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r1 - - -- *-- - -....I . aKs . = X___. - -ANN ING S. C'., WEDNESDAY, UUS 9 1900. NO.2 Notif ed Thudy at T.p ka of His N nr'a'tn BY TAO MORE PARTIES. He Clea-y Demnstrates That tmperia'ism and Trusts Are Deadly t - Free Gov ernment. Wm. J. Bryan recvived the second official notification of his nomination for the presidency at Topeka, Karsas, on Thursday. Tie Lonincation came from the Populist party, and Thos. M. Patterson, of Colorado, acted as the mouth piece of the party in making it. Mr Bryan was at the same time informed of the endorsement of his catdidacy by the United States )onetary League, this notification being given by W. A. Rucker. The ceremonies cecu'r.i in the spacious and beautiful grounds of the State canial and were nutnessed by a large number of people. ir. Br3 an spoke as follows: Mr. Chairman and Members of the _Notificaitioa Ceniittee: In accepting the prtsidentiai nomi nation which yt a tender on behalf of the Populist part:, I desire to give em phatic recognition to the educational work done by your party. The Popu list party, as au orginizition. arLd the farmer ailiances and the labor organiz tions from which they sprur. have done much to arouse the people to a study of economic and industrial ques tions. Believing as I do that truth grows not in secu.ior but in the noon field and that it thrives 'est in the sun tight of full and free debate, I have. confidence that the diseussions which your patty has compelled will aid in reaching that true solution of pending problems toward which all honest cin zens ain. "I desire also to express my deep ap preciation of the liberality of opinion and devotion to principle which have led the members of your party to enter the ranks of another party in the selee tion t a eand~date. "And let me pause to say that when this speech was prepan d and given to the press I did not know that formal announcement of the resolutions as passed by the moneiary league wcu-d be made at this time, and I de-ire to here to express my gratitude to the members of that league for the support which they promise antd for the cordial commendation which tie:r resolutions speak. The monetary league has for. four years been active in the aistricu tion of literature connected with the ;honey qu. stion ainmed at the enlight enment of the voters and I have on former occasions and do now express my commendation of the efxerts of this league and similar ieagues, to spread before the people information on the money qoestion, because 1 believe the more the question is studied and the better it is understood the stronger wim he the demand fur the restoration of the double standard in the Uottt States. (Great applause) "While 1 am grateful for the conn derce which the Populists have ex-1 pressed in me, Iam not vain enough to regard as personal their extraordinary manifestations of good will. The ties which bind together those who believe in the same great fundamental princi pies are strcorger than ties of affection -stronger even than the ties of blood; and co-operation between the reform forces is due to the fact that Demo crats, Populists and Silver Repubiicans take the side cf the people in their contest against grad an~d egree in the application of Jeffersonian principles to the questiotns immediateiy before us. TUE CLAIS StSTAlNED. "In 1S96 the money question was of paramount importarnce and the allies in that campaign united in the demand for immnediate restoration of sieor by the independent action of this country at 16 to 1, the ratio which had existed since 1834. They were defeated, but that did not end the discussion. The Democrats were defeated in 188S, but that did not put an end to tariff reform. The Republicans were defeated in 1S92 but that did not permanently over throw the protective tariff. Defeat, at the polls does not necessarily decide the great problem. Expericnce and experience alone settle questions. It an increase in the volume of the cur rency since 1896;, although unpromised by the Republicans, andt unexpected, hs brought improvement industrial conditions, this improvement instead of answering the arsuments put forth in favor of bimetalism. only confirms the contention of those who insisted that more troney would make better times. "The Republican party, however, while claiming credit for the increase in circulation, makes no permanent provision for an adequate supply of standard money. it denmes the neces sity for mnore real n.onty while it per mnits national banks to expand the volume of p.aper promises to pay mon ey. . "I the Popust telt justified in op posing the Retpublican party when ia souht to conceal uts gold standara tendenc'es ur-dr the mask of interna tional imetalism the ,opposntion shoud be more p'ococeca in propor tion a.s the R~epubhiai party more opnly a'use &od monometapismn. ..n ' de rgn forces chargea the Republican ,arty .ih imtO r~ito retire greenbacks. ThsCage cenica at the time, 3~a bee ed e vyth financi bili, w i e rs .;ret back. when once 0e' emc~ t. d cerifi'este, andQ e 'ends 'new ; mueges3 to banks of ssue. If a V ON'~topto sed the Repub lcan party ac ta o that opprion -.heald be :ea'e -o oe f the. liepublicafl party to sut so "It is truie that the Populists beiieve in an irredeeible greenback, while the De) s eieve in a greenback redeca a sig: but the vital ques tOio~ ta t~i n.s far as the money is coeerned i whether the govern ~l , ti" na encuh to ciscuss the re eeLablity of the greenbacks, when cer b'ack itself is saved from the hi a:ion which now threatens it. *he [" p-lie n party is now commit *,d t, a cu rency system which neces :tates