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VOL. XV. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, G00D MEN AND TRUE The New State Board of Educa tion Appointed BY GOVERNOR McSWEENEY. Brief Sketches of the Men Chosen by th:, Chief Executive to Se've Upon the Board. The appointment of the members of the new State Board of Education, which will be charged with the impor tant work of making the adoption of the school books, was made by Gov. 31c Sweeney on Wednesday. In speaking of the matter the governor yesterday said that he realized there was great in terest taken in these appointments in all parts of the State and he had had it under consideration for some time, and had given much thought and attention to them. He had a great many names before him and bad carefully consid ered the letters that had been written and the petitions presented in the in terest of the different men, all of whom were men of character and ability, but there were only seven to be named, and, of course, some good men had to be named, and, of course, some good men had to be left off. "The law makes it my duty to name the board," said the governor, "and in the selection of the members I have endeavored to name men of character and ability and men who will come to the discharge of the duties incumbent upon them without bias or prejudice, and at the same time men representing the different educational interests in the State. My purpose has been, in the discharge of this duty, to keep an eye single to the best interests of the schools of the State. I have not se lected all graded school men, nor have I taken all college men, but I feel that I have selected men of education and character, of judgment and discrimina tion, and men who have the best inter ests of the schools and the children of the State very dear to their hearts, and will discharge the duties incumbent upon them fairly and conscientiously." Under the law the governor and the superintendent of educatien are also members of the board, the governor being chairman and the superintendent of education secretary. The following are the appointees, sketches, prepared by one who knows the men, being given: First District-Prof. Henry P. Ar cher of Charleston. Prof. Archer is a native of Charleston and is 60 years old. He received his elementary edu cation at the school of Miss Mary R. Weyman and in 1849 was sent to the large and flourishing academy of Mr. B. B. Carroll and it was here that he en joyed the classical training of the gifted and scholarly John C. Della Torre. In 1854 he entered the college of Charleston and was araduated with the second honor of his class in 1858. Af rer graduation he determined to make teaching his profession and was en gaged by Mr. Carroll as assistant teach er in the academy at which he had been a pupil. After one year he became as sociated with the j.ublic schools of Charleston and from the position of vice,-principal of the Friend Street school to the position of superintend ent of the city schools he has been con tinuously connected with the city schools of Zharleston to the present. He has been a faithful and conscientious school man for more than forty years and is still held in high esteem by the people of Charleston. Second-Prof. Graves L~. Knight of Graniteville. Prof. Knight is princi pal of the Graniteville graded schools, one of the leading educational institu tions in the western part of the State. He is about airty years old and was educated at Furman university at Greenville and also of the Baptist Thee logical seminary at Louisville, Ky. Mr. Knight has devoted himself to ed ucation and by his vigor and ability has accomplished great results in that prosperous manufacturing district He had the endorsement of the highest ed ucational authorities of his section as well as the earnest appeal of a large number ot representative citizens for his appointment. Third-Prof. J. [. McCain of Due West. Prof. McCain is about 40 years old and has spent his entire life in the school room. He graduated at Erskine college, Due West; taught schoal for a few years in Charlotte, N. C., and a few years later he was elected to the chair of English in his alma mater and has filled it to the entire satisfaction of the faculty and board of trustees for the past ten or more years. Soon after taking this chair he pursued a post graduate course at Princeton and re ceived the degree of Ph. D. for work done. He is not only an excellent teacher, but a hard and close strient and one who keeps abreast with the current literature and thought as well as being familiar with the writings and thoughts of those of the past. He is a man of decided Christian character and positive convictions and yet he is as gentle and tender as a woman. He is a staunch member of the Associate Re formed Presbyterian church. Fourth-Prof. H. T. Cook of Green ville. One who dug at Greek roots un der Prof. Cook's tutelage furnishes this sketch of him: Prof. Harvey Toliver Cook was born in old Abbeville long enough ago to be able to tell remini scences of the days when he used to gc fishing on a celebrated creek in that section. He graduated from Furman in 1873 with the degree of master of arts and soon afterwards began his ca reer as a teacher in the Greenville Military academy under Capt. John B. Patrick. A few years later he wai elected to fill the chair of ancient lan guages in Furman university and be continued in this work until the de partment was divided, the school ol Greek being left under Prof. Cook's care while that of Latin was placed in charge of another, the work having become to< much for one professor. Since then Prol Cook has continued to fill the Greel chair. He is a diligent student of the classics and is