asking yer to give; but my brethren, Churches doesn't die dat way. Ef anybody knows of a church dat died 'cause of its given too much to the Lord, I'll be very much obliged ef my brother will tell me whar dat Church is, for l'se gwine to visit it, and I'll climb up on de walls of dat chura ., under de light of de moon, and cry, 'Blessed am de dead dat die in de Lord'." Victims of a Poisoner. A special from Dallas, Texas, says: Two girls, one eight years old and the other ten, daughters of the widow of John Moore, lost their lives by drink ing poison, which, it is claimed by the police authorities, was prepared for their mother, who is an important State witness in the case against the men ac used of lynching the Humphreys. The poison was placed in a water pitcher in the house of Mrs. Moore. Hear lit tle girls became thirsty and their mother gave each a drink from the p~itcher. Death followed almost in stantly. Walks from Pole to Pole. - A force of telephone linemen is at p~resent busy stretching a heavy lead cable along the line of tall poles run ning down Main street. With the force is a man who was regarded by many with wonder. He moved along the ca ble between the poles at will, fixing first this place and then that. When he had any distance to go he would stand erect and walk the swaying cable. His daring and recklessness caused many to stop and wonder what manner of man he was.-State. Nine Men Killed A dispatch from London says an ex plosion on board the torpedo boat de stroyer Bullfinch, on the Solent, during her trial Friday killed nine and injured fur of those on board. It was the worst naval accident of this nature that has occurred in the British navy in 20 years. The victims ware terribly in jured, steam and ooiling water filling the engine room. The Bullfinch is one of the latest designed 30-knot tor pedo boat destroyers. He Knows Now. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll died at his home, Walston-Hudson, near Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Friday. His death was sudden and unexpected, acd resulted from heart disease, from which he had suffered since 1896. In that year, dur ing the Republican national convention, he was taken ill, and had to return home. He never fully recovered from the attack of heart disease, and was under the careo phyicans constantly. A FIENDISH CRIME. There is Likely .to be Another Burn ing Over in Georgia. A dispatch from Brainbridge, Ga., says Decatur county has been stirred from its northern limits to the Florida line by the enormity of crimes heaped upon J. E. Ogletree and his.wife Thurs day night at their home in the little sta tion of Saffold, on the Plant line, a few miles from Bainbridge by two Negroes. About 8 o'clock two Negroes entered the store of Mr. Ogletree which adjoins the depot and made a few trivial pur chases. When the sales were com pleted Mr. Ogletree asked for his mon ey. At his demand one of the Negroes presented a pistol at the agent's head and said: -I owe you nothing. We are robbers and want your money." Ogletree emptied his pockets, the other Negro standing guard at the front door. Then the two Negroes ordered Ogletree to march up stairs, where Mrs. Ogletree was and they ordered her to give up what money she had. She gave them - and while one of the brutes held a pistol to Ogletree's head, the other assaulted her. Then the other committed the same deed. About this time a train was heard coming to the station and the Negroes fled in the di rection of the Chattahooche river. When Ogletree managed to bring himself to a realization of what had happened, he took his wife and boarded a train for this city. Sheriff Patterson was informed of the crime at once and took action at daylight. Several posses were immediately sworn in and with dozs in the lead started in various di rections to find some clue to the Ne groes. Everybody -in the vicinity has quit work and is assisting the posses in their search. If the blacks are caught their quick death is a certainty. Mrs. Ogletree is a sister of Wm. Bu chanan, county treasurer, and cornes of a well known family. ST? ANGE TALE OF A DYING MAN. He had Concealed his Identity for For ty Long Years. The -death of Leonard B. Bleeker aged 72 years which recently occurred at Yates Centre, Kas., has revealed a case of self-sacrifice seldom heard of outside the domain of fiction. Three years ago Bleeker went to that country peddling a few cheap articles and, too old and weary to proceed