a prpetual debt, while the Pop u:ist finds himself in agreement with the Democrats who believe in paying off th national debt as rapidly as pos sible. "if belief in an income tax justified a Populist in seting with the Demo t ratic party in 1896, what excuse can he find for aiding the Republican party now when even the exigencies of war have nc been sufficient to bring that party to the support of the income tax principles? "Popuists believe in arbitration now as much as they did in 15.16 and are as much opposed to govtrnment by injunction and blacklist as they were then, and upon these subjects they have as much reason for co opera tion with the Democratic party today as they had four years ago. W!LEN 'EMOCitATS ANI) POPI.tSTS AGREE. De mocrats and Populists alike favor the principle of direct legislation. If any differences exist as to the extent to which the principle should be ap plied, tiese differences cin be recon eiled by experiment. "Democrats and Populists agree that Chinese and other Oriental labor should be excluded from the United States. -Democrats and Populists desire to so eniarge the scope of the inter state commerce act as to enable the cotr.mis sion to protect both persons and places from discrimination and the public at large from excessive railroad rates. "The Populists approve the demand set forth in the I)mocratic platform for a labor bur au, with a cabinet offi cer at its head. such an official would keep the administration in close touch with the wage earning portion of the population and go far toward securing such remedial legislation as the toilers need. 'tIn 1S9t the Populists united with the Democrats in opposing the tiusts, although the question at that time ap pearcd like a cloud scarcely larger than a man's hand. Today that cloud well nigh overspreads the industrial sky. The farmer does not participate in the profits of any trust, but he sorely feels the burden .f them all. He is depend ent upon the seasons for his income. When he plants his crop he knows not whether it will be blessed with rain or blighted with drought; he knows not whether wind will blow it down, or hail destroy it, or insc cts devour it and the price of his crop is as uncertain as the quantity. If a private monopoly can suspend production and fix the price of raw material as well as the price of the finished product, the farmer, power less to protect himself when he sells, is plundered when he purchaser. Can any farmer hesitate to throw the infu ence of his ballot upon the side of those who desire to protect the public at large t rom monopolies? NEEDS NO ARGUMENT. "The fact that the trusts support the Republican party ought to be sufficient proof that they expect protection from it. The Republican cannot be relied upon to extinguish the trusts so long as it draws his canmpaign contributions from their orcidowing vaults. "The prosperity argument which the Republicans bring forward to answer all complaints against the administra tion will 1:ot deceive the farmer. He knows that two factors come into his income-first, the size of his crop, and, sec~nd, the irice which he receives for the same. He does not return thanks to the party in power for favorable weather and a bountiful haivest, and he knows that the Rpublican party has no pelicy which insures a perihanent increase in agricultural prices. Since he sells his surplus in a foreign market he is not a beneficiary of the tariff, and since he produces merchandise and not money, he does not prcofit by the ap preciation of the dollar. He knows that the much vaunted prosperity, of which he has never had his share, is on the wane in spite of the unusual and unnatural stimulation which it has re eived during the last three years. He knows that each month of 1900 shows a larger number of failures than .the correspcnding month of 1899, and that there is also a marked tendency toward a decrease in the output of the facto ries. He knows also that discoveries of gold, famines abroad and war on three continents hase not been able to' raise the price of farm products as rap idly as trusts and combinations have rased the price of the things which the farmer buys. BURNs CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS *Our opponents have tried to make it appear that we are inconsistent when we desire a general rise in prices and yet oppose an arbitrary rise mn piotect ed manufactures or trust-made goods. There is no conflict whatever between these two propositions. If a general rise in prices occurs because of a per manent increase in the volume of money, all things ad just themselves to the new level, and if the volume of money then increases in propasrtion to the den.and for money, the pric level remains the same and business can be done with fairness to all. If, however, the rise is arbitrary and only affects a part of the products of labor, those whose products do not participate in the rise suffer because the purchasing power of their income is decreased. it a bad monetary sy stem drags down the price of the farmer's product while monopolies raise the price of what he buys, he burns the candle at both ends and must expect to suffer in compari son with those who belong to the elass es more favored by legislation. "It is sometimes urged by partisan P-opuists that four yeard mo:e of Re .ublican misrule would so aggravate economic conditions as to make re forms easier. No one can afford to aid in naking matters worse in the hope of belreg able to make them better af trwards, for in so doin he assunmes repnsibilities which he may not be able to remedy. No Populist, however snrguine, believyes it possible to elect a president at