especially well informed upon comparative etymology but Mlr wide reading includes eurrent eventr upon which he keeps thoroughly p n ed, being a careful reader of the news papers. Prof. Cook possess a peculiar sense of humor which often manifests itself in the classroom to the delight and instruction of his pupils. As a teacher he has been notably successful and has been in the Furman faculty longer than any other professor save the venerable dean, Dr. Judson. Prof. Co)k is prominent in the Baptist de nomination and though a quiet worker has done much for the cause of Chris tianity, being an ordained deacon. He served several terms as alderman of Greenville with great satisfaction and declined re-election. Fifth-Prof. A. R. Banks of Rock Hill. P-of. Banks was born in Chester county 53:years ago of good old Rocky Creek Presbyterian stock, and after at tending the old Mt. Zion academy in its palmy days attended Davidson col lege, from which institution he was graduated. He has been a member of the board of t:ustees of this coillege for thirty years and his father, who wat at one time president of the Mt. Zion academy at Winnsboro, was also a mem her of the boord of trustees of Davidson for thirty years. Prof. Banks was superintendent of the graded school at Fort Mill for thirteen yerrs. At the solicit ition of his friends who realized his ability as teacher and a school man La roved to Rock Hill and it was largely through his efforts that the ex cellent system of graded schools in this town was organized. He was superin tendent for four years when he resigned and moved to Yorkville where he con ducted the schools successfully for four years. From there he returned to Rock Hill where he organized the Presbyterian High Echool of which he is now the piincipal. Ilis life has been spent in the school and he is one of the most thorough and best equipped school men in the State. He has edu cated socres -of the young men and young women of Yorkville and adjoin ing counties. It fact his pupils are to be found in all parts of the State and they all speak in the highest terms of him as an educator and an upright Christiar gentleman. Sixth Hon. W. A. Brown of Marion. Mr. Brown is a man in the prime of middle life. He was born and reared on the farm, about eight miles from his county seat. He represents the connecting link between the ante-bel lum and post-bellum history of the State, not being old enough to take part in the war, but old enough to re member many of the stirrings and thrilling events that occurred during those days. With the aid of his father he worked out his education. He entered Wofford in 1870, and grad uated with the first distinction of his class in 1874. After leaving college he taught school for two years in his own immediate community. His health fail ing he began farming and has been so engaged since. He served two terms in the house and in 1S92 was elected senator and again in 1896 was elected by a large majority. His course as senator has been quiet, consistent and firm. He has taken considerable in terest in the cause of higher education by the State but has given special at tention to trying to improve the condi tion of the common schools. He is a strong advocate of the right of every child to an education. Seventh-Thos. M. Rayscr of Orange burg. Mr. Raysor was born in Orange burg county about 40 years ago. After attendsng the high school at Orange burg he entered Wofford college and graduated from that institution in 1878. Two years later he wis admitted to the bar, and soon rose to distinction in his profession. Besides having a well stored mind. Mr. Raysor is an eloquent speaker, and has been succ4tssful as a lawyer. He has always been very much interested in education, and ad vocated and worked for the establish mient of a graded school at Orangeburg when apparently his interest and the in'.erest of sever al of his most promi nent clients would have led him to op pose the movement had he consulted his personal interest merely. But like a true citizen, he took a broad view of the matter, and contributed no little to the success of the movement to estab lish the graded school, which is now a great blessing to hundreds of children in the city of Orangeburg. Mr. Raysor was elected chairman of the board of trustees of the scbool, and held the po sition for several terms, and is there fore quite familiar with the doties of the new position to which he has been called by the governor. Several years ago Mr. Raysor marrned Miss Mattie Rogers, of Darlington county. They have no children. He is a communi cant of the Episcopal church. In re ligious sentiment he is broad and lib eral towards all denominations, not only in spirit but with his purse. Or angeburg county has no citizen that stands higher in the estimation of her people than Mr. Raysor. He has on several eccasions represented them in the lower house of the legislature, and could go to the senate this year if he would accept the nomination to that place which has been urged upon him by prominent citizens representing both the old reform and conservative factions. But his private interests are such that he had to decline to aliow his name used in the primary. He is modest and retiring in disposition, and a constant steadfast friend. He stands just as as well among his fellow towns men as he does among the people of the county. He was elected by the peo ple with two other itizens as commis sioners ef public works for this city and the present electric light system and waterworks were constructed under their supervision. He will be a valua ble member of the board to which he has just been appointed. A Coincidence. The Des Moines Register says: "Siegel, Cooper & Co., will run their great