farther, a kind hearted farmer took him in and cared for him until he died. To the family which befriended him he told the story of his life, reserving for the grave the specific names of persons and localities. He stated that in 1S61 he left a wife and five children in Michigan and an swered the first call for volunteers. The fortunes of war were against him and for monthp he lay a prisoner in Ander sonville prison. For some reason he was led to believe that a certain other batch of prisoners would soon be ex changed. Among them was a dying man and the two comrades exchanged names and military designations. The soldier died and the death was reported as that of Leonard B. Bleeker, and is so recorded in the war department. The real Bleeker was released after a time, rejoined his regiment and served until the close of the war without communi cating with his family. Then he went back and found his wife married to an other man. He ascertaineri that his children we well cared for and then left the community without revealing his identity. Throughout his life he care fully guarded his secret and since going to Yates Centre, was of ten urged to ap ply for a pension, but stoutly refused. Even when near death he would not reveal the location of his former home or permit anyone to communicate with old associate. He was a man of more than ordinary education and the truth of his story or the possession of a noble purpose in his long sacrifice cannot be doubted. Wheat Growers Convention. The following call has been issued for the Wheat GrovTers' convention to be held at Greenwood, S. C. To the Farmer3 and Wheat Growers of So'Ah Carolina: The undersigned committee appoint ed at a meeting of the citizens of Greenwood to fix a de te and make the necessary arrangements for a conven tion of 'vheat growers, do earnestly in vite the farmers and all persons inter ested in the prosperity of the State to meet at the court houses of their re spectiva counties and select a delega tio to meet at Greenwood on the 15th of August next for the purpose of f orm ing a perianent Wheat Growers' asso ciation, and taking such action ae will, in their judgment, better secure the in dependence and prosperity of the agri culturalist, and there rith every other interest of the State. We hope to have with us onl that oc casion prominent farmers of this and other States to address the convention. Let each county send a good delegation. D. C. DuPre, N. A. Craig, J. K. Durst, J. T. Simmons, S. H. McGhee, Committee. A Good Law. Georgia has a law regulating the standard of illuminating oils. Recent ly complaints have been made and the inspectors have been ordered to make thorough tests and confiscate all oils that fall below the regulation standard. It is not known whether there are argy inerior oils on the market, but rigia tests are to be applied and all oil that does not rea.ah the 120 point will beI confiscated. The South Carolina Leg islature has an idea that any kind of oil is good enough for our people. They declare that they desire no inspection law. More than 200,000 gallons were oniscated. Five Lynched. Five Italians were lynched at Tallu lah. La., Thursday night for the fatal wounding of Dr. J. Ford Hodge. The dead men are of a class which has been troublesome for some time, and it is be lieved that they had planned to kill the doctor. Some of them, it is said, have families in Europe, but they have WHAT IT -CO'1' In Valuable Lives to Subjugate the Filipinos. VOLUNTEERS' HEAVY LOSS. Comparative Statement that Show the Deaths and Wounds Suffered by Our Gallant Troops. The return of the Oregon volunteers and the prospective home-coming of all the other State troops who have been helping te down the Philippine iebel lion gives additional interest to a re sume of the casualties in the insular campaigns. Full records of the losses by death, wounds, sickness and other wise since the beginning of operations there early in the summer of 1898 show that the Minnesota regiment was most susceptible to the baneful influences of the tropical climate, 34 of those volun teers having expired in the hospitals UP to the last Fourth of July. Oregon was next, with 24, and Nebraska third, losing 21 men from sickness. The Ne braska regiment lost more men in action than any other organization engaged, except the 14th infantry; 26 members losing their lives at the front from that State, against 28 of the regulars. A comparative showing of the regi ments which lost most heavily, as