Lhis time, but the Pop ulist party may be able to deterinine whether a D)emocrat or a Republican will be elected. Mr. Chairman, the Populist convention, which your com mittee represents, thought it better to share with the Demeerats in the honor by your party than to pear te oiiutm of remainiog nectralin this great eria1s or of irine open or scoret aid to the Republican party %hie' ! op s a11 the reforms for hih the PoulIsts ex tend. "Those who labor to improve lhe conditions which surround their fel lowmen are apt to become impatient: but they must remember that it takes time to work out great reforms. Let me illustrate by calling your attention to the slow growth of publhc opinion in support of a proposition to which there has been practically no open opposi tion. President Johnson, in 1360, recommended a constitutional amend ment providing for the election of Uni ted States senators by a direct vote of the people, but his recommendation met with no response About 12 years later Gen. Weaver, then a member of congress, tried to secure the passage of a resolution submittirg such an amendment, but his efforts were futile. In 1S92 the resolution recommended by President Johnson and urged by Congressman Weaver finally passed the house of representatives but it has not yet reached a vote in the senate and now, after eight years more of public discussion the proposition for the first time received the endorsement of the national convention of one of the great parties. "If the fusion forces win a victory this fall we shall see trtis r: form ac complished before the n xt presiden tial election, and with its aec )mplish ment, the people will fitd it easier to secure any renmedial legislation which they may desire. iut how halting has been the progress Holland has said: 'Heaven is not cained by a single bound We build tee ladder by wlich we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.' "And so it is with great social and political movements. "Great problems are solved slowly. but struggling humanity marches on, step by step. contentthat at each night fall it can pitch its tent on a little higher ground. TiiE TIEs T HAT BINiD. "I have called attention to the issues which brought the Democrats ard Pop ulists together at.d which justifies the cooperation during the last four years. Let me now invite your attention to a qaestion which would justify co operation at this time even though we differed upon economic questions. it is not our fault that these new ques tions have been thrust into the arena of politics; it is not curfault that the people have been called upon to consid er questions of ever-increa-ing mag nitude. In 120 the tarit quction was the principal subject of diseas~sion aca the Democratic party contended that the masses were carrying a burden of unjust and unnecessary taxes. In 1S:t2 the tariff question was still the princi pal issue between the Democratic and Republican parties, although in the west and south the money question was assuminog greater and greater proper tions and the Populists were contend ing that our monetary systcm was more responsible than the tarit laws for the depression in agricuhture and the distress existing among the wage earners. In 1S8%t the whole question of taxation bceame of scondary impor tance because of the increased bold ness of those who opposed the gold and silver coinage of the constitution. When the Republicans declared at St. Louis that the restoration of bimetal lism in this country although desirable was impossible without the aid of the leading commercial nations of the Old World, the Populist and silver Repub lieans, joined with the Democrats in asserting the rights and duty of the American people to shape their finan ial system for themselves, regardless of the action of other nations. The failure of the Republican party to se cure international bimetallism and it s open espousal of the gold standard still keep the money question in polities, but no economic question can compare in importrance with a question which concerns the principle and structure of government. Systems of taxation can be changed with less difficulty than financial systems and financial systems can be altered with less danger and less disturbance to the country than the vital doctrines upon which free government rests. A STAGGERING HIlT. "In the early sixties when we were engaged in a contest which was to de termine whether we should have one republic or two, questions *of finance were lost sight of. Silver was at a premium over gold and both gold and silver were at a premium over green backs and bank notes, but the people could not afford to divide over the money question in the presence of a greater isue. And so today we are engaged in a controversy which will determine whether we are to have a republic in which the government de rives its just powers from the cousent of the governed, or an empire in which brute force is the only recognized source of poser. "in a government where the people rule every wrong can be righted and every evil remedied, but when only the doctrine of self government is impaired and might is substituted for right there is no certainty that any question will be settled correctly. -A colonial policy wouldi se occup~y the people with the consideration of the nation's foreign policy that domenistic questions would be neglected. 'Who will haul down the flag. or 'atand by the president' would be the promupt re sponse to every criticism of the admin istration and corrup-tion ani special privilege would thrive under the' ee'er of patriotism. "'It is not strange that the Populists should oppose mihitarism and in::perial ismn for both are antagonistic to the principles upon which Povpubst apply to other questions. look-ing at gt Itions from the stan-itofhep duc.