department stores in Chicago and New York on the co-operative principle after May 1, and will give their clerks pensions as well as grant them a share of the profits. Down with the 'heart less corporations."" Commenting on the above the Columbia State says: "It is something more than a coincidence that the head man of this firm supported Bryan and free silver in 1896." A Girl Manager Miss Annie Mitchener, of New Phil adelphia, Ohio, is said to be the only young woman superintendent of a rail road in the world. The road which is under her charge runs from Canal Do ver to Unionville, a distance of thirteen miles, and is owned by her father, Maj. Manthener. corn and rice were planted, as well as potatoes, sorghum, melons and gardens. The ground was, however, too cold for quick or favorable germination. Tobacco in beds grew slowly, and plants remained small. The prospects for peaches, plums and other fruits were not impaired during the month, and remained very promising. Wheat and oats grew slowly, but maintained the stands that were left after the se vere weather of February. SCANDALS EXPOSED. Congressman Moody Tells of Jobbery in Mail Tube Service The House Wednesday put its heel upon the pneumatic mail tube service now in operation in New York, Boston and Philadelphia and if its action stands the whole service will be crashed out. The postoffice committee had re commended an increase of the %ppro pration for this seivice from $225,000 to $725,000. The proposed increase was attacked by the appropriations committee under the leadership of Mr. Moody of Massachusetts with such vigor and success that in the end the house voted 87 to 50 to strike the entire appropriation from the bill. Mr. Moody oppossed the extension of the service. If it was entered upon, he said, it would add in the near future millions to the already swollen expendi tures of the postoffice department. Us ing this item as a text, Mr. Moody made an urgent plea for retrenchment in public expenditures. Every branch of the public service, he said, was ask ing for its share of the enormous reven nec. Mr. Moody assailed the whole history of the pneumatic tube service. "It is so malodorous from beginning to end," said he, "that it should die the death of a dog." "Smoke the rascals out," cried Mr. Little, "and we 'on thi4 side of the house will stay with you." Mr. Moody said it was not a pleasant thing for him to exploit the scandal which had been uncovered by the pos tal commission of which he was a mem ber but he considered it his duty to do so. He declared that former Second Assistant Postmaster General Neilson, under whom the first experiments in the pneumatic tube service were made, when he retired, accepted from. the company $1,000 in cash and $10,000 in stock for his services here during the succeeding year. What that service could be Mr. Moody said he could not imagine. These facts, he said, had been brought out by the commisssion. John E. Milholland of New York, he said, was the president of the tube company. Mr. Moody's next statement startled the house and created a sensation. The tube service, he said, had been con structed by contractors who took their pay in stock and bonds. The only as set of the company was its contract with the government. "1 regret to say." continuod Mr. Moody, deliberate ly, "that one of the principal holders of those stooks and bonds was a mem ber of this house and a member of the committee on appropriations." "Give his name," shouted Mr. Liv ingston of Georgia. "I will not," replied Mr. Moody. Then he added another sensational statement to the effect that a large block of the stock of the concern had been sent to a near relative of a pro minent member of the house as a New Year's gift. "But I am proud to say," said Mr. Moody, "that the return mail carried back that dishonoring and dis honorable gift." When the applause that greeted this statement had died out Mr. Moody appealed to the house not to endorse "this sort of a transac tion." Mr. Moody disclaimed any in tention of reflecting upon the postoffice committee, which he highly corn mended. He was especially glowing in his praise of Mr. Loud, the chair man of the committee. Mr. Moody said he had been appealed to by com mercial bodies to aid in the extension of this service, but he refused to close his eyes to his duty in this matter. He charged that companies in all the large cities of the country were preparing to raid congress in behalf of further exten sion of the tube service. A Black Fiend. A dispatch from Greenville says Jim Martin, a negro, 40 years old, who has worked at Piedmont some time and who is well known about the town, narrowly escaped being the vic tim of a lynching Wednesday. It is alleged he attempted to criminally as sault Ethel McCall, the three-year-old daughter of L. T. McCall, one of the leading operatives at Piedmont. Mr. McCall's friends we:e incensed beyond control when they learned of the crime, and it is said at Piedmont that they would undoubtedly have lynched the negro had they been given the opportu nity. As it happened, however, the Cannon Ball train was late and the officers who got hold of Martin quickly carried him around through some back streets to the depot and were able to get him in the Greenville jail within a few hours after the alleged crime was committed, and out of Piedmont be fore Mr. McCall's friends were able to deal out vengeance. A Sensational Utterance Allen 0. Myers, of Ohio. responding to a toast at a banquet at Wichita, Kas., Wednesday night created a sensation by his utterances. He drew a dark picture. The country was fast racing to destruction, said he, and Mark Han na, William McKinley and Great Bri tain were driving it. Then suddenly turning toward