com piled from the press reports, is as fol lows: Killed-14th infantry, 29; Nebraska, 26; Kansas, 25; South Dakota, 25; Washington, 19; 3d artillery, 19; Ore gon, 14; Pennsylvania, 13; 18th infan try, 13; Montana, 11; 22d infantry, 9. Wounded-Nebraska, 182; Montana, 132; Kansas, 124; Washington, 109; 3d artillery, 93; South Dakota, 87; Minne sota, 80; Oregon, 76; Pennsylvania, 69; 22d infantry, 67; Califlornia, 56. Exclusive of the deaths on the trans ports, the total number of men to lose their lives in the Philippine war was 693. Of this number 650 were killed or succumbed to wounds or disease. The number wounded in action was 1,591. Five committed suicide; one, the colonel of the Tennessee regiment, died of appoplexy in an engagement and 19 were accidentally drowned. In detail the report, as given in the Asso ciated Press dispatches from June 30, 1898, when the first military expedition landed at Cavite, to July 4, 1899, shows the following items: Killed in action, 283; drowned, 19; accidental deaths, 14; suicides, 5; apo plexy, 1; sickness, 275; wounds, 92. Total deaths, 689. Wounded, 1,591; missing, 4. Total casualties, 2,284. Nearly twice as many volunteers as regulars were killed, although the vol unteer regiments were only one-third more numerous than the regulars. The volunteers were, however, engaged for a longer period than the regulars, num erous regiments of the latter not hav ing arrived in the Philippines until af ter some of the most serious engage ments had occurred. The number of regulars wounded was 513, against1,078 volunteers. Sickness carrned off more than twice as many volunteers as regu lars, the respective totals being 180 and 95. Tabulated as to branches of the service, the showing of killed and wounded is as follows: B eg. Vol. Killed ........... ..--....114 169 Died of wounds............ 24 68 Died of sickness..........95 180 Total dead............233 417 Wounded.............513 1,078 Among the regulars, the 23d infan try lost fifteen by disease and the 14th twelve. A tabulated statement of the losses bty organization by disease fol lows: Regulars-23d infantry,15;14 infan try, 12; 18th infantry, 10; 3d infantry, 8; 4th infantry, 8; '22d infantry, 8; hospital corps, 7; 20th infantry, 5; 3d artillery, 4; 6th artillery, 4; 12th infan try, 4; signal corps, 2; 9th infantry, 2; 1t artillery, 1; 8th artillery, 1; 4th cav alry, 1; 17th infantry, 1; 19th infantry, 1; 21st infantry, 1. Total, 95. Volunteers-Minnesota, 34; Oregon, 24; Nebraska, 21; South Dakota, 16; Colorado, 15; California, 13; Montana, 10; Idaho, 8; Washington, 8; Kansas; 6; Pennsylvania, 5; Tennessee, 5; North Dakota, 4; Iowa, 3; Utahl, 2; Wyoming, 2; Astor Battery, 1; Nevada, 1; unknown, 2. Total; 180. It is noticeable that the only casual. ty in the Nevada troops was the single death from sickness. None from that State were eitheir killed or wounded. The proportion of volunteers to suc cumb to their wounds was nearly three to one regular. As in other casualties Nebraska leads in this feature, having lost twelve men from their wounds. Montana lost ten from injuries, and Kansas and Washington eight each. The greater loss among the regular army men was in the 3d artillery, five mem bers of which .died from the effects of their wounds. Heavy Rain* The war department today received the following cablegram: Manila, July 20. Adjutant General, Washington. Storms still prevailing; barometic rising indicating improving weather conditions. Average rainfall July sev cra years, 14 1-2 inches; for 20 days fully now closed, 41 inches. Country flooded. Troops on outposts have suf fered and former lines of communica tion cut in some instances; not serious. No material increase in sickness report ed. Telegraphic communication main tained between San Fernando, Bacoor, and nearly all other points. Unable yet to coal returning transports, (Signed)_________Otis. Shot as a Spy. A special from San Francisco says: Eforts to discover the whereabouts of Grant ulium of this city, who was with the Tenth Pennsylvania in Manila, have resulted in word being received here from a comrade of his that Cullum was sht as a spy in sight of the Am erican ontposts near Caloocan. He was sent by Gen. Otis with a message. It is said that a rain storm destroyed his lisguise. and he was captured by the natives and put to death. He was a member of Charity lodge of the Odd E'ellows of this city, and it was through the eorts of the lodge to find him that hi fa beame knon.