-r of wealth rather- tha rom the standpoint of the specul> ,sekp uist reconaizes i-n ci. u: an stnt and fuereasirng burden Th r my worm which ocasinally destroys a field of wheat is rnot nearl so danger ous an enemy to the fatmr'a alaz standing army, which invades every eld of industry and esaet tel fr, every crop. "'If 100,O000 men are withder.wr, from Exc irg Scenes Witnessed in ihe City of Akron. TWO CHILDREN KILLED. An Angry Crowd of People Seek to Lynch a Negro fcr At. tempted Assault on a Girl. A dispatch from Akron, Ohio, says between one and two o'clock Wedncs day morning Officer John Duffy arrest ed a colored man who, during the day, confessed to Prison Keeper Warher, to having attempted to assault Cnristina, the six year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Maas, industrious and re spectable people who live on Perkins hill. The prisoner has given his name as Louis Peck. He is about 4') years old, married and recently moved here. The story of his confession spread like wild tire through the city and offi cers learned that an attempt would be nmade to lynch him In the police court Peek pleaded guilty and was bound over to the common pleas court. His bail was placed at 0300 Several thou-and people were ready to lynch Peck. A large crowd Path ered about the city prison at 7:30 o'clock and forced in the doors The prison was soon packed with the mob and the officers offered no restatence, as Peck earlier in the evening had been quietly taken away to Cleveland. To satisfy the mob the ofiiaers sug gested that a committee of six be ap pointed to search all the cells and go through every part of the building. This was done, and as the nenro was not found, a yell was made, ".Now for the county jail. Give us the nigger and we will deai wi:h him." A mad rush was made for the j di! and soon the jail was in the hands of the mob. After going through the private apartments of the jail the crowd started to batter down the big iron doors. Deputy Sheriff Stone stood in front of the prison doors and made a speech. He informed the crowd that Peck could not be found in there and he told the people in the mob to select a commit tee and he would allow the committee to search the jail from top to bottom. A committee was quickly selected and the jail was searched, every cell being examined. Satisfied that the negro was not there the mob then rushed across the street and forced open the doors of the county court house. The old court house was soon packed and all rooms searched except the rooms in the treasury department. The city prison was again surrounded and hundreds of .eople forced their way into the prison for the stcond time, insisting that the negro was there. Mayor W. E. Young at this titme appeared at one of the windows in the upp'cr part of the building. He addressed the mo~b 4s best Le could, saying that Peck had been taken out of the ;risen at 4 o'clock by Sheriff Kelly and driven cut of the city in a closed carriage. The people in the mob would not be lieve the mayor and continued to yell and demand that Peck be surrendered. At 1:) o'clock the mob began for the third time to attack the city prison. Some one in the crowd began shooting at the building. This was followed by several more shots, The officers in the building appeared at the windows and began to shoot over the heads of the people. A man with a shot gun then fired at the officers. It is said several cfficers were wound ed. The crowd then began to smash in the windows of the city building and the firing became general. Hundreds of shots were exchanged, and one boy, name unknown, was carried dead from the street It is certain that dozens of men were wounded. All the ambulances of the city have been called out and the excitement has become intense. The front of the city building is a total wreck and the fire bells were rung. At 10:45 p. nm. Prison Keeper John E. Washer came from the city building and he was knocked down by a brick. He was badly injured about the head and had to receive medical attention. It was known that two people were instantly killed and another person is dying at the city hospital. The dead are: Glen Wade, aged 10, shot through the heart; John M. Davidson's four year. old child, shot dead in a baby car nrage. Fred V. Orwick, age 25, is badly wounded with buckshot. He hives at No. 43 North street, and is now dying at the hospital. A man named Mull was shot in the head and also in one leg. Another man, whose name culd not be learned. btit who is a driver for the American Express company was shot in the lez. At 11 p. mi. the crowd began to leave for homne, and the indications arc that no more trouble will take place. Shortly after midnight the mob broke into a hardware store and stole all the firearms and ammunition they could and, including guns, rulies and revol vers and proceeded to the city building and epened fire on the defenders and Sinaliv set fire to the Columbia hall, which adjoins the city building. At last accounts the flames were spreading rapidly.