Mr. Bryan, who had just finished speaking, the speaker ex claimed: "You may De elected, sir, by a million ma jority, but they will not permit you to take the presidential chair, Look at the fate of William Goebel. Men whose pastime is bribery find in murder an amusement. Ohio was bought in 1S96, the country was bought, it will be bought again in 1900 and Mark Hanna's reward for it is a seat in the United States Senate." Fifty Filipinos Killed A dispatch from Manila says officers who have arrived there from Nueva Caceras, province of South Camarines, bring details of a fight April 16, in which fifty Filipinos were killed. The American outposts reported 300 na tives assembled three miles from the town and General Belh sent three de tachments of the 45th regiment, with two Maxims, who nearly surrounded the Filipinos, a majority of whom were med. with bolos. THE HEAVY RAINS. How They Have Effected the Season's Crops. DAMAGE NOT VERY GREAT. Although the Precipitation of a Few Days Was Equal to That of a Normal Month. The following is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and the crops of the State issued last week by Seetion Director Bauer, of the climate and crop service of the United States weather bureau. It is of especial in terest in view of the heavy rains of last week: The week ending Monday, April 23d, was much warmer than usual, iae to generally higher minimum temperatures and moderately high maximum temper atures, which, on the 22d and 23d, rose to or Above 80 degrees at various points. The first day and the last two days of the week were clear or partly cloudy, but the rest of the week was cloudy with light to heavy rains over the en tire State. The rainfall for the week averaged about 4 inches, and in the southwestern and at places in the cen tral portions, was in excess of 6 inches, while along the immediate coast it amounted to about 2 inches. The week's rainfall was generally in excess of the normal precipitation for the entire month of April. The excessive rainfall delayed planting operations and they cannot be resumed on clay lands and on bottom lands for some time, estimated at a week or ten days. The damage caused by the heavy rains was confined principally to the upper and central portions of the State. Lands were badly washed and gullied; bottom lands were inundated or cover ed with sand and mud; roads and bridges were destroyed; fertilizers leached on sandy lands or washed off the lands; but the rain benefitted wheat, oats, pastures, truck and gar dens, and, together with the more sea sonable temperatures that prevailed, caused rapid germination of the recent ly planted seeds. The preparation of lands for planting made slow progress or came to a stand still, thus making an already late sea son over the western half of the State still later. Sunshine and dry weather are now needed. Early planted and replanted corn is coming up to average stands, but cut worms are destructive at places. Late corn is coming up quickly. Corn plant ing is nearly finished over the eastern half of the State, but has not made much progress over the western half. Cotton that was planted early in April is coming up to good stands. The bulk of the crop remains to be planted. Lands are not all prepared. Seed is scarce in places. Sea island cotton is about all planted. Wheat is improving and is very. promising. In places it is heading. Oats are beginning to ripen in the ex treme southeastern portions. Tobacco transplanting has generally begun and plants are everywhere ready to set out. Shipments nf peas, beans, radishes, lettuce and straw'oerries are being made; white potatoes soon will be ready to ship. The outlook for peaches continues promising; pear trees are blihting; melons, sorghum, sugar cane, pastures and gardens responded quick ly to the weather conditions now so favorable for themn. THE PAST MONTH!. The following is the monthly sum mary for March from the same source: Temperature, in Degrees Fahrenheit -The mean temperature for the month of March, 1900, was 51.6 degrees, which is 3.1 degrees below the normal. The higheat local mean was 57 2 degrees at Beaufort, and the lowest local mean was 47.0 degrees at Greenville. The highest temperature for the month was 79 degrees at Charleston and Yemassee on the 30th, and the lowest tempera ture for the month was 22 degrees at Santuc and Spartanburg on the 17th, making the State range 57 degrees. Tie greatest local range was 55 de grees at Walhalla, and the least local range was 42 degrees at Georgetown. The mean of the daily maximum tem peratures was 62.6 degrees, and of the daily minimum temperature 40 6 de grees. Precipitation, in inches-The aver age March, 1900, precipitation was 422 inches, which is 0.66 above the normal. The precipitationuwas heaviest and in excess of the usual amount, over the western portions of the State, and was least, with less than the usual amounts, over the middle eastern per. tions. The greatest local amount for the month was 7.58 inches at Green ville, and the least local amount was 0.98 of an inch at Pinopolis. The greatest 24 hourly fall was 2.35 inches at Gillisonville on the 25th. The av erage number of days with rain was 9, ranging from 3 at Georgetown and Pi nopolis to 12 at Charleston. Snow-A trace of snow was observed at Santuc on the 16th. Weather and Crops-The month of March, 1900, while cooler than usual exhibited no marked variation from the usual or typics.1weather for this month. There were no extremely warm or cold periods, and frosts were not any more ~frequent than usual, and but little, if any damage resulted from them, except in the trucking districts, where the growth of vegetables was retarded. The prevailing cool weather prev.ented too rapid budding and early blooming of fruit trees, and was, no doubt, bene ficial to that extent. There were four periods of general rains, and the precipitation was in ex ess of the usual amount for the month, largely owing to the heavy rainful over the western counties. The rainfall in the central portions of the State was nearly normal, while in the eastern prtions it was deficient. The ground was generally too wet to plow and but little land was prepared for planting, and no planting was done in the western half of the State. Over the eastern half the conditions were more favorabe for farm work, and the usual amount of preparation of land was acomplished, and much BY ONLY ONE VOTE The Pennsylvania Boss is Refused a Seat in the Senate. SENATOR QUAY IS OUSTED. His Personal Friend Renigs. The Vote is So Close that Quay's Friends Express Surprise and Astonishment. On Tuesday of last week Matthew S. Quay was not allowed to take a seat in the United States senate on the ap pointment of the governor of Pennsyl vania by a vote of 32 to 33. The gal leries were thronged with multitudes, while other multitudes were unable to gain admision. On the floor of the senate was every member of the body now in the city with scores of members of the house of representatives. The great throng listened with deep attention to the brilliant argument of Mr. Spooner in favor of the seating of the former Penn sylvania senator and to the Democratic and fiery eloquence of Mr. Daniel of Virginia, who appealed to his col leagues to do what, on his oath as a senator, he deemed right, and vote to do justice to him who was knocking at the senate doors. Mr. Daniel concluded 10 minutes before the hour fixed for the voting to begin. The excitementin the senate by this time was intense. There was a hush in the chamber as Mr. Frye, in the chair, announced at 4 o'clock that the hour for the final vote had arrived and that the question was the pending motion of Mr. Chandler to strike out of the resolution declaring Mr. Quay not to be entitled to a seat the word "not." Amid suppressed ex citement Mr. Chandler demanded the yeas and nays and the secretary of the senate began to call the roll. All knew the vote would be close. The first sen sation was caused by the failure of Mr. Pettigrew of South Dakota to answer to his name although he was in his seat. When Mr. Vest's name was called he voted "no" in a clear, distinct voice, thus dashing the last hope of the friends of Mr. Quay, who had expected confi dently that the distinguished Missou rian would vote for his long time per sonal friend. Mr. Spooner contended for liberal statesmanship in the case, saying that the senate should not take the narrow est conceivable view of its determina tion of the question. As for himself neither personal tie nor popular criti cism would influence his vote, which should be cast for Mr. Quay. Messrs. Stewart of Nevada and Tar ner of Washington followed. "This is a judicial question,"said Mr. Daniel of Virginia, "and ought to be decided upon judicial principles. Upon my oath as a senator of the United States, delivering true judgment accord ing to uqy legal convictions, I declare I do believe that Mr. Quay is entitled to a seat in this body and so believing, I will so vote. Mr. Danielthen presented a constitu tional argument in reply to that made by Mr Quarles of Wisconsin. In conclusion, Mr. Daniel declared that Mr. Quay, as the appointee of the governor of Pennsylvania, has as good a right to a seat in the senate as had any senator. At 4 o'clock the chair announced the hour for voting had arrived and th' pending question was Chandler's mo tion to strike out of the commnitte', resolution declaring that Mr. Quay we. not entitled to a seat in the senate, the word "not." Mr. Chandler asked for yeas and nays. The motion was defeated as follows: - Yeas-Allison, Baker, Carter, Chand ler, Clark of Wyoming, (Jullom, Daniel, Davis, Deboe, Foraker, Frye, Gear, Hansbrough, Jones of Nevada, Me Comas, MeLaurin, Mason, Morgan, Nel sen, Penrose, Perkins, Platt of New York, Scott, Sewell, Shoup, Spooner, Stewart, Sullivan, Taliaferro, Warren, Wetmore, Wolcott.-32. Nays-Allen, Bacon, Bard, Bate, Berry, Burrows, Butler, Clay, Cockrell, Culberson, Hale, Harnis, Heitfeld, Haw ley, Jones of Arkansas, Linsay, Mc Bride, McCumber, McEnery, McMillan, Martin, Money, Platt of Connecticut, Proctor, Quarles, Ross, Simon, Teller, Tillman, Turley, Turner, Vest, Wel lington.-33. Pairs were announced as follows, the first named in each instance being fa vorable to Mr. Quay and the second op posed to him; Pritchard with Gallinger; Depew with Hanna; Foster with Kean; Lodge with Thurston; Kenney with (Caffery; Elkins with Chilton; Fair banks with Mallory; Hoar with Pettus; Kyle with Rawlins. The following senators were unpaired; Aldrich, Beveridge, Clark of Montana and Pettigrew. The question then recurred to the original resolution and it was adopted by a vote of 33 to 32, the former vote being exactly reversed on this question. Thus Mr. Quay was denied a seat in the senate on the appointment of Gov. Stone. Will Wake Them Up-. The Columbia State says "some per sons appeared surprised that -he use of large fire crackers on the Fourth of July has been forbidden in the District of Columbia, but it is natural that -the celebration of that anniversary should be annoying to those who are trampling under foot the Declaration of Indepen dence. However, there will be a report from Kansas City to wake folks up on that date this year."