__________ No Prisoners Were Made. A dispatch from Berlin says general attention has been attracted by an in tsrview published in? the Frankfurter Zeitung between that paper's corres pdetat Tokio and Lieut. von Krohn who was wounded i,. A,1miral Sex miou expedition. Lieut. von FKrohn says: "At the beginning wounded Boxers were sent to the hospitals an Tien~ Tsin; buat it was seen later that this was a mis te. Hence an order was given to kill all thinamen able to stand, not evento are he ouinded, but partie lal to n'ake absolutely no prisoners. Don't beJealous IDo:&t be jeaku1 of your neighbor or your brother.' Don't. That is little, too' ittle, 'ery"ittle And if you in due that~ -p~s .g it will make ya~ in" e, andthn man and then con temprtible, DI -e the -iria rt you. ANARCHY REIGNED. The Mob Enraged at Escape of Would be Ravisher. A dispatch from Akron says when day dawned in that city Thursday morning it revealed a scene of desola tion and the evi:ences of violence and lawlessness unparallcd in the history of this city. The rioters had done their work and had disappeared. One child was lying cold in death and near ly a score of people were suffering from the wounds of istol balls. buckshot and missiles. The city building was a heap of smouldering ruins and beside it steamed the water-soaked ashes of Co lambia hall. At ; o'clock the crowd began to in crease as the curious spectators harried to the scene of the trouble. A police man appeared and then another, timid at first, but with increasing assurance as no violence was offered. Then Co. C of Canton, a detachment of the gallant Eighth Ohio regiment, marched down the street from the train and, halting befote the ruins of the building, was at once set to patroling the fire lines. There was no evidence of ill will or dis quiet on the part of the crowds at the lines. There was no talked of violence, as the turbulent element had sunk away with the coming of daylight and order wais once more fully restored after an awful night of terror and anarchy. At t;:30 o'clock Thursday morning Co. C, E:ghth regiment, of Canton, un der command of Capt. A Fischer, ar rived in Akron under riot c-rders. The soldiers were met in the Valley depot by Mayor Young and a party of city of ficials. They were marched immedi ately to the scene of Wednesday night's rioting. As the troops marched up the main thoroughfare hisses and groans were board. At 9.20 nine companies of the Fourth regiment arrived in the city and marched to the scene of Wed nesday night's rioting. Shortly before 10 o'clock Mayor W. E. Young issued a proclamation clos ing every saloon in Akron until fur ther orders. Oze killed, one fatally injured and 20 persons more or less in jured is the result of the mob's work. Glen Wade was shot and almost in stantly killed. He was in the mob and a bullet from the revolver of a police man in the city hall struck him. The lad was only 11 years of age. Another innocent who will die is Rhoda David son, the seven-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Davidson. Sitting in a carriage with her mother and father on the outskirts cf the mob, a stray bullet struck her in the head. No hope is held out for her recovery. The resistance shown by the police otiicers and city cfficials in the city hall only served to lash the mob into great er frenzy. Failing in its efforts to force an entrance into the city hall a portion of the mob ran to the store of the Stan dar Hardware Co.. on Main street, about one and a half blocks from the scene of the rioting. Revolvers, rifles, shotguns. razors and thousands of rounds of ammunition were taken and with these weapons the mob returned to the city hail, where the city officials were haranguing the mob. Adjoining the city hail which was constructed almost entirely of brick, was an immense building which for many years past was the principal pub lic hail of Akron. This building was set afire. The various fire companies responded to the alarm, but the mob refused to permit them to work. Co lumbia hall was soon a ruin, but the city hall was yet standing. Flaming embers were thrown into the different rooms and the building was soon burn ing. Some of the more thoughtful ones in the mob liberated the prisoners from the cells below the hall. A stick of dynamite was thrown into the front of the burning building. A terrific crash followed and p:>rtions of the wall crumbled away like dust before a breeze. Another charge was exploded and the n o k of devastation was completed. Killed by a Masher. J. Bascom Bobbins, a young man from Big Sandy, Tenn., making his first trip through northern Wisconsin for the Chicago Crockeiy company, of Rhinelander attempted a flirtation with one of the women clerks in the store of Fenelon & Co., on Saturday evening, and after being repulsed by the woman and chased out of the store and down the street, he shot and instantly killed W. W. Fenelon, head of the firm who had resented the insult to his em ployee. Robbins was taken to the county jail and afterward spirited out of the city as it was feared that public feeling might result in violence. The murdered man was one of the foremost citizens of northern Wisconsin. He was heavily interested in property, both in this region and in the state of Wash ington. For fifteen years he has been at the head of one of the largest mer cantile houses of northern Wisconsin. He leaves a widow and two young children. Thrtle Showed Fight. John Fisher, of Romey, WV. Va., had an exciting experiernce with a large turtle in the south branch of the Poto mae a few days ago. He caught the turtle, which weigned about 40 pounds, on his line, but after landing it in his boat it showti light and chased him from one endi of the boat to t'he other. His only weapon of defense was a small paddle, which the turtle would now and then grsb between its jaws Fisher at le'-gth succeeded in be-atirg it ov.:r into the river. Heat Damaged Crops A dispatch from Chattanooga. Ten n., says the protracted hot weather, with almost complete absence of rain aea temperature averaging from K7 degrees is proving disastrous to the interests of farmers. Reliable reports were