~ Goes to Prison. Thomas J. Hunter, a late swell socie ty man of Atlanta, who found that his salary ae auditor of the West Point road was not enough to properly sup port his heavy swell in society, has been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for embezzlement. An Experiment. A train of seven cars with fruit is on the way from Los Angeles, Cal., to New York. Instead of ice liquified air will be used as the refrigerating agent, one bottle to each ear. If this proves a success Trippler will have a scoop on the RAVAGED BY FIRE. Two Thousand Five Hundred Build ings Destroyed. A fire raged in Ottawa and Hull, Canada, on Thursday from about noon until late in the night, destroying more than 2,500 dwelling, factories, mills, stores and other buildings, entailing a loss estimated at $30,000,000, and ren dering 15,000 people homeless. Half a dozen churches and schools, a number of mills, the Hull waterworks, the Hull :ourt house and jail, the post office, the convent-almost every bus iness place and about 1,000 dwellings and shops in Hull have been destroyed. Indeed practically nothing of Hall is left but a church and a few houses be yond it. The spot where the fire originated is about a quarter of a mile from the main street of Hull and as a gale was blowing from the northwest right in the direction of the lumber piles and mills on both the Hull and Ottawa shores of the Ottawa river and Chadui ere falls, it was soon seen that the fire was almost certain to be a large one. By half past 11 o'clock the fire had got a good hold of Main street and the en tire street, with dozens of cross streets, was burned. Practically there is not a house left in the street. About this time the fire made a jump of nearly half a mile and ignited Eldy's wood yard, near the match factory. It was soon in flames and a 50 mile an hour gale was blowing a high column of flame across Bridge street and set fire to the Eddy paper mill and the other buildings of the company. The fire at this time also sprang across the Ottawa river and caught the sheds in the rear of the Mackay Milling company on Vie toria island and in a few minutes the lumber piles on Victoria, Chaudierie is lands, one of the power houses of the Ottawa Electric company and half the buildings on the two islands were in flames. Hull has a population of about 12, 000 people and more than half of them are homeless tonight. The entire busi ness part of the city, including the court house. postoffice, public build ings.and newspaper offices is one mass of ruins. The population is almost en tirely composed of people who work in the mills or who derive their business from those works. The fire crossed the Ottawa river in the afternoon, took hold among the lumber piles on the brink of the river and extended to the lumber yards and mills. The result is that the whole of that par of Ottawa known as the Chaduiere flats, sur rounding the Canadian Pacific railway station where the lumber mills are all located, is fire'swept. The only build ing standing in the whole area is that of the Ottawa Carbide factory, which is newly erected and fireproof. From the flats the fire extended across the Richmond road on the Roch estervillo and as far as the experimen tal farm. Westerly the fire took in Huntonburg and Mechanicsville, so that on the Ottaway side of the river there is a larger area covered by fire than on the Hull side. it is estimated that at the present time the number of peo ple homeless in the two cities and sub urban towns is not less than 12,000 and it may reach 15,000. The fire burnt itself out. Slaughter Goes On A dispatch from Manila says: About 300 of the enemy have been killed re cently in the North Ilocos, including Dodd's fight and the attack on Batoc (?) April 16, when from 600 to 700 rebels, a quarter of whom were armed with rifles, determinedly attacked the Am ericans, charging their positions and fighting at close quarters. The engage ment lasted all the afternoon, the ene my burning the town, but they were repulsed after the arrival of American reenforcements. The insurgents gen erally were aggressive in that province. They captured an Amerizw provision wagon near Lapo. The Americas. '-av ing obtained evidence that the alcades (mayor) of Lapo, Magsingal, Cabugas and Sinait were holding treacherous communication with the insurgents, imprisoned them and burned Lapos' town hall. There have been several minor fights in the province including an attack by 200 insurgents on Lavag, April 17, 40 of whom were killed and 80 captured. Officers report that the men of the Thirty-third regiment and Third cavalry behaved splendidly under very trying circumstances. There were no American casualties at Batoc(?) where 180 insurgents were killed and 70 captured. The Leading Issues. A special from Wichita, Kas., to the Chicago Times-Herald says: "Neither Editor Mores nor any one else can suc eed in getting me to abandon free Si!. ver. I favor it as much as I did in 1896. While free silver will not be the leading issue in this campaign, it will be one of the issues." Win. J. Bryan made this flatfooted statement during an interview here Wednesday afternoon. Asked what would be the leading is sues, Mr. Bryan said: "Trusts and imperialism will be paramount." Eggs Killed Him. Tom Jackson, an old negro 60 years of age, died last week on the place of Mr. Lute Ginn, near Cartersville, Ga., from over-feeding himself on Easter eggs. He had been hearing of Easter eggs and thinking they were better at that time than any other, bought two dozen, cooked them and ate them on Easter Sunday. The next Wednesday he died. ________ Big Money. New Orleans is to spend $14,000,000 for water, sewerage and drainage im provements. The Crescent City con tractors and politicians will- no doubt wax fat and prosper during the next several years. However, should the improvements result in making the city comparatively immune to yellow fever, the money will have been well invested. The Difference Some days ago three negroes were lynhed in the state of Pennsylvania. he northern papers are having very little to say about this Pennsylvania utrage. If the same thing had occur red in the south the Republican papers of the north would have howled over it for months. Killed in a Runaway. Dr. James Reeves, a physician resid ing at Calhoun, Ga., was thrown from his buggy while the horse was running -awa an tal killd Thurday. | HARD ON THE FARMERS. Cotton Eaggine and Ties Goes Up in Price. The Charleston Post says the Char leston cotton factors and shippers are interested in the steps that the farmers will take for their protection against the bagging and ties trusts, and are speculating as to whether the planters will resort to cotton sheeting as a cov ering for their cotton and seek some substitute for ties to hold the bales in shape. These needful supplies are now entirely controlled by the trusts. Last year there were half a dozen competit ors in each line. This year there are none. One concern has absolute con trol of all the cotton bagging in the country and rnother has absolute con trol of the cotton ties. The American Manufacturing Com pany of New York controls the cotton bagging of the country and the Ameri can Steel Hoop Company, which is in cluded in the great Federal Steel trust, controls the tie output. The latter is a comparatively recent amalgamation of beveral concerns. The Ludlows, of Boston, Mass., are still in the cotton bagging business, but they are in close alliance with the American Manufac turing Company and make exactly the same terms and prices. The result is seen in changed quo tations. For several months the quo tations on ties and bagging have re mained practically nnchanged. An in crease of about 2j cents has been made in the price for bagging and it is not unlikely that there will be further in creases. The trusts have in fact given notice that a further increase may be expected in June. -While nominally the bagging business is being conduct ed both by the Ludlows and the Ameri can Manufacturing Company, both send out the same price list and make ex actly the same terms. Both declined to sell any bagging for this year's crop until this week, and both opened at the same prices. Their terms are spot cash and no credit. All the cotton ties used in the United States are now made by the Federal Steel Hoop Company. The latter is an amalgamation of the several differ ent concerns which were engaged in the hoop and ties business last year. The result of the amalgamation was'felt im mediately. From 60 cents, the price at which most of the ties were sold last year, the price immediately jumped to 75 cents, from which it was run up to $1.25, at which price ties have -been quoted for the last several weeki. The latest dictum makes the price $1.31 spot cash and $1.30 spot cash and $1.36 for August delivery. This is to mer chants in large lots. To farmers the cost will be eight to ten cents a bundle more. With the complete control of the business now enjoyed by the bagging and tie trusts it can very easily be seen that these concerns are in position to squeeze the farmers of the South at their pleasure. For several years the cotton planters have secured these sup plies at reasonable prices, but this will evidently not be the case this year. Being protected by a heavy tariff against foreign competition and having knowledge of the fact that the farmers of .the South are in more prosperous condition than for several years past, and with the assurance of a large de mand for the present year, the two trusts realize that they have the plant ers at their mercy, and that the time is ripe to multiply their profits. It wil be alleged, of course, that higher prices for the material entering into these products account largely for the increased prices. There will be just enough truth in this to lend color to the assertion but it is easy to predict that the cotton growers of Egypt, India and the rest of the world will pay no such prices for their baling materials this year as will the Southern cotton planter. _________ THE PROHIBITIONiISTS. The Executive Comnmittie Issues a Call, for a Conference. A few days ago 'The..tate announced that the prohibitionistsha to hold a State conference, and gave a forecast of a call then in course of prep aration. Wednesday the call was is sued. It reads as follows: A State prohibition conference will be held in the city of Columbia, S. C., on Wednesday, 23.1 day of May, 1900, for the purpose of considering the pro priety ofauggesting candidates for gover nor and lieutenant governor to represent the prohibitionists of South Carolina in the Democratic primary, and also to an nounce the principles and purposes of the prohibitionists in seeking to obtain control through theDemocratic organiza tion of the executive and legislative departments of the State government, for the enactment and enforcement of measures which are in best accord with the highest interests of the people, and which will take the State out of the liquor business. For the purpose of obtaining a full and free expression of the prohibition ists in regard to these matters, a call is hereby issued for them to assemble in their respective counties at the court house on Staturday, 12th day of May, 1900, to elect three representatives, with alternates, to attend the State con ference on the 23d of May, with or without instructions and to choose a county chairman for the ensuing cam paign. Joel E. Brunson, Chairman, Waddy C. T'homson, J. S. Moffatt, James A. Hoyt, Jeremiah 8-nith, C. D. Stanley, E. D. Smith, Committee. As chairman of the Prohibition State executive committee, I approre of the foregoing. A. C. Jones. The Winning Girl. "The girl that