brought in to the cifeet that the late corn was completely killed in some districts, while hundreds of acres of strawberry plants were dried up and were a com plete loss, it. is estimated that the da:mage to date is very great. Good Advice Instead of wringing your hands over the unsaved masses, suppose you turn your energies to the salvation of the sinner nearest to you? You will find that a task which will call for all Sour strength. your energy, your powerwt JUST I N TIM11E. The Alies Arrived Not a Day Too Soon TO SAVE THE LEGATIONS. Ccmmanders, Alarmed by Sound of Bombardment, Gave Men no Time to Rest. Musi cian. Titus' Laurels. A dispatch from Pekin says the American and Russian flags were planted on the last walls of that city on Tuesday morning 14th instant, at 11 o'clock. the India troops entered the British legation.at I and the Americans at 3. There was a joyful reception from the wall. The emaciated tenants could have lasted but little longer. They had only three days' rations. The Chinese had been attacking furiously for two days. Four thousand shells fell in the lega tion during the siege. Sixty-five were killed and 160 wounded. The Japanese began the battle before daylight and they are still fighting about the north wall, where a part of the Chinese are defending the imperial city. The Japanese casualties have not yet been ascertained. The Russians had five killed and twelve wounded. The Americans had but few wounded. The plan was to make a general at tack tomorrow, and the troops were ar riving at camp, five miles cast, all night. They were completely exhausted and slept in the cornfields in the rain. Generals, however, alarmed at the sounds of a heavy attack on the lega tions, pushed forward independently, the British, Americans and French on the left of the river and the Russians and Japanese on the right. Beginning at 2 o'clock this morning the Japanese diverted the brunt of the resistance to the northern city, their artillery en gaging the Chinese heavily there. The Americans and British met with but little resistance until they entered the city, where there was street fighting Reilley's battery attempted to reach the inner wall. The troops finally en tered the foreign settlement through the canal. Company E, Fourteenth United States infantry, planted its flag on the outer wail, Musician Titus sealing the wall with a rope, by means of which the others climbed to the top. I.AMES TIIE CHINESE. A dispatch to The New York Herald from Pekin, Friday, August 17, via Shanghai says: Contrary to the agreement of the allied commanders the Russians ad vanced and occupied the first doer of the east gate early in the morning of the 14-h (Tuesday.) but failed to force the se.ond door. At : o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th the British and Americans entered the gate near the legations and met with only slight resistance. The Japanese met more serious op position at the upper east gate all day. At midnight on the 14th they blew up the gate and entered the city. Many Chinese were killed. The peoplc in the legation were well, but somewhat starved. Minister Conger said: "They tried to annihilate us the day befo're you got in. "Prince Ching, president of the Tsung Li Yames,- sent word that his officers had received orders to cease fir ing on us under pain of death.. "At 7 o'clock in the evening of the same day the Chinese opened fire and this continued all day. "If the relieving column had not ar rived when it did we should probably have succumbed. "The Americans lost seven marines killed and 15 wounded and one child dead. "The whole movement ia purely a governmental one. The boxers are onlyja pretense, having no guns. "The confidential adviser of the em peror was the leader of the imperial troops. "In eleven days over 2,000 shells fell among us." CONSPIRED WITII BOXERS. A dispatch from Hongkong says a prominent reformer has obtained from yamen runners a letter from Gen. Yung Lu, commander-in-chief of the northern armies, to Gen. Tung Fu Sian, com manding the Kan Su troops, saying: "It is not convenient to accomplish my secret orders," and proceeding: "The foreign devils, counting their superior streught in warships and guns have dared to exert all their power to rob and insult us, but their popula tions are small and entirely dependent ~on the Chinese productions. China now possesses cannon and rifles and plenty of well trained troops. "I don't fear the foreners. In the ease of San 31un, I refused Italy with the result that nothing was taken. It is evident the foreigners are cowards. I and Prince Tuan recently obtained the help of millions of Bojsers, possessing magic boldness. I swear to miurdtr all the foreigte~s with assistance of the~ Baoers who are supplied with arms." Gen. Tung Fu Sian. in his reply, which was also obtained, says he is of the same opioion and places the Kan Su troops at Ge-n. Yung Lu's disposal. A Young Man's Campaign Adlai E. S:ephenson, the Demo eratic nominee for vice president, has this to say to the young mcn of the country, and it is to be hoped ther will ponder well his words: ''Carry to, the young men the message :bat this is their campaign. it is their canjpaign in a a sense that no othe.r presidential campaign in the history of our polities has ~been. The doors at opportunity are closing in the face of youth. It is the mission of Demoer iey to open them and to plaec beoXre the young men of ambition, intelligence ana integrity the hopes that were theirs before the gov ernmental favoritisml and special privi iege politics of our opponents became soeontrolliog in our national life. Mr. Bryan is in a peculiar sense the young