carries off the young man the easiest," says the Indianapolis Journal, "is the one that knows enough not to know too much." Seven Drowned. Seven negroes were drowned near Jackson, Miss., in the high water ret .,si from the recent heavy rains. MANY CLOUDBURSTS People Were Drowned in the Streets of a Texas Town. THE CITY WAS FLOODED. The People in the Portion of the City Suffering Most Fled From Their Houses An electric storm accompanied by rain in torrents, visited Waco, Texas, Friday. The city was flooded, doing great damage to property. The bodies of two known and one unknown dead have been recovered and three others are known to have perished. The bus iness streets were converted into rivers. Such a flood was never before seen there. The rain resembled a succession of cloudbursts. Basements were flooded on Franklin and Washington streets and on Austin avenue. Waco creek, on the south side of the city, and Bar ron's branch, on the north side, poured their surplus water toward the centre of the city and formed a sea in the busi ness district. At present th'e exact number of per sons drowned cannot be ascertained. Mrs. Nancy Gaudle and her daughter, who resided with Mrs. Norton at the cornor of Jackson and Seventeenth streets, are among the dead iecovered from the flood. The house was in the Waco creek overflow and the two ladies, in spite of efforts at rescue, -were swept away. Mr. and Mrs. Norton were saved. Their house was destroyed. Wi. Walker, a negro was drowned in the Barron branch overflow and his body was recovered. At the corner of North Second and Barron streets. an arched bridge which had withstood for 30 years gave way and three negroes disappeared with the bridge. Their bodies have not becn recovered. The storm commenced at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon and the water fell in vast sheets, one cloudburst following the other, the water courses rising above the divides and uniting into a foaming and raging sea. The people. in the portion of the city suffering most fled from their houses. The fire men and police and hundreds of citizens rushed to the rescue, but the water was too swift for them and at least six per sons lost their lives by drowning in less than five minutes. The main Bosque and its tributaries are overflow ing a large district and ruining valua ble crops. The Brazos river is ten feet above the danger mark and is still risI ing. The property loss at Waco will be fully $50,000. As the city is divid ed into sections by the high water all communication is cut off between the various divisions, a complete list of the dead at this hour cannot be given. Killed Bis First Cousin, Friday morning Mr. Dave Haith ock, from the lower part of the county, came to the city, walked into the office of Sheriff Catheart and announced that he had come to deliver himself to the sheriff-that he had killed his first cousin, Mr. Mack Haithcoek, Thurs day night. .The sheriff took charge of him and he was committed to jail. The coroner was notified of the homicide and left as soon as possible to hold an inquest. The tragedy seems to have been the result of a family feud of long standing, it being particularly bitter between the two men. -The facts of the affair as related Friday were about as f'illows: It appears that a member of the family of Mr. Bowens was sick and the neighbors kindiy took it upon themselves to attend the sick person and do what they could to re lieve his sufferings. Mack Haithcek seems to have been at the house in ad vance of Dave and he was evidently ex pecting' trouble when Dave came up. According to the story as told there, Mak was in the yard when Dave came up. Dave had a double-barrel shotgun. He and Mack had some disput is alleged that Mack strue ~.tave a heavy blow with a stick which he car of isgu in~ c s b y klling him almost instantly.-Columbia State. A Close Call. Miss Anna Brown, a 14-year-old girl living two miles from English, Indiana, attended Sunday school at that place Sunday afternoon, and started home about 5 o'clock, taking the railroad [track as the shortest way. She start ed across a trestle that spans a ravine about 300 feet wide, and had just reached the center uhen a fast freight turned the curve near the trestle. She saw it would be impossible to reach the further side before the train would be upon her, and she stepped to the edge of the trestle, and, as the train came up, swung hereself down by her hands, holding on to the cross-ties. The engineer saw her, and as soon as the train cleared t'he trestle he jumped from his cab and hastened back to ward the girl. She was struggling to raise herself and was almost exhaust ed when the engineer caught her by the hands and pulled her up on the trestle. The ravine over which she was suspended was fully.'75 feet deep. A Remarkable Case. Harry Little was recently arrested at Marietta, Ohio, on the charge of enter ing the store of R E. Race. He was arranged before Mayor Sykes and en tered a pea of guilty to the charge of housebreaking. Within the last few months his father was found guilty of perjury and sentenced to, the Ohio penitentiay. Since that time the boy has been without a home. Hie said that he realized jast what he was doing anddid it so that he might go to the penitentiary where bis father was Being unable to furnish a bail bond he ws sent to jail. Will be Cut Short. It is predicted that the floods at this ime will cut short the cotton crop in diissisippi, Louisia~na and Texas, as it is too late to get the land in shape for planting in time. Believes in Bryan. The Knoxville Sentinel says all this aalk of Bryan's election being impossi >le is mere poppycock,- and proceeds to show ow he can be elected. The Sen tir. ' figre ar plausible