men's candiidate and the young men's hope, and our party is the logical one fo- yoanz men to support." BADLY DAMAGED. The Effect of the Heat on Growing Crops. The following is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops of the State issued Wednesday by Section Director Bauer, of the crop and climate service of the United States weather bureau. The mean temperature for the State was 87 degrees for the week ending 8 a. m. August 20th, and the normal for the same period is 78 degrees. The highes maximum ranged. from 100 to 104 every day; the lowest minimum was 67 at Spartanburg on the 13th. The drought was relieved in spots. Nearly every county reported some rain, but over by far the greater por tion of the State the rainfall was in sufficient and many points had no rain. Where the rain was followed by bright sunshine crops were scalded and in jured instead of benefited. There was more cloudiness and lighter winds gen erally than during the previous week, except that heavy winds accompanied some of the thunder storms. Damaging hail fell in Lancaster and Pickens counties. The weather was too hot and gener ally tco dry for all growing vegetation, and crop reports indicate wide-spread deterioration, amounting in the case of young corn to complete ruination of such that has but recently tasselled. Earlier plantirg, not matured, is not filling well, and the blades and stalks are dead. The corn crop will be short. Fodder was pulled from early corn an'd saved in fine condition. The weather conditions were also un favorable to cotton, causing continued shedding of leaves, forms and even young bolls, and checked all. growth. Rust has decreased. Premature open ing is general and picking has begun in all sections. Sea island contidues to blight, is dwarfed and is fruiting poor ly. In places late planted cotton con tinues to look well, but the prospects for the middle and top crops are pocr. River rice isexceptionally promising, except at a few points, and harvest, which has begun, will soon be actively prosecuted. Upland rice has failed materially. Peas of young growth were literally killed, while earlier' plantings have been severely injured. Some pea-vines have been cut for hay. Swaet potatoes and cane, pastures and gardens, in short, all minor crops, have shared in the general deterioration caused by the unprecedented period of prolonged ex cessive heat and drought in places. . Fighting at Pekin Over. A dispatch from Washington says bloody work has been going on in Pekin, according to a dispatch received Wednesday by the Navy Department from Remey. The message shows the American forces fighting along with the allies, and that progress has been made, which has only been accomplished af ter military effirts of a severe charac ter. Officials of the War Department familiar with the physical condition of .he defenses at Pekin say the fact that ill but the imperial city is cleared of Jhinese troops is evidence that severe 3ghting must have occurred. In order for the American troops to penetrate to the gates of the palace they nust have stormed a wall thirty feet high which no doubt was stubbornly iefended. It is a source of satisfac ~ion to the military officials that the ~llied commanders succeeded in clear og the region outside of the imperial ~ity of Chinese troops, as thereby the ianger of attacks in lank and rear, while invaders are storming the impe rial city, is removed. The statement that all but the imperial city is cleared f Chinese soldiers left the impression that the force of defenders is still in trenched in that section and will have to be routed. All except imperial city cleared of Chinese troops. American troops first to enter imperial city. Have penetrat ed to gates palace. Capt. Riely, Fifth Artillery, killed. Morning 19th Sixth Cavalry and about 400 English and Japanese dispersed about 11.000 Box ers eight miles outside Tien Tsin. One hundred Chinese killed, five Americans wounded: Chaffee's losses six killed, thirty wounded, two days fighting. Dispatches received from Taku, dated August 19, say that according to ad vices from a Japanese source, dated August 17, the battle of Pekin was fin ished. The Japanese entered the im perial palace. The foreign ministers, with detachments of the allied troops, were then occupying the imperial city, the Chinese princes and ministers hay ing retired to Sian Pu, west of Pekin. One Good Chinaman Mrs. Joseph Buffiogton, wife of tne United States district court judge of this district, recantly received a letter from Mrs. James B. Neal, wife of Dr. Neal, new with United States Consul John Fowler, telling of a thrilling in cident, in which a Chinese war ship floated the stars and stripes. The letter was written from Chefoo, July 10, and ;n it Mlrs. Neal writes: "There is one good Chinaman in the world. He is Captain Sah, of the Chinese gunboat Ihai Chi, on which twenty six of us American women and children took refuge while she was l-,ing five miles out in 'llung Cto b arb-or. Captain Sah gave assistance to Captain Wilde, ef the Oregon. when the latter grounded a~nd in recogni.ionl of his services Cap tain Wilde gave the Chinamian a letter, bearing an efficial seal, that for saving and guarding Americans at Tsung Chow Captio Sahi and his ship were andar American protection. While we werc still on board the Hai Chi a Russian man of-war started in her iirectionl. But Captain Sah ran up the aan an stripes, as Captain Wilde had old him to do, and the Russian ship urned promptly away. .There weic wenty-six American women and chil ren of us to cheer and cry as. 'old ~lory' unfurled from the staff of a Chi 1ese warship." Corn Crop Ruined. Kansas has had a terrible drop in aer hopes of a magnificent corn crop. A. few weeks ago something like 250, )00,000 bushels was counted on. The subsequent and still continued .drouth Ea made it probable that the erop will not exceed 75.000,000. After all there is no state where crops are as cer tain as they are in Georgia. A YANKEE OUTRAGE Some Latter Day Chivalry Up North. A WOMAN HORRIBLY BEATEN By Twelve Men in Middletown, Conn., Because They Did Not Like Her Ways. A dispatch from Middletown, Conn., says a whitecap outrage of a disgraceful nature was perpetrated in Centrebrook, a village in the southern part of that county, Wednesday night. A woman was set upon by twelve men and so seriously chastised for an alleged infraction of the moral law that she may die. There are slight elews to the men who were implicated in the cowardly assault but there is little chance that they will be punished, because it is likely that they were prominent citizens of a most laced and law-abiding community. Concerning the provocation furnished to the woman-beaters by Mrs. Adolph Fritz this story has nothing to do. She is a comely woman, the mother of three children, and a good housewife, as far as is known. Previous to the shocking occurrence of last night it had not been known in the little town that there was any ani mous against her on the part of the self-constituted regulators of the town. MASKED MEN ATTACK HEE. Mrs. Fritz took a stroll with a young Italian of the place. While walking along the railroad track near the Essex depot twelve masked men sprang from the underbrush and made a rush for the couple. The Italian escort of Mrs. Fritz made a wild leap over a fence, and was out of sight in a minute. He was not pur sued. The twelve chivalrous citizens of the commonwealth of Connecticut cared nothing for the man. It was their de sire to chastise the woman, and chastise her they did. Two of the masked assailants pushed a meal sack over the woman's headand choked her until she could not utter an alarm. She was then stripped of her clothing. and tied to a tree by the roadside. The men appeared to be frantic. They tore up the very earth in their desire to be in on the punishment. When the woman had been stripped she was whipped most cruelly. Buggy whips, blacksnakes and limbs of trees figured as instruments of casti gation in the hands of the whitecap. Under the awful punishment she en dured, her breath cut off by the tightly wrapped sack, the woman became un conscious. When the regulators had glutted their desire to reform by flaggellation they cut the woman loose, tore her clothes to bits and cast her body in the dust of the road. She made the best of her way to her home upon her recovery, crawling on er hands and knees. Being strong and self-reliant she had ade a gallant fight against her twelve rutal assailants. She managed to gather a mask, a whip and a man's soft hat. These she ragged to her home with her, and they had been turned over to the po ice. No'efforts will be spared, it is pro laimed, to bring the perpetrators of the outrage to justice, but it is feared that efforts will not avail when the prominent persons back of the affair show their influence. The woman is in a serious condition. Her physical injuries are most shock. ing, but they have not had the effect of the nervous shock. Investigating parties who visited the scene of the assault say that the place resembles a battle ground. The cloth ing of the woman was literally torn to shreds and many blood-stained boughs of trees lying by the roadside bear evi dence to the vigor with which she was whipped._________ He Was a Desperado. James Wallace, a wealthy farmer, was shot and instantly killed Wednes ay in Platt county, Missouri, near East Leavenworth, by a neighbor, Dr., Arrington, in a quarrel over a line fence. Dr. Arrington then went to he home of Wallace's mother-in-law nd deliberately shot her to death. Ar ington escaped in a wagon with his aughter, but was pursued by the heriff and a posse which came up with im in the road near Farley. The urderer opened fire, fatally wounding Sheriff Dillingham in the breast. As e fell Dillingham shot Arrington hrough the heart. The murders were ommitted in a cold blooded manner. Wallace and Arrington were neighbors and had been at outs for some time. Wallace was greasing his buggy this :orning when Arrington approached nd without a word fired two shots, illing Wallace almost instantly. -Ar ington drove across the river to Leav nworth, taking his daughter with him, urchased 250 cartridges, returned to he home of Wallace's mother-in-law, ntered the woman's house and shot her o death before she could make an out ry. He then climbed into a ,vagon nd drove off. Saturday night Arring on drove his wife away from home by hreatening to kill her. She slept in a ornfield and is still in hiding. Many Frogs Sold in Chicago. South Water street merchants report hat more than 62,000 frogs were sold aturday in Chicago. This is much igecr than the average Saturday sale, wich is 55,000. More than 300,000 are sold each week. Almost all the e partment stores sell frogs at vetail. The frogs are shipped into Chicago from all the nearby Western states. hy are raised on frog farms, except n lc w and marshy localities, where the frogs raise themselves without cultiva tion. The croakers are caught by small oys and put into boxes full of wet rass. The department stores have heir frog tanks on the top floors. The frogs are hardy creatures and manage to eke out an existence in their city bomes in the department stores for a month without being: fed The demand for